The Alaska citizen., 1914-09-21
Town Gossip and Stories
b. The IattIer.

A Child's When somebody sees n
Fish good story i'll an Ca
Story side news aper, he :
almost sure TO apply II
to someone in Fairbanks. 1t don't
..axc aay difference If the story is
aet orielnal and if il does in truth
tn someone in Fairbanks. II doesn't
becomes more interesting because
IT is told on some one that is known
here
!Tcle is story that most people
in Fairbanks will enjoy. though ii
il doubtful that it is true. john
i.a.u5>t. who supplies most of the
fish 10 Fairbanks kitchens, is a great
fricrd to the little folks who often
= to talh To hi.H as they 20 by
III, home on Garden island.
According to the latest story. II
lutle Garden island girl was sent
to the store. but did not get back
~ soon as her mother expected.
When she returned her mother said
What kept you so long, my dear"
Why / just stopped for little
bit al MI LindQuist's place to see
him take the shingles off a fish"
was the reply.
War Stops Saloons and breweries
Use Of in Scandinavia must
Liquors shut down, owing to the
war. according to inform
alton received from there by Dr. !.
Oyergard, who was in Fairbanks
from the creeks a few days ago.
At first thought it would seem that
the great conflict in Europe is hay
ing a tendency to make people there
more moral. but according to the in
formation that has been received
from there this is not really why
the manufacture and sale Of liquors
are now prohibited there.
Although Scandinavia is at peace
with the world, the war has had
tendency to shut off the trade of the
Scandinavian countries with the
otler nations. and a shortage of
food is threatened Therefore. it has
been decided to keep the potatoes
and grain, from which the liquors
would be made, to be used for food.
st
Tells on the sidewalk a few
Story days ago discussing the
coming winter. when one
of them remarked that the naviga-
ton season is nearly over.
When first came to Fairbanks"
said one of the men. we arrived
here on a boat on October II. 1t
took us 80 days to come from Daw-
son That was in the fall Of 1904,
and we certainly had some great
experiences on the way.
We had food enough on the boat
to have lasted us for only half the
time. but we managed to get along
somehow. he Captain was "i'hoo'
funds. and when it came to hiring
an indian pilot, there was only slo
available with which to pay him.
We got the old Indian aboard, and
j; was agreed that he should receive
SO a day and his board, and the
first night he was paid the only
$40 piece that could be raised By
the captain.
How to keep the pilot was prob
lem /, at interested all of us, and We
krew that We would have to aid
somehow in getting him paid. So
We hit upon a plan that worked to
perfection.
THE first night after the old In
dian was paid, we got him into
poker game, and won his SO, which
WIS paid back to him the next night
for his wages for the second day
Every night we played with him and
won his SO and then paid it back
TO him the following day. When
we arrived at Cinema, the lnulan
wanted to play again, and someone
won the $40 from him. He had to
walk back to the Yukon, with moth
ing for his trip but some good ex-
perience."
Uncle Sam Although the raising OF
To Sell reindeer in Alaska has
Reindeer proved a great success,
the government has an
nounced its intention of going out
of the business as soon as possible.
1t seems that the government never
really meant to produce reindeer as
profit to itself, but simply to in
troduce them here for the use OF the
natives.
Just how the government Is plan
ming to end its reindeer business,
is explained in the following, taken
from an Outside newspaper:
Within the next four years it is