The Alaska citizen., 1915-11-01

WASHINGTON has recognized 'nra nza. but his best friends won't if Villa gets him.
 ROOSEVELT says support tho President when he is right but he wants the privilege of saying when the President is wrong.
 CHAMP CLARK says the peopia
 .. Crv.tsA al pa:i Gti conventions Generally the people are cheated by the actions of those same conven- tions.
 THE detention hospital could be put to pretty good Use during the next couple months while a dement, ed woman is = the city giving birth 2 a child but will it?
 BANrrPS predict good times in the United States in 191s. but they |, net base their prediction on the prospect of a Republican victory. None of them care to go to that length.
 W. r THOMPSON in the News Miner. wants to know when he cal -'c ,ma back" We would suggest that he take the matter up with tho N C. Stage pe0DlG. They al ways take a chance.
 A HEADING in the News Miner '9~t Saturday real "BriliFh Collide. " If they would only use the same dictionary We do perhaps we would he able to tell just what was meant. This item evens up on The Citizen Ncadline error
 LAST winter we got some of our mail part of the time, but the post office department thinks we are too mer rations down by sending the mail down the river for the purpose f having it frozen ir.
 The people of Fairbanks and vi ninity are getting the double bunk in their mail this year It is evi- dently the intention of the postof- fee department to have mail depos- o+ every water tank along the route just to make us think the.' are doing their duty
 THE 1. D. m train on the Tan ana Valley road will leave this morning at g o'clock. If you miss one next morning If you insist on taking the f o'clock train in the afternoon you will have to walk One train a day now.
 IF that senator named Smith. who is so anxious to make a gift of the Alaska panhandle to the Canadian government, should succeed in his Nfforts and would include the entire Interior, the residents here would feel perfectly safe that they would ba treated right in their mail mat .ors.
 THE fit dirnrt effect of the opening of the coal lands is record ed in our dispatches today where " an Idaho mining company plans the erection of a million dollar shelter in Seattle. since it has be come feasible to use Alaska coal ThiS will be only one of many such enterprises.
 THE Columbia hotel fire Satur- day evening demonstrated the fact that the Jeffrey Quad, though it is only built to run fourteen miles an hour should be mustered into ser. vice, Doubletripping to the fire hall for more hose Is more than horses of ordinary endurance can stand.
 THE Pacific Alaska Navigation company has purchased two steel boats off the Great Lakes which they will put on the Alaska run early next year. Just two more perfect lv good boats to go up against the hidden rocks, but there is the satis- faction of knowing that they will snk quicker than wooden ones.
 IF the politicians who were in strumental in getting Edward I Wade appointed to a clerkship in the governors office go to the front for him in his charges against the governor on the ground of harbor ing hold-over Republican in his office. 1t will be easy to see where the governor will get off. But they won't
 THERE is a gentleman in this city who is making quite name for himself by the excellent worl. he is doing carving heads on ivory These designs might come under the name of bone heads and still would have no reference what ever to the transportation clerks and routing agents employed in Alaska by the postoffice department.
 J. HAM LEWIS is being spoken of as the running mate of President Wilson in the next presidential cleo tion Mir Lewis received a com plimentary vote for the same billet a few years ago at a national con- vention, but his pole was not long enough to knock the persimmon Since that time he has travelled with the "hipgast of them" and if might