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**_FAIRBANKS, ALASKA, DECEMBER, 21,1914. _
' Barnette Said to be
Coming North Soon
To Pay Us A Friendly Visit
And Meet His Former
Acquaintances.
E. T. Barnette, former mine owner and high financier, is reported
to be contemplating a visit to the Tanana soon.
The peons of the Tanana, tralike the peons of Mexico, are a peace
able, law-abiding and unselfish lot of producers, and this is said to br
the reason why the Col. prefers the Tanana to Mexico.
CHRISTMAS
How will it dawn, the coming Christ
mas day ?
A Northern Christmas such as Christ
ians love.
And kinstolk shaking hands but once
a year,
And dames who tell old legends by
the fire,
Red sun, blue sky, white snow and
pearled ice,
Keen ringing air which sets the blood
on fare
And makes the old man merry with
the young,
Through the short sunshine, through
the longer night ?
The heath eats up green grass and
delicate flowers;
The pine, the heath; the grub, the
pine;
The finch, the grub; and the hawk
the silly' finch.
Aud man, mightiest ot all beasts of
Prey,
Eats what he lists; the strong cat up
the weak;
The mauy eat the tew; great nations
small.—Kingsley.
PATRIOTISM
The Alaska Citizen, in its issue just ■
prior to the November election said:
‘ ‘The Alaska Socialist is said to
^ have a new editor in the person of
Bion A. Dodge. . . v. . Mr. Dodge
was seen at the office of the Socialist
prior to its last issue, and it is sup
posed he is the writer of the politic
al attacks on Tom McGowan and R.
F. Roth.”
The allegation of Caskey, which we
neither affirm or deny, shows a very low
state of mental development. If the al
legation that Dodge, bv a visit to the
office of the Socialist is its ‘‘new editor”
who, by the same reasoning, is the edit
or of the Citizen,—McGowan, Griffin,
or Roth. Did not Barnett once edit the
Citizen in his own behalf ?
The war in Europe, which we deplore,
is a subject that we can study with pro
fit, and many lessons of benefit t.o us
can be learned therefrom. Thousands
of persons of both sexes are ready to
sacrifice their lrves in the service of
their respective countries without a
single thought of gain. And woe unto
him who is caught “giving comfort to
the epcmy.” A person who is caught
BETTER CRUSH HIM
INJE SHELL
The chief object of Mr. Bunnell in
making the race for delegate was to
give him a prominence an a 1 ‘Demograt’ ’
that might give him a prestige with the
President that would land him in some
federal position. Now it behoves every
good Democrat in Alaska to write Pres
ident Wilson and Attorney General
Gregory a letter informing them fully
just who and what Mr. Bnn&ell is.
There need be nothing abusive said a
bout Mr. Bunnell for he is no doubt a
clean lady-like young man, in a wav,
but for representing Alaska in congress
he is a joke and the people in Alaska
know it now a great deal better than be
fore he was nominated.
Mr. Bunnell nas the political bee
buzzing in his bonnet pretty strong and
it is said that he already has skied bis
hat in tne ring for the Fairbanks judge
ship, Mr. Fuller having sent in his re
signation. Now Mr. Bunnell is no more
qualified for this posisisn than the
most common miner is to be President
ot the United States and it would be a
calamity to Alaska should the people sit
idly by and let Strong and Jennings run
him in there. They care nothing for Al
aska. There only aim is to exploit Alas
ka politically.
Get busy. Write a letter to the pres
ident advising him as to who and what
Bunnell is. You will be doing a good
turn for the people of Alaska. Keep
this class of men out of all public pos
itions for their sole aim is private gain.
Valdez Commoner.
trying to sell out his country to the en
emy is spurned and loathed by even
body; even Hs dearest friends and near
est relatives will pass hint by as a thing
to be abhorred.
When Caskey, while pretending to
work for the interests of the people of
this community, tries to turn Alaska
over to the representatives of a bunch
of foreign corporation thieves be is in
the same class as the man that tries to
sell out his count/y to the enemy.
Moral: The sack, though yet in sight,
may never reach the hand.
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TIMELY TOPICS
The opinions handed down by Mr.
Roth, the new district attorney, regard
ing the payment of taxes have brought
considerable joy to the hearts of some.
Taxation has, ever since the time, in
the dim and distant past, when the
first band of exploiters conceived the 1
dea of levying tribute on their peaceful
and Industrious neighbors, been a souroe
of worry to those who were cslled upon
to pay them, and of joy to those for
whose benefit they were collected- If
Mr. Roth could Work out a system
whereby everpbody would be relieved
from the further payment of taxes he
would have the undying grrtitude of
of mankind. There was a time when
there were no taxes collected. That was
before the days of organized authority.
Politicians had not yet appeared .to fool
the people, nor district attorneys to draw
down fat salaries.
The fight will continue between the
little tax-payer and the big tax-payer to
see who will pay the smallest amount of
taxes possible. That’s business!
The same forces that put Roth in as
District Attorney will put him out when
he cun no longer serve them
Can a man serve two masters?
Probably he thinks he can.
The Democratic party has no policy.
j
It’s mission is to deliver public offices to
the faithful.
.
The many reforms that the Democrat
ic party were to institute have been
forgotton in the scramble for pie.
The discriminating Alaskan voter is
willing to listen to any new theory that
may be put before him. He gets impa
tient however when he is invited by car
pet baggers to play at old games under
new names.
; It is reported that there are about
two score candidates, more or less, lor
the position of District Judge fcr the
Fourth Division prominent among the
names being that of Chas. E. Brnnnel
who aspired to the Delegateship.
Other names that have been men
tioned are those of John Dillon, Luther
Hess, District attorney Spence of Val
dez and Assistant District attorney Gard
ner of Fairbanks.
R. S. McDonald, game warden and
man about town, tillicum ot Thomas A.
McGowan, has been placed on the city
council again. We thought that Mc
Gowan had just been defeated but it
seems that we were mistaken. As soon
as he is knocked down in one place he
bobs up in another. He is on the job all
the time, morning noon and night look
ing after the affairs of government.
Who is going to be our new Jndge ?
The new Judge of to-day will be the
old Judge of to-morrow.
A new broom sweeps clean.
J. W. Riggs
Barber
Front St,
Leyroy Tozier is said to be very anx
ious as to who should be Judge. Like
Grape Nuts “There’s a Reason! “
PADDY O’HOOLIGAN
B’ gory th’ Eurpeen war's gittin
I worse ’n more iv it but thank th’ saints
oar own war iv polyticks is over—Rath
has got a jawb at last an Crossley’s gon
fer good an‘ there’s great rajoycin along
the Yukawn b’ the bootleggers an other
licker inthrests an tax dodgers an tin
horns iv this joorisdickshen; an d’ yez
moind how we sint Our Jim back t’
foight ler us again ? Wurra! Wurra!
Faitn an phwat else could his gr-rateiul
consitooente do ? “Go right back Jim, ”
sez they, “an go at em agin.’’ Wow!
Wow! B' jabers wid a bigger majority
than ever, ’tis a rale joy ride our dilly
gate ’ll be takin over the Valdeez thrail
goin back t’ Washington ter the foorth
toime an him lavin behind all these
dimmycratic soreheads an other dis
gruntled pie-hunters, shure an tli’ div
vil a meeting has the Dimmycratic club
held since th’ first Toosday in Nov., un
tie lately, an phwat the divvil wint
wrong wid all th thried au thrue an all
their enthooseeasm ?
B’ jabers, ’tis toime Oim thin-jjn, that
Martin Harrais got a jawb, an there do
be another thried an thrue Jeffersonian
whose prisince in our midst will bring
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harmony among us all. 'Tis Roy Mad*
docks, I mane. Whist! but I’m after
liearin that he is to be the man behind,
’tis a strang langwidge these polyticians
do be after usin, why can't they spake
plain Inglish loike we Oirish. An spak
in of Rath, ’tis some gladiator he is
himsilf, an divvil a word have we heard
from the Presbyter since, only one
round did it last. Ach! shure an if Fath
er Donnelly had tackled Rath the divvil
a hair would be lift in his bald head by
this toime, Bad cess, says I, t’ all but
insky prastes. Let thim attind their
shape, says I, and lave us polytshuns
attind oor dooties an’ if their do be any
thing lift afther we finish we will pat it
in the hat the first Soouday either
illish un!
Shure an whin Our Jim put Fairbanks
on th’ map he traveled b’ mooshin dawgs
an now th’ autvmobile '11 take himself
an other sourdoughs t’ th’ coast in a
few days, but whist! when the peepul
illtct their dillvgale two years hince, he
will maybe ride in a pullmau o\ er the
thracks of the Alasky r-railr-road.
PADDY O’ HOOLIGAN
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A. Merry Xmas
A Merry Christmas to one and all,
And Many may you see,
And through all the years to come
Tull happy may you he.
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LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE WILL
GIVE DANCE CHRISTMAS NIGHT
On Christmas "evening at 9.30, at
the Auditorium in Fairbanks, the en
tertainment committee of Fairbanks
Lodge, Loyal Order of Moose will put
on the greatest dance of the season.
The Ribband Cotillion at 10.30 under
the personal direction of Dr. McGinnis
chairman of the Committee will be the
leading attraction of the evening.
The luncheon will be served by the
best chefs in town.
The Moose poet sends nn the follow
ing advice:
Forget your friends, forget your foes!
Banish all your ares and woes!
Dress your girl in snowy white,
And take her to the Moose Dance on
Christmas Night,
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