The Alaska citizen., 1915-08-02

THE bottles. were returned to the store with the information that the pur- chasers had tried them with cream and sugar. but nobody at the camp liked them. Other fruit was wanted in their stead.
 Have Fun Some practical jokers With had merry time last Auto. Wednesday night. when they found a big Pack ard automobile. recently purchased by w. F. Terrill the freighter standing on Front street. The ap pearance of the automobile the next morning was suggestive of the work of school boys at Halloween.
 For years Mir. Terril has been freighting with horses. and his pur. chase of an automobile was some thing O. a surprise to his friends IL Sttutu to llSlIA ludt hS SAOuiN stay with his horses, instead of tray cling by gasoline power.
 So when some of these friends of the freighter found his car stand ing on Front street late at night un- guarded, they planned joke on him. The first thing they did was to run the machine to one side of the street into a fill that had recently been made there Then they procured two saw horses from some carpenter, and these they placed in front of the automobile as though they were to pull the latter.
 Large pieces of red cardboard were cut to represent horses heads, and these were fastened to the front ends of the sawhorses, and running back from the sawhorses to the machine were strings to represent reins.
 Then the jokers took some old barrels and loaded them into the car, and plastered all sorts of signs on it. including flor sale" and "to let" signs.
 When Mir Terrill came Thursday morning to get hi, car he was at tracted to a large crowd gathered on Front street, and pushing through it. he came upon his own car fixed up in a ridiculous way. What he said when he saw the work of the jokers would not look well in print. Arrests This thing of being chief Wasps' This thing of being chief Nest what 1t is sometimes
 supposed to be. At least, that is the way Chief of Pc lice Wiseman is beginning to look at it, so his friends assert. And this is why he found disfavor with his job.
 It was some time ago that the people who had to pass certain empty house found that it was be- coming infested with wasps, which came out into the street to attack passersby. The people owning the house were on the creeks, temporar- fly, and in their absence the wasps had taken possession of the prem ises.
 The wasps were so troublesome .l t,.;o to f{y,G of getting rid of them. but as their nest was in the house they could not get at it. To enter the house would not be lawful, so at last they decided to appeal to Chief Wiseman.
 Of course, everybody knows that if anything goes wrong, from the straying away of calf to the kid mapping of bride, Chief Wiseman is always appealed to for assistance.
 Probably MT. Wiseman did not like the idea of breaking into a house for the sole purpose of getting into trouble with a wasps' nest, but duty pointed out the way to him and he followed it. He managed to get into the house without much diff culty, but getting the wasps' nest out proved a more serious under taking.
 Just what happened to Mr. Wise man while he was trying to arrest family of wasps is best known to the doctor who is looking after the spots on Mir Wiseman's anat- omy where the wasps stung him. For he was stung, all right Telephone Line