The Alaska citizen. (Fairbanks, Alaska) 1910-1917, 1915-06-21

Vents L. F. Protzman has
Fish, Not been promoting plan
a job. to get fish planted in
two lakes on the govern
ment farm near Fairbanks. but ii
seems that his petition. addressed
TO the bureau of fisheries in Wash
ington. d. C., went astray. and thus
the plan cannot be put into effect
this year
At the time the petition was sent
to Washington, Mr.. Protzman also
sent communication to Senator
George f Chamberlain, or Oregon
who is Mr.. Protzmans personal
friend asking him to use his influ-
ence in getting the planting of the
fish fry authorized In replying to
this letter Mr.. Chamberlain enclosed
letter he had received from H.
VI. Smith. commissioner Of fisher
les, to whom Mr. Chamberlain had
appealed for the fish. This com
munication has decidedly humor-
being unable to find Mr.. Protzman's
petition. assumed that it was con
corning an effort TO get a job in
the fisheries department.
The letter from Mr.. Smith to
Senator Chamberlain is in part as
follows:
Referring to the inquiry received
over the telephone from your office
relative to letter from Mr.. L. F.
Protzman, of Fairbanks, Alaska. re-
ferred to this bureau on April IS.
beg TO say that the records of
the office do not show that any
such communication has been receiv-
ed"
Continuing the letter goes on to
state that it is presumed that Mr..
Protzman wants a job, but that at
present there is no vacancy. This
is taken to indicate that when
senator or representative in congress |
appeals to any government depart |
ment. it is assumed that job is
wanted for some constituent.
Want 1t seems that when a |
Alaskas man on the Outside dis |
Gold appears, the first thing !
that suggests itself to |
his friends is that he has gone to |
Alaska. and perhaps that he will /
he knows how to spend SO they |
begin at once to flood the various i
places throughout this territory with |
letters of inquiry.
From some of the letters that |
have been received by the local fed !
eral officials, it seems that in many
cases the relatives or friends OF !
missing men are not so much con
cerned about the missing men indi- |
vidually as they are in the pros
pect that they may have acquired |
fortunes here.
Many of these letters are written
after it is known that man, who |
has been in Alaska, is dead, and ,
the friends and relatives want to
know if he has staked rich mine
here. They assume that the federal |
authorities here will be in position
to explain the mining activities of |
every man who has come to Alaska.
one of the latter kind of letters
was received a few days ago by the |
this it was explained that man,
who formerly lived in Alaska. had
died, and it was felt certain that
he had 3taked some rich ground
here, though there was no proof to
that effect. The land Office was
asked to investigate and let the
writer know if the deceased really
owned any mining property in In
terror Alaska.
His More than one married |
Shopping man has found himself
A Failure. in serious trouble as a
result of having tried to
do shopping for his wife or some
other lady, but probably the most |
curious difficulty of this kind was |
what certain Fairbanks man ex- |
perienced a few days ago when he |
tried to surprise his daughter by !
buying for her an article of clothing !
by mail.
This gentleman is very fond of /
his daughter, who is sweet sixteen, |
and thus when he was looking |
over catalogue of an eastern mail |
order house some time ago, he was
struck with the apparent attractive
ness of some ladies' waists that |
We're pictured in the catalogue. He |
looked at the picture for little
while, and then concluded to send |
for some of them for his daughter. !
The waists arrived a few days |
ago, and he opened the package. He
was very much surprised and shock
ed, however, when he showed the
waists to his wife to find that they |
were not what young woman