The Alaska citizen., 1914-08-24
Town Gossip and Stories
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| the title of Gordon, whose life story heats the widest kind of fiction. Gordon married an Alaskan native and has a family of half breeds He says he does not intend 10 leave Alaska but wants what is due to him in the way of property, and they can keep his title which is Mar quis of Huntley."
 Plenty F. C. Sharkey. who re of Beef gently arrived in Fair Here banks with a drove of
 beef cattle from Port land has sold the cattle and has said that he will not install butcher shop in Fairbanks ,as he had planned.
 Although MT. Sharkey did not say so il is understood that he has profted by his venture in driving cattle across the trail and it may pt tNptCltu that Ht VIII uo tue same thing next year.
 With the large amount of beef brought here by MT. Sharkey and his associates and the cattle lately shipped in here by boat beef should be plentiful the coming winter It is understood that there is no less than 40 tons of beef on cold stor- age in Fairbanks
 Will Mason, who arrived Leave here a week ago to re,
 leve Lieutenant Eastman received official orders last Friday morning to leave here about Sep tember l, for Ft. Gibbon where he will relieve Lieutenant Harris. He will turn over the affairs of this office to the officer at Valdez, and the military telegraph work of this station will then be under the di rection of the officer in charge there.
 Since his arrival here, Lieutenant Mason has become attached to Fair banks. and he says it is matter of much regret with him that he will be forced to leave.
 but he took the house in which Lieutenant and Mrs. Eastman were living before their departure. He enjoys the novelty of keeping bachelor quarters.
 Emily Miss Emily Waters who Waters left Fairbanks for the Interviewed Outside on one of the
 first boats that left her. this season, is the subject of an article almost a column in length, published in the Standard of Syracuse, N. Y. July 2S.
 The story about Miss Waters is in the form of an interview with her in which she boosts Alaska and its resources It seems that Miss Wa ters formerly lived in Syracuse, and that this was her first visit there in 20 years.
 Miss Waters description of Alas ka and it's resources is decidedly good, and it is not probable that many people of this city could have pictured the country better in an interview than she has done.
 Incidentally Miss Waters stated that she loved Alaska and that she to live.
 Strike It seems to me that the Reports reports from the alleg Conflict ed strike on Healy riv-
 CT are just as confusing and contradictory as are those from the war zone in Europe. One man says, after looking over the place, that there is nothing there, and another declares that it is a good strike
 Harvey Huddleston, F. H. Bar nett and Roy Judkins. who arrived from the reported strike Thursday. are reported to have said that there is nothing there. and that the stam- pede was without justification. i On the same day, Harry Cloes. Tom Maher and Tony. Locke arriv | ed from the same place, and re- ported that the strike was all that it was supposed to be, and they declared that they had tested the dirt and found it to be as rich as claimed.
 But, really, there seems to be greater number who are condemn ing the strike than are praising 1t, Big Family Jim Russell, as every Puzzled body in Fairbanks knows. Wiseman has the largest family
 of native sons and daughters in this valley, and is proud of his children. But sometimes when he goes out with the children he is mistaken for the superintendent Of Sunday school, taking the pupils