El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-11-11
Time For Monte" to Go Back to Jail; Frank c,,.,-
Alaskan Character Rejects Miners Aid s!
Feet and Becomes Blind and Still
Wishes to Strive for Living City

, TO steal one and picked up the lishtest
IA which was the shot and dropped 3,
over the side OF the vessel. Later On tile-
/ Sos II out and buried d. IN thu woods All
! This happened that night and while they
we're haif drum After burying the go-i
Tie next morning one or them grew
frightened - what he had done and told
IT, offering 70 show him where tn god
vas In the meantime the loss had been
discovered hy the men on the steamer
They came ashore and went with the agent
10 me woods and found the box They
opened It and 10. il was tvvo-t birds fuli
OF shot u was then remembered that
Miller had been buying shot and ne wac
arrested He denied having stolen the
gold but convicted and sent 10 the
pcnireutiary- Al the end OF his term he
fet urned 20 Fairbanks. where he was care
fully watched He had evidently hidden the
sold he HAD taken out Of the box r. ia
cut OF the country but TO this Gay no one
knows how il was done.
Everyone Has a Nickname
Fairbanks has long since become a set
tied community. but many OF the eustoms
Of early mining DAYS sesu in effs-t one
is The Ia bit OF nicznsmes There are but
tcw mister and every one calls his feI-
low BY his first name OF a nickname. Il Is
Iohr and Jim and Tom. Dick and Harry
The nicknames are striking Many OF them
are rounded on the sense Of hu-nor that
PREVAILS everywhere throughout the country
one mar Is known as short AMI Dirty
others -SkOokum Bill and Sour Dough
BILL and a fourth the AIalsulaute KID
The latter is noted FOR his fine nalarnute
dogs He has twenty o. hand at this writ
ing
The Bear Kid" is q husky fellow who
got the title by wrestling with a tame black
bear before an admiring crowd and the
hungry Kid Is said TO be able 10 eat
any time and TO never refuse a meal. A
very thin man is named the Evaporated .
Kid" one Of his friends SAYS that he is a
human string bean with the bean left out
Eat en- up Frank owns cabin this
Tanana river. between Fort Gibbon and
HnH wFa- m HHHnaw
farm He is called 'I5at-'errl- up because
when he gets drunk. which is often. he
shouts that he can eat Up any man in the
crowd He only weighs Zoe pounds. Ever
one knows Frank as odd Eat--em-up-' ,
step-Gnd half Johnson has one Lee
shorter than the other Never heless he Z
faster than the average Splinter He .z
SAD 10 insist that the race track be along {
his snort leg the advantage
"Two-step Louie"
another striking charactor Is '-Tv0-stcu '
1ouise- Louie got his title during the &
gold rush at Dawson lie was a successful /!
miner, who was accustomed to frequent the
dance halls night after night The usual /
charge was dollar dance the man being
expected TO treat his partner al the end.
The story is told how ''Two-step Louie"
standing that $500 was TO be paid in Ala
mander Left chips. each chip meaning one 1
dance Iwo-step' came with the STAN /
pede 10 Fairbanks L II said he would
sometimes come into the dance halls here
and pin one-hundred- dollar note % the
c urtain over the orchestra telling the mer
Turkey in the straw Tho musicians
would play two or three dances and then
take down the note
Uses Bears Toes.
These names and stories are vouched 70
by the people OF Fairbanks. but 1 am be-
ginning TO doubt whether all the stories
tear in Alaska are true. ] have jtst. been
told one about miner II White Rive-
who had his toes frozen so that his feet
Is |tTrw % ~ tn he
hat the man had the toes anputated and /
vas able TO walk the stubs with the {
AID OF a pair Of bears feet made into moe
-sslns- the pear : claws taking the place
II his toes. The man who told me this
=howed me a photograph Of the miner with
his bear feet tied on.
Another extrava CANT story is p zooloricas
me The people here say that Alaska Is As
rec OF snakes as was Ireland after the ad-
make mat ever came into the territory
vas one brought from the outside in
ale OF timothy hay This occurred sbou;
vo years ago. As the story goes IN.
make arrived on the edge OF the winter
md crawied out OF the bale when the the--
was a bout 20 degrees below zero
u Immediately froze solid and as IL laid
here was found by Indian chief II was
long snake and the head had btnt over
70 that IL looked like A cane. The chief ueed
as cane all that winter. and h j. said
o be using IL still He burfes il in III. rre-
historic ice under The moss as the spring
ONES on, and when the Thermometer falls
rings # out as a prop TO keep him rom
alling-
Some Fish StOries
AND then the fish stories Judge yVirJ-.--
nam the Alaskan delegate 70 congress VIII,
ives at thanks. tells ne Of lake near
he headwaters Of the Tanana river where
e oiten goes Tor sport IN the summer TIL
-ater is as clear a. crystal and looIzfn.
own over the side Of the boat he can see
undreds Of fish swimming about II.
ticks out the fishes he wishes 10 catrr
ropping his bait in front OF only tie bey-
nd pulling il away when a small fish y
ne OF the wrong variety might swallow II /
IS remember. he could catch a boat load J
an hour but on account OF this careful
election and his desire for sport # takes
1nger-
Il is said also that when the women or I
airbanks go fishing instead OF dronDi1--f
ne fies IN the water they hold them Al tn
M or the line. some distance hove a. and
lager as to who can make the trout iu-nu
ne highest Those who lose have to nav IN
he shape OF luncheon.