The Alaska citizen., 1915-10-11

shortly after MT. Shead had seated himself in his favorite corner, the waiter lady marched in, having the sample of birthday cookery balanced on one hand.
 Imagine Mir. Shead's surprise when she brought the cake over to his table and set it down before him and several friends who were din ing. In the center of the white frosting which covered the cake was big question mark made of l6 tiny red candles. That was ques- tion enough for Hank" but he did not take the hint and to date has not enlightened anyone as to the age he attalned on his last birth day.
 This Hat Did you ever hear of Is Some one of these things call Traveller. ed travelling hat? If
 you never have, one of them is now at the local office of the American Yukon Navigation Co.,, where it is being looked over by a great many curiosity seekers It is probable that the hat will be sent on it's way this morning over the trail with cards bearing the date it was here and by whom it was handled
 This hat carries more than 200 cards from various places. They are hung to it by all manner of ways and means It has been in postottices and in express offices, in trains. on ships and in shipping offices of various cities throughout the United States and Canada, be- ing always sent on by the office which received it. On July 12 of this year the hat was at the San Francisco fair.
 The hat seems to bear more cards from New York than from any other state. For that reason it is sup posed to have been started on its journey from some New York ex- press office. Other people think it was started on its journey from the fair. One card asks that it be re turned to Ogdensburg New York and it will leave Fairbanks this morning on it's long trip.
 The hat on leaving this city will bear the following inscription, writ ten by James A. Fairborn, and ad dressed on Wells Fargo shipping tag:
 "CTo) Any live one like Jimmy -Rockefellow.
 Chitina, Alaska.
 (Value) God only knows"
 On tie reverse side of the tag there is little limerick which also emanated from the pen of MT. Fair born. It is as follows
 Well, Lid-Old Kid,
 You're here, and show your age.
 Checked of'n a boat
 That's the llghtest afloat,
 We'll check you out
 On a stage.
 (Signed) The Fargo Gang.
 Fairbanks. Alaska.
 The home of the greatest climate in the world GET THAT?" A Version It is a well known fact Of Our that nobody is perfect Telegraph. but careful investi-
 gation of facts shows that telegraph editors on newspa- pers probably make more mistakes than any other class of persons in the world. AS a consequence nearly all news" is colored to some eX tent, although ill a great many in stances it is 'doctored up" entirely wrong.
 The following dispatch was re- gently clipped from one of the pa pers from a coast city of Alaska The name of the paper will not be given, for the reason that the tele graph editor thereof, while far from right in his interpretation of the telegram sent to his paper, was nc further wrong than many other tele graph editors
 The interpretation of the dis patch is interesting to Fairbanksans for the reason that it bears on g comparatively recent event, and i. as follows:
 FAIRBANKS, Sept. 11.-Ed Nor rison. a miner working on the Et Hilty claim, on Cleary creek. wal killed yesterday. when he fell into the sluice box and was washed tt the tailing dump and buried in thu mine waste His body has not beer recovered.
 Other workers tried in vain to hel; Morrison when he was caught il