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DISTRICTS
In the school district law recently
passed by the Alaska legislative as
sembly, the manner of the incorpora
tion of the districts shall be as fol
lows:
A petition praying for such incor
iwration shall first be presented to
the judge of the United States dis
trict court of the judicial division in
which the proposed school district is
located. Such petition must be signed
by at least 50 citizens of the United
States, or persons who have declared
their intention to become such, over
the age of 21 years, who are residents
of the proposed school district, and
shall specify as nearly as may be,
the location, boundaries and number
of inhabitants of the proposed school
district, and specify the name or num
ber by which it is to be known.
The judge of the district court,
upon presentation and filing of such
petition shall order an election in said
proposed school district for the pur
pose of determining .vhether the peo
ple of the community desire such in
corporation, and shall, by said order,
designate the date of such election
and appoint three qualified voters in
the proposed school'district to arrange
for, supervise and appoint judges and
election officers for such election. A
printed or typewritten copy of said or
der shall be posted at three public
places within the limits of the pro
posed school district for at least 30
days prior to the day of election and
such posting shall be sufficient notice
of such election.
Section 8. The qualification of
electors at said or any subsequent
school district election shall be the
same as those prescribed in section 5
of the Organic Act of the territory of
Alaska. The persons appointed to
conduct said first election shall pro
vide a form of printed or written bal
lots suitable for determining the
question whether the voter is in favor
of or against the incorporation of the
district, and for the election of five
directors who must be qualified elect
ors of the school district and whose
term of office shall be as hereinafter
prescribed.
Section 9. The judges of election
shall, before entering upon the duties
of their offices, take an oath in writ
ing to faithfully anil impartially dis
charge the duties of their trust and
they shall duly canvass and compile
the votes cast and issue under their
hands and seals a certificate in tripli
cate showing the number of votes
cast in favor of incorporation, and the
number of votes cast against incor
poration. One of the said triplicate
certificates together with all ballots
and oaths of the judges of election
shall immediately be filed with the
clerk of the district court in which
the community proposed to be in
corporated is situated. Another of
said certificates shall be filed with the
secretary of the territory of Alaska
and a third of said certificates shall
be filed with the commissioner of the
recording district in which said school
district is located.
If a majority of the votes cast at
said election are in favor of incorpor
ation, the district judge shall, by an
order in writing entered in the rec
ords of the court, adjudge and de
clare that the community in which
such election has been held, is a school
district corporation, and the same
shall henceforth exercise the powers
hereinbefore and hereinafter desig
nated, and such other powers as may
be granted by law. Said order shall
designate the school district by name
or number and may correct or more
definitely describe its boundaries.
Section 10. The said judges of
election shall be citizens of the Unit
ed States and shall also canvass the
vote cast at said election for members
of the hoard of school directors and in
case the majority of the votes cast
in the community where such election
is held have voted for incorporation,
the judges shall declare the five can
dictates who have received the great
est number of votes for such office,
duly elected and shall issue and de
liver to them certificates of their elec
tion.
The directors chosen at said elec
tion as well as those chosen at subse
quent elections shall be citizens of the
United States, and before entering
upon the duties of their offices, sev-1
erally take an oath in writing as pre-!
scribed in section 2 of this act, which
oath shall be filed with the clerk of
the school board.
Section 11. Immediately after
qualifying as aforesaid, the said board
of directors shall assemble and by lot
I or drawing be divided into two clas
j ses. The first class shall be composed
of two of said directors and the sec
| ond class of three of said directors.
! The directors of the first class shall
I hold office until the first Tuesday in j
April of the following year, at which J
i time an election shall be held to j
choose their successors. The direct-1
ors of the second class shall hold of-1
fice until the first Tuesday in April of I
the second year following their elec-j
tion, at which time an election shall |
be held to choose their successors, and !
'all directors, except those chosen at:
the election held for the purpose of
incorporating the school district, shall ]
hold office for the term of two years |
and until their successors are elected
. and qualified, for which purpose, an
election shall be held annually on the !
first Tuesday of April of each year.
In case a vacancy in the member
ship of said board occurs from death, I
resignation, removal or other cause,:
such vacancy may be filled by special
election upon ten days’ notice, called
by the remaining members of the t
board upon the petition of five quali- 1
tied voters.
The board of directors shall have
i the power and it shall be their duty j
to prescribe the rules for the conduct
of the election hereinbefore author
ized, to give notice of election, desig
nate and provide polling places, ap
point judges of election and attend to
all matters pertaining to such elec
; tion.
Section 12. Any community' incor
porated in accordance with the provi
sions of this act, shall be deemed to
have consented to the imposition of
such taxes as are authorized by and
may be imposed under its provisions
for school purposes. The clerk of the
school board in each district shall
keep a record of all monies collected
and distributed and shall annually
transmit to the secretary of the ter
ritory a verified statement showing
| such receipts and disbursements,
which statement shall be kept on file
in the office of the secretary of the
| territory.
Section 13. An emergency is here
! by declared to exist, and this act shall
j be in effect from an after its passage
i and approval.
BUYERS OF PROPERTY
SHOULD WATCH TITLES
A purchaser of property in Anchor
I age, does so with notice actual or con
structive, and therefore buys at his
peril. How important then it is that
he be apprised of whatever may af
fect the validity of his title or estate
he takes. Titles frequently involve
complex interests that call for a high
degree of training to arrange and
classify as well as interpret. Because
property here promises to assume and
is assuming such great values, one
should use the greatest care and cau
tion to see that he has a clear title,
and only on strong assurance of it as
shown by a proper abstract o£ title
should he part with his money. Sinee
the government starts a good clear ti
tle in all cases, the importance of
keeping it clear at all times cannot be
overestimated. The Anchorage Ab
stract and Title company has careful
ly prepared a complete set of abstract
books of the Townsite of Anchorage
and can furnish you a full and exact
abstract of title. Why rely on guesses
and half-baked opinions, when you
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UNITED SMS
TAKES FIRST
i Hr i ii i M t
WASHINGTON, r>. C.—It is possi
ble now, with the consent of officials,
to make known in a general way
somet i'in; rf the see/.' of the mo
mentous plans that were agreed upon
Wednesday and Thursday fot the
breaking down of the German subma
rine blockade and the protection of
the Atlantic coast of the United
States.
These plans have been formed in
conferences between high naval offi
cials of Great Britain, France and the
United States in Washington. Vice
Admiral Browning of the British na
vy, in command of the western Atlan
tic fleet: Capt. A. Lowndes, Capt. E.
G. Cheeseman, Lieut. Comdr. R. J.
Southle.v, Capt. Guy Gaunt, Vice-Ad
miral Grassett, in command of the
French Atlantic fleet, Lieut, de Vais
seau Moquet, Flag Lieut. Hennseesy,
and Rear Admiral Benson, in com
mand of the United States naval oper
ations, participating in the confer
ences. The British and French offi
cers arrived Wednesday morning, and
later conferred with the ambassadors
of their countries and then were pre
sented officially at the navy depart
ment to Secretary Daniels, and in
the state department to Secretary
Lansing and Assistant Secretary
Fhillips.
It may be said that in accordance
with the procedure agreed upon,
the United States will relieve the
British and French navies, so far as
possible, of patrol duty on the Ameri
can Atlantic coast. So far as the
United States ships are available,
they will be used in this service in the
place of ships of the British and
French, even including the Canadian
coast when that is possible. The
scope of the plan includes also the
Caribbean sea.
Full co-operation and a program
providing for the joint action and as
sistance of all three na\pes has been
arranged.
This is the first step in a vast
scheme that will have as its climax,
when fully developed, the guarding of
the steamshiu lanes as soon as vessels
can be provided. The release of the
British and French ships from patrol
duty on this side will make the ves
sels that have been engaged in this
service available for duty more im
portant at once on the other side. The
president is in full accord with the
naval program that will mark the
formal entry of the United States into
war operations of the entente. It is
the thought by the administration
that the United States can be of
greater service now in seeking an av
enue to get munitions and food safe
ly to Great Britain and France than
in any other way. To that end, for
weeks, naval strategists have been
at work.
The first step is the general patrol
ling of the coast and the release of
the Eritish and French ships ironr.
that duty. By fall a great fleet of
light wooden ships will be ready, each
of 2,000 tons’ burden. And this for
their speedy construction the coun
try’s entire shipbuilding facilities
have been enlisted. Something like
1,000 shipbuilding plants will give
the construction of these vessels pref
erence over all other construction ex
cept bottoms that the navy may need
more urgently.
In the formation of this plan the
president has had the advice of the
naval authorities of the allies. It is
thought that by providing hundreds
of small vessels of 2,000 tons, and
forcing Germany to pay with a tor
pedo for each vessel attacked, it will
be possible to exhaust the resources
of the submarine fleet to operate far
from its base. It will be possible, al
so, to defeat designs of the submarine
fleet by routing these ships through
hundreds of various lanes to different
ports in the allied countries.
It will be a vast blockade-running
campaign. The comparatively small
-ize of the wooden merchantmen will
make it more difficult for the subma
rine to hit one of them with a torpedo
and frequently the torpedo will miss.
The exact date of the arrival of the
British and French commissions is
not announced, but it is certain the dis
tinguished men composing them will
l>e here before the end of the month.
It has been said in some quarters
that the entente commissions will seek
to bind the United States to an agree
ment not to make a separate peace
with Germany. In the light of the
president’s announced intentions, it is
pointed out that such an agreement
would be hardly necessary, as the
United States avowedly has entered
the war to end it, and will not cease
its activities until peace is certain on
a basis satisfactory to all nations. It
is argued that no better agreement
could be had than the announced pur
pose of the United States. It is not
thought that the issue will be forced
by the commissioners.
What the commissions will take up
will be the very practical details of
the war and what the United States
can best to in furthering the interests
of the allies. That is the sum and
substance of the problem that will be
before the commissions. It will be a
problem of food, of munitions, and
of credits, a business discussion with
the element of profits eliminated.
Once agreed upon, the entire program
will revert to the question of trans
portation. In this the navy patrol
and the forthcoming fleet of small
wooden vessels will be the important
factors.
Other probems before the commis
sions will be the readjustment of the
diplomatic arrangements between the
United States and the allies. Be
cause of the entrance of this country
into the war these will include the
blacklist, the mail seizures, the cen
sorship, the list of contraband articles,
questions of trading with the enemy,
and many other minor problems. It
is considered that the new situation
wipes the slate clear of all these dis
putes, so far as this country is con
cerned, but many readjustments will
be necessary. These, however, will
have secondary importance in view
I of the food and munitions necessities
of the allies.
Rear Admiral William Benson suc
ceeded Admiral Dewey as ranking of
ficer of the United States navy. From
1915 to that time he had been chief
of operations in charge of the prepa
ration of the fleet and auxiliary forces
for any such contingency of war as
now has come. Consequently, in his
elevation to his present post, he came
prepared for the task. He is a Geor
gian and a graduate of the United
States Naval Academy at Annapolis.
One of the first services he rendered
to the nation, which called special at- !
tention to hir ability and trustworthi
ness, was his share in the Greeley Re
lief Expedition to the Arctic regions.
He has had his full share of service
on land as commandant at navy yards
and as an instructor at Annapolis. He
also has served his time in co-opera
tive action with the various bureaus
tht execute government policy akin to
that of the navy, such as the coast
survey. He won the rank of rear-ad
miral in 1915.
Vice-Admiral Montague Edward
Browning, who is in command of the '
British sea forces in the western At-;
lantic, enterd the navy early in life,!
was promoted commander in 1897 and 1
captain in 1902. He took part in the j
Egyptian war in 1882, was chief of I
staff of the channel fleet in 1908-9, and j
inspector of target practice in 1911-13.j
Promoted rear admiral in 1911, he:
has, since 1915, been in command of
the third cruiser squadron of the j
Grand Fleet. (
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KING OF THE BELGIANS
FINISHES THE PRAYER
LONDON, April 19.—A dozen chil
dren, lean from semi-starvation, came
out of their cellar school near Fumes,
Belgium, where heaps of battle rub
bish mock the site of thousands of
homes and, goingfi to the shell-smash
ed crucifix at the crossroads knelt to
say their prayers. A Belgian Jfficer
without any insignia of rank stood
near, absorbed in identifying the de
tonation of the distant German guns.
The children said their prayer as far
as “Forgive us our trespasses as—”
Then there was silence, for they could
say no more. The Belgian officer con
cluded the petition, “Forgive us our
trespasses as we forgive them that
trespass against us.” The Belgian of
ficer was Albert the king.
JERRY QUINLAN OF
SKAGWAY IS DEAD
SKAGWAY, April 19.—Jerry G.
Quinlan died at the home of his sis
;er, Mrs. Martin Conway, in this city
last Sunday morning, after an illness
of more than a year. Jerry Quinlan
had been conductor on the White
Pass railroad from 1900 to 1914 and
was known to every man wh^ ever
went over that route. After leaving
the White Pass he became the first
conductor on the government railroad
out of Anchorage but took sick and
had to go outside. He returned to
Skagway and has been confined to his
oed there for the past six months.
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The Cache Creek Gold may prove to be
one of the Best and biggest Quartz
MINES IN ALASKA.
The property consists of nine quartz claims of 20 acres
each, or 180 acres, located at the head of Nugget Creek, Cache
Creek country, Susitna Mining District, Alaska.
The company owns over one mile of the Mother Lode ledge,
in the camp. This ledge shows in width from 30 to 100 feet
and can be easily traced for seven miles, and assays in gold
from a few dollars up, and into the thousands to the ton. N'ug
gets are found in the quartz which are worth from 25 cents up
to as high as $5.00. The company also owns a mile in length
of another parallel ledge, one-half mile from the Mother Lode
that shows an average width of 30 feet. The rook on this ledge
pans from 20 cents and up, as high as $1.00 or more to the pan.
Some of the rich ore can be seen in the display window of the
Chamber of Commerce, Anchorage, Alaska.
As soon as the snow is gone, the ground will be thoroughly
prospected by practical mining men to ascertain the amount
of ore tonnage available for a milling plant; also the actual
value of the ore per ton, and the character of the ore treatment
required.
For a short time you may purchase Treasury Shares in the
(’ache Creek Gold Mines Company at the ground floor price of
10 cents per share, 10 per cent discount for cash.
You may buy the shares on the installment plan, by paying
10 per cent down and 10 per cent monthly, for nine months.
Five hundred shares is the smallest allotment sold.
This may be your only and last chance to get in and get
some of the 10 cent shares, so don’t delay. Send in your orehe
at once.
YOURS FOR THE ASKINO.
If you haven’t the cash to spare just now, write me a letter,
stating how many shares you wish to subscribe for, and what
time you think you will be in a position to pay for the stock in
full, and the shares will be reserved for you.
Should you wish to purchase the stock on the installment
' plan, let me know how many shares you wish and what time
you think you will be in a position to make your first payment,
and the stock will be reserved for you.
Don’t delay if you feel like taking a chance with us. About
June 11 will leave for Nugget Creek to inspect the mining prop
erty, and will st.-gy on the ground at least a month.
Orders for Cache Creek Gold Shares should be mailed not
later than May 20, in order to get the shares reserved and book
ed before I leave.
Detailed information appeared in full pages in the Anchor
age Daily Times from April 1 to April 20.
GEORGE ANDERSON, Campbell Bldg., 4th and F Sts.