The Alaska citizen., 1914-10-19
THE TIMES ANSWERED.

Last week ne tltiLtH PubiiSHtu'
 on what seemed to be good authority.
 the statement that news had been banks that Dr. W. c. Cassels, form I-rly of this city. had been impress ted into the German army to serve Iin a medical capacity. The Times
 of last Tuesday morning denies that
 the story is true, and asserts that Dr CasseIs is in Seattle.
 T. is not possible for The Citizen absolutely 10 verify its assertion that Dr CasselS is in Europe. and it is Ipossible that we have been msin formed However The Citizen feels complimented 10 know that in all of
 this year, this is but the second time that the Times has been able ito question the news published in The Citizen. That is better show ing than either of the other two newspapers of this city can claim. Untruths appearing in the Times are so common that The Citizen would not attempt to call attention 10 them were it not for the effort made by that newspaper to question the reliability of this newspaper In the same issue of the Times in which it is attempted to show 1 in, Ithere was printed an article with the following headlines; Tree gets
 two bull moose Hunter kills two moose but reports a scarcity of birds"
 On the same morning that the article appeared, George Tree. tn" subject of the article, called at The 1 Citizen office and declared that he did not kill one moose let alone two, and that he had not even mentioned | the word moose when questioned by , the Times reporter All he had kill ed were two birds. which the Times 1 lNa2nified into moose.
 Recently the Times published a story 10 the effect that a cache made | by the government surveyors at Ne IRana had been footed. The Citizen. in trying 10 verify the statement, iGound that the government had no cache at Nenana. and that the teaches made by the government in .isolated places far up the river were intact as far as can be learned Evidently the Times editor had a dream.
 The hotel arrivals published in the Times are one of the most strik ing evidences of that newspapers lack of care in publishing facts. The attention of The Citizen is frequent 1 ly called to the fact that in the list
 of hotel arrivals published in the times are the names of people who have been gone from this city for several weeks. some of whom are
 on the Outside at the time their names appear among the arrivals at Fairbanks hotels in this city. For instance MT, F. M Keys and his two sons. George and Ralph, left for down the river about ten days or two weeks ago But their names appeared among the local
 hotel arrivals in the Times almost every day last week including yes
 terday.
 Another evidence of the total dis regard for truth that the Times has. was made evident in last Fridays issue, under the heading. Does it
 pay to advertiser" In this article it was stated that Louis Golden, the local groceryman. advertised "eXclu sively in the Times" As a matter of
 fact, as The Citizen files prove, MT. Golden is a regular advertiser in
 this newspaper. His advertisement
 on last Monday morning in The Citi-
 zen was on the front page. and will be found again in this issue.
 If the Times wants The Citizen to
 show up more of it's unreliability.
 it is ready to do so In the mean
 time. it would be well for the Times
 to recall this motto: People living
 in glass houses should not throw