The Alaska citizen., 1912-11-04

tween Turk and Montenegrin
 You can have one right here in i Fairbanks. The battle ground can 1 be the Third Avenue hotel You know my old friend H. D. Fountain always did have a streak of humor q mile wide in him. and honestly that streak must have widened when he thought this one out Anyway here it is. If you hang around the | town much you know George the 1 Turk" as he is called Well. George
 lives at the Third Avenue. The | Turk retires early in the morning as usual thing. That is just be fore old Sol sticks his face above the fence. Now George has lived at the hotel for some time. Anyway last Thursday night, or rather Fri day morning. George the Turk" de- cided that he would retire Upstairs he went Into the room and what do you suppose he spied in his bed? |? A Montenegrin, A breathing. liv- l ing. six-foot Montenegrin. George the Turk" stands about five feet five. But the Montenegrin slept George stole out of the room down | 'o 'hC utSh anu NIti IDS It. lated his awful story He would not stand for it. The Montenegrin must be removed He would leave the hotel. When it was explained that the Montenegrin had retired early the Turk was sure that he would have been victim of the enemy had he kept respectable hours Round and round he ranted, until finally the manager of the hotel took the Montenegrin out of the room George the Turk" has wired the sultan for medal. He brides him self that single-handed he won d great victory for the Turks. He whipped a whole army of Montene- grins. Of course there was only one Montenegrin but at that time of the morning one or one hundred looked all the same to George the | Turk" He can at least see double easily
 I heard of one pretty good wager being made on the election. Some fellow bet 100 to dollars that - well the fellow that bet the flyer bet that Debs would be third Fred Martin sprung new one on the bunch when the motor that turns out his canned music went on the bum. The new one was Vic Mente. Vie tickles the worries about as well as he bowls. At a 235 clip
 Taylor is going to make regular trip ,F with his dog team. No. you fool. it's the Cinema Hot Springs.
 l notice that the carpenters are pretty busy around Josh Vance's cabin on Third avenue. Wonder what's up? Congratulations Josh. old man,
 was just showing up Monday evening when who do you suppose ran into? Mcfarland And Me had his war bag with him. ITO the hills for me-" says the boy. Wait Nc. there's another election coming. That's the reason" says Me I could have lasted all winter but for the one for delegate. Never again. It's me for the hills" And off he went
 Hungry Mike" Goonan came into this burg on Tuesday. Mike is a mineralogist He has rabbit patch on Smallwood creek. and it was from there he came Mike has winter home as well. All summer and for the past three winters Mike has bused himself taking dips and angles in the muck of Smallwood, but being quite interested in politics, Mike had to come to town until after election. Now if you were to get an assay of Mikes politics you would find that they contained experimentation of Democratic. Re publican and Progressivism. with a bare trace of Socialism. There is none of that Prohibition waste in Mikes assay. But the old boy is worker and will spend his last dol lar at any time to see political bed rock.
 Believe me pals, when it comes to taxidermy Harry Brown is there with a capital T. If you don't want to take my word for it drop in at Pete LorentZen's thirst emporium and see the head of caribou that Harry mounted for the King of the Nov ies" But Pete says that the cari- bou is not in it with the eagle that is coming up. Its a pippin," accord l ing to Pete.
 Iris said by some that Dan is going I to vote for Dan so as Dan won't be here for the next city election. Of the two personally prefer Dan. "Bilr' McPhee is smiling once more. for which we are duly thank full. Bill" is alright. just take it | Dave Tebo got in from the Alaskan Carlsbad during the week There arc between twelve and fifteen people there according to Dave.
 Ralph Waechter is now part own, CT of "The Place to Eat" in Fox.
 Russell is his cook. We all know Russell. Ralph also got an interest in "The Place to Drink" We all know Frank Flynn. Ralph and Frank have our best wishes. John How sam, the former owner, and the man Waechter bought out are bound for the Big Cinema Hot Springs. | sss