The Alaska citizen., 1915-08-09

Peter had the pleasure of making a trip around the world in company With Louis Schloss. of the x. C. Co. and others O. the same class, and he is proud of the fact that not a sin gle port was made during the whole trip that some one of the party was not able to converse in the language of the country. thus ob viating the necessity of relying upon interpreters. Two or three times the party thought they were stuck. to the rescue, as he has done num- erous times since he has resided in the north. though not always in a linguistic way.
 And this remark causes me to say that the old fellow is not such bad scout as some would make him out to be It is only those who have tried to hand Peter q bunch that have the largest howl l hbpN ihl III Nhihiiis aooutf Aoi
 have done business" with Peter and he has treated me just as white as any other man l ever owed.
 Good luck to you Pete, and may your stature never grow less.
 He Didn't Joe Handbury, one of Have To the best known hard But Did. rock miners in the coun-
 try, Is a pioneer in more than one sense of the word, having been to the front of civilization for the past thirty-fiye years. Joe was pioneer before he went to Colo rada, and after he went there he continued to be in the front and was pioneer at Cripple creek, and that is where this story originated. Joe has always been ready and will ing to do his share, no matter what the calling, and at the time in Ques- tion. was making the race for justice of the peace. Now 1t happened that Joe had been the humble instrument in saving the life of coIored man. and as there was a large colony of colored people in Cripple creek there was not the shadow of a doubt but that Joe would be elected, for they were for him to a man in pay ment for past favors to one of their race. Joe was resting easy. but a turn around in the negro section and say howdy to the boys, and in cidentally buy drink at saloon in the district run by Hebrew by the name Of Labelski. When he went through the door of the thirst emporium there were only three or four persons in the room, and of course Joe told the bartender to give all the boys drink. Then he entered into conversation with one of his friends and did not notice subsequent events. When he came to. however, he noticed that the room was crowded to the guards with the coffe colored gentlemen. | or course Joe said treat the crowd and the only thing he could do was to stand by his orders, and with beer at 10 cents per he settled a bar | bill of $l7.50, and every one of the crowd would have cast a vote for him without the expenditure of a cent. However, Joe had the satis- l faction of knowing that his oppon- ! ent in an effort to win the votes from Joe, dropped into the same place under about the same condi- tions, and his bill amounted to s20, of being elected and that was why he was called Judge Handbury in Cripple, while here he is Good Old Scout Joe
 Thompson During the closing hour TeiIs Why of the Pioneer lodge last ne SoluSO. MOlludy AlSlt, 1Olii Auo' l Gowan, the president of the Igloo, called upon w. F. Thomp- son, one of the newly initiated can didates, and asked him what excuse he had to offer for joining the order at this late date. when he could have done SO long ago having been in the country since '98. MT. Thomp son rose to the occasion and made clean breast of the whole affair and admitted that he had been SO licited by the president himself. He explained how he had been trying for ages to get out of the country and every time it looked like a sure go, someone was unreasonable enough to demand the payment of bill before his departure, and of course that stopped the proceedings at once However, this summer he thought he had a deal on foot that would materialiZe, and so sure was he of the outcome that he packed all the clothes he possessed into a telescope and shipped them to Sc
 attle, where he hoped to connect with them later on after negotiating with Bobby Sheldon for trip out or