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The Cordova daily times., 1919-01-21
IRELAND ESTABLISHES REPUBLIC
 DEMANDS BRITISH EVACUATION

DUBLIN, ,an 2l (by Associated Press}.-The Sim Fen assembly here today the members all standing while the declaration of independence read announcing the estab ishment Irish republic and demanding that the British evacuate Ireland
The Cordova daily times., 1919-01-21
ALASKA MINING STOCKS

NEW YORK. Jan 21.-Alaska Gold, 3X; Alaska Juneau, 2.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-20
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-20
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The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-09-18

Senator Fletcher wishes TO as
sure all Florida and his friends
everywhere of his grateful APP
probation of their sympathy and
kindness and to say to them that
he is by the mercy of God able to
be at his post of duty again, en-
tirely well. 1t has been impos-
sible to answer directly all tele-
grams and letters and he hopes
this acknowledgement may be ac-
cepted as intended for each in
dlvidual whose interest and gen.
erous expressions have been a
source of infinite pleasure and en-
couragement.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-09-18

By all means let Cats run in the,
Democratic primary. Let there
be no plea Of martyrdom to be
put up for him; let him get his
beating fairly and squarely. He
is not a Democrat; has no business
in the Democratic party, and
only recently he boasted in an adj
dress that he was elected as a
pr0hibitionist; but let him be beat
Ell by Democrats, who viii take
pleasure in doing the job by vot-
ing for Duncan T. Fletcher, real
Democrat whose Democracy has
never been questioned. - Lake
land Telegram.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-09-18

gineers in the service of the COM
pany expected the result to be
many disastrous wrecks, but not
a wreck occurred. From what
he says, we infer that the raw
Cuban engineers did not have
more than a week s instruction.
But this fellow in the Times
says that ga man must serve from
three to five years as a locomotive
fireman" before he is competent
to run a locomotive. How utterly
absurd! Little children every
where are successfully running
big automobiles and, if they only
had the strength, they could learn
to run a locomotive inside of a
fortnight. If any one is diSpos-
ed to challenge this statement, let
him bring a locomotive here, get
permission of the authorities to
use the tracks for the experiment,
and we will take both boys and
girls out of the Punta Gorda high
school and have them successfully
running that locomotive inside of
a fortnight.
In conclusions: The Railway
Age, organ of the railways in Am
erica, states that, at the end of
June, 1914, the average earn
lngs of a railroad employee were
fSlO' per year. Now, 1919 the
average is 1888 a year. This,
mind you, is the average, which .
includes the section laborers
for $4,000 a month,
station porters, car wipers and
others whose wages are far below
those of engineers and conductors.
The reason engineers cannot sup
port their families on $500 to
$4,000 a year is that they pay too
much for automobiles, jewelry and
for their women folks.
They ought to do like the rest of
cheaper goods. Maybe,
too, the engineers are rather too
fond Of an occasional game of
poker.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-09-18

The Florida Planter, which is
the state organ Of the sugar in
dustry, reports that, within the
current year, Fort Myers will
have a sugar factory that will cost
$500, 100000, will be able to turn
out 500 tons q day and take care
of a cane crop of 1000 acres.
That paper also states that "Flor-
ida consumes about $4,000 tons Of
sugar annually which, in the
humble opinion of The Herald,
would allow only six ounces per
day for each individual, to say
nothing of the vast amount used
in canning and preserving From
any angle that we consider the
subject of sugar production, it
seems simply absurd that Florida
is not right now making sugar
enough to supply all Of the United
States.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-09-18

The esteemed Tampa Times
argues that the drummer is "a
necessary evil"-or, words to that
effect-that he actually funct-
ions as,the friend of the ultimate
consumer, r." The thunder he
does! The ult con. has to pay his
salary and travelling expenses, and
both retailer and consumer can
get along without him. By the
by, did our friend of the Times
ever hear Of Charles Broadway
Rouss, the Virginia ex-Confcder-
ate who went to New York and
became a millionaire wholesale
merchant? The only drummer he
employed was a cheaply printed
catalogue. E. S. Jaffray & Co.
and other great wholesale con-
Germs that employed drummers,
failed; but, though Rouss has been
dead more than fifteen years, his
business still continues and pros
pers. The great mail order
houses of Chicago and other cities
employ no drummers, yet they are
doing business that amounts to
tens Of millions dollars a year.
The drummer, though a splendid
fellow, is an utterly unnecessary
expense.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-09-18

The railroad strikers might re
ceivc some measure of public
sympathy, if they did not threat
en-, by tying up the transporta-
ton of the country, to hit every
one of us, men, women and chill
dren, with the bludgeon of star
walton, if their demands are not
granted.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-09-18

self both a tirst-class newspaper
man and lovable gentleman.
We, however, in common with
many others, rejoice to know that
he is succeeded by that amiable
and scholarly gentleman, Claude
c. Jones, who can be relied upon
to keep the News up to its high
standard.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-09-18

All the readers of the Arcadia
News, amongst whom is The Her
aid editor, sincerely regret the re-
tirement from the tripod Of that
paper of S, L. Frisbic, who has so
ably conducted it for several
months. Mr.. FriSbie proved him
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-09-18
Mrs. Hazel Doty Married.

Mrs. Hazel Doty Of LaBelle,
widow of the late r. e. Doty, was
married in Fort Myers on the 10th
inst, to Evan Magill of LaBelIe.
Many Punta Gorda friends wish
her a long life Of unalloyed hap
pmesS.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-09-18

The Times-Union approves the
proposition to reform the Metho-
dist and other churches by climin-
ating from their rules the prohibi-
ton against dancing, card-playing
and attending theatres. May we
suggest that, when the devil I'M
dortakas to reform the church, it
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-09-18

The Times-Union' s dictionary
puts propaganda in the singular
number. But isn't it the plural
of propagandum?
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-09-18

The esteemed Tampa Tribune
errs in stating that the actual
taking of the census will begin on
Jany. goth, 1920 Maybe the in
corrigible linotype added a naught
to the date, which should have
been Jany. End. Two months
previous to that date, the enumer-
atOrs will be selected and instruct
ed in their duties. This will give
them time to prepare for the work
A good many enumerators will be
needed. Their pay will range
from $500 to $500 day, accord
ing to their ability and activity.
Women as well as men will be en-
ployed. Those wishing to engage
in the work in the first congress
sional district may make applica-
ton now to the Supervisor of the
Census, Punta Gorda.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-09-18

Indigo, cotton, penny-royal and
many other valuable plants grow
wild around Punta Gorda.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-09-18

If the publicity agents can t
"boil down" their contributions
to fit the limitations of a little
country newspaper, they had as
well quit sending them to The
Herald, None of their "pieces"
should require as much as a col
umn yet nearly all of them are
from one to three columns in
length, and every week enough Of
them reach this office to fill every
inch of space in the paper. They
make us weary, very weary.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-09-18

is time for the church to wake up?
We do not mean to intimate that
the Times-Union is the devil,
though it may occasionally help
him without intending to do so.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-09-18

Now, look for the biggest kind
of a fuss between Editor Benja-
min of the Ocala Star, and Editor
McWhorter of the Tampa Trib-
une. The latter calls Benjamin
a sui gencris. We called Ma
Ruhl hinc lilac lachrymac and
came near losing our scalp.
We'd better use plain English,
Mack, when speaking about fight
ing Americans.
The Nenana daily news., 1919-07-31

very good thing or a very bad guarantee perpetual peace or threat en perpetual war; ennoble democracy with world mission or degrade it to the level of wicked European creeds; free us or bind us. No matter. The opposition to it, rap- idly fading now, will cease entirely under the spell of the lyrical inter pretation to which many hundreds of thousands of Americans will listen this summer, and the tour will be recorded as one of the most inn portant musical and political events in our history.
The Nenana daily news., 1919-07-31
Department of the Interior Alaskan Engineering Commissiou
NOTICE

Passengers leaving on the train for any point on the line south of town are required to purchase tickets before entering the train.
 Tickets can be purchased from the station agent, whose office is in the employment office, on the ground floor of the general ofsics building, Alaskan Engineering com mission.
 Tickets will be on sale at any time during office hours, and can be purchased in sufficient time be- fore the departure of the trains.
 Regular trains leave the foot Of A street on Wednesdays and Satur- days at p. m.
 On and after july 18th the freight on the North side of the river at Camp 415 dock will be shipped out Tuesday and Friday of each week, leaving at a. m., until further notice.
The Nenana daily news., 1919-07-31

lieving it will be principally affected by the proper and expeditions build ing of this road, cast in my lot with those who are interested in the welfare of Alaska rather than in the salary checks of the gang of migratory job-holders, whose only tangible work on this division has been the systematic boosting of their salaries and the systematic injury of all "sourdough slobs," as they term Alaskans.
 Edes cuts no figure, anyhow; so let Gerig take over this work, not alone to 56 as he has, but to and including Seward, and clean out the incompetents, the useless, and the salary -padders, and I believe every Alaskan in these parts will support him Loyalty. And I also believe they would not again stand for four years of do-nothing stupidity from any man. I myself am for anybody and anything that's for Alaska and the road
 Respectfully yours,
 THOMAS B. DRAYTON.
The Nenana daily news., 1919-07-31
JUDGE WILL GO
 ID JAIL RATHER
 THAN PAY FINE

DENVER, Colo.-Ben B. Lindsey, judge of Denver's juvenile court, will go to jail before he will pay Ia fine of $500 for contempt of the criminal court here, he has an- nounced. The Colorado supreme court has denied Judge Lindsey's petition for rehearing.
 The fine was assessed when Judge Lindsey, in May, 1915, declined to tell what Neal Wright, 14-year-old ward of the juvenile court, had told the judge about the shooting of Neal's father Neal's mother was trial charged with murder. Neal was the only eyewitness. Mrs. Wright was acquitted.
 Judge Lindsey refused to testify at the trial, insisting that whatever information he possessed regarding the killing had been given him by the boy in confidence and he could not and would not violate the boys confidence Soon after the trial. John A. Perry, then judge of the criminal court, found his fellow judge guilty of contempt and as sessed the $500 fine. Judge Lind sey appealed to the supreme court. The fine was upheld by a majority of the justices, three of. them, how ever. dissenting.
 Judge Lindsey announced that in refusing to pay the fine he is not acting upon a personal point of view, but considers that as the Den lver juvenile court is one of the old lest in the United States, all other courts look to it to uphold it's rights. And one of these is that a relation of circumstances given in confidence to a juvenile court judge
 is not to be used in any other pro- ceedings.
 The judge has received letters
 from many of the judges through
 out the United States urging him to maintain his stand. Various chil.
 dren's agencies have offered to pay
 the fine for him.
 ''No matter what the supreme
 court decided, I still believe and
 will always believe that what Neal
 Wright told me was told me ir lstrictest confidence and that I would have been unworthy to hold the DO
 sition now hold if I had testified,
 said Judge Lindsey. "The fact that -four justices of the supreme court
 say I was wrong does not make ii so. l am not going to pay that fine because if I did I would admit
 was wrong"
 | Neal Wright, the boy involved Ienlisted in the army at the begin
 ming of the war and now is serving lin France.
The Nenana daily news., 1919-07-31
COMMUNICATION
ssx.xxx~Rsgvsssess E.
Seward, Alaska. July II. 1919.

Seward, Alaska, July 14, 1919. Editor Nenana News:
 Like everybody else, I always get a copy of the article in time if it is sufficiently unpleasant, and I suppose that explains why some unknown promoter of joy and happiness and sunshine sent me a copy of The Nenana News containing the "New Seward Reformer" story.
 Now, really, I'm not a reformer in the popular sense, and in no sense unless to believe that a man en- gagged in reforming himself and let ting other people do the same thing for themselves in thier own way makes one a reformer.
 Neither am I an ''obstructionist" of the Government railroad project, or anything else.
 do want this railroad built, and have wanted it for going on five years, and I am convinced it would not have been built within ten years nor within cost of one hundred million dollars had not a few loyal Alaskans determined to light the fires under the job-holding incom- petents on this end, and thus stir things up all down the line.
 For some reason number of the ! territorial papers have paid their respects to me individually. probably becaus I am in the same game, and was, I suppose, when most of the Alaska editors were in pinafores. You know and they know that l have given an immense amount of favorable publicity to such work on the railroad project as deserved commendation, but for some reason that is ignored The only stuff re. printed is where I have turned the spotlight on waste, incompetency and deliberate acts tending to pro long the job. For example, I have time and again commended Gerig': work, and used it more than once as a startling basis of comparison with the unbelievable schoolboy ig inorance and incompetency shown or the Seward division from the spring of 1915 to this blessed hour.
 A sum of money, given to us by Congress to build this road, ap proaching s4,O00,0OO has been sunl on this division, and the road is ir many places in worse physical con dition than when we got it from ths Alaska Northern people; and in oth er places, and practically in all othel places, where it has been officially finished" it is but a poorly-buil third-rate road over which handed, cannot run in safety.
 | As an Alaskan, with some chil ldren whose future depends largel, 4iupon the future of Alaska; and be
The Nenana daily news., 1919-07-31
MARINE BULLETIN

Us = = = Ss = = = = Ss = = S Ss = = S Ss Jacobs, up Nulato, a. m.
 Julia B, up Holy Cross with three barges, 30th.
 Seattle No. 3, down Marshall, 2:30 p. m, 29th.
 Relief, up Marshall, 2:30 a. m., 3Oth.
 Davis, at St. Michael.
 Washburn, at Holy Cross.
 Kotlik, at Gibbon.
 Kelly, at Fish Lake, on Panama. Benchley, at Melozi.
 Yukon, up Gibbon for Dawson, 7:15 a. m.
 Carl White, up Tolovana river, 3 80 a. m., 30th.
 Panama, seven miles below Cinema. Reliance, leaves Fairbanks for Panama today.
 Alaska. with Sibilla in tow, down Fort Yukon, 3 80 p. m., 30th.
The Nenana daily news., 1919-07-31

John J. Buckley, former fire chief of. Fairbanks, and until recently in the employ of the Northern Com mercial company at Fairbanks, came to Nenana this week to accept a position in the store office of the Alaskan Engineering commission.
The Nenana daily news., 1919-07-31
REAGAN IS APPOINTED
 DELEGATES SECRETARY

John J. Reagan, former assistant district attorney of the First divi- sion, has been appointed secretary to Delegate Grigsby.
The Nenana daily news., 1919-07-31
WILSON, THE MAGICIAN.

life is the recollection of a grea, artist in his prime. It makes little difference whether the performer tary hero or a singer. In the days of our childhood the old people kindled anew the joy of living with the memory of public performances of which they had been lucky wit nesses. With one it may have been Daniel Webster at Bunker Hill; with another Jenny Lind at Castle Gar den, Paganini playing in Paris be- fore Heine and Berlioz, or that genius for king acting, the Prince of Wales, at the Brevoort house. But the people who are fortunate enough to hear the President this summer will have reminiscence to store away that will be worth more than wealth to soothe their closing days. For Mir. Wilson is at once the foremost statesman of the world and its greatest artist. We know of no more enjoyable treat, writes the editor of Golfers, than to hear him at any time. But now he comes to us at the very peak of his fame, his skill, his self-confdence, wearing, as it were, the sheaves of victory in his buttonhole.
 Having heard him more than once, we can assure the adoring public that they will not be disappointed in his interpretation of one of the most stupendous events in history They will hear the very top notes To say that his power of statement is marvellous is to give him faintest praise. In our time no one has ap. preached him as a platform speak CT. He has all the arts and graces natural or acquired by long and careful practice. His opponents ana rivals are badly matched against him. Lodge is cold, Borah violent Knox talks like lawyer pleading a case; Bryan is mere ballad sing CT. The President beguiles the in tellect and soothes the senses of hi: hearers. Always himself at ease, he never creates in his audience tht disquieting apprehension that he may strike false note. He has tht "bel canto," but always in complete control. He is as certain of hi cadences as a good singer, and ap parently indifferent to them. NJ matter how carefully prepared hi speeches have been, they sound ex temporaneous and effortless. He ex hibits none of the extravagances an, overemphasis of the popular ora tor" but speaks as if in pleasan and familiar but earnest converse tion with his audience, whom h wishes to convince of somethin, which has deeply impressed itself ol his soul. Orderly, convincing, logi cal, blandly humorous, he yet con tinues to suggest strong feelin managed by stronger mind. you admit a single premise, alway carefully yelled, you are lost as a opponent. In any case, your an tagonism, however alert when he be gins to speak, eventually is soothe to sleep by the grace of his elocu tion and the melody of his voice His speeches sound even better tha they read. In hearing him yo wonder how a man in his positio dare say so much; in reading hir that he really said so little.
 The League of Nations may be
The Nenana daily news., 1919-07-31
WANT ADS

FIFTEEN MEN WANTED to cut wood. Five dollars per cord; good timber. A. c. Vachon, Tan
 ana kS-16
The Nenana daily news., 1919-07-31

FOR SALE-My entire holdings, consisting of Lot 6, Block 10,
 three-room log house, finely fin ished and partially furnished, to- gether with provisions and wood.
 Also my half interest in Nenana
 Steam Laundry. A bargain, if taken before August first Must go Outside on urgent business is reason for sacrifice. Mrs. Clara Alfred, Nenana, Alaska. k7-2S
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1919-12-24
STAR OF BETHLEHEM
WILL GEAM- TONIGHT
ON CHRISTMAS TREE
Brief Program Will Be Given
Christmas Evening; Santa
Claus Will Attend

The Star of Bethlehem will gleam
this evening from atop the COM
munity Christmas tree at the inter-
section of Beltrami avenue and Fifth
street, sponsored as always by the
Queen Esthers, aided by the city
council, and from tonight until the
holiday week terminates New Years
day, the shaded bulbs will shed their
glow in splendor over the simmer
ing streamers that adorn the giant
forest Christmas emblem.
Thursday evening, at o'clock, a
short program will be held at the
foot of the tree. Rev. l.. p. War;
ford, pastor of the Presbyterian
church, will speak, and Captain Or
chard Of the Salvation Army will act
the part Of Santa Claus in the dis
tribution of goodies for the children.
The tree was erected under the
supervision OF Manager Naylor OF the
locar plant Of the Minnesota Light
and Power company, he also con-
tributing the wiring and lighting.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1919-12-24
BElAlDU YANKS ARE
HOME THIS CHRISTMAS

Tomorrow will be the first Yuletide
at home for many Bemidji Yanks
who knocked the germ" out Of Ger
many, and the home folks are max
ing merry.
Two years ago most of the north
vests returned soldiers were in
training camps.
Last Christmas all they had was
the hope Of getting home some time
Tomorrow there will be an extra
helping OF everything on the Christ
mas table for the soldiers who have
returned from overseas and the
camps. It will help to make up for
some Of the things the fighters missed
last year when many of them were
completely out Of touch with home
away off in a tiny French or German
village wondering If they ever would
get home again.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1919-12-24
PEACEC0UNClL
DIVIDES HUN
HOLDINGS IN
south AFRICA
Belgium and England Become
Mandatories Over These
Districts
JAPAN ASKS DELAY
IN PACIFIC DECISION
Other Mandatories Have Not
Yet Been Assigned
to Nations
(By United Press.)

Paris, Dec. 24.-The peace confer
ence today took up a complete prof.
ect for allied mandatories over the
former German colonies, and divided
Germany's former holding in south
east Africa between Belgium and
England.
At the request Of the Japanese
delegation, the conference reserved
action on the former German hold
ings in the Pacific. Other mandatories
have not yet been assigned.
The conference was notified today
that only Germany's naval mission
returned to Berlin to discuss the lat
est allied note demanding that Ger
many sign the peace protocol. The
remainder of the delegation remains
in Parts.
The conference has taken no action
as yet regarding the publication OF
the latest note to Germany.