The Alaska daily empire., 1917-06-19
OFF WRONG
Anchorage

Anchorage the metropolis of Alaska is getting cent We find contribution from the columns of the Juneau Empire, which to tell of local conditions. about which living here knew nothing. We reproduce this specific article, for the infor- nation it but rather show the wilful mis- representation with respect the situation here The Juneau sheet assumes to get it's Information from officers of the steamer Admiral Watson" and from personal letters received by Juneau residents" It is favorite method of certain class of newspapers to employ subterfuge in order to avoid responsibility Here is the article
 That the residents of Anchorage and
 vicinity are experiencing much uneasiness as
 to the effect the war will have the build
 ing of the railroad and incidentally Anchor
 age is the report of the officers of the
 Admiral Watson which passed through Juneau
 last night. It is predicted by the officers of
 the boat that people will start to leave there
 in large numbers by the time the Watson
 makes another trip to the westward terminus
 of that railroad.
 'The business men there very
 easy, especially the smaller fellows who
 working a shoe string and who have every
 cent invested in their business They
 able to secure any satisfactory statement
 from the members of the Engineering Com
 mission as to what course will be followed by
 the government, and the members of the
 commission themselves do not know what will
 be done, said of the officers last night
 Tt is freely predicted that the high cost of
 material will result in suspension of the
 work before the end of the present
 and in that many of the residents of
 Anchorage will go broke"
 Personal letters have been received by
 people in Juneau telling the same story. One
 letter received from the head of family of
 seven stated that he had just paid for his
 home there, but that he wished he had the
 money to buy food for their stomachs instead
 of having bought roof to their heads"
 Now, as matter of fact, officers of the steamer Admiral Watson made such statements as are attributed to them by the Juneau paper, and we defy the publication to produce proof that they did.
 While we going the theory that such misleading statements were made by officers of the steamer Admiral Watson, propose to find out, and to that end taking the means. And if it shall prove true that officers of this vessel or any other vessel plying this careless with the truth or are employed in campaign to do injury to this community. propose to call halt their activities. Anchorage. to these transportation panies, is the most profitable port in Alaska and we don't propose to feed the mouths of those who wifuy misTepresent us. But said before do not believe any officer of any transportation company made any such statement said anything that could be construed into such malicious representation of the true situation.
 Work on the government railway line is going on the same now, as before the started It is true that the cost of materials has increased direct result of the war. But the Alaskan Engineering Com mission is placing large orders for materials and equipment and every vessel that reaches this port brings its quota cf railway freight. Of we