The Alaska citizen., 1916-01-24
Town Gossip and Stories
By The IattIer.

Never Dan Callahan has sworn Again. of That is. after hay Says Dan. in+ been buffeted fror
 pillar to post in a legal way for the past week just because he secured a superabundance of the liquid that cheers and ran wild for a little while. City Councilman Dan Callahan will pin the little white bow of ribbon worn only by total at tstaincrs to his manly chest An1 he will never run wild again, hay ing seen the evil of sueh ways
 I'll never take another drink in this town" says Dan. Yes at's easy W Nhy, for II years be Iot, Lit taI. place I haln't touch cd drop Ind that proves to mo that | can d. it again. Hurrah for Bryan, prohibition and the ghost of Carrie Nation"
 Sutton Is Al sutton is a claimant Some Life to a medal |, isn't the 6aver Ncbtl prize the Victoria
 Cross or the Legion of Honor for Al is not a doer of par tia fy zIeat things, ner is he q soldier being most of the time engaged in the humble pursuit of mushing dogs.
 But, nevertheless. Al thinks he k entitled to medal He does not want to make application for it himself and he has so far failed to find friend with sufficient "pull' w.th Andrew Carnegie or his hero fund" commissioners to get it for him Consequently, to date, Al Is "out" 6 medal
 Shortly after the first of the year Mr sutton took practically every ting @oyabIe he possessed, with the exception of his cabin and fur nishing- and including his dog team. and started out on one of his wan dcring' trips He takes these trips nearly every winter usually in conl- pany with some Fairbanks&n who is going out in the hills for a short vacation.
 This time, however, Mr. Sutton went alone He started out toward the Bonnifield country, but hadn't gone far out the trail until he felt d cali from his old stamping ground fn the Kantsllna country and there fore pointed the hose of the match les leader of his dog team in that direction.
 At a point about 13O miles from FailtaEks the Liz wind ani snow storm which vas experienced gener- ally in the interior about the tenth of the month broke over the Kan tishna. It forced MT. Sutton 70 seek shelter and he went to a cabin which he knew of The storm was worse m the Kantishna than it w4s in Fairbanks and therefore Mr Sutton saw several days of staying in the cabin in front of him But he had plenty Of grub for quite 2 long trip, so didn't worry.
 He had not been at the cabin very long, however until two men came in. They were on their way to Fairbanks arI didn't have an. grub Nor did they have any snow shoes, as they had not expected to run into the storm.
 And MT. Sutton, foregoing his trip, turned around and brought the two men into town after the storm was over, He saved their lives, of course, because they were out of grub and because he brought them to town, Therefore, he thinks he is in line for a hero's medal. And some of his friends are think ing of taking the matter up with the Carnegie outfit even if they haven't any pull
 Bellows George L. Bellows, pro- Has New prietor of the Bijou ci- Clerk. ga: store, on Cushmar
 street, has new and good looking young gentleman clerk. No--it isn't Albert Alzina. But we aren't prepared to discuss AIS per sonal attract .veness; we'll leave i, t some Of his la1y friends to do that For he who is concerned with this story is entirely different.
 Last Monday morning a new face appeared in the window at the ijou. Passersby noticed it and many of them, thinking the person was an acquaintance. bowed and spoke.