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ALASKA DAILY EMPIRE; J. F. A. STRONG Telephone No. 3-7-4 Entered an ?econd-claa? matter November 7, 1912 at the postofflce at Ju neau. Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: G?e year, by mail 310.00 SI* months, by mail ! 5.00 Per month, delivered 1.00 JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1913. BLEEDING MEXICO PRESIDENT MADERO, of Mexico, who with his Cabinet yes terday, was a fugitive, driven out by General Felix Diaz, is today again in the national palace. But so uncertain are conditions in suffering Mexico that one may expect to hear that almost anything has happened. It is gather from the dispatch es that Mexico has now two presidents, Diaz having proclaimed himself such. Diaz, yesterday a prisoner, under sentence of death, today the President of Mexico is a quick transformation, and one which could occur nowhere else, save among the Latin people and their descendants in America. No country in the world has ever equaled Mexico in the suddenness with which it changes its rulers. In half a century it has had some forty or fifty revolutions and when it is con sidered that President Profirio Diaz held the country in his grip for thirty years, one cannot help but admit that at least he knew how to handle the Mexican people and insure what is called "sta ble government" in his country. But in order to maintain his rule the deaths of thirty thousand Mexicans are laid at his door. He put down rebellion with the sword, and those who escaped death in battle or skirmish found it lined up against a dead-wall, with a platoon of soldiers as their executioners. Franceso Madero waged a war upon President Diaz, and the latter was forced to flee his country, and now it is Madero's fate to be forced to flee before the grandson of the former President. I A stormy time has Madero had. Rebellion has been rife, first | in one section of Mexico, then in another, ever since the Mex ican people formally elected him their President. Troublous times are still in store for that unhappy country. How best to govern it, and govern it right, is a problem that the Mexican people themselves must solve, even if they must first destroy the country and decimate its people. Perhaps in the course of time a system of real government for its people will be evolved from the wreck that now threatens it. THE FATE OF CAPTAIN SCOTT ANOTHER dark page has been added to the history of Arc tic and Antarctic exploration, by the death of Captain Scott and his intrepid companions. How many have paid the death toll in the icy wilderness of the Antarctic is not yet known, but at least seven have perished. And the question again forces itself to the front: Is the knowledge gained of the Arc tic regions worth what it has cost in human lives? Certainly those lands have not added to the material happiness or pros perity of mankind. True, our geographical knowledge has been enriched, but in the last analysis we now know only what wej were certain, of long before Peary discovered the North Pole, or Amundsen had reached the southern extremity. We knew that both were desolate regions of perpetual ice without the vestige of life of any kind. Small wonder that Captain Amundsen says that the North Pole, having been once discovered, it is not worth while to try to reach it again. Assuredly it is not. Regions of more equable climate offer much greater opportunities to explor ers than do those of the Arctics. Yet, we suppose, adventur ous men will find reasons for their investigations for many years to come. But, is it worth while? Governor Blease will not let South Carolina troops attend the inauguration for fear they will have to march behind negro soldiers. Victims of one form of mental obsession always "see red." Is "seeing black" a similar symptom? PLENTY OF ROOM FOR ALL THERE is exultation in Cordova over the report of the Alas ka Railroad Commission, and the special message which President Taft sent to Congress, putting his seal of approv al upon the railroad building in Alaska?Cordova to reap the first fruits of the building. We have not yet heard from Seward or Valdez, but we do not think that either need be despairful. Prom ise of future consideration is held out to both, and though these ambitious towns may not become at once important railroad terminals, soon or late they will. And in the meantime it is noted that the country tributary to both is being developed and both are rich in promise. The Matanuska coal fields, we believe, will be developed and a railroad to transport the product will be provided. As a mat ter of fact the building of three trunk railroads to open up the great interior country is a potential possibility, and, in the not distant future?one with Cordova as its coast terminal, one from Seward and another from Valdez. And besides there is the im portant region that a railroad to the interior from Haines, on Lynn Canal, would open to development. And none of these sec tions would be tributary to the other, for each would occupy an independent field. In saying this The Empire is actuated by the belief that the day of Alaska's stagnation has ended; the time of its eman cipation is here. Alaska is such an illimitable country, its nat ural resources are so rich and extensive that the interests of one should not conflict with another. There is plenty of room for the building of railroads and there are coast terminals for all. The report of the postal official's that practical jokers have already quit sending packages by parcel post is an evidence of how quickly a joke gets stale in this country unless canned for stage use. PROGRESSIVES AND THE PRESS ARTHUR D. HILL, Chairman of the Legislative Committee of the Progressive party, has filed a bill in the Massachu setts Legislature authorizing the appointment of a com mittee of five to supervise newspapers and to conduct investiga tions into "the conduct of newspapers or periodicals relative tc the performance of their public duty fairly and impartially to ascertain and disseminate true information concerning public affairs, news events and current opinions." This is not a new propaganda of the Progressives. Their chieftain, when President, undertook a national regulation of newspapers as his official prerogative. His theory was that they might be punished for lese-majesty under criminal prosecutions by the Government whenever a President felt himself aggrieved. Later on, the same chieftain, being a candidate for the Presiden cy, complained that the press did not report his speeches nor give sufficiently ample attention to his travels and his inter views. Some similar motive may prompt the new demand. A com mittee of five is to decide what a newspaper shall print and how much space shall be given to each item. Under Progressive rule the committee would have easy work allotting the space, but the task would soon become monotonous. And what would be done to an editor that rebelled? ?[ I I I I I i I I I I I I I I I I I II II I-I-H :: The Alaska Press ?fc 11111111111111111111 ii n The organization of Igloo. No. 6,} Pioneers of Alaska, revealed the fact that there are many trail blazers, lit erally or figuratively, in this town of Ruby. Over one hundred and twenty five joined on organization night, and there are many others still to be heard from.?Ruby Record-Citizen. ? ? ? The coming administration can spread bread upon the waters, as it were, by opening up the coal fields in Alaska, and it would be returned an hundredfold?and buttered bread at that.?Cordova Alaskan. ? ? ? People apparently do not like re cent Judicial decisions, they blame the judges. They fail to recognize that what is objectionable is the class made law which class conscious Judges interpret. But the latter have no op tion?nor would there be any under the recall.?Nome Industrial Worker. ? ? ? Saturday, Feb. 1. the Skagway Dally Alaskan closed the fifteenth year of its existence and entered that lovable age known as sweet sixteen. The Daily Alaskan is the oldest daily news paper in Alaska, older by several months than any any other one now being published.?Skagway Alaskan. ? ? ? There won't be any flood of sorrow over the decrease of business of the express companies due to the compe tition of the parcel post. These com panies have been among the biggest dividend payers in the country for many years and the lemons they slice almost puts to shame the Standard Oil Company.?Ketchikan Miner ? * * Fifty drinks of Scotch whiskey a day for 12 years Is the record of a certain roadhouse man in the Daw son neighborhood, according to per sons who kept tab on him. No won der the fellow was "bugs" on the steamer Casca, on which he was a passenger on the last trip of the boat up the river. Forty drinks per day is enough for any man who would dis tinguish between respectable intoxica tion and beastly drunkenness. The fel low might have known that those ex tra 10 drinks per day would eventual ly land him.?Iditarod Pioneer. ? * ? All in favor of the good old days when we had to pay 50 cents each || for our letters and were governed by good old miners' laws and justice < > will please hold up their hands. We 0 got what we paid for then and don't ^ now.?Fairbanks Citizen. < ? o 100 VARIETIES OF " ALASKA STRAWBERRIES <1 o More than 100 varieties of straw- o berries now grow in Alaska, accord ing to the annual report of Alaska ag rlcultural experimental stations of the o department of agriculture, made pub- <, lie recently. Because of the ciimatical conditions o In Alaska it was a hard problem at o first to get strawberries to thrive, but \ [ by hybridizing cultivated varieties <> with pollen from the wild native Alas- o ka strawberry of the coast region splendid results were obtained. The iy most remarkable feature about these o hybrid plants is that they were de- < \ cidedly more vigorous than either par , ent, yielding more, growing larger, and < ? seeming suited to almost any climate in the Territory. ^ In connection with the growing of apples the experts in Alaska wrote <> that only trees with crab apple blood ^ produced fruit. An apple is being <' made to hybridize the crab apple in < > ! hopes of getting a fruit that will stand < > . the climate and be acceptable to good table use. *' < ? SEAL SHIPT OYSTERS?Fresh at X ? the local agency?CHAS. GOLDSTEIN ^ IRONS HAS SOME MONEY j Game Warden Irons is the proud possessor of some Alaska coin of the realm: it is neither gold, silver or copper, but it stands for tender in the district from which it comes and thereby hangs a tale. The money is of three denominations, a dollar J a half dollar, and a quarter-dollar; the first bears the profile of a bear, and the last that of a beaver. The money comes from Munson's post, on the Salcha, says the Fairbanks Citl | zen. In dealing with the natives Mun son has occasion to use considerable j change, which can only be secured by making trips to Fairbanks, putting him to a great loss of time. What change he brought to the post had the habit of disappearing, which only en tailed another trip to the city. He re solved to change matters so that it would not put him out so much or cause the natives to be deprived of their means of barter. Accordingly he had struck off from aluminum met al the denominations of the different coins used in this section of Alaska, and as a result everyone is satisfied with the arrangement and he now has no difficulty in making change. A complete line of tobacco iars and pipe racks at BURFQRDS. The Juneau Steamship Co. U. S. Mail Steamer GEORGIA Juneau-Sitka Route ? Leaves Juneau for Hoonah, Gypsum, Tenakee, Killisnoo and Sitka? 8:00 a. m., Nov. 5. 11, 17. 23, 29, Dec. 5, 11, 17. 23, 29. Jan. 4, 10, 16. 22, 28, Feb. 3, 9, 15. 21, 27, March 5, 11. 17, 23 and 29. Leaves Juneau for Funter and Chatham, 8:00 a. m.?Nov. 17, Dec. 11, Jan. 4, 28, Feb. 21, iMarch 17. j Leaves Juneau for Tyee, 8:00 i a. m.?Nov. 23, Dec. 23, Jan. 22, . Feb. 21. March 23. Juneau - Skagway Route ? Leaves Juneau for Pearl Harbor, Eagle River, Yankee Cove, Sen tinel Light Station, Juaiin, El dred Rock Light Station. Com et, Haines, Skagway,, 8:00 a. m. ?Nov. 3, 9, 15. 21, 27. Dec. 3, 9. 15. 21, 27. Jan. 2, 8. 14. 20, 26, Feb. 1, 7, 13, 19, 25, March 3, 9, 15, 21, 27. Returning leaves Skagway the following day at 8:00 a. m. WILLIS E. NOWELL, MANAGER 111II1111111111111111111111II11111II Add to the Comfort and Charm of Your Home :: ^Nothins: adds more to the attractiveness of the home than , , alwcll-appointcd table. It holps to mako the home the place , , home ought to be. And you would be surprised, perhaps, , . how much it adds to the positive relish of the meal. 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From Junwiu for Sheep Creek Saturday Niffht Only 11:00 p. m. for Juneau Returning Leaves Sheep Creek 11:40 p. m. Leaves Treadwell 11:45 p. m. Leaves Douglas 11:50 p. m. Sunday Schedule name an above, except trip leaving Juneau at 8 a. m. i* omitted | ?! ?!??! I I I I I I I I I -I I I -I ?! Ill 1 111-1 1 I I III III 1 1 I I 1 OCCIDENTAL HOTEL AND ANNEX f *1 Restaurant in Connection Established 1881 European Plan *| COMMERCIAL MEN'S HOME " ~ FRONT ST. JOHN P. OLDS. Mngr. JUNEAU, ALASKA " ?M-I ! I I I 1 -I-l -l-I-I-l-I-I-1 I ?! I I I 1 1 I H-H-l L 1-11 1 11 I11 1 I I I I H-HTi !? 11 UNION IRON WORKS Machine Shop and foundry J Gas Engines and Mill Castings Agents Union Gas Engine and Regal Gas Engine We Are Headquarters for j! DRY GOODS, CLOTHING BOOTS AND SHOES, FURNISHINGS STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES ALASKA-TREADWELL GOLD MINING CO. ^ ^ ^ i )