The Alaska daily empire., 1918-10-03
WAR GARDENS
 AT KLUKWAN
 MAKE RECORD
Some Interesting News From HaineS and WC- inity Gathered By
 Mrs. Gilman
(By Isabel Amber Gilman


 The war gardens at Klukwan are making record this season, having yielded extra quantities of first grade peas, beans and cabbages in addition to their full quota of other veget- ables, according to the report of District Superintendent Hawkesworth who has just returned from an or ficial visit. The Government school house has been raised, the premises regarded, and a concrete cellar put under the residence portion, kluk- wan is demonstrating the war spirit in fine style; company Of Boy Scouts are in process of organiza- tion; and special celebration of Alaska Day is being prepared for the 18th of October by Mrs. Carr, the teacher in charge of the school. Miss Ruth Shepard, who is to act as assistant teacher at the Govern ment school and governess at the Falconer home school, has gone to wan.
 Considerable damage is reported as result of recent storms; between Kukwan and Kluktoo heavy rains washed out the roads, caused several slides which brought down rock and dirt, damaged cellars in Klukwan village, and resulted in compelling travellers to get out and lift their automobiles across seven feet of ob structions. Porcupine Creek over flowed and took out the fumes at Shows Camp and at Porcupine Camp while Glacier Creek went on ram page and undide all the work of the past summer
 The white school children of Haines are making a record as war stamp buyers this term of school, twenty-five cents per week being the minimum in the primary room. Upper grade boys and girls are dem onstrating the spirit of patriotism by turning in vegetables from their gardens to the credit of the Red | Cross.
 The United States Bureau of Edu. cation, through it's field force in the Alaska school service, has for years been trying to control and stamp out the White Plague from the Native population by means of sanitary in struction in schoolroom and village. It has now gone one step farther and established a tubercular deten- tion hospital at Haines, where Ma | tives afflicted with the disease, in any of it's stages, may be isloted and given expert treatment. This hospital, formerly owned and operat ed by the Presbyterian Mission, is now undergoing repairs. A large porch with double entrance, similar to that at the Government hospital in Juneau, is being added; the fur mace and plumbing is being over hauled, and the living quarters of the Superintendent. Miss Florence Garside, and her staff of assistants is being separated from the wards waiting rooms and dispensary A nurse specially trained to handle 1 tubercular cases is to be sent up by the Government, and the teachers in the Southeastern district have been instructed to turn their atten tion to wedding out all disease car
 riers in their villages and inauguratt a campaign of enlightenment among their charges. There is now no fur ther necessity of endangering the lives of Native children by having them housed up during the winter
 months with relatives who ought tt
 be cared for at the Haines hospital : Attorney Stout, of Haines, chair man of the local National Defense League, believes in patriotism iron
 bedrock up Too old in years fol
 service at the front; too young il spirit to be satisfied with ordinar. measures of flaming the war flam' |, in human hearts, he has now SC the pace for all Alaskan towns b. appointing all the women schoo teachers of Haines as Four-Minut , men during the Fourth Liberty Loal
 drive. Mrs. Wilson, Miss Sloan
 and Mrs. Gilman will speak at tn Haines Theatre on the first thre nights of the big drive. F