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The Alaska citizen., 1912-07-01
Entity of Washington State is
 Exposed in Apt Illustrations

The state Of Washington. which plays left end on the map for this glorious republic, is a large and Noclferous commonwealth. which is rapidly becoming an ex-forest and a future hotbed for national banks. It lies between Canada the Columbia river, Idaho and the Pacific ocean. and is shaped like a magazine page after a baby has finished playing with it.
 Thirty years ago Washington had 15.U00 people, not including Indians not washed. Now it has 1.0O2 900 citizens, and is growing faster than any state except Oklahoma It was acquired by the United States in 1903 for about , cents an acre, and was allowed to grow up wild until the late eighties, when enough pine trees were cut out to allow few settlers to edge in and start real estate offices. Apple land in Wash ington now sells for s2.OO0 an acre. and many single pine tree has sold for enough to board its owner for year The Washington pine grows to height of 300 feet. but is disappearing as rapidly as the Ne. braska buffalo. thus occasioning much hard feeling among the con servationists. Every time a Wash ton pine comes crashing to the ground Clifford Pinchot sheds a tear, and of late years Ee has had to hire staff Of emotional artists to help him in his rush of business.
 Washington clusters around Puget Sound, which is a vast and wander ing body of water, too highly sea soned for drinking purposes. but very beautiful when not irritated Washington is seventeen days from
The Alaska citizen., 1912-07-01
Girls Leap to Death
 Couldn't Live on $4 Week

SAN FRANCICO. May 2g - Til. lie Golden and Katherine Anderson. Finnish girls who spoke no English icaped from the cliff into the sea today because they drsPaired of liv- ing on si a week Tilhe was drowned. Katherine was saved and told the story at hospital
 IT. Lundhlat life saver. saw the whiterobed forms of two Vom- en, held i'll each others arms. in the water at the base of the cliff. just beyond his reach A receding breaker carried them out and the life saver leaped into the sea. It required half hours battle 10 bring them ashore. When Katherine re gained consciousness she told her story
 The two girls had been lifelong companions came to America from Finland four months ago. They came
The Alaska citizen., 1912-07-01

In the coiIrries of the southeast the Flemish Workmcn have been boy. coltcd by the WaIIoons and hundreds hay" left the provinces. The street car employees have struck at La IonNlcre and the municipal employees at SeraiHg.
 ilcg" tonight has the appearance of bcsicpcd city. Two regiments are under arms besides police. the civic guard and sendarmcs. Several clashes occurred between the rioters and troops. i.ancers met and dis. perSed column of miners from the neiEhborins collieries trying to enter the city
 In Brussels a mob tonight made a rapid tour of the city, wrccking street cars, smashing windows and doing aIl manner of damage. They broke in the doors of the church of Sl John and St Nicholas and de. mollsh"d the tabernacle. They then set fire to the doors. Next they tried to force an entry 10 the mon astcry of the Artois Fathers and ar irving at the Andcrlccht quarter. wrecked cafe and attempted to storm q convent, but were dispersed by firemen with streams of water from hose.
 A column of several thousand strikers left La Touyiere for the nearby collieries this evening to in duce the miners to join in the move mcnt. The strikers were hotly pur sued by mounted gcndarmes and 300 soldiers have been dispatched from Charlcroi for l.a Touviere, where serious rioting was feared tonight.
 At Cornu mob wrecked the Cath ollie club At Brugcs gendarmes were assailed with bottles and bricks and pieces of furniture.
The Alaska citizen., 1912-07-01
HOBBLE SKIRTS ARE
 A BAR TO CULTURE

BELLENILLE. x. j.. June 8. - stylish women of this corner of New Jersey will have 10 choose be- tween renouncing the hobble skirt and abandoning the pastime of fife tion reading unless the library board that has control of the Carnegie memorial here makes radical chang es in it's interior architecture. The women have not yet brought them selves face to face with the ques- tion. hoping against hope that the trustees will have pity on them in their extremity and fix it so they may still revel in fiction and adorn themselves al the same time as Dame Fashion dictates.
 The trouble is that the fiction shelves in the new building are too low for the women accoutered in the hobble to stoop to. The go to the library and roam around among alcOyes, only to find the most de- sired books beckoning them from in accessible places. 1t is getting on the nerves of the women, too, and something must be done.
 A suggestion has been made that the fiction and the books on socio- logy change places, but there is some difficulty about carrying out that suggestion, as the catalogues have all been made up calling for the fiction volumes on the low -h
The Alaska citizen., 1912-07-01
JONES BILL AMOUNTED
 TO GRATUITY TO GUGGS

WASHINGTON. June s. - An at tempt which was made to rush through friendly committee an Alaska railroad bill d joker favoring the Guggenheim mining trust brought on d clash in the senate between the old guard and the progressiyes The old guard was defeated.
 The bill was introduced by Senator Jones of Washington. It authoriz- es the creation of an Alaska railway commission and the construction by this body of d government railroad from the coast to the Bering river coal fields.
 Senator Jones bill provides that the president shall segregate 10000 acres of the richest coal deposits ill these fields to be mined by the government. This condition is added:
 'Provided, that any coal mined and not needed for government pur poses may be sold to the public at not less than 6 per cent more than cost at the place Of delivery, such cost to be ascertained and deter mined by the commission"
 Critics of the measure contend that the legislation merely would start the government mining coal for the Guggenheims. It is feared the Guggenheims would be the chief, if not the sole purchaser, of any coal in excess of the government needs.
The Alaska citizen., 1912-07-01
Socialists Rise and
 Revolt Shakes Throne

BRUSSELS. June | The throne of Belgium tonight is tottcring on account of the recent elections and rioting throughout the country has taken on revolutionary character Many persons have been killed or wounded i'll various cities and a large number of reserves have been called to the colors. Agitation in the industrial centers is increasing. Every hour brings news of fresh pro tests by the laboring classes against the governmental victories.
 The conservatives elements are alarmed over the tendencies of the civic guard to make common cause with the rioters. This, however. is only In isolated instances, Brussels being case in point where the guard today held sympathetic eel ebration before the monument of Francisco Ferrer, the originator of the modern school in Spain.
 The national disorders generally are attributable to the disappoint- ment of the laboring classes oyer the victory of the clericals in the recent elections. The Socialists al lied themselves with the liberals on the public school question in oppo- stion to the government policy. hoping thereby to win a majority in the chamber.
 Latest reports show that a strike movement has spread over the entire Liege basin and has tied up most of the colliers and the big metal in dustry. In the center of Belgium many industrial proprietors seem to approve the strike and sympathize with the men. The women have aroused themselves to even greater frenzy than the men.
The Alaska citizen., 1912-07-01
MOVING PICTURES GOOD
 DIVERSION, SAYS CLERGYMAN

|" GRAND JUNCTION, Col, May :.
 ' 2S.-" "Mossbacks, out of date, {.
 :' wake up, keep up with the pro ::
 .' gress of the times" says the z. t' Key. Elmer V Huffer, of the < .: First Christian church, ill an :. < sWer to the charges made :. :. against him in unsigned letters .:. :' published recently in local {.
 < newspaper 4. :: The trouble arose over attacks 4. '' made upon him because of his < '' belief in Sunday baseball and :. !' his practice of giving free cir {:
 '.' GUS tickets to all children who Z. '' attend his Sunday school The {:
 '.' gist of his statement follows: {:
 .: 'l intend to keep up my pres z. '' ent course of managing my {:
 '- church. l. believe in attend |.
 4 ing theaters, because l believe z. .:' that a good moral play is bet < '.' ter than the average sermon in <. ':' Grand Junction. The managers < 4 of the moving picture theaters .:. z. here will receive no opposition z. :. from me. and l am willing, any < z: Sunday afternoon, to speak at < ':' any motion picture show free :. ':' of charge, providing the man. :. :: agement shows pictures with :. < good moral lesson and wants <. :. my services <. .:' "A moving picture machine <. 4 will be installed in my church :. .:' at once. minister must keep <. ':. up with the times, the same as .:. :. a school teacher or automobile .:. .:. dealer, and do not intend to .:. :. let the grass grow under my <. :. feet when it comes to a matter .:. :' of religion :. .? <
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The Alaska citizen., 1912-07-01
BREAKS WORLD RECORD
 AT AVIATION MEET

MILWAUKEE,. June 2 Three tumbles, one worlds record and no fatalities marked today's opening oi the local aviation meet. John Kan inagi, making his debut as a profes- sional flyer, fell in his new machine. repaired the plane and went aloft again. only 10 fall second time and escape unhurt.
 Lieutenant Kando, the Jap army aviator, used Miss Clarke's machine and dumped it into ditch, but es- Caped injury himself
 The worlds record established was by Farnum Fish, who flew back to the aviation field from WatertoWn. Wis, 45 miles distant, carrying a passenger. the longest distance a plane has ever travelled with d passenger without a stop. He left Watertown early to get to the city in time to have his machine inspect ed before his stunts for the after. noon.
The Alaska citizen., 1912-07-01
DENTAL TREATMENT
 RESTORES EYESIGHT

SAADl SKY. 0, June 1. Par tiaIly blind for five years. totally blind for seven months. Edward Kennedy. a farmer residing al Park. town saw the light of day following the extraction of two teeth by Dr. J. f. Nicholson. He is g years old.
 Mir Kennedy had been declared beyond human aid by eye specialists and had obtained pension from the blind relief fund. Doctors gave the cause as paralysis Of the optic nerves
 Hardly had the second tooth been pulled when MT Kennedy exclaimed T can see. l can see the light. can see the crack in the window l gan sc" you"
The Alaska citizen., 1912-07-01
FOLSOM CONNECTS HAZE
 THEIR NEW WARDEN

SACRAMENTO, Cal, June "A change of administration at Folsom prison last Friday night was greet ed by the convicts with demon stration intended to frighten the new warden, James A. Johnston. For two hours, according to infor- nation received here today, the pris- oners shrieked and howled their cen sure of both the old administration and the new, defying the guards to stop them. A guard standing out side one of the noisest of the cells, fired his pistol to intimidate several prisoners who had climbed upon the bars and were abusing him.
 The name of Assistant Turnkey F. Ramirez was used many times by the prisoners. Ramirez had been told that he would be killed by the convicts if he remained on duty un- til June l. He resigned Friday night with the close of Warden Reilly's term. Four other guards also resigned.
 When Warden Yell took charge at Folsom eight years ago, similar demonstration was given, but when a break was attempted, three con yicts were killed. After that there were no demonstrations.
 The convicts, it is said, had in tended to repeat Friday nights per. formance on Saturday, but it did not materalize. There were a few cries when the lights went off at o'clock but they soon ended
The Alaska citizen., 1912-07-01

Japan by four steamship lines. four days from Chicago by five trans continental railroads. and a half cen tury from Vancouver and Victoria Just over the international boundary llne. It has a climate which is moist enough to drink in spots and around Puget Sound the people use fishnets instead of mosquito bar on their windows, but the ring-tailed blizzards of Montana are unknown there. and its farmers go to Europe regularly for their summer vaca. tons Washington is one of the lew American states which are heat ed by hot water Though it is Tar 10 the north the Japan stream Keeps 1t warm all winter, and miti gates the cold shivers which the Japanese navy gives it every time California messes up the sacred cause of universal peace with an other Japanese school law.
 Washington was settled by peo- pie who left all their old-fashioned furniture. business ideas and poli- tical machinery on the junk piles back in the old states. For this req son the state is marvel of enter prise and new ideas, and the arri- val from the old and experienced state who has come West to enlight- en the natives often has to pocket his pride and ask the hired girl how to vote his first ballot.
 Walla Walla and Olympia were once the greatest cities of Washing. ton. but have stood pat for many years, while Seattle, Tacoma and Spokane have grown into greatness and are equipped with every metro politan convenience except old fam lies. - George NJ. Adams.
The Alaska citizen., 1912-07-01

10 san Francisco two months ago from Minneapolis. Their funds were soon exhausted. but when they had reached the point of des. peration. two weeks ago. Katharine wage of s4 week. The girls oc. wage Of si week The girls oc- cupied q room in a cheap lodging house. Much of the time they were hungry
 When We settled up for the week last Saturday night" said the girl. we had nothing left I did not have to work on Sunday, so we decided 10 end the struggle. and planned to do so Monday. but could not bring ourselves to do it. Last night We put on our white dresses and went 10 the beach. We took off our shoes and stockings and let down our hair, and then We embraced ourselves and leaped into the sea :"
The Alaska citizen., 1912-07-01
UNCLE SAM 4 PARTY
 OF THE THIRD PART

GRAND JUNCTION, June 1. - Af- ter courtshlp by correspondence which lasted only three months. Miss Pearl Eisenhauer of Shepton. Pa. and Harvey Barger, of this city were married d week ago. Six months ago Barger inserted an ad in a matrimonial paper, and through this medium heard of his bride
 She reached here at 2: 80 o'clock the morning of the wedding with money enough for her to return if not suited. It was case of love at first sight.
The Alaska citizen., 1912-07-01
THIEVES TAKE WOOL
 OFF BACKS OF SHEEP

PENDLETON, Ore, May II. - Sheriff Taylor returned this morning after a futile search for the persons who drove off 40 head of John Winn's sheep and sheared their wool. The theft was the boldest one in the history of the range of Umatilla county. After clipping off the wool the animals were re. turned to the flock and the fleeces disposed of to a local dealer. Sus- piciOn fastens on the three Doane brothers, who lately came here from Missouri. It is reported these
The Alaska citizen., 1912-07-01

water was only 200 tons. so that there is no danger of accident to the great ship entering the water before all preparations had been made.
 Secretary Of the Navy Meyer ex- pressed himself as greatly pleased with the success of the new device and it will be used in launching the battleship New York. Saving the timbers which hold the dread naughts in their cradles" is now a thing of the past. There will be no more tiresome waits, and launch es will be conducted with a strictly mechanical promptness.
The Alaska citizen., 1912-07-01
TWO INNOVATIONS IN
 NEW CHINESE REPUBLIC

WASHINGTON, June ?. Re publican money and Pullman sleep ing cars are two innovations in old fashioned China. The new China republic dollars, the minting of which has just begun, bear two lions and the Chinese character for One Dollar" On one side, and on the reverse, the characters Current Money" and Chinese Republic" :" with a wreath of flowers.
 The first of two sleeping cars available for service between Shang- hai and Ranking was put into use April II. It is 68 feet long and the berths are each seven feet long. The revolution appears to have greatly stimulated the drama in China. A big theater has been built in Shanghai, and number of Chinese dramas are to be staged.
The Alaska citizen., 1912-07-01
Creating of Half- Cent Coin
 Steals Candy From Babies

NEW YORK. May 2S-Undying fame probably will be thrust upon Representative R. j. Bulkley of Ohio, whose bill for the coinage of a half-cent and the recoinaee of Scent pieces has passed the house. The new one-haIf cent piece undoubtedly will be named a Bulk ley" by the public.
 The 3-cent piece, calculated 10 assist in making change and to be of service for Scent car fares and ferry trips, will fill doubtless a want, for the "Bulkley" is the coin that is going to cut some incomes in half and reyolutionize the trade of the pushcart peddler.
 In few months, when the new blind man on the corner and the panhandler who needs only a cent more to make up the price of a bed will have to be content with a "Bulkley"
 Say, young fellow. have you got a loose Bulkley about you that you can help fellow out With?" prob ably will be heard along the route of the panhandler
 Then, too. instead of giving the heir-apparent a whole penny to squander at the candy store, the head of the family will pass out a "Bulkley," and adding the other 'Bulkley" to 12 cents get a good two-for- -a-quarter cigar.
 In the matter of tipping, the new coin will be invaluable, especially among our European visitors, who have been more or less puzzled in regard to how to give the usual 10 per cent tip when the price of the meal has been 65 cents. Now it will be easy to lay down before the waiter a nickel, penny and a "BulKley."
 There will. of course, in some quarters be disposition to refer to the new coin as an 'ha'penny." Patriotic Americans, however, will stand firm against this misnomer or any attempt to take from the Ohio congressman the glory of hay ing given to the country a coin that is going to fill a long-felt want"
 The new coin will also force the school books to be rewritten slight ly. The story of the careful boy who found a penny and thereby laid the foundation of a great for tune will have to give way to that of the youth who earned his first "Bulkley" by hard work and, fired with ambition, continued on until he became a millionaire.
 It also serves to take the sting out of the high cost of living, as the butcher in raising prices need not jump them a cent pound a week, but just a "Bulkley" at a
The Alaska citizen., 1912-07-01
OIL COMPANY TAXES
 ENOUGH FROM CANS
 TO PAY TrE FEEtorT.

* WASHINGTON. May zs-% ':' A method by shlch the manu. E :. facturrr makes The consumer 4 -:' pas the freight" has been dIs + -' covered by the United States .S ':' bureau Of chemistry. and suit + ':' aiil be instituted as result # -.' An olive oil concern tn +
 ':' large Eastern city, it is said. + ':' has been giving full measure {. .: al home, but taking out just :. ':' enough from the cans which f ':' wcr" shipped away to pay the F
 '.' cost Of shipment. Al the farth- F 4 est points II per cent of the oil <. z. was taken out f ..- 4 :. '.' : :. '.. : ... :. z. z. /. 4 4. :. f.
The Alaska citizen., 1912-07-01
STRIKE s10o,ooo ORE
 IN WYOMING FIELD

.: CENTENNIAL. Wyo., June i. :. :: one of the richest gold strikes :. .: ever made in this part of the z. < country is that recorded from :. ':' the Victoria Gold company $ :. ':' claim on Middle Fork. near /. ... here /. ':' In some cases there are poe :. ':' kets of pure gold in the ore ... '.' which assay up to SlU0,O0O .. Z. ton, and from average samples :. z. in which little gold was visible <. ':' assays have just been secured <. '.' that run well over S3,O00. :. 4 B P. Arenell of the Encamp- :. :. ment district has just been :. ':' down after visiting the property :. z. and states that from numerous :. 4 pannings of the ore he would :. ':' judge that much of it would :. :. run upwards of 5000 a ton. :.
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The Alaska citizen., 1912-07-01
cows TAIL PROVEN
 A GOOD CONDUCTOR

.' BOULDER. Colo. June G. :. .' When a COW switched her tail :. ':' against live wire at d local :. ':' dairy she kicked Charles Mrr. :. :. cer in the side The man has .:. 2: two broken ribs. while the :. '.' cows tail was badly burned. :. ':' Mercer is anxious to know z. ':' what portion Of q cows tail is :. '.' not sensible 10 ali electric :. :. shock :.
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The Alaska citizen., 1912-07-01

time, so that it scarcely will be noticed
 Then, too, the "Bulkley" will be a disappointing coin in some places. The woman who goes through her Husbands trousers is not likely to be pleased when she finds only a "Bulkley." Neither will the gentle man who passes the plate in church look with favor upon it. But as an attractive feature of the bar gain sale Reduced from $7 to SG.99R" will read well, look well, sound well, and induce competition on sale days. Hurrah for the "Bulkley."
The Alaska citizen., 1912-07-01

es bearing the Winn mark to James Hackett, dealer They live in the foothills of the Blue Mountains near Winn's sheep range. but in a search the officers have failed fo find them. IL is supposed that they are hiding in some of the mum erous fastnesses of the mountains
The Alaska citizen., 1912-07-01
THORN CAMPS ON CREEKS.

". IL Thorn. the government sur vcyor, and his party moved out to Gilmore Tuesday Two camps will he established out in the section. although both will be in the vicinity of Gilmore.
The Alaska citizen., 1912-07-01

Job Printing of the Quality Class turned out promptly at the Citizen office.
The Alaska citizen., 1912-07-01

Job Printing of the Quality Class turned out promptly at the Citizen ,ffira
Omaha daily bee., 1912-02-20
FIFTEEN BOOSTS FOR TRUCK;
LOWER COST IS BIG FACTOR

BY Glceson Murphy, Vice President Gen
eral Motors Company.
The following are good lessons for tn
vestigating and using the motor truck:
Because II viii Increase the efficiency
OF your delivery system.
Because II win give you prestige.
Because Il will help to increase your
business.
Because You will be able to cover a
large territory In a given time,
Because the motor truck will work for
you every day in the year.
Because the efficiency Of your entire
organization is Judged by the way you
deliver your goods.
Because the motor truck Is not af-
fected by the elements. heat or cold.
Because you are able to get unbiased
opinions from manufacturers.
Because you can make a thorough in
vestigatlon of both the gasoline and cleo
trio systems.
Because the market affords wide range
OF capacities and bodies both in electric
and gasoline types
Because the motor truck Is a certainty,
having reached a standardization that
insures its every day use.
Because up TO January /. 1912. $50, 0Oo. 90
worth OF trucks had been sold since the
inception OF the industry.
Because the motor truck Is now apple
able to nearly all business, owing TO the
wide range Of body designs built and the
mechanical equipment.