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GOVERNMENT IS 10
ASSIST NATIVES
Valdez Physicians Are Ask
ed To Submit Proposals
For Giving Treatment
VariouH physieians in Valdez have
l>y the federal government heon asked
to HUbmit proposals for the giving
medieal attention to the nativeH in
that seetior. < t the interior between
Gulkana anil Taral. The specifica
tions of the a 1 vert iseinen 'or these
proposals call for two visits a month
to each of the villages, and the ad
ministration of whatsoever is i.eedful
in the way of medicine and other
services from a physician.
In addition to the call having to do
with the na..\vw <>f the interior, pro- i
posals are also asked for a l.i-n onthly ,
visit to the village of Tatill t, down
the sound. This call provides for
twenty-four hours being spent in the
village each visit.
To persons familiar with conditions
in the native villages, this action on
the part of the government comes as
an awakening from a long period of
sluggishness. For years the con
ditions in the native villages, those
down the sound and those in the in
terior, have called loudly for govern
ment aid, even as have the conditions
elsewhere in Alaska; in the locality
around Valdez this call has seemed
to be in vain.
To those who possess knowledge of
the plight of the natives, the history
of the past few years has been the his
tory of a tragedy. Disease and hun
ger have taken awful toll from the na
tive settlements, and today the na
tives around Kllamar and the natives
around CSnlkana are suffering the
pangs of hunger and are facing st ar
vation.
What t he government i t <!• »infor
tin' natives in oilier paris of Alaska,
in educational, and in sanitary and
medical lines is briefly told in the re
cently issued statement of the com
missioner ot education. This state
ment, insofar as it has to do with
Alask, is in part as follows:
"During the fiscal year ended Juno
.'JO 1H08, the Bureau of Education
maintained fifty-nine United States
public schools for natives of Alaska,
(of which ten were established during
the fiscal year,) with an enrollment
of :i,0(!7 and an averago attendance of
1,204.
"In the summer of 11107 tlio erec
tion of school buildings was under
taken on Diomedo Island, in Bering
Strait, at Kobuk Village, on Kohuk
river about 300 miles from its mouth,
at Igl oo and Hinuk, on the Seward
peninsula, at Stevens camp, Rampart,
and Kokrines, on the Yukon river,
at Ncnana, on the Tanar.ana rever,
and at Seldovia and Kenai, on Cook
Inlet, making a total of ten now
school buildings, The coming of win
ter put a stop to building operations.
"During t he present, summer school
buildings are in process of construc
tion at Noatak and Selawlk, in nor
thern Alaska; at Mountain village,
Pilot Station, Kusslan Mission, Ham
ilton, Oulato, Koyukuk, and l/oudon,
on the Yukon river; atllliainna, Su
ritna, and Kaguyak, in western Alas
ka, and at Petersburg, in southeast
ern Alaska, a total of thirteen build
ings. At Tyonie, in western Alaska,
and at Douglas, in southeastern Alas
ka, buildings have been reconstructed
for school purposes. At Point Kills
and Sitka Bay, in southeastern Alas
ka, portable buildings were erected
for the accommodation of summer
echools at those places. Thus twen
ty-sovon additional buildings for
sehooi purposes have been provided
during the two seasons 1(10/ and 1008,
of which twenty-three are new and
permanent buildings. Of these twen
ty-three buildings, two were construe*
ted from the appropriation "Educa
tion of natives of Alaska, 1907}" e'ght
wero constructed entirely from tho
appropriation for additional schools
in Alaska, "Education of natives of
Alaska, 1907-8;" twelve wore con
structed in part from that appropri
ation and are to bn completed from
tho appropropriation "Education of
natives of Alaska, 1909." It has been
found necessary to divido tho cost of
these twelve buildings between the
two funds mentioned because of the
impossibility ot completing buildings
begun in the spring of 1908 and not
built under contract before the close
of the then current llseal year. '^'he
one remaining building is constructed
entirely from the appropriation 'Edu
cation of natives of Alaska, 1909."
"Steps have been taken to meet the
pressing need of the natives of Alaska,
for medical aid. With the approval
of tho Secretary of the Interiar a con
tract was entered into with the Holy
Cross Hospital and with Dr. J. H.
Mustard, of Nome, Alaska, for hos
pital care and medical treatment of
destitute natives of Nome and its vi
cinity. A contract has also been en
tered into with I)r. 11. 11. Marsh, for
the furnishing of medical treatment
to destitute natives of Harrow and
its vicinity, for the maintaining of
sanitary conditions among the na
tives of Burrow, and for making of a
tour of the villages along the coast of
the Arctic Ocean as far as Icy Cape j
twice during the current year, with ^
a view to furnishing medical and sur
gical relief and securing sanitary con
ditions. A third contract has been
made with Dr. .1. 11. Ilomig, of Nu«h-j
agak, in western Alaska, for furnish
ing hospital care and medical relief
to the natives of Nushagak aiul its
vicinity and for the making of a tour
for medical and sanitary purposes
northward along flic coast of Bristol
Bay as far as Eogiak and southward
as far as Cuashik.
"I). A. C. Muller has been appoint-]
cd physician in the Alaska school ser- I
vice, with headquarters at Susitna,
and assigned to the duty of extending
medical aid and securing sanitary
conditions among tho natives of the
Susitna Valley and of the Cook Inlet
region. 10. O. Campbell, 10. A. Nor
ton, and H. (). Schalahcn, tho teach
ers of tho schools on St. Lawrence
Island, at Nulato, and Illiamna, res
pectively, are physicians, and the
treatment of the natives in their res
pective! villages is included in their
duties. In addition to the above, tho
teachers of Harrow, Wainwright, ley
Cape, Point Hope, Kivalina, Selawik,
Noatak, Kotzebue, DeeriiiK, Shishina- ,
ref, Wales, Diomede, Teller, Igloo,
Sinuk, St. Michaucl Oolofnin, and j
Unala; leet, in northern Alaska, and
at Mountain Village, Pilot Station,
Russian Mission, Anvik, Hamilton,
Koyukuk, Louden, Stevens Camp,
and Kagle on the Yukon river, liavo
been furnished with medical supplies
to enable them t«> give nonprofession
al aid to the natives.
"It is proposed to contract with
physicians at Haines and Sitka for
the furnishing of hospital care and
medical relief to the natives in the
vicinity of those places. It is further
proposed to employ two physicians to
furnish medical relief and enforce
sanitary measures throughout south
eastern Alaska, one with headquar
ters at Juneau and the other with
headquarters at Wrangell. During
the present summer temporary schools
have been conducted in tho native
camps at Point Kills and at Bitkoh
bay with excellent results.
"With the cooperation of Mr. C. C.
ueorgeson, special agent in charge
of Alaska experiment stations, sys
tematic instruction in clomentary ag
riculture has been introduced ns part
of tJio curriculum of oach school,
whoro climatic conditions render
such instruction possible, special'ef
fort being inado to intorest the entiro
nativo community.
''In educational work for the na
tlvos throughout Alaska, efforts aro
making to shift the contor of gravity
from routino work by the chlldr en jn
flic school room to the goneral i?n
provomont. of the industrial, sonitary
and moral condition of the native
communities, by a system of practi
cal education for both children and
adults,
"The protection of the Alaskan
natives from disease and the educa
tion of their children are matters of
vital Importance to the race. In'or
der to accomplish the best results,
legislation is desired to enable the
Commissioner of Education, through
a oorps of physicians and the public
school teachers, to enforoe in the na
tive villages a simple code of snnltnry
regulations, with a legal penalty for
Its non-observance, also the pnssnge
of a bill requiring tho attendando of
nil children of school ago, unless men
tally or physically disqualified, Is de
sirable. Failure to comply with the i
provisions of this bill should be made I
% misdemeanor upon the part of the
parent or guardain of the delinquent
3hild, punishable In the courts." <
flUEF BELIEVED TO
HAVE AIDED HAAS
Inquest On Remains Of Man
Who Shot Heney Causes
Officials To Row
San Francisco, Nov. 21—That M.
Haas, whoaftershooting Spccial Pros
ecutor Honey committed suicide in
his cell in the city prision, was an
agent of Abe Ruef, in the assertion
made yesterday afternoon during the
inquest upon the Haas death. The
inquest was the occasion of a clash
between the police department and
the prosecuting attorney's otTlee, and
from the latter source it was directly
charged that the police conspired" to
permit of the suicide.
Shortly after his arrest Haas de
clared that he shot Ileiiey because
the latter exposed the fact that Haas
had been a convict. Heney, when
informed of the confession of Haas,
and also of death of the latter, ox
pressed doubt as to the truth of the
confession, and hinted that Ruef was
behind the shooting.
To account for the fact that Haas
shot himself while in a prison cell
and under guard, the ] olice say that
he smuggled a revolver into the cell.
Their story is that t he revolver was
concealed in Haas' boot top. The
prosecuting attorney, however, be
lieves that, dominated by the Ruef
inllnence, the police allowed some
one to pass Haas the revolver.
DEATH PUNISHES
WOMAN'S INSULTED
lilden Shoemaker, As Agent
For Grim Reaper, Stabs
Walter Driscoll
Spokane, Nov. 21—Because he in
sulted a woman walking with Tilden
Shoemaker, Walter Driscoll wan this
morning fatally stabbed, and his body
is lying in the morgue. Shoemaker
is in jail, and he will probably have
to stand trial on a murder charge.
According to tlse story told by Shoe
maker and by the woman with him
at the time of the trouble, Driscoll
made an insulting remark to the
woman. No attention was paid unti
Driscoll repeated the* offense, when
Shoemaker called the ' man to task.
Driscoll attacked Shoemaker and the
latter drew a pocket knife and
stabbed Driscoll in the stomach, kill
ing him almost instantlv.
TANANA OPERATORS
ROBBED BV SYSTEM
Man Under Arrest For Steal
ing $18,000 Tells Of
Gang's Operations
Seattle, Nov. 20—Tan una mine
owners are nnnunlly robbed of hun
dreds of thousands of dollars accord*
ing to tho statement made hero yes
terday afternoon by Hays it. Rood,
recently arrested hero and charged
with the thoft of |18,0()0 from a mine
near Fairbanks Heed is to be taken
to Fairbanks for trial but he seems to
be unconcerned regarding hiH pre
dicament.
Reed, instead of denying theorlmo
with which ho it* charged, goos into
details eoncomir.g the method by
which ho oporatod. ''I gathered gold
from tho rlfflon, taking a hnndful
whonover I could do so without de
tection" ho said. "SometlmoH my
clean-up wa« only r»0 cents and at.
other times It amounted tn$400in ono
tlay. I carriod tho gold homo in my
handkorehiof, and wanhed It out In
my cabin."
Rood doclarofl that his theft in In
significant when comparod with tho
*toallng that in going on in tho Tan
una country, and ho further declares ,
that tho mlno owners are vlotlmfl of (
lystematlo shake-downs engineered ,
"ty an organized gang of "planters." 1
Mvo of those "planters" aro, accord- 1
ng t<> Reed, now on Harnetto's Dome '
•reek property. i
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VALDEZ MAN !S KILLED
IN CRIPPLE CREEK IWINE
W. It. Hepworth, (ho man men
tioned in tlio following story, taken
from the Cripple Crock, Colo. Times
was well known in Vnldez, having
worked in various mines around the
sound. The story says:
"Crushed beneath falling rock while
lit work on the 500 foot, level of the
Golden Cvele mine Sunday night, W.
R. Hepworth aged 30, lJOrt Victor av
enue, received injuries which resulted
in his death before lie could bo extri
cated. The accident occurred about
f> o'clock. According to the story of
his follow miners, Hepworth was in
the act of loosening the rock in the
upper wall when large boulders,
weighing about a ton, gave way and
fell upon the unfortunate miner before
ho could roach a place of safety,
"Hepworth's neck was broken by
the falling rock, the greater part of
which struck directly upon his head.
His skull was fractured and his face
was badly bruised and cut. That he
was not killed instantly is proven by
the fact that his companions heard
him call for help several times. As
speedily as possible Hepworth was
removed from beneath the rocks, and
a doctor called. Ho was dead, how
ever, when removed to the outside of
the mine.
"Hepworth had been a resident of
Goldflold only about two months.
Ho came hero from Mammoth, Utah
where ho has relatives. Ho was a
practical miner, having worked in
Alaska for several years before com
ing to Colorado. Hepworth was pro
paring to return to Alaska when he
was killed.
"The dead man is survived by a
wife and relatives in Utah. Tho
couple have no children. Funeral ar
rangements have not boon made and
the body is at, tho undertaking estab
lishment of Hall & Thompson await
ing burial."
THETIS AFFAIR IS
SHROUDED IN MYSTERY
Port Townsond, Nov. 20—More or
less mystery surrounds the details of
tho event* of the summer season
aboard tho revenue cutter Thetis,
which has Just arrived in port from
tho north. Proceeding tho Thetis,
arrived stories of officers In Irons,
Incipient mutinies and other troubles
requiring firm action by the captain.
It was also reported tnat the depart
ment In Washington is planing an In
vestigation.
Approached to explain all these ro
[>ortH, the oflloers of the Thetis
Winced surprise, and then denlod
ibsolutely that anything of tho Aort
iad marred the pleasure of the sum*
nor's cruise, The captain of tho
Photls declined to talk concerning tho
inbjoct.
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VALDEZ HOSPITAL
Reservation Ave. near Court House
' .
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MRS. E. F. GRAY
DIES IN SALT LAKE
Cable Announcing Death Of
Wife Of Prominent Mining
Man Is Received
Mr*. E. P. Gray, wlfo of E. F. dray
t.lio woll known Kotalna mining opnr*
ator illrrl In Bait. T-ako Olt.y Hat-urday
night; Word of tho (loath roaohod
Valdos by oablo from JMr. Oray to
Hlmor I,arson, Mr. Oray'n roproaonta
tlvo In Valdez. No details aro glvon
in tho mossago.
Mrs. Gray was well known In Val
dez and In the Interior and flown tho
Hound. flhfc ajwny» ftooompanled her
hnshand, spending the Binhmor
months In camp with him, and many
of the old timors have roeolvod kind
ness from her hands. Numerous
Valdez friends of Mr. (Iray sent him
eablon of condolence.
Bold Nimrods Kill Hear
Jesse Crawford and Anrly Lamhell,
hoth of the Love-Whltlcy Company,
yoaterday wont hunting near tho lake
and returned with a hear, a porenpino
and an owl.
Photo snpplloB at Owl Drag 0©,