The Alaska citizen., 1915-06-07
Town Gossip and Stories
BY The Tattier.

Town People who think that
Building they can so onto one
Delayed OF the townsites laid out
by the government
along the line of the railroad survey
and squat on piece OF ground will
q. lind they viii be wasting time, for
the government will not give squat
tiers any recognition in those cases.
This is the announcement made by
Thomas Riggs, Jr., of the Alaskan
Engineering Commission.
Mr.. Riggs explained a few days
ago that the government is not
ready TO put on sale the lots of the
proposed towns along the railroad
line, but will probably do something
in that regard when railroad con
struction in the Interior is started.
withdrawn from entry by the govern
ment. and there will be no way for
person TO get any title to land
in any OF the sites until the whole
thing is thrown open, under some
approved plan. for settlement.
Whether these lots will be sold
at auction or if some other plan
for disposing of them will be adopt
ed, is an uncertainty. and may not
be decided for several months.
Explains There is certain
Her bright girl in Fairbanks
Reason who is becoming sort
of bookworm. Some
times she gets so interested in
good book that she would be willing
TO go without her meals in prefer
ence to the book Her fondness for
books was illustrated one day re
Gently when she called on lady
living next door and seemed to have
some important matter on her mind.
At last she said:
Cant you come over to our house
for little while
Il don't think | can so right away
was the reply, does your mother
want to see me about something's
She would like to have you come
over. | am sure" assured the girl,
but she never told me to ask you
Then why should | go to see her
especially today" inquired the lady.
Well. it's this way said the
girl seriously. my mother is read
ing the book | was reading, and if
you would go over to talk with her
could get the book
Was That news travels slow
Ignorant ly in some parts OF
OF War. Alaska has been made
evident from the asser-
ton that there are still men in this
Territory who have not heard Of the
great war that is being fought in
Europe.
Captain C. d. Williams left Ruby
ldSl year lol tie ItLiole lSSioA VI
the upper part Of the Now river,
and after being absent just ten
months TO the day. he returned last
month to the down-river city, and
heard for the first time that almost
all Of Europe was involved in the
geatest war of all history.
Bob Smith, Jack Larson and Ed.
Slater also came out Of the same
country recently to Ruby, and they
assert that there are men who have
spent months in the country across
the divide from the kuskokwim who
have not yet heard Of the war in
Europe 1t is probable that nowhere
else in the United States could peo-
pie be SO long in ignorance OF the
great war.
Russian 1t seems from an item
Railway appearing in recent is
Planned. sue of the Nome Indus
trial Worker that the.
tuSSldu SONSl III Dul1A q
railroad from its transcontinental
line, which terminates at Vladivos-
tok. northward to some point on
the Siberian coast not far from
Alaska
II this railroad materializes, II
may be expected that the dream OF
an international transportation sys-
tenn connecting an Asiatic railroad
with an American road in Alaska,
will sometime become reality. Here
is what the Worker says about it.
"A letter has been received from
officials of the Russian war depart
ment making inquiries as to the
availability OF Nome for supplies for
railroad survey party which will
be sent north from Vladivostok to
make preliminary reconnaissance
OF a road along the Siberian coast
as far north at any rate as Anadir
Bay. The letter stated that the
work of construction had already
been begun over the survey already