The Alaska citizen., 1913-12-01
Phone 262 Phone
FIFTY DOLLARS REWARD.

j: :: :. :. :. z. :. z. :. :. :: z. z. z. :. :. The more Democracy the better.
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 Why should the mind ot the statesman lag behind the mind O. the invent IT
 A tw wentieth century machine, gov erned by tallow candle laws. is re sponsible for the mob and the hood on the pavements.
 England showed new 14.000.001 dollar battleship off into the water the other day. The price O. this intricate collection of steel would grubstake all the prospectors from Daws to Nome for three years and leave get-a.8ay stake for each.
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 It is said that the Balkan war turn- ished the ideas for some O. the lat est fashions in "oman's dress. With these styles as criterion, an Out side periodical is led to remark that 1t is to be hoped that the next war does not break out ill Dahomey, where dress is an oddity.
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 There are distinctive signs of d stir in our Unele's home at WasA- ington. as though the body polite were about 10 shake off the scaly cutiele f flint-lock days and take on the satin gloss Of wireless. govern ment railroad. twin screw rTopell r, 22 knot an hour Democracy.
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 Lloyd George tells the women Of England to forget it for a while: that the present parliament is not suffrage bill, In consequence, the next gale which sweeps from the East" will probably bring to our ears the crashing of window glass.
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 In Fairbanks Col. Roosevelt will find that the people have taken his race suicide story to heart. In at tending any of the local theatre at tracti ms on can find baby car riages lined up outside of the fly CTS as are the automobiles along the curbs in front of the fashion able Outside showhouses.
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 The Northland takes another roy ahy from the men who sluice its gold, This time it picked from the strong. Of this powerful man Thorn as Overland who writhing with ex- cruciating pain, still virtually meeting death standing up. We have this to say: He was mighty, he was game. He deserved better fate.
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 From figures furnished by the Department of Agriculture it is learn ed that the Thanksgiving dinner cos. the unlucky Outside people ten per cent more than it did last year. Again Alaskans have cause to be thankful With birds plentiful and ammunition cheaper as well as al the trimmings, the dinner f a Fair before
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 Speaking of theatres, did you ever notice upon entering and gazing down upon the audience the number of bald heads scattered among the cr1wd? These shiny waste places are always quite numerous, and their presence tends to show that the hardy pioneers of the North have not lost all their interest in plea sures after prolonged absence from the bright lights in the States.
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 William Walker a member of chain gang at Alameda. Calif., es- caped one day and made his way to Alaska where he accumulated fortune and also a wife. Recently he remembered that he had an inn portant engagement at Alameda and returned to make up for the lest time. However. press dispatches do not state if Mrs. Walker made things hot for him and he returned to Ala meda to escape domestic fallacies
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 There is much talk over the boom at Juneau where several gov ernment buildings are being erected the discussions meaning to infer that Fairbanks is not such a big spot on the map. We'll. what of 1t? Fairbanks had its building day and has it's buildings, while Juneau is just seeing the light, and is now ac- quiring the additions which accrue to a capital city. At that, Fairbanks