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The Alaska citizen., 1917-08-06
WE'LL, DO IT.

ln hls latest defense Ot the Richardson llut, the editor o1 the NeWs-Alner says that II secretary Meyer knew that the roads o1 Alaska are bad, he might help to better thelr condition. That Is the reason why we roast cd the aluez trail. Silence gives assent and as long as we EalrbankSans say nothing about the shameful condition O1 the trall, federal officials back Ill Washington will have every reason to believe that we are satisfied, and don't think for a minute that officials o1 the government are not ready to lend ready ear to all criticisms and complaints against their stewardship. Much good can be ac- compllShed by good, consistent kicking Ill thlS world ii the k1CkerS cause IS just, and from the many words of warm praise The Citizen has received for its editorial on 'The Shame o1 Alaska we believe our cause IS juSt ii we didn't have other reasons to believe so
 But we do not believe the trail should be considered as a gift horse, and whether the money comes out of our pocket or out of the federal treasury is imlnaterial. ln- teror Alaska adds enough mineral wealth to the nation in one year to build graveled highway from Fairbanks to the coast, and if the government Is sick of the job of trying to muddle through with its trail building pro gram 1t should say so and pass the buck up to the territory.
 The Valdez trail is military post road and as such is designed for our military pro tection. As a military protection we must admit that it is humdnger. If the enemy should attempt to march up the military road to Fairbanks they would be engulted
The Alaska citizen., 1917-08-06
LATEST NEWS
 FROM BROOKS

BROOKS.-There is nothing new but water. Everyone has now had plenty and wishes the clouds and the downpour would quit a few mo- ments. The gardens are suffering from lack of sunshine and there are almost no blueberries and no game.
 The tram is weathering all vicls- situdes and arriving daily with a full quota. It crosses some lakes and they have had to be drained. The water even interfered with the carburetor.
 Fred Rhind is now installed at the ram depot in Brooks and busy night and day.
 Without the tram Brookites would be actually suffering for food, as horseflesh certainly couldn't traverse the frightful roads and mud.
 Mining is going along despite mud and floods, and all are bravely pur- suing the calling.
 Amy is now promising well. It is spotted, but shows ground prom isng $2 to $250 per foot. The streak is l4O feet wide and the creek 5 miles long Kelly, on Amy, had a fine cleanup.
 The best workings on Olive were pretty well ruined and swept out by too much water, causing much loss and attendant hardship.
 Prices of food are soaring, new bacon tipping the beam at 65c and 75c.
 good many people are arriving from Nenana and Marshall. express ing satisfaction to be back here.
 A great dance and cabaret is sched- uled for the 3lst for a baseball bene- fit Great preparations are being made and it promises to be the best ever.
The Alaska citizen., 1917-08-06
HOW TO HELP ALASKA.

Uncle sam has established farm loan ,anks Outside to enable farmers to develop he resources of the soil Why not extend jmilar financial aid to Alaskans to enable hem to develop the vast resources oi this erritory5 It would be the greatest invest nent the government ever made. It would 1ot be a gift or a financial waste by any means, but would yield a marvellous return n money and natural wealth.
 The government k withholding the AL askan coal fields from entry for fear that this great fuel supply will come into the hands ol the big corporations. Everyone agrees that the coal should be kept out of the hands oI corporations tending to establish a mo nOpoy, but that Is no reason why the coal should be locked up for the next hundred years or more
 A common sense plan with plenty ol safe guards to prevent corporation control could be devised i'll a few weeks time ii the gov benefit ol this vast supply of coal. A cer- tain tract Of coal lands could be allotted to each applicant through the system of land drawing. Deeds or patents should not be transferable excepting to ones lawful heirs
 But without funds, the holders of coal lands would be helpless The government should extend financial aid for the opening O1 the properties this work to be done under the supervision o1 federal engineers, the owner o1 the property being obligated to turn over enough o1 the coal or money de rived from the sale o1 coal, to reimburse the government, After obtaining this start the owner should have enough business ability 10 operate the mine himself. Should he lack this ability and fail to make a go oi it, the property should revert back to the federal government.
 Such system should be followed in the development O1 quartz mines throughout the territory. There Is much rich ore in the ter rltory, and countless properties would pay ii the owners had the capital to develop them Government experts could satisfy themselves as to the paying qualities of the ore and then extend aid as above set forth.
 What Alaska needs is capital and lots ot 1t to develop its resources. The pioneer lacks this, and the logical result is that big corporations will get the cream of the coun- try's wealth unless Uncle Sam extends help ing hand to the man equipped with expert cnce, knowledge of mining, capacity for work and all other requirements excepting that of capital
The Alaska citizen., 1917-08-06
FAIRBANKS BOY
 IN THE, ARMY

That Howard Rolston has joined the ambulance corps of the army and will, in the near future, sail for France with the contingent oi American troops to which he has been assigned, is the information contained in wire received yester, day from him by his mother, Mrs. w. N Rolston, ot this city. It IS known that MT. Rolston holds a com mission in the ambulance corps and that he has recently been assisting in the drilling of the corps which is to go to France.
The Alaska citizen., 1917-08-06
F H 0 N E 262
LIE SHAME Or ALAShA.

II When the history O1 government stew 1Tusmp III Alaska small nave been Wrltttl, 3c mcOmpctcuCy and shameful waste OI the AIdekd kodu commission Will stand lOrtu
 shame o1 the first magnitude. Lnousn honey nas doubtless been spent by the gov 8rnmcnt since the aluez tral was estaD- asncd 10 put d suitable covering ol grave #rOm Ouc end to the other. Instead OI tnls, Enc Jra1I k, with the exception Ol few places Rhcrc real rOdlDWlucrs are III charge, s1uQdy miserable nlakcshl1t. Under the most ayoraDIc weather conditions, the trip over 1 ne traII cannot be q pleasure tour. Undtr Enc present plan O1 construction Il will never .bc q good road, because ol hardened ruto. l he urst doNnpour o1 ram changes II into ! maclstrom o1 muck, making the gong worse s nan ever, Il possible.
 nls lepIOraDle condition las been going bn Ior years. Inc Richardson Ilut will never bet well as long as the road crews insist Oil llchlng it. Enough money has been wasted 0 make the trail the srandest scemc drlNe- gyay Ill the world, but travellers cannot enjoy scenery while submerged i'll mud without a 3perlscOpe. 1t gives newcomers a very ln- favorable impression o1 the country and
 dtlNlN OlQlllIlCIS lO DIllSlt NItli Siidllll tIl' overflow with excuses. It Is the shame ot Alaska and the disgrace o1 government stew lyrdshIp.
 The new railway Is not going to remove 4hc necessity for d good trail New Coun- trics can progress only as fast as more and better roads and means of transportation are afforded. And under the present makeshiit manner oi repairing the trail, the miasmic, snucky, mosquito-inlested trail will become more and more impossible and inadequate las time goes OH.
 To build a suitable trail, work crews should be stationed at either end, putting on Ia crown of gravel and constructing proper culvcrts and drains When the trail is gray eled from end to end wet weather will make no material difference Gravel is the only
 thing, outside o1 paving, that will stand the ot the weather.
 And while the crews are putting on gravel, just leave the intervening strip alone he tra1I might not be so bad ii the road crews would lay oil their habit of plIins muck OH muck at the slightest proVoCatlon
 But there Is all exception to every rule Ihe Fairbanks end o1 the trail Is by lar the best oil the me, everywhere the road CreWs under the capable direction O1 Local Super ulcnQclt K ]. SOmlneTS, nave made excel 1enl highways everywhere they have repaired are q real boulevard.
The Alaska citizen., 1917-08-06
CAUGHT WITH THE GOODS.

SEATTLE, July 30.-Caught by the girls brother, John J. Coughlin, head of the ship building firm of Coughlin X Sons, was arrested today on white slavery charge. He is said to have registered under an assumed name at local hotel with Miss Mary Burrillm, aged seventeen, as his wife. He has wife and children living at Vancouver.
The Alaska citizen., 1917-08-06

That the next two years, or the aIl Of 1919. will see the Alaska government railroad completed, IS the opinion ol Thomas Riggs. Jr. mem OCT Of the Alaskan Engineering com mission a~ expressed To d rcpresen- tativc of The Citizen in an interview yesterday. That time will certainly see trains in operation between Fair banks and the coast, even if the road k not entirely completed. accord ng to Nr. Riggs statement The statement is based upon the fact hat. after work is completed this all. gap of but little more than ninety miles in length will separate he end of the line now being built south from Nenana and that under onstruct on north of Anchorage. This will mean that the only part of the line remG ming to be constructed dur ng the summer of 1918. in addition O that ninety miles, will be the -trctch lying between Fairbanks and Nenana l. is hardly probable, how ever, that all of this track will be Inder operation by ,next fall; it will merely have been laid
 All ol Mr Riggs statements, how ever, are made with provisos. Both money and men in abundance will be needed if the road is to be complet- td within two years time. And the var may also have the effect of nampering operations to some extent.
 BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION.
 Mr. Riggs also spoke at consider able length regarding bridge con struction at the crossing of the Tan ana river at Nenana. Preliminary lrafts ot three classes of bridge are aow being drawn at the Nenana leadquarIers of the Alaskan Engin- rering commission The vertical lift bridge is that most favored at Ne aana, but drafts for d draw bridge 4nd a bascule bridge are also being submitted to Chairman Edes, of the commission, who will in turn submit them to the war department for ap- proval The war department will make the final selection of the kind 3f bridge that will be installed, and rure will then be drawn, MT. Riggs estimates that the vertical lift bridge will cost in the neighborhood of $650. 900 and the others about the same amount, although any or all of them may go a little higher or a little lower in contract price when it comes 70 letting contracts for their con stIuction which is the course of ac- ton that is to be pursued by the commission. If the vertical lift bridge is eventually selected it will be a structure that will be sixty five feet above high water mark at Nenana.
 ON THIS END.
 Speaking of work on this end Of the railroad line, MT. Riggs stated that an attempt is to be made to lay five miles of narrow guage rail
The Alaska citizen., 1917-08-06

A. J. Adams and wife, of Cordoya, who recently arrived here over the trail, are returning to Cordova by way of the river and ocean route, having sailed last night on the Alaska.
The Alaska citizen., 1917-08-06
WHEN BERRIES ARE RIPE

and mN well. Discard all Oe.ura that are not perfectly upc anu llcsn, md drcugc the rest Wru wltn som, Jour. aud them to the dough. but Jy careful not to mash them Tn mlA .n. Tour into Duttcrrd tns in layers about an inch thick, dust the toy with sugar and bake. TOT the best results make this cake twenty-Ioui Auur, belore you want tu use 1t. BURBERRY MUFfiNs.
 Two cuptuls ot flour, two tea apoonfuls ot baking powder. one hal lcaspoUnIuI Of salt, one cupful oI berries, one-half cupIul of butter one cuplul ot milk, one tablespoonful ot sugar, one beaten egg.
 Slt the baking powder and salt into the Hour and rub in the butter. Then add the milk, the sugar and the beaten egg. IiX well and add the berrIcs, which have been well dredged with flour, distributing them evenly. Place in muffin tins and bake in rather hot oven for twenty minutes. Blackberries may be useu Ill place of the blueberries if pre- ierred, and the dough may be baked in one shallow sheet instead of in muffin form.
 COLD BERRY PUDDING.
 Buttered. stale bread, rich, sweet cream or frosting, one quart of Der rleS.
 Stew the berries for d few minutes with just enough water to cover, and when soft remove from the fire. Ar range part of the buttered stale bread, which has been cut in rather thin slices, at the bottom of deep, buttered pudding dish and pour over it a layer of the hot, stewed Der ries. Cover with d layer of the bread, then another of berries and 50 on until the dish is full, ending with covering of berries. Allow 10 cool, and serve with rich, thick cream and sugar If desired. a soft trosting may be put over the top layer of berries.
 cURRANT AND RASPBERRY TART
 One quart of entrants and rasp- berries, four eggs. one cupful of su- gar, one-half cupful of flour, plain pie paste
 Separate the yolks and the whites of the eggs. Beat the sugar with the yolks until light, and then fold in the stiffly beaten whites. Dredge the berries with the flour and add this to the egg mixture. Mix the whole well and pour it into deep tin lined with the pie paste. Cover With ldllCe "Ofh nldut ol lnil strips of the pastry and bake in moderate oven until the crust is baked through. Before serving. sprin kle little powdered sugar over the top. This dish may be served either hot or cold, and may be baked in several small tarts instead of in one large one.
The Alaska citizen., 1917-08-06
THE SPIRIT THAT WINS.

Not long ago miner left one of the creeks near Fairbanks for the Outside and mushed over the Valdez trail. He endured the hardshlps o1 the journey not to indulge in the pleasures of life Outside but to offer his services to Uncle Sam. He spent four years i'll the American navy and felt it his duty to offer his services to his country i'll the hour of need. And to discharge this obligation he walked nearly four hundred miles through rain and mud, suffered bruised feet, fought mosquitoes and put up with the inconvenience of the trail with stoic fortitude He left the freest section of the greatest free country on earth to fight autocracy.
 He is not an exception but typifies the spirit of democracy, and this spirit in the breasts of free men spells the early downfall of autocracy. It is more potent to end the kaser's reign than all of the ammunition that has been expended on the western front.
 FAIRBANKS will be given the opportunity play the host to eighty nine excursionists who making grand belt Alaska, shortly the middle of this month Let us extend the visitors from the Outside the true spirit of the Garden City and make welcome as warm and pleasant skies.
The Alaska citizen., 1917-08-06
YOUNG COUPLE WE'D.

William J. Keller and Miss Mary Englund were united in marriage Tuesday night by Rev. H. H. Lump kin, the ceremony being performed at the residence of MT. and Mrs. Frank Young, Jr. They will make their home in Fairbanks. By get ting married on Tuesday they beat the license law by one day.
The Alaska citizen., 1917-08-06
RAILROAD WORK WILL BE
 COMPLETED IN TWO YEARS
 SAYS COMMISSIONER RIGGS

,oad track out Of Happy Junction this fall, connecting with the Panama hat mu,u can be accomplished is ts yet uncertain, he saya, owing 10 .hc ldcI that the material for l4Ir A urk Is not yet at hand. The rails .hal vii. Ue laid are oI the forty pound vareIy They will be laid on standard guage embankment and will moment with standard guage track, the rails composing which will be regular ', eight This stretch of road being constructed with the idea Di facilitating the movement of tim bers and ties which are to be used Il repair work on the Tanana Valley iailroad and also to assist the people Jl Fairbanks to get d wood supply rom Goldstream brought into town. After the five miles of track is com 3leted. its operation, as well as that nf the Panama Valley railroad, will be facilitated by the arrival here of eight new cars and small loco motive, which are now enroute 10 Fairbanks from the Outside.
 THOUSAND WORKING.
 Tine number of men now employed on railroad construction work in h. ,erior Alaska now numbers nearly a .housand. This number includes all lI the employees of the commission tnl of the contractors. The men are working all along the line from Broad Pass north to Fairbanks and .ncludr the grading gangs of the con- tractors, the steel laying gangs, the crews of men ballasting track south ,f <enana, all of the men employed around headqla rters at Nenana, and contractors crews and Engineering commission employees north Of Ne 4ana. The actual number of men employed is 925
 TROUBLE ON LINE.
 Thf. flooding of the Nenana river south Of Nenana has caused consid- ,rablc trouble to the railroad build CTS in that it is threatening to wash put the right of way. The principal point at which danger threatens is Lost Slough, through which most of fhe water of the Nenana river IS now going. This slough was once but fifty feet wide at the point where ht railroad trestle crosses it, but the high water, assisted by a jam in the Nenana river, caused the water to turn through Lost Slough and making t at least 100 feet wide It was necessary to blow up one Of the bridges along the line before he jam could be released.
 Commissioner Riggs expects to re- main in and about Fairbanks for several days He will go out to Happy Junction today to inspect the work that is being done in that vi cinity. and will take a trip out over the line of the Panama Valley rail road to Chatanika before returning to his headquarters at Nenana.
The Alaska citizen., 1917-08-06
cURRANT COMPOTE.

One-half pound of loaf sugar, one cupfu ol water. one quart of red and white entrants.
 Place the sugar and water in saucepan and set it over the fire to simmer gently for quarter of an hour. Then add the entrants, which have been previously well washed, and let simmer for ten minutes more. Pour into d dish and allow to get thoroughly cold before serving. This compete served with rice mold makes an excellent and tasty dish for warm weather lunches.
 hUckLEBERRY CAKE.
 One quart of huckleberries, three cupfuls of flour, four eggs, two tea spoonfuls of baking powder, one cup ful of butter, one half cupful of milk, one scant teaspoonful each of cin- namon and grated nutmeg, two cup fuls of sugar
 Beat the butter and sugar together until light and add the beaten yolks of the eggs, the milk, nutmeg, cin- namon and the whipped whites. Also add the flour into which the baking powder has previously been sifted,
The Alaska citizen., 1917-08-06

Mrs. c. E Beraud and sons, Frank and Eugene, are spending few days at Nenana.
The Alaska citizen., 1917-08-06
ON THIS END.

Speaking of work on this end Of the railroad line, MT. Riggs stated that an attempt is to be made to lay five miles of narrow guage rali-
The Alaska citizen., 1917-08-06
RASPBERRY BLANC NANCE.

Three cupfulS of raSpDerrleS, one cupful Of sugar. two tablespoonfuls of corn starch, rich cream.
 Stew the berries in enough water to cover them, taking care to use only perfectly fresh fruit; then strain off the juice and sweeten to taste, adding more or less than the amount of sugar given. Place over the fire in double cooker until it boils, and while boiling stir in the corn starch, which has been wet with little cold water, allowing two table spoonfuls of the corn starch to each two cupfuls of juice. Allow to boil until sufficiently cooked, stirring con stantly; then pour into molds wet with cold water. Set away to cool, and when cold serve with sugar and
The Alaska citizen., 1917-08-06

Two quarts ol red raspberries. one pound oI granulated sugar one ia blespoonful oi corn starch, one cup tul oi sherry.
 Look over the berries well before you use them. throwing out all that aIc not absolutely fresh. and mash the rest we'll Add the granulated sugar U l.. mashed fruit, let stand for an hour and then put through sieve Put into d saucepan and place over the fire to heat gradual ly, stirring carefully all the time. when it boils add the corn starch, which has been dissolved ill just enough cold water to molsten it. As soon as the corn starch is well dissolved and the mixture sufficiently clear and thick, add the sherry. re- move the pot from the fire and al low to cool Serve in glasses with o litfla shaved
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-10-14
SALUTE OFFICERS
EVEN IF CRIPPLED
Condition No Excuse, According
to Order Issued by Army
Council. q
RIGID MILITARY ETIQUETTE
New Ruling Subjected to Vigor-
Gus Criticism by London
Newspaper. I
RIGID MILITARY ETIQUETTE

LONDc>'. October 13.-Shou!d wound
cd soldiers be compelled 10 salute their
superior officers? A London newspa-
per has this to say on tn. subject:
Military etiquette Is an astonish-
ing code which we have never pre-
tended to understand There may be
n good reason for the punctillos OF
army life. but TO the lay mind some
Of them seem absurd and altogether
remote from, the winning OF the war.
Take the newly tnsisted-on order
that wounded soldiers must salute az
possible circumstance. no matter
whether the physical exertion retards
their conva.cscence or not. We have
no doubt that the Army Council came
20 this solemn conclusion after long
and painful elaboration. 1t may not
bring us quicker 20 Berlin. but, at any
rate. il shows that a. military MAJ
tior we are determined not 10 be be-
hind Germany, which has made salut-
ing not merely science, but life it
self.
Military ingenuity rises superior to
all physical disabilities. The wounded
soldier who has lost the use of his
arms is called upon TO look in the
direction OF every officer he meets. If
liz suffers from eye strain that is the
fault of having weak eyes. not any
inherent folly in the order Itself. He
may have lost his limbs on the Somme
or in taxing Vimy Ridge. and the first
officer that he meets in the Strand
may he some distinguished music hall
nero in a cushy job, but IL he fails In
the stare OF salute he sins against
military law and IL liable to be re-
uorted.
Quite frankly, we do not envy the
feeling OF any reasonable- minded Of
hccr who has to 2ubmit wounded SOL
diers who have been through the fur
mace OF Flanders to such an ordeal.
We know OF only one ordeal moro
painful. and that Ia when wounded
and discharged soldier finds himself
acting as caddy to an able bodied citi-
zen OF military age who has been ex-
emcted as Indispensable. '~
Everybody knows that II is not the
officers hemse'ves-except few dug
outs"--who want this perpetual sa-
'nting. IT Is worse for them than for
the men.