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Entered *s senewa-alaaa master-Au
jiMt 29th.- 4923, at the post-office at
t'okota* --Alaska* ‘under-the-'Act, of -
March'8y 1879, — |
T a lain* Alaska, Sept- II, I92S
l*l*BLl« SEHMOIi SHORT
<*< U RSK.H -EX- iflTIZKNSHIP
I'M at .the rHibUi* school -.short course ;
■n> virizanship conducted*-during the
school yeas 4925-26 -graved, attractive ,
to^student* is ovkkuured by a report-;
retentl" issued thyoLe»ter D.> Hsnder
soti, rommissinner of Education. A.
total of 308-adults-took advantage of
'his opportunity to improve their un-'
ietstanding of EngJishs^Upiked Ktates-i
history and civics, and general cle
r.’entary school subjects.- Of this
number, 101 were aliens. 08 declarants
or'holders of first, papers, ?3a'etition
irs or applicant* for second papers,
util 8l>-citizens of tire United-States.
During rhe course of the year three
students took out first citizenship pa
pel's, fourteen made application for
second papers, wal fourteen took out.
first papers. A oproxim.'itely 200 citi
zehship night school certificates, pro
vided. by: the Territorial ..Department
of'Education,.were issued to students
whose attendance- and-., progress was
such as ta 'sarrtnt the statement that
hky bad acquired a.fair, knowledge of
"h-ited States-,histocy and civics.
'schools were maintained. in eleven
■onrnuarities. as follows; HougLas,.
K th-banka., Jun*au, Kassan,. Kenne
Kchne.cof.',. Eatauche,-. Petersburg.
Sitka and- Tcuakeav The school term
ranged from 1.2.th 24 weeks.in length,
with the. exception, of Sitka,,’-.where
floor attendance made- it necessary-’to
-liscon*inue thw ***ge
--me next rfc_*db. ,
The total aost to -th« jTerribory- was
$3%48l,. or $2Ut8'. per. capita -for the
162 student* in averaga daily uttend
cte.. Eighteen teachers were, em
ployed.
Nationalities representee in theam
rollnienfc, with th« 'BHtnWr'of each
are as follows,; Americans (white 16,
negro 1,. Alaska. Indian ‘’2), 19-# A us
trtenn,, 6'; Belgians, 2;' Bulgarians, l:
Canadians, l; • 'zacho-tKlteraks . 1;
Danes,- 2; Dutch,,.-!; -English,. 1Fili
pioos, 8,- Pinna, 46#.French, t; fim
mans, 18# E racks, 8; Hungarian*, 1;
Irish, 3i Italians .11# Japanese, 5;
Jugo-Slavs, 4; Montenegrins. ^ .Nor
wegians, 98-; Russians.* ,13; ^wedes,
32< - Swiss...2. r
h II. LEE, a IVES- -LIFE, SENTENCE.
Chieagff.v^-Cohside.rstion of the fact
that Robert • Seo-tt i>load guilty to
murder,\th« expressed belief that he
was withant the instinct of murder
and was dofmoated,. py- his elder
brother Russel, led Judge Gemmill to
sente.nce Scott to life imprisonment.
Russel Scott is under. sentence to
hang on October 15 for the .murder of
Joseph Maurer,.a.drug clerk. He has
twice scaped the death penalty.
GOLD FIRST FOUND IN ALASKA
IN 18.12 BY IVAN S. LUKEEN
(Seward Gateway.)
A Question often asked is that per
taining to when gold was first discov
ered-in the Territory. A perusal of
statistics in the Gateway office brings
the following statistics to light:
Gold was-first discovered in Alaska
on-the Anauk river, a tributary of
the Kuskokwim river, which joins the
latter stream about "5 miles below
the trading post of Kolmakofsky. The
Anauk river was discovered by Ivan
Siraensen Lukeeiv, in 1832,. at which
time he built a fort, called Lukeen’s
fort, on the Kuskokwim. river, 25
miles above the mouth.of- the Anauk.
It was partially destroyed by. natives
in 1841. anil rebuilt, bv Kolmakoff, a
Russian trader,.afterwards and called
Kolmakoff Redoubt,
In 1832 the headquarters of the
Russian-American Trading Company
were at Stika, and. supplies were
transported >m there to, Lukeen’s
fort by way of Nushagak- river, Tic
chic river and lake, and down the
Anauk river to the. Kuskokwim river,
and thence, by .stream- miles to the
fort.
In 1837. the syewly -applies were
sent in by way of tht mouth of the
KuskokAtm river .and the old way
abandoned. as-a-summer route and
used only for the purpose of sending
out the mails during the- winter, by
dog teams
It was the only winter-, route, the
Russians ever used from any point on
the Yukon to- the- Outside .(Sitka),
and was only abandon' d for the pur
i pose after they left the country. -
It was while on one of these trips,
in 1832, -that the Russians discovered
gold on the. Anauk, which is known
today as.the Yellow river of the Rus
sians. It is not known whether.' they
ever attempted mining oit a large
scale, or whether they, found gold in
paying -quantities,., hut it is believed.
I this was the first time on record of
! gold being found in Alaska.
| Lukce was. horn of Russian- and
rr***ric>lIU. ' ferit**' j,«iyaniv in.
the Ross colony'" in -California.. He
was well educated-at.the Sitka school,
and proved to hi- an' active., energetic
and intelligent- officer..
In 1863 Lukeen ascended the Yukon
rive* from'St. Michael to Fort Gib,
hon, then a Hudson’s Bay Company
trading pogt, which i-as huilt by Mc
Murray, who descended thy. Porcupine
river in 1847.' Luk- eti-was the first
maa who connected.ihe P< lly river of
, Campbell. and the sea.. He returned
to St*Michael-hhar fait. In 1866 the
Russian garrison at Kaimakoff Re
douhty in chaagc.of Dementoffi; was
withdrawn, the-' United States having
purchased Alaska from the Russians.
SAYS COULEEF. .Til VlMNG
IS ONLY \ BEGINNING
E. W. Beatty, -president of the Car
nadian Pacific! addressing the annual
banquet of the American Railway En
gineering Association in Chicago, re
cently, drew attention rather sharply.
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GJj-to-D&te^ Line of/Clothing
New Suits
FironiB$55W to* $45' Per Suit
as others have done before him, to
the mental attitude of the average
college man upon entering industry.
Mr. Beatty believes these young men
do a great deal, frequently, to intf-r
fere with their own progress. Many
of them seem to imagine themselves
fitted for positions at the top. Many
are more concerned about the amount
of salary to be earned immediately
than with seeking the position offer
ing the largest chances for advance
ment. An editorial discussion of
President Beatty’s address n the
Railway Review (Chicago) says:
“The point forgotten by many col
lege graduates is that education does
not come from books alone. i e,v stu
dents, perhaps, see much s; use in
algebra or trigonometry. Quite often
these studies are referred to by yum t
men and young women as just so
so much ‘hooey.’ They forget appar
ently that, in, perhaps, the largest,
'number of cases, these.tiresome sub
jects are intended to teach c< cent ra
tion. to de.vf lop brain power. \'o w
-tor of medicine is graduated into im
mediate compettnt useful: ss. Hr
gineers are riot made in college. Only
the foundation' is laid. It is the after
development, the experience of years,
the intelligent application in real life
of the things they have learned in
college that puts the- value on these
graduates.
“Then is never any competition be
tween skilled and unskilled labor. Art
untrained man reaches his maximum
earning power at t'.venty-two, accord
ing to accepted records. At that age
• the average income is $10.Hi) a week,
and the tragus part of it is that unless
i he rises above this average elas the
[• untrained man continues at that rate
! the remainder of his life, or a least
! until he is fifty-five.*
“A future engineer pursues his
studies in high. school and college
until he is about twenty-two. The
average wage for which In begins
work after graduation vety often is
little higher than that gi . n an are
prentice, but his advancement, is pid.
At twenty-five his income usually is
more than docble that of the un
trained man, and ten years afu
graduation, if he has the ri lit stuff
in him he is earning from SdO to bSh
a week, and often very much more.
According to the best figures obtain
able, the average life earnings of an
i 1:<U l«b,>riH- ari: about *20,000.
“If a college graduate has the
sense, theambition, to get ahead in
the world, he can run rings around
the uneducated, untrained man before
he is fifty years old. Many college
graduates fail to make rapid advance
ment because they are running around
with the brakes on, and by brakes is
meant the too prevalent disposition to
look for soft snaps and high pay. Of
course, if there were not some slow
pokes in the world, if every one went
ahead at top speed, the world would
he in -turmoil. So, perhaps there is
sonte compensation in having a cer
tain number of dumb-bells in indu- :
try.
CITY MANAGER GOVERNMENT
NOW INCLUDES 361 CITIES
Kansas City .Originating less than a
r score of year sago, the city manager
form of government has spread to in
clude 361 citie sand towns, comprising
more thari 5,000,000 persons.
These municipalities range in size
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Machine, Black
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Sheet Metal Work j
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All Kinda of Repairs
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Stoves Built !
and Repaired !
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Robt. E. Lowrie \
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Tokotna, Alaska |
from Cleveland, Ohio, to McCracken,
Kansas, with 401 population at the
last census. Only a few which have
adopted the plan Have turned back to
an older form of niunieipau (Govern
ment, said Walter Matseeck, director
of the Public Service Institute of
Kansas City, which has just adopted
the plan.
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