The Alaska citizen., 1915-02-22

maniac. Is the belief of those Of
her friends in Fairbanks who have
heard from her since she left thi-
city.
Miss Lockhart joined the Juvenile
Bostonians at Prince Rupert. when
they were on their way to Alaska
and thus when she was here she
had been with the company but a
short time. After the company re
turned to the Outside, Miss Lock
hart is reported to have left the
players and to have returned to hel
former work of stenography.
The telegram dated al Seattle
states that the crazy man. who Wa
crippled section hand. ran amucf
in the offices of the Northern Paei
fic Railway company. and shot Rich.
ard Patton. a timekeeper. who later
died, and also shot and killed
Charles Dryden, Miss Lockhart was
in the office at the time. but jump
ed two stories to the sidewalk 10
escape the maniac The extent Of
her injuries We're not described
Boy Has G Ellis Gardner the
Eye For genial assistant dis
Future. trict attorney. tells of
an interesting happening
which came to his notice last week
Since Witnessing the occurrence he
is of the opinion that the boy in
the story has either been coached
along certain lines, or was speak
prOphetically.
Mr. Gardner was coming down
town one of the coolest mornings
last week The children were on
their way to school and number Of
them passed him. Being interested
in children generally. the official
naturally watches all he sees and
notices their funny little traits of
character
Two youngsters were coming
along, one Of them girl and the
other a boy evidently several years
her junior They were playing in the
snow, although the morning was
cold. and Mr.. Gardner stopped u
watch them.
The boy was very careful what
he did to the girl in the play eth
er from the gentlemanly point OF
view or because of the fact that she
was larger. The little girl, however,
was not so careful. suddenly she
reached down. picked up good
sized snow ball, and mashed it all
over the little boys face.
The boy at first seemed inclined
to cry, but instead, assumed an
angry attitude and for a moment it
looked as though he would retaliate
However, he evidently thought bet
ter of that for, although he was
nearly speechless with anger he
finally manaeed to calculate the
words You darn little suffrag-
cite"
Belgian How the refugees from
Families Belgium who have crowd
Separate. ed into Holland are suf-
fering is Interestingly
/ told in a letter received by Emil
Van Raes of this city a few days
/ ago. The letter was from Mr. Van
Raes' nephew, who has been serving
in the Belgian army as a doctor
but who wrote from Rotterdam.
According to the letter received
by Mr.. Van Raes, the refugees who
have crowded into Holland are most
of them on the verge of starvation.
But that is not the only trouble.
for in the hurry to get out of the
way of the advancing enemy, the
Belgians were separated, and many
families are so scattered that it is
probable that they will never more
be united.
| The writer of the letter said that
since the war started he had been
unable to learn the whereabouts of
his father and mother or any othe"
member of his family The way
his family has been separated and
evidently scattered to the winds,
he intimated. is the same experience
/ that has been had by many others.
Fire The truth of the old say
Gets His ing, "A burned child
Goat. breads the fire." was
proved beyond contradic-
ton early last week when H. E. s..
George, who lost his home a week
ago yesterday by fire, sent in a
hurry-up alarm to the fire department
on Monday, the day following the
burning of his own home.
After losing their home, Mr.. and
Mrs. st. George took up their resi-
dence in the Hamil cabin, but the
memory of the night previous wor-
ried them all day Monday.
Before building a fire in the Hamil
cabin furnace, Mr. st. George had
the stove pipes thoroughly cleaned
out because he wanted to take no
further chances. On Monday, he
went into the basement to look