The Alaska citizen., 1914-10-26
Town Gossip and Stories
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Writes Literature descriptive of Alaska Alaska and life in the Story North is growing in de
 mand and one sees more and more of 1t in the magazines of the country. Some of it is good, and has an educational value. while some of it is evidently written by people who were never further north than Puget Sound. and is more or less visionary.
 One really good story of Alaska has just appeared in the October issue of the Red Book. and il is of some local interest as il is written by Mrs Bertha Knatvold Mellett a niece of Mrs Ron NJ. Crawford of this city. Mrs Mellett is the wife of the managing editor of the Seattle Sun. and was in Nome in 1901 Mir Crawford is urging her 10 come to Interior Alaska next summer. and if she does. it may be expected that some new Alaska stor- ies will result from the trip.
 The Woman from Three Above" is the title of Mrs. Melletts story. As preface to the story. the editor of the Red Book says:
 This is the story of a new writ er-another Red Book discovery Her work has the rugged power that compelled attention for those early stories Rex Beach brought out of Alaska. the power which makes you feel the story"
 Gonna One problem usually Has New suggests another, it Problem seems, Out of the dis
 cussion that has been going on during the week about the right to vote of an American woman, who is the wife of foreigner. has been presented a new problem by
 
 politician of Fairbanks. as follows; If an American woman marries an African. does she have to change her color? Or. does an African woman marrying a white man become white?
 John Gonna has asked the question of several people, but has failed to get any light on the matter As he is a widower, the interest that Gonna has shown in the matter is taken by some of his political friends to mean that he is planning 10 get married 10 someone not of his own race.
 Prisoners Efforts to get the gov To Build ernment to send it's Own Roads prisoners to Alaska to
 build trails and roads seem to be meeting with success. The plan is to get the prisoners Alaska Road commission each year, In that way it is believed that far more work can be accomplished with the appropriations made by congress than in any other way.
 The following, published in the Cordova Times, explains this plan more fully:
 Attorney H l.. Faulkner, who while Y. s. marshal for the First division. took up the matter of em- ploying federal prisoners on the pub lie highways, has at last succeeded in getting the obstacles raised by the department of justice removed The principal objection was the cost of employing extra guards to watch the prisoners while at work.
 "A conference was had with Col, w. P. Richardson while he was in Juneau a short time ago, and Col, Richardson, as president of the Alas ka Road commission. agreed to furn- ish an employee of the commission as guard and overseer for the pris- oners.
 "All that will be necessary now is to get the final consent of the de partment, and have Marshal H. A. Bishop deputize the men designated by the Alaska Road commission as custodians of the prisoners. It is believed that this will be done" Trappers There has been a gen. Still At eral sentiment that the Work reduced price of furs will cause the discontinuance of trap ping in Alaska, but this seems not to be the case Word has been received in Fairbanks from Nenana that the trappers in that locality will be busy this winter
 The following, taken from the Ruby Record Citizen, proves that the Koyukuk trapper will not take a vacation on account of the war in Europe:
 "The trappers and furfarm stock
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