The Alaska citizen., 1915-11-29

GEORGE w. PEENINGTON. ONLY four weeks to Christmas. i SOMEONE has remarked that tho
 federal building Is full of microbes
 Sure Some of them are on the
 pay roll
 WHILE we agree with whole
 lot of things advocated by Delegate | Wickersham. we will have to part
 company with him when it comes
 to the question of statehood. HAS anyone here heard from Er win? We have not received a word
 from him since he left for the great l Outside, and are really getting anx-
 ious for the safety of our future candidate
 IF some of the ladies who attend
 ed the Eagle ball really wore what
 they were reported to have worn
 by the News Miner society editor, i they could have been arrested for indecent exposure. There are no such fabrics
 HISTORY is being made every day in the new Tolovana camp. The first marriage was solemnized dur ing the past week, and now the in habitants are ready for the first birth. This event may be deferred, however, until nuggets become more plentiful.
 THOS. RIGGS, JR., being inter viewed in Seattle, Is made to say that the entire line of railroad from Broad Pass to Fairbanks will be completed within ten years if the necessary appropriations are prompt ly granted. Oh, what a headache, if that be true.
 MOVING pictures are certainly becoming a great educator. In film recently produced in the local theatre these words were flashed upon the screen; "I won't be a sena- tor; l am an honest man." The man speaking the words didn't look bit like Senator o. P. either. THE builders of the Olnes trail
 admit that they have made mistakes and could have made easier grades if they had known the ground be- fore as well as they do now. That is something in their favor We were afraid they would still insist they had picked out the best route. THE News Miner society editor published his lament in the same
 issue in which he described the
 gowns worn by number of the
 gentler sex who attended the Eagle ball last week Had he waited for two or three days he could have said a great deal more and told the absolute truth at that.
 THE people of the Second division remained quite docile while District Attorney Spence proceeded to place" his whole "damb" family, but there , came a time and provocation when they could stand no more and they are now perched on their beam
 ends bowling for his scalp. It is a case of servant becoming mightier than the master.
 THE mere fact of having to be hauled home on a hand sled from recent dance would not have been SO very bad, all things considered. if the parties had only returned the sled from where it had been taken, thus obviating the ne cessity of the owner of the sled hunting all over the city the next day for his delivery wagon" ONE of the generals fighting in northern Mexico recently made the remark that he would soon take a company of his men, march to Wash
 ington, capture President Wilson, and hold him for ransom When asked what route he would take
 he answered that he thought he could march around Texas in some
 manner. Which only goes to show that Texas is held in the highest kind of reverence by the Mexican
 horde.
 IF Stub Erwin has succeeded in
 persuading Judge Bunnell to give
 up a perfectly good judgeship to run against Wickersham for con
 gross, Stub Erwin has accomplished
 something wonderul. for even Judge Bunnell's opponents will concede that