The Alaska citizen., 1914-09-07

Portland Portland merchants. who Business started a line of steam Grows CTS To Alaska last
 March. have realized so much success from the project that there has recently been inaugurated a daily service of steamers 10 various Alaska ports. Concernin- the increased service the Juneau Empire says:
 N. F Titus, general agent for the Portland Steamship company with headquarters in Portland arrived on the company's liner J. E. Stetson .tas ..uin- and announces that the company will put on weekly ser vice between Portland and Alaska PeaHts. including Juneau.
 Among other changes in the man asement, comes the announcement that C. $. Lindsay. head of the Alaska Merchants Protective asso= citation. is to succeed | Sowerby as Juneau agent of the company. Mir Lindsay has been on the ground now for some time and will make a viz orous campaign for business. Here Is This has been great Another season for bear stories, Bear Story Probably the bears have
 been more active than usual but anyhow. they have been s.-eu more than an ordinary amour; of publicity. Here is the latest bear story as told in the Juneau Empire:
 seldom are there spectators pres ent at d fight to the death between bears in their native haunts such as one between brown and black bear on the Bremner river last week Witnessed by Nels smith and two companions.
 "As smith and the men with him reached the top of the Brenner di- vide they saw below them a shor; distance two bears, a huge brown one that had Killed a goat and put the others to flight and black bear that had been attracted by the kill. and immediately gave battle for the possession of the carcass Both animals reared on their hind legs and put their best effort into the struggle The brown bear got in the first blow. knocking his small CT opponent up against a nearby rock with a force that should have brought the fight to an end, but the black fellow came back and from then on it was give and take with no quarter asked or given. Smaller and more active. the black bear lit orally disemboWeled the brown bear, who. notwithstanding his injuries still continued the fight, until life departed and he fell to the ground.
 "The black bear, though he did not come out of the battle unscratch ed. wa st.lI possessed of sufficient vitality to pick up the carcass of the goat and make his way out of sight in the brush. An examination of he vanquished bear showed that he had been almost skinned, huge patches of his hide, aggregatine moro than half of his covering, hay ing been torn off by the claws of bis opponent. The fight lasted more than an hour
 New Word Do you happen to know introduced what the word mora E. Wa tCrium" means? If you
 do, l am quite sure that you have only found it out since the war started in Europe, for it seems that only one person out of several thousand had ever heard the word until it was used in dis patches from Europe recently. As soon as the word appeared, there was a demand everywhere for def milton, and then it was asserted that il meant a suspension of the time when all debts are due.
 France and England, it is said. were the first to declare morator- ium since the war started for the benefit of the people who are deeply in debt, Thus it is probable that it will be continued until the pres ent war Is at an end.
 A humorst, writing in an Outside paper. has the following to say about moratorium:
 We liked that word, moratorium, from the very first-and after we found out what it meant, we liked it better.
 'It means, so far as we have been able to gather from such profound students of international law as C.. White and w. Galvani, that you do not have to pay your debts for a certain length of time.
 '"Tis we'll.
 "Ye scribe has been declaring