The Alaska citizen., 1914-07-27
Town Gossip and Stories
By The IattIer.

I quilted Benny and followed the cook
back home.
The bear in this particular hair
raising story proved TO be Betsy.
the cub that last summer and fall
afforded so much fun about the Bud
weiser building in this city.
This little incident surely puts
| Bennett in line as the proper sue
cessor OF John tie Bear Hunter,
who left Fairbanks few weeks
ago"
Later-It is learned from source
off unquestioned authority that Mr..
| knowlton has sent his refusal OF
Ruby.
| Born In Among the Native Sons
Alaska so and Daughters of the
! Years Ago Golden North in Fair
| banks there are no ad-
/ ults. and the common idea is that
there is no white man or woman OF
! advanced years who is a native of
/ Alaska. "Bill" McPhee is one OF
/ the oldest pioneers known in Fair
banks and his residence in the Ter
ritory dates back only % years.
/ Thus was very much surprised
/ the other day when | picked up Il
copy of the Seattle Sun and read
about the death Of seaman lin that
city. a white man. mind you, at the
age of SO years, who was native
Of Alaska Here is the story Of
the man. as told in the Sun:
Born in Alaska GO years ago. be-
fore the first white settler had come
to Seattle and while Alaska was
still an unexplored waste under Rus
| sian rule, John Farrell is dead at
the city hospital here.
Farrell was well-known char
acter to those who follow the sea.
He loved sea-faring life. visited the
Siberian coast number of times.
and was familiar figure in the
seaport towns of Alaska. British
Columbia and Puget Sound. His
father was Irish and his mother.
Katherine Ericsson was Swedish
Farrell was taken from the
steam schooner Fulton last week
suffering from intestinal trouble, and
died in the city hospital. Funeral
| services will be held from Butter
worth & Sons. So far as known,
he leaves no relatives"
/ Cold Does climate have an
| Crime criminal tendencies? That
is a question that | have
! heard asked many times. but was
never able to satisfy myself with
suitable answer to it until l was
talking with Assistant District At
torney Gillette a few days ago.
Mr.. Gillette said that the criminal
cases in court indicated that here
in Alaska, where the winters are
cold men do not do many crimes
on the spur of the moment. In
| other words, he declared that tho
crimes committed here were. with
few exceptions. premeditated. and
it seems too, from what he says that
crime is less frequent than in 9th
er places.
THE cold climate" said Mr.. GAL
lette, chickens the blood, and has
tendency to prevent sudden emo
| lion. such as anger"
1t all seems very reasonable, and
looking back at the orderly manner
in which big celebrations have been
held in Fairbanks. can understand
why there were no fights on those
occasions.
! II we are to believe the stories of
crime t. at We're committed in the
days of early gold discoveries in
California. it would seem that crime
is common IT. frontier places. But
Fairbanks is full of people who can
/ testify that in Alaska. even in the
days Of the first stampedes, there
was but little violent crime. Any
how, 1t is pleasure to feel that
one lives in country where the
general tendency is for law and or
der.
Council Even though dog days
After are upon US, it seems
The Dogs that dogs OF the bowling
variety have nearly had
their day in Fairbanks. Just now
tie members of the city council
are trying to figure out how they
can make a satisfactory law ito
prevent bowling dogs from being
kept within the city limits.
One member of the council told
me just the other day that in all
probability, there will be an ordin-
ance passed soon that will make it
possible for the people Of any
neighborhood to have bowling dog
removed, if they can prove that he
Is a public nuisance.