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THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
OF FAIRBANKS, ALASKA
CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $100,000.00.
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Miners’ Home
. MILER & STOLCIS. Props.
Wines/Liquors & Cigars. Rooms, Steam Heat/j]§
Electric ight & all|Modern Conveniences
Opposite Tanana Valley R. R. Depot
P. O. BOX 767, FAIRBANKS, ALASKA.
Pioneer F
Oldest And Largest Hotel
In Fairbanks.
Warm Stables And Dog Houses.
DAVE PETREE, PROP
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FAIR VIEW HOTEL
First Class Accommodations.
ROOMS 50 cents AND $1
Your Patronage Solicited
FRONT STREET PHONE 245 A
MISS MARY HART
Patronizethe
Miners Home
Restaurant
First Class Accommodation
Nordale Hotel
Your Patronge Solicited,
MARKS
The Expert Tailor
Next to Meat Market
Just received for the fall, Silk
Velvet Collars, and Overcoat
and Fur-coat Pining.
Also, Pressing and Cleaning,
First Class Work Guaranteed.
WORKING MEN!
When Ordering Beer Should Call For
BARTHEL BREWING COMPANY’S
Bottled Beer
Made in Fairbanks out of Pure Ingredients.
TO A SOCIETY BUD
By S. A. BE WITTE
Fair thing,frail thing:
Dream ot gossamer and grace;
Flowing lines and modish lines,
Swishing satins, silks and lace,
Mounted ’round a fairy face!
Wonder thing, marvel thing;
Spirit of the bridge-wliist games;
Of banquet halls and fancy balls;
Envy witch to wrinkled dames;
Steel and flint to faded flames.
Yet thou art a bitter thing!
Artists say it is not right
To call thy grace and wondrous face
A useless thing, a curse, a blight—
But what is said I know is right—
Thou art a pretty parasite!
I never saw thee do a thing
But smile and sing for those to whom
.Thy siren smiles and winsome wiles
Meant spice to stir the jaded gloom,
And drive it from a drawing room!
I never saw thee do a thing
But seek the South when winter hlewr,
Or bound the main w hen Summer came,
Or seek the springs of mountain dew,
Or lai\ds where skies are always blue.
I never saw thee do a thing
But sleep until the day was noon.
And taste and sip with languid lip
From golden dish and silver spoon—
And toast the setting of the moon.
But I have seen another thing—
A sister thine, whose fingers made
The flowing silks and glowing silks,
And e’en the gold, the soul-spun gold
Wherewith these charms of. thine
were paid!
Fair thing, frail tiling—
Dream of tresses robed with light;
Modish lines, and flowing lines—
Spirit of these dizzy times—
Product of the Profit Might;
Tell me am I wrong or right,
When 1 name thee—PARASITE ?
If you are a worker you need
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Dome Cigar Store
OLNCSS
CARRIES FIRST CLASS
Clothing, Cigars, Tobaccos
STATIONERY, CANDIES
AND FRUITS.
Large Circulating Library.
WM. VOSS, Prop.
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Best Equipped Roadhouse In the
Interior of Alaska.
In the Heart of the
Quartz District.
COMFORT FOR MAN AND BEAST
TOM ROCKWELL CLEARY CITY
I Sour Dough
Express
HACK, Day & Night,
Wood for Sale. Call up Sour Dough
Office at M. A. PINSKA'S.,
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Candidate Bums Is
Condemned by
A Union Man
Former President of Local Branch ofW.
F. of Miners Runs on Same Ticket
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with Guggenheiiti Agents, and will
go Down to Defeat in Conseq
uence Thereof Nov. 3rd.
Candidate W. T. Burns’ switching
from the victorious popular non-part
isan ticket, which, if anything, is pro
gressive, to the reactionary regular
Murphy Democratic ticket, with its
Tammany methods, seems like an an
anomaly! It’s one of those events pec
uliar to politics that cannot be explain
ed. Though at that it’s not inconsDtant
with Candidate Burns. Billy’s record
on public matters, since as a roughneck
and president of the local \V. F. of M.
shows that he is some switcher. As
leader of the miners, in the Tanana lab
or struggles, Burns was a valiant knight
of labor, and right manfully did he
fight for and plead the cause of labor.
Billy was one of the lucky ones, he laud
ed on the paystreik. Followed prosper
ity and the grand switch. Was it fora
Democratic riband in his coat lapel that
he left us? that our former guide flopp-.
ed from a radical to an ultra-ccnservat-.
ive ? And, as a big landlord and holder
of a vast area of low-grade mining
ground and prospective employer of la
bor, make common cause with T. Me-.
Gowan, attorney for Alaska’s largest
corporations, E. W. Griffin, personific-.
ation of Eig Interests, and other react
ionary lawyers and elements ? Was it on
account of Bunnell's promise of a cent
ral “power plant” and other cheap con
ditions for working the mines that Can
didate Burns changed his principles and
philosophy? Oh William! On November
3, retribution will come!
A UNION MINER..
Deal Said to Be Active
In The Political Game
Using A Political Office to Advance
Party Interests Said to be Against
DEPARTMENT RULES
Why do such men as Stubs Erwin and
Tom Deal, after having, through the
accident of politics, obtained govern
ment offices, not content themselves
with filling those offices properly with
out using their efforts, to remove the
best govesnuient official ever sent to the
interior ?
Deal w7as opposed by the N. C. and
the whole gang. In spite of their oppos
ition, through the influence of a personal
friend in Congress he was appointed
postmaster. Now he has idetnified him
self with the very persons who opposed
him. It is to be hoped that in some way
Deal will be held accountable for his
share in the removal of Crossley, If he
thinks he has helped his party his mind
will be disabused of tlidt idea after the
votes are counted next month. The peo
ple on the creeks now understand Deal,
as they have long siuce known Erwin.
Ingratitude is sclodm forgotten.
REAL DEMOCRAT
And so, after years of persistent e,d
er,ts, District Attorney J. Crosslev has
succeeded in compelling' the powerful
N. C. corporation to pay its just share
of taxes to help run the government.
And this communities share of the
back taxes, added to the poll taxes will
help some. Evidently the lanky Iowa
‘•‘carpetbagger,” after some seven years
of continual pernicious activity, hewing
to the line and letting the chips fall
where they may, hasn’t become one
whit more liberal in his ideas. Small
wonder Alaska’s Tammany Hall organ
Conquerors are a class of men with
whom, tor most part, the world could
well dispense.—Carlyle.
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ization is making such desperate efforts
to get “that Crossley’ ’ out of office and
foist N. C.—White Pass attorney, Tom
McGowan, E. W. Griffin et al into the
Alaska legislature—killing two birds
with one stone.
If there be a voter in Alaska (pie
hunters excepted) who has any doubt
left of the defeat of the Democratic tick
et, his attention is called to the Mur-,
phyites faithful official organ. The Al-..
aske Citizen has one long, grand record,
of backing losers.
The emancipation of the working
class must be the class-conscious work,
of the working class. —KARD MARX..
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