The Alaska citizen., 1915-06-14
Town Gossip and Stories
By The IattIer.


( that there are SO motor cars in Daw-
son and vicinity.
Those who read the clipping We're
quite confident that If it Were cor
rect, then Dawson must be far ahead
of Fairbanks This led to a careful
count of the cars known to be here
and in this vicinity.
According TO this count, Fairbanks
has approximately 40 motor cars;
that is, Fairbanks and vicinity. This
is all that could be remembered,
and it is possible that there are
more.
II is understood that several more
machines will be shipped into Fair
banks this summer, and this will
swell the list materially. Accord
ing to this there is approximately
one motor car for less than loo peo-
pie. which is almost as good a show
ing as is made by some of the States.
CONS English speaking people
New are credited with the
Word ability to adopt new
words and change the
old one more rapidly than anyone
else. In other words, they are sup
posed to be the best language build
ers" of modern times.
This may account for the appear
as result of the change in an
old word made recently by a little
girl Of that place.
This little girls mother made
trip recently TO Fairbanks to make
some necessary purchases, and while
here she bought her little daughter
some new clothes. These included
three dresses, one was red, a second
blue and the third was a white one
with tunic.
Naturally, the little lady was high
ly delighted with the purchase, but
her choice was the white dress with
the tunic. Soon after she had look
ed them over, she hurried to the
home Of neighbor and told all
about the new clothes, ending some
thing like this
And one of the dresses is a white
one with a tronica."
He Johnnie Kane, who runs
imaanes the automobile truck to
Things. the creeks, has been
having a long wooden
tassel on the front of his machine
for some time, but he failed to eX
plain why it was there. The mys-
terry is solved at last. for Jimmy
Barrack has found it out. after much
painstaking trouble.
Before he became an automobile
driver, Mr. Kane was driver of
horses. 1t was quite sudden change
to cease driving the animated horses
and take up the work Of guiding an
insensible machine over the rough
roads, and it is known that Mr.
Kane confided in his friends that
he did not like an auto truck like
he does a horse.
Now, then, the explanation as
given by Mr. Barrack. for Mr.. Kane's
habit of wearing a long wooden tas-
sci on the front Of his machine is
that by looking at it he can imagine
of him. and he does not get SO lone
some as formerly.
Indians In recent issue Of the
Story Skagway Alaskan was
Strange. published strange story
of an Indian OF Northern
British Columbia, and although few
white people will believe it. it seems
that the Indians are very much
impressed with the story. Anyhow
it is certainly interesting Here
it is:
Henry Phillips, humble disciple
of Gutenberg and Faust, and native
Alaskan philosopher who has been
managing the Indian cooperative
store at the village Of Klukwan for
several months, up till about two
weeks ago, when he returned to
his home in Skagway, brings the
first news Of a strange story that
is being told by Indians who arrived
in klukwan recently from Dalton
Post, in northern British Columbia.
THE tale as told is that an In