Iditarod pioneer., 1911-03-11
LET'S GIVE OURSELVES rHREE CHEERS

The r M. G., nearing his Nobs the Postmaster General the appeal of the Idarod and of Alaskas friends in Seattle for weekly mail service fo this secton He says Tut tut, haven't got the money and if We had you wouldn't get it any way"
 In the same week comes the that the attorney general has cut out few important provisions of the liquor law which he does think belong there, and by pro cess of judicial legislaon attempts to put all of the bar of Alaska out of existence with stroke of the pen
 Say, let's secede from the blooming country and go and live with the Russians
 With regard to that weekly service business fair and honest reader have only this to say 'To hell with them. We have wasted more good paper ringing the changes the mail situation than justified, while our ambassadors in Seattle have spread around big iron dollars in telegraph tolls. Hence for the time being will holer Snutf and let her at that Besides if did start to anything would only swell up and begin to sputter with choice line of words that would have to be mailed to Hitchcock private.
 But when it to this WickerhamC rossey dictum about no man being able to sell bottle of liquor in this territory if gives chance to discuss the thing calm and impassionae for of all the asne dongs have ever heard of this s it.
 It all came about through the migration to the North land of the reormer from the belt Knowing corn on its native heath, he was naturally all sweed up and thought to teach us all about corn" in Alaska. He sent apponee to the office of district attorney of the fourth judicial district but he a reformer of the rough and uncouth ways of the Norherner. He has stepped the bounds of his office many times-always with his to the ground to catch any vibrations from Washngon-hat he IS now believed to be more intimately identified with the missionary movement i'll Alaska than with the judicial branch of the government.
 Immediately upon taking up his duties here, Crossey cast worried optic in the direction of the downtodden aborgine He perceived that the redskn getting much redeye and it etted his sensitive nature degree He set the machinery of justice in motion and threw many an honest underground-raroader into the booby hutch securing icon and then showing that bottle of homegrown tanglefoot had passed from the busy of trade into the outsetched hands of copperhued of the wilderness contrary to the statute in such made and provided.
 These abortive attempts did not satisfy the thrsting soul of patriot He must skin the cat other way wherefore he pondered long and deeply within the confines of his sacred sanctum at Fairbanks.
 To make long story short, Crossey cooked up this construction of the liquor law about the stuff being sumed on the premises, which, selp has before been thought of by God or man. Wherefore it be readily seen that Crossley put one Jehova
 In his fantastic zeal for the Swash, knight forgot all about the thousands of straightforward and opensted saloon in Alaska who paid their money their licenses to sell booze because the people wanted it. He for got that they paid out their good dollars in the purchase of stock that they could sell by tue drink by the bottle by the gallon and he knew blamed we'll that when the law passed the legislators had such damn oosness in mind that the purchaser should drink his gallon the premises In order to get at few crulnmy, little road houses along the Yukon where the natives securing