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The Alaska citizen., 1915-07-19
Steamer Yukon Is
 Due Tuesday Night

From Dawson with passengers and mail, the steamer Yukon is due to arrive in Fairbanks Tuesday night. She sailed from Dawson at l o'clock Saturday morning, and is expected to make quite a hurried trip. Among the passengers on the Yu- kon is J. L. McPherson, who is coming here on behalf of the Alaska bureau of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce to determine the senti- ment of the people of Alaska regard ing the plan of holding the Alaska exposition in Seattle in 1917 Other passengers coming on the Yukon are l:
 Fairbanks H. Fairbanks, Thom- as A. McGowan, Mrs. McGowan, Rob- ert St. George, Mary England, Miss Alice Forsell, Miss Friis, Clara My CTS, Lyda Kallio, Mrs Morelle, Frank Carpenter and daughter, L. Purcell, w. A. Kirby. Mrs H. c. Coe, L. A. Dauer, Mrs B. L. Becker, John Hur " and bride.
 Tanana-J. W. O'Brien, J. Grier F. L. Denman.
 Bettles-Mrs M. E. Smith.
 Dikeman-Mrs. w. Heinman.
The Alaska citizen., 1915-07-19

need here in Interior Alaska of an educational institution of a similar nature where college courses are taught in connection with the prac- tical vacations of life. IL is true that it will take many years for local institution to be built up to the standards of those that have had many years of development in thick will not take long, by the aid of the Territorial legislature and the annual appropriations made each year by the government. amounting to $50. 0OO to build at Fairbanks school that will meet all ordinary needs.
 If there is anything that has hap pened of late to show how much Interior Alaska is in need of good school of higher education, it is the way the young men of this place are going Outside to get such train ing An important feature of the school expenses of these young men
 
 will be the cost of transportation from here to the school and return. By the establishment of a school here. this cost will be eliminated and many young persons who cannot af- ford to go Outside for schooling will then be able to get what at present is denied them.
 From present indications, it seems that the people of the First division will oppose anything for the upbuild- ing of any other part of Alaska, but undoubtedly the other divisions will realize the need of the college here and will assist the members of the to get the appropriations necessary for the buildings which cannot come from the government funds,
 One of the most important issues in the campaign for the election of members of the legislature for next year should be that involving the apprOprldllOn TOT lue lOCdl dSllNul- tural college, which has been author ized by the United States govern ment The people here should not vote for any candidate for the legis- lature who is not pledged to work for an appropriation for the college buildings.
 In the face of the action already taken by congress for the location of an agricultural college here, the other divisions cannot hope to se- cure the school, so it will be quite useless for them to fight 1t. The cost of the buildings, that is, the ones that will be needed as starter, need not be great, and undoubtedly the people of Fairbanks will be will ing to contribute if necessary to the funds to be given by the Terri tory for their construction.
The Alaska citizen., 1915-07-19
May Cut Out Winter
 Trail To Tolovana

There is a movement on foot, pro noted by teamsters and others. to collect fund for cutting out a win ter trail by way of the Happy route to Tolovana, provided the Road com mission decides to improve the Ol- nes route, which is now being sur yeyed.
 It is believed that with $500 q winter trail can be cut out to the log jam. and it is said that many of the miners will be glad to contrib ute time to building the trail, Freight CTS have declared that they will spend time working on the road. and it is believed that several merchants Of Fairbanks will contribute funds for
The Alaska citizen., 1915-07-19
THAT COL DAMNED FORD.
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(Music-Casey Jones) Old Zeke Perkins sold his hogs the other day, And the gosh darned fool throwed
 his money right away. Rode into town sitting right on a
 board, And came riding home in darned little Ford, When he came to the house and
 got to the gate, He shut down the throttle and he pulled on the brake. He grabbed for the lines, got the throttle instead, And the gol darned Ford kept chug- eing right ahead. Zeke jerked on the levers and he
 turned off the gas, He kicked out the pedals and he
 broke out the glass. He cut all the wires and he pulled
 off the top. But the gosh darned Ford. it just wouldn't stop. He pulled out his knife and smiled
 so serene, Cut a hole in the tank drained off
 the gasoline. He pulled out his gun. shot the
 tires full of lead, But the gol darned Ford kept chug-
 ging right ahead Went through the fence and up
 through the lane, Mirandy saw him coming and she
 like to went insane, She ran out ahead, then she stopped
 to see. And the Ford struck her squarely
 where her hustle ought to be- She reached cut her arm as she went
 in the air, Just as Zeke went by she grabbed
 him by the hair, She bounced in the seat, landed down
 in the bed, And the gol darned Ford kept chug-
 ging right ahead. He steered for the shed and just
 missed the hole, Struck an old pig and you ought
 to seen it roll Out through the yard then they landed in a heap In a big muddy pool. bout six feet deep. Zeke grabbed Mirandy and waded to the shore; He was glad that it stopped and it
 wouldn't go no more. He pricked up his ear then he look ed back and said: Why that gol darned Ford is chug-
 ging right ahead.'
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The Alaska citizen., 1915-07-19

have been helpless. for the wind was so strong that it's spread among the wooden buildings of that place could not be checked
 FLYING machines and submarines. by which warfare is carried on un- der the water and high in the air are being used in Europe more than are the costly battleships IL seems that the United States government is learning a lesson by watching the war in Europe at a distance. and is preparing to build one of the best fleets of airships that has ever ben constructed in the world. as well as a big fleet of submarines It is better to spend money in that way than to put it into battleships that are subject to destruction at any time by a little submarine.
The Alaska citizen., 1915-07-19
THE "FLOATiNG COURT"

That the department of justice at Washington is seriously considering the establishment of floating court in Alaska, is quite evident from information that has reached here from reliable source. The court may be great advantage, pro vided the other courts, which it is thus planned to keep at home, are permitted to call the grand jury more frequently.
 According to the plan suggested for the floating court it will travel about the outlying districts, while the regular courts remain at home. At present there is not really enough business to keep court at home all the time, but the present method of sending the court away for all summer is not to the best interests of society
 The injustice of the present system is felt more by the people who are accused of the crime than by any one else. For instance, suppose man is arrested on criminal charge soon after the grand jury adjourns, and is bound over to await the ac- tion of the grand jury. Under the present system, this man must be either kept in jail for nearly year, until the next grand jury is called, or be under bonds for that time. which means great limitation to his personal liberty.
 Thus the grand jury should be called at least twice a year, so that prisoners need not lose so much of their time The injustice is just as much to the guilty man as to anyone else, for if he is to serve time in the penitentiary, the sooner his service begins the sooner he will get out. But under the present system he may be held year in jail, which will not be credited to his prison sentence.
 What would be the best plan would be to eliminate the necessity of having a grand jury pass on mans guilt before he is tried by a regular jury. In California and other states, the justice courts and the police courts are committing courts. They are on the same basis other wise as are the commissioners courts in Alaska. If the evidence presented against man at one of these courts is deemed sufficient by jury, the accused man is commit ted to a higher court without the grand jury hearing the case. These courts, however, do not do away with grand juries, which take up work not touched by the committing courts
 In Alaska, this system would be a great convenience to everybody. A preliminary jury in the commission CTS courts would determine if the evidence in the case was sufficient to justify a regular trial, and thus the man could be sent from the com hitting court to the district court, and be tried without delay.
 It must also be admitted that there is more chance of justice being done a man by jury in commissioners court, where the accused man is permitted to defend himself than by a grand jury. which usually hears only one side of a case.
 The present grand jury system, as
The Alaska citizen., 1915-07-19
WE NEED A COLLEGE.

Last week three of Fairbanks young men left for the Outside to attend the Oregon Agricultural Col lege, at Corvallis, Oregon, and later in the season two more expect 10 leave for the same institution of learning One young man of Fair banks was there last winter and another left for the Outside earlier in the summer to go to the same school. Thus there will be seven young men of Fairbanks attending one agricultural school on the Out side next winter.
 What this serves to illustrate is the
The Alaska citizen., 1915-07-19
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 J. J. Sherry has taken lay on the claim on Livengood creek owned by himself and Dave Cascaden. The lease will expire on June 1, 1916.
 The cabin of Ed. Hall on Second avenue near Bonnifeld street, was gutted by fire of an unknown origin last Wednesday night. The loss is about $2OO
 i Duncan Mitchie returned last week l from the Tolovana camp and stated that everything there looked promis l ing
 The meeting of the Bar Associa- ton, which should have been held last Tuesday evening, was postponed until tomorrow night Frank Berry has received word that his brothers horse White SoX won S20000 in a race at the expo sition at San Francisco 1 A cellar is being built under the Fairbanks corner, and the dirt is being placed on Front street Game Warden R. & Mcdonald left early last week on an official trip to the Koyukuk country. In his financial report to the Com mercial club, Stanley R. Hess, chair man of the finance committee of the l Fourth of July celebration, stated that a total of $1,3705O had been subscribed.
 Mrs, c. J. Hurley left last week for the Outside. She was accompan- jed by her children.
 Louis Levy, of the Mammoth Cloth ing Company, has left for the Out side to purchase stock for his firm
 Miss Hazel Wattles, a niece of Dr. and Mrs. R. R. Myers, arrived early last week from Baker City, Oregon and will stay indefinitely with her relatives here.
 | Teddy Anderson, who was reported recently to have been lost, reached Livengood creek in safety He had been delayed by going up the Chat anika river instead of the Tolovana
 Andy Hoey, the game warden is making trip to the Kantishna dis trict
 Miss Hazel Pauli and Miss Frances R. Boelen, two young women of this R. Boelen, two young women of this Outside, are planning to return here soon
 The launch Midnight Sun, belong ing to the Engineering Commission, came up from Nenana Saturday. In it was Gene Huckins, who spraned his foot seriously while trying to catch a horse.
 Some unknown man broke into a cabin on discovery, Goldstream, Fri day night, but was scared away by Mrs. R. Staples before he stole any thing.
 Schuyler B. Gregg arrived Satur- day from his claim on Caribou creek, in the Big Cinema.
 The steeple of the Catholic church is being roofed with metal shingles.
The Alaska citizen., 1915-07-19
DIVIDING ALASKA.

The suit that is being broush: by the people of the First division to prevent the other three divisions from having any of the forest re serve money appropriated to the Territory by congress for road build ing. is proving quite Conclusively that the Territory of Alaska should be divided
 When We take into consideration the fact that Alaska covers an area equal to that of one-fifth of the United States proper. the impractical bility of it's being under a single local government is quite evident. Different sections of the Territory have different interests, and the leg islation that will help one section will sometimes hinder another.
 If the First and Third divisions are combined into one Territory and the Fourth and Second into another, there will be more of a unity of interests. In the First and Third divisions the climatic conditions are much different than in the Interior of Alaska. Here the snow falls to a moderate depth of seldom more than two feet, while on the southern and southeastern coast it either rains most of the winter or snows to depth of sometimes Is feet. This is one of the reasons why road building and other improvements there must be different than here.
 The people of the First division complained that Alaska as a whole Is taxing the fishing interests of the First division for much of the Territorial revenues. The neWspa- pers of that division have been loud in their protests, just as if the Territory is to be taxed in different divisions for local needs only.
 Probably after the railroad is well under way. it would not be hard to get congress to divide the Ter ritory. making Fairbanks the capital of the new one. and leaving Juneau and Seward to fight it out in regard to which should be the capital of the other Territory.
 If a new Territory is to be formed. it has been suggested that 1t be called Seward, in honor of the man responsible for it's purchase from Russia nearly half century ago.
The Alaska citizen., 1915-07-19
OUR EXPOSITION.

1 What Is to be done about the proposed exposition for Fairbanks in 1917? It does seem that if the
 people here are going to make an exposition worth while more time should not be lost. At least the commercial club. which has been
 taking the initiative in such things,
 can get committees busy soon, for
 two years is not much time in which 1 to work out the details of an eX-
 position, if it is to be worth while.
 It is to be hoped that the conner cial club will do something defi- mite at it's meeting tonight
 It was never considered from the
 first to make the proposed exposition an elaborate affair, not in conformity
 with the population of Alaska, bat | it was planned to make it an ad-
 vertisement for Alaska's varied re- 1 sources, and if planned on such a
 modest scale, it should be decided success.
 One of the things that has been in the way of the proposed exposi- tion here, has been the possibility of
 getting it housed But now that an agricultural college is to be built here, the buildings for that can be hurried so that they may be used | for the proposed exposition. This will serve the double purpose of pro- vidng place for the exhibits and giving the new college much valuable advertising.
 l If the Commercial club appoints the proper committees to plan and promote the fair, it can also aid in getting the legislature at it's next session to appropriate money for the buildings for the college. Thus there will be two local forces, the committees working directly for the college and the exposition committee, both working for the same thing. Undoubtedly, however, there is dan gel III utldy II ail Io lo ioiN the exposition, letters should be sent out to various members of congress, and to all other officials that are in a position to boost the plan. Fay orable impressions cannot be made in month of correspondence, but it will take long and constant effort to bring about the desired results. Without government aid, the eXposi- tion cannot become success Another reason why much time should be devoted to preparing for the exposition is that the enthusiasm of all parts of Alaska must be gain ed Exhibits must be received from every district, and the people must be made to understand that the peo- pie of Fairbanks are in earnest, and will hold the best kind of exposition that their financial resources will justify.
 If the Commercial club is not going to take hold of the project, and if it is not to be held, then the people of Alaska should be notified in or der to give some other locality a chance to hold an exposition on the half century anniversary of the pur- chase of Alaska, which should un- doubtedly be observed in some sub- stantial way by the people of the Territory
The Alaska citizen., 1915-07-19
Commercial Club
 To Meet Tonight

What is declared will be one o1 the most important meetings of the Commercial club ever held is sched uled to take place tonight at the court house. It will be the annual meeting of the club, but the most important feature to be discussed will be the matter of holding the proposed exposition here in 1917.
 Another thing of importance that will come up at tOnight's meeting will be the election of officers fOl the ensuing year. There will be other things of importance that are common to annual meetings, and it is desired that every member of the club be in attendance.
The Alaska citizen., 1915-07-19
CIVIC CLUB TO MEET.

The Woman's Civic Club will hold an important meeting tonight at the court house, beginning at s o'clock. As matters of special inn portance will come up for considera- tion. a full attendance is desired.
 ISABEL NJ. HALL, Secretary.
The Alaska citizen., 1915-07-19
WEDDING IS QUIET.

MT Bert Stevens and Mrs. Anne Lincoln were married by the Rev. C. G. Bruce at the Presbyterian parson- age Thursday. The attendants were Mrs, R. W. Bags and W. W. Sher- rard The groom is from White horse.
The Alaska citizen., 1915-07-19

applied in Alaska. was taken from the laws of Oregon, and is still practiced in that state. However. in thickly settled country where grand juries are in session frequent ly. the system does not present so many disadvantages as it does here in Alaska
The Alaska citizen., 1915-07-19

TT would be interesting to know why the United States decided not to make good it's threat to intervene in Mexico
 WHEN the miners realize that the eight hour law provides no penalty for them, the strike will probably end as suddenly as it started.
 IF this is the last of the Thaw trials, there will be several alienists and several lawyers who will have to look around for new ways of making a living.
 WHEN it is learned in the States that seven men were fined for speed ing in one day in Fairbanks, the people Outside will begin to think that this is a metropolitan city.
 ABOUT the only thing that the people of the First division can really expect to gain by the suit for the forest money is the ill will Of all the rest of the people of Alaska.
 THEY say war has a degenerating effect on some people not involved in it. This seems to be true. judging by the way men in the United States are going insane and trying to kill prominent people,
 THESE notes that are being pass ed back and forth between Germany and the United States are becoming less frequent. It looks, however, as though this interesting bit of correspondence will keep up until the war comes to an end.
 JUNEAU weather is reported to have been hotter recently than ever before in that city's history. But the people of Juneau should be get ting used to hot things, for they have the hottest bunch" of politi- clans there to be found in the North.
 SEATTLE was fortunate in getting the big Shrine convention this year Anybody who has ever seen the gor- geous parades that the Shriners hold at national convention, realizes that it is one of the most interesting features that a city can attract.
 DIR. ALFRED BROOKS, the noted geologist whose advice led to the discovery of gold in the Tolovana dis trict, is coming to the Interior Would it not be good idea to ded- icate the town that is to be named after him at the new camp While he is here?
 MORE Fairbanks people than usu- ally go out for the winter will 60 Outside this fall, according to pres ent announcements. They probably realize that this will be the last chance for an indefinite number of years to see an exposition costing $50, 100000.
 ACCORDING to international law, a nation can retain it's neutrality even though it ships to a warning nation ammunition, but it cannot send food, which can be used by the women and children at home as we'll as by the soldiers. Even the Alaska legislature could have made a better law than that.
 THE announcement in telegraph ic dispatch on Friday that the trac- tion companies of Chicago would raise the wages of their men seems to mean that the companies want to avoid another strike The street car strike in that city was recently settled, and it seems that the pro- posed raise of wages was not a part of the agreement under which the men went back to work.
 THE destructive fire in Valdez should teach the people of all Alaska that they should begin building houses of fire proof material Under the con- ditions that seem to have prevailed in Valdez at the time of the fire it is quite certain that the best fire in the country would
The Alaska citizen., 1915-07-19
NOW IS THE TIME TO ACT.

When the Commercial club holds probably have a full attendance, and
The Alaska citizen., 1915-07-19

Road Superintendent R. J. Somers returned from Richardson Wednes- day. He had been on trip of in spection along the trail and stated after his return that it was in bad shape.
The Alaska citizen., 1915-07-19

THE destructive fire in Valdez should teach the people of all Alaska that they should begin building houses of fire-proof material. Under the con ditions that seem to have prevailed in Valdez at the time of the fire it is quite certain that the best fire department in the country would
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-22
ORDINANCES


cns Of the City Of philadelphia, That the lease
OF room at hG01 Germantown avenue, owned by
George w, Mckinney incorporated at rental
Of ten O0l dollars per month. from December
ist 1918, for the Sixth Highway District Office,
Bureau Of Highway, be and the same Is hereby
Resolved, That tho Clerks OF Councils be di-
rected to present this resolution to the Mayor
for his approval or disapproval.
Approved this Thirteenth day OF December.
RUDOLPH RLANKENBuRe,
No 1910. Mayor OF Philadelphia.
RESOLUTION TO APPROVE LEASE OF
field quarters for the Department Of City
Transit and directing the presentation OF this
resolution to the Mayor for his approval or
Resolved. by tho Select and Common Coun-
ellis OF the City Of Philadelphia That the lease
or promises at 1247 N Front street owned by
Charles Mailer at a rental Of eighteen GO
dollars pcr month, from october l. 1918, for the
purpose of providing field quarters for engineers
and assistants OF the Department Of City Tran
SIT in connection with the construction OF the
proposed Frankford Elevated Railway, as au-
th9rized by ordinance Of Councils, approved
proved, the cost Of such rental to be paid out
Of the appropriation FOR the said work.
Resolved, That tho Clerks Of Councils he di-
rected to present this resolution to tho Mayor
for his approval or disapprovnl.
Approved the Fourth day OF Decent. ". A. u.
1915.