The Alaska citizen., 1915-09-27

[ i''' and blaming all the changes of the weather up to the Democratic party. 
 TT is reported in an eastern paper that the Russian forts are about
 as impregnable as Georgia jail ERWIN is still talking about the stub incident Everyone else had about forgotten that in the light of other events.
 CAPT. DONOVAN has been ap- pointed commissioner for the Forty
 mile precinct It's long way from
 Peru to F'ortymile.
 THE military training" bug is
 having the effect of developing mems legs instead of their heads If ends ter.
 THE city of Mexico has evidently been enjoying a real estate boom. The press reports tell of the city changing hands no less than three times in one week.
 INSCRIBED on the great seal of Georgia we find this sentiment: Wisdom. Justice. Moderation" There
 has been no effort to change the
 words since the Frank episode.
 AN eastern editor is wondering who put the fish in efficiency, but the editor of the Seattle Argus says he is much more interested in finding the son-of-a gun who put
 the bones in fish.
 THE coroner's jury in the Leo Frank case returned verdict that
 he died of strangulation. The grand jury impaneled to investigate the
 matter came to the same conclu- sion. They also both agreed that
 Frank is dead.
 IT is asserted that gambling is going on under the shadows of the federal building. If the reports are
 true the federal building should be torn down. It's shadows should not be allowed to be used for that pur- pose.
 DESIGNING views are hugely
 enjoyed by the devotees of the "mov- ies,' but the dissolving prisoner is
 not so much to the liking of our United States marshal. The absent
 one was rated at $50 by last quo tatiOns
 ERWlN'S experiment in the Cab bage patch may cause him some lit tie annoyance; it will at least cost him $50 if some private citizen re turns the prisoner. If the private of the Washington-Alaska bank got
 he will get the bunk.
 ANDY LOFlk, a miner on the Circle trail, bought a watermelon and paid $10 a pound for it. Now the News Miner will have another tariff spasm, provided, of course, the mails don't get things balled up and lose the Washington correspon- dents dope.
 TT is reported that Secretary of the Interior Lane has been deco rated by the University of the City of New York with the honorary de- gree of Doctor of Laws. That will not prevent him from making just as good a Secretary of the Interior as ever.
 THE News Miner has a good deal to say these days about the destruc- tlon to trade in the United States by virtue Of the reduction of the tariff. It seems that the automobile manufacturers are getting along fair ly well without any protection. For eisn competition does not prevent them from making their millions in profits.
 CONFORMING to custom, the United States recently issued a proc lamation setting forth it's neutrality in the war declared against Turkey by Italy. It was decided, as a mat ter of convenience, to use the form that was employed when Italy de. clared war on Austria Hungary. Dates and names were changed all right in this latest proclamation, but somebody in the state department failed to note that there had been a change in the office of secretary of state, The Presidents signature to the DrOc1 a ma tjOn was attaStq1 in