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.
 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.
 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 automobile is declared to be a forerunner of good roads If this is so, the rapidly increasing should arouse public endeavor to have the roads near the city improved.
 EVERY effort made by the Times to discredit The Citizen reacts up- on itself Some time it's manage ment will discover that there is much truth in the saying that Honesty is the best policy" Truth is honesty, you know.
 PROSPERITY is returning to tho United States. It is also making itself evident in Fairbanks, and it Is doubtful if there is any other place in the United States that has as bright an outlook just at the present time as has this city.
 PROBABLY Mime. Caillaux was entitled to acquittal of the charge of murder under the circumstances that prompted the crime. However. to make hero or a heroine of any one who has committed murder is encouraging it, and should be dis couraged for the benefit of society
 UNCLE SAM will not have hand in the European difficulty, but this country will probably have all it can do to keep peace on this con tinent. No sooner does it seem that order will be restored in Mexico, at least tentatively, than Haiti and SantO Domingo, which have an is- land all to themselves, try to stir up a rebellion.
 THERE will be lot of sensation al newspapers who will condemn the government for deporting Fred Boalt, the Seattle newspaperman from Mexico on the charge that he was not reporting things truthfully But it is about time that the public is given protection from such writ CTS. The newspaper writer who wilfully misrepresents things is not only menace to the reading public, but he is also dark blot on the journalistic profession.
 NEWSPAPER dispatches from London, published in Outside pa pers, tell of mean trick of a sui fragette. A policeman had arrested two women on the belief that they were about to set fire to a church. As he was taking them to the sta tion, holding a hand on each of them. third woman came up to him from behind and cut his sus- penders. When he found that he must either lose an important part of his clothing or his prisoners. the policeman chose the lesser of the two evils, and let the women go. Among the things that the men of Fairbanks have reason to appre- ciate is the fact that there are no suffragettes here.
 BECAUSE Servia is some distance away. the Fairbanks Times finds fault with telegraphic statement in The Citizen of last Monday to the effect that 20 warships were at Cattaro and would attempt to con- trol that city and a mountain that overlOOks the harbor. Technically it may be true that Cattaro is ter ritory over which Austria has au- thority. but it is on the border line Of MODfapaprO Tha nonptoip thot