The Alaska citizen., 1916-02-07

try Q ItN pttplt III T tll bdllhA' Corner know that an attempt Is Market. now being made to cor
 her" the picture show market here. and that that was the rea reason for Pirate" Ellis trip 10 the Outside For it is stated upon good authority that one of the objects of Frank s. Gordons tip out waS to secure options on all of the latest in good releases, and that he expected to come back here next summer and open the roller rink as a picture show house, with line of pictures good enough to put Messrs Thorne and Ellis out of business at their present stand.
 Dick Thorne. however. got wind oI the plan Therefore he immedi- ately got busy; changed his ar engagements to leave from Monday 10 the previous Saturday and will arrive in Seattle the same day that Mir Gordon does For the whole crowd, including The Pirate" left Fairbanks on the same stage for the Outside
 Until six o'clock the evening be- fore he left, MT. Ellis did not have the remotest intention of going Out side However, shortly before that time he was apprised of what was 6Cing on in the Fairbanks moving picture world by his partner in business, Mir Thorne. And it didn't take much coaXing on the part of Mr. ThoIne to convince The Pirate" that his presence in Seattle and possibly in New York was abso- lutely essential to the continuation here in the moving picture business of the firm of Thorne X Ellis.
 Therefore he went And may >hc best man win for all that Fair banks wants is good pictures, no matter who puts them up.
 You Cant There is no more in Keep A Good disputable evidence of Man Down. the truth of the old
 adage you can't keep fl good man down" than in the re cent action of United States Mar shal l.. T. Erwin, erstwhile The Citizens candidate for delegate to congress, in rising from a sick bed at Chitina and starting home. For the latest adyices received here are to the effect that Marshal Erwin, though i'll, departed from Chitina for Fairbanks on the stage which left there Friday morning.
 Many reports and rumors have been received in Fairbanks concern ing the marshal. He is supposed to have started out of Chitina orig inally with ten horses and mules pulling double enders loaded down with perishables Several men were with him, including Fred Douse, ac- cording to the report.
 It is also stated that. when but a short distance out of Chitina, the party encountered cold weather and that they had a great deal of trou- ble with their Cheechaco animals which, not being used to heavy trail work, did not manage well. The next report had 1t that the members of the party were forced to turn their animals loose on account of the extreme cold, and themselves returned to Chitina with one man badly frozen.
 The next leard was that all of the animals Lad been corraled and started for Fairbanks again except one mule, which could not be To- cated. Next was the report that Marshal Erwin himself was in a serious condition at hotel in Chit ina And on account of the fact that 1t was reported that an attack of pneumonia was imminent, 1t was stated here that the marshal had frozen his lungs during the cold spell
 But the marshal himself will be here during the next week to con firm CT dispel all of the rumors. His story of the happenings on the trip will then be printed.
 Vampire In the very near future Woman the moving picture lov- Here Soon. CTS of Fairbanks are to
 be given chance to see Theda Bara, "The Vampire Wo- man" in the Fox Film company's production, "A Fool There Was, for Dick Thorne, the moving pie ture man. announced shortly before leaving Fairbanks for the Outside that all of his energies when he reached Seattle would be used toward getting the famous picture for his patrons here.
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