The Alaska citizen., 1916-02-28


 THERE is one female prisoner in the federal jail, an Indian girl from down the river somewhere who is in full possession of all her facul ties, yet there are three matrons working eight-hour shifts to admin, ister to her comforts
 IT has been suggeated that the federal and city officials negotiate with some representative Outside firm for goodly supply of muzzles A supply of antitoXin is kept con stantly on hand by the authorities for immediate use in case of au epidemic, so why not muzzles?
 IF a man were caught red-handei with a beefsteak under his coat iG an endeavor to carry it from the place in which he was working without the knowledge and consent Of the proprietor, what should De his punishment aside from a swift kick under the tails of his coat?
 THE kept lady" came out ot her shell during the past week and really defended the circulation of the weekly dame. Editor Gaustad declares that he has not seen a copy in the past ten years, and there are many other people saying the same thing since the controver- sy came up.
 TEXARKANA, Tex, has court house which cost the government S110000 which is used less than week in the whole year. Fair banks has a detention hospital built by the government at cost of s15,00O which is being cared fo1 by caretaker at the expense of the government and used by the United States marshal as his pri- yate residence.
 THERE were two voting precincts in the Fourth division which re- turned solid Democratic votes for delegate at the last election-Chena and Nenana. That such thing would not be likely to happen again Rather Feebl" Roth, in his capacity of committeeman, appointed Re publican to look after the primary election in Cinema, which is to be held on the 25th of next month. It's the proxies he wants, and not the votes for the party.
 SOMETHING like a year ago the officials in the marshals office let a contract to have well put down on the detention hospital property and the contractor has not yet re- ceived a cent of the contract price The man to whom the contract was awarded paid out of his own pocket something more than $500 in wages during the performance of his con- tract, and he cannot get a satis- factory answer to any of his de- mands for the money which is due him.
 MARSHAL ERWIN says that the na Twin That he did not bring a pound of personal freight in with his ten head of mules, with the exception of one bed which cost him $133. Every thing else was brought in for mer chants. That does not alter the case one whit. He spent thirty days of the governments time bringing in what freight he had, i whether it was for himself or some one else, and the government was deprived of his valuable services during that period. for which he will receive full pay.
 HE OlQ saying that wise "OrQS | often come from the mouths of fools 1 and babies" was never better il- lustrated than in the closing argu- ment of the trial of Sam Barber | when Attorney Clegg made the | statement that he had known many | attorneys and gamblers in his six ] teen years of practice, and that in ] many instances he would prefer | the friendship of the gamblers to | that of some of the attorneys, and | he did not look at anyone in par ticular, either. We do not desire