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The Alaska citizen., 1914-08-03
UPLIFTING EMPIOYES.

It has been learned by some of the most successful business con cerns that the best results can be obtained from employees who are ambitious to improve themselves, and accordingly they are doing all in their power to promote the wei ing for them. On the other hand there are only few concerns which
 ontinue to treat ieir employees like machines.
 One of the big wholesale houses that is doing business in various parts of Alaska, has distributed a little circular among it's employees, entitled. My Guide" The circular is copy of a code of "right-living, adopted by Thomas Van Alstyne. a graduate of Cornell university, who, when he was accidentally killed some time ago. was working as an electrical engineer. After he was killed. u e moral and up-lift seni ments that he had adopted as his guide were found in his own hand writing, and attracted considerable attention.
 Mr Van Astyne's guide to proper living is in part as follows:
 "To respect my country, my pro fession and myself. To be honest and fair with my fellowmen. as expect them to be honest and square with me To be loyal citizen of the United States of America. To speak of it With praise, and act al ways as trustworthy custodian of it's good name To be a man whose name carries weight with it where ever it goes.
 "To base my expectations of re ward on a solid foundation of se"- vice rendered. To be willing to effort To look upon my work as 9n opportunity to be seized with joy and made the most of, and not as a painful drudgery to be reluctant ly endured.
 ''To remember that success lies within myself. in my own brain, my own ambition, my own courage and determination. To expect diff culties and force my way through Il em To turn hard experience in to capital for future struggles.
 ''To make a study of my business, To know my profession in every de tail. To mix brains with my efforts and use system and methods with my work. To find time to do every needful thing by never letting time find me doing nothing To hoard days as a miser boards dollars. To make every hour bring me dividends, increased knowledge, or healthful recreation.
 ITO keep my future unmortgaged with debts; to save as we'll as earn. To cut out expensive amusements until can afford them. To steer clear of dissipation, and guard my health of body and peace of mind as a most precious stock in trade" "
The Alaska citizen., 1914-08-03
Phone 26z Phone
NOTICE TO THE TIMES.

', The Alaska Citizen hereby ' (, agrees to pay $50 to the local q (. library for the benefit of that '
 .- institution, if it fails to prove . <, that the item appearing in it's . ... last issue with Ruby date line = c was not taken from any other = t' paper. and that in substance it . ' IS the contents of teiegraphc . z, message received by this news . q paper from Ruby, Alaska, pro- . z, vided the Fairbanks Times will o
 . agree to pay a similar amount .
 ', for the benefit of the lib bary . c if The Citizen proves that it's . <. item was from bona fide teie- ; q graphic message. . <, This offer is made for the ;
 ,.. purpose of forcing the Times . /. to make good it's charge that ' (, The Citizen clipped the item ; (. from the Ruby Record d-Citizen. '-' /, If the Times is not purposely . < manufactu ing contemptibe lie . . to dscredit this newspaper, it 'o
 '. should be glad to make good ! q it's charge by accepting The ; ' Citizens challenge. MT. Times . '- editor, are you going to back 'o
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The Alaska citizen., 1914-08-03

and manufactured 265.o20 tons of pulp and paper.
 In fish it showed a total pack of 23.O45 ons-herring. l5906 {; smclt. 2.403: whitefish. sos salmon. 2s0. and sprat. 39 tons.
 The application lies in the fact that Finland. which is equal in area to only one-fourth of Alaska. eY- tends from 60 degrees north. which is tl @ latitude of Cordova, 10 a point nearly in the latitude of Point Barrow. and that both Alaska and Finland are subject to almost iden- tical climatic conditions"
The Alaska citizen., 1914-08-03
FAIRBANKS IS AWAKEN NC.

Just as a plant that has been sui ferins from drought begins to show signs of new life when refreshing rains come to it's aid, so Fairbanks is beginning to revive from the dullest season in it's history. This change is a result of the beginning of the railroad surveys and the restoration of confidence in the fu- ture of the district.
 Although the passage of the rail road bill by congress aroused much local enthusiasm, the people here did not seem to realize their good fortune to it's fullest extent until began work Since then there has been q noticeable revival in the de mand for real estate and a new atmosphere of prosperity is evident
 Another thing that is boosting To- cal conditions is the way local quartz prospects are attracting the interest of people on the Outside. Everybody feels that Eere in the Fairbanks district there are hidden valuable quartz lodges that can be developed into mines of vast possi- bilities But to develop the pros poets now being worked on small scale will take more capital than is available here for that purpose, and thus the awakening interest of Out side capitalists in the mining situa- tion here is as much cause of op- timism as is the construction of the railroad, though without the railroad the oti CT would probably not be realized
 One man recently arriving from the Outside declared that half of the people of the Pacific coast states would be coming to Alaska next year" Of course this was hyperbole But though he did not mean literally what he said, he did mean that the number of people from the Pacific coast states to come here next year was beyond our anticipation.
 The most successful people are those who have the foresight to make purchases in advance of a raise in prices, and thus gain pro- fits that people of less ability are unable to get Thus there will be shrewd business men who will buy Fairbanks property while it is cheap, and will hold it until after the rail road is completed and the prices are two or three times what they are today The man who waits for the railroad work actually to begin in the limits of the city. will awak en then to the realization that the bargains are gone, and his chances of making something by buying and selling real estate have wonderfully decreased.
 However. it is not the transfer of real estate on which the prosperity of the city depends, but upon the class of people who purchase prop erty here. If local property is pur- chased by men who will improve it by the construction of good build
The Alaska citizen., 1914-08-03
SUCCESSFUL PIONEERS.

Recent news dispatches announced the sale of the Portland Evening Telegram to it's former editor. John Carroll. and two associates. The news created much comment among the large number of former Port landers. who are living in Fairbanks. for the Telegram was founded and publisl ed. until it's recent sale, by the same company that produces that model of successful journalism. the Morning Oregonian.
 To say that the Oregonian Pub fishing company, to which the two newspapers mentioned belonged. has lone more for the upbuilding of Oregon and much of Washington than any other organization is a
 ruth that almost every person of
 hat Territory will verify.
 The Citizen has frequently con tended that there is no class of peo- 'It' dS tItI SttIN, pioSI C7Sl'N ''iit IS Democratic as the pioneers. It is their energy and progressiveness that have caused them to break way from old conditions and seek new. The two pioneer newspapers of Portland are convincing examples If what pioneers have accomplished where others have failed.
 When Portland was little viii lage of log houses, standing in the heart of a great forest on the banks of the Willamette river. the Ore gonan made it's first appearance. Henry L. Pittock, then but boy, came there to work on it as a typeSetter He worked his way up to controlling owner and general manager and soon converted the paper into daily. For more than time a friendless typesetter, has been at the head of the Oregonian Publishing company, and still he di rects the business affairs of that wealthy concern.
 The success of the Oregonian was due to two men, H. L. Pittock, it's business manager, and the late Harvey Scott, its editor for many years, who gained for the paper the reputation of being one of the best newspapers ever produced in Ameri- ca The Success magazine at one time credited him with being one of the six best editors of the United States, and another magazine once credited him with being one of the 15 best editors of the world.
 As the Evening Telegram was known to be a profitable enterprise it is not quite understood here why it's former owners sold it. The only explanation made by the local Port land people is that Mr. Pittock, who has numerous other big business en- terprises, has decided to rid himself some of them.
 MT. and Mrs. Pittock are typical pioneers, for they have refused to let financial success turn their heads. Although one of the wealth fest families in Oregon they live with no pretenses and no show of superiority over those who have been less fortunate. But this seems to add to, rather than detract from. the high esteem in which they are held by the community
The Alaska citizen., 1914-08-03

telegraphic dispatches, the Austrians were trying to fortify the haTbor, even if it were necessary to invade Montenegrin territory. If the Times doesn't like it, 1t is up to that news paper and the Austrians to fight it out Anyhow. there is no reason why The Citizen should "bibble" ahout if
The Alaska citizen., 1914-08-03
Alaskan Returns From Mexican Warfare Prison and Army Adventures Are Told

CT Alaska to Inspect St Joseph s hospital. She was accompanied by Sister Veronica and Rose Elizabeth who will remain at St Josephs S and sister Noemi, who will accom-. pany Mother Aristrde to Nome, tC enter the Holy Cross hospital at that place as nurse
The Alaska citizen., 1914-08-03

Fifteen of the largest British cities have agreed to join in smoke abate- ment and fuel economy experiments.
The Alaska citizen., 1914-08-03
SISTERS ARRIVE HERE.

Mott CT Aristride. assistant gener- al of the Sisters of Providence in America, arrived here on the steam
The Alaska citizen., 1914-08-03

Harnessing a fly to tiny wagon an English scientist found that it could draw ITO times it's own weight
The Alaska citizen., 1914-08-03

BEAR stories are getting com mon in Alaska just now. There will also be some exciting bear stories in Europe soon, when the Russian Bear is turned lose in the Balkans
The Alaska citizen., 1914-08-03

ALASKA has been in the habit of getting almost everything from Washington and Oregon, and 1t seems that it has been getting of late some of the rainy and cloudy weather of those places.
The Alaska citizen., 1914-08-03
READ THIS

On and after July 27th, the prices for laundry will be as follows:
The Alaska citizen., 1914-08-03

AT this writing it seems that Mexico will have peace, that is it will have peace until someone else wants to start revolution, and then We may expect war to be continued for another few years.
The Alaska citizen., 1914-08-03

be a forerunner of good roads. If this is so, the rapidly increasing number of machines in Fairbanks should arouse public endeavol to have the roads near the city improved.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-09-01
NEW SECRETARY OF
Y. M. C. A. Is NAMED

The y. NJ. C. A. board of directors
announce that l.. II. Martin OF Greens
boro. North Carolina, has been secured
to assume the general secretaryship or
the local association as successor 10
r. c. Smedley. E. J. Gum of Aurora,
who was first called to the work, has
been unable to secure his release from
the Aurora association on account or
complications which have arisen
there. so he has been left to Aurora
and Mr.. Martin will be the new secre-
tary for Rock Island.
L. II. Martin is a product OF ILLINOIS
V M. C. A. work and will be warmly
welcomed back to the state by the as
sociations in general. He began nus
work as a secretary at Sterling about
fifteen years ago. and has since served
AT Monmouth, Kankakee and Aurora
He was called to Greensboro several
wears ago TO superintend the erection
of their new building, which Is said 10
he one of the most up to date In the
southeast, and he has succeeded In or
ganizing there a very strong ana ag-
gresFive work for the men and boys or
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-09-01
DUMPING WAGON
COSTS MAN S2.1O
J. Walters, Arrested by Kinney,
Pays Costs for Reckless
Driving on Fifth Avenue.

James Walters bumped into an ice
wagon on Fifth avenue near Twenty
eighth street yesterday afternoon
while driving in HIS automobile. Off
Ger John Kinney, who saw the Incl
dent, thought that Walters had been
driving recklessly, and so he took him
to the station, where the motorist put
up a bond for his appearance this
morning.
After Police Magistrate C. J. Smith
heard the testimony in the case he re-
leased Walters on payment of the
costs, S2.10. Walters is stranger
here.
Ralph Coulter and Boyd Finch, both
of whom were recently arrested by
officer P. ]. Carey, were each fined
$500 for speeding by Justice of the
Peace Carl ]. Kuehl yesterday after
noon.
Andrew Rosaline, arrested by Cox
and Kramer, and Carl Peterson, ar
rested by Ginnane, were each fined
81 and costs this morning on a charge
OF disorderly conduct.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-09-01
RING CAMPAIGN
COMES TO CLOSE
Contest for Queen of 1900
Block Ends With Heavy Bal
loting in the Final Hours.

Voting for the queen" of the 1000
block came to a close at 10 o'clock
last evening when the ballot box was
removed from The Argus Office and
sealed until this evening, when it will
be opened and the three judges, H. B.
Simmon, ]. l.. Vernon and A. ]. Lind
strom, representing three local banks,
will canvass the results. Arrange
ments for the browning of the queen
will be made at a meeting which will
be held by the merchants of the block
at the Rock Island house this even
ing.
The voting was very heavy yester-
day afternoon and last evening and
the ballot box was filled to its ca
pacity. The merchants of the block
have made a good many customers,
as well as sold a large amount of
goods on account-Of the contest, which
is no doubt the largest which has been
held in this city by any business mems
association. The interest in this con-
test was much greater than 1t was at
first thought that it would be and
there will probably be other kinds of
contests later.
At the present time no person can
tell who the winner will be, as the vot-
ing yesterday was so heavy that any
one of the contestants may be on top
of the list when the votes are can
vassed. The winner will be given
beautiful diamond ring, which has
been in the window of the Billings x
Herzog store since the beginning OF
the contest.
The winner will be publicly crowned
Thursday evening, Sept. 10, and large
automobile parade will precede the
ceremonies A cash prize of 500 VIII
be given to the best decorated ma
chine.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-09-01
How Loeb Awe Was Formed.

Highland tradition gives quaint ex-
PLANTATION of the creation of Loeb Awe,
that noble mirror of the mountains in
the magnificent scenery of Argyllshire.
The bed of the loch was once, it is
said, a fertile valley, with a fairy
spring, which had always to be kept
covered, bubbling from the mountain
side. A careless girl, however. hav-
ing drawn water, forgot to recover the
well. All through the night the spring
flowed, and by the morning Loeb Awe
had come into being. No one need re-
greet the carelessness of that highland
lassie. Loeb Awe is now one of the
most exquisit of beauty spots in Great
Britain-a charming sheet of water,
studded with pretty islands, while
around the shores are many places as
ISOLATED with interesting legends and
historic incidents of the highlands
London Answers
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-09-01
MOUNTAIN LIONS ATTACK
WESTERN SHEEP HERDERS

Denver, Col, Sept. MAX Ehrhart
and Joe Schlosser, two sheep-herders
are dying in a hospital at Glenwood
Springs as the result of a battle in
the dark, early yesterday morning
with a pack of mountain lions that
had started raid on their sheep. Both
were terribly mangled.
Ehrhart and Schlosser, who have
been tending $500 sheep near Raven,
Col, were aroused from their sleep by
their dogs. About a quarter of a mile
from camp they found two dogs in a
terrific struggle with four big lions.
Schlosser fred. Before he could re
load two lions leaped on his back and
bore him to the ground. AS Ehrhart
started to aid him the other two lions
leaped upon him.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-09-01

me suggest my personal cure. At
about fourteen 1 was attacked by a
bad habit of stammeriLg and couldn't
start remark without it. The other
boys laughed at me, and elders pro-
jected complicated cures. But the alb
surdity of the situation appealed to
me. Why couldn't 1 say ~ at once
without the preliminary stammer?
1t was obviously necessary to slut
ter. often before saying No" Well.
why shouldn't l stutter to myself? The
method was adopted. When a SEN
tence had to be started the stammer
was carried out in silence-if a dozen
ms had to start mo" And after
few days of deliberate speech. with
the stammer done in silence, l was
delivered entirely from the habit
London Standard.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-09-01
STOLE FOR CASH
TO RETURN HOME
kewanee Boy Tells Story of
Taking Bicycle Belonging
to Constable.
CLAIMED HE WAS HOMESICK
Owner Receivers Machine From Sec
ond Hand Dealer at Police
Station.

81 needed money. / was homesick
and wanted to get back home. ]
thought by taking the bicycle and sell
ing it to a secondhand dealer l could
get the change to get back to the
folks"
This statement was made by Ray
mond Broquist, aged 16 years, of X.
vance, who was arrested by Officer
Charles Ginnane yesterday afternoon
on a charge of stealing a bicycle, the
property OF Constable d. J. Cleland
The bicycle was standing in front
of the State Bank building when Mr..
Cleland went up to his Office to at
tend to some business yesterday after
noon. When he returned to the walk
again, the vehicle was gone.
He went to the police station He
thought to ask the officers about his
lookout for it. ]. H. Paulson, the 1900
block dealer in second hand goods,
was at the station also.
Thought 1t Joke.
Mr.. Cleland saw his bicycle in front
of the place, and thought that per.
haps one of the police officers had
played a joke on him. So after a
short chin" with them he started out
the door, and got on the bicycle bound
for his office.
But Mr. Paulsen was out of the door
and after him in a jiffy. Finally the
merchant stopped the constable and
an explanation followed, in which it
was learned that the youth had stolen
the bicycle and had attempted to sell
it to Paulsen.
Paulsen had gone to the station to
find out if the wheel had been stolen,
and after it was learned that the ma
chine was Cleland's the latter took it
and rode off. The boy was men ar
rested.
He told story this morning of how
he had come to the three cities some
time ago in search of work and how
he had failed to get any. After hear
ing his tale the officials gave him a
severe lecture and let him go, Mr.. Gle
land not caring to prosecute.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-09-01
Queer Story of a Grave.

a curious barren mound is to be
seen in Montgomery churchyard.
Whatever the cause, there is plainly
to be seen a strip of sterility in the
form of a cross among mass of YER
dure. With the mound a melancholy
legend is connected. 1t is called Rob
ert's Grave" and the story is that be-
meath this barren hillock lie the re-
mains of an innocent man who was
hanged on mistaken evidence. It IS
said that while the man stood on the
gallows with the rope round his neck
he solemnly declared, as a proof OF
his innocence, that grass should never
grow on his grave. And even so 1t
was and is. Any one who attempts to
Illustrate the fulfillment of this proph-
ecy by sowing grass on this spot pays
the penalty with his life. Instances are
given of individuals who have been
rash enough to do so and have met
their doom soon afterward.-Cardiff
Western Mail.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-09-01
MRS. D. B. WELLS
TO LECTURE HERE
Missionary Social Union Ar
ranges to Bring Favorite
Speaker Back.
COMES WEEK NEXT MONTH
Course of Talks viii open Oct. II at
Broadway Church and Will
Close Oct. 10.

At a meeting of the executive COM
mittee of the Missionary Social union
held Yesterday at the Y. NJ. c. A, plans
we're completed for the series of lee
lures to be given by Mrs. D. B. Wells
of Chicago at Broadway Presbyterian
church, Oct. 11-16, under the auspices
of the union. Mrs. Wells has lectured
on foreign and home mission topics
for the past three years and her talks
have been such an inspiration and
profit that her coming again this year
is eagerly anticipated and welcomed.
She has spent the summer in travel
ing from one end of the country to the
other giving chatauqua lectures, mis-
sionary talks, etc, and has added to
her vast amount of material many in
teresting experiences.
She will open the series with lee
ture Sunday afternoon, oct. II, at
o'clock, at Broadway Presbyterian
church, which is free to the public
The subject of her talk will be The
Meaning of the World Unrest"
She will this year discuss the for
eign mission text book, THE Child In
the Midst" by Mrs. B. F. Labarre and
the home mission text books, In Red
Mans Land. by Francis E. Leupp,
and Missionary Women and the So
cial Question: by F. S. Bennett.
The lectures each afternoon will be
opened with bible study lesson on
the general theme. The Making and
Investment of Personality"
In Five Day Series.
Beginning Monday she will take up
the course of study, first the bible les
son. then the foreign topic and lastly
the home topic, and has announced the
afternoon topics as follows:
Monday (a) - The Suggestive
Forces in Personality; OBJ, Mother
hood and Childhood; (c), I'm the
Long-ago Days"
Tuesday-(a). 1.-The Objective Force
in Personality; (b), Mature Plus
Nurture; (c). 1.-The Wars of the Ma
ton"
Wednesday-(a) "Christ's Laws of
Investment" (b), EMERSON of In
dividuality"; (c). THE Indians Pres
ent-day Problem and Progress"
Thursday-(a), THE Most Ere
quent Possibility; (b), THE Accumu-
lation of LIES Tools; (c), THE
Principles of the New Home Mission"
Friday-(a). The Underlying Cause
Of Failure; tb). Salvation and Serv-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-09-01

Ice; (c), The Progress of the New
Home Mission
Course tickets will be sold for the
nominal sum of 25 cents.
The Missionary Social union is com
posed of the missionary societies OF
Broadway Presbyterian, First Metho-
dist, Memorial Christian, First Bap-
fist, United Presbyterian, Central
Presbyterian and Spencer Memorial
Methodist churches, with Mrs. VIII
liam Mclean Stewart as the president.
The annual meeting of the union will
be held at Spencer Memorial Methodist
church in November, the exact date
being unannounced at this time.