The Alaska citizen., 1911-03-06
Phone 262 Phone
FIFTY DOLLARS REWARD.
OUR ANNIVER SARY.

With this issue The Alaska Cjti- zen starts on is second year of publication. Twelve months ir has labored in the field. doing is work to the best of it's ability Al ifs birth. like most other citizens. of whatever country. if nas small For a time what if had to tell ifs pa irons was contained in four small pages, but. keeping pace with is prestige. it has now attained lusty growth From tha first i, was appreciated as fearless newspaper and the eucouragemeHt offered uccos- sita'ed frequent eulareements. To. day the Citizen is the most widely read newspaper in Alaska because fl affords ifs readers more real news. in concise form. than any other weekly published
 The owners of the Citizen have. from ifs inception been imbued with the purpose of affording is readers all the n,ws available and an impar- tial criticism f happenings that concern the public + has on no single occasion ncglee,ed to speak fearlessly when the occasion called for unfayorable criticism and if has always ben more than glad 10 seize the opportunity To award praise where such was due | has "boost- ed the camp and is quartz pros poets consistently. nor merely on principle but because fl s.cadfastly believes that optimism is warranted.
 That this course has necn ap- preciated is amply demonstrated by the large and growing lt-t of sub, scribers and the fact ina. no Stop" orders are received. Last fall when the boats were leaving ord CTS were received every day from Alaskans going out 10 send the pa per to their winter address. and today f can confidently be assert ed that no other paper ill Alaska has so large a mailing list. To all parts of the world where the Amer ican language is spoken the Citizen is sent; and, what is moro to the point so far as advertisers are con cerned, the ncighboring creeks and adjoining districts of Alaska are better covered than by any other publication.
 To the publishers this state of af- fairs is most encouraging, as is, also the very frequently expressed favor able comment. The making of a readable newspaper in this part of the world is not the easiest task imaginable, but the work is render ed all the easier when assurances are received that the effort is ap- preciated For these kindly spoken words the Citizen is deeply grateful. and it will continually strive 10 merit them. Any changes that may be made will be undertaken with the object in view of improving the paper, and readers may rest as sured that there will be no retrogres- sion.
 Before, however, newspaper of the size of the Citizen can be ma terially bettercd from the mechani- cal standpoint, and still keep from going behind it must receive con siderably more advertising support than is being accorded the Citizen to- day. The paper is having a very hard struggle to break even because a number of the local merchants are blind to the advantages if offers as an advertising medium. In this regard our friends can do us a very real service. Representations made by the management to some of the m rchants to the effect that the paper is very extensively read do not appear to have the desired ef- feet. We believe that this condi- tion would be corrected, however, if lnOSe WHO WISH us well would make point of informing the merchants with whom they deal that they take the Citi"en and are interested in the ads which appear therein.
 In bringing this little birthday talk to close the publishers of the Citizen desire to express their thanks for the many indnesses re- ceived during the past twelve months. Their appreciation of these can, however, be best evidenced by sincere endeavor to continue de- serving of them. And this shall be the Citizens task
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