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Douglas Island news., 1904-04-06

or setting them afire; and no water in the house to put out fire so we shut down for week.
 We would recommend putting in double windows around the whole bull ding on floor and hall used for school purposes; the hot air furnace will ventilate the rooms.
 We did not paint the building, as we had no means to do so during the dry season in May and June.
 We employed three teachers and con- sider that enough, as school age is from 6 to IS years. There were many in the school who were not entitled to be- there: and though there were more on the rolls-there was not an average 40 pupils to the room and with the present uniformity of text books and class work that is easy, in fact, school let out at 3.l5. We recommended (and with the advice of one of the teachers) putting the third grade with the pri- mary room from the intermediate and one grade, or class or so, from the upper room into the intermediate This would average the rooms better thar at present. The primary little ones are let out earlier than the rest and the third grade could be held back for recitation.
 Our teachers get as follows: Upper room teacher S110, intermediate SS5, primary SS5. Although the upper room teacher is called the principal, she had nothing to do with the other rooms; each teacher had full control in her room, in everything, discipline, meth ods of teaching, and all, the principal, so- o-called, had general charge outside of rooms. If a teacher is capable to teach, that teacher should use her own methods and discipline. We found it worked we'll, and avoided clashes and friction between teachers. In fact we feel that the school was we'll disciplin- ed and taught.
 Application was made to us by the missionary people for funds to run an Indian school; but refused. We con sider the Indians as wards of the gov ernment having special privileges and special restrictions. Further, they are infected with tuberculosis, consump- tion and smallpox and other infectious diseases, besides they are generally dirty. Their parents can't be reached, and they can't be made to attend regu- larly (the missionaries admit all thls.) To admit them would break up our school, and we can't afford to run a separate school, nor would we be le, gally obliged to. We don't think there are more than 10 or l2 of them in the town anyhow that belong here. We lent them a number of desks and books we did not need. We admitted two Indian girls who were perfectly clean and had been in school before, one al Skagway in 4th grade and one here they did not attend regularly and one left entirely.
 The school is we'll supplied with z uniform lot of text books. When, wt took charge there was mixture o books, ten or twelve of kind but not enough, and no uniformity. By buyinf more of the best text and piecing out also by introducing two entire new
Douglas Island news., 1904-04-06

lots of books.
 We have as follows:
 GO "Hewitt's Speller and Word Book" all new.
 IS "Why we vote," Civics, all new. 46 "Milnes Arithmetic" part new. 2S "Walsh's Grammer School Arith., part new
 21 "Nat. Advanced Geogn' upper class, all new.
 8 "Harper Geog.," intermediate, part new.
 24 "Eggleson History" upper class, part new.
 15 "F'irst steps in history of our country" Mowry, old.
 12 Grammar, Metcalf, old.
 12 ''Graded lessons in English Lit" Kellog and Reed, old.
 Reading is Eclectic, Greek Fables, very good, including moral worth and heroism, Carpenters Travellers Civics, etc.
 15 "C. Y. R." 1st Reader, all new.
 9 'Baldwin's Reader" new books.
 We would have got more c. Y. R. books but the Baldwins were compar atively new. c. Y. R. are acknowledged by all teachers as the best language series for the lower grades; they are very attractive books.
 The district furnishes books, pens, writing books, ink and examination paper; the pupils the pencils and pads. There are many other text books, few algebras, Physiologies, History Arith- metic etc., also an assortment of read ing books, all cared for by the school librarian.
 In conclusion we can say that the teachers ran the school satisfactory and the children all learnt we'll.
 Since writing the notes preceding, we thought of point which should be mentioned, viz. all the doors of the house which lead out close inwardly, this was brought to our minds at the time of the fire in Chicago last winter, when so many could not get out of the Iroquois Theater, and 600 persons burn ed to death. These doors should all be changed and made to open outwardly. There are two doorways provided at the front porch and boarded up, these opening out and steps off the porch, would with the larger doors opening out, make the front safe. The two back doors also should be made to open out. We built porch at those doors. We put in stand pipe in the attic and 100 feet of hose so the roof can be reached with water through the hatchway in the roof, also the school room floor, as there is 50 feet at each place. If fire occurs at the school house it will start, we think, either on the roof, the cupola is about six feet from the chimney and with north wind the whole contents are blown against it's shingles. We gave strict orders to janitor to use no wood in dry or windy weather, or over the furnace in hallway. If there are doors opening outward at front and back the children could choose the safest way out. Respectfully,
 w. c. BOYD,
 J. F. MCDONALD.
Douglas Island news., 1904-04-06

ing a boiler for each side of the house, also another coil or two of pipe in the furnace and another line of pipe around the rooms which have now but one line, each boiler separate from the other; and having separate system ot piping, and make the feed pipes, from boiler to the double rows of pipes, 11a inch instead of one inch as it is now. (One 11@ pipe carries about same amount of water as two l inch pipes.) Then with stop cock in pipes at top Of boiler and stop and waste in the pipe as it goes into boiler at the bottom, a circulation can be had as soon as the water is hot in boilers. Thus shut the stop cock at top, and also stop the one in pipe at the bottom of boiler, then boil the water in boiler, when hot enough open the one at the top; the water then rises into pipe and pushes the air before it out at the waste, when water appears at the waste open the cock and the circulation is complete; if the pipes are left open the water will force out at top and bottom equally and compress the air in the pipes in the rooms for hours, until the equilib- rum is broken by the greater heat ot the water at top of boiler.
 This hot water system together with the hot air, as suggested, is an ideal system; it being both healthy and economical. The hot pipes are around the rooms on the exposed sides, while the hot air goes in and not only heats but ventilates the rooms with a pure air taken from the outside and heated and it is economical as the coal that heats the air incidentally and extra heats the water in the coils in the fur mace, these pipes do not freeze as the water when cold drains back into the furnace, if no Impressions are left il the line. With steam or hot water alone cold air must be let into the room and warm let out to ventilate it this is wasteful. With this system the cool air at the floor is forced out into the ventilator in the wall near the floor by the warm air coming in at the register.
 There has been some talk of putting in steam heater. In my opinion this would be more costly to run than tht present system, would not ventilat' the rooms, (this is important in schoo rooms) it would cost over two thousand dollars and not give satisfaction. Steam heaters get out of order and freeze anc require costly plumbing. (We thinl all water pipes should have stop cock to turn off water. One night las winter our basin pipe froze and winte
 before last two commodes froze and WI
 replaced them at a cost of S30j Gu
 present system has not got out O
 order since we put it in. The ventila tors. when we took them did not venti late, they opened into the attic anc simply let cold air onto the floor o
 school room. We connected them t.
 the chimney and now the chime,
 gives them draft. If we could hay
 got water, we would not have losta da
 for cold weather. As it was-to hea
 alone with hot air in that cold wind
 weather would have required fierc
 heat with danger of melting the pipe
Douglas Island news., 1904-04-06
THE SCHOOL BOARDS REPORT. Showing the Work Done and the Present Pros
 porous Condition
 of the School.
To THE MAYOR, CITY COUNCIL AND SCHOOL BOARD OF DOUGLAS, ALASKA.

SCHOOL BOARD OF DOUGLAS, ALASKA.
 GENTLEMEN:
 On retiring from the chair manship of the Public School Board l desire to make the following report on it's conditian, financially, educationally and material.
 On taking charge of the school house and grounds, We found no drainage from the house and grounds, the water from the roof and ground surrounding ran into the excavation surrounding the building, and had to soak out through the soil leaving the scum and unhealthy parts there, in fact, orange peel, apple cores, old shoes and almost every thing was there. This we rem edied by putting in drains and cover ing them. The excavation and grounds back of the house was full of rubbish, shavings etc. from the building, this we removed. There was no playground, except in the muck, we gravelled the ground and made a good playground, extending it around the building We widened the road from 3rd street up to the school house, by two blanks over two feet, moved stumps and otherwise improved it. Stumps and brush, the ground in it's wild state, were up to the very door on the back side of the school house, we stumped it out, brush ed it. burnt the brush and cleared the ground for over fifty feet back, also cleared on the sides, thus rendering it safe from stump and brush fire, and enlargiug the playground. We also ditched off the hill water and sent 1t clear of the grounds. (No remarks here are intended as refecting on the school board preceding us, for the house was finished too late in the sea- son for any further work out of doors.)
 The winter preceding, we are reliably informed, school could not be held in the rooms for week at time, they being too cold; the children huddling around the heater in the hall. We put in double sash on the windward side oi the house thus protecting the elnorth- west and northeast rooms. We did not put any in the windows of the other two rooms; but now think we should have done so.
 There being B gallon boiler attach ed to the furnace for washing purposes we concluded to use the water from il for heating the rooms. We put in { double TOW of inch pipes around the N. w. room and the one back of it witf two coils of pipe in the furnace to hea the water. This we found to be eff ficient; as it put a steady heat in th' rooms and also warmed the toile rooms, and saved coal. So, having enough pipe left to put single line around the other two rooms we did SC There is now circulation of hot wate around the whole house, but it can b improved at a small expense. w recommend putting in another boile same size as one there now, thus hay
Douglas Island news., 1904-04-06
Good Things to Eat.

New Potatoes, Green Peas, Cucum- bers, Lettuce, Ripe Tomatoes, Green Onions, Radishes, Asparagus, Celery aud Parsley. Sounds good don't it. Fresh Clans, Crabs and Schrimps. These are some of the luxuries that may be found at the
 TREADWELL MARKET.
Douglas Island news., 1904-04-06
Some Bargains.

A House and Lot in Douglas for sale for s2OO. The lot is 50x2O0ft. Another, a bargain for S250. For further par ticulars see CHAs. WoRTMAN.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-04-07
Eminent Men to Dine.

WASHINGTON, d. c.. April T..
Statesmen, jurists, diplomats. authors.
editors, publishers and magazine and
newspaper artists to the number of
three or four hundred are to be
brought together at the dinner to be
given at the New Willard tonight by
the Periodical Publishers association
of America.
Prominent among the distinguished
persons who have accepted invitations
to the affair are President Roosevelt.
the Russian ambassador the German
ambassador. the japanese minister.
Secretary Hay, Secretary Tat, CarGi-
nal Gibbons. Bishop Potter Joseph
Jefferson, F. Hopkinson Smith and DR..
Henry Van Dyke. Hamilton w. Ma
bic of New York is to be POSTMASTER.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-04-07

hlent, opening out on lawn u.r~
were numerous, well-dressed individu-
ais strolling about, apparently with M
restraint whatever l cautiously asls.,
o''e VI 'hem II his mind was affected.
ana he promptly answered that II wss
ho'' out that people thought il WAS and
Nep' nun smut up. But" said I, there
seems 10 be no restraint on you. the
ooors are open at that end, there Is q
~" WINDOW over in the corner, and
there Is even a ladder standing AGAINST
the wall"
oh' yes understand" said the
inunatlc, but you see that little fe,.
10" over under the tree? He is watch.
ing us
suggested that it would be an insir-
nlfcant task for such a large numher
VI men TO overpower that one man and
escape that way, if they did not wish
TO take advantage of the other omen.
where
all the trouble lies" said the lunatic
we nave talked this matter over a
thousand times. and we never can
agree. Some of us want to go out
through the open window, others want
10 make a break through the end
doors, still another faction will listen
to nothing else but taking the ladder
ana SUN Others insist that we over
power the guard and escape that way.
IL IS SIMPLY no use. we can never agree
ana our case is hopeless
Again the colonel paused for a mo-
fnent, and then Very impressively said:
Ladies and Gentlemen. those darn
lunatlcs are down there yet"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-04-07

hlh at the depot and as the q p 8. NJ
i ioileo into sight it seemed ages
almost to the brother waiting Of tho
depot before the aged one on the train
'i'ouio step off and clasp his hand.
he meeting was very pathetic. The
'"o men, who are now in old age.
sraspeo each other by the hand. each
surprised at the change noted in the
others face and form as re;tbar =. =
'eeil prepared to meet a brother past
the prime of life. AS they shook each
other blythe hand their eyes filled with
tears IN the joy of meeting again.
both the old gentlemen relate MANY
interesting stories of life on the from
uer' including fights with Indians.
John Slfers and two men were at
one time attacked by a band of Piute
lholans the summer of 1865, near Lake
Malheur, Oregon, and the three men
were oadly wounded, after a desperate
Asht with the redskins. They, however
succeeded in beating the Indians off,
the Indian loss being heavy In that
battle Mr.. Sifers obtained an Indian
'onahaWk by putting an end to one
OF the redskins just in time to save one
OF ms companions. The tomahawk Mr..
Slters still has in his possession.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-04-07
MEN JOIN IN BEAUTY QUEST
Use Wifie's Lotions While She Isn't
Looking.

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, April T.
cessty of preserving their youth and
good looks. Madam Yale said so yes
terday afternoon at the Metropolitan
theater and gave several instances in
which men had been found to be sur
reptitiously using their wives RENE
dies and openly betraying their anxiety
to conquer wrinkles and badness.
"A man cannot afford to look Old
explained the demonstrators of beauty.
"One of the largest railroads in the
country does not employ a man over
80 and other concerns are placing an
age limit. Consequently a man must
have the appearance of youth to hold
a position, and he has secret recourse
to the creams and lotions, which his
wife has the courage to use openly, be-
cause he is not willing to confess his
inal, for every one to wish to appear
young and beautiful and no one should
be ashamed to make the effort to ac-
cOmplish this WISH
Madam Yale is herself a marvellous
combination of youthful beauty and
WISDOM and when she confessed that
she would celebrate her fifty-second
birthday anniversary in May, every
woman in the vast audience bent for
ward to learn how to obtain and pre-
serve such roseleaf skin, such luxu-
RANT locks and such beautifully curry
ed limbs. Madam Yales method is one
of common sense and is based on cor
rect living, proper diet, exercise and
bathing, and is within the reach of ev-
cry one.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-04-07

70 sell 10 responsible parties. A few
orohibitionists held out. but the
.hurches were> particularly aggressive
or the reform, under the leadership
If the pastor of the Tabernacle Bap-
list church. They We're not content
to leave the dispensary to degenerate
in the hands of a semi-respectable
saloonkeeper or the politicians, but
5icided that it should be a de facto
church institution, and the church does
not seek to avoid the situation.
So a roomy place was rented in the
heart of the city, about $4,000 worth
of liauor purchased, a long list Of rules
and regulations were formulated, very
similar to the requirements Of an up
to-date high-license law, and it began
business on the morning of Jan. l.
The rules are vigorously adhered to.
When closing time comes, the doors
close with a bang. No drunkards need
apply for liquor. There is no place to
sit down.
Two per cent of the gross receipts
20 to the state. One-half of the bal
ance goes to the county and one alf
to the city. The old-time license re-
ceipts amounted to about $4,000.
The dspensary profits for January.
the first month of its existence,
amounted to about $4,000. At this
rate the dispensary profits will amount
to 100000 per year
During the period of its operation
there has been heavy decrease in
arrests for drunkenness. but it is not
safe at this time to reckon this as a
permanent result.
Whatever the outcome may be, the
experiment will be watched with the
greatest interest throughout the cOun-
try. If the "Christian" saloon works in
Raleigh, the logic of such success
would be startling indeed: it would
mean a monopoly of the saloon bust
ness by the church in all places where
prohibition is unattainable.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-04-07
Why He Made Money.

He wanted it.
He was bound to get it-some way.
He had an eye on the dollar all the
time
He was willing to gouge his relatives
as if they had been strangers.
He never hesitated to do anything
to win.
He always adopted fair means
when they happened to be the easiest
and surest.
He put his business before his wife.
his children, his parents, his country,
everything.
He didn't care as long as he could
escape on techncalities.
He considered it his duty to crush
every man in his way.
He was never satisfied with the
amount of work his employees did.
He wanted friends only to use them
for his own profit.
He considered any way legitimate Il
1t was effective, =
He regarded it as a fatal weakness to
show mercy to a helpless adversary.
He looked upon the golden rule as
bit of poetic flubdub.
He didn't care what people thought
of him as long as he got the dividends.
He was heartless, INSCRIPTIONS.
law-breaking crusher but he knew his
business and got what he was az
ter-Chicago RecOrd-H laid. '~
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-04-07
TABERNACLE BAPTIST SALOON
THAT is CONDUCTED BYA
CHURCH ORGANIZATION.
Two Per Cent Of Gross Receipts Go to
the State of North
Carolina.

One of the ost remarkable develop
ments of the prohibition campaign in
the south is the establishment and
successful operation of a "Christian
liquor shop in Raleigh, n. c. The
real title of the enterprise is the Dis
pensary;' although the scoffers refer
to it as the 'Tabernacle Baptist sa-
loon, the prime movers in the enter
prise being members and officers in the
Tabernacle Baptist church of that city,
and the Raleigh Anti-saloOn league.
The saloon, is, however, no less
than its name indicates, a shop where
alcoholic liquors are dealt in under
the supervision of the 'dispensary
board composed of w. n. Jones, pres
ident Of the Raleigh Saloon
church: John A. Mills, deacon of the
ChristiOn church and superintendent
Sterling steward of the Methodist
church. There is staff of bartend-
ers composed of an Episcopalian, w.
?. Bachelor. and two Baptists, A. J.
Heilig and George Norwood.
The New Voice, the leading prohi-
bitiOn paper in the country, says of
The attempt that Its history evidences
that it is no passing show
Last year. the Anti-Saloon league,
from the base up a church move
ment, forced to vote on the dispensary
question under the Watts law. The To-
cal liquor men fought hard, but they
had no outside help, for the wholesale
dealers threatened with prohibition,
saw that the movement insured them
against prohibition and enabled them
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-04-07
Billiards. Horehound Syrup,

Immediately relieves hoarse croupy
cough, oppressed, rafting, rasping and
difficult breathing. Henry c. Stearns
Druggist, Shullsburg, Wis, writes
May 20, 1901: L have been selling
Ballards Horehound Syrup for two
years, and have never had a prepare
ton that has given better satisfaction
l notice that when l sell bottle they
come back for more l can honestly
recommend it." 25c, soc. S1OO. The
Upington Drug Co, dealers
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-04-07
A Dandy for Burns.

DR.. Bergin, Pana, Ills, writes: Il
have used Billiards. Snow Liniment.
always recommended it to my friends,
as l am confident there is no better
who live on farms are especially liable
to many accidental cuts, burns, bruises,
Snow Liniment is applied. 1t should
always be kept in the house for cases
The Upington Drug So, dealers.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-04-07
,n AND ALEXANDER SIFERS,
an PIONEERS, MEET AGAIN
AT TEKOA.
=. They Shook Each Other by the
Hand, Their Eyes Filled
With Tears.

rrKOA. April il. B. Sifers, a pio-
If Whitman county and for many
,.,rs a resident of this city, after
,..,.,, for forty years separated from an
.,r,. brother. had the pleasure Of meet
,ns him this week. The two brothers
,...ra horn and raised on an Ohio farm
,rfl.n 1854 after the gold excitement
rad struck the west, John Sifers, the
ra-r Of the brothers, who was then
youne man, started with a party for
rha coast. arriving at Jacksonville,
lnrarou, after perilous journey across
ltha plains Mr.. Sifers settled at
jacksonville and worked at his trade,
Eh.- Of Il carpenter and millWright.
| IN 1>55 Alexander Sifers went with
his father from his old Ohio home to
h. state of Missouri, where he settled
H. remained until 1860. when the
Western fever struck him and he join
J. a party coming to the coast. The
t.p vas With horses and emigrant
wagons across the plains, young ST.
j. driving a siX-horse team to Car
f. Nevada. where he remained but a
tharttimp. and then went to Oregon to
j. his brother He remained there till
w. when he started for Idaho, in
l-ajug to be absent but short time,
b. one thing and another delayed a
uon and the brothers continued to
Eye apart for forty years. In the mean
me John had moved to Whitman
hunty Washington, and had settled
Trkoa.
After being absent about two score
lars Alexander has arrived here from
/, Idaho home on Il visit John met
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-04-07
PASTOR SHOOTS A MEMBER
Rev. Mr.. ButaIa of Church Near Per
ham Thought to be Insane.

PERHAM, Mimi, April 7.-While in
last night. Rev. NJ. Butals, who has
charge of a parish six miles south of
here, called ST Lawrence. fired two
shots from a revolver wounding one
man in the arm.
He is thought to have been Temporal
rily insane and will not be prosecuted.