The Alaska citizen., 1915-04-05

mercantile play the children were enjoying. but much to their horror
 the boys. instead of playing store. were pretending 10 be gambling
 with it.
 | Delegate People who want to get Is A the very latest in re- | Democrat. gard 10 the present pc litical affiliations of Dele. gate Wickersham should look on
 pages 546 and $50 of the new Worlds Almanac. which recently reached
 this city. They will find that the latest news in the matter is 10 the effect that MT. Wickersham is a l Democrat.
 1 Just previous to the November
 election. when MT. Wickersham was
 speaking in Fairbanks, he denied that | he was a Democrat. though he said | that he was follower of President i Wilson, or that he was progressive I of the kind Mir. Wilson is supposed to be.
 i The statement that the Delegate | IS a Democrat, as contained in the
 Worlds Almanac, is receiving some attention in other parts of Alaska, as is indicated by the following, l clipped from the Seward Gateway: 1 80 Delegate James Wickersham | is Democrat after all. There had
 been much doubt about this. He
 was appointed district judge by the Republicans and later was a follow
 CT of Roosevelt in the Bull Moose party Now comes the Worlds Al
 manac for 1915 with Mr. Wicker sham as a Democrat. How in the
 future are his supporters to call ! themselves nonpartisan or indepen- dent? Surely that blamed Alma
 nae has made typographical error
 or something If not President Will son has placed himself in a bad fix
 by writing that message in support of Bunnell"
 Jokes Some of the women of i Played Fairbanks, who attend 1 At Party. ed the party given for
 women only at the home
 of Mrs. Ed Wickersham last We'd
 nesday evening will expect to be surprised in the future when they attend parties given the evening be fore April l, All Fools Day. One of the surprises at the party
 given by Mrs Wickersham was the fact that the player getting the highest score was awarded the
 'booby" prize. while the one get ting the lowest score was given the first prize.
 But that is not the only strange thing in connection with the party.
 It is said that an air of mystery still surrounds the identity of the prize given to the player getting the high est score. When one of the women who attended the party was asked
 what the prize was, she blushed and refused to answer. One thing seems
 to be sure and that is that the win
 her of the prize is not showing it to everybody. Those who claim to
 know, say it is handy household article.
 One of the amusing features of
 the affair is said to be the way the
 prize winners were surprised when
 the prizes were reversed.
 Predicted Come on George, let's
 What He go downstairs" said
 Would Get. Marshal Erwin to George Smith the other evening after the jury had retired to deliberate on his case. There's
 no use to go down." said Smith,
 "it won't take that bunch five min utes to find me guilty"
 All of which prediction came true
 when the jury returned their yer dict. Smith received it without emotion other than feeling for the collar of his shirt and giving a couple of hard swallows. The verdict was returned in three minutes after the jury had retired.
 On another occasion Smith was asked how he could bear up under l the testimony which was adduced in his case. He replied by saying, Nerve is my middle name" Another incident connected with the receiving of the verdict in the Smith case in open court was the comment of a man not connected with the case in any way who said: "They've handed it to me six times
 just like that, exclusive of the seven
 other times l got away from them, but l never did get it as quick
 as that"
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