The Alaska citizen. (Fairbanks, Alaska) 1910-1917, 1914-12-07
Town Gossip and Stories
b. The IattIer.

I Here is the complete advertise
ment that the News-Miner is running
in the New York magazine:
WHERE THE GOLD COMES
FROM.
The Fairbanks (Alaska) Daily
News Miner, the oldest paper in
Interior Alaska, where the gold comes
from, reaches the highest-pad class
of workers in the world. There
are only $1,000 people in the News
Miners district. but they produce
and spend from 100000 to s1O.-
100000 a year The smallest piece
of money there is CSC. piece-which
is the price of newspaper cigar
Tor drink. One million was sent
out OF Fairbanks in one year to
mailorder houses. The average per
inhabitant annually is 1885 freight
paid, Everything is dear except
advertising advertising agents take
notice-and the people buy what
ever they want when they want it"
Roth Is White men who sell
After intoxicating liquors to
Wrong-doers the Indians are going
to feel the lash of the
law. il District Attorney Roth can
get the evidence against them. 1t
might figuratively be said that Mr.
Roth has mentally sworn "vendet-
Ia against them, and will not rest
until punishment has been assured
Il may not be able to convict
them all" said Mr.. Roth in an in
terview with The Citizen. But I
can make it cost them so much in
Self-defense that it will not be profit
able for them to continue the work
These men who sell liquor to the
Indians give the country a bad
reputation in Washington. for re-
ports of every case, whether it
comes to the court or not, find their
way back there in one way or an
other. or course the missionaries
will aid in seeing that such in
stances are brought to the attention
Of the people in Washington
ITS bad business, to say the
least, and should be stopped. Some
OF these questionable traders sell
the Indians the worst kind Of liquor,
and II Indians are going to get that
kind Of stuff. it were better that
they be permitted to go into saloons
like white men and buy drinks of
good quality in an open and above
board manner
Licensed saloonmen can do much
to bring these men to justice and
for their own protection they should
see that they are prevented from
operating"
See The Moving pictures have
"Movies" become so common that
First Time one can hardly imagine
that human being
could live In place so remote
that he would never see them
Probably that is true, as far as the
experiences of white men are con-
cerned but with some Of the In
dams it is different
1t was only few days ago, to
be accurate, last Monday night that
some Of the Indians from the Ne,
mana Mission saw moving pictures
for the first time In their lives
Judging from the actions at the
time, and what they said afterward
the moving pictures aroused their
interest as nothing ever before had
done.
Indians who had occasionally visit
ed Fairbanks in the past, had re-
turned to the Nenana mission and
told wonderful stories of the NOV
ing pictures they had seen here
The scenes Of other lands and land
scapes OF which they had never even
dreamed previously appealed to
them and in describing the pictures
to the Indians who had never been
fortunate enough to have seen them.
much general curiosity was aroused
on the part Of the stay-at-homes at
the mission.
So. when Deputy Marshal J. c.
Wood was bringing some OF the
Indians to Fairbanks to give testi-
mony in the Duke case he prom
Used them that he would take them
to moving picture show on the
first evening after their arrival. MI
Wood kept his promise. and it is
probable that Re enjoyed the fun
Of seeing how the Indians marveled
at the pictures just as much as
they did the show
By the way, while talking about
moving pictures, did you ever notice
that there is a growing tendency in
the Outside newspapers to drop the
expression. moving pictures" and
call them, instead. motion pictures ?"
But the moving pictures by any
other name will probably look as
interesting.
Want To Several letters We're re-
Know About ceived by The Citizen
Fairbanks on the last mail from
the Outside containing
money for subscriptions. The writ
ers Of the letters explained, in al
most all instances, that they wanted
The Citizen for the purpose of get
ting in touch with conditions here
ting in touch with conditions here
and had been informed that The
Citizen was the best medium through
which to secure such information.
Among the other letters received
by this newspaper on the last mail
were some seeking information about
the country. one being from man
who wanted to know where some
Of the new towns will be establish
ed along the railroad. He said he
wanted to get into one of the new
municipalities for the purpose of
establishing a business there.
In nearly every one of the letters
some reference was made to the
proposed railroad, and it is evident
from their contents that it was
largely due to the promised early