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The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-02-11
ALASKA IS CHEAPEST
 PLACE IN THE WORLD

Frank Caraway. who recently re- turned to Douglas from Columbus. Ohio. where he was honorably dis charged from the army on account of i'll health, says Alaska is the cheapest place to live he knows of at present: that board and room any place in Ohio costs $45 per month and that the same conditions now prevail all over the Outside coun- try. Dick Mccormick. who returned this week from Seattle, where he was denied admission to the army on account of weak eyes, says Sc. attle is very much overdone in the line of labor and that living ex- penses there are out of sight; also that living quarters there are hard to find.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-02-11
MARTIN KELLY
 GOING OUTSIDE

On one of the outward bound stag, es in the near future Martin Kelly, who for some time past has been conducting the Pedro road house, will be passenger. MT Kelly has not been Outside for some time, and, as he is getting lonesome for his old tillicums, he will hit the trail for the great unknown, his destination being San Francisco.
 While in California he will look up Michael Jordan, with whom he has been associated in business, and no doubt together they will recount old times until the time comes for Martin to hit the back trail.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-02-11
PRISON ISLAND,
 CHIRIK0F, HAS
 CHOSTLY TALES

Lonely in its solitude, stern and forbidding, wrapped in eternal mists. drowning and sullen, about 30 miles to the southeast of Kodiak stands Chirikof, the island of ghosts. Sur rounded by dangerous reefs and stormy seas, it Is at best an uninvit- ing place and is seldom visited unless stress of storm makes a landing there imperative.
 Nature has made the place repul. sive and legend has added to it's ter TOTS. Natives passing give the place wide berth. and nothing short of dire extremity would cause them to land there, preferring to take the most desperate chances with storm and sea rather tahn set foot on it's inhOspitable shores, for legend has peopled the island with ghosts. whose wailings and meanings and the clank ing of whose chains strike terror to the stoutest heart. Those whom ne- cessity have compelled to stop there tell narrowing tales of the unseen inhabitants of that desolate place. of the moans and cries which filled the air during the hours of darkness, and drove them at the first opportunity to seek other shelter. For Chirikof. according to the legends of the Ma fiVaS of hn rlx Russian inhabitants of Kodiak. To this bleak and desolate island were banished the offenders against the Russian law or the edicts of the of fcials in command of the Russian settlement.
 Tales of horrible cruelties visited upon these unfortunates are handed down in the native legends; how the offenders. loaded with chains, were landed at Chirikof and left to their own resources. There was no escape, and the unfortunates. prey to the horrible sufferings from hunger and exposure eked out a terrible existence until death relieved them of their sufferings. Many years have passed since the last of these unfortunates passed away. but their restless spirits still roam. according to the tales of the natives, this bleak and desolate island. filling the air with their la- mentations and the clanking of their chains. So vivid are these stories that even the white men shudder as they pass the unhallowed spot, and, like the natives, they pass it by with out landing. No lure of possible mineral wealth induces the hardy prospector to visit this awesome place. It Is summed by all, and so dark and sullen it lies Intenanted except by the wild fowl and ghostly inl.ab,ants
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-02-11
REHEARSAL ON
 MONDAY NIGHT

Another rehearsal for the Sacred Cantata which is to be held near Easter will take place tomorrow night at the Methodist church. It is the request of Mrs. O. F. Krieger, who is directing the rehearsals, that all who wish to take part be on hand at o'clock. Those who are already rehearsing are:
 Sopranos-Miss Ruth Lamb. Mrs. Walter Gould, Mrs. J. A. Heath, Mrs. F. M. Durham, Miss Edith Waite. Miss Audrey Rose.
 Altos-Mrs. Fern Johnson, Mrs R. M. Crawford, Mrs. w III. Handley, Mrs. A. F. Herpick, Mrs. J. H. Groves, Miss Lillian Smith. Tenors-E. H. Mack, l.. R. Gil. lette, Jack Mehegan, Rev. H. H. Lumpkin.
 Bassos-Stanley Hess, Rev.-O. F krieger, E. L. Sanderlin.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-02-11
Classified Advertisements

LOST--Pair of gold trimmed specta- cles in case. Finder please return to John A. Clark. If SALE.-The U. s. mar shal for the Fourth division. will sell under an execution 2 3O-h. p. boilers. 1 7x10 vertical pumping en- zine, 1 American double drum hoist and the fittings. said machin- cry now being situate on No. 1 above discovery on Pedro creek. at which claim the sale will take place on the 11th of February. 1918. at 1 o'clock ?. m.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-02-11
CREEK CLUB IS
 BUSY KNITTING

The weekly meeting of the Chata. nika Knitting club was held at the home of Mrs. Fritz Welch yester- day. The meeting was largely at. tended by those interested. A large package of knitted articles was made up for shipment to Fairbanks, which will be sent on tomorrow's train
 Mrs. s. R. Weiss and Mrs. D. J. Fairburn were appointed to repre- sent the Woman's Bureau at Chata. nika. A committee of examination was appointed, consisting of Mrs. R. Raymond and Mrs. Jack Ed wards. The duties of this commit. tee will be to see that the knitted articles conform to the requirements as set forth in the instructions of the Red Cross.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-02-11
MILL TEST TO
 BE WEDNESDAY

The local Mining Experiment Sta tion of the U. s. Bureau of Mines has just received a shipment of four tons of ore from the Eldorado Min ing & Milling Co.,, at the head of Cleary creek. This ore is to be tested in the metallurgical labora. tory of the station to determine the method to be employed in extract ing and saving the lead, zinc and silver values which are contained in the ore from this mine. This is the first mill test to be made by the new station, the work on which will probably start Wednes- day morning.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-02-11
KEYS BROTHERS
 NOW TRAINING
 IN SAN ANTONIO

In last evenings mail a letter was received at this office from Geo. and Ralph Keys, who went Outside early this winter to enlist. The letter was written from San An. tonic, Texas, the aviation section of the signal corps. in which they are now training.
 In describing their environments they state that the cantonment in which they are located is the larg' est one in the United States, some thing over 100000 men being in training there. They miss the "eats'' that they used to get while in Al aska, and wish they were back for short time. Otherwise they are getting along fine.
 As Alaskans they have maintained their regulations. George states that he was challenged by a French wrestler to bout and accepted it with the result that the challenger hit the dust for three falls.
 In mentioning the Red Cross they are loud in their praise for that body, stating that they had received sweaters from them, as had every man in the cantonment. AS a spe cial request to the Red Cross they wish to be remembered the next time there are any dish towels made. Their mess has over BOG men in it and not dish towel tC be seen.
 Airplanes are to be heard night and day, and they describe the deatl of two aviators that fell to the ground Machines can even bt heard flying at night, they say.
 They also mention meeting H. F Lewis, George Ray and Dick Thor son in San Francisco and repor that they were we'll entertained by them. The letter terminates witf the bugle call of taps. and as thu light went out the letter ended.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-02-11
103 YEARS YOUNG AND HAS
 NO USE FOR STREET CARS

SPOKANE, Wash, Jan. 18.-Frank Russett. who will be 103 years of age in February, has little use for such effete appliances as street cars. They are too much trouble. he thinks. and walking is quicker
 Mir. Russett is the father of six teen children. He was born in Mon. treal. but came to the United States before he attained his majority, and cast his first vote for President Lin coin. He has spent more than half his life in the west.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-02-11
WILL PROTEST
 NATURALIZINC

It was stated in the district at torney's' office yesterday afternoon that at the naturalization hearing that will come up before Judge Bun- nell tomorrow evening protest will be entered against the admittance of James Freeman Bradley as citi- zen of the United States.
 These instructions were issued to District Attorney R. F. Roth by the secretary of labor at Washington. D. c. The grounds for the protest were stated as being of legal nature.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-02-11
FUND REACHES
 TWO HUNDRED DOLLAR MARK

The orphan fund took a sudden spurt yesterday and reached the $2OO mark. The latest donations to come in were from Nenana, from which place Ben Estby sent the sum of $16.50. From the Tolovana Cleora Neilsen contributes the sum of one dollar, and as final to the days work comes little Teddy Brown with his weekly donation of 75 cents.
 It has been understood, in general, that the sum of ten cents would keep child alive in France for one day. This is a misunderstood ing. The true status is that for every ten cents sent in from the United States the French govern ment also puts in ten cents, making in all one franc, or the equivalent of twenty cents. That is the amount required to keep child alive over the seas.
 Among the children of Fairbanks who have volunteered to support an orphan child for one year are George Fred and Essie Elizabeth Moves, son and daughter of MT. and Mrs. Glenn Moves.
 AS a further means of securing money for this fund, a very hand some handmade Irish crochet bu. reau scarf has been donated by Mrs. A. c. Troseth, of Chatanika. Chances on the beautiful piece of work will be sold for the small sum of 25 cents and the article disposed of in time for the money to be sent Out side before the first of March. The scarf is now on exhibition at "Pi- rate" Ellis. As there are not many tickets remaining, it will be well for those who intend taking a chance to hurry before they are all gone.
 The fund as 1t is today:
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-02-11
HOW THEY MUST HAVE
 SUFFERED DOWN THERE

HONOLULU. Jan. 22.-Christmas Eve in Honolulu was the coldest night of the year. the thermometer dropping to 64.9 degrees. The cold est night for December in the local records was 55. and the coldest night ever oficially recorded here was one in a February when the thermometer went to 63.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-02-11
COLE HEARING
 UP YESTERDAY

In an advice received from Ne mana late last night word was con veyed that the hearing of Lawrence Cole, who is before Commissioner Mcdonald on a charge of assault with intent to kill, was in progress yesterday.
 Public sentiment is with the young man, who is well and favorably known, while the veracity of the complaining witness is questioned. The evidence mitigates to a large degree the allegations as first re. ported.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-02-11
MAIL ARRIVED
 YESTERDAY EVE

At 4:30 yesterday afternoon a stage arrived having on board seven sacks of first class mail and 12 sacks of second class matter.
 This mail was one of those that was stormbound at McCallum's for day or so and made day and night trips in order to pick up the sched. ule. Another. mail will arrive this afternoon and will consist of sec ond class.
 An eight.day accumulation of mail at Seattle Is now on the way and should arrive here about next Thurs day, it having left Chitina Friday.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-02-11
JUDKINS IS IN
 SIGNAL CORPS

Writing to friends in Fairbanks, Roy Judkins states that he is now a member of the Second Railroad Telegraph Battalion of the signal corps and Is located in Chicago. He also states that he expects to leave for France in the near future
 Roy will probably be remembered by local fans as the lad in left field with the trusty wing and by the social set as member of "Ye Seldom Inn" club.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-02-11
SPLENDID BILL
 IS ON TONIGHT

The Sunday night offering at Thorne's will be "The Children in the House," vivid Triangle, featur- ing Norma Talmadge. The comedy will be "The Lion and the Girl" with Joe Jackson in the leading role. Jackson is one of the funni est comedians that has ever ap- peared on any stage, and will be remembered as making the hit in Gypsy Joe" There will be one show and the admission will be 50 cents, starting at 8:30 o'clock.
 c. N. Monohan. of Circle, is spend ing few days in town.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-02-11

The Treadwell company recently filed location notices for nearly forty claims adjacent to the property now being developed under bond at Aux bay. That property is controlled by Senators Sutherland and Aldrich and Mayor Valentine, of Juneau. and was bonded by the Treadwell company last summer. There are seventeen men at work on the property. The Treadwell company, under the sus. pended assessment act also filed over hundred offldavits for the year 1918 covering lode claims in the Harris mining district.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-02-11
ATTENDANCE AT
 DANCE IS GOOD

To the strains of good music and the lure of smooth floor, over a hundred couples attended the dance given last night at the Auditorium for the travel fund.
 The gross receipts were in the neighborhood of $500. Of this, s41.5O was taken in at the lunch room and $50 donated as follows: Mrs. R. Geis, $5; French classes, s5; Miss Myrtle Winston and Miss Olga Roy, $20.
 A program was rendered in which the following took part; H. H. Lump. kin, solo; Miss Ervilla McCandless, solo; Sam Godfrey and Pat O'Con. nor. boxing exhibition; Pat OCon- nor and Jack O'Connor, wrestling; songs by Scotty Dalton and Jack Smith.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-02-11
LAND OFFICE MAN
 MAKES TRIP TO NENANA

George Parks, of the general land office. left yesterday morning on an official trip. where he will remain for several days. The trip was made with Karstens' auto.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-02-11

THIS IS The departure from UNcoNQUERED our midst of five of AMERicANiSM. our boys the past
 week for try-outs for places in the defense of democ- racy has brought forth many items that show the feelings of personal sacrifice that fill the breasts of the American people. The few incidents mentioned are undoubtedly only a few of the many that are being performed daily by our local peo- pie and done so unostentatiously that they have become an Ameri- can habit. First these boys them selves, were compelled, from existing conditions, to pay the expenses of their trip to places of enlistment Overlooking the grand offer of sac rifice of life and the breaking of home and family ties, and consid- ering the monetary standpoint, they are all young men who are paying their own way through life and whose hard.earned savings were be- ing hoarded to better their condi tion and make a secure place in life.
 One was working and saving to complete a half-finished college course. one to buy farm and con- tinue in the work learned here on his fathers farm; two others were laying away their pennies to start in business for themselves, and an- other to build home for himself
 When it became known that they must finance their own trip and pre- paratory expenses, the examining physicians, Doctors Sutherland and McCallum, refused to accept any re- muneration for their services; Dr.. Kenison volunteered to make the eye tests necessary, and Dr. Pierce not only postponed a whole after noon of previously made engage Dents to put the teeth of one of them in the required condition, but refused to accept anything for his services, expressing the motives of himself and the others by saying: T cannot go myself, but I am glad to help someone who can go, and consider this opportunity my gain"
 Then the Northern Commercial stage company not only gave a half rate fare, but gave the boys re- served passage over some sixteen applicants for stage passage. and yet the Gremans are telling that the American people are not united that our war party is only the small minority.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-02-11
Sox FOR SOLDIE FRS.
The members of the
 Owl club are taking

meStlc SClenCe and are becoming quite proficient in tat ting. Deacon Jones started the fly. by-nights, and he has enough lace made to trim nighties for half the Red Cross nurses at Camp Lewis. Bernie Carr, the young man who is night "doughnut chauffeur" goes around with shuttle in one pocket and spool of thread in the other. while Soph Knudsen and Arthur Smith are learning the stitches slow. ly. Next week they will start knit ting, so, girls, look to your laurels.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-02-11

Gibson's auto arrived yesterday with first class mail from Nenana.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-02-11

George Hobart left yesterday for Brooks, where he will engage in contract work.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-02-11
| |OURSEL'S | AS 1.-THE RS
 SEE US.

oURSEL'S A prominent Fair AS THEIRS banks merchant has SEE US. a customer in a road
 house man on the Valdez trail, and last fall determined to make personal investigation of the premises before he extended further credit, so he combined busi- ness with pleasure and took an auto trip out. The proposition seemed all right, but the owner had the reputation of being a hard thinker Now see here, Jimmie, you have a good place here, but they say you are heavy thinker"
 q don't drink. hardly ever," said the man.
 Well, everyone around here says you do," was the reply.
 Well, they lie if they do. If you only knew the things they say about you, you would know what liars they are!" answered the canny Scot.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-02-11
NOT so BAD
 TO TAKE.

NOT so Mother baked some BAD oatmeal bread one TO TAKE. day and Johnnie en.
 joyed this new style of food very much. After filling up he inquired of his mother if that was war bread and was informed that it was. "Gee," was the reply. q hope the war lasts forever"
 SOUNDS Letters are often LlkE- dropped into the WELL. post office with their
 destination hard to decipher The other day one was
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-02-11
Town Gossip and'Stories
By The IattIer.

picked up addressed to "Purgatory, Alaska" The federal clubs office does business with most of the AL askan villages, but inquiry there elicited no information, but Frank Hall said it was somewhere in France;;" Postmaster Deal declared it was where the submarine that sunk the Tuscania was sent; Rev. H. H. Lumpkin, who knows all the Indian villages in this country. said he had heard of it, but it was not in Alaska; Bob Menzie says he knows it is surely one spot along the trail between Miller's and Pax sons. Finally Wallace Howie To. cated it as wood camp on the Yukon between Beaver and Stevens village.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-02-11
HOME PRODUCTS BEST.

house one day, and after studying the situation went over to investi gate. What have you got in that buggy?" "A baby" said the lady Where did you get it?" was the next question. "Oh, sent Outside for it." Huh! Fairbanks babies are much gooder than those from Outside and much gooder yet comes from Nenana," said the youngster who had evidently heard of Dr. Smith,
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-05-30

take also another turn. Women and girls
OF good social position are compelled TO
undreSs on the preteXt of search or
medical examinations. The German has
no respect for girls; he has torn them
from their families by thousands. Nor
does he respect maternity; in 1915. the
wife OF the mayor of Le Catelct. sem
fenced to three months confinement for
not making known her husbands presence
III her house, was separated from the in
rant she was nursing and led away be-
tween two policemen. In many places
mothers were torn from their children in
arms, from sobbing and desperate little
girls, who threw themselves on their
knees without avail.
1t is as If one were looking on at "A
general prescription of souls which are
being hunted down on all sides. The bar
barians carry their outrages so far as to
cast obloquy upon our reverence for our
dead. Not content With erecting over the
charmed houses of tho battlefield carved
monument insulting to our gallant troops,
they even profane the cemeteries and mar
them with obscenities; they empty graves
by the thousands, in order to carry. pill
lage to the limit. At i.aon they actually
stole the. flowers which the people had
laid on the coffins of three children killed
in Il bombardmcnt from the air on l)ecenl-
her n. 1916.
All the brutality. Derfidy and savaGery
manifested by Germany from day TO day
is not to be explained by any philosophie
theory or as a Systematic policy. Tenn
permanent is an essential part of it. More
over. there must be a special lack of the
Pmoral sense. an inherent deficiency Of the
sentiments of justice. honor and charity.
There mus be an hereditary perverslty.
Intellectual perversicn by the sophisms of
Fichte or a Haeckel would not have slf-
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wolves. Grated upon II sound trunk, the
Ean-GserManic hcrsy would never rave
%sprouted. Never would Gserm2ny-leaders
and flocks-have been able to sink 10 deep
into her violent self worship, her terror
ism and her unnitigated ~brigandage in
war II she had not gliled into 1t by de-
grees through weakness of conscience and
latent c~riminality. In reality, behind a
false cloak Of philosophy u policy one
can detect in her nothing more than re-
voting organs of the carnivora, retarded
in their human development.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-05-30
TeIefsr;ca in Italian Warfare.
the Wide Wnrid Maoavtuo

FROM ule Wlue world Magazine.
The Italian conduct of their Alpine
campaign must remain Il supreme
classic OF mountain warfare-some-
thing which has never been approached
pre- war strategy, the proper way to de-
fend mountain lines was by implant-
ing guns on the heights commanding
h main passes and thus rendering it
impossible for an enemy to traverse
them. The fact that these command
ing positions We're in turn dominated
by still higher oneS.e and these latter
by Others until the Hottest SUBMITS
of the Alps were reached. was re-
sponsible for the struggle for the Sky
line" positions which the Austro- Italian
war quickly resolved itself into.
This kind Of war would have been
q sheer imposstbility two decades aeo.
from h simple fact that no practi-
cable means Of transport existed can
able OF carrying men, munitions. guns.
n fod up. to continuous lines Of
positions from 10.0 0 to 10000 feet
above sca-ievel. The one thing that
made the feat possible was the de-
velopment OF the aerial tramway or
the teleferica. as the Italians cali it
which gave transport faculties to
points where the foot OF man had
scarcely trod before. Regular com
munication with the highest
top positions would have been an
solutely GU Of tire question without
this ingeniuE device.