The Alaska citizen. (Fairbanks, Alaska) 1910-1917, 1914-07-27

\ HEADLINE in a local news
paper says that Baseball Players
Are Standing Pat" II is to be hon
ed that poor Fat is not kept standing
too long
PLACER mines continue TO- yield
good returns. and altogether the
conditions are encouraging for min
ers. farmers and railroad builders
throughout Alaska
IN Seattle paper. regret is ex-
/ pressed that Roosevelt's physical
condition may prevent his making
a tour of the West. 1t is doubtful
that the paper really voices public
opinion.
+ MEXICAN rebels are planning to
bring Huerta back to answer charges
of having looted the nations treas
ury. Getting rid OF the dictator, it
! seems, would offset the millions he
/ has stolen.
FAIRBANKS Republicans are op-
posed, almost unanimously to the
holding of a convention by that
party in Alaska this year 1t is en-
courasing to learn that sometimes
/ Republicans know what is best for
them.
COMMITTEES in both houses of
congress have reported favorably
on a bill appropriating $4,000 for
the purchase of additional ground
! for site for a new court house,
for which another appropriation Of
! S25O.000 has been asked. 1t GER
tainly seems that 1914 is the begin
ming of new era in the history Of
Fairbanks.
"ALFRED BURBANK. the great
California specialist in plant life. +"
are the opening words of an article
/ Dawson News. Thus it seems that
Luther Burbank, the Santa Rosa
plant wizard" has either changed
his name. or has resigned his job
and fame in favor of some other
member of the Burbank family.
IF the promising quartz pros
poets of the Fairbanks district are
to be developed by Outside capital
much publicity work is necessary
and the best way to provide due
publicity for the prospects is to
send samples of ore to the San
Francisco exposition. The samples
may be sent with but little expense
and trouble and the direct and in
direct results will probably be good.
BY using postoffices as employ
ment bureaus. the government sue
ceeded in getting 100000 men for
| the farmers in the states where
there was not sufficient labor to
harvest tie crops, according to in
formation that has just been re.
ceived from the Outside. This was
another commendable accomplish.
inent on the part of the Democratic
/ administration
PROHIBITION is the live issue in
several states just now, including
Oregon, Idaho and California. The
initiative petition filed in Oregon
asking for a prohibition measure to
! be placed on the ballot this fall con
tanned more than $4,000 signatures
But in Washington, it seems, many
people are more concerned about
trying to get prohibition for Alaska
than for themselves.
THE need of university or col
| lege for Alaska is made evident
by the number of young people in
Fairbanks who are looking forward
to going Outside to complete their
J L~c
! congress now for an agricultural
college. a school of mines and
university to be established by the
government at Fairanks, and there
is reason to believe that they
will be granted within reasonable
/ time.
PROBABLY no one in Fairbanks
regretted to see the flood more than
did the editor of the Fairbanks Times.
He had assumed that The Citizen
did not have the right information
in regard to the high water in the
upper river. and he thought he saw
a chance to discredit this news
paper TO be compelled to publish
the story of the flood from day to
day in the face of his criticism
must have been rather embarrassing
for the Times editor.
ACCORDING to an item in the
Chitina Leader, Commissioner Jones
W 0 is looking after the protection
of Alaska fish, has announced his
favor for the establishment of
fish-hatchery at Lake Eyak, near
Cordova. The fish-hatchery is a
good idea, but if reports concerning
the wasting of fish along the coast
are true, it seems that more i'm
portant move would be to commence
a campaign for the protection of
fish.
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