The Alaska citizen., 1914-05-11

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 As United States marshal Erwin should attend to his official duties. and should not use his position b aid private corporation to load off on the government something for which il has no more use. If the government is fooled in this matter. fl will reflect upon the city of Fairbanks and on the people here, and will hurt this city in its future efforts for governmental favor.
 
 DEGRADING sentiments are weeds growing in the brain. THIS kind of weather brings joy to everything in nature, including the miners.
 WHO says Fairbanks doesn't lave boosters2 Just see how the prices of provisions have been boosted.
 
 THE success of the Commercial club means the success of Fair banks. Give it your moral and fin |lncial support
 YESTERDAY was celebrated in many places as Mothers Day Fath- CTS Will probably never have their day. unless, perhaps, it is the day 70 pay bills
 IT is an old saying that truth hurts worst. Probably that is why q Denver man a few days ago shot B hotel proprietor when the latter called him "wart."
 RtDIrM is now being used to make the blind see. Perhaps il can be used, too, with good effect on stubborn man on the wrong side of an argument. THE speech of Delegate Wicker sham on the railroad bill is prom ieine to be the longest in history. it was started on January II, and the Times Of this city still continues it.
 AN official report states that the Indians Of the kuskokwim country have acquired a great liking for phonosraphs. If they can be taught to tango their civilization will be perfected.
 TT would seem that President Wilson is feeling much older than usual during the last few days. for his youngest daughter is now step p-srandmother This should make the President a step-great grandfath- CT
 THE new dog ordinance that went into effect Thursday provides that the dog catcher will receive $2 in stead of $l for every dog that is 'lilled by him This certainly should insure the enforcement of the law in the matter Of preventing dogs from running at large.
 A PRESS dispatch from Brazil states that former President Roose- welt has lost 5 pounds on his trip of exploration But the loss of weight probably does not worry him half as much as the loss of publicity he has sustained while away from telegraph lines.
 
 GOVERNOR STRONG has asked the authorities in Washington to appoint Alaskans as employees on the new government railroad This is a very good suggestion provided the Democratic machine, with head quarters in Juneau. does not get the chance to name all the employees.
 MARSHAL L. T. ERWIN is trying to get the government to buy Fair banks horses for use of the railroad surveyors. Can it be that he has already tired of his recently pur- chased work team? II may be, how ever, that he wants to get money to pay his note to the depositors of the Washington-Alaska bank. which has placed him in a rather question able light of late.
 BEFORE Collis P Huntington, the promoter of the Southern Pacific railroad, died. he was once quoted as having said that his path through life could never be traced by the quarters he dropped People who have lived their lives in Alaska may not be able to make such strong assertion, but they can truth fully say that their paths are not marked by the nickles and dimes they have dropped.
 A GIRL in New York has been sentenced 60 days at hard labor for making threatening remarks con corning John D. Rockefeller and his son, whom she planes for the strike in Colorado At the same time the Rockefellers are not being punished for refusing to use their authority to bring about peace, thereby put ting a stop to the loss of life for which they are being accused of being indirectly responsible.
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