The Alaska citizen., 1915-08-30
Town Gossip and Stories
Bv The Iattler.

uottIcI. | Connors underneath. Then the rub ping commenced The drunken men ! literally rubbed Connors into the ground. He didn't attempt 10 hit 1 Connors, but just rubbed him i'll the mud Back and forth al arm 5 length he was draGged. and at each drag he got muddier. He was a sight.
 someone seeing the affair thought he would stop it before Connors was ground into Ee bedrock. and went after Al Paui. the fireman patrol, and not until he appeared upon the scene did the rubbing process abate one Iota
 Pauli took the man on top, and Connors went inside to take some of his own medicine.
 She Marie Dressler who ap. Was All peared on the film under Beef. the direction of Richard
 Dick Thorne couple of months ago. is. as everybody who saw her will agree. an able bodied woman and quite able to take care of herself.
 This was fully demonstrated in New York dining room a short time ago when Miss Dressler, with her husband, J. H. Dalton, entered the dining room and passed a table where sat prominent vaudeville magnate and his companion At this instant the latter said: There goes the president of the female boiler makers union" Whereupon. before her husband could interfere. Miss Dressler had the fellow by the coi- lar, yanked him out of his chair and made him apologize. It's a good thing she didn't hear what was said at tho show here.
 sure " nlle llt nleulDefS Oi Some the Planning Committee" Shootin' were awaiting the r"-
 quired number to consti- tute quorum the other day, nearly everything was discussed, and the conversation turned upon thin or skinny" people. Slim" Packard had just passed the group, and that probably turned the conversation into that channel
 One of those present said that speaking of thin men put him in mind of a story
 In certain small Ohio town lives a skin-and- bones man named, for convenience and to avoid libel, Bill Skinner. During large even ing down town someone drew a gun and fired at random into crowd of merrymakers The bullet struck Bill Skinner in the thigh.
 At once a deputation of citizens started on run for the nearest and. indeed, the only doctor. It was long after midnight. They beat on the door and yelled, and finally second-story window was raised and the doctors head appeared. It look ed in the moonlight like the head of man himself recently returned from big time.
 Hey. Doc. Come down." called one of the deputation. Bill Skinner's been shot.
 "Howzat? Bill Skinner? Where was he hit?"
 Tn the leg"
 Well, we'll" said Doc, closing his window, Some shootin,"
 
 Too l was talking to c. Ellis Much Gardner the other night Lawyer after he got back from
 his duties down the river and I asked him if he couldn't give me some news which had not ap- peared in one of the other papers He told me flatly that they had ''pumped' him dry as far as actual news went but that he had a mighty good story which he had not had a chance to spring upon the unsus pecting public, and l told him to shoot away
 He prefaced the story by saying that the scene was laid in the South, and concerned an old darkey called Uncle Nose. Now Uncle Nose was a chronic thief who usually managed o keep within the petty larceny limit One time he miscalculated, and was sent to trial for grand lar ceny.
 Have you lawyer, Mose?' asked the court.
 No, sah."
 Well to be perfectly fair, I'll appoint a couple. MT. Jones and MT Brown Mil act as counsel.'
 Whats dat?"
 Act as your lawyers wit. them and prepare to tell me whether