The Alaska citizen., 1916-06-12

tishna bunch had beat them to the name Roosevelt" Therefore it was decided that this town would take the second best name available.
 Today Roosevelt" is nothing more than cluster of tumble-down cabins-in one of which an occa- sional prospector or trapper spends the night-remnants of what was expected to be a prosperous min ing town. Like the man 1t was named for, 1t is down and out. But Fairbanks" still exists. So do the political fortunes of the man it was named after For he has been nominated to the second high est position and honor the nation is capable of giving for the second time.
 It is to be hoped that the de- cline of his still rising political star will not see the decline of the town named after him.
 Smoking The sign on the wall Disturbs was Please do not Customers. smoke, as it disturbs
 our customers" Conse quently, after 1 saw the sign l quickly put my cigarette out of sight, but not before my action had been noticed by the proprietor of the mercantile establishment where the sign was posted.
 And of course when he noticed what l was doing he smiled, which upset my equilibrium more than ever, and l had to explain myself Whereupon the merchant in question informed me that that sign was meant just for one man, and he was the man who made the smoke roll from a particularly obnoxious pipe every Monday morning while ha read The Citizen. And the above related event happened on Monday wherefore the sign. And the sign had the desired effect, for the-smok- ing Citizen reader never returned.
 The Citizen has therefore lost one more good reader, but he didn't mean any addition to the subscr p- tion list anyhow
 Humane The Honorable Richard Society M. Waterfront Brown Needed is the only member of
 the Humane society in Fairbanks And as such he takes it upon himself to investigate all cases O cruelty to animals, and all other things which would be reasonably supposed to come under the watchiul eye of an officer of the Humane society.
 Therefore it is not entirely in apropos to print the contents of telegram sent by Humane Officer Brown to one of his minions, Unit ed States Marshal Erwin. who is llO" IoIiIiiso lo dIl Dohho oil titt Yukon. The wire was sent to Panama, and was. in effect, as fol lows:
 AS the only resident member of the Humane Society or the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, I hereby direct you to | ;,1,o LN Nf oil JyNIt dogs between Panama and Fairbanks. They are reported to be tied to trees, unted and without water, and are in a starving condition. Look to your duty"
 What the marshal will do remains to be seen
 it's A Nearly all of the old Family timers of the country. Trait. particularly those who have made the town their headquarters, remember Lew Wing, who formerly worked in the Washington-A Alaska bank. Lew was D in town, one of his hobbies being kid gloves. In fact, Lew never felt dressed up without gloves on and it was therefore only on very rare occasions that he made his ap- pearance on the streets without them.
 Kid gloves, of course, are not an unusual thing in Fairbanks But at the time he was here Lew Wing was the only man who wore them while not exactly an object of curi osity, subject to be discussed when we'll groomed men were top ics of conversation.
 Last week another kid glove" Wing and he is representative of the West Coast Grocery company.
 As soon as they spotted him as S. E. Wing and wearing kid gloves, number of the oldtimers got their heads together. The result was that they discovered that the trav- cling salesman is a brother O the former Fairbanksan, Lew Wing. MT. Wing says that the wearing of kid gloves is a family trait and that aw still nayar faalS O,Iita