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The Alaska citizen., 1912-01-22
DEFECTIVE MEETS HIS
 PARENTS IN A PRISON
 ASKS PARDON FOR THEM

MILWAUKEE,, Wis. Dec. l. Henry J. Funk, a Chicago detective was sent, a few days ago, to Wau. pun to get prisoner While Funk was waiting in the prison for his mans departure papers, he walked through the prison corridors. At the bars of one of the cells a wo- man inmate peered out at the passing detective, screamed and tainted. A guard who ran to the cell to quiet the prisoner was ask ed to summon Funk Through the bars Funk saw a bent woman. her face in her hands, sobbing.
 Your name is Henry J. Funk. You are the son of Albert and Der tha Funk she said oracularly.
 Well, what of it?" demanded the detective
 Il am your mother" she sobbed. '1 am Bertha Funk"
 Funk was thus reunited with his parents, whom he had not heard from in 13 years.
 To Ex-Judge Emil Waliber, who tried the Hunks for murder in 1898, and to District Attorney w. c. Abel, the convicts son told a story that has started a movement for the pardon of the mother.
The Alaska citizen., 1912-01-22
Phone 262 Phone
HOW TO HELP ALASKA.


 All the commercial bodies Cf the leading cities of the Pacific coast are now united in the purpose Of aiding the people of Alaska toward securing such legislation as they ask and need + is recognized that il is for the people If Alaska themselves to outline their needs and to initiate such action aa they feel that they desire What is needed therefore. IS d clear outlin- ing by some responsible bodies. rep resenting the Alaska people. of the more imperative needs. and then the ( mmerrial bodies of the Pacific coast cities will get behind and push 10 secure the legislation.
 While there are many matters af- Iecting Alaska which are more or less political and about which there Is division of opinion among Alas kaus, there is one matter upon which they are all agreed. which is the necessity t.r the construction of good roads; matter ill which they are entirely dependent upon congress. Denied any legislative body ef their own with uo power 10 i'm pose taxes and use the proceeds for their swn uses. Alaska has no ma chinery through which To secure road building. save that provided by congress. which must also pro vide the funds for doing the work
 The Seward Commercial club and the Fairbanks Commercial club, through their respective presidents. have indorsed the establishment Of the Alaska bureau of the New Chamber of Commerce in this city, and the president ot the Fairbanks club. one of the strongest conner cial bodies in the territory. suggests that one of the great needs cf the territory is a sysem of good roads
 He points out that the proposed au- iOiHODlIe road rom thltlna would prove all excellent substitute for railroad and would shorten the time for the delivery of mail in winter to all of the interior points
 Here is a practical. concrete sug gestion,. involving no politics and upon which there will be no divis- ion of opinion among the people of Alaska Why not get behind this pr ject and show that the friendship of the commercial bodies of the coast cities for Alaska can manifest itself practically and in other dir ections besides good words . Seat tie P.-I
The Alaska citizen., 1912-01-22
MRS. PARKHURST'S EYE
 SEES JAIL DOORS OPEN

SEATTLE. - Mrs Emeline Plank hurst, English suffragette leader. ex- poets to be in jail again by the end of February. She said so herself, upon her arrival here from Vancouver. She has already serv- ed two terms for her cause, one of six weeks and the other of two months T am net pleased with the prospects. but l know it has to happen, she said.
 Militant methods are necessary in country like England" she continued, with it's old political in stitutions, and where there is so much political trickery It is the government we are fighting, not the men
 Mrs. Pankhurst speaks here to- night and leaves tomorrow for Butte.
The Alaska citizen., 1912-01-22
THE AUTOMOBILE ROAD.

The campaign fir an appropriation sufficient to make the Fairbanks Chitina trail road over which automobiles could travel. and so re duce the travelling time between those two points to two days. has progressed. so far as can be seen at this time. mere successfully than it's most ardent supporters had anti cipated. There is d reasonable amount of authority for the state ment that the appropriation is quite likely to be granted at this session of congress, unless some bad break is made by those in charge of the movement. And that break is be- ing advocated at this time by people right here in Fairbanks.
 For the past six or seven years the congress at Washington has in- sisted that it could do nothing for Alaska because it did not know what Alaska wanted, for. as soon as one thing was advocated by one faction as the thing of greatest import 10 the country there was sure to be another faction ready with an argument to the effect that the suggested action would be harm ful and that it was really some thing else that Alaska needed.
 After the Commercial club was started the first concerted action in the territory was inaugurated and the backing of every commercial or ganization, every civic body. and nearly every newspaper in the coun- try was secured for the fight for the appropriation for roads, and the administration and congress was told that that was the territory's greatest need. And congress paid heed, many of it's members going so far as to say that they were relieved to know ct last what it was Alaska wanted so that they could act intelligently The war de- partment is on record with in dorsement for the scheme and the road commission, solely because of the action of the Fairbanks Con- mercial club. is asking for an ap- propriation that will make the road possible.
The Alaska citizen., 1912-01-22
HISTOLOGY AND WEDLOCK

Out in Reno, the other day. a Boston woman successfully worked a new game in securing a divorce. She enlisted astrology in behalf of her desire for breaking the bonds Cf matrimony
 She set up the plea that, as she and her husband were born under the same planet, they were poi sonous to each other"
 In the matter of securing di- vorces, everything goes" in Reno So the Boston is free
 Now, it may be expected that di- vorce lawyers will add a side line of astrological learning to their equipment for successful practice. Meantime, it would seem advisable for the newly divorced pair to dwell as far apart as possible, lest the virus work in spite of legal separation.
The Alaska citizen., 1912-01-22
BIRDS OF A FEATHER HANG
 TOGETHER.

Last May we wrote an editorial ENOUGh.' During the past couple of weeks this article has achieved q considerable amount of notoriety because one Peter Steil, claiming the honor of being the person to whom we had devoted so much of our space, brought action for crim- inal libel against the publishers of this paper. This action was dis posed of last Monday. when the court sustained demurrer to the indictment based, substantially. on the argument that no cause of ac- tion had been laid in the indictment On this page is printed a copy of the indictment, containing a copy of the editorial in question. the same being now a public document and being printed for the purpose of giving the public an opportunity of judging whether or not it was printed at the dictate of public policy.
 The attorney for Messrs. Caskey Bellows argued, in support of his demurrer, that before Steil could claim that the editorial was direct ed at him he must admit that he was a professional tunnel-site stalk er,' pencil miner and a
 would-be- hold-up," and that in that case the article, on account of its truthfulness and it's useful intent, could not be libelous; and that. if he denied that these appellations truthfully characterized him, he could not claim to have been libel ed as the person against whom the editorial was directed was so de- scribed
 With the disposal of the case in court the matter, so far as the Citi- zen was concerned was closed incident, but it's further discussion is made mandatory on us by an editorial appearing in yesterday mornings Times, the germane DOT tion of which is here reproduced:
 LYNCH LAW.
 "On technicality of the law, the case against the Alaska Citizen on the ground of criminal libel has been dismissed without coming to trial as to the merits of the ale gations. Whether the editorial ar ticle upon which the indictment was based contained a criminal libel upon the complainant or not, we have not been given the satisfaction of learn ing. What we do feel satisfied about is that sentiments which were expressed in the editorial article in question were such as should sub- ject any publisher to punishment of
The Alaska citizen., 1912-01-22

And now. because one of the ante
 election promises (of which We shall certainly have scores between now and Novembert, happens to take
 the form Of government built
 railroad from the coast. some of
 .ur semi-profcssional politicians
 would have Us change our plan of
 action and go tell congress We
 made mistake That. after all.
 it wasn't a good road system We
 wanted. but railroad, And con
 gress would be perfectly justified in
 telling us that in a few months we would be telling them it was not
 railroad We couldn't get along
 without. but a line of subsidized steamships or airships
 To let an election promise from an administration with its wings clipped swerve us from our plan of acticn al this time would be idiotic There is every reason to believe We can get our moderate request for the road appropriation granted while there is not one chance in one hundred that such radical step as the building of a vernment railroad in the territory will be taken during the last few i months of life of a down and out | administration At the best it would be years sbefore such road would be constructed to Fairbanks. even if Fairbanks were the terminus ! selected, which is not altogether cer- | tain. And the automobile road. if | We are 10 get the appropriation,
 would be in partial use before next
 fall.
 ] We cannot conceive the reason for such advice being given at this time unless it is that politics actuates it. ! It may be that some politicians. ! knowing there is no chance of the i railroad scheme going through would take this means of clouding i the issue so that the road proposi- ] lion would be passed up and credit for advocating it denied to the admins l tration, The Citizen is Demo | cratic paper, in the broad sense of 1 the word, but it does not care a l continental who gets the credit so i long as the road is built
 | If the government is intending | to build a railroad to Fairbanks,
 and it has the power, the road will | be built even if there is not enc
 word heard from Fairbanks on the subject. Our persisting in our campaign for the road appropriation ! therefore, will not delay the driving
 of the first spike. It will, how l ever. guarantee us a six day ser | vice to the states within a year or
 so, and that will help us wait more | patiently for the coming in the
 dim and distant vista of the future.
 of government built railroad.
 We have started a good work, ! let Us continue it instead of going
 back to the same old nonsensical
 method. The Commercial club is
 a business organization. and has
 done finely by applying only busi
 ness methods to it's plan of proceed ure. Why resort to the politicians way of doing business after it has been shown for the past half dozen years i to be futile.
The Alaska citizen., 1912-01-22
PRINTED BY REQUEST.

' :: * :. * :: :: :. :. :. :. :. .:. :. Z. :. The following poem appeared in the Fairbanks Daily News several years az and is printed by request. Old Neukluk, a sight to see. Came over the trail in nineteen
 three His clothes were worn all tattered
 and torn. But his spirit of fire was as yet
 unshorn. The lust fer gold was in his heart. And he struck il rich from the yery
 start; He hired a man and sunk a shaft. And the gold turned out made old
 Joe daft He worked as though twere a
 mighty joke, Yet ever the gold poured into his
 poke. Till coal cil cans h used al last. Fer the filthy ucre rolled in so fast. With his claim worked out. old Joe
 had stake. And soon decided his camp to
 break. Cash in his dust and take a hike. To see just what the world was
 like. He saw it all ger he left the town. Where the wheel of pleasure spins
 around And in a week was back on the
 ''crick." Locking for work with the shovel
 and pick. The story leaked out. as stories will. When a man starts out to emulate
 Bill; And yet. though he never married
 seven. Old Joe had dreams of the seventh
 heaven. For he met a damsel, fair 10 see. And said to himself Shes stuck on
 me" His fancy was caught and it made
 him vain, So old Joe started to buy cham
 pagne. He bought il all and called for
 more, He scattered dust on the dance
 hall floor; He played the wheel and then.
 alack. He lost ten thousand at Black Jack They fleeced him up and lfeeced
 him down, Till all the grafters in the town Found Joe was broke. and shy Cf
 dough, So they turned him out and ler him
 go.
The Alaska citizen., 1912-01-22
IN WHICH SENSE, MAUDlE? :?

ALICE-lt's mean for you to tell people that when Jack kissed me I didn't resent it.
 Maud-I didn't. dear On the contrary, said that when he kissed you on the cheek you held it up against him for quite a while
The Alaska citizen., 1912-01-22
GOODS AND GOODS.

At the approach of the angel with the flaming sword Adam bent upon Eve glance of profound consterna- tion.
 We are caught" he exlaimed. with the goods on!"
 Not drygoods, at all events" gig gled the first mother.
The Alaska citizen., 1912-01-22

She was quite braggart, es- pecially about her own family. It seems as though she had a daughter who was away at college, and 1t was her pride that the girl was a swell dresser. "Oh, tell you, my daugh- ter dresses out of sight" she proud ly exclaimed. She was promptly told that that was considered the proper place for young lady to dress
The Alaska citizen., 1912-01-22
GOING. GOING. CONE

Fool woke up last night with a start. dreamed that my watch was gone
 Droll-Wen. was it?
 Fool No; but ii was going.
The Alaska citizen., 1912-01-22
WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 17, 1912,

Q. C. Deed Com F. MePherson 10 Robert A. Smith. $1O. below Cleary creek.
 Contract-Dec. 3, 1911. F. G. Man ley and T. P. Aitken to R. A. smith. Smith has the right tn
The Alaska citizen., 1912-01-22
TUESDAY. JANUARY Is. 1912

Location Dec 30. 1911. James NJ. White. 2o acres. 3 below Chat anika flats.
 Location Jan. l. 1912 Perdie Wat son. k acres. Delaney fraction. adjoining Hazard, on Jeff limit of Cleary creek.
 Marriage Certificate Jan. 16, 1912. Richard Greenham to Annie l.. Arouse. By John Parsons.
 Proof of Labor Jan. 1G. 1912. | c. BechtoI $100. Between Dec l@ and 25, 1911, 1@ days; shaft 10 feet; above Cleary creek.
The Alaska citizen., 1912-01-22
SATURDAY. JANUARY. t3. 1912.

SATURDAY. JANUARY. t3. 1912.
 Located-Jan. l. 1S12 Wm Web Der 2o acres. 16 third fer Jeff limit Goldstream
 Proof of Labor Jan F., 1912 Pat Buckley, et al Between Dec and Jan 1o. 1912. II days: shaft lo feet. etc: above left limit Alder gulch. tributary to Cripple creek, for 1911.
 Power of Attorney-Ja 10. 1912. 0. (. Williams r. Mrs. Margaret Williams. General
 Location - Jan |. 1912. W. Y. Neyiu 2O acres. ; above right limit. Gilmore creek.
 Location I. 1912. l.. Crane. Joe Mcdonald, NJ, Dicklich. ]. Jur- ich. George Feely, r. Westberg. $. Thompson, Joe kambich 1G0 acres. Independent on left limit of Sheep creek tributary to Goldstream creek.
The Alaska citizen., 1912-01-22
FRIDAY JANUARY 10 1e12

thattel Mortgage Jan l9. 1912 F. NJ. Duuham, C. D. Horton 10 F. G. Moves cReceiycr of WA BankD $2,4%9. Stock of goods of Red Cross Drug Store, furniture, fixtures. etc; due in thirty days.
 Discharge of Mort gage-Jan 19. 1912. j. l.. Sale 10 F. NJ. Dun ham and C. D. Horton. $2l2o. Dis charging mortgage No &5.GNG.
The Alaska citizen., 1912-01-22
MONDAY, JANUARY IS. 1912.

e. C. Deed Jan. II. lS12. ]. A Cameron 10 Robert A. Smith. $l0. All interest in Molly Hobson bench al ? below left limit Cleary creek.
 Location Jan. I. 1912. W. Me Ncill. Mike Goouen. George Com stock. 20 acres. ab -ye right limit SmallHood creek.
 Location Jan |. 1912. w. Me Nell, Mike Goonan, George Com stock. 60 acres. Jack Rabbit at Discovery SmallWood creek.
 Abandonment Jan. 9. 1912 |. r. Norris and Mike Erceg. t. r. II. Wallace They abandon lease No. &52S1, being on the Minnesota. on Eva gulch.
 Lode Location Jan. g. 1912. II. II. Reynolds F. Tate, Charles SchuCk. Louis Bowiglois. Anex off j ard ( above, Fairbanks creek.
 Lode Location Jan. g, 1912. II. H Reynolds, F. Tate. ChaS. Schuck. Homestakt and Independent on left limit Fairbanks creek and Tip Top.
 Location-Jan. 1. 1912 l.. C.. Bridge Thomas IHllner. to acres. Louise al 1 ard ; above left limit Ester creek.
The Alaska citizen., 1912-01-22
THURSDAY. JANUARY 18. 1912

THURSDAY. JANUARY IS. 1912.
 Deed April 22. 1911. II. r. Ray lo (. F. BoIbruego $942 Lot |. block 2-. Fairbanks
 e (. Dred Aug. \. 1911. C. F Bo!brugce to F. Ahlherg. $I. Lot |. block 2a, Fairbanks.
 Q (. Deed Sept l4. 1911. F. AhIberg to F. NJ Williams. $t. Lot |. block 25 Fairbanks.
 Location Nov. ;. 1911. (. j. Strass. R- r. Cosgroye, Andy Roth. J. C. Kinney, i.d 'FyndaI Wm. Finn. C. Franklin r. Lcrluder IGo acres lone on Happy creek, tributary St Parrick's creek
 Location Oct 27. f9II. A. John ~or 2o acres. I above bench on Happy creek. tributary oI St. Pat rirk's creek.
 Q. C. Deed Jan IT, 1912. G. D Horton. r. N Durham. l. L. Solo mon to j.. l.. Sals ST. Twothird interest m loJe claims ReXan Rex all No. l. Welcome and Welcome No. |; all on Wolf creek. tributary of Ciearr creek
 Dc. d-Iau II. 1912. II. T. Ray to Lipman Stmsou $2922. Lot II. Block IT, FaiIbarks
 Amended location Sept. 15. 1909. Dick May. Amending location of homestead on Birch Hill.
The Alaska citizen., 1912-01-22
FILED for RECORD

take up the water from ManIcy X Aitken ditch From above Cleary creek for his u~e further down the creek.
 Location-Jau. l. 1e12. Patrick lfosseh. 20 acr,- D below left limit Clcary creek
 Location Jan. l. 1912. Robert Staples. Triangular fraction al right limit Goldstryam creek.
 Renewal Jan. T.. f2. Carl Maier 10 \. (. Co. sl&l5. Renewing chat iel norgag. No. &&.$41.
 Lease and Option Jan. II. 1912. x. C. Co. to NoGrew. $S75, Two horses harness. blankets and sled. Expires March T.. 1912. $4Oo down.
 Lease and Option Jan l6. 1912. \. C 70. to T. E. Wright and Van Rtbbef. S>2' Two horses. harness and blankets. Expires March |. 1912 $25odoWu.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-19

Millions or housekeepcrs and exper,
chefs use SAUER'S PURE FLAVOR
ING EXTRACTS. Vanilla. Lemon, etc.
Endorsed by Pure Food Chemists.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-19
NJ CORD ATTACKS
COURTS SYSTEM
Grand Jury Foreman Declares
Many Criminals Escape Trial
by Various LoophoIeS.

That the county court system in At
lanta is so cumbrous, so full of loop
holes for delay. that a criminal may
escape trial for years, was charged by
Joseph A. McCord in his remarks be-
fore the city Give commission. Mr.. NC
Cord is foreman of the present grand
jury, and has served on perhaps more
grand juries in the past ten years than
any other Albanian He was caustic
in his attack on the system.
Men have told me that if they saw
a negro stealing a horse and wagon
they'd turn around and run rather than
report him, and be dragged to court
as witness again and again. declar-
ed Chairman McCord. And l don't
blame them Men and women are sum-
moned as witnesses; a lawyer Is re-
ported i'll, the defendant out on bond.
of course is unable to appear, or some
one of thousand reasons for delay
is given and accepted. Witnesses lose
day after day in these needless delays.
II is possible lot an OlIoHueI 10 oo-
tain delays for year after year. until
finally the case is forgotten and drop
ped. 1t Is not the fault Of Judge
Calhoun. l am not censuring him. 1t
is the fault of the machinery of the
courts-the system"
Chairman McCord is working hard to
get an amendment to the charter Civ
ing the city recorder the right to try
''tining" cases before a jury of Ave
men. without the necessity of recourse
to the state courts The city will doubt
less ask for a law covering the sub
ject City Attorney James l.. Mayson
believes 1t will be necessary to obtain
the passage of a general law, appi-
cable to all cities of more than $4,000
or 100000 population.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-19
Widest JungIes Penetrated for
Road Wife Drives the
Golden Spike.

Dispatches from Brazil today an
nounce that tremendous preparations
are in progress for the formal opening,
on July 4, of the wonderful new Ma
deria Mamoera railroad. which. after
having been abandoned nearly so years.
has been penetrated success fully
through $50 miles of the densest jun
gle land in the world, by an Albanian,
Arthur Burt Jekyll.
The president of the republic. many
officials and several regiments of the
army will be. present to pay tribute to
the triumph of Mr.. Jekyll, and Mrs
Jekyll, his bride, will pull the throttle
that starts the first train bound sea-
ward with an unprecedented shipment
of rubber to American ports.
A Soldier of Fortune.
If ever there was real, live moving
soldier of fortune Burt Jekyll is that
soldier. He's a member of the big
contracting firm of May, Jekyll & Ran
dolph, of New York, and that firm has
been doing nothing but digging holes
in South America. building railroads
and canals where there wasn't anything
but jungle and swamps and snakes be-
fore for the past 20 years
Jekyll had just come home to see his
sister at No. 674 Washington street five
years ago when he got a telegram
from one of his partners about the Bra
lillian government being about to make
one last desperate attempt 10 put
through the Madeira road and wanting
to pay some tremendous price to any
American engineer that thought the
great task might be possible.
Jekyll knew that the Madeira route
was designed to pass right through the
heart of the thickest South American
jungle. so as to open up a stretch OF
painless land to the immense rubber
trade of Bolivia He knew that 80
years ago. even before old Dom Pedro S
time the American contracting firm of
Collins Brothers, of Philadelphia. had
tried to build that same road and had
lost some couple of hundred men with
fever and snakebite and had sunk a
million dollars in that swamp with
nothing to show for il but an aban-
doned five miles of weed grown track.
A War on Mosquitoes.
Jekylrs partners told him that there
wasn't a ghost of a chance in million
of building the remaining $50 miles
of the line, but he said he'd take a
look at it anyway and he went down
to godforsaken land from Atlanta, look
ed over the Jungle and got deeper into
its Businesses than any man had ever
gone before. Then he had a talk with
Percival F'arquhar, who was resident
director of the 100000 in English cap
ital that had been subscribed to help
the government put through the road.
That talk resulted in a contract.
Three months later Jekyll was again