The Alaska citizen. (Fairbanks, Alaska) 1910-1917, 1915-02-15
Town Gossip and Stories
b. The IattIer.

Wrong secretary. Judge Bun
office nell answered the tele-
phone at his office Sat
urday morning, and following his
hello" sweet voice said
Is this the chicken farm"
NO, Lot yet" replied the judge
Then it was explained to the voice
on the other end that it was the
chambers of the court. Following
this explanation it was asserted that
the wrong number had been called
for. and that it was really Judge
Dillons office that was wanted
This incident has called TO mind
an incident that happened in Oak
land, California, several years ago.
when a new chief of police was APP
pointed The new chief dressed him
self in new blue uniform with
shoulder-straps and brass buttons.
and tried to maintain as much dig
nifty as was due from the President
Of the United States.
Much to his horror, however,
sweet voice called him over the
telephone one day and inquired:
Have you any brains?'
The digniled new chief nearly
tainted. but managed to explain that
il was the chief of police that was
on the telephone, and he asked for
the reason of such a SURPRISING
question Then the sweet voice
continued:
oh I beg your pardon. l though;
| had q butcher shop
Afraid Wrong-doers are already
OF The looking with much APP
Women prehension on the newly
organized Civic club. and
the very fact that the women of
Fairbanks are organized for the pur
pose of improving conditions seem
10 have beneficial influence.
The story is told by a certain
man of Fairbanks that he was
walking down the street few day
age. and a little way in advance Of
him was woman who stopped and
looked with some interest at a
team of horses that a man had
hitched to a wood wagon, standing
at one side of the street.
The man was unloading wood, and
the woman walked up and down two
or three times, apparently waiting
for some one, but the driver. who
had an unusually heavy load, be
came uneasy. and hailing this man,
who was an acquaintance, asked:
Is that woman who just passed
one of those Civic club members ?"
Il don't know replied the man,
Il don't know her at all
We'll" continued the driver, she
looked at my horses in a way that
indicated that she was not pleased.
If my horses are not in as good con
dition as they should be, it is not
my fault. I can't feed them any
better than l do and | hope the
women won't bother about it."
Neither Many are the arguments
Was Badly over the war in Europe
Injured. these days, as consider
able of the population
of Fairbanks is made up of citizens
of the warning nations, but there
have been but few real quarrelsx
and certainly none that amounted t
anything. The one about to be re-
lated was between friends and neigh
bors, one an Englishman and the
other a German, and resulted in
nothing more serious than a battle
with icicles during which neither
was hurt, although chunks of ice
flew fast aud thick until both men
got tired of throwing them.
These two men are located in
street One of the buildings is one
story, the OTHER little higher At,
Ell the big suow of the past week
was over the two men proceeded
10 SHONel on lltIl IoolS III dOlhS
80, they got into an argument ovet
the war. which had been a sore spot
with each of them for some time, and
the follow on the high building in
mediately proceeded to dump several
shovelsful of snow on his oppon
ent on the lower building. The
icicles then began to fly, but Meth
er Of the combatants is credited with
having made a hit.
The affair ended with the man
who was on the lower building com
planning to the police that his neigh
Dor was dumping snow on his roof
and the other fellow naturally agreed
not to do the like again as it is
against tie law Thus, the onl-
after effects of the row is the talk
which goes on numerous expressions
being heard to the effect that some
body is a buddy, bally, bloomin' ass
don't cher know" and "hoch der
kaiser"
Wilcox w E. Wilcox the United