The Alaska daily empire., 1912-11-12


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 At least one Johnson will now dis appear from the public gaze, says the Portland oregonian. Yes, but not from the public prints, as long as the publicity agents can get in their work,
 Judging by the campaign contribu. tions recently made public, all the political parties, like the daughters of the horse leech were crying, give, give!" And they got some, and nearly all from similar, if not same, sources. Corporation money and in' auence should be eliminated from pol itlcs,
 People travelling to and fro on the ferry boat can not be too careful, and especially in the night, or if the boat is crowded. Human life is worth conserving.
 When Capt. "Dlok" Richardson, now Colonel in the United States army and head of the Alaska road commission, was stationed at Circle City in 1S97.S, he did excellent and humane work in caring for and afford ing protection for the many pilgrims and strangers who were in that sec tion of the Yukon He simply met emergencies as they arose trusting to time, chance and the necessity of the demands puon him to help him out with the War Department It took him some time to explain to that institution, however, why 1t was nee essary to do thing first and explain it afterward. In the spring of 1898, when hard winter was over, Capt, IJ. E. Hansen, then superintendent of the Alaska Commercial Company, who had also spent the winter there, said to Col. Richardson; Captain Dick. I'd like to have some triie to remember you by after the winter we have spent here-a photograph. or something like that"
 "All right" said Captain "Dick." "Tn see what I can find" Presently he returned, and handing Q neatly rolled package to Hansen, said, Here's some of the red.tape didn't use last winter"
 Uncle Joe Cannon was defeated in the Eighteenth Illinois Congress sional district by Frank T. o'Hair, It was close shave for Uncle Joe. Sort of against the grain. Among the freak election bets was one made by New York man who agreed to kiss the first ten horses he met on the streets, if his candidate was defeated. That's easy. Central agreed to kiss the first six cows she met in the COW patch unless Wilson was elected. What was that the old lady Of history said about kissing the COW?
 Miss Katherine Henry, of St. FL mo, H., will wear mems white socks all winter because Colonel Roosevelt was edfeated. That's easy. Central American and natives of the torrld zone generally wear everlasting brooches all the year round.
 Juneau, as fishing port, is stead fly attaining a fair degree of promi- hence, and with adequate fishing laws, strictly enforced, there is no legiti- mate reason why she should not take foremost place in this industry,
 Yesterday we were told that the Bulgarians were too busy fighting at Tchatadja to think of mediation. The The Tchataldpa line of forts stand between them and Constantlnople, but these forts did not deter the Young Turks when they marched from salonica on the capital only four years ago,
 George w. Perkins, writing to a New York newspaper just before the late election, said the people did not want tariff tinker" meaning your Uncle Woodrow, of New Jersey, of course. But George w, proved him. self a false prophet. The people | wanted the tinker" which makes it sad for Mir. Perkins. And now, what is he going to do about 1t? Manifestly, nothing. Like many oth- | CTS he must smile and look pleas