The Alaska citizen., 1915-04-12
Town Gossip and Stories
By The IattIer.

Iattier. 1 dogs of the team he had used in bringing the sheep meat to town. were left on the street 10 starve. Milich's countrymen in Fairbanks. were appealed to and asked 10 care for the dogs but they all refused John J. O'Connor became interested in the peculiar case, and after he had tried to get various individuals to care for the dogs finally appeal ed to the United States marshal who authorized him to feed the dogs at the expense of the government. So, after all. the poor dogs will not be made to suffer for their masters misdeed
 Callahan During the time that Dubbed the ballots for city cleo "Populist" ton were being counted
 Tuesday night, there were many places in town which had blackboards up on which the total vote of each candidate was placed as fast as the count was announced. Among them was one on the wall of the bar room at the Hotel Northern, which was presided over by that well ly,, hot cheers. James Fallon
 When he first put up the names of the candidates Mir. Fallon also put the names of the respective tickets at the head of the lists. He had the Citizens ticket. the Socialist ticket and the Independent ticket but he could not find a place to put the name of Dan Callahan, although MT. Callahan was running independently,
 Suddenly he had happy thought and going to the blackboard, he wrote the heading "Populist' in large letters, over Callahan's name. There it remained until all of the votes for city and school election were counted
 Fall It is said that there are Suggests two things that are es- Verse pecially conducive to
 verse-writing They are spring time beauties and admiration for the ladies. Thus far this year, Fairbanks seems to have developed no spring poet, but other verse writers seem to be at large. This leads up to the following incident:
 IL was one day last week that a certain young man, standing not far from the end of the bridge across the Cinema slough, saw young lady slip on the ice on the bridge and fall At first. he says, he was afraid she had injured herself, but by the way that she regained her feet it was soon evident that she was un- harmed Aside from it's danger to her. the fall was humorous, and in spired him to write and mail to her the following verse signing himself, Rubberneck:'
 "I chanced to see you walking there,
 As on the bridge you tripped, And l was shocked to see you fall
 When on the ice you slipped. But you would not have fallen there,
 Upon the bridges deck,
 If on your dainty feet had been
 The rubber from my neck" Hadn't TimeYears and years ago To Talk over in Valdez, Judge To Judge Bunnell, then a school
 teacher and law student, knew a man named "Scotty.' -- "Scotty" was trying to do a little bit of everything in Valdez, and stayed there until he was denied admittance to all of the bar rooms in town. then he came to Fair banks.
 Judge Bunnell and "Scotty' met on the street in front of the Imper- ial Cigar store about S:30 on the morning of election day. Having been NaldeZians together they were quite naturally glad to see each other, and the judge invited "Scotty" in to have q cigar.
 "Scotty" was just sober enough to know that he did not want the judge to discover that he was in a state of intoXication. He took the proffered cigar but a few moments later was heard to remark:
 Well Scharlie, I'm glad to shee you again, but I must go. All the business houshes in thish town closh at nine thish morning, and I'm bishy. Sho long,
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