Hide Article Text (OCR)
The Missionaries Can Move Out.Alaska will be marie the model country of the eat tli in the passage of the criminal code for this district, which places the liquor licenses so high that there will lie but few saloons. The penalties for gambling are very severe and prostitution is to he entirely stopped. If the law is enforced, and we presume it will be. there will ho no full her need for the missionaries, for everybody will be good—compelled to he good by force of the statute. The little, quiet game of poker will furnish no more pastime for the old tanks, and the dance hall doors will he closed to the boys from the mines. There will lie no more neighing alter your neigh- c bor's wives and the News will not bo 1 run as a religious paper. Congress has s been slow in doing anything for Alaska t but when the movement came it was a v holy terror.
Newspaper Details
Douglas Island News
Douglas, Alaska, US
Wed, Mar 15, 1899
Page 3
Full Page
Clipped by
Anonymous
AK, USA 07 Dec 2023
Other Publications Near Douglas, Alaska
The Douglas Miner
The Alaska Sourdough
Douglas Island News
