The Alaska citizen., 1916-02-14
Town Gossip and Stories
B, The Idttler.

Scotch" Scotch whiskey and in Court Scotchmen got mixed
 up in Fairbanks laS- week. or during the opening day of the first term of court There was "Scotty' Taylor and "Scotty' Lamb and Y. o. r. Dewar's, Black X White anI others too numerous to mention. And the result is that John Taylor and John Lamb are serving sentences in the federal jail in default of the payment of $100 fine in eaoh case, imposed last Thursday afternoon by Juds se Bun nell in district court, the charge having been contempt of court.
 Lamb and Taylor were 10 have appeared before the grand jury on Wednesday as witnesses. They ap. peared all right but both were in tcxicated to such an extent that it was practically impossible for them to give testimony. The result was that they were cited for contempt by the district attorney.
 Taylor was brought into court Thursday afternoon by a deputy marshal Tue complaint was read to him by Judge Bunnoil, and, as he denied all knowledge of having been in the grand jury room the day before, testimony of the fifth tenth and fifteenth grand jurymen. together with that of the foreman, was taken And the judge evi- dently was convinced by the eyi- dence that the complaint was bosed on truth. for he ordered Taylor to pay a fine of $1OO or serve it out in ial at $2 per day
 In the meantime deputy had been sent in search of Lamb. but he could not be found. Just at the dose of the proceedings against Taylor, however. he made his ap- pearance in condition worse, if possible, than he had been in the day before Testimony was also taken III HIS CdNt anu Ilt ItCt4N tti the same sentence as Taylor.
 Spectators in the court room at the time the men appeared were convulsed with laughter at their attitude Just before he was led away, Lamb declared, in Scotch dialect not made easier to under stand by continued imbibing of Iiquil that cheers. that he had net had fair trial. for the reason that his best witness. Nil. Roth, had not testified against him.
 Jim Crow During the past few days Comes On numerous crows and ra- A Visit. yens have been noticed
 on the streets ot Fair banks and Garden Island. The fact of their coming to town is curious for the reason that it is seldom, ii ever, that they leave their native haunts, as they are very shy birds
 Their coming is attributed to the fact that the snow is now so deep that they are unable to get food Waited There is one Fairbanks For The an who is much wiser Big Game. by reason of the fact
 that he has been 'up against" the games of the Outside. He returned here only last week, poorer by $3,0O0 than when he left here, but much happier by reason of the fact that while in San Fran cisco, he gained at least that much in experience.
 It seems that this gentleman left for the sunny south on one of the last outgoing boats last fall. He wound up in California, and. of course, went to the exposition city about the first thing. He had some thing like $3,6O0 with him, and, not wishing to carry his money around, he deposited $30OO of it in a bank
 It wasn't long until the Alaskan began looking around for a com panion with whom he could spend some of the lonesome hours. For during the years of his residence in the north he had made many friends and acquaintances and Wa therefore not accustomed to being alone.
 And he soon found a travelling pal, countryman of his Che was born in Sunny Italy) and they started to see the sights together after they became acquainted. The stranger would not let the Alaskan spend any money, seeming to be willing to stand all of the expense. Things ran along smoothly in this manner for several days, and the two had some very good times together Naturally, the Alaskan told his newly found friend about this country and it's riches and incidentally about his bank roll lying in the bank doing nothing. In the meantime each had loaned money to the other when it hap pened that one member of the sightseeing firm would go broke, and everything went smoothly.
 One day the stranger showed the