The Alaska citizen., 1914-07-20

THEY have been having a hot time
in the Eastern States of late.
ANOTHER Strong annual report
is being prepared concerning the
conditions of Alaska.
CHILDREN of Fairbanks are ami
mated advertisements Of the health
full climate enjoyed here.
THAT plan adopted by the city
council to have two people make
milk tests In the future is not a bad
idea.
1T Is we'll to remember that the
new officers of the Commercial club
can do little without your co-opera-
ton.
JACK JOHNSON is scheduled for
another big fight. He seems to be
almost as irrepressible as one The
odore Roosevelt, though much more
successful than the latter.
1T is understood that man from
Montana is a feature in local COM
mercial affair The outcome of the
affair and the part that the man OF
mystery is playing, is creating some
interest.
EVERY few days an item appears
announcing the fact that Roosevelt
confers with party leaders. News
papers could save time by keeping
the item in type and running 1t over
and over as required.
THERE is a superstition that If
you knock on wood, misfortune will
not follow any boast you may make.
Perhaps that Is the reason why those
English suffragettes attacked Sec
rotary Wood in London.
THE poor Spasm has undertaken
a hard job in trying to keep other
newspapers from criticising the White
Pass. If it can make the public
friendly to the big greedy corpora.
ton. it will certainly have earned
a subsidy.
THE ROYAL PLAYERS may not
earn in Fairbanks as much money
as they are entitled to but they
certainly will take with them the
good will Of the people, who have
enjoyed the high-class entertainment
the players have provided.
EASTERN railroads have asked
the Interstate Commerce commission
for the right to raise freight rates
five per cent The commission
should make them agree, before the
raise is granted, to increase wages
accordingly, and not have all the
nrofits 90 to the financiers who own
the roads.
THE spasm says that the names
we're not removed from the post
office boxes when 1t was DelleVed
that the new postmaster was ready
to take office, and in the same breath
it declares that the names are pelng
replaced on the boxes as result OF
the item in The Citizen. Just draw
your own conclusions.
WITH no less than four automo-
biles making trips from here to the
coast over the trail, Fairbanks Is
being put in closer touch with the
Outside. One of these is owned by
Sheldon, two are being operated by
Paris, and the fourth is to be oper-
ated by the Alaska Road commits
sion. Let the good work 60 on.
FAIRBANKS two daily newspa-
pers, which prevented, by trlcKery'
the holding OF mass meeting some
time ago, having for its purpose the
boosting of the interests OF this CITY
are now advocating a get-together
effort to insure the railroad termin
ais coming here. Instead OF mould
ing public sentiment, some newspa'
pers are forced to conform to It,
AT last, it seems, the receiver
ship of the Neutrality-suspicious. panK
is drawing to a close. and soon the
name of the unfortunate institution
will be but a memory. 1t Is use
less now to review the wrongs that
the depositors OF the institution
have been compelled to suffer. but
it would have been some satisfaction
if somebody had been duly punished
for the failure.
MONDAY, August 3, Is promising
to be a rather eventful day. On
that date the Democratic convention
will begin at Skagway; the city OF
Fairbanks will sell the lots at auc-
ton on which taxes for 1913 have
not been paid. and the Pioneers. on
the evening of that date, will PROB
ably plan their annual excursion
The city council is also scheduled TO
hold a meeting that night.
NEW PIANOS ARRIVE.
E. R. Peoples, Inc, have just
received a large shipment of ele-