The Alaska citizen., 1915-01-18
Town Gossip and Stories
 B> The Iatter.
B, The IattIer.


 Ppys Taxes Ignorance of the condi slt1 tions that prevail in Difficulty Alaska cause many blum
 ders to be made by peo- pie on the Outside. and most of ... Hru,.s .,4tt 10 dc with people in o.t.c.l positions. IL seems that in .a..t c:.es they believe either that Alaska ls isolated entirely from the rest oi the world or that letters will reach the interior of the country quite as quickly as if being sent 10 any place m the States reached by lop.d mail trains.
 Last summer a Fairbanksan wrote to Southern California in relation 10 soIe taxes on property he owns there. T @ assessor said in reply that the books had been turned over 10 tle tax collector. who would for Wa,d statement as soon as pos sible
 In due time the tax collector s sfa emeut of cues was received, and without delay the required amount wa forwarded together with the tax s1. e.neut. back to the tax collector.
 I, takes long while for this in tel ,hqnge of letters. and thus 1t was ouy a few days ago that the prop errv owrtr received letter from a deputy in tNe tax collectors Of flee stating that the money order for the taxes had arrived too late. and that there was penalty added for the delay. Therefore. he sent the money order back to avoid confusion
 The property owner promptly sent the additional taxes. and in the let ter that panied the new money order, he explained to the tax col lpttor that inasmuch as tfe letter nHd to travel about 400 miles over snow and ice to the coast and then an additional distance of 250O miles before t reached its destination, ne fpAred that another penalty would be levied upon him before payment could be completed. IL is supposed that this little explanation will make the tax collector realize that prompt tax payments cannot be expected fr,m the Interior of Alaska.
 Climate There are peculiarities Here Is in this Northern climate TCS u lar mat lS llOl Qullc
 stood, but when the gov ,rnueut gets a larger experimental station here probably new light will be thrown on the matter, for where ger the government maintains it's up-.o-date stations it also maintains n excellent weather bureau.
 One Of the peculiarities of the eli mate here seems to be in the great difference in temperatures that Will be found in places but short dis tance apart. This was brought 10 light the other day by Superinten- dent Neal. of the experiment sta tion.
 T government has provided MT Neal with special self-registering thermometers. and with these he keeps official records of the tenn perature here. At first these re- cords were kept at the experimental station. but il was soon found that although the station is only three miles distant on a direct line, from Fairbanks, the temperature there var jed as much as 15 to 20 degrees at a time with that of this place. Now tha records are being taken in Fair banks, for it is felt that they should be at the place where the population IS greatest.
 In telephOning to the various creeks, it is frequently found that there is a wide range in the tenn pergture that prevails at the same time al various mines, and that they all frequently vary much from the temperature in Fairbanks.
 Of course some difference is due to the difference in thermometers, but it would seem that in that case the difference would be constant and would not vary from time to time Mr. Neal says the variation is due t. air currents
 Wants To Children usually have Marry more ambitions than do A Mason adults. though they do
 not keep an ambition as constantly usually as does an older person. Some childish ambitions are uni, ue one ct the latter was re gently expressed by the small daugh- ter of MT and Mrs. E. B. Collins of Fox.
 Mir. and Mrs. Collins were among the invited guests at lue LStdIdtIoA ceremony, held little more than a week ago by Midnight Sun Chapter No. 6. Order of Eastern Star, and by special permission they took their little daughter with them.
 The little miss was very much i'm pressed win the ceremony and the occasion generally, and she began to inquire how people could become members of the Eastern Star. Some one told her that only such ladies as are, wives or other nnear relatives of Mason could join the order. Then she rec me quite thoughtful, for she had expressed her desire to become an Eastern Star member Suddenly her face frightened, and she said:
 "I know what I'm going to do. I'm going to get my papa to join the Nasons, and if he won't, then, when l get biz, I'll marry Mason, so l can be an Eastern Star"
 Bostonans Wien the Juvenile Bos Remember tonians were in Fair Fairbanksansbanks, the young wom-
 en of the company were not permitted to go out with young men. for Mrs. E. Lang, who manages the company, does not permit her charges to have love affairs or to receive attentions from men.
 But it will be remembered that