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The Alaska citizen., 1911-02-06

man who sacrificed all his wealth and his freedom for Geneva and for the liberty of others, who was i'm prisoned. not for murder of -fel- bowman, but for his unselfish effort to help his fellow-men-Bo Bonnivard, the noble prisoner of Chiffon, gave Byron the theme for his beautiful poem: but that beautiful poem was perverted to base uses when a gov. ernor pretended that it led him to turn out at one stroke forty com mon murderers, not because they were innocent or had not had a fair trial, but because. for the black est of all crimes they had served the state long enough, and had suf- fered in health and happiness. Was 1t ever the intention of God s law or mans law, that red-handed murderer should not suffer "in health and happiness" when, like Cain, he stays his brother?
 Such fimsy excuses for selfish or weak minded disregard of law and morals always tend to encourage crime and make life unsafe for the honest and law-abiding citizen. It is necessary for governors with the pardoning power not only to read poetry, but also to read and digest the Fifth Commandment: Thou shalt not kill" With 1t goes the corrollary: Thou shalt not pardon or agonize over the red-handed mur- derer." It is mercy enough to spare his life at all, but to shed a maudlin tear over him Is to outrage the dead and degrade and weaken the law Is it any wonder that murder here should flourish as in no other civilized nd?-Louis- vile Courier-Journal.
The Alaska citizen., 1911-02-06
BEAVER TRAIL SWAMPED OUT

After being out for five months on the work of the road commission, in connection with the opening up of a trail between Fairbanks and the new town of Beaver on the Yukon river, Arndt Greve and his party arrived in town on Friday. The party consisted of MT. Greve, the engineer in charge; Tommy Wright, Billy Dobbins, Al Emsley, A. Schi'ling and Bud Courtemanche. Fred Date, of the road commission, who built the new wagon road from Beaver into the Chandlar country; Fred Gamble, Lars Johnson and c. H. Blanchard also accompanied the party from Beaver to Fairbanks.
 Much cold weather was encounter ed by the party and some delay was caused by the deep snows prevailing in the Beaver river flats. It was the intention to swamp out a trail that could be used for horses and double enders and this was done for a considerable distance, but at the lower end of the trail the dogs had to be resorted to as it is not practicable for horses at this time. The trail lies almost due south from Beaver City to Chatani- ka, and 1t will save the mail car, riers about 200 miles between Fair banks and the Koyukuk country.
The Alaska citizen., 1911-02-06
PULL TOGETHER.

There never was a time in the history of the camp when it more behooyed all to pull together to ad- vance the common good The argu- ments in support of this statement have many times been advanced and they need not now be repeated. l. is only intended here to point out an instance whereby a good oppor- tuuity may be taken advantage of.
 There could be no better way for citizens To show thelr regard for the camps welfare than is afforded by the plan of the Fairbanks Quartz Development company. The rules by which the company will be guild ed in it's operations have been made by the shareholders themselves and there is ample guaranty that every thing in connection with the oper- ations will be conducted solely for the benefit of all. II is q fair as. sumption that those who have been approached have evidenced the ex- tent of their concern for the camps welfare by the amount of their con tributions
 From the list of subscribers to the fund, which is published on another page of this issue, il will be noted that great many of the business firms. of which practically all have been seen, have donated liberally Others there are. however. whose names are absent from the list en- tirely. Iii this connection it is well for those who have made up their minds tO encourage the Fairbanks Spirit to remember that it is good policy to help those who themselves show a disposition 10 help. With a strictly adhered 10 policy of reel procity established there will be lit tie go wrong with the camp, and eyeryone's load will be a little lighter because he will have his neighbor's help in the lifting.
 Every merchant in the camp, as well as those earning their living by working for wages, is called on at times to show his interest in the camps welfare by assuming some of its obligations other than those compelled by law If he neglects to do this he is not deserving of support, and the consumer is not spending his money to the best ad- vantage when he invests it with him.
 If every man and woman in the camp will take the trouble to locate the patriotic" merchants, each can demonstrate his or her own patriot ism by patronizing those who are not shirking their burdens In the end this policy will pay many fold. Try it now.
The Alaska citizen., 1911-02-06
A GRATUITOUS INSULT,

Under the caption of It Is Bothering Us," the News editorially undertook to boost the camp on Saturday night by calling attention to the great strides that had been made with the quartz development The article was rendered altogether nugatory, however, because of an entirely unwarranted insult contained therein. which is calculated to off set any good that otherwise might have come of it.
 Referring to the visit of w. P. Vanderlip to the TatlaniRa country, to inspect the holdings of the Tan ana Alaska Mines company, the ed itorial says:
 Yesterday mining expert from New York City-a man who is known to fame on the Outside started off with dog teams to in spect and report upon a proposition in the Tatlanika. Windy Hughes,
 
 and pencil miner, has interested cap- italists in the East, and they are paying big money for the expert to make the trip and report on the Hughes locations. Within ten miles of town there are hundred pros- poets which probably have the Hughes ground skinned mile"
 Now it is probable that the editor of the News knows no more regard ing the worth of the Hughes pros poets than a man who has never heard of them, but it surely is req sonably to be inferred that the men backing the project have some tangible reasons to induce them to go to the expense of sending such a high-priced expert as is MT. Van derlip on such trip. And just why a prospector who has succeeded in interesting capital to this extent should be described as a four husher' 1t Is hard to figure out.
The Alaska citizen., 1911-02-06
THE CHEERFUL MAN.

I met cheerful man today And stopped to chat with him a
 while. Why is 1t you are always gay?
 Why is 1t that you always smile?" asked him. Have you never known
 A disappointment or woe? And has no plan been overthrown That you had hoped would be a
 go?"
 Sure thing" he said, I've had my woes. I've had two fortunes wiped away, But I've no time to think of those
 Affairs which happened yesterday. I've had my plans go wrong, and Have pressed my lips to sorrows cup, But when I'm down I never cry. spend my time in getting up. You see, the way l work is this If I get licked today, all right, And if my plans should go amiss I won't forget that I can fight, Nor will I sit around and sob,
 But I'll be up at break of day, 1 Out hustling for another job,
 And try to win some other way 1 That's why you see me smiling
 now
 l may get knocked down now and then,
 But you can wager anyhow
 That l will soon jump up again. There is no easy road to fame To win success is quite a chore. Why, half the big men I can name
 Have failed dozen times or
 more'
The Alaska citizen., 1911-02-06
HOW EDITORS GET RICH.

It is not good policy to give busi ness secrets away, but as many peo pie wonder how editors get rich SC quick, we give out the following in formation, remarks the editor of the Paxton, H., Register hoping that every one of our readers will not take advantage of this and engage in the newspaper business:
 "A fellow terming himself 'Gander bones Forecast located at St Louis, offers to furnish us a lot oi poetry and other silly stuff, If we will only run an advertisement in the Register each week.
 "A fellow out West wants us to run a lot of advertising for him for nothing, and if it brings results he may become a customer.
 "A gun firm wants us to run SIS worth of advertising and then send it s1O in exchange for a shot gun Such a gun would retail at about S6. For running s17 worth of locals We can get a s1 magazine telling us how to do dressmaking at home. By running $50 worth of advertising and sending 1925 to an Atlantic City firm we will be given deed to a lot. When the tide is in the lot stands six feet under water.
 "A Kansas real-estate firm will give us a deed to a lot 22x60 feet for $40 worth of advertising and s25 cash. We wrote a fellow who knew of the lots offered and he replied that they had no cash value, but a trad ing value of about $5.
 If we can run column write-up of a doings to be held in North Da- kota this fall, amounting to about $7, we will be sent two $1 tickets.
The Alaska citizen., 1911-02-06
Educational Discussion on l arif for Protection

GuSgenheims and the others in their rank do not need to be protected. And when We stop to consider that through the tarif laws such men as these are taking hundreds of millions of dollars annually from the masses of the people and never give one dollar in return, and this under the guise of protecting Amer ican industries, when the industries that are getting the protection are represented by the trusts, bankers and all captains of industries, and this all under the Republican party we might well exclaim what would Abraham Lincoln do if he should come to the United States today.
 Next week we will undertake to make the theory of protective tariff so plain in a practical way that no one will fail to see it as it is who will take the time to read it.
The Alaska citizen., 1911-02-06
SEWARD MINES ARE BOOMING
One Property Bonded for Half ; MiIIion-Other Plants Ordered.

SEATTLE, Jan. 13. Seward mining property is booming in Seat tie. One of the biggest deals in the history of the new northern camp was put through today when Sam Silverman, the we'll known pro- moter, representing syndicate of British capitalists took over the holdings of Bartholf, Ellsworth and Short, on the Talkeeta river, for a consideration of half a million dol lars. w. E. Donohue of Seward to- day took over the Carlson property on Peters creek. This Is known to be good placer ground, and plant will be installed in the early sum- mer and the entire creek will be worked to capacity There seems to be more activity among the Sew ard mining men than any other group in Seattle. Large shipments of stamp mills, sampling plants and
 machinery has been ordered through Seattle houses by Sam Sill verman for the Seward Gold Con- pany's mine on Groundhog, also by James R. Hayden for the kenai Alaska Gold Company's mine on Falls creek. Barnes has ordered a con- plete plant for the Crow creek property, and the Gold Bullion Com pany has ordered new machinery that will be installed as soon as 1t can be transported to the mines. Frank Watson and A. H. Wheatley have ordered a plant that will be sent North as soon as it can be assembled, for use on the Watson property. The Seward mining men all seem imbued with the utmost faith in their respective holdings, and are ordering nothing but the best and latest machinery.
 Local capitalists are much i'm pressed with the business showing of the mining representatives of the new northern quartz camp.
The Alaska citizen., 1911-02-06
KISS BEARS FATAL POISON
Woman Who Dies With Fiance Vic
 tim of Strange Death.

CUMBERLAND, Md, Jan. f. - Charles Edward Twigg and Miss Grace Elosser, who on Monday night were found dead at the home of the young 1adys parents, were kill ed by chewing gum saturated with cyanide of potassium, which had been given to Twigg.
 It also practically has been proven that Twigg took piece of the gum, and the young woman was killed by kiss from him.
 The young couple were to have been married today, and now it Is believed that the gum had been given to Twigg by some young wo- man who would rather see him dead than married to another woman.
The Alaska citizen., 1911-02-06
CONCERNING SCARF PINS
Changes in Mode of Wearing Them
 Due to New Styles of Ties.

originally" said the mems fur, nishing goods dealer, men always wore their scarf pin stuck in the knot of their tie, between the ends of the collar up under their chin. l suppose that the original purpose of the pin was to Hold the tie to- gether. to secure the knot.
 When at that time the scarf pin was worn as an ornament it was placed in the knot under the chin because then, as up to within say fifteen or twenty years ago, the tie commonly worn was a string tie tied across in a bow knot in front, and that was the only place to put it.
 Later when there came to be commonly worn that style of scarf tie that filled the V in the waistCoat the pin was dropped to new posi- tiOn to hold together the folds of that scarf in front. Here the pin served a useful purpose and placed as it was now at about the center of the triangle formed by the V it became more and more appropriately ornamental.
 Htll W utl lllt IttI lb", lHt lOul- in-hand tie extending down over the shirt bosom, came into common use, the pin was retained in its lower position. half way down the tie, in the middle of the ', because there it could be seen to advantage Here it may serve to pin the two parts of the tie together and also it breaks the monOtony of the length of the tie in it's exposed section, thus serving an artistic purpose, but now it is rarely placed there as an ornament. And scarf pins are made in practically limitless variety of styles, and to be sure there are many that are beautiful.
 While it is thus now commonly worn half way down the four-in-hand tie, there are various ways of sticking the scarf pin. The most common way is to stick the pin with it's whole length concealed in the material of the tie, leaving only the head in view Then you may see men who run the pin through the material in and cut leaving sec tions of the pin exposed.
 Some younger men have a way of running the point Of the pin through only narrow fold or ridge of the silk and then drawing the pin through for almost its entire length outside. This brings the lit tie section of the silk through which the pin is run up out of sight under the covering head of the pin, giv- ing the pin the appearance of lying unsecured wholly outside of the tie.
 50 scarf pins, while now com monly worn in the middle of the eX- posed length of the tie and frankly as an ornament, may be worn there in various ways, and now there are made, as you doubtless know, stick pin guards that are worn attached to the pin so that it cannot be Du1led ont ''
The Alaska citizen., 1911-02-06

Our railroad fare up there and back, for two, would be about SG0. We can have almost any Chicago daily paper sent us free. The subscription rate is only s4, but all we have to do is to run s36 worth of locals.
 For $40 worth of advertising and s25 cash we can own a bicycle. The wheel sells at just SIP About one dozen firms are wanting to give us shares in gold mines for advertising. A nursery firm will send us 25- cent rose bush for only s worth of advertising. For running a siX-inch advertisement for one year We get gross of pills. s."-Centerv'lle, Mich, Observer
The Alaska citizen., 1911-02-06
OUR SHAM E.

As indicative of the urgency of the need for a return to a higher plane, political and moral, three late examples are striking.
 At Oakland, Cal. on December 24 last, Mrs. Isabella j. Martin was convicted, for the second time, of having used dynamite to blow up and assassinate, in the most viii lainous manner, Judge Ogden and his innocent family in their home. It appears that she was offended by his decision in an insurance case that she had had before him. She fore ed Baby" John Martin, by threats of death, to set the dynamite and to fire the fuse. He so testified at both her trials; and both times she was convicted She claimed that Martin was her son. Here was evidently a degenerate, dangerous woman; and yet the maudlin jury, in their verdict, recommended her to the extreme mercy of the court" |" Mercy to her means death to some other victim at her hands or at the hands of someone else like her That a jury should recommend mercy to her shows how deeply seated is the canker from which we are suf fering
 In Ohio, at West Union, and in its immediate neighborhood, about 1900 indictments have been found against all grades and classes of try, for accepting bribes for their votes. So far over 400 have plead ed guilty and many more are eager to do so in order to escape with light penalty. Here we see how low are our standards of political or civic morality and duty. The prec- ious privilege of freemen Is bought and sold as if it were only contemptible thing, of no value or dignity.
 We are told by a late dispatch that the governor of Alabama, who likes poetry" picked up Lord By ron's works and read The Prisoner of Chillon." He apparently had nev- CT read Byron before But, at any rate, this poetical, romantic gov ernor read Byron's poem before he started on his annual tour of the state prison and the convict camp. The poem," we are told, "so deeply impressed him that, after visiting the convicts, he exercised wholesale clemency, pardoning 100 long-term prisoners, forty of them convicted of homicide and twenty being life convicts" The governor said to the reporter: T gave the matter care full consideration and I could find no good reason for keeping these men who had served so long and so disastrously to their own health and happiness"
 Mark how tenderly the governor refers to these murderers "who had served so long and so disastrously to their health and happiness" What right has state to make mur- derer serve the state long when the service interferes with his health and happiness?" It Is true these murderers interfered with the health and happiness" of their vic tins and of the widows and help less children and the fathers and mothers of the dead but, who both CTS about the poor creatures that were only murdered? Have they any votes or influential friends now?
 Bonnivard, the rich and scholarly
The Alaska citizen., 1911-02-06
CITY GETS LICENSE MONEY

On Friday Judge Overfield signed an order directing the clerk of the court to pay over to the city treas urer the sum of $922.5O, this being the sum of the licenses collected in the city during January. There Is no other municipality in the dis trict which has anything coming to 1t from licenses for January.
The Alaska citizen., 1911-02-06
Identifying Father.

Where Is your father?" asked the caller.
 Down in the pig-pen," answered the son of the house. He has a hat on"
The Alaska citizen., 1911-02-06
RUNS NEARLY $lOO TO TON

A little more than six tons of ore from the Mizpah claim on Fair banks creek was crushed in the ear ly part of the week at the local test mill and the return therefrom was 32 ounces of gold. or an average of nearly s100 to the ton. This claim is owned by Thompson, Geis & Hess, and the shaft has now been sunk to a depth of 100 feet. The showing at the present time is ex- cellent and 1t is the intention of the owners to run levels and put their shaft in first class condition by timbering before further sink ing is dCne.
The Alaska citizen., 1911-02-06

A tadpcle out for Q sail Was struck by a horrible gale.
 He crid Help" for a joke,
 But his cry was a croak, And that was the end of his tall
The Alaska citizen., 1911-02-06

Flor de Lovera, King of Havana Cigars Sold Everywhere.
The Alaska citizen., 1911-02-06
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FIFTY DOLLARS REWARD.

A reward of $5o will be paid by the publishers of this pa per for information which will lead 10 the conviction of any person stealing copies of The Citizen from the residences of subscribers.
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The Alaska citizen., 1911-02-06

Lawrence Barrett, Best Domestic Cigar on Earth.-Rose Cigar Store *
The Alaska citizen., 1911-02-06

People ordinarily find 1t easier to complain than to explain.
The Alaska citizen., 1911-02-06
financial Report
 Month of January

The financial the clerk month meeting Friday night accepted
Arizona republican., 1911-07-17

of the new furnace is the utilization of
all heats generated through or by OH
dation Of sulphidc ores which are
wasted under present methods. It viii
also do away with the present eNpen-
sivc machinery connected with smciters
and controvertOrs.
1t is also the purpose of the man
agCment for further economical reasons
to install a Stag steam generating plant
thereby using the waste heat i'm the
Stag for steam. From present mdica-
tions this new power will reduce by the
use of carbouaccous fuel the cost of
ore treatment ut least 90 per cent The
use of coke in smelling viii be entirely
eliminated by the new furnace and Stag
steam generator.
AT the power house new 500 horse
power boiler is being Installed, increas-
ing the horse power To- 1900. Fifty
/ thousand gallons Of water arc being
pumped from the mine daily and as
depth is reached the flow is increasing.
A switchback AT the smcltcr is nearing
completion which Will eliminate the re
handling Of custom ores, coke and tim
! Der for the mine. The new 4f-foot ad-
dition to the controvcrtor building has
been completed and many other i'm
provcments made in the last few
months.
THE mine has been proved to n
depth of los feet by churn drills and
! il is stilI i'm the oxide zone. Il is es-
timatcd that sulphidcs will not be en-
countcrcd until a depth Of 1900 feet is
gained. One ore body shows continu-
GUS n length of 2,10O feet. Six feet of
ore carrying native copper was cut last
week between the 200 and 800 foot Icy
els This is part of n twenty eight foot
/ orc body that samples four per cent in
copper. The assays of the matte run
! from II to Il per cent. Two distinct
/ ore bodies. one on the foot and the
other on the hanging walls show in all
the levels down TO the 400 foot. on the
| 500 foot level a ninety foot ore body
was proved recently and it is presumed
! that the two ore bodies have come to-
gether Samples OF the drillings gave
returns varying from TO Il rer cent
| in copper The deepest shaft is $50
| feet or $50 feet along the ore body.
| Number 6, a double compartment, is
now down 300 feet and is being sunk as
rapidly as possible to the 1000 foot level
Number ; shaft is also being sunk to
be connected with number at the 800
! foot level where the large ore body was
recently opened. These shafts are 720
feet apart and i'm the main ore body.
Operations at the smcltcr were in
tcrrupted July 10y a washOut on the
railroad. one hundred and fifty feet
of track were carried away by the
flood. stopping. the delivery of custom
ores. The road is being repaired and
the treatment Of ores viii be resumed
at once"