The Alaska citizen., 1915-01-04
Town Gossip and Stories
B> The IdttIer.

In telling Of trip Outside, Cer-
 tain Fairbanks lady who has spent
 many years in Alaska, explained to
 a party of friends recently that she
 shocked her relatives Outside by
 failing to appreciate some things that they believed would be a treat
 10 her.
 She was at the home of her
 daughter. and in honor of her visit
 many of the best things in the
 market adorned the table. Among other things there was plenty of
 fresh. rich cream, which it was
 supposed the Sourdough lady would especially like.
 But" continued the lady in tell
 ing of this trip. "I found that had grown so used to canned milk that I could not use the cream, and 10 satisfy me they sent for some
 of the kind of canned milk that I had been used to having here"
 This Man Fighting is one of the
 Talked most unhealthy pastimes
 Tco Much a man can find, and, be-
 sides that. it is usually
 bad for the complexion. There are bother "by-products" of fighting that are anything but desirable, as a certain young man of Fairbanks found recently, when a little fistic encounter nearly cost him the friend ship of a young woman, for whom he has a growing regard.
 This young man, so the story goes about town. had bad habit of get
 ting himself involved in arguments
 that are being indulged in by other people but it is believed that he has been broken of that habit quite per nanently of late.
 One day quite recently, this young
 man stepped into a saloon where two men were discussing some financial question in which they were both
 interested Although he had no
 special interest in the discussion, the young man, obeying his fixed habit, soon found himself taking sides in the argument One of the nen looked at him in some surprise and said:
 'T don't know you and I don't see
 why you should interest yourself
 in the conversation between myself and my friend"
 iStt hilC yohIl7 iiih4l rVPI oH tdlh-
 ing. just as though he were an eight day clock, and could not be stopped
 until he ran down. He even went
 so far, if is declared, as to follow the
 two friends to the sidewalk and continue to talk. When one of the
 strangers answered him sharply. the young man drew back as though he would # the older man, but before he carried out this evident intention, Ae was Kncnfed some dist"nce by ] welldirected blow.
 That was not all but as fast as 1e reg3inGd his feet, he was knock d down. until he agreed that he vas defeated. By that time, his face was anything but handsome. When the talkative young fellow 'ooked at himself in the mirror and
 saw that his face resembled an European war map, he realized that his promise to take a certain young woman to a dance that night could not be kept, for he was not in a Dresentable condition. Thus the young man who talked too much and his best girl were conspicuous by their absence at the dance that evening. And now their friends are wondering what excuse the young fellow gave the young woman for his inability to keep his engagement Many Want No sooner is plan sug- To Get eested for creating a new New Jobs office, than candidates begin to show up from every byway. This is evident from he fact that there are already can didates in the field for appointment to the proposed Alaska Development board. which Secretary Lane and Delegate Wickersham are trying to get congress to establish to have
 charge of the routine affairs of the Territory.
 It seems, however, that up to the present time Fairbanks has no ac- tive candidate for the job, but re, ports from the coast indicate that candidates are getting active there. The bill providing for the develop nent board requires the appointment f five members. three of whom must be Alaskans.
 That Seward has a number of
 candidates for the job is made evi-
 dent from the following, clipped
 from the Seward Gateway: "A rumor is now being circulated to the effect that Don Mckenzie who was formerly U. g. commissioner in the Koyukuk is a candidate for the chairmanship of the proposed com mission which Secretary Lane is said to have in view for the govern ment of Alaska
 "A former United States marshal former Y. s. commissioner in the Nelchina, another official and secretary of the Democratic club held an informal meeting in the store of the said secretary this morning-the matter is so important that the pa Der would not dare to give the names or any information that might lead to the identification of those parties.
 Well, that meeting decided that
 the commission should be made up of eX-marshals and commissioners ! and officials of the Democratic party
 so that the future beaurocracy is l arranged for'
 eairbanksan When it seemed that Buys the cotton growers of
 Cotton the South would be | ruined by the sudden | stopping of exports to Europe, fol
 laying the breaking out of the war,
 a call was made for people every
 where to buy bales of cotton. Thus, | s. Do1o @e