The Alaska citizen., 1915-04-05

"ltnln US income, or llttle DelOW so that something will be on hand for emergencies
 THE tide of travel from the Out side has started this way in earnest
 THE greatest issue confronting the people of Fairbanks at the present time is the construction of road to the Tolovana.
 ACCORDING to a telegram re- ceived here on March 30, snow was falling heavily in Tennessee The South as we'll as the North has it's drawbacks, it seems.
 DISPATCHES from the Outside in dicate that times there are improv- ing. This must be discouraging to the political calamity howlers who want to retain hard times until af- ter the next presidential election.
 MINING engineers are already ar irving at the coast sities to investi gate Alaska properties, and one, the man sent by c. H. Morgan and others, has arrived here to inspect claims. It may be expected that with the assurance of better trans portation facilities, a stream of east ern money will flow this way to develop our mining interests.
 ACCORDING Q the Seward Gate way, 400 ranches have been taken up in the Matanuska valley since last May. In later issue of the same paper it is stated that the gov ernment is preparing to establish an experiment station in the Matanus- ka valley this year. All of which goes to show what the promise of a railroad line will do toward pro noting the development of new country.
 SOME months ago, Thomas Edi- son completed an invention that it is claimed will separate oxygen from the carbon dioXide formed by the breath of people. If this appliance nad been installed in the submarine which sunk near Honolulu a few days ago, the supply of oxygen in the limited amount of air available to the crew could have been renewed indefinitely, and the lives of the men probably could have been saved.
 TT is all right to have financiers come to Alaska, but their money can do little in the way of develop ment if there are not sufficient la- boring men here. Then why this Seattle spirit" supported by the Times, which Is discouraging work ing people from coming to Fair banks? The fact is that the man who overcomes the obstacles of trav- el in the Interior this time of the year is one who will not become pauper.
 RUSSIA is enforcing strict prohi- bition; France is prohibiting the sale of certain intoxicants; England is about to have prohibition; the Mexi- can revolutionist, Villa has announc- ed his plan of making the territory under his jurisdiction dry; most of the States are going dry and now the matter of prohibition is claiming the attention of the legislature of Alas ka. It does look as though John Barleycorn Is about to be pushed off the world.
 THERE are humorous things to be found in the. war news. A few days ago the News Miner printed a war item which quoted man who had been rescued from a sinking British ship as having said that Germans on the submarine that had attacked them stood and smiled while tte vessel sank, or something to that effect. Inasmuch as sub marine has no open decks it would be interesting to know how the smiles of the submarine crew could be visible to the British.
 IN it's issue of a week ago today, the NewsMiner printed news item on it's front page which stated that the reason the war department would not send more troops to Alas ka was because we have civil gov ernment here. In other words, the government is withdrawing its ex- penditures here as rapidly as the people can assume them. But with that object lesson. printed in it's own columns, staring 1t in the face. the News-Miner has begun to cham pion the statehood plan since Dele gate Wickersham proposed 1t.
 THE telegraphic announcement to the effect that the attorney-general of the United States has ruled that the President can expend the $35.- 100000 for railroad work in Alaska without waiting for it to be appro- priated by congress is probably an er- TOT. It was originally announced that the President had asked for legal authority in regard to his right to bind the government to pay for one of the existing railroads. and 1t is probable that the attorney-gen- eral based his decision on this fea- ture of the law, and that the deci- sion Ia not as sweeping as reported