The Alaska citizen., 1914-06-08


 TIMES are improving in Fair banks. (This does not apply to the morning papeD.
 IN Wisconsin. Governor McGoverr is candidate for governor. How is that for euphony?
 THIS is the closed season, it is said, for moose. Perhaps that is why the Bull Moose are getting sc active.
 INCOME taxes are now due. This is one of the few times when a poor man can congratulate himself on not having a big income.
 NOW that there is a big demand for men to harvest crops through out the United States, the members of Kelley's and CoXey's armies will not have an excuse to beg their way to Washington.
 ALL kinds of work ought to be suspended in Fairbanks for a week after the steamer Alaska arrives with the great store of overdue sec ond class mail in order to give peo pie a chance to read it.
 SHAKESPEARE said that the world is a stage. If he were living now he would probably say tha, Mexico is the center of the stage. for that is where the melodrama of wal is now being acted.
 ALMOST immediately after the earthquakes were felt here little more than week ago, came the reports from California that Mount Lassen was in eruption. Perhaps the earth will be quieter now that it's boil broke
 THE morning paper says that Fairbanks will soon have full orchestra of newspapers. That statement is very misleading, for the Times is the only really Noyesy pa per in the city, and it is never full except of cheap advertisements of patent medicines.
 SIR THOMAS UPTON is still aft CT the yacht race honors. Why he should continue to spend so much money in what seems to be in 2 vain effort to take the honors away from America, has caused much dis cusson. It seems to be explained however, in reported assertion by him to friend to the effect that he entered the races for the purpose of advertising his teas.
 REPORTS from Mexico declare one day that Huerta will quit his presidency, and on the following day his denial of the report is pub lished This calls to mind how Roosevelt used to deny rumors that he would run for President before the last election. In the end Huerta will probably do as Roosevelt did prove his own insincerity by doing what he declared many times he would not do.
 WHEN a government janitor in Washington placed dynamite in the basement of the agricultural build ing, and then pretended he discover ed it, he hoped, according to his own confession, to get better pay for what he thought would be taken as his careful attention to duty. Instead of getting better pay, the trick will probably cost him his job, and per haps his liberty. The incident brings to mind the trick of the local news paper, which tried to defeat loca Democracy, and now wants to De rewarded for it's Democratic affilia tions" Such trickery seldom fails to react upon the one who is re sponsible for it.
 A REGENT bulletin issued by the government says: "The lignitic coal Alaska, are estimated by the United States Geological Survey to be near ly 10,O0O,000,000 tons, which exceeds by nearly 3000,000,000 tons the esti mate made a few years ago, on the information then available, of the total quantity of lignitic coal in the Territory. The new estimates, which are very moderate, indicate that the quantity of coal available in the Bon nifield region is greater than that of all the other surveyed fields of the Territory" This fact alone should overbalance all the objections that have been made to the construction of a government railroad here.