The Alaska citizen., 1915-10-04

tISutttH lo AhiilE o'NF ill Ii' '"' flower of life.
 But in the gravity of the financial aspect of the European war lies one of the chief hopes for the cessation of hostilities much sooner than the participants count upon when they put forth brave prophecies of their willingness to continue indefinitely their sacrifice of human life.
 THE cable is broken again. and the repair slip was, as usual, at the wrong end of the line. Would il not be wed 10 buy another boat CT a new cable!
 ONE of the parties witnessing the transfer of the bank property to the United States government was Roy E. Maddocks. How did he happen to be in the immediate vicinity at the time?
 THE Valdez Prospector has re ceived it's new outfit and i5 printing a paper again. They have been printing paper ever since they were burned out, but the present issues would come under the head of 'niftylooking" papers.
 AT Columbus. O.. state troops prevented a prizefight on Labor Day. while at Joliet, H., the inmates of the penitentiary were entertained by one The Seattle Argus says that fellow cant have a good time these days unless he break, into the penitentiary.
 THE Newsboy stockholders are to hold a meeting on the Huh of th'- month. It is reported that they are contemplating selling the shafts and tunnels to the government, cut up into posthole lengths, the same to be used for setting telegraph poles in the erection of the govern ment telegraph lines.
 EITHEn a feast or a famine. Fo' the last few months there had been serious doubt of rising generation, but upon the arrival of the last boat everybody seemed to get the marry ing notion into their heads simul- taneously and there were several in one day. Victor Durand immediate ly got busy looking through his music for that little gem, Every body's Doing It."
 an editorial on the mail circular and told the Alaskans how badly lypn all about that better than they can tell us. It would be more to the point, and probably do us more good. if they directed their conver- sation to the postoftice department at Washington.
 A RECENT arrival from the Out side, in telling of the Shrine conclave which was held in Seattle a short time ago, said that delegation from the Islands brought with them water buffalo as mascot. The city now has it in their municipal zoo. If visitors lose their mascots when they visit Seattle, what show has the unsophisticated Alaskan got when he lands in that city?
 REGENT dispatches from Seattle bring the information that the golfers of that city are in a sad way because of a strike of the cad dies for higher wages. It's too bad to interrupt the game in that man. ner If it is exercise they want we would recommend silver dollar shovel, They can get even with the caddies if they carry their own shovels.
 DISTRICT ATTORNEY ROTH broke out in a rash the past week and said some very naughty things about the editor of The Citizen. He should conf1ne himself to writing humorous letters to the Koyukuk miners, and then giving them to the newspapers to print just to show what an ass he is. The rough necks like that kind of ridicule when they seek justice. Lie on sweet liar
 AT least one newspaper man In Alaska has gained fortune. That is, he didn't make it in the buSi- ness, but some relative was con siderate enough to die and leave what he couldn't take with him, so it was passed on to Wulff of tht Valdez Prospector. Did he put it into the business? Not on your daguerreotype. He went back where the fortune was left and took hold of it without the least compunc tion, and proposes to nurse it the balance of his days.
 THE Times threw a fit Saturday morning, claiming that the schools at Garden Island. Fox and Chata nika stood chance of being closed before the school term was com pleted on account of the lack of funds to carry the same to compile tion. This is just another case of jumping at conclusions. So far as the Garden Island school is con- cerned the board has had the full amount due them for the past week, and if the other boards have not received their checks it is only question of time until they do.
 NEWsBoY STOCKHOLDERS.