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The Alaska citizen., 1913-12-08
THE TAX DoDGER.

Last week I he Citizen said that the tax dodger was sneak thief. with. out the boldness of a sneak thief to relieve him." and then went further the man who pays taxes on five thou sand dollars worth of property when in reality he may have ten times that amount"
 We reiterate the above statement.
 Thompson says that "Caskey says that the man who attempts to evade an excessive taxation through over value is thief" and ends lp hy saying that Caskey KNOWS.
 Caskey does know that if the shoe fits Thompson he has perfect right to wear it, but he might save him self the stigma of also being classed a liar together with his other aualifi- cations by distortne and misquotine statements made by The Citizen
 The reader can readily see what The Citizen did say and compare it with what Thompson would like them to believe it said.
 There are some instances where the city council has been shown" that their valuations were placed too been reduced. There are also some instances where the tax dodger" has been successful in the past and now he is paying the full penalty. but un- fortunately the assessor has been un- able to capture all of the latter class.
 If this same Thompson would pay on the proper valuation he would be assessed twice as much as he is now, and again if he were forced to pay up upon the balance of the community.
 Last year this paragon asked tho city council to reduce the assessment on his plant to $3.50O, and this was only refused because the other offices were assessed at $6,O00, and the fig ures went as they looked at $5.0O0. Just one piece of machinery in Thomp- sons office cost practically as much as the whole plant is assessed at
 If the assessor has attempted to place a valuation on the Thompson newspaper plant he is at least 100 per cent too low. but if he is assessing the value of the paper itself it is about 999 per cent. too high.
 Holler if you're hurt.
The Alaska citizen., 1913-12-08

this is the way she intends To look after the cable line
 The inrompetency of the Burnside and her officers costs the citizens of Alaska moEcy- The cable has been broken for week. and for just that ions it has been costing citizens heavily in having wires sent half way round the earth in order |, reach their destinations
 They hav" located the break in the cable. but have not yet located The elusive Burnside However. no fear for the safety of the Burnside is expressed, With the aid of tn" Seattle police force il is hoped to dislodge the officers from their lcnth- ern bottomed chairs in the smoke dimmed room of some club. Then in the course of time the officers will probably dig the Burnside out If the debris around Bremerton anI steam slowly north to mend the cable.
 The Burnside is a paying prnposi- ton
The Alaska citizen., 1913-12-08

We often hear of the effects of living long time iu thls climate. Some times We are told that il caus- cs insanity and bodily diseases. At other times We are told the reverse
 \ few days ago staId oId-timer was heard giving a new feature tu the question wH,u he said Living here for length of time makes the people subducd and spiritless. Why" said he. "I SC" the leader of a gang here-the Notorious One--hutting into and ruling everybody and everything by threats. brow beating. bullying, anl insults in the most brazcn anu open manner without hindrance Tn" people have not the spirit to resist. Anl when he can spare time from his lie factories which work day and night h" goes and tries to bully. hrowhcat. insult and overawc even the court of
 fiCials His consummate gall. of course, is based on his intense ignor- annc. but | know of no other spot on earth where it would be tolerated"
The Alaska citizen., 1913-12-08
HAIR-TRIGGER JUDGMENT.

Alaska is not wild enough for Emerson HouEh, the author. Pack home again in little old Chicago" he says he is thankful to again be where there are thrills incident to being hit by an automobile and complains that he has been imposed upon by fiction writers who have used Alaska as the setting for their stories As a place capable of producing stirring plays of passion. he says Alaska is one biz fake
 Houeh saw Alaska from the deck of a steamer this summer He knows all about it now, and soon We may ex- pect to read his tame stories of a tame country He overlooks the fact that times have changed some since London and Reach and Service have come and gone. Also. being a write" himself, he should know what a large part the imagination plays in fiction
 ii'uSh NaS pfobaDlN expecting to see some of the raw gun plays and stahbing affrays which are of nightly or- currence in the tougher parts of Chicago, and was disappointed Alaska Is wholesomely free from this for the most part. However. there are TO- nance, tragedy. pathos and comedy of healthier variety being enacted in it's lonesome wiids every day. but II is not given to chair warming tour iSts on a steamer to see this
The Alaska citizen., 1913-12-08
THE CABLE NOW.

The cable has parted again, Com munication is cut off, Where is the steamer Burnside?
 Yes. where is she? Where is she generally when there is something for her to do? The echo answers. "where?'
 The steamer Burnside is govern ment ship. equipped by the govern ment for the purpose of keeping the government cable in repair. It's off cers and crew are paid to perform this service. Naturally. one would ex- pect to find the Burnside either pa trolling the coast or lying at anchor near to the center from which she could be easily summoned either way
 Such is not the case. The Burnside can not be found. She may be in the bottom of the sea for all any one can find out. And she may as well be if
The Alaska citizen., 1913-12-08
CONSERVATORY.

Conservation is the honeyed words that past administrations have used in their work of fattening the mono polies Conservation. The word sounds harmless as the blcat of a lamb I, suggests everything that is prudent and good and nothing that is waste full and bad.
 But Alaskans know differently. To them' conservation of the natural re sources as they see it applied, smacks of the wolf clothed in a sheep's skin. The sheeps skin Is the claim that tn. timber and coal are to be held by the government for the economical use of the public. The wolf is readily recognized In the timber syndicate and the coal monopoly into whose greedy paws it eventually gravitates
 Who does not know of the gigantic steals perpetrated under this mild term. conservation? Who is not fla miliar with its insidious workings all 'N'f 'it " eSttiu stattS " no li9S not felt it's injustice here in Alaska where coal cropping from the ground may not be touched. and where, over ast regions, one is hardly allowed ta cut wood for a camp fire without fir.t securing a permit from some forestry official?
 Government reserves were one of the special hobbies of the Mad Man who wanted to hold the Presidents office a third term. They benefit no one so much as the coal and timber barons Throwing their wavering lines pro out over vast sections of the forest reserves call halt on development and shut millions out of a home or the hope of one. in their own country.
 In the next issue of The Alaska Citi- zen will appear. verbatim, the speech on Conservation by Hon. Vim. F. house of representatives. It is about the cieanest cut exposure ever given of that meek worded graft. He tears away the sheeps skin of senti- ment under which conservation has paraded, and shows the greedy jaws of special privilege beneath.
The Alaska citizen., 1913-12-08

states that when there was a slight ueiay on the railroad the mail was heins sent on it's summer schedu,, by way of SkaEway. Whitehorse anJ Dawson Then it proceeds to say that
 9'"'e the winter contract started VI, 'ordoVa and Chitina there has n,- been an hours delay in the mail ser vice. It goes without saving that eohinsio has overtaken The Chitina Leader However. they accomplished their object, which apparently was to hii half page of their paper.
 Now for the benefit of our illus tri"us contemporary We will say that the mail contract. operative until inc hrSt of December, entities us to , maximum of eight hundred pounds oc mail twice week Figures from tn. postoffice here at Fairbanks show that from October nth to November 2-th inclusive of both dates, an ay,rare of 633 pounds of mail was received Never once did We receive the maxi mum of 500 pounds. although there were some l2.000 pounds stored up at 6ordova or perhaps Seattle. now on it's way under special contract
 Does The Chitina Leader still wisI, to say that criticism under the above circumstances was unwarranted? DO they mean to say that the routing agent used dHe diligence last winter by keeping Us without our mail for about two months and a half when fl was possible to send it by another route? What is The Leaders idea Of a ''rainstaking and conscientious of fcer" anyway?
 The Leader gets all it's information about the mail service from the C. R X \. W. railroad. They say that they do. They went to the superintend- ent's office and found that there had been no obstruction at Mile 5s The obstruction was one foot south of this point. Also that they were toll that there had been no obstruction at Mile IF. We suppose it was one sixteenth of an inch north of this point. And in this manner do the logicians who edit The Leader proceed to show us our grievous mistakes.
 Being so far from the seat of trouble it is of course hard to locate the spot to a hairs breadth. But one thing We do know. and know to our sorrow, and that Is that the Interior of Alaska has received about the rot tenest mail service ever devised by q normal brain.
 Not only do We know this, hut Wa intend to have It changed. We shall have 1t changed in spite of con scientious officers and The Chitina Leader. which. barking at the foot If the hill three hundred miles away. knows everything. even to what is 2 proper mall service for inhabitants of the Interior
The Alaska citizen., 1913-12-08
RISE WHEN EYES FIRST OPEN

The proper time to rise, if We could only make up our minds to it is when sleep properly ends. Dog ing is not admissible fir m any req sonable or health point Cf view.
 The brain falls into the state we call sleep, and the other organs of the body follow il. True sleep is the aggregate Of sleeps. In other words sleep. which must be natur- al funct on. is $ ate which con sists in the sleeping or rest O. all he several parts f the organism.
 Sometimes one, and at other times another part of the body as d whole may he fatigued. and So he last to awake, CT the most exhaust ed and therefore most difficult to arouse.
The Alaska citizen., 1913-12-08
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DODGE OFFICE HERE.


Shaking the political plum" tree never causes sleepless nights on the part of the city off cials of Balti- more Vt, for the reason that there are not men enough 10 fl the of fices
 Baltim re is the smallest charter ed town in the country, at present boosting of a full set Of city off cials and one citizen. The one citi- zen is without political honor not because of party affiliations but be cause he recently resigned the three that the strain of political battle was to great for his constitution
 Baltimore almost s.nks from sight between Hawk mcuntain and the Vermont hills It was formerly part of Cavendish. Vt. but received a charser in 1792 There are twelve voters in the town. each one being forced 10 occupy three or four muni-  cipal offices at once.
 As an example of the situation Lloyd Josslyn found Baltim re six years ago and at once became political power He is now chief of nol'ce. the corps of patrolmen first and second sc1ectman from his dis trice and school trustee.
 s metimes there are not men enough to "go around" the offices. and in times of stress it has been necessary to send committees down into the valleys to bring in few outsiders to hold down some of the tawn dignities prescribed by law.
 Baltimore has a rural delivery route and once a week the ma Is get in Once a week one of the twelve men inhabitants bring down produce o Windsod. Vt, gets money or oth- CT produce in exchange and returns 0 take up in triplicate or quadrupli- cate the solemn round cf his official duties.
The Alaska citizen., 1913-12-08

age. Tn. flag jingoist has secured no audience and the fear or need or war is becoming dimIuer with each passing hour Even internal strife is threatened with a compulsory nrbi. tration law. Peace. prosperity and progress are the three white doves of the administration. They carry only messages of hope to the people of nation whose natural rights have more
The Alaska citizen., 1913-12-08
HE RAN NO RISK.

The tramp sat, serene and dirty on the backdcor step eating the breakfast for which he had whined and the servant stood looking at him cur,ously.
 Presently the knight of the road observed the attention she was pay ing him.
 "Wotter yer lookin' at me for?'' he asked, in idle curiosity. Think Pm long-lost cousing?"
 Mo-" replied the maid coolly; but I must say you remind me of a man l useter know
 Sweetheart" asked ,he tramp coyly.
 None of your business!' was the maids retOrt. But something hap pened to him which'n never happen 70 you!"
 Whats that? Died millionaire. did he?"
 The maids reply was crushing:
 No; he was accidentally drowned while bathing!"
The Alaska citizen., 1913-12-08
SLEEVE GAUGE.

To put sleeves in correctly, put the under arm seam Of the sleeve just the length of your second finger ahead of the underseam of the wa st, says the Cleveland Plain Dealer This is an easy way, and they are always in the righ. place.
The Alaska citizen., 1913-12-08

kan when he Hnds out that they re- .yiyr but twelve to fourteen shillings per week. and are fighting. not for higher wages. but against the intro aaet.en of bay laborers which will. their ray ta ten shiIIings s2 90, pcl- week
 The orgy of undressing does not trouble tEe inhabitants of a ftnI whose winter lasts for eight months. but the spectacle nf public officials uul ministers of the gospel having moral >pasms because d few women dress eonspi,uoHsly ls disgusting even at the distance of three thousand miles Wise indeed ar" tn" men who pay ID more attention to the matter than to say. Whatever wom, them selves choose to wear. or leave off. s right"
 sn4land has miserable millions Of uacmployed. Berlin Is trying to solve inc problem of surplus labor by ap- rropriatinE lars" sums for their em- ployment in public Improvements
 
 finds itself confronted by problems of I similar nature, yet each of them has thousands of acres of uucultivatcd lands. About one hundred years ago Il truly Democratic chap named Thomas Jefferson made this state ment. "Wherevcr there is in any coun- ny uncultiyatcd lands and unemployed oor. it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate d natural right. The yarth is given as common stock er man >o 1ahor and live in
 Authentic statistics. compiled by no less writer than Alfred Henry Lewis. are being served ont to the general public. showing them how privately owned railroads have Him damned the people ever sine" rail- roads were hut there are still in li- viduals on the Outside who are shout 'nc their loudeSt about the injustice that will he done private capital in ase the government builds a railway nto interior Alaska. They dn not state, however, what deht the United States government owes to private aNft6 wUite the citizens of this country are evidently minus con ~ideration. Luckily. the credence giv- the outhursts of these dogs-in- 'he-mang"r is not in proportion to
The Alaska citizen., 1913-12-08

There was company at dinner and father was carving his prettiest on a fire roast. Suddenly, though, the knife struck skewer, made a slid ing motion, and came out on tob. Father attempted to cover his real feelings with insipid jests about the indigestibility of roasted hard wood, the individuality of butchers run. ming wood yard, and the like. There was an embarrass ;ng silence. Willie took advantage of it.
 Cook has burned her nose orful," he announced
 Too bad" muttered father. still wrestling with the roast. How did she do it?"
 "Tryin to pull them skewer., out wiJh her teeth"
The Alaska citizen., 1913-12-08

And this saddening and deplorahl" affair reminds me of a lecture at tended in a public hall lately. The audience was composed of men and women. It appears the lecturer got himself invited in order that laa mieh. play. And he did make q display. He proclaimed himself an apostle of q new Ism" He out-Hcroded Hero "Ecce Homo" glowed largely from him from beginning to end It was d tumble of tragedy, comedy. farce. bur lesque and Aristotledom. with little vaudeville thrown in. He declared that Christianity was founded on a myth-fear of punishment in the next world-what he described as "a living pool of fire" He ridiculed the Bible and Scriptures as authorities on any and what could he produced from piece of copper wire as the great
 tN''''' '''''' at the so-called- miracles of the Great or" He had panacea of his own for all our ills. He would take the heads from the wrong ends of the matches and put them on the right ends. He shed crocodile tears over the poor, sweated. overworked men and women
 
 and insufficient wages. but h, guarded against telling his hearers why Il" paid the lowest and most staryation- al-wage in the camp--a concern which makes over three hundred per cent profit on it's outlay At the clos. of the meeting it was said that the lecturer was entertaining but that he didn't explain. Explain what? He explained himself away The papers announced him as q broad reader For myself l prefer a deep reader. shoulders and very short and weak in the legs. There were open-eyed and open -mouthed tperSons in It audience who apparently swallowed all his wild rawlings. And I thought of some of the things he said about religion when later I saw poor chill dren in such an ugly predicament and wondered to myself what the new gospel would bring forth if it were adopted.
The Alaska citizen., 1913-12-08

The parcels post has cleared s20.- "e".o0o. already. Thc express com rarfrS must miss this tidy little sum.
The Alaska citizen., 1913-12-08

.treentjne Republic wilt spcui so. ooo,o"o for g",rru:u,lt owned rail waiS du.inv Islf.
The Alaska citizen., 1913-12-08

Were some of tac caildren af thos> who object to tae dog ordinance to get bitten. II would probably hc the best test of the law
The Alaska citizen., 1913-12-08

mild winter. In view uf tne scar. Cgtv of Work, it looks as though the wind bad been temu,red tn th" sftorn lamb
The Alaska citizen., 1913-12-08
BY THE WAY
BY ZOZ.

In this column in a recent isSi,, reference was made to an article il the Review of Reviews about the gauscs and the treatment of vicious habits in children. and it was suy- Ecstcd that parents uf local chiIdr. n Hould read 1t. Recent disclosures here of pitiahlr. revoltine. and dis. Eusting nature compel us to repoa, the suggestion Tis saii that on black sheep infects whole flock Why not remove the black sheep Q
 If children were properly looked aft er and instructed there would be n4 occasion to bring them into court at an early and tender age to tell that the punishment for perjury was ''tn. and prison" In my time it was writ large and impressed on children that there was a greater punishmcn, which acted as great deterrent. Tat talk about fine and Imprisonment to children has no effect when they s",
 
 punity The TOW" loomed up largely the disclosures Some wise rropl, will say remove the TOW" Woul | that do much good when chilir. Il who live outside the TOW have for neighbours men who 1iee in tornica- ion and adultery with women from the TOW" or others who drink to for get and in that condition Haunt ther shame before the kids eyrso 'Tis all very well to say What can the authorities do in the circumstances @t- We'll. where there is a will there is d way. Everything that child does should not be admired and praisaI by parents as "smartness. Away with your wise and superior prate about eugenics and other rubbish ic the child be not properly looked aft 'r. and prevented from drifting in to depravty
The Alaska citizen., 1913-12-08

The man III front of t.e Lar eats rabbit The I1au behind tue bar eats moose
The Alaska citizen., 1913-12-08

The estimated expense of conducting Uncle Sans affairs for the next twelve months is s1,1S0,O0O,000. Di- vided equally per capita Alaska gets an extra ration. but when one con siders what Alaska gives in return. it is obvious that the allotted million is little enough for her share
The Alaska citizen., 1913-12-08
Phone 262 Phone

Look o'.t for tAe ears The first lo>eiEnI' 'nt owned cars
The Alaska citizen., 1913-12-08

The President who urges tine passage ot the direct presidential primary law leaves no doubt as to the irogressivc- n,SS of his pemocracy
The Alaska citizen., 1913-12-08

Uncle Sam has done the square thing in appropriating s500,000 to pro- vide for housing the exhibits from Alaska, Hawaii. Panama. etc, in San Francisco in 1915. Alaska will cer- people by the variety and extent of her exhibit
The Alaska citizen., 1913-12-08

Chicago paper remarks that we will soon hear of an International As sociation of Thaw Lawyers, which is possible with the array of legal talent the Matteawan escape has secured to help him escape further confinement. Harry K. is presenting as many diff culties to the government as Schedule K
The Alaska citizen., 1913-12-08

The strike of the girl net-workers in England rather astonishes an Alas
The Alaska citizen., 1913-12-08

William Randolph Hearst wants to fight Mexico right now while he is good and mad There be those who say that William only wants to referee the fight at long distance Or. as the Dutchman put it, He wants oth- CTS to fight"
The Alaska citizen., 1913-12-08

President Yuan Shi-Kai. of the Re public of China. states that he would rather be Washington than d Ma poleon. Why not he more modern and Democratic as well as popular in his own country by being a Wilson?
The Alaska citizen., 1913-12-08

The announcement that the figures of the thirteenth census are to be pub lished soon will be welcome news to every political economist. Statistics. for him, contain the very essence of all human tragedies and comedies
The Alaska citizen., 1913-12-08

Even though there are courts le- ni'nt and humane enough to impose sentence of but one-fourth the maximum penalty. every broken spirited convict makes US long for the day of the 'crime doctor to arrive
The Alaska citizen., 1913-12-08

Lesii"'s magazine has taken Mr. Bryan severely to task for making money legitimately. They want him 10 cease featuring, advancing the claim that he plays on the credulity of the people He should worry
The Alaska citizen., 1913-12-08

The latest report of tle Fairbanks public school reminds us that We have public school that would be a credit to many Outside towns where schools have existed for two genera lions
The Alaska citizen., 1913-12-08

While there may be some confusion about this shaotins affray d few da $ back. one tGins stans}s out eIral: neither man was from Texas
The Alaska citizen., 1913-12-08

San Franciscos protest against the cXeCrable street railway scrN ice with which she las so long been afflicted was when put to vote, to l in favor of municipally owned lines. Who will he the next9
The Alaska citizen., 1913-12-08

Spains proposal of a trule alliance between herself. England and France is apparent proof of the value they place upon the little English prin- cess whom they hargained SO care iuily for few years ago.