The Alaska citizen., 1915-01-04
Wanted a New

sees and does strange things. some of these strange things were done by people who oyer-Celebrated dur ing the recent holidays and espec- ially is this true of a certain man from the creeks who drank SC much it was hard for him to tell ,is own name al times.
 This certain man had been i'm bibirE so freely that il was found necessary for the bartender al the Fairbanks 10 have him put out. The drinker was ejeeted from the Front street entrance. and for time stood there in a bewildered condi- tion trying 10 determine where he was Then he wandered around on tD Cushman street where the saloon has another entrance.
 He was too intoxicated to realize that in going in al this entrance he was returning to the saloon from which he had just been elected, but when he staggered up To the bar for another drink the fog seemed to clear away from his mind 10 the nNtent that he recognized the bar tender with whom he had had the recent disagreement Then he said:
 T shay thic), I'd like to know if you're thic) tendin' bar in all the saloons in towni"
 As A Alaska's impressions on Newcomer a newcomer are enter Sees Alaska tainingly set forth in an article published in the Eagle, a newspaper of Burnsyille, North Caro- lima The article was written by G. Ellis Gardner, who came here last 1pring from North Carolina to be assistant district attorney.
 In his article Mr. Gardner praises and criticises the Alaskans as he deems justified. but that he likes them as a class is made evident from the following appearing in his description of Iditarod
 This town is a typical mining camp. and at one time was quite a thriving place with more than 1000 people Now there's only about 300 Among them are many fine people, like most Alaskans- kind and free hearted. If they like you they like you. If they do not you will know it. for you will see nothing of them but their cold shoulder"
 Further on in his article MT Gardner says that the government railroad is expected to bring a wave of prosperity to Alaska, but he adds that here, as in North Caro- lima, there are perpetual "kickers' who. however, are quite unnoiced Then. in a further allusion to the kickers, he says:
 Adam kicked because the Lord gave him Eve, and Eve gave him an apple. and thus it will be so long as the descendants of Adam shall inherit the earth"
 Ministers Fairbanks has four Names churches, and, therefore, Peculiar four ministers. There
 is nothing out of the ordinary in that, but there is some thing interesting in the names Of three of these four ministers, which it seems that they must have noticed
 That the parents of these three ministers had poetic or musical tendencies, seems quite evident, for there is alliteration in the given names of each of them. For in stance. there is the Rev. II. II. Lump kin of St, Matthew's Episcopal church and there is the Rev. c. G. Bruce, of the Presbyterian church and the Rev J. J. Patton, of St James Methodist Episcopal church
 Double initials in names are not common, and thus it seems a very peculiar coincidence that the three ministers of this city should each be provided with them.
  They With the news of the ap- Don't poirtmentn of c. F. Bun Know. nell to the iudgesHir CT
 the Fourth division comes a feeling of unrest among those of the local federal employees, the life Of whose positions depends upon the new appointee, All of the pres ent employees are making arrange ments to be discharged when the new judge arrives, although some of them hope to be retained and are making their plans to jump either one of the two ways.
 However, most of them are now on the fence, among them being Paul R. Wagner, the genial deputy clerk of court. Paul has spent several years in Fairbanks. during which tlme ne ndS Qedll eXtenSlVely III mining ground, laundries, real es- tate, evinrudes. race horses and well. other things too numerous to mention.
 On some of his ventures, Paul lost out long ago, on others more recently. However, be still has Pea nuts" and the cutter, the evinrude and the canoe, and these he con- templates taking Outside when the general exodus from the federal of fees takes place. In fact he is al ready throwing an extra large sup ply of grain into Peanuts" in prep aration for the trail, as that noble animal will have to haul the evin- rude and the canoe as far as Lake Washington before he is taken on to Mohukodam, Pennsylvania, or some such place. there to repeat his Fair banks record as race horse"
 MT Wagner has kindly offered to take the clerk of court, Angus Mcbride, out with him. Whether or not MT Mcbride will take a chance on going remains to be seen. Ger tain it is that he will have to walk, if he goes along with an outfit where one horse has to pull a cutter loaded with an evinrude motor and a canoe, even though the runners of the cut ter are we'll greased.
 Needless it is to say that MT. hot tN x>1o