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The Alaska citizen. (Fairbanks, Alaska) 1910-1917, 1914-01-05
LABOR.

Is this administration making an
effort to be fair with labor? Let us
prospect its record some
One of the first things the Demo-
Gratis did on taking office was to
separate the Department of Commerce
and Labor into two distinct depart
Quested this of Republican admins
trations, and got it in the way they
usually got things from the Republic
cans. William B. Wilson Ono relation
to the Presidency was appointed secre-
tary of labor.
Now think of it. This secretary of
la Dor went before the American Fede-
ration of Labor in session in Seattle
and addressed them. saying that or
Sani2ation was necessary for the
workers, bitterly condemned the Michi-
gan Copper Mining companies, and
uttered a warning to these companies
that they were facing a new concep-
ton of titles to property. He said
not only the wages paid to the min
ers, the hours they worked and the
labor conditions. but the enormous
profits of the mine owners.
Yes. secretary of labor. the Presi-
dents own spokesman on such mat
tiers. gave vent to such revolutionary
utterances. The Republicans have
been so long in the saddle that the
public had come to look upon
striking union man as an outlaw
Now comes Secretary Wilson and puts
an altogether different color on labor
disputes Further this gallant Demo-
crat says:
The one great specific duty i'm
posed upon the department is the
duty to act as mediator in trade dis
putes There can be no mediation,
there can be no Cancellation between
employer and employee that does not
presuppose collective bargaining. and
there cannot be collective bargaining,
that does not presuppose trade I'M
ionism. How can you collectively
bargain. how can you jointly deal with
the employer unless you have a trade
union through which to collectively
bargain. So that the organic act
creating the department Of labor in
its ultimate analysis presupposes deal
ing with trades unions for the better
ment of the wage workers"
Yet. as Secretary Wilson points out,
while the trades union movement may
profit by the assistance of the gov
eminent. primarily the union must
depend upon it's own energy, its
own intelligence. and it's own orga-
nized force. For in an attempt at
mediation or arbitration "of what
value would it be to apply to the de-
partment of labor to interfere. to use
its good offices in an effort to bring
about an adjustment of trades dis
pute. If the workers themselves are
unorganized; If the workers them
selves have no economic force that
they can use?" AS the secretary per-
tinently says on this point:
Suppose that we did step in sup
The Alaska citizen. (Fairbanks, Alaska) 1910-1917, 1914-01-05
% our friend. But well see what we
will see.

10 our friend. But well see what we
will see
That puzzle How old was Anne
Pales into insignificance compared
with the question: What is
TO become of the taxes collected UNI
der the Juneau laws" which it APP
pears We're not laws at all. Looking
back the long vista of history parlia-
ments which did nothing or did some
thing got curious nicknameS, not the
strangest among them being the
'Rump Parliament However. some
people think the taxes collected with
out authority should be devoted T.
the erection of monument to our
Juneau lawmakers who made no laws
and for nickname of course
We often hear remarks about the
sublime and the ridiculous" The eli
max is reached when one meets fell
low in swell togsery leading a horse
by the halter to the slough for water
The horse is badly groomed and
smells of course. But in the Whit
you inhale, and get stifled with. per
swell overcoated, white silk handker-
chiefed, who handles the halter gin
gerly, and makes you imagine you
are passing thru a crowd of the demi-
monde the very vulgar.
Many Alaskans read of the doingS
of their friend. the Hon. George
Chamberlain. L. S. senator from Ore
gon. but they may not all know what
manner of man he is. He is a fight
er, and comes of a fighting family
of a fighting race. Recently address
ing very large meeting in Chicago
when referring to the British in con-
nection with the Panama canal ana
the boycott of the Frisco exposi-
ton it was a revelation to many what
he had to say about his ancestors
his fighting and revolutionary ances-
tors. He told how some of them
fought and got killed or hanged in
the Irish rebelions and how some of
them fought under George Washington
against the British on American soil.
But of the most magnanimous one of
them all who was neither killed or
hanged we will let him speak for
himself:
My ancestor was Secretary Of Con
gress from 1863 to 1888, and in the
generosity of his heart this man, af-
ter writing history of the American
Revolution, on his death bed he
asked his family to bring it to him
and destroy it because it called in
question the patriotism and the
names of men who had been Tories
and who might become loyal to the
American nation That was the feel
ing then. That is the feeling of the
Irish today among the Irish legisla-
tors who are achieving Home govern
ment for themselves in the old coun-
try and who wish to see it estab-
liShed everywhere.
AS | have said he is a fighter and
a good friend of Alaskans and they
should be proud of him The man is
so blunt and honest in his speech that
even if one of his ancestors We're
hanged for sheep stealing | believe he
would admit it. And by the way this
reminds me of what the lady said to
DR.. Johnson, the celebrated philoso-
cher and photographer, when he ask
ed her hand in marriage Dear doc
tor" said she, Il can't consent with
The Alaska citizen. (Fairbanks, Alaska) 1910-1917, 1914-01-05
TO BE NATURALIzEO.

Judge Fuller will hold naturaliza-
ton court this evening. About 30
applicants are on the list, some OF
which are out on the creeks and
will not be passed on. District At
torney Crossley will conduct the eX-
aminations in behalf of the govern
ment. All applicants are requested to
be in readiness with their witnesses
that no delay may be occasioned
The Alaska citizen. (Fairbanks, Alaska) 1910-1917, 1914-01-05

out telling you that an uncla or win By
vas hanged" "Oh. that's nothing
replied the erutf old doctor IA nj.
blunt manner, 4 have two unclcs
who ought to be hangedn'
The Alaska citizen. (Fairbanks, Alaska) 1910-1917, 1914-01-05

ACCORDING to the Hebrew reckon
ing. this is the year 567i. Their New
The Alaska citizen. (Fairbanks, Alaska) 1910-1917, 1914-01-05
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1914. and announcement ahead
TIL. wears do fly and the world do
move
ONE can AT least trv to he as for
ei,ine. toward other people as he is
>CroppI%f. to tho lI.brav rackon-
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Year however comes an October LIST
How, can Won he perfect1v content
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There is always the. chance that he
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The Alaska citizen. (Fairbanks, Alaska) 1910-1917, 1914-01-05

THERE are still some near-wax
dolls. mechanical toys and good reso-
lutions that remain unbroken. But
it is better to break them by using
them than to preserve them by cot
ton padding methods
The Alaska citizen. (Fairbanks, Alaska) 1910-1917, 1914-01-05

ONE can at least try to be as for
giving toward other people as he is
toward himself.
The Alaska citizen. (Fairbanks, Alaska) 1910-1917, 1914-01-05

,.,,t ,,,s. as ~. s,or,s IN h,ovv ONT tho
-os
rro,,a n. amusing wer. II not so
,,ttarlv sad So long as airrettes
o,ora made from, the tail feathers of
tho ,,,o,har osnr,y killed nj the time
o.n., sha - covarinp the arrs they
wore barred from America and chi
,b.,s u,.ra hurled At the women who
,osfrea ia wear the ornaments An
tho recently imDorted aierettes are
,r,iaciaI and are made hy half-starved
por,eD and children In the tenement
svea,-shops of Paris. SO now they
mass the customs office in peace and
arc worn without ranro,ch
rpINI% are almost invariably
,arsons of diseased minds. vet very
rfttIa time or money is spent in try
mo IN cura tho diseases or eradicate
tho rausa OF them The sum of 81
900 OOO oOo Is snent Annually in the
,a,sction and nunishment of crime,
r.. dt,,sion line l. surely in the
,,,ro,,e n,ace There are many. many
The Alaska citizen. (Fairbanks, Alaska) 1910-1917, 1914-01-05

THE years do fly and the world do
move.
The Alaska citizen. (Fairbanks, Alaska) 1910-1917, 1914-01-05

DAVID STARR JORDAN has COM
leted a new work, The Deferred
Payment System" The title is apt
enough but because of the originality
Of its use, rather misleading. The de
ferred payments to which he refers
are those of war. and he aims not
only at the enormous financial pay
ments but also to the deferred pay
ments' of physical disability which
always attend war "even unto the
third and fourth generation"
The Alaska citizen. (Fairbanks, Alaska) 1910-1917, 1914-01-05

NO wonder eggs cost so much, \
single state is holding in storage
more than 22,O0O000 dozen Of them,
They will bring some of these year
and-a-half old eggs up here for us
next summer.
The Alaska citizen. (Fairbanks, Alaska) 1910-1917, 1914-01-05

PHILOSOPHERS have said that
all things come to him who watts.
This may be true. but the holidays
always prove that some things come
to those who are not waiting for
them.
The Alaska citizen. (Fairbanks, Alaska) 1910-1917, 1914-01-05

THE managers of the Calumet and
Hecla Mining companies in Michigan
refused the offer of the United States
diplomatic corps, proffered some
weeks ago, to settle the difficulties
Now they want the government to
protect" them and their property
Lots of people have neither a sense of
humor nor consistency.
The Alaska citizen. (Fairbanks, Alaska) 1910-1917, 1914-01-05

THE United States Department of
Agriculture is sending out to all
communities who desire it, a weekly
COUGHING in brief terms and simple
language the important agricultural
news. discoveries, labor saving de-
vices, etc. Few farmers or their
wives have the time and, unfortunate
ly, still fewer the education to as
simulate the contents of the techni-
cal reports in the Yearbook. The
weekly is filling long felt want,
The Alaska citizen. (Fairbanks, Alaska) 1910-1917, 1914-01-05

THE telegraph companies have so
mismanaged their lines that the wires
are used very little in America eX
cept for news of the most important
character. The arrival of a telegram
in the average American home is
provocative of nothing short of ter
ror. as exorbitant rates prevent the
uses of the telegraph except in ex-
IRENE cases. Government ownership
will extend this use beyond the an
nouncing of deaths or sudden calami-
ties
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-08
Southwest Fair catalogue.
John l.. Boles,
Secy. Farmers Institute
Coming Events

Sunday afternoon at the base
ball grounds, Guymon VS. Liberal,
Tuesday evening, High school
play, the End OF the Rainbow"
Baccalaureate sermon, May II
at Christian church.
Sunday, May "a, Memorial
Sermon, preached by Rev. Bol-
ton at the Christian church.
High school commencement at
Opera house, Thursday night, the
21st. w. Y. Morgan, of Hutch
Inson speaker.
Tonight, at Opera house, An
nuaI May Festival
Wednesday night, Alabama
Ministries. Under tent. Parade
at noon.
Eight grade commencement is
scheduled for last week of school,
which ends 22nd of May.
County graduating exercises il
June.
County normal begins June lst
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-08

all of that work he can enter all
the same.
A separate table will be pro-
Vided for these exaibits ut the
South West Gair and exhibits will
be judged by the Judge for the
Agricultural exhibits.
Ages of those who participate
shall be over thirteen and under
twenty.
On account of the regulations
made by the State Fair this con-
test will be open to boys from
Seward county only, The officers
in charge in the other counties
will make provision for their
boys.
The names and addresses of the
boys must be in by May Is. The
time is short. | will write to
Sec'y. A, l.. Sponsler for three
days of grace. Just write me q
postal card giving your name, age
md address. Part of this infor.
nation will be published in the
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-08
Boys kaffir Corn Contest

We want thirty boys to enter
the Seward County Boys Kaffir
Corn Contest. The first prize,
Free trip to the State Fair at Hut
crimson, September IL to 10, of
fered by the Kansas State Fair.
Second Prize-Free trip to the
State Farmers Institute at M m
haitian, beginning December 20,
offered by the Seward coun Y
Farmers Institute. The third
prize $4.00 cash offered by the
Seward County, Farmers Insti-
tute.
Each contestsnt must prepare
the ground, plant and cultivate
one acre of white kaffir corn, Sc
lect twelve best heads and enter
IN the Boys Contest Division of
the South West Fair, Liberal 8 LC
IL.
If the ground is already pre-.
pared that will be very much bet.
ter. And if the boy did not dc
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-08
Directors and Committees of
Fair.

The following are the directors
elected and the officers appointed
for the South West Fair Associa.
tion.
Directors:
j. F. Funk, G. d. Gasaway,
G. E. Woods, j. A. Black. W. K.
Farmer, j. 6. Ault, o. 7, Wood,
j. w. Baughman, G. M. Light,
Joe Brison, John Boles.
Treasure G. f. Woods.
Secretary j, A. Black.
Executive board:
j. F. Funk, j. A. Black, John
Boles, 9. M. Light, o. T. Wood.
Advertising committee:
j. A. Black, Joe Brison, Chas.
Light, j. w. BauGhman.
Superintendents
Agricultural Department Sew
ard county Fred Hoskinson and
Warren Farmer; Stevens county
Robert Smith and j. A. Kelley;
HASKELL county, VIM. Hide;
Beaver county, Oklahoma, o. ID.
Nichols and Meade county, S. ID.
Elliot,
Poultry; T, W. Hubbard.
Horse Department: John Boles.
Cattle: G. M. Light.
Educational: f. D. Rindom.
Hogs and Sheep: K. G. Pyle.
Art. Mrs. j, f. Funk.
Textile: Mrs. G. d. Gasaway.
Dairy and Kitchen; Mrs. j. q.
Ault.
OF Grounds: j. G. Ault.
OF Stalls and Concessions: G. ID.
Gasaway.
OF Grandstand and sale of
tickets: Lee LaIribee.
Of Gate and Tickets: G. E,
Woods.
OF Quarter Stretch and tickets;
o. II. Wood,
OF Speed Ring: j, F. Funk,
Entertainment and Traffic
Managers: j. w. Baughman, Joe
Trindle and l.. V. Stevesson.
Marshall of Grounds: L. 5.
Wright.
Date of Fair, September 9, 10,
l. and II.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-08
Alabama Minstrels
paris Daily Advocate, Paris, Tex
as, April ~

paris Daily Advocate, Paris, Tex
as, April ~
The Alabama Minstrels appear
ed last night on the FitzHugh lot
under tent. The entertainment
was one of the best that has been
witnessed here in some time and
the specialties were all good and
very interesting. On account of
the weather conditions the crowd
was not as large as it would have
been, but those present we're well
paid for their time and price of
admission. Little Willie" re-
sponded to number of encores
and was as clever as some of the
old timers in his specialties. adv
F. s. Macy has been appointed
Kansas and Oklahoma attorney
for the d. M. Ferry Seed Co.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-08

in the waters. The house was
built on the banks of the Cimarron
and inundated. Mr.. Bright,
his wife and one daughter escaped
the torrent which reached the
the home about five o'clock
Friday morning. The two child
were sleeping up stairs in story
and a half house and the younger,
about four was carried down
stream in ihe structure. The
older daughter, about fourteen
ran to the window and her
father called to her to jump which
she did but the current carried
her away from him after he had
caught her.
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$3.50 Per Year

bridge, erected at the crossing at
the Edmonb's ranch weue out and
only one single solitary pier
marks the spon where once the
structure erected last fall stood
and spanned the crossing. The
channel of the river at this place
too has chanGea and the turbulent
waters now 60 coursing down
stream in channel east of the
place where the bridge was built.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-08

Two houses were was he'd
away which belonged to Mr..
Bright. One was built on the
banks but the one in which the
family lived was about fifty feet
from this one bank built. Every
thing, improvements and some
horses and mules were lost in the
flood which came without a
moments warning. Mr.. Bright
does not remember how he and
his wife and one other child
got out of the house. 1t is rep
orted that the terrible catastrophe
has almost unbalanced the mind
of the father. The bodies of
the children were recovered on
Saturday and Sunday. The older
child was found Sunday about
fifteen miles down stream.
To Mrs. Henline at
Arkalon, is to whom the Rock
Island is indebted for saving the
crew of west bound freight.
She heard a terrible roar and
aroused the people about twelve
o'clock Friday night. The people
OF Arkafon had been to the rail.
road bridge east of town ear lier
in the evening but had gone home
little thinking that soon the
bridge would be gone. Mrs.
Henline aroused the men at home
and then the people at the station
we're told of the bridge being
washed away. Lanterns were
hung on the bridge and the firing
of guns was kept up until an
an answering signal from the
train told the anxious watchers
that their efforts had not been in
vain that no human loss of life
needed to be feared from the un-
warned crew of men who could
not possibly have checked speed
If they had started down the hill
at Arkalon,
The Seward county wagon
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-05-08
CIMARRON RIVER
HIGHEST ON RECORD
The Cimarron River is high
est on Record Much
Inconvenience to
Traffic
CAUSES MUCH DAMAGE
Work on the Bridges is Pro-
crossing as Fast as
Possible
CAUSES MUCH DAMAGE

Thursday night a slow drizzling
came and Friday morning, the
weather report showed 81 of an
inch had fallen. Friday dash
ing rain flooded the streets and
l.S9 inches feel. Friday night
and Saturday mornin IA inches
of water brought the total to 2.Sl
of moisture which soaked the
ground filled the buffalo wallows
and flooded the low lands along
the river.
Saturday morning ali direct
railroad connection and telegraph
communication was cut off from
Arkalon east and Optima, Okla
homa west.
Sunday after noon at Arkalon
John friedrich, night watchman
at the Liberal Light and Power
Co. fell off the bridge and nearly
drowned.
Monday, while attempting tc
cross the river at the bridge, Tom
Ward, a section hand was drown
ed wher tbc wagns literally churpi
ed him to death while he held to 8
rope which had been stretched
across the river.
"Phillipians 49," w hatsoevel
things are true; whatsoever things
are honest; whatsoever things are
just; whatsoever things are pure:
whatsoever things are lovely;
whatsoever things are OF
good report; if there be
any virtue; if there be any praise;
thind on these things"
May 2nd. 1914.
Winifred Kelton, Satanta, Kan.
"On Cimarron banks"
This written message together
with two religious tracts was
taken from a bottle found by two
men trying to put the telegraph
lines across the river Sunday.
The bottle was brought to the
bank and was broken open before
Il crowd gathered to see what it
containec. Miss Kelton taught in
this city several years ago and
her message came that far since
tthe time of its being cast in the
river Saturday afternoon.
G. II. Leet of the Eureka
Laundry was away attending a
Iaundrymen's convention al
Wichita and later visited III
College View, Nebraska while the
dsuntry was undergoing a change
at the hands of the weather man
He started home and got as fal
On his way as Kismet when he
could get no farther by rail. He
was uot daunted by a torrent oI
water between hin and home.
He just hired a team, and drove
drove out to the Edmonds ranch
Swum the Clmarron river
and then walked TO Chas
A. Sealey home and telephoneC
for conveyance to come and bring
linn to Liberal. Mr.. Leet seemed
none the worse for his adventure
and the next day, Tuesday wa:
about his usual work which he
had left in management of his
wife and his competent help, Ii
is needless to say he returned
several hours earlier than lot oi
the others who wanted to gel
home but waited for other means
than a water route.
Two children of Perry Bright,
living ten miles north of Elkharl
we're drowned Saturday morning
when the home was washed away
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mysterious things and inclined to be vision
airy. He will be diplomatic, but not always
truthful. He will be successful as a writer or
speaker
The theory is that the influence OF the let
ter a" is TO give activity OF brain and clear
ness Of mind. No one with several AS in his
name will suffer from mental fog.
81 in the name indicates a very spiritual
vision and extremely delicate tastes. Persons
with several "Cs" in the name as Clarence.
are vital and long lived people I'D" people
these students have found to be gifted with
that too uncommon trait, common sense"
e. folk are versatile. The men named
Ebenezer for instance, are the kind who are
handy about the house. and women named
"Emmeine" can earn a good living at half
dozen trades
F' folk grow rich. They have the accumu-
atiye gift. woman named "Ffoiet." for in
stance. will never enter the aims house. An
other of her characteristics is that she has
quiet bearing and agreeable manner. Those
you know whose name is George are persons
of reserve and OF unusual strength OF char
acter. III" stands for effort. Try to recall
Hannah" who was not OF necessity hard
worker.