The Alaska citizen., 1914-08-03

 little city.
 George Parks. MT. Christensen's assistant. is due to arrive here from Nome al an early date. and as soon after his arrival as possible. the two will leave for the coast. by way of the Valdez trail
 Mining Now. why. do you sup Data pose, does the govern Wanted ment want information
 concerning the mining prospects along it's proposed rail road routes? Surely the government is not going to start mining bu reau and help develop prospects of a promising nature.
 Over in Cordova. they are won dering also why the government wants to know all about the min ing prospects. for the commercial club of that city has received request from the Alaska Engineer ing commission for information coli along the proposed route from Val dez to Fairbanks.
 In accordance with this request. Secretary Fish of the Commercial club has sent out list of questions to the miners along the route The Valdez people seem to think the re- quest for information indicates that th at city will be the terminus of the road
 To Start At last the Engineering New Road commission is getting Survey ready to survey the
 route from Fairbanks toward Chitina and Valdez. F. II. Bailey, who had charge of the sur rey party that was running the lin down the north bank of the river to Nenana, has completed that task and with his party will depart to, day or tomorrow for Salchaket to begin a new survey, which it is understood, will have something to do with the line to go by way of the trail toward Valdez.
 It is understood here, though not from an authoritative source. that the reason why the Valdez trail line was left to the last, is because tie survey work there can be carried on after winter sets in. for the road houses along the trail can provide food for horses and men. But it seems from what l can learn that all the survey work will be com pleted long before winter starts, for all the parties are making more rapid progress than was at first expected.
 Much Ado Many people who have About more money than juds Little ment seem to look
 around for some excuse to give it to lawyers. It does beat the band how people will burden the courts with nonsensical disputes. This idea was suggested to me by reading a recent copy of the Doug las Island News, which told how two people of that place went to court to determine the ownership of two pillows and bed quilt.
 Each of the claiments sent to Juneau for an attorney, and the case. which was tried in the muni- cipal court, was quite elaborate in all it's legal details. At the con clusion of the case, after each at torney had delivered a stirring ora tion about the inability of people to exist in a civilized condition without ed that tte plaintiff was entitled to the bedding. Then he assessed the costs of court, amounting to $3, to the loser. How much the two attorneys succeeded in getting from the parties in the dispute, was not made public.
 Gateway Recent reports publish Sale Is ed to the effect that c. Denied E. Heron, chairman of
 the Republican central committee, has purchased the Seward Gateway, are denied by B. M. Stone from whom Heron was supposed to have made the purchase.
 The reported sale was received in telegraphic dispatch by The Citizen from it's correspondent at Valdez on June 28. It was publish ed in The Citizen on the following day and when the paper reached Seward, MT. Stone, owner of the Gateway. sent an inquiry about i. to this paper, In return he was informed of the source of the news.
 How the mistake came about is are those who have been forecasting seems to have been based upon some transformation that reached Valdez frnp, SnworI Tha Cotowou hoc