The Alaska citizen., 1915-07-26


 Joke or arrested last week for Penalty. speeding are inclined to
 view the matter as a huge joke. and most of them, II is understood are keeping the receipts for the fines as souvenirs. Some Of them are having the receipts framed
 running and it was left in front of his receipt he received for his s10 fine and is showing it to all visitors. One of the visitors observed that be meath the frame in which the re- Ceipt Is kept there is a bug. evi dently placed there for a purpose The thing was observed little while before any question was asked about it, then the visitor said:
 Why is that bug placed on top of the receipt, under the frame"
 That" said the speeder, lis an appropriate token of the occasion that the receipt represents. It is a speed bug"
 Another of the young men who was caught by the police, has placed he had time.
 ceipt a picture of a cowboy. Has c. E. Beraud. assayer in Good the First National Bank. Excuse. is one of the popular
 men of the town. and the boys are always ready to tell a good story about him when one pre- sents itself, The latest one his friends are telling about him has to do with Mr Berauds new Ford auto mobile
 Before purchasing his new ma, chine, Mir. Beraud had never ope. rated one. so he arranged with MT Coghill to bring it to him and show him how to drive it. After all the parts of the machine had been ex. plained and it seemed evident tha: Mir Beraud had mastered the art of exhausted, he stopped to look over house and he was planning to take il for run about town later, when he would find time
 As he was going away, MT Coghill turned to MT Beraud and said:
 "l would advise you to take the key into the house, so nobody can start it. You never know what boys about town may do if they get in terested in looking over the car
 Accordingly the key, which must be used to make connection from the magneto to the spark plugs in the engine before it can be started was taken into the house and put in safe place.
 When MT. Beraud was preparing to take his first trip alone in the new machine, some friends Were present to see how it would go. MT. Beraud thought that the simplest thing to learn about operating the automobile is how to crank it. but when he had worked at the crank for a long time,
 
 began to lose confidence in his own ability to operate the machine.
 He took off his coat, rolled up his sleeves and started in with new vigor. At last, when he was about exhausted, he stopped to look over the machinery to see what was wrong Then he found that the key was gone and he remembered he had forgotten to bring it from the house. To ad- init to his visitors that he had been working so hard as a result of his own forsetfulness, was not to MT Beraud's taste. so he turned to his friends and said:
 The trouble is that the machine is too cool When the sun shines on it a while longer, it will warm up and run all right"
 Times In explaining why he re- Dull turned to Fairbanks af Outside. ter buynf farm in
 Washington, certain man declared the other day that people here do not realize how much better times are in Fairbanks than Outside.
 There was really interesting side to this mans story of having to come back to Alaska to get money to keep up his new farm. He eX plained that when he went out last year to buy a farm, he took with him cash, and paid cash for the property.
 It was just when times were the hardest in the community where he had settled, and he declares that practically all the money in circula- tion in that community last Christ mas could be traced back to him, having been distributed following his paying it over for the real estate If you don't believe it." he said to friend recently, you can reason it out that unless times were awfully hard Outside l would not be back here now, but would be on my own property"
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