The Alaska citizen., 1916-03-06

applicable to their cases.
 And such is the fortune that pur- sues MT and Mrs l. l. Robarts.
 formerly of this city, later of South i Fort George, E. C., and now resid.
 ing at Anchorage. For it seems
 that when things look the bright
 est bad luck steps in and swipes
 the profits.
 The Robarts' were the owners of
 q big hotel at South Fort George,
 B. C.. in 1914, when on the morn | ing of Dec 26 a fire came along
 and swept them out of house and nome. Shortly after he received | lis insurance money Mir. Robarts
 decided to go to Anchorage. just i then determined upon as the head quarters of the Alaskan Railroad commission. and embark in busi-
 ness.
 He went; constructed large ] building; went back to Seattle to
 purchase paraphernalia and event
 ually put up the largest amusement house in Anchorage. And he, with
 his family, is still there, but bad 1 luck still continues its pursuit.
 The first trouble had by the
 family was on New Years of this
 year when the building nearly
 burned up, the fire being put out only by the efforts of MT and Mrs l Robarts with fire eXtinguisher. 1 As it was, the beautiful new liy- ing rooms were ruined by the flames | before the fire was eXtinguished And then when the big dock fire occurred at Seward, Mr Robarts i had about $1OO worth of stock with
 the freight paid on it, burned up. And the family has been robbed 1 tWIce since they went to Ancnor- 4ge. The first robbery took place
 Jn Christmas day while MT. Re
 Darts' C.erks were of duty ant i while he himself was fixing the l cash drawer. The robbery was un- l Iouhtedly premeditated for, while
 Mir. Robarts was working on the i cash drawer he was called away l rom his work and when he returned to
 it, he found that the drawer ha.. i been robbed of $I50 in his aD- l 5ence. The other occasion was on
 January 23, while the family was
 gone to church, the safe in the living apartments upstairs in the i building being forced and robbeu
 ot $4O0.
 1 She Got Early in the winter of l Another 1914-15 certain well | Expert. known lady of Fairbanks made the discovery that
 a choice set of furs had been brought to town by trapper from one of
 the outlying districts. Hearing that ! they were on display at local es- i tablishment which deals extensively
 in furs, she went to see them. She 1 liked them very well after inspect ] 1 familiar with furs as to quality, she decided that she would not de l pend on her own judgment in the matter of purchase.
 She therefore hied herself to the
 residence of a lady friend of hers whom she had heard was an eX-
 pert judge of furs, and asked her to go and see those which had re- l ceIuy been brought to town. She told the so-cdlled expert that she wanted to make the purchase of | the furs, but was relyng entirely
 on the experts judgment as far as
 the quality of the furs was con 1 cerned.
 She did not meet her expert for several days after the conversa
 ton during which she had asked 1 said expert to investigate the furs. 1 And when she did she was muchly 1 surprised to be informed that the 1 expert had been so taken with the set that she decided to purchase
 them herself Therefore our heroine did without set of furs during 1 lhe winter of 1914-15.
 This year, however, things are different For the lady, when she heard that nice choice lot of l furs had arrived in town, went | to an expert" who already had a
 set of furs. She could, of course, have gone to her first expert but 1 for the fact that she heard the
 first one was ready to invest in second set.
 Has An Most any man can be
 Editor An an editor. All the edi-
 Easy Job? tor has to do is sit at a desk six days out of a
 week four weeks out of the month
 and twelve months out of the year
 and "edit" such stuff as this: Mrs.
 Jones, of Cactus creek, let can
 opener slip last week and cut her
 self in the pantry" "A mischievous
 lad of Piketown threw a stone and
 struck MT. Pike in the alley last Tuesday," John Doe climbed on
 the roof of his house looking for
 leak and fell, striking himself | o, tho hocL norch n "ZNhi1e Harold