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Evening journal., 1915-01-22


Two prospeciors. James Gallon and hefri
Wilkerson. are partners Gallon makes
rich find and draws q telnpuiary plan "i me
location Of The VEIN OF gold. Nilkers1n tries
60 steal these plans Gallon resista Rnn
they quarrel In tho fight Gsllon thlnka hr
has killed his partner. and leaves him Nlht
IN tho csmp Gallon 1rryes n small
western town. where he tolls the sherlf that
he and his partner we're attncked by ouhhMs
and that his PARTNER WAS killed. Tho snerlh.
his posse md Gn 60 70 the seere OF Wy
fight hut they dp not hnd Wiifersnn lNF
places him undcr arrest. Meantime Wiikff
son hns recovered and departed. That night
Gallon makes hia escape aad later arrives IN
San Francisco Here he ,akc- hip The
captain Of THIS vessel is coiecin' on
curios. Gallons mind Is uneasy ana ne mas
visions OF Wiserson returning for the pl1'.,.
in The captains cr'in is chest where ~
cps his curins Gallon opens this and hnde
1arnncse ifol with one eye He remoNe es
the eye and hides the plans in the idol =
FIRE breaks ont in the ship, causing hghi
,mong the sailors q get into the boats. Cat
Evening journal., 1915-01-22
MASKED DANCE.

Mrs. Fred Snyder's pupils and
friends, as we'll as the followers Of
the terpsichorean art in general. will
he gratfied to learn that her next
novelty dance will be a masked dance.
10 be given at her school of modern
dancing, Third and King streets. on
Thursday evening, January 2S. Mrs.
Snyder is devoting all her energies
toward making this the most sue
cessful dance Of the season.
Evening journal., 1915-01-22
BELIEVE PENNSY MAY
Build sussex resort

Special TO THE EVENING JOURNAL.
LEWES. Del. Jan. 22-For the past
few days party of surveyors from
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
have been at work surveying all of
the land south of Cape Heniopcn
Lighthouse. which is owned by the
state. and il has been rumored tha,
they arc 10 buy tho land and convert
II into q summer resort. extending
their tracks from Lewes 10 that place.
Evening journal., 1915-01-22
NEEDING ANNIvFRSlRy

Special % TIE ENENINC lOURNAi,-
DOVER Del, Jan. 22.-Alr. and Mrs
Norris Garrison, of near Cheswold.
celebrated on Wednesday evening. the
first anniversary Of their marriage.
Mrs. Garrison. who was Miss Anna
Massey. was attired in her wedding
gown of a year ago. and Miss Frances
Dewitt. who sang. 20 Promise Me-" al
the wedding. was also present and re-
peated the song.
Evening journal., 1915-01-22
WHARTON AWAITS TRIAL.

Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL.
DOVER. Del, Jan. 22.-State De-
tective Thomas brought here yester-
day from Philadelphia. Henry Whar-
ton charged with the hold-up and
robbery of former Postmaster John
Hinsley. Of Camden. Wharton was
committed to the Kent county Jail to
await hearing.
Evening journal., 1915-01-22

Free again. John insisted on taking
the quickest route back to the hotel
Everett sympathetic in this. agreed.
and In few minutes they were at the
hotel inquiring for Ruth.
"Why she left only little while
ago Go see you IN the prison" said the
clerk. "She had a note from YOU"
II wrote no note said John
Here IL is was the response. "She
left u on the desk In her hurry"
Eagerly John snatched the sheet Of
paper. but the instant his eyes lit on IL
he turned n furious face TO Everett.
tits a forgery. trick" he said Il
never wrote it,
Evening journal., 1915-01-22
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TWO HURT RY SAWS

MILFORD. Del. Jan. 22.-William
Wilson had his leg nearly sawed off
yesterday when the saw caught his
clothing and drew the leg against the
revolving disc.
AT Prime Hook Neck, James Har-
rison also caught his glove in saw
and his hand was sawed off before he
could get il loose.
Evening journal., 1915-01-22
By John Fleming Wilson
sYNoPsIs.

COPYRIGHT 'sr4. pr JOHN FLEMING ~'rso~
Evening journal., 1915-01-22
MIR. cARNAGEY WRITES
OF BUSINESS.

V1 DVDIIN1lN71Is
D. u. Carnagcy. instructor Of the
public speaking class of the y. NJ. c. A.,
is the author of a special article in this
weeks issue of the saturday Evening
Post entitled "Ihc Silent Shuttle /" which
treats of the adjustment of American
business 10 the opportunities offered by
the Europcan war.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-08-12

622 or II per cent were on the school ros
tiers.
More encouraging still is the showing as
to actual average daily attendance. Fifty
years ago it included only 5,549 or 36.7 per
cent of the entire population; during the
year just past it was 3lO8O2 or Is per cent
Of the population. Or to put it in another
way, our boys and girls attend school more
than twice as regularly as did those of half
century ago.
Moreover, they attend for an average
term over twice as long as the pioneer foun-
ders of the commonwealth were able to give
their children; for the average length Of
term in 1868 was 15.2 weeks as against 344
weeks in 1914
1t is impossible to give complete survey
of the development of Kansas high schools,
for the reason that their beginning was so
inconspicuous, their growth SO gradual, and
their importance so long unrealized that no
attempt was made to gather separate and de-
tailed statistics concerning them until ten
years ago. But if our general educational
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-08-12
BY w. ID. ROSS


in 1868, while in 1914 the sum total was
eight millions.
In fifty years our population has increased
approximately fourteenfold; our total school
expenses in the same time, not including our
state institutions, have been multiplied two
hundred times. In other words, if cost is
any criterion, our schools are almost fifteen
times as efficient as they were a half cen
fury ago. In 1868 our total population was
10000; today it is 1,672,l06 Fifty years
ago our total expenditures for the public
schools were $540o5, last year they were
more than $l2yO00000; In 1868 the total
amount invested in school property was
1892; now it is upwards of $26,000000
Increased Average Attendance.
The improved educational conditions are
not alone indicated in dollars and cents,
however In 1868 there were 24,574 persons
of school age in the state; according to the
census of 1914 there are now 503,31l, but
in 1868 only SOB or 81 per cent were actu-
ally enrolled in school, while in 1914, 392,-
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-08-12


Said the Post:
1--WE suppose there is no community in the
United States that would not look with power
full displeasure on a man who was known to be
in the habit of swindling children out of their
pennies but hundreds of communities in the
United States swinde children out of some
thing more precious than pennies, with never
blush. The educational gold brick, which
our fathers celebrated, is palmed off year after
year on a great number of country boys and
girls.
mot that our fathers celebration was un-
justified. A little i-equpped, one-teacher
country school is much better than no school
at all; but it remains today in many rural
community where it has no more business
than an oXcart would have as a pleasure We
hicle. A string of little, old-fashioned, one
teacher country schools, with a course of
studies not at all related to country life, in
a rural district where many farmers own
automobiles is a scandalous fraud on coun-
try youth
"The consolidated country school, graded,
we'll housed, well equipped adequately paid
teachers and a course of studies knit up to
country life, is the farms best asset"
What the Post says of conditions is doubt
less true. And in Kansas the remedy it pro-
poses-the consolidated school-gains ground
but slowly. Yet the prospect for improvement
is by no means hopeless. Indeed, it is not
even discouraging.
In their impatient criticisms of our schools
people are prone to overlook the fact that edu-
cation at public expense through all the grades
is of comparatively recent origin, and in spite
of our dissatisfaction with results has had
a really rapid and remarkable development
Pennsylvania was the first state to make a
common school training entirely free to all the
children of all the people, and this was not
until 1885, while the permanent establish
ment of free schools dates back in Massachu-
sets and Ohio only to 1887, in New York to
l849 and in Illinois to 1885.
Moreover, the first free high school in
America was not established till 1921, and
there were but sixty such at the outbreak of
the civil war. In fact, Kansas herself offers
a striking example of educational growth
School Growth in Kansas.
The first year from which there are any
thing like complete school statistics is 1868.
There were then 705 legally organized dis
tricts in the state; now there are 8715. At
hat time, however, the number of districts
was greater than the number of teachers,
showing that schools we're not maintained
IN all districts, whereas there are now nearly
5000 more teachers employed than there
ire districts, because many districts employ
more than one teacher. The figures on this
ooint are: Number of teachers, 1868, 564;
lumber OF teachers 1914, 14,844. Nothing
more strikingly illustrates the changed con
litions, both educationally and financially
han the increase in teachers wages In
1853 the average wages for male teachers
vas .$23 per month, and for female teachers
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-08-12

statistics for half century are remarkable
more so are those of our high schools for
the last decade. Ten years ago there were
l22 accredited high schools in Kansas; now
there are 1874, an increase of more than 800
per cent. In ten years our high school en-
rollment has grown from 1923 to 9,l6l,
or more than 200 per cent, although in the
same time our general school enrolment has
increased only 2 per cent. That is to say, in
the past decade the enrolment in our high
schools has increased one hundred times as
fast as the enrolment in our common
schools. Not only is this true, but of those
who enter high school more are remaining
to finish the course, as is shown by the fact
that ten years ago, on an enrolment Of
39,l6l, there were 1892 who graduated.
Must Have Better Schools.
While all these things are true the fact
remains that the improvement of our
schools is not keeping pace with our prog
ress in other lines. Nor can it, so long as
we consider it more profitable to spend
$l6,OOO,OOO year for automobiles and spend
$l2,OOOOOO for education, as we now seem
to; for there is frequent complaint as to
the cost of our schools, but no one who owns
an automobile ever seems to lament the
price
But regardless OF past progress and pres
ent cost, we must have better schools and
particularly better rural schools Conditions
demand them; our children deserve them.
AS the Post editorial previously quoted
points out in the consolidated school, more
than i'll any other agency, lies the solution
of the Countrywide problem, just for the rea-
son that the present drift from the country
to the city is due to dissatisfaction with
rural educational and social conditions more
than any other cause. Change these CON
ditions through the consolidated schools
with its high-school privileges, its vocation
al courses and its social-center opportuni-
ties and in this day of rural free delivery,
telephones and automobiles, the country will
become the place of contentment, prosperity
and happiness above all others for as Mr..
Herbert Quick, the editor, recently said in
Farm and Fireside, "The farm itself is bet
ter educational plant than money will buy
in city-if we only develop school system
which will make use of it.
Consolidated Schools Economical.
The arguments most frequently used in
opposition to consolidation are the increased
expense and the difficulties of transporta-
ion. But as matter of fact, efficiency con-
5idered, consolidated schools are on the
far more economical than one-room
schools Indeed, no schools are really so
expensive as our country
schools This is easily seen when it is re-
rendered that more than one-third of the
,ne-teacher schools of the state have an
verage daily attendance of from one to
welve pupils, while in the average graded
chool one teacher takes care of daily at
enhance of from thirty to forty. In this
it may be argued that because
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-11-26
MACHINIsT IS
 DROWNED FROM
 TENAKEE BOAT

Ernest Nelson, formerly mochln. list at Treadwell, was drowned by falling off the st. Nicholaa Tuesday. according to word brought by Capt. James Davis of the St. Nicholas when he docked here Wednesday afternoon.
 Nelson had complained Of his room being too warm and went out on deck before lunch. Davis said shortly af- ter lunch. or about o'clock he went out again At 4:so when Capt Davis started to take up the iares he could not locate the man when a thorough search failed to find him 1t was de. cIded that he had fallen overheard.
 Nelson. in company with John Swanson and c. A. Moberg boarded the st. Nicholas at Douglas. On her return trip the boat put In to shore to land a searching party. but no trace of the missing man was found Ern- est Nelson was native of Oland, Sweden. and was unmarried
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-11-26
soUATTERs PPRoTEsT
 REQUEST FOR PATENT

Protests have been filed in the land office against the application of the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining company for patent to the A. and D. Millsites on Gastineau channel. involving tracts on Lower Franklin street The pro- testants are Bob Strangland, Tim Tor gensen. Charles Kavander William Bell. A. Heipe and W. E. Northrop, the first four of whom are defendants in eiectment suits now pending in the District Court and in which the Alas lSa Juneau company is the plaintiff.
 Notices of these protests were is- sued today by the Land office The objections are made on the allega, tions that the mining company is en- deavoring to secure Q monopoly of the waterfront of Juneau that the pro- testants have been occupants of the land In question since 1912, that the mining company does not need these milsites. and that the mining company already has more than 5000 feet of waterfront on Gastneau channel.
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-11-26
SCRAFFORD. WITH ANTHONY FORTUNE,
 WILL LOCATE HERE

"Si" Scra1ord. sourdough Alaskan, whose ship came in this year via the antimony route passed through to the States on the steamship North western this morning. While the steamer was here Mr. scranord wis., tied with Al Raynor at the New Cain.
 Scranord expects to return to Alas Sa after visiting in Seattle and san Francisco. and will seek investment here. ln property or in some kind of business He cleaned up ho.i mill ion dollas on his last shipment of an- timony ore from Fairbanks, and his earnings this summer from mining that metal have made hlm independ- ently wealthy
 Anthony has sprung into promi- hence in the metal trade since the European war. It is described as a large. white lustrous metal entering largely into medicinal preparations and various important alloys. such as pewter and Brittania.metal
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-11-26
eEplTH e.e BROKE
 up WITHIN 9 HOURS
 AFTER STRIKING ROCKS

According to "Chlck" Harrls, the wrecked launch Edith G.. on which he and p. J. Cleveland were going to Skagway. ran aground on rocks at the mouth of the chilcat river, near Haines when the engine stopped we were going along alright. last Saturday morning" said Mr. Harris, when suddenly the engine gave a dy- ing gasp and quit The boat drifted onto the rocks and we had a hard time getting away and waves four feet high were hitting us. Within two hours nothing but wreckage was left of the launch"
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-11-26

We carry all the leading stand ard pianos and player pianos Edison Diamond Disc phonograph, Victor and Columbia talking machines. sold on easy payments. Small musical instru- ments. sheet music. All the records for all the machines all the time at JUNEAU MUSIC HOUSE 11-26-15
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-11-26
MAaRIEp WEpNEspAY.

Mics Augusta Atkins and l.. l.. Ball were married Wednesday evening by U. S. Commissioner J. B. Marshall. Mr. Ball is a popular employee of the Perseverance mine, while Miss Atkins has been employed at the home of R.. c. Hurley. The couple are registered at the Alaskan Hotel
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-11-26
ROMAN AND JAMES HAVE

Advices received from the coast state that Jack Roman and Bennett James. both former residents of Fair banks. have picked up the lead again on the Skeen-Stevenson property in the Moose Pass which they bought for cash some time ago. The owners started to work as soon as they ac- oulred the property, but the lead fault ed. They drifted and have picked up the lead again Fairbanks News Mlner.l
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-11-26
LIBRARIAN COLE WILL
 BECOME GENERAL MERCHANT

Thomas Cole. librarian at the Unit cd States courthouse. will leave Ju- neau shortly after December l for Waterville. Wash. to engage in bus mess with his father-in-law. John F. Rogers. Mir Cole had made his res- lgnation effective December ].
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-11-26

ed through this morning on the steam ship Northwestern, enroute to the States, on mining business.
 James McCloskey left on the North western for Seattle, on his way to Madison, Wis. where his father died Wednesday at the age of 99 years.
 z. J. Loussac, of the Juneau Drug Co.,. has recovered from severe at tack Of the grippe.
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-11-26
rlnEElAr ls soLn

According to 9 deed filed this nor ming in the Recorders office. Albert Barney has sold to Fred Boynton tract of tideflat near the Junction of West 9th and Willoghby Avenue, for a consideration of $500 The tract measures 10 & 70 feet
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-11-26
WILLOW CREEK MINING
 cOMpANY WORKS WINTER

William Martin. manager of the AL aska Free Gold Mining Company of the Willow Creek states that the min ing season was pretty fair this year. He will keep 20 men at the mine all winter, and says that work will com mence immediately for the hauling of acol from Moose creek. in the Matan. uska fields. to his mines and will keep his stamp mills going this win ter by steam.-tseward Gateway
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-11-26
NOTICE

Owing to Thanksgiving demand we are al out of Olympia oysters on the half shell We will be unable Go sup ply our customers until the arrival of next boat.
 A LA GRAF
 Cor Front & Franklin - Phone 2O6
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-11-26
ANCHORAGE IS TO
HAVE DOG RACES

ANCHORAGE-The plans are about perfected for the formation of 9 ken- mel club here for the purpose of inau- gurating dog racing and the co-opera- ton of Seward is eagerly looked for. In addition to Seward the co-opera- ton of other places will also be asked so that races for big purses may be brought off during the winter season. It will probably be the plan to have inter-city races. that is from one city to another. and later Go have cham pionship events in which the various towns and localities will be pitted against each other.
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-11-26
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J. J Meherin, representing Folger & Co.,. returned on the Northwestern from a business trip to Seward and other Southwestern Alaska points. He epects to so on to San Francisco for his annual trip into the house" soon.
 A. E. Harris. travelling representa- tive of che Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad, returned on the North western fropi missionary trip to Southwestern Alaska points.
 Dr. w. " Council Of Cordova pass
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-11-26
INJURED PRosPEcToR
 IS OPERATED UPON

John W. Clark. the prospector who was seriously injured early In May by falling over a cliff near Persever- ance. has just sustained an operation performed by a specialist in Washing ton. D. C.. In which the bruised DOT tion of his skull was removed and re- placed by Q silver plate.
 Clark was taken East by his broth CT, E. F. Clark. shortly after the acci- dent It is believed that his recovery will be complete within few weeks
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-11-26
GOES
 TO GET HIS BRIDE

Julius Hoffman a leading business man of Fairbanks. passed through to Seattle on the steamship Northwest ern this morning and when he returns to Fairbanks he will be accompanied by a bride. Hoffman has not been to| the Outside in 17 years. He owns a. large barber shop in the Panama me- tropolis and much real estate in that city.
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-11-26

Miss M. A. Davis of Chicago Is a guest at the New Cain hotel She arrived from Southwestern Alaska on the steamship Northwestern last night.
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-11-26

Christmas cards that will please your friends and yourself at c. E. Cartwrights. 22-St
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-11-26

Time is valuable now and you may save many hours Of useless looking by going to c. F. Cartwright's first. -(26-St)
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-11-26

Ladies: If you would appear dIs- tIngulshed get your hat at the Model. 11-17-tf
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-11-26
AIaSka FleCEriC Light and POWer Co.


We carry an the leading stand ard pianos and player pianos. Edison Diamond Disc phonograph. Victor and Columbia talking machines. sold on easy payments. Small musical instru- ments. sheet music. All the records for all the machines all the time at JUNEAU MUSIC HOUSE 11-26-15
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-11-26

Many styles of dainty Christmas cards to make your selection from at C. E. Cartwright's. 26-St.
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-11-26

Everybody reads Empire lads"
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-11-26

FOR RENT-Uniurnished Broom apartments. phone 256. 24-tf
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-11-26

FOR RENT-PiauO in good condition. zD Empire. ll-2S-ti
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-11-26

rrerybody roadg EmpIra "adg.
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-11-26
.pANcE sAruRpAY NleAT.

These dances have become very Peyser. Greenlee and Turn CT will furnish the music Gentle men SloO; ladies free i1-2l-St-
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-11-26

You saw 1t arst in mo Em7ire.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-11-07
Internntiosnl pnlicc Enrre.

i'alSs declaration OF war and hd-
adherence TO tho ranks OF the entente
powers ic likely soon TO be followed
pN the entry Of Roumania and Greece
ana probably Bulgaria. 1t is common
~ believed that defcmseleSsucss OF their
frontiers restrain Holland and Dem
marx from participation. At the be-
ginning o. tho war Sweden was pro-
German ~ scnt!mcn; through tradi-
tIoNhI fear OF Russia. hut there has
pecn great change in Swedish opin-
ION. N"rwa: is pro-ally in expression.
switzerland. on account OF racial kim
snip OF her people ia divided in
thought. although stitfiy neutral a. =
CountrY.
In recent years much has been said
oE peace theorists about the Gesira :
o'!''F or an international police force
competent TO suppress any disorderlv
nation that refused to submit dis
lU'e TO fair arhitraiiou.' The dream
seems III process OF realization. al
'AouSh III different way than was
anticipated. Germany hrought on the
Wa ny supporting AUgtria's refusal
|" aroiiraio. and the greater par, OF
'he world has como together to com
PEI obedience TO ana respect for IN.
interest OF all in peace The svccn
o. the alliance 2cains, the -'eutonir
powers suggests that The international
ponce force has been established an,
that no nation in the future will d,rc
10 take Independent action against
general protest.-Ncw York Globe
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-11-07
Snving the IIni,fcs.

Inc city board of health has done
Wen to organize it's forces I'm behalf
o! the babies, whose lives are in con
.,u., peril because Of ignorant care
ana treatment II is pcrfcctly reyolt
rS 10 the common humanity that half
y. ."e babies should die during :, sum :
.''er' one OF the first things To do ia
~ Keep the parents from administers
chI,, me advertised .r, nostrums to their
-, em. lhey need no drugs of any.
h ., Ihey need just proper care. ana
, .',.' VIII he the high office OF the
BOARD TO teach. The old baby rcmn-
.' must he discarded entirely and
No. 'ai' treatment be limited To pure
water ana milk. light clothes rentIc
care ana happy environments. Tbi;
We are sure 1t will be the frs, car.
OF thc board To see supplied. I, c,n
save nearly hundred lives i'm mi,
Jo!',','"ui,y inns year. and we have no
bus Journal.