The Alaska citizen., 1915-05-03
Town Gossip and Stories
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lattler. ever. she likewise decided 10 put it down again without giving her reasons and she now thinks any one Is brave indeed who will have anything to do with young Mir BTuin
 Glad That Alaska is bet Hes In fer place in which to Alaska. live than is the Sunny
 South" is the conclu sion that C. Ellis Gardner. Assist ant United States district attorney. has come to- MT. Gardner received letters from lis home state on the nail arriving Thursday. and these proved 10 him that, compared to some ether places, Alaska has many climatic advantages.
 In these letters it was explained that on March 2l there was 27 inch es of new snow at Pensacola, North Carolina. and that the temperature l dropped to 2l degrees below zero. March was throughout generally mild in Alaska. especially in Fair banks. though trere was a little w.ud near the close of the month. From other reports received from Outside. it seems that March weath CT in Fairbanks was much better than that experienced in most places n the States.
 "f'm glad I'm living in Alaska was t}e way Mir. Gardner summed up his sentiments after telling of the news of the weather in North Carolina.
 Deal Postmaster Deal has de Is cided that he is lucky, Lucky. for he had rather pos
 tive proof last week that his luck is attending strictly to business Mir Deal has not con fided in anybody to that extent, but there is reason to believe that if he can get further proof of his power over the mysterious influence called luck he may take a chance at uatrimony.
 MT. Deals luck was made evident by his winning a bet of S1 that he made about the movement of the ice on the river He wagered with man that tNe ice on the river in front of St Matthew's hospital would move on or before April 25
 On the evening of April 24. the ice gave every indication that it was anchored in front of St Mat theW's hospital for an indefinite time. | looked very much as though Mir. Deal had lost his bet. Al noon on April 25, the ice still l kept its place on the river, and the 1 man that had bet with Mr. Deal | began to plan how he would spend | the dollar that he felt he was sure to get. At about 3 o'clock in the | afternoon of that day, MT. Deal took | a walk down along the water front | to look at lot on which he was 10 have a garden planted. The ice |, seemed to be anchored in front of !, the hospital as solidly as ever, but i while he was looking at the lot, a l man near the river called 10 him 1 and told him that the ice was go ing out, And sure enough the ice i il front of the hospital moved away 1 in a body, though it blocked some | distance below.
 Although the ice in other places ! along the river in front of town did not move that day, Mr Deal l received the dollar due him. Deputy A Hanot," called the l SaiIed To deputy clerk of court Get Him. last Tuesday morning, 1
 when calling the roll of | special yeniremen who had been body answered.
 ,l, i,, when he had finished calling the | again failed to elicit reply.
 Tle court then ordered that a bench warrant be issued for the de was issued and placed in the hands 1 but the officer had no sooner left | the court house than MT. Hanot showed up in the court room the ! deputy having passed him just out side the building and had not recog- nIzed him.
 Mir IIauOt explained his tardiness l to the satisfaction of the court, after he was informed that a bench warrant for him had been issued, but had not been served A few minutes later the deputy came into court and reported his inability to find tie venireman, the entire af fair turning out happily to all con- cerned.
 A Good??? A certain gentleman of Way To Keept airbanks has discover Secrets. ed good way to keep |
 secrets At least he thought he had until he found out | that when he told everybody he | met about a certain occurrence and l told them not to say anything about | it, they did not keep the secret in every case.
 In going around among his friends | and springing his little surprise, this man was very gratified al i the manner in which they received i it. Of course all of them promised 1 to tell nobody about the occurrence | in question. but when the man | went up to the Panama club and | found that everyone there knew all 1 about his little secret, his story ceas- i ed to be news" any longer.
 He was therefore very indignant | when he realized that some of his friends had been 'peaching,' in com mon parlance It is surmised how ever, that he was not half so indig Hant over his friends telling the