The Alaska citizen., 1915-04-19
Town Gossip and Stories
B. The IdttIer.

Pride One Of Fairbanks pop Has A Hlar ladies has been the Fall envy of the other ladies
 oi the city for some time ol late. owing to the fact that she las been wearing one of the latest and most stylish hats tha, has thus far arrived here this sca- son from tue Outside
 But the owner ui thi- article of en'iatlp millinery has discovered tat euly those who are familiar with the seasons most exclusive c:eatious ale enlhused about the hat. and that in he eyes Jf some, especially the children. there is a total lack of appreciation for the expensive piece of head apparel
 Il was only a few days ago that the lady with the new hat was passing alons the street in the resi- denCe section uf the city when she overheard q small hoy calling to anotz CT n the following language.
 Hey hld. come here and pipe de iii dis laiy .- wearing. Say. ain't A funny"
 Gardner G. Ellis Gatdncr. assist After ant United Stetes dis Sympathy. trict attorney has a
 Way of saying a hum- orous taiHs that leaves his hearers sometimes ID doubt in regard to whether he js jokin- or speaking earnestly.
 One day recently someone asked NT. Gardner why he looked so serl ous, and he replied:
 Well. l guess anybody would look serious, if le had done what | have accomplished '
 Whats that" was the next ques- ton
 Well, l have been the cause of getting twelve men hung"
 Ii Was known that in his previous leaal career. Mr Gardner had been public prosecutor, and the question CT formed a mental picture Of twelve criminals being killed as result Of the efforts of Mr. Gardner on be half ot the state. The first idea de rived from Mr Gardner's serious expression and his assertion that he has caused twelve men 10 be hung was that he was remorseful.
 So you were the fault of twelve men being hung. Were they all hung at once?" Mr. Gardner was asked.
 Yes said the assistant district attorney, looking as serious as ever. "But l suppose they will survive all right, for they are all in the jury room now, and may soon reach an dgI gIeement.'
 Makes Andrew Nerland. Fair Cheap banks new mayor, has Trip. proved himself to be !
 good business man. He is one of the very few people who has been enabled to ride all the way across the long trail from Chiti- ma to Fairbanks at 8 cost of only about $25, in addition to roadhouse expenses.
 When MT. Nerland was returning to Fairbanks. he and another man concluded to buy horse at Chitina and ride home in their own convey ance. The horse and dOuble-endeT and the food necessary for the horse cost them $160.
 After they had come to this side of the summit and Were well on the homeward stretch they found that the roads were no longer good for sleighing, so they sold their horse to Bobby Sheldon for Sl6O, and paid him $25 each for bringing them to Fairbanks.
 MT, Nerland says he will probably not bring his family here until after his boy gets through his present school work. While Outside he had considerable talk about Alaska, which indicated how much people are interested in this country. May Several of the farmers Lose in the vicinity of Fair Homes. banks are in danger of
 losing their homes sim ply through their own neglect, ac- cording to an explanation made by the local land office.
 Some time ago the interior depart ment issued ruling that all squat ters" on land in Alaska must file their homestead applications within go days after the townships in which their land is included are surveyed and the plots placed on file in a local land office But it seems that only $ few Of the homesteaders in this vicinity have done so, and thus. if anyone should attempt to take the lands away from the careless homesteaders the squatter will lose out.
 The cost of filing homestead ap- plcations is but nominal and thus there is little reason why this should not be attended to-
 Some Last Thursday was a Enjoy holiday for some of Holiday. Uncle Sams employees
 in Fairbanks, though for only a part of them. It was the 50th anniversary of the death of Abraham Lincoln. who died on April Is. 1865.
 The holiday applied only to the signal corps men in the telegraph office and to the local land office, but all other federal offices. in cluding the clerks office, postotlice, and the court kept on doing business in the same old way. Just why a part of the federal officials were given a holiday and the others re- uuired to work, is not quite under stood.
 The legal holidays in Alaska do not include the anniversary of Presi- dent Lincoln's death, but it seems that the exception was made on this occasion because it was the even half century since the great statesman died.