The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 8, 1929, Page 1

DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS VOL. XXXIIL, NO, 5042. ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1928. OF ASSOCIATED PRESS MEXICAN BULLETS FLY ACROSS U. S. BOUNDARY LINE SCHOOL BUDGET FOR 19231930 ‘Lindbergh May WRITINGS BY COOLIDGE TO Fly Air Mail Tomorrow MEXICO CITY, March 8. sident Gil turned from 1S ACCUSED OF MURDERI' GALE TAKES DEATH TOLL COL, STEWART LOSES FIGHT Two Men Eescape From Sunken Sub | At 200-Foot Depth REBELS ATTABK ' JUAREZ; LOYAL MIAMI, Fla., March 8—Ed Wil-| NEW YORK, March 8.—A sixty son, accused of the murder of mile an hour gale rampaged Thomas Walsh, is being sought and through the Northeastern states and a score of others are held for ques- | eastern Canada last night causing KEY WEST, March 8—From | WITH JUHN nl‘ a depth of 200 feet, Lieut. C | | Omsen and Chief Tcrpedoman Edward Kalimopski successfully i active direction of the Me» can war to christen the tri- motored airplane in *which TOTALS $845,000 APPEAR NOW Col. C Henderson’s Report Sug- gests Changes in Pres- ent Refund Methods URGES INITIATION OF JUNIOR COLLEGE PLAN Believes Junior College Sys- tem Solution of Higher Education, Problem " TERRITORIAL SCHOOL | BUDGET Support of schools in incorporated towns and school districts $550,000 Support of schools outside of incorpor- ated towns and school districts . 325,000 Citizenship Night 8chools .....ce.ee..ce Transportation of stu- dents For co-operative schools ... Payment of tuition for certain pupils.... 10,000 20,000 25,000 15,000 Total .$945,000 Imost one million dollars, to be exact, $945,00000, is the estimate placed by L..J. Henderson, Com- missioner ‘of Mflmn, on the cost of maintaining present Alaska public school system for the next biennium. This, is $95,000 more than the appropriations ecxpended for that purpose cduring the two- “year periodirat is just el These facts arz set forth in the biennial report of Commissioner Henderson. In addition he has made a number of recommendations for changes, additions to the sys- tem, which if enacted into law will undoubtedly materially increase the total cost of school maintenance, but no approximate figure can be obtained on them. Probably the most important changes suggested, at least so far as the schools themselves and their costs are involved, are recommend- ations for a different system of re- funding municipalities and the es- tablishment of a “junior college” system to supplement existing high school facilities. The present refund method is harshly criticized by Mr. Henderson who declared “its general tendency has heen to place a penalty on rrogress.” It is recommended that the cities be divided into two class- es, namely, “those having an aver- age daily attendance of 150 or less pupils, and those having an average of more than 150 pupils, the refunds to be on 80 per cent and 75 percent respectively on the items of school cost now included in the original act.” At the same time, it is asked that the provision limiting the maximum amount of refund to a definite figure be elim- inated “for the reason that such a restriction is not for the best in- crests of the schools which may be affected thereby.” It is also recommended that it be mandatory for cities to accept outside pupils. Junior College System Commissioner Henderson makes the statement that the establish- ment of junior colleges in conjune- tion with local high schools would solve Alaska’s higher education problem, which he asserts is a matter of knowledge to everyone who has give nthe subject consider- ation. This problem is in the great number of high school gradu- ates who leave the Territory for their higher education. In this connection the report!| said: “Seventy-five per cent of the high school graduates who have entered higher institutions of learn- ing during the past seven years, or since the opening of the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines, have enrolled in institutions situated in the States. To one who vill ‘consider the present popula- tion trend: of the Territory, this percentage bids fair to incréase in the future.” avel distances are said tc be one factor in this. Most of the hich school graduates come from schools situated more closely to in- stitutions of higher learning in the States than to the Alaska College. The Commissioner believes most of those now leaving the Territory for college would remain and pursue their studies in junior colleges at home, and that a larger proportion ott.hemwauldthmsowthflflf"l A. Lindbergh will inaugurate the new air- m: vice betw: Mexico C nd Brownsville, Tex- Col. Lindbergh may start for Texas tomorrow and re- turn here cunday. @00 0000200000 eovuessoLse00e0 @00 ecsevcecsce ta College to complcle iheir cours- , « is addead, would opportunities for trai; local y men and women for teaching in Territorial schools. There are no facilities for that now except at the Alaska College. Another recommendation of ma- jor importance is for the enact- ment of a teachers perision law un- der “which each teacher is required to contribute annually a specified part of his or her annual salary to a pension fund to which the Territory makes an annual coutri- bution based on the amount con- afford First of Series in March Magazine — White House Career Given NEW YORK, March 8.—The first of a series of articles of his White House career, written by Calvin He is also ting for the American and the Ladies Home Journal. In the fi icle, c! sart of a constituting biography, he discusses the first years in the White House. He said his son would not have died if he had not been living in the White House. Coolidge commented: “When {he went, the power and glory of the Presidency went with him. I ‘do not know why such a price was ;exac!ed for occupying the White | House.” 1 is a e | 1 . tributed by the teachers. Tca:horleUNlflR PR“M to be pensioned after 30 years of | teaching service, 10 of which must have been rendered in the Terri- torial school system. to be $1,000 per year for life.” | | The annuity , | 15 TOMORROW Ccolidge, appears in the March Cos- gmopnlir:\n magazine. his | dzrapting the Territorial Board of {on the latest dance music and the | Other recommendations include: |p: o | Enactment of a law whereby par- ‘Blggcs{ SQleil Event of Ju'3 ants and guardians of s*hool ct.l- | neau ngh School dren completing the work of the! . eighth grade in school districts in | to Be Given which no high schools are main- & ¥ tained may receive financial assi The Junior Prom, the biggest and tance from the Territory in secur-/most important social event of the ing a high school education mr;Sehool year, will be given in the| such children; passage of an act High School Gym tomorrow night. memorializing Congress to extenc | The large oak floor is polished and to Alaska the provisions of the has been put in the hest possible | Smith-Hughes Vocationa! Educa- |condition, the school's jazz orches- tion Law; enactment of a luw|tra has been rehearsing for weeks Education, through the Commis- | various cotmnfittees in charge prom- | sioner of Beucation] awthority to ise the finest and most enjoyable sell or rent school buildings in dis- €vening their guests will have this | tricts which have been discontin. |season. ued and which in all probability| The Sixth Street entrance will| will not again become active; en- be used tomorrow night and Lhel actment of legislation which wil doors will be open early so that all make it possible to expend $15,000, Who altend can be assured of danc- appropriated to cover payment of |ing promptly at 9:30 o'clock. tuition fees to incorporated citi»s| The dance committee is composed during the biennium ending June of Earl Lagergren, Henning Berg- 20, 1929; enactment of 2 law em- gren and Cornelia Mohn. The re- powering the Commissioner to pur- |{reshments committee is Amy chase or construct a building fov|Bates, Zenia Kashevaroff and Elsie | use as living quarters for the teach- | Jensen. | er or teachers in school districts| The President of the Juniors is| outside of incorporated cities in Fred Barragar; Vice-President, Bill| which such quarters are not already lSparks, and Treasurer, Bennie Mes- | provided; special appropriations as ser. follows: $7,500 for a school buildine | in the Longwood district, Kodiak Island; $4,000 for an addition to‘Trappers Lose Boat the Bethel school building; $4,000 And Fur Catch in for an addition to the Hoonah | school building, and a few small| Waters to Westward sums for covering refunds to v:m-‘ SEWARD, Alaska, March 8.— ous towns and persons. | |Caught in a fierce winter storm in Makes Steady Progress Summarizing the past history of walina Bay, Shelikoff Straits, Mike the schools, Commissioner Hender- popinof and John Roscov, Russian son f:;gi o L itrappers, lost their gashoat and sev- “Alaska’s school system is nak-'epa] weeks' catch of fur. ing steady progress. Sichoolie dhal‘)"{; The gasboat fought a southeast- grown physically as indica Y erly gale until driven in snow and an “;‘15"9“& in d‘ifl":}’llme’i“ ng ,:Z,:‘S‘Wt against the rugged coast. The | pupils, the addition o men swam ashore and reached a| teachers, and a growth of 10 in the getlement exhausted. A salvage nunfl;?' °1dsch°°15d:fl‘"‘3mh:d- ‘:x“' boat failed to recover the skins, pe and expenditures have in- e creased $129,000.01, the major part' «gyGH CLASS” FIGHTER of this being in ‘the item of capi-| IN FLORIDA LINE-UP tal outlay. Per capita costs have| ( not increased materially, the com-| GAINESVILLE, Fia, March 8—If parison being $134.20. for the school pejont and reach mean much in year 1925-26 and $136.69 for ‘h"-boxing, J. W. Chapman of Winter school year 1927-28. {Haven, Fla., member of the Univer- “{ngrensefhecflcs“;‘zfim'f ezem;; sity of Florida boxing team, should pected as igo high in the game. and school facilities are extended.'s He stands six feet eight inches The biennium witnessed a decided \y, hejght and has an enormous growth in hlg:‘ 501:‘;“’ e“m“:“eg"‘reach and a natural shiftiness not the increase being 23 per cent. ONioeten gecompanying a man so huge, the average the per capita expense|coach Jjohn gombo says. The ?l p{:,“?h:in hlsf: hzhof:q:g:;*‘t‘f‘gr“rxgnwr weighs 200 pmm:s a;\dflca: s aboul ice take many more pounds Of s elementary school education. The}without chuml.ng corpulent. ' substantial growth that has mkeni _— .t place in the special subjects—man- STOCK QUOTATIONS ual training, home economics, music & and art, also is an @dditional fac-| NEpw YORK, March 8.—Alaska tor in increased costs.” Juneau mine stock is quoted today | There was an unusual exPfll’\SiOn;ac 7%, American Smelting 116%, in the school building program dur-|General Motors, new issue 81%,| ing the past two years. New stl;‘;g- | Gold Dust 70%, International Ps.peri tures and repairs made to old build- |A 33, B 22, Mack Trucks 108, Mis- ings at a cost of approximate- | inaugural period. | trator. {o'clock last night. tioning. New York police reveal- |ed that Walsh, who was shot in a hotel room early yesterday morning during a card game, had been trail- ed by gunmen for a month be- |cause he was talking too about the slaying of Arnold Roth- ‘stein, in New York, many months ago. SECRETARIES T0 PRESIDENT ARE ON' JOBS Oaths Are Taken — Two Men Are Close Asso- ciates of Hoover WASHINGTON, March 8—George Akerson, of Minnesota and Law | rence Richey, of Washington, today took oaths of office as Sccretdries of President Hoover. ' Akerson is a former newspaper- man and has been associated With Hoover for fhe past five years, throughout the campaign and pre- He had a title of Assistant. He succeeds Everett Sanders, Coolidge's secretary. The services of Richey, with Hoo- ver, date back to the early days lof the American participation in the World War when Hoover returned to this country to be Food Adminis- He served in a confiden- tial capacity. The duties of Ackerson will be primarily - those of contact v the public and Washington corre- spondents while Richey will have charge of the general affairs of the Executive Office including the personnel. MISS FLORA BOHM PASSES AWAY HERE Miss Flora Bohn, 43 years old, died at St. Ann's Hospital at 10:45 She was taken to the hospital a month ‘ago, suf- fering from colitis. That and other complications caused her death, her physician said today. She had been in more or less poor health for some time. Miss Bohm was the daughter of ,c, H. Bohm, keeper of the Sentinel Island light and lived with him at the lighthouse until she was brought into Juneau for medical treatment February 8. They came to Alaska 25 or 30 years ago and nave lived here since that time. Boats have been unable to land | at Sentinal Island because of storms, so it was impossible for Mr. Bohm to get here before his daughter's death. He is expected to arrive in Juneau some time to- morrow and no funeral arrange- ments will be made until then. The body is at the C. W. Carter Mortuary. Sewar(-l in Line for Public Health Station SEATTLE, March 8.—Immediate classification of Seward, Alaska, as a fourth class Public Health Serv- ice station is expected to follow the request of the Seattle Maritime As- sociation to the Surgeon General. Later in the year Seward will prob- ably become a third class s with a resident physician but ing ean be done to hurry the gov- ernment action. However the As- sociation is able to push through the fourth class rating. Candidate for Governor Of Alaska in Washington WASHINGTOflarch 8—W. H. Holmes, of Amarillo, Texas, en- dorsed by the Texas Republican or- | ganization for Governor of Alaska, | souri 83%, National Power and'is here in the interest of furthering |years Claims Agent for the Alaska much | three deaths and scores of injuries also over $1,000,000 property dam- A 15-foot smokcstack on the top the 15-story Claridge Hotel, in ‘mes Square, tumbled into the |street but nons were injured. One 1an was killed when blown off a cof AUTOS SPEED OFF END OF OPEN BRIDGE {Five Men Are Drowned— i Three Others Saved— Early Morning Accident of ABERDEEN, Wash., March 8— Five men were drowned and three others were saved when two sedans ve off the open end of the Wish- zah bridge near here, when one of the automobile gates failed to func- tion. The dead are C. Corey, driver of the first machine; L. T. Corey, his| father; Charles Porter, driver of the second car; man named Harrison. loggers. Corey did not see the open bridge and whizzed off the span into the darkness early this morning. The second machine closely followed. None of the bodies have been recovered. All were Hoover Displa.y; New Method of Shaking Hands WASHINGTON, March 8.—Presi-| dent Hoover has a method all his own of shaking hands with visi- tors and it differs materially from that which was employed by Cool- | idge. i Hoover extends his hand well for- ward so those he greets are held| quite a distance away and he has! substituted the quick pull grasps for a sort of half-catch of the hand he employed during the cam- paign. » .- — MOOSEHEART WOMEN MEET; GYMNASTICS At the regular meeting of the| Women of Mooseheart last night, the routine matters of business were taken up and the plans for |the beenfit card party to be heldi the evening of April 11, were dis-| cussed. After the meeting the women donned gym suits and turned out for a period of exercise that gave them appetites for the coffee and doughnuts that followed. ——————— JUNEAU YACHT CLUB FLAG DESIGNS ARE H DISPLAYED BY STORE The designs for an emblem for the Juneau Yacht Club, which have been submitted by the children of the Juneau Public Schools, are on exhibition in a window of Gold- stein’s Emporium. Announcement of the winner of the contest, whose design is chosen by the club, will be made next Monday, according to Harry Wat- son. The winner of the contest will receive a cash prize of $10. “The designs are most original and many are exceilent. I think they should be put on exhibition some place so that the people can sce what the children have ac- complished,” Dr. H. C. DeVighne isaid when he saw them yesterday. | Following his suggestion, the flags | were mounted and put on display. ———.—-—— RAIL AGENT GOING SOUTH E. C. Oldfin, for the past several Ousted from Chairmanship | of One Standard Oil Company escapgd from the sunken sub- | inp S-4in the finaltestofa | | new datety device. The offi- | | cers #aid it is the first time — | | @ man submerged in a vossel WHITING, Ind, March 8.—Col at that depth ever escaped Robert. W. Stewart lost his long| | alive. ) battle with John D. Rockefeller,' | jr., to retain the $125,000 3 — position as Chairman of the Board 2 A of the Standard Oil of Indiana at ! the stockholders’ meeting. The Rockefeller group decisively ousted Col. Stewart for moral unfitness but ‘ all lauded him for his successful 30 | N J U RED record. Edward Seubert, Pre: t of the | ,Corpornuon was re-elected and| {made Chief Executive Officer, the nosition of Chairman of the Board | being abolished. This is the first big industrial fight over moral prin- ciples. An ovation greeted Col. Stewar! when he read his report sho his company’'s earnings last y r‘l of $83,500,000 more than double of the preceding year but subsequent- | ly he was ousted by 2,500,000 votes. Afterwards, Col. Stewart said “For years the company’s wel has been my decpest concern. ear — D — a [Dynamite Stored in Barn Explodes—Men Are Blown 150 Feet SCRIBNER, Neb, March 5~ Four men were killed and 30 in- |jured in an explosion of dynamite ‘t‘last night during a fire at the home IS of Carl Holander, County Super- DURING FIRE Jim Collins and a|} | Freemont had cargoes of 6,000, 8,009 affairs have been my very life. One cannot disassociate himself from {such intimacy without a wrench.”| e e - | l HALIBUT SELLS | AT 1325 AND Twenty-four thousand pounds of | halibut sold on the local market yesterday afternoon and this morn- ing at prices of 13.25 and 9 cents. The boats Thelma, Ina J., and and 10,000 pounds, respectively. New England, at 13.25 and 9 cents, Alaska Fish Brokers at 13 and 9.30 cents and San Juan at 13 and 9.25 cents, tcok the lot. ALASKA INDIAN BECOMES PEEVED, | THEN TAKES LIFE| An apparent suicide committed | by an Alaskan Indian because his wife didn’t have dinner ready for im sounds like a story from a Chicago or New York paper. In those cities it has become common for families to commit murder or suicide over such triviaities as late dinners, cold food, or the brand of | coffee used, according to the pap- ers, and Charles Durkee, Alaska Indian, 28 years old, was at tem- permental as any of them. He had invited friends to dinner and when he arrived at his home at Craig and found it not ready, he quarrelled with his wife, and grabbed a bowie knife. She man- aged to take the knife away from nim, whereupon he took his rifle| and left the house calling “goodby” as he went. A few minutes later a shot was heard and soon after the Deputy U, 8. Marshal, who had | peen called, arrived, the man died, according to word received by U. 8. Marshal Albert White. A coroner's inquest brought in a verdiet of accidental shooting.! Durkee was buried March 1 on Fish Egg Island in an Indian bur- ial ground, the letter from Deputy U. 8. Marshal J. A. Nielsen said. ——— HILL MODIFIES | HEAVY SENTENCE W. I Levy, of Ketchikan, whose sentence by U. 8. Commissioner J. W. Kehoe, to serve six months in jail, and pay a fine of $750 for |being intoxicated caused consider- able comment because of its se- verity, pleaded builty and was fined “8250 by Judge E. Coke Hill, to whom he appealed the sentence. .- MRS. WHALEN LEAVES * Mrs. Oliver Whalen, whose hus-; ly $250,000, and bond issues were floated by two municipalities in the amount of $150,000 for new school houses. Progress was made in improving the professional rating of teachers. Eighty-two per cent of Alaska teachers had attended institutions of higher learning for at least two years in 1925-26 and in 1927-28 this Light 57%, Packard Motors 140%, Postum 72, U. S. Steel 186%, Beth- |lehem Steel 101%, American Can 120, Canada Dry 81%, American T and T Company 214%, Continental | Motors 237%. — H’OOVEE IS NOW THE HEAD OF RED CROSS had increased to 91 per cent. Nine- WASHINGTON, March 8—Presi- |band is a dentist at Wrangell, is a his candidacy. | Railroad with his office at Anchor- e lage, is aboard the steamer Ala- WELLMAN HOLBROO! meda bound for Seattle. Mr. Old- GOES TO PETERSBURG |fin recently resigned his position for a connection in the States. —_—————--—— REJOINS SHIP Wellman Holbrook, of the U. 8. Forest Service, left on the steam- er Queen for Petersburg where he will assist Forest Ranger C. M. Archbold in making home site sur-|of the Alameda, who was taken to veys and timber sales. From Pe-'St. Ann's Hospitel with the flu W. H. Bos, member of the crew | passenger on the Alameda for her home there. Mrs. Whalen has been the house guest of her sis- |ter-in-law, Mrs. H. W. Terhune here for the last few days. B BUSINESS GOOD SAYS HENRY RODEN, ATTORNEY visor. The dynamite was stored in barn for blasting the ice,choked streams in this vicinity. Four of the injured may die. The, fire started from an unde- termined cause in the barn. Firemen approaching the place were told by spectators there was no danger of an explosion as there were no caps with dynamite. Hardly had this assurance been given hefore a tremendous blast ,rocked the countryside and men were “Jown 150 feet into the adr. DEMAND THAT RASKOB QUIT WASHINGTON, March 8—The | National Women's Democratic Law Enforcement League has passed a resolution demanding the resig- nation of John J. Raskob as Na- tional Committee Chairman for “the good of the Democratic Party, We demand this Tammany leader pay off the debt he incurred in the name of the Party, and resign.” e ee MAN KILLED IN ACCIDENT AT ALASKA JUNEAU MINE Manuel Rodezue, Spaniard, aged about 35 years, was killed about 8:30 o'clock this morning when he fell down an oreway, from No. 4 cone at the Alaska Juneau Mine. No details of the accident were available, but it was said that he might have fallen as much as 200 or 300 feet. He was unmarried and had been employed at the mine for about four years. Funeral ar- rangements have not been an- nounced. — eee REP. M'CAIN HERE FROM ANCHORAGE Completing the personnel of the House of Representatives, J. M. Mc- Cain, for the Third Division, ar- rived in Juneau from his home in Anchorage, on the Alameda today. Mr, McCain is the last of the legis- lators to reach Juneau. > COURT CONVENES FOR HALF HOUR PERIOD The U. S. District Court, Judge J. W. Harding, convened for a brief time this morning. No business was taken up and adjournment was called until tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock. Judge Harding an- nounced that he will set a motion calendar for next week. SR8 A S LOCAL ATTORNEY APPOINTED HYDER U. S. COMMISSIONER The appointment of Arthur Fox, local attorney, as United States Commissioner at Hyder to succeed Winton C. Arnold, has been made by Judge J. W. Harding, to take effect April 1. Mr. Arnold will suc- ceed J. W. Kehoe as United States Business in Ketchikan and Pet- Commissioner at Ketchikan, Mr. Fox is well known in Alaska | |Severe Figh‘trir;é-in Progress Today Opposite Texas City AMERICAN BOY IS INJURED BY BULLET Federal Machine Guns Mowing Down Revolu- tionists in Fight BULLETIN—EL PASO, Tex., March 8.—The rebels have cap- tured Juarez. A truce was ar- ranged late this afternoon at a conference on the International Bridge. The conference was be- tween Gen. Valles, head of the rebel forces and Gen. Ramos, of the Federal garrison and Brig. Gen. Moseley of the Am- erican forces in El Paso. Bul- lets flew across the border and killed one American boy and wounded another. EL PASO, Texas, March 8.—A stray shot from Juarez has already wounded an American boy in El Paso, named Louis Chavez. Heavy fighting for possession of Juarez, across the Mexican-Ameri- ban border, began today between 2 body of 600 loyal Mexican sol- diers holding the town, and 2,000 rebels who made a surprise attack under cover of an irrigation ditch. Heavy Death Toll The Mexican Federal machine 3un fire took a heavy toll and the bodies of the slain could be seen from the American side, sprawled out on some of the Mexican City. Severe Fighting Severe fighting took place only 10 blocks away from the thiekly populated district of South El Paso. U. 8. Troops Called Out American military authorities took against trouble along the border. Troops at Fort Bliss were called out during the night and stationed along the International Boundary Line. Juarez Well Fortified The Mexican Federal troops in Juarez, although greatly outnum- bered, fortified street intersections ty-seven per cent of the high school [dent Hoover has 'accepted the teachers hold diplomas of gradua- | Presidency of the American Na- tion from colleges and universi- |tional Red Cross, always held by to look over Forest Service work there. He expects to be away tersburg he will go to Ketchik-n: whe nthe steamer stopped here on ithe way to the Westward, rejoined his ship when it arrived here. He ersburg is brisk and the towns both |2nd has practiced law at both Ket- iook prosperous, Henry Roden, local |chikan and Juneau. He expects to attorney, who returned from a two|leave next week for Hyder, pre- weeks' trip to the towns, said this{paratory to taking over his office ties. the Nation's Chief Executive. lnbout two weeks. Ih?lemy recovered. s (A there. and are atop of buildings, ready Jor a desperate struggle. Government Victorious The Central Mexican Government at Mexico City, decisively victori- ous in the campaign to recapture Vera Cruz, has turned attention to- ward the situation in the North, where rebel troops are centered at Torreon in Western Coahuila. Mexican Federal tioops are mass- ing at Gaudalajara for a counter offensive. Gen. Antonio Villareal, ‘aspirant for President on the Anti-reelec- tionist ticket, is believed to be in command of the rebels at Torreon. The Sonora rebels are driving southward through Sinaloa. The Gevernment is preparing a counter stroke against them and 10,000 Mexican Federal troops are reported marching northward. Several American automobiles were struck by bullets from the Mexican side today. A bullet crash- ed through a window in one El Paso home but no one has been injured except the Chavez boy. NORTHERN PACIFIC ADVERTISES ALASKA One of the most attractive pub- lications concerning Alaska ever to be printed is one just issued by the Northern Pacific Railway. It consists of 40 pages, including the cover, of which 26 are devoted wholly to art photographs of Alas- ka towns and scenery. The other pages are also profusely illustrated with the same sort of pictures. The first illustration in the book is of -Mendenhall Glacier from Auk Lake. It contains fine pictures of Juneau, Ketchikan, Wrangell, Pe- tersburg, Sitka, Skagway, Cordova, Valdez, Seward and Anchorage. There are two views each of Ju- neau and Ketchikan, and many ' pictures of the surroundings of both | and others towns and Alaska scen- sireatp of b %, widespread precautions to guard © ery along the coast and the Alaska = | Railroad and Fairbanks section. - Among the attractive illustrations is one of the Alaska Juneau at night. ‘The book is really a work of art, . nndisworthnphcelna-nyllhnflq that is fortunate enough to get &