The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-28
establish municipal fish traps along the

establish municipal fish traps along the rivers.
 The Eskimo town at Noatak, which is on the Noatak river, some distance above Kotzehue sound in Arctic Alaska, has government consisting of five trus- tees who settle all disputes among the people. 1t has also peace officers who are annually elected. These men have charge of the order of the village, and they have kept liquor from coming into it. The teacher there says that not one drop of liquor was sold in Noatak dur ing the whole of last winter, nor was there any desire for it.
 One of the most interesting schools of Alaska Is that of Point Barrow. It is the most northerly school of the world. The settlement there consists of six or eight white men in addition to the teacher, and about 200 natives. The whites are engaged in whaling. The Es- kimos fish and trap and catch whales and seals. They have also reindeer which add to their income, and on the whole they are well to do.
 The schoolhouse at Point Barrow is better than that of some of the other Eskimo villages The building cost $6OOO. but it includes also the home of the teacher. Part of the school outfit is used for industrial training. A black smith shop is connected with it, and this has a portable forge which is car ried about from place to place. The boys are taught how to use tools. They learn carpenter work, and make all sorts of things from dog chains to the cover- ing of canoes. The shop was built by volunteer labor
 In nearly all of these schools more or less industrial work is done. This re- lates to the girls as we'll as to the boys. The school at Selawik, in the Arctic circle, has sewing department and a sewing machine. The machine is used by the women of the village, and girls come from miles around to learn how to sew and make garments. The machine is also used by the young men for mak- ing sails for their boats.
 The Selawik school has a kitchen where the children are taught to make bread, using yeast. Thirty-five of the older women of the town have been taught cooking there, the pupils ranging from 10 to 60 years of age. Twelve hundred and eighty loaves of bread were baked in that kitchen last season, and instruc- ton was also given in such of the igloos as have stoves.
 Tn another school, on the Arctic ocean, lI6l0 di iG LIiiee CldSSGS III COOhlIIS SdCIi week. The girls make bread rolls, bis cults and doughnuts both at school and at home. Sour dough biscuits and hot cakes are now to be had in every igloo, and they have great feasts- on Thanks giving and Christmas. At Wainwright last term 1000 loaves of bread, Al dozen cinnamon rolls, 30 dozen doughnuts and 26 dozen cookies were baked. The school classes took charge of the Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners and prepared and cooked them.
 The advance in sewing is remarkable. Not many years ago a great part of the sewing was done with bone needles. and the work was confined to skin garments. The skins were so hard that they had to be chewed in the mouth before the needle would go through, and there are many Eskimo women still living whose teeth have been ground down to the gums by their work as seamstresses Every school now has it's sewing class. and in some of them an hour day is devoted to