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AT THE CHURCH
Lester l). Henderson, Commissioner
•of Education for Alaska, spoke last
evening in the Methodist church on
the subject, *4The Constition and the
l\»blic Schools.” Mr. Henderson spoke
of the sterling qualities of mind and
heart that characterized the men who
sat in the convention which molded
ami shaped the Constitution for the
United States of America. in>me of
them, such as Franklin and Hamilton,
had fatnilarized themselves with the
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methods of government of the leading
nations of the world. They selected
certain fundamental or basil princi
ples which the experience of mankind
had proven to be true and practicable.
Upon these they built up the constitu
tion which became ,the supreme law
of the United States. He called atten
tion to the fact that there has been
and is now a strong tendency to the
fact that there has been and is now a
strong telkiency to break away from
uud even overthrow' the form of gov
ernment under which for nearly acen
fcury ami a half we have prospered as
no other nation in the world.
^ AJr. Henderson also called attention
to the fact that there are today in the
^United States five million illiterates.
A government of the people, by the^
people and for the people, to be con
tinued success must be a government
directed by the people not prompted
by passion and prejudice but by in
telligence and honesty. Herein lies ,the
work of our public schools. Illiteracy
must be wiped out. High-school cour
ses must be advanced so as to give a
broader and more comprehensive scope
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to those who reach and continue in the
last years of the public school studies.
It is in these latter years that the
mind of the pupil more l-eadily grasps
the fundamental principles upon which
our government rests and begins to
understand the value of education in
developing the youth into helpful eit
itens.
In closing his remarks, Mr. Hender
son said that for the benefit of the
children and the community in general
no teacher should ever be dismissed
from service because of the whim of
two or three disgruntled patrons of
the schools.
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J. L. McPherson, Assistant to the
President of the Chamber, and manag
er of the Alaska Bureau, has written
a letter to Edward McGrath, U. S.
railway mail superintendent, urging
that prompt consideration be* given to
the appeal of Mr. Ci*ane for extention
of the mail service to Beaver City.
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At the hearings of the Alaska ad
visory committee here, the steamship
companies submitted .data showing
that t^e Alaska business is seasonal,
with one rush in the spring and an
other in the fall and a period of ac
^tivity in the summer months. This
makes it necessary for the steamship
companies to earn more revenue in the
spring and fall rushes and iti the sum
mer period than would be the case if
there was enough business to keep the
fleets In operation in the winter time.
Both steamship companies last week*
cut their northern passenger service
for the winter period, ,
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Copies of the October^number of
the bulletin issued by the Terri it rial
Publicity Bureau, Juneau, Alaska,
have been received'and are un file for
distribution at the Alaska Bureau,
Seattle Chamber of Commerce. The
bulletin covers th)p ten-year road
building program proposed by the Al
aska Historical Association with head
quarters at Juneau.
SEATTLE, Nov., 22— News of a
promising gold placer strike in the
Chandler district, approximately 100
mihs below Fort Yukon, was given
out by Allen Crane of that district, at
the Alaska Bureau of the Chamber oi
Commerce.
Mr. Crane has'come here on busi
ness and to get the assistance of the
Alaska Bureau of the Chamber in th(
effort beinj£ made to have the govern
ment extend the mail service from
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Fort Yukon, where there is a bi- mon
thly mail service, from Circle, to Beav
er City, which is the trading post ani;
center of the Chandlar mining district
He reports that the richest pay
dirt .in that district has yielded $275 ;
square foot, but even with this gooc
strike transportation costs and hig'i
provisions are holding the pioneers o.
.that section from the wealth they ait
vo' king so hard for. He says they art
forced to pay $90 a ton as a general
rule.for freight shipped from Seattle
to a point 1500 miles up the Y’ukon
whei-e they take it by dog team over
land.
Mr. Crane looks for much greater
activity in the Chandler district, as
$25,000 has been taken from one creek
alone, and good pay lias been struck
on three claims adjoining this proper
ty. Mr. Crane says that prosp^tors irt
the Yukon country are complai/iing
against the government’s failure to
properly mark the trails and he say.*
his experience of losing both feet a*
the result of lack of markings is but
one of the similar eweriences of pio
neers* there.
If the government has spent tht*
money is says it has on trails it has
not given results, and appropriations
to carry on this work, which means
life or death to men on the trails,
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should be forthcoming, v
The government railroad, on which
Mr. Crane, was employed for five
years, is being built without any
squandering of public money, said
Crane, who stated the engineering ob
stacles were not appreciated by people
in the states, where railroads do not
as a rule have to do so much blasting
and make such heavy fills as the Al
aska Engineering Commission en
countered.
*‘We are thankful that the govern
ment is building the railroad, but to
give the Far North the full benefits of
steel rail construction should not. stop
until the railroad has been extended to
the Ynkon river, so that it can touch
that section without the,combination
of overland and water Jiaul,” said Mr.
Crane.
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Commission men and the boys from
rthe barracks have been busy all last
night and today unloading freight
from the Northwestern.
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PERT PARAGRAPTHS Off SENSE
AND NONSENSE FOREIGN AND
LOCAL, CAUGHT ONtTHE
FLY BY “THE HUMAN
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Several dog teams were out yester
day on the main ntreet Th| tinkle of
bells, the occasional sounds of battle
as the dogs mixed for a f#ee-for-all,
and the laughter and shouts of .those
who were enjoying a ^.ridg^could be
heard through out the day. Winter is
here and the sledding is
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The lack* of focal news in the
Gateway columns aqd the failure to
make mention of citizens arriving and
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leaving Sewaitl is due to the fact that
our reporter is obliged to work pract
clly eighteen hours a day “inside”. If
any of you in Sewaitl think that you
can solve the problem of doing six
teen things at the sapie time we are
willing to.be shown. We would rather
have local news than foreign news. It
f interests our subscribers more.
No one ever takes toe time or, ap
; pears interested enough in the news
paper to assist us in gathering the
news by calling on the phane. At a
ater date different arrangements may
jnable us to cover the goings and com
ings as they should be Vovered. Un
der exisiting conditions we are doing
our test and will continue to do so.
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The person who writes anonymus
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otters or communications, relative to
any person or persons is a coward and |
the worst specimen of the human ani-j
ma! which exists. The poor fool is ei-1
.her ashamed of his name or enviuos
of the person about whom he writes.
He is more dangerous to a community
chan an epedemic of jppall pojju Na
turally ho is feeble minded and Usual
ly one of the kind who would steal and
de. He jnay be ignorant and feeble
minded but it is safe to bet that he is
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selfish and fears that some of his par
ticular pet grafts a/e in danger of re
ceiving too much publicity, from the
one to whom he writes. We would ra
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cher be convicted of murder than to be
known as an anonymous letter writer.
They hang murderers. Nuff said.
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WEATHER REPORT
SEWARD lfr Pt Cloudy Calm. %
Anchorage 10 Pt Cloudy Calm. 1
Matanuska 8 Cloudy "tJalm.
Wasilla 18 Clear East.
Talkeetna i5 Cloudy East.
(Joldcreek 18 Cloudy Blast.
Hurricane 6 Cloudy North.
Summit 2 Cloudy North.
Healy 4 Clear North.
Nenana 4 Clear North.
Fairbanks 6 Clear North.
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The women of the Mehtodist Church
will hold their Bazaar tomorrow. They,
have cooked some fine “eats" and have
made some appropriate presents. The
receipts of the Bazaar will go to the
church.
Confirming the data submitted to
the Alaska advisory committee sent to
Seattle last spring by John Barton
Payne, secretary of the interior, five
Seattle- Alaska steamships were laid
up in winter quarters last week, the
vessels being the Victoria! Skagway,
and Santa Ana, of the Alaska Steam
ship Company, and the City pf Seattle
and Admiral Rodman of the Pacific
Steamship Compan^.
ALASKA LETTER
SEATTLE, Nov., 22— Members of
the executive committee of the Alaska
Bureau of the Chamber of Commerce
met at a luncheon to discuss the pre
paration of resolutions endorsing a
gold bonus bill. The Chamber has been
requested by the 9 Northern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce at Nome to
work for some such measure and the
northern body has endorsed the Me
Fadden bill, now pepping before Con
gress. This provides for a $10 an oun
ce bonus to producers of virgin gold.
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The second division of the territory of
Alaska is dependent to a large extent
on its gold mining industry and this
year Alaska’s production of gold is
even less than that of a year ago. The
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appeal of the Nome commercial body
3tates that the popsage of a gold bon
i us measure, such as the McF&dden
I biM. will emble miners to work gold
pr d icir.g kind at a profit The com
mi ter 1' id ’ efore it figures signed by
the Nome body, showing the increas
ing c.'Fi s of gold mining in Alaska and
some of the advances quoted were:
Maurice D. Leehey was named by
the Alaska Bureau of the Chamber of
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Commerce to head a committee to at
tend the American Mining Convention
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which opens in Denver, Nov ., 16. At
the request of Nome and other mining
centers of Alaska Mr. Leehey will
urge the convention to endorse the
proposed McFadden bill, which provid
es for the payment of a bonus of $10
an ounce to the producers of virgin
gold.
Alaskans who suffer the discomforts
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of over-zealous bureau control ai^ not
chronic kickeis as a rule, but the mat
ter of mails has always been a touchy
spot with people of the North, and
when the first mail was taken to the
territory by ariplanes, it was expect
ed that Alaskans would have most
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prompt communication with the out
side world. However, the hopes do not
appear to be well founded if the record
made by a letter received by the Seat
tfe Chamber of Commerce from Nome
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is typical of *hat will result
After mushing nearly 3000 miles
over the northermost tip of the conti
’nent and completing the only exhaust
ive and accurate census of the barren
’ands inside the Arctic Circle, J. H.
Maguire, of the census bureau, is in
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Seattle reporting to W. T. Lo'pp, chief
of the Alaska district He says the hu
man population of the far Nor^h is
22 per cent under that of the canine
population. In this most strenuous, cen^
sus accomplishment on record, Supt.
Maguire, with a team of sixteen dogs,
and a single Eskimo guide, left Nome
in October, 1919. Seven months later,
after mushing 2,846 miles to ^oint
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Barrow and return to his headquarters
at Kotzebue, his task was completed,
in his district, in 'Which he presides
over the destinies of eleven Eskimo
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schools in an area of 400 miles square,
Maguire could only find 236 white ,men
2,690 full-blooded Eskimos and 195 of
mixed blood, a total* population of 3,
146 in this northqpnost American
fronties. There were more dogs than
people, a total of 4,031 canines —and
38,209 reindeer.
Bound for Puget Sound from Peru,
Chile and Central American ports with,
a cargo of general freight and flat
cars and trucks for the Alaskan En
gineering Commission, the General
Steamship Corporation's steamship
Wallingford is due in Seattle Not. 17.
She will oad lumber.
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A permit7 for the development of
coal deposits recently located on Ad
miralty Island, southeastern Alaska,
has been awarded by the U. S. Land
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Office at Juneau, to John B. Marshall,
James D. Jackson and John Kitcntoo.
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The Mayflower brand of split Kip
pored herring, put jip by the Douglas
Island Packing Company, . is being
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marketed in the towns along Gasti*
neau Channel, by J.a.Un*,, Whdof
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a croD of ojOOO pounds of nnfatara
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