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Voi. 9 No. 19
JOESPH E. RILEY
After years of hard toil in dif
ferent mining camps of Alaska,
bearing burdens, responsibilities
and disappointments sufficient to
make quitters of 19 out of every
20 men, and always with an un
failing cheerful disposition, Jos
eph E. Riley (known to everyone
as “George,”) suddenly ended
his earthly cares on Otter creek
last Sunday morning—the victim
of an assassin’s bullets. Shot in
the hack three times at close
range, given nqt an instant’s
show for his white alley, he was
ushered into the presence of his
Maker.
Riley was for years recognized
as one of the big “industrial pit
lars” of this camp- He was a
bundle of nerves, grit and perse
verence. The tougher things
happened about his mining oper
ations, the more firmly he set
that square jaw of his and smiled.
The trials, cares and troubles
attending last season’s mining
were probably the most exasper
ating of his career, but the buoy
ancy of his makeup kept him
going full-speed ahead.
Several mining associates of
Riley’s have left this camp with
snug homestakes, and he was,
according to common hearsay,
about ready to get a good peep
at the sunny side of the street—
and reach that long-fought-for
goal—when he was shot down.
Riley’s wa3 a strong character,
and like most men of that nature,
made warm and devoted friends,
and, probably, some enemies, but
all agree that
Re was no quitter- -was built of stuff—
From soda to hoc he ne'er cried 'nough
Riley deserved a better fate.
A MATTER OF FIGHTING
The outcome of the war is
going to be a matter of fighting.
We might as well get that into
our minds. It will profit us noth
ing to hope that internal condi
tions in Germany will put an end
to the war. It will get us no
where to sit down and figure
upon Austria’s breaking away
from Germany. We only deceive
ourselves by thinking the Ger
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man people will overthrown the
kaiser.
We are going to win the war,
but it is goiug to take fighting to
do so, In fighting, men are
killed. Our boys, many of them,
are going to give up their lives
on the battlefield before this
thing is over, and we might as
well be prepared for the awful
ness of the sacrifices. Our troops
will kill more of the Germans
than the Germans will kill of our
troops; of that we feel certain.
But the point is, '-'c must get
down in the mud and dirt and
smoke and fight. We must tight
and die. We who were not on
the tiring line must help with the
fight. We can not—we ought not
—to expect these soldiers to do
it all. We ought to know that
they cannot do their best unless
we are with them to the last dol
lar we possess. We have got to
lay aside politics; we have got to
stop criticising; we must get into
the game with both hands and
with our whole hearts
Whether the end will come
this year or the next, we do not
know. But it will not come until
Germany is whipped, and she is
not as yet whipped. That is as
far as v/e ought to go in our
speculations.—Juneau Empire.
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GERMAN KULTUR NOT A
NEW THING
“Every village they have passed
through has been the victim of what is
only organized pillage. Every city has j
been practically sacked, ransacked on
system: its citizens plundered, its civil
officials terrorized, imprisoned, out
raged. or killed. The civil populations
have been, contrary to the usage of
modern warfare, forced to serve the
invadiDg armies, brutally put to death,
reduced to wholesale starvation, and
desolation. Vast tracts of the richest
and most industrious districts of Europe
have been deliberately stripped and
plunged into famine, solely in ordet
that the invaders might make war
cheaply. Irregular troops, contrary to
all the practice of war, have been sys
tematically murdered, and-eivil popula
tions indiscriminately massacred, solely
to spread terror. A regular system of
ingenious terrorism has been uirectea
againstcivilians as horrible as anything !
in the history of civil or religious wats
Large and populous cities have been,
not once, but 20, 30, 10 times, bom
barded and burnt, and the women and
children in them wantonly slaughtered,
with the solo object of inflicting suffer
ing. All this has been done not in li
cense or passion, but by the calculating
ferocity of scientific soldiers.”
The above was not written, though
it might have been, yesterday, last
month or last year. Tt appeared in the
English Fortnightly Review February,
1871, shortly before the surrender of
of Paris. Frederick Harrison, the
writer, is still alive. Its statements
were true then, are true now. Julius
Caesar in his Commentaries narrates!
events which show that oven before
the time of Christ the Germans demon
strated the possession of all of the rudi
ments of their modern “kultur.” It is
no new thing; and hundreds of thou
sands of men will have died in vain if
this sinister thing is not absolutely and i
utterly exterminated forever by the
forces of civilization arrayed against it.
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Carranza has put a'head tax of
$8 in gold on persons leaving
Mexico for the United States.
But no doubt the privilege is
worth the price.— N. Y. World.
Russian bear looks more like a
dachshund every day. — Wall
Street Journal.
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POOR WJcADOO
Poor Mr. McAdoo!
Think of the jobs he’s hitched up to—
The treasury, the railroad crew,
The income tax. and then a few.
Each week they hand him something
new
To tax his time and temper, too.
He has to know when loans are due,
What source to get his billions through,
What fund to pass each dollar to.
What tax is what, and who is who;
What bonds to sell and what renew,
Which “trust” to coax and which to
sue.
He stretches out each day to two
To do the things he has to do.
The job would flounder me or you,
But it’s a cinch for McAdoo !
—Philadelphia Paper.
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WHEN THE DAY IS DONE
I have eaten a bale
Of spinach and kale,
And I've never raised a row.
I have swallowed a can
Of moistened bran
And I feel like a brindle cow.
I am taking a snack
From the old haystack
In tiie evening shadows gray.
And I’m glad, you bet,
At last to get
To the end of a meatless day.
—Washington Star.
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SRON TEST FOR LABOR
In this country the war is the war of
the people. This means that the labor
ing man is conducting his own war.
In Germany it is a dynastic war with
its controlling purpose not to widen
but to limit the freedom of the people.
In this country the war continues
and will be prosecuted to the end with
vigor because tho working people
whose interests are primarily at stake
—and this does not imply class distinc
tion—are a unit. In Germany they art
dumb driven cattle. Hence the labor
unions of America are being treated to
the kind of conditions that would be
created for them were the kaiser vie
torious in the war as he or his minions
have proclaimed the death penalty for
strikes.
These are forced into the shops or
into the army or into death. So would
the American workingmen be treated
by tho German autocrat.
The iron fist for labor—this is the
ideal of tho country that is ratified
with classes, where the beneficiaries of
so-called kultur have nothing in com
mon with the bread-winners. And
against this nefarious, medieval state
of society the American fights with all
his manhood. -Baltimore American.
LABOR IMPOSED ON FRENCH
GIRLS BY GERMAN OFFICIALS
French Front. March 20.—That com
pulsory labor for German conquerors is
imposed on the French women and
girls, as well as on the male inhabi
tants, of tho invaded districts of
France, is shown in the order issued by
General Volkers of the 9th German
army corps, recently stationed in the
vicinity of Cambria. The text of the
order is as follows:
This group of troops will shortly
have need of 1,000 men for various
works. An increase of production must
be exacted from these workers, and
groups of women must be employed
whenever possible, especially for work
in the fields. Those in charge of these
workers must bear in mind that at the
present moment our German women
are taking the places of male workers
and they should not lose sight of the
principle that no French wojnan or
girl ought to be allowed to do less work
than our countrywomen in the inte
rior.”
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BUTTON WON PILLOW
The Red Cross pillow, donated by
Mrs. J. H. McLean, which is going the
round of this part of Interior Alaska,
and which has been in Iditarod during
the past week, was won by Dick Button
last Monday eveniug, who sent it to
Flat City to be sold. The Red Cross
realized $21 by the award in this city.
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John Sinclair, John Webster, John
Edwards and Billy Tewsit, each with
a tired dogteam, reached town last
Monday evening from Ophir-wards.
Wally Labosky, widely-known old
timer of the Interior, is a late arrival
in the camp from the Kuskokwim.
If shipping space were not at
such a premium it would seem
desirable to send some of our
German spies to Prance for trial.
—Philadelphia North American.
SOLDIERS DROWN
San Diego. Cal-, May 6.—Fifty
two soldiers drowned and eleven
other persons are missing as a
result of a terrific tide rip at
Ocean Beach. SLxty persons
were rescued.
big wage Increases
Washington, May 4 — Recommending
millions of dollars in wage increases to
men who man the American railroad
systems, the Railway-Wago Adjusting
Board completed its report today and
forwarded same to Secretary McAdoo.
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OPHIR PRIMARY
Following is the result of primary
election at Ophir, Alaska, April 30:
For Delegate to Congress—
Sulzer .20
Maloney . 4
Wickersham fi
Connelly 1
For Territorial Senator—
Hess.18
Gaustad . 4
Pratt. 2
For Territorial Representatives—
Dunn 21
Kilgoro. 18
Nordale .10
Pennington. 11 t
Collins . 4
Good . 2
Hilleary . 2
Maloney . 1
For Road Commissioner—
Sheldon .13
Steil .8
Grow . . 1
Ross.3
Newaik, N. J. April 2—President
Wilson in a letter to New Jersey demo
cratic leaders assembled at a banquet
here wrote: “Every sign in these ter
rible days of war and revolutionary
change when economic and social forces
are being released upon the w< rid
whose effect no seer dare venture to
conjecture bids us search our hearts
and make them ready for the birth of
a new department Old party slogans
have lost their significance and will
mean nothing to the voter of the future,
f >r the war is certain to change the
m nd of Euio >e as well as ihe mind cf
America.’’
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