The Alaska citizen., 1915-07-05

Old known citizens Is al Home ready looking forward
 to being a party to a Christmas dinner that promises 10 be the most delightful of his life, for it will be- if plans work out properly, with sisters and brothers that he has not seen for 2s years. The person planning the dinner IS John F. Dillon. United States com. missioner here, who is going Out side for medical treatment.
 Mir. Dillon left his old home in Richland, Wisconsin, on March l, 1887. As soon as he can get away from Mayo Brothers hospital where he is going for treatment, MT. Dillon will go back to the old home to see his sisters and brothers. The father and mother have passed away but there still remain three sisters and three brothers, including the commissioner.
 It is Mir Dillons plan to keep his visit secret from his folks until he gets there, in order to surprise them. Whether he and they have changed so much in the 28 years that he has been absent that they will not be able to recoS- nize each other is a matter of some uncertainty to MT. Dillon. One of his sisters lives in Chicago, but t will be possible to get her back to the old home. he thinks, for Christ mas. His two brothers, like him. self. are still unmarried.
 There will be other matters of rare interest to Mr. Dillon when he reaches the Outside. for he has been constantly in Alaska for IS years, and there have been many changes in the States since that time.
 From Fairbanks, Mir. Dillon will go directly to the hospital, and after he is permitted to leave that place he will return to the old home After the winter holiday season. he will go to Southern California for the remainder of the winter, and expects to get back to Fairbanks in March of next year.
 George There are some draw Is Too backs in living this far Far Away. away from the center5
 of population, but George Tree, one of Fairbanks bachelors, has just discovered how this great distance from the States, and the delay in getting his mail, is inter fering with his matrimonial chances.
 Somebody induced George to send for matrimonial paper and when it arrived he was quite fascinated with the picture of one of the young ladies who were advertising for hus- bands. However, he promptly sent a letter to the young woman, but found after much waiting that his letter reached it's destination too late-that she had already been captured.
 Then he wrote to another girl, so his friends say. but by the time his letter could travel all the distance from Alaska 10 her place of resi- dence, she had been selected by a man who was nearer at hand.
 To some of his most intimate friends, George has confided that he may have to make a trip Outside in order to be closer to the place where the husband-hunting young ladies can be found. In the mean time, he says, he is watching the matrimonial papers carefully with the hope that he will find the ad dress in one of them of some prom ising young woman in Alaska who wants a husband of his description. Has Lila Deity. the baby of Bear the Juvenile Bostonians, Playmate. found new kind of
 playmate in Fairbanks early last week, and when she re- turns home and tells Of her eXper- fences she will probably cause some of her little associates to open their eyes in wonder.
 The little lady had heard about the baby bear that is at the Shaw House, and when she was out for walk, she went to the owner of the bear and asked if she might have it for a time to play with, The request was granted, and just then the fun, as we'll as the trouble, began.
 For time the bear and the little girl had all sorts of fun, but some how the bear managed to make good his escape when his temporary mis- tress was not looking. He found his way to first one garden patch and then another and after his visit to each, there was but little left in the vegetable line that did not look like a hopeless ruin.
 It was while the bear was lost that a couple of babies wandered away from their mothers. and when the latter learned that there was bear lost, there was a commotion.