The Alaska citizen., 1913-06-23

ly delivered address her majesty
 thanked the mayor and invited all attending to set aside the reins of conventionality and join in with the
 joy making.
 The next thing on the program
 was the dance of the Midnight Sun. executed by about thirty little girls
 Their work was remarkably well done and reflected credit on the in. Structors. Mrs w. J. Nolan. Miss liolgate and Dr McGinnis. The music for the dance was furnished by Miss lIolgate at the piano.
 MINERS MEETING.
 The first victim to be brought before the meeting was Councilman Baltuff, who was charged with the heinous crime of having pushed through the city council the bill providing for the erection of the muchtaiked-of green fence along the water front. His defense was that he did il to keep the innumera- ble drunks of the city from falling into the river. Judge" McGowan threw out the plea and sentenced 'he culprit 10 he spanked by one of the green pickets. and the sentence Was thereupon executed.
 Pete I.orentzen was charged with having opposed the fence and pleaded that he did it because Bal tun wanted it for his own protec- tion in preventing him from failing over in his own nightly peramhula ting. He suffered the same pun ishment as Baltuff.
 Tobias Fleischman was charged with having attempted to cXtort poll taxes from one man on three differ ent occasions. Upon being found guilty he was sentenced 10 ride out Of town on rail, and the sen ' tiN NttN fA'-N ht'-i iiAh 'i iI'NNi VI laughter from the immense crowd assembled
 Harold Green was charged with being claim jumper. He admitted the charge, but stated that he had as packers Dan Callahan. Bob Bloom and Abe Stein. and that he feared not the wrath of the miners. He ,hen started to shoot up the meet ing with the result that he was giv- en good ducking from hose hitched to the hydrant
 Paul Riekert was accused of forming the produce growers asso. ciation with the evil design of boosting prices on vegetables. He was sentenced to wear chain and ball
 Jack Barker and Joe Morrow, the were up for sluicebox robbing. Both plead guilty and were sentenced to be hanged Barker was first strung up. but before life was extinct his partner shot the rope and Bar ker escaped The hanging of Nor row then was started, but he got away. but in his rush his coat and trousers were torn from him.
 Throughout the whole evenint the redheaded Irishman, Jack Sale, ell. tertained remarkably well and the crowd was mystified as to his iden- tity for time. After all he was to death by eating P. C. S sausage, and before he had fin ished the first Vienna was taken away on a stretcher
 The scream of the evening was a charge that young lady" made against her sweetheart who had de serted her at the altar It was the sentence of the court that a preacher be brought and the couple at once. Leslie Bennett cleyerly portraying the role of a preacher appeared and volunteered to make the happy couple one They were married and started on their honeymoon in the patrol wagon.
 That was the end of the cere- monies on Front street and the crowd then adjourned to the base ball park for the big game, but that's another story.
 What makes a girl so light on her feet dancing is they hurt her so