The Alaska citizen., 1916-10-02

FAIRBANKS, ALASKA, OC and sane plan of closing up on Sun days and at night.
 But there is still one fly in the ointment For the clothing store managers and proprietors cannot agree regarding closing hour at night. They have all met and made agreements time and again. but the agreements did not remain in force very long. The reason is that some claim that they are merely doing favor for the friend who has ar rived in town too late to get what he wants and they admit him through the side door,
 The result is that the other clo- thiers make discoveries They. too. have had friends. but have turned them down. refusing to open nights for them, or Sundays either The result is that these same friends go to the other stores and get what they want when they would have bought of the other fellow had he been open.
 Therefore, although it was an nounced but short time ago that the clothing stores of the city would close at s o'clock by agreement, all for closing. It isn't because there is so much business. for the chances are that unless particularly fiat" customer comes in. none of them make light expense by staying open. GOLD Fairbanks will have PIERS FOR bridge with golden BRIDGE. piers. The gold will
 not be visible, for it will be in very minute particles But it is there, just the same, and the bridge will therefore be worth sev- eral hundred dollars more than was estimated by the road commission when it is completed
 The fact of the matter is that the rock which is being used in the construction of the bridge piers car ries gold values of $250 to the ton It came from Peter Steil's quartz property on Birch hill. Yes, Pete knew that the gold was there, as he has had assays made of the rock, but he could get more for it from the road commission than by run ming it through a stamp mill at his own expense in addition to paying for mining it.
 YUKON IS It has been a notori- ALREADY Ous fact that all of CROWDED. the outgoing steam
 CTS of the past sum mer's navigation season have car ried but few passengers. Which was undoubtedly due in some measure to the fact that everybody who in
 
 lastor next to the last boat, if the evidence at hand can be believed For all of the staterooms on the next outgoing trip of the steamer Yukon, going through to Whitehorse, have been reserved, and the local officials of the American Yukon Navi- gation company are compelled to turn many people away who wanted to make reservations for the trip.
 As far as is known here at the present time, the steamer Alaska, now enroute here from Dawson, will be the last boat of the season for Whitehorse. However, no announce ment to that effect has been made, nor has anything been said concern ing the possible date of her sailing IT MIGHT If Rev. Philip H. Will HAVE BEEN Hams, of Panama, WORSE. hadn't been in town
 last night the Will
 
 have been solemnized Or, had he not been here the contracting parties might have gone down to Cinema to get married or have sent for the Episcopal minister in charge of the mission there. Certain it is that Rev. H. H. Lumpkin missed a good job by being out of town.
 Little Herbie,' as he is prone to style himself, (and he is some moose) was wild yesterday morning when he found that Rev. Lumpkin had left town For he was very particular about being married by an Episcopal minister.
 He soon after discovered, however, after a consultation with the bride to-be, that Rev Williams was here. BROWN IS There Is, perhaps, no GIVEN better known char NEW NAME. acter in the terri
 tory, certainly not in interior Alaska, than Dick Brown He has followed mining camps all his days, and is one of the sour est" of sourdoughs in Alaska His vocation most of the time has been collecting tough debts, and for that reason he is usually to be found