The Alaska citizen., 1916-09-11

| MT. Lew lS was lNtl l'IpTt very Hlu'iI interested in the exhibits at the 1 Panama Valley fair And he unre- seryedly states that he never saw an exhibition of better products ] than that which was shown here. in the Hawaiian islands or any 1 where else.
 ] Loves Rod Donaldson is a l Labor special policeman His 1 Lost beat is that part of the city in the vicinity of | Second avenue and Cushman street. i lt isn't a particularly busy beat, although it is in the heart of the l business district. So Rod doesn't ! spend his time out in the middle of the street like the "cops" in all other big cities, but he attends to other duties which. as traffic off CT on that particular corner, come un- der his watchful eye.
 And that is the reason why Rod .an be seen almost any morning 1 in wet and muddy weather, clean ing all the cross walks on the cor urr of Cushman and Second ln fact. he has managed it so that anyone can get across the street there completely dry shod, regard less of the fact that the sidewalks are low and that the automobiles and other vehicles carry mud on to the crossings.
 Rod was cleaning off the walks one morning last week when a young lady came along the street It was 1 l, ;,,rr ,;,,,l seQuently everyone was feeling the ill effects of the downpour Rods labor in keeping the crossings clean at that point was therefore much appreciated by pedestrians.
 "Oh, Mir. Donaldson, l do think it is so nice of you to keep these walks cleaned off-they're such a fright in muddy weather. wish that somebody nice like you would clean off all the crossings from here to my house The crossing at Fifth and Dunkle is particularly bad" Such were the appreciatiye remarks of the young lady when | she saw Policeman Donaldson at work.
 It was then that Rod made a mental resolve. and it was some l thing to the effect that he would 1 have that Fifth and Dunkle cross | ing cleaned off, so that the young | lady would not muddy her little feet when she crossed the street at that | point Therefore. as soon as his work was finished he took his shovel and sneaked away for the neces- sary few minutes to clean off that | iptnn1inp c,,rnriSo tho | young lady when she should pass that way at noon.
 But Rod was the surprised one for, reaching the corner of Fifth and Dunkle he discovered that there was no cross walk there The re l suit was that he decided that he would clean off no more street cross ings, but, of course, he took back that decision after he saw the joke. Paid The Tom Youle is a happy
 Price With man again. He is not
 His Life. so happy, of course, as
 he would have been 1 had he been able to frustrate the designs of the mink which raided l his chicken coop one night last
 week and killed 54 choice flyers which he had been saving up for the winter, but he is glad to be able to say that the mink has paid the
 price. For he was caught in the trap set for him after he raided the chicken coop, being caught Fri day morning. His hide has been
 turned over to Harry Edwards to
 be mounted, and will hereafter adorn the Youle domicile re- hinder to MT, Youle of the loss of
 many choice, juicy feed of chicken during the cold winter months.
 The mink first caught and killed
 four chickens. But after he com
 mitted the first depreciation all of
 the holes around the coop were
 stopped up, and it was thought that
 he could be kept cut. He made
 his appearance the next night, how ever and killed 54 more.
 The next night a watch for MT
 Mink was set, with Charlie Thrift
 as chief guardsman. Charlie had
 a .22 calibre rifle. MT. Youle was
 there, too, armed with a club. But
 the mink managed to elude them
 both, and got out of the chicken
 coop by a hole that nobody knew
 existed. He could not, however
 evade the trap set for him, and
 has paid for his temerity in enter
 ing the chicken coop the third time
 with his life.
 All of which proves the old adage
 about the pitcher which goes tc
 the well once too often, etc, etc.
 sam CoInbolo, a laborer in the
 employ of Keys & Sons, on Ready
 Bullion creek, had his leg broker
 by falling slab last Monday morn
 ing. He is reported to be resting easily This is. the first acciden