The Alaska citizen., 1916-01-31

NTc NO" ltS, Sdlll, L!4dt VI aS o Mining dirty trick How could Fer Salt. you do it? Just to think
 of playing trick like that or two pore leedle fellers" like the Barthel boys, who placed so much confidence in you and your ability as a mining man, Just stop and think. How would you like it If, after you had worked and worked and finally reached bed rock and struck what you supposed was pay gravel, you should discover that some person in whom you placed implicit confidence, had "saltCd" the bottom of your shaft?
 The above tells the story of the Barthel boys strike in the Prom is@d land, according to a report received from Brooks Whether or not the report is authentic is not stated in the information received here. Which does state however, that Sam Godfrey was the culprit who salted the Barthel boys shaft and led them to believe that they were on the paystreak. Or at least Sam said he would do it, and he is therefore believed to be guilty Ice Worms Since the earliest days No Longer m Alaska, or rather, A Myth. since the days when
 Americans began to come north. a story concerning ice worms has been told, Jack Me CHostien whose history is t1o well known to need repeating, is stated to have been the originator of the story. which is to the effect that one time while out hunting, he starting to flee across a glacier while making his escape from a bear, and was attacked by myriads of what he termed ice worms"
 And McOuf stiens story is still repeated to the cheechacoes of today as some of them are able to testi- fy By northerners generally, how ever. the story has always been treated as the myth it is. But it is more than probable that it will be handed down to posterity for time immemorial as one of the leg ends of Alaska, even as other lands have their folk lore.
 The other day, however, there were several Fairbanksans who be gan to think that the story was not so much of a myth, after all. Ea~ i0 taking up the pipe line to the lauHday intake in the river at the mouth of Lacey street B. F. PryCr and Andrew Anderson found nests of what appeared and after wards proved, to be millions of worms
 The worms were lying near to the steam pipe line which keeps tho intake pipe open during the cold weather They were frozen &Olidlv. but when taken into warm room, they began to show signs of life And soon thereafter all were as much alive as worms possibly could be.
 Nobody who has seen the species of insect recognizes It. The worms are about one inch in length and are white in color, their bodies be- ing of a transparency seldom seen in anything less clear than glass or clear ice They have small black heads.
 The species is now being investi- gated by the science class of the Fairbanks high school, MT. Ander- sons son having taken some of the worms to school for that purpose. Finds It John Moe finds that it Painful is very painful to write To Write. these days. There is
 nothing wrong with his good right arm when it comes to flourishing pen and John can write checks almost any old time
 
 The trouble was that he had to write a letter in the Norwegian Ian guage, and, having been away from the home of his childhood for 37 years, Mr. Moe found it rather pain ful.
 However, MT Moe actually did the writing yesterday, and it took him nearly all day He says, how ever, that the etfolC was worth it. as he wrote to a brother with whom he has not corresponded for 22 years.
 MT. Moe received a letter from his brother, whose name is Andre" and who is a fisheries commission CT at Bobo, Norway, on one of the last mails. And he was surprised, to say the least, for, although he had heard, through other relatives, that his brother two years older than he. is still alive, the least he lad expected was letter from him.
 And the letter was in Norwegian It was not at all hard for MT. Moe