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The Alaska citizen., 1914-10-12
THE SITUATION
in OLD MEXICO
AMERICAN KILLED,

NACO, Ariz., Oct. S. A bullet
fired during the battle between the
troops of General Hill and Governor
Maytorena killed Private Wilson, an
American cavalryman, who was fully
800 yards inside the boundary at the
time. Wilson belonged to Troop G
of the Tenth cavalry.
APPEAL TO PRESIDENT.
of this city have appealed to Presi-
dent Wilson to put stop to the
fighting on the Mexican side of the
boundary because of the promiscu-
Gus firing which has characterized
the battle between General Hills
troops and the rebels under Cover
nor Maytorena.
The appeal was prompted by the
wounding of another American sol
der today and the narrow escape Of
a number Of American citizens. The
soldier hit today was Private Brad
ford, the bullet striking him in the
breast and inf1icting a serious wound.
AFTER HUERTA SUPPORTERS.
WASHINGTON, D. c.. Oct l.
The state department has been ad
vised that an attempt will be made
by President Carranza and his Con-
stitutionalist followers to secure the
extradition of followers Of Huerta
who are now in the United States.
There are twelve rebel leaders, it
is understood, who will be charged
with various crimes. after which the
United States will be asked to turn
them over to the Mexican authori-
ties.
The Alaska citizen., 1914-10-12
TO SHOOT OPIUM USERS.

PEKIN.-Persons under 40 years
of age are to be shot if found
smoking opium at Chengtu, in the
province of Sze-Chuen, after the eX-
piration Of period of twenty-one
days. according to a government an
nouncement. Offenders over 40 are
to be sentenced to terms of penal
servitude. The campaign against
opium smoking has reached such a
point that all opium smokers in the
province are compelled to submit
themselves to a course Of treatment.
The Alaska citizen., 1914-10-12
CUTS VALUABLE TREE.

REPUBLIC CITY, kan.-W. Policy
forty years ago which was more
than two feet in thickness. The
seed was brought from Nemaha
county in 1873 by his brother, M. c.
Policy, former member of the legis-
iature from Republic county. Mr..
Policy got $50 feet of good timber
from the tree, and next spring in
tends converting it into furniture.
The Alaska citizen., 1914-10-12

meals to other soldiers has been
made to Senator Lewis by Mrs.
Margaret Volp of Chicago. who is
81 years of age. Mrs. Nolp says she
washed 500 pieces for the soldiers
of an Indiana regiment and for two
MICHIGAN regiments.
The Alaska citizen., 1914-10-12

of one patient has been as high
as 10000 One hundred hairs are
scalp in every square centimeter
and as both ends are left free this
makes over 1000 hairs to each square
inch.
The Alaska citizen., 1914-10-12
SEM HAIRS In SCALP.

hairs to the human scalp in cases
of badness has been successfully us
ed by DR.. Szekely at the hospital of
Saint Stephans in this city. The
number of hairs planted in the head
The Alaska citizen., 1914-10-12
WANTS DELAYED PAY.

WASHINGTON--A plea for $3.50
owes her for washing the clothes
of Union soldiers at Baltimore dur
ing the Civil war and for supplying
The Alaska citizen., 1914-10-12
CREEK SERVICES TONIGHT.

The Rev. H. H. Lumpkin, rector
of st. Matthew's church, will be at
Ester creek this evening for the u.s.
ual monthly service. This will be
held in the Social hall at 500 p. M,
and all are cordially invited to at
tend
The Alaska citizen., 1914-10-12

Now that Ambassador Page has
been elected an officer in the Sphinx
club in London. we'll refuse here
after to believe that the English
have no sense Of bumor-Nashville
Southern Lumbermap.
The Alaska citizen., 1914-10-12
CALL FOR BIDS.

Bids will be received at the Of
flee Of the municipal clerk, such
bids to be opened at 8 p. m, Mon
day night. October 18th, for filling
in the waterfront. The council re-
serves the right to reject any and
all bids Specifications may be seen
at the municipal clerks office in
the City Hall.
ALBERT ]. PAUL.,
Municipal Clerk
The Alaska citizen., 1914-10-12

Sec Anderson Bros. & Nerland
for storm windows and glass. Cut
prices in all lines.
The Alaska citizen., 1914-10-12

New Stock Of Loose Leaf Ledeers
lust arrived. Citizen office.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-10-22
What with titled English ladies,
AN EDITORS TRIBUTE TO THOS.
e. WATSON'S STORY OF
FRANCE"

We have just finished reading
Watsons Napoleon" and STORY of
France" and without exception they
are the most interesting and instruc
tive books we have ever read. We
have read Plutarch, Macaulay, Glib
bOns and various other writer's, but
we have never read any history that
chained our attention as have the
above named books. In them we
find the clearness of Plutarch with
style SURPRISING Macaulay. The
great characters are portrayed in a
manner that makes them life like.
The reader sees them in all their
strength; he beholds them in all
their weakness. We get an insight
into the life of the Gauls in their
early history at the time when Caesar
conquered them. We see them
slowly emerge from a semi-barbaric
State to a state OF civilization never
surpassed in the history of the
world. The causes that led to the
French revolution and the reckless
disregard Of the peoples rights by
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-10-22

whenever religion concerns it,
self chiefly with outward show, it's
soul is dead. The cathedral is the
monument that marks the grave.
THE most tragicaIIy pitiable OF
all earthly speCtacies is, the million
dollar church, the rented pew, the
salaried choir, the Phalisee congre-
CATION, and the stereotyped preacher
whose sermon sounds like plono-
graph record, minus the melody"
From Lord Macaulay and the Ro-
man Catholic SYSTEM by Thos. Il.
Watson, ia WatsOn's Magazine for
November.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-10-22
PAGE ELEVEN

the king and nobility is made SO
realistic that one wonders that the
people waited SO long to strike for
the rights denied them by favored
classes. The life of Napoleon reads
like a romance. And yet one is i'm
pressed with its authenticity. Every
American should possess these books.
No Frenchman who loves France
and admires the great Napoleon
should be without them. In these
works America has found the ex-
preston of her greatest historians
Fort Lauderdale (Fla.) Sentinel.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-10-22
THE CRINuNALITY OF THE
TEIEORfST.

b%z 81 EA 10 q SNEAK JuISl Inc tIl0O-
IN rist is the most dangerous
Nj object in human form, and
l. we are having an epidemic of
theory from the largest
school of theorists that ever flooded
the country
The conditions in every State that
is included in the Cotton Belt have
never been equalled at any time
since the years Immediately follow
ing the Civil War. There have been
floods, epidemics, blighted crops and
droughts, but never did one of these
hit all the States at the same time,
and it was possible for the other
States, not afflicted. to prefer aid
and service to those which suffered.
This year, the cotton crop in all
the States raising the staple, was one
of the largest and best in history.
The elements had been kind, the
boll-Weevi had been on the job in
spots, but his loot was comparatively
small. From the outside, in man
ner that has no right to affect in
any way the crop, comes what has to
be regarded as the severest blow to
the industry, that has been afflicted
since the Civil War.
The European war has had to
stand as scape goat for the higher
prices of things that have never seen
Europe; things that are raised here
and whose consumption in this coun-
try is an assured fact. But the cot
ton grower of the South has been
reduced to the status of the blind
beggar of the city and at the same
l. IL ~ Il
the producer of cotton goods to make
a higher profit on his production
than he has made at any time since
he established business.
The wages of the mill operatives
have not been advanced a single
penny; there has been no falling off
of the demand of the American
market in the supply of cotton goods,
and it doesn't take genius to realize
that, with all of Europe to clothe,
and with practically every loom in
the cotton mills of Europe silent, it
will only be short time before the
demand for shipment of cotton goods
to Europe will be stupendous.
And yet-the cotton raiser is
asked to sell his staple at a figure
that will not enable him to pay the
bills he contracted last year for fer
tilizer and food, and every news
paper that has an inch of space to.
devote to the matter, is urging the
farmer to curtail his crop next year;
to raise less cotton and more of
something else; to hold his crop; to
sell it at the best figure the market
affords-and so on until the list of
substitutes for a square deal would
make Diognes give up his job and
sell his tub, and smash his lantern.
Isn't it the crime of the century
that there isn't single Northern
newspaper that will look at the mat
ter from the Southern farmers
stand, and give the real reason for
the present condition of the cotton
market?
Isn't it too bad that not one of
the powerful dailies will make two
inch announcement on it's front page
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-10-22
TIE Good, the Bod, the Ofheryc1se
II And q Fey0 Laconjcs ByLAL
BY L. A. L.

That college professor who decries
automobile riding, and encourages
football, has queer and distorted
view of danger.
The investigation into the affairs
Of the Rock Island Railroad, show
where the losses came in, but it
has failed to show the water in the
stock, which was the first step to the
losses.
There are two spurs greatly over
worked at present: the spur Of the
moment and that Of necessity.
And the horses they ride never seem
to get anywhere nor learn anything.
What with titled English ladies,
famous beauties and actresses all
volunteering" as nurses in the Eu
ropean war zone, the enlisted man
should at least be able to look for
ward to being shot with more inter-
est.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-10-22

pie?
Isn't it too bad that, with a South
ern man in the White House for the
first time in years, the Southern
farmer should be handed the rawest
deal he has ever had-even when
New England men were at the head
of the Nation?
Isn't it a shame that not a single
newspaper of fthe Administration"
would rise and ask why the cotton
mills should advance the price Of
cotton goods. when thousands Of
pounds of cotton Will lie in the fields
because it will not pay to pick it?
And isn't it pity that some fool
anthropist doesn't buy a lot of muz-
zles and put them on the theorists
who have helped make these condi-
tons as hard and fast as they are?
We are afflicted in many other
ways with the theorists. We have
Better Babies" contests for the
benefit of patent baby food concerns
and run by a lot of women and men
who may have had some sense to be-
gin with, but who have lost it in the
mad desire for publicity There is a
Gods lavish of raw material for
CASoG InSOi1O 10 WOIA on Ill every
orphan asylum, home for the friend
less and founding asylum in every
State in the Union, but for some
reason or other, this sort of raw ma
terial does not answer, and we have
been surfeited with SNUG little girls
and boys whose parents are doubt
less able to supply the little ones
with all the necessary material for
making hearty men and women.
If the newspapers would give less
space to the theorists, we would have
less call for the buy-a-bale move
ments, the baby shows that mean
nothing to the little ones who are
still raised by the hand of charity,
and for lot of other human junk
that cutters up space that might be
used for the spread of the gospel of
common sence.
AS the Boss Theorist of the bunch,
we must hand the palm leaf and the
wreath to the gentleman in the
White House, whose platform was
braced by the plank of his Southern
birth and raising" and who knows
less of the South and the Southern
people than the average Yankee
tourist who gets his impressions
from the windows of a Pullman cor.
A new bank in Slippery Guich,
TeXsa, starts all right, and we hope
none of the officials will emulate
part of the name of the town in
which said bank is located.
As warning to what may hap
pen, two policewomen' we're nearly
killed by thugs in Baltimore lately,
and that may hold the hoWlers for
rights" a. while.
A Northern newspaper AYERS that
"the silent diplomat" is the one most
successful in the mission on which
he is sent. Fine; now if that brand
will also be installed in the Cabinet
of the U. S. there won't be so much
backtracking in the future.
And apropos Of actresses as nurses,
it is to be hoped that if Mary Garden
really means it, she will "dress the
part" with more than those Salome
glad rags she has been so long iden-
titled with.
Uncle Sam has no faith in "hard
times" He is looking for an ex~
, pert to handle radium, and asks that
such person step up and get job;
with the metal at 'steen dollars a
grain, just about how many have had
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-10-22

Huge battleships they build, and
huge guns they mount on these float
ing ramparts, until q file Of Dread
naughts line the cOast-for what?
To be ready for perils that may
never come. But I give them pitt
full little purse; and, in return, they
issue to me the lawful right to UNI
mask my batteries ON every square;
and my guns play upon humanity,
every day and every night, of every
year,
From ''The Song of the Bar.
Room,' in Watson's Prose MiscelIa-
MES, second edition. Price $500.
THE JEFFS, Thomson, Ga.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-09-22
Fifty.Eieht Years in This City.

A pleasant neighborhood party
was held Friday night at the w.
H. Richardson home on the east side
and was attended by about twelve
families. Games and visiting filled
the evening and light refreshments
were served. The affair was sur
prise in honor of Mr.. Richardson's
Goth birthday and was a complete
success. The host was born in
Ithaca, N. Y, and came to Webster
City in 1856 with his parents, set
Ting on the farm his home is now
on. Sixty years seems but short
time in looking backward over the
life of a man, although it seems very
long when beginning life. Now
that the afternoon sun of Mr.. Rich
ardson's life begins to drop in the
west, he feels very thankful that his
lot was cast in Iowa and that he
lived to raise his children to man.
hood and womanhood in this state.
Down life's hill we're slowly
vending,
Past the heights we've toiled to
climb,
Lights and shadows strangely
blending
Checked all the vanished time.
tut our hearts that never faltered
When our life was in it's May,
Still it's precious fruits are bear
ing,
Though the gold has turned to
grey"
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-09-22
GOODBY, VERA CRUZ.

Sioux City Journal: Announce
ment of the proposed evacuation OF
Vera Cruz has been received with
in the United States as we'll
as in Mexico and elsewhere. 1t had
been generally assumed the Ameri-
can troops would stay in Mexico I'M
til after election, for which machin-
cry has now been set in motion, and
that after the election the United
States would recognize the new gov
eminent and terminate the occupa-
ton of Vera Cruz. From the Amer
lean viewpoint perhaps this would
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-09-22
SHOPKEEPER
TILLS THE SOIL
Systematic Work in Truck Raising
Clears $5co a Year for Iowan.
SUCCESS in IOWA IS PROVEN
Iowa Man Found TilIine the Soil His
Shortest Route to Get the Capital
His Family Needed.

Albert D. Maxon has discovered a
prescription for over-worked shop
keepers who find less in the till at the
end of the year than at the begin
ming.
Like the doctors prescription, it
may not work in every individual
case, but Mr.. Maxon has taken annual
doses for five years and he declares
he would not go back to his former
business if he had the chance.
Mr.. Maxon's prescription il a sim
pie one. There is no patent on it. The
ingredients are diligence, grit and
perseverance. Taking these together
with desire to succeed, any man who
Is eking out bare existence for him
self and family can come to Iowa and
live. on the fat of the land. And the
fat of the rich Iowa soil is not to be
Gcorned.
To get down to facts Mr.. Maxon's
prescription for the poverty stricken
merchant is to get into truck farm.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-09-22

war. After Holland it was France,
with Denmark next and when Ger
many adopted trade policy the
English trade bandits sighted their
guns on German commerce.
AS in the case of Holland, and
now again of Germany, the cause
for war was only of secondary i'm
portance, compared with their aim
to demoralize Germany's trade. And
now London rejoices and is already
dividing the spoils.
Somewhat premature. In France,
while we are penning these lines,
a decisive battle may be in prog
ress, between German troops and
the completely hemmed in allies.
When France has laid down its arms
and submitted to the terms of peace
dictated by Germany, the British
tradesmen with grinding teeth will
realize that they were too hasty in
cutting up the bearskin.
"Our prime object, the democrat
ization of German trade has been
accomplished" official England
shouted jubilantly yesterday. To-
day these expressions of joy may
give way to groans. English avar-
ice will this time be disappointed.
The German mailed fist will take
the place of fate in avenging Eng
lands unexpiated crimes of centur-
les.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-09-22

Senator Head of Cedar Rapids is
preparing bill dealing with intox-
icated automobile drivers which he
will urge the legislature to make a
law next winter. Recently at &C.
dar Rapids a little girl lost her
hand as the result of reckless driv-
ing by a drunken driver and the SEN
ator is greatly worked up over the
affair. He insists that there should
be no fines for such offenses. The
only penalty being term in the
penitentiary. The senator is right
about it.. But there should be no
line drawn between the reckless
drunken driver and the reckless So
Der driver. The man in charge Of
an automobile upon the public roads
is a menace to the safety of the pub
lie unless he exercises due caution
and he should not be allowed to
drive a car, if carless and recK-
less. Why wouldn't it be a
good thing to compel drivers to take
out a license and in the event of a
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-09-22

The Italian people sympathize
strongly with the allies in the Euro
pean war and public demonstrations
occur almost daily in the Italian
cities, in which large share Of the
populace take part. They want to
get in the war game and help the
allies. This is where the Italian
people differ from the American.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-09-22
ENGLAND'S BLASTED HOPES.
Eds. Freemap-Tribune: Please

give space to the following translat-
ed from an editorial in the Illinois
Staata Zeitung.-A Subscriber:
While a murderous conflict is
taking place in eastern and western
Europe, there is much rejoicing at
the London Chamber of Commerce
which as is well known is branch
of the government.
eve have carried our point" the
tradesmen of the world cry jubilant-
ly, German commerce is democrat
lied and while the Germans are en-.
gagged in as desperate and heroic a
struggle as has never been known
in history, English shopkeepers sit
at their desk, divide the spoils and
figure out the profits to be derived
from the destruction of German
trade. "Why grieve," say the pious
English, "about the hundreds OF
thousands of lives lost, the homes
destroyed and cities laid waste? We
have carried our point, German
commerce is demoralized," resounds
joyously from the very lips that ir
moving terms tried to make the
world believe that there was ne
room in an English breast for any.
thing but a love for peace.
Although admitting that she is
planning against German commerce
this same England ventured to as.
sert that her national honor com
PEELED her to declare war on Ger.
many when that nation violated
Belgium's neutrality.
History proves, that England
never knew. any other national
commandment than that of enrich
ing herself at the expense of 9TH
ers.
As far back as the early history
of colonization, any show OF pros
perity by another nation, causeo
En- gland palpitation of the heart
and at that early time Sir Francis
Drake was sent on a raid against
Spain. Because she succeeded IN
destroying the Spanish Armada
England thinks she is called upon
and justified in ruling the com
merce of the world. Nations that be-
come active in commerce, must be
destroyed. When Admiral Monck
during Cromwells reign, was charg'
ed with finding a cause for war with
Holland he replied with brutal
frankness: "Why find a cause? We
want Hollands trade and we will
get it,
These are the real motives that
always induced England to carry on
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-09-22

Popular government is only popu-
lar government when the governed
INDUCES in eternal vigilance. For
proof of this note the abandonment
by congress of the proposition to
put a war tax upon freight bills.
The voters back home protested so
loudly that congress heard the echo.
and needed it.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-09-22

The friends of Senator Cummins
are expecting him to win this year
by a larger majority than he ever
received. 1t is pointed out that the
republican party is practically solid
for him and that quite a number OF
democrats will either vote for him or
not vote at all. Mr.. Connolly is a
disappointment to many of his par
ty,
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-09-22

nave Deeu the Wiser course. ludC II
was not pursued is no doubt due to
the fact that it did not look so well
from the Mexican viewpoint.
Immediate withdrawal Of the
American naval and military forces
appears to be due to unanimous re-
quest from the leaders of the var
ious political elements in Mexico. In
this connection it must be remem-
bered that constituencies as
we'll as federals have all along re-
sented any intimation that the Mex
leans were unable to solve their own
problems. 1t is altogether probable
that continued liberation of the
American occupation by the consti-
tutionalists would have weakened
their cause in the coming elections.
1t is suspected that Washington US
ed Vera Cruz as lever to force the
clashing constitutional factions to-
gether-conditionin withdrawal up
on a reconciliation of the differen-
ces between CarranZa and Villa and
agreement upon program for the
setting up of provisional and perma-
nent governments. At any rate these
conditions seem to have been at
tanned before the order went forth
to evacuate Vera Cruz.
Although the occupation of Vera
Cruz was anomalous, and to an ex-
tent accidental, it was attained by
surprisingly good results so far as
the outcome can now be foreseen.
Nominally troops were landed to Sc
cure reparation for federal insult
to the American fag-reparation.
by the way, which was never made.
The first important effect of the oc-
cupation was to demonstrate the
weakness of Huerta and set in mo-
ton forces that eventually COMPEL
ed his retirement. If it has now COM
PEELED cooperation by Carranza and
Villa it will have served a remark
ably useful purpose in aiding Wash
ington's plans for solution of the
Mexican problem.
Evacuation of Vera Cruz at this
time must go long way toward
convincing Mexico, in particular,
and Latin-America in general, OF
the unselfishness of Uncle Sans eff
forts to help his neighbors in COM
posing their troubles. AS applied to
South America such a demonstration
should be especially important at a
time when fate has opened wide the
door of opportunity for advantag-
eous trade relations with the United
States. Surely South America can
now give us her business without
fearing that she will be contribut-
ing to the prosperity of a nation
that might be expected to utilize
that prosperity in promoting a pol
icy of continental territorial ag-
grandizement.