The Alaska citizen., 1916-09-04

chicken stolen as joke. but TOT any one person or number of per sons to steal two of his prized hens was too much.
 Accordingly, Mir. Waechter set q watch on his chickens. And he was compelled to watch for three nights before discovering the thief. And then found that a lynx had been the cause of all of his troubles. For on each of the two nights the animal had walked calmly down off the hill and had taken one of MT Waechter's chickens.
 This World That this world is not Is A Very such large place, af- Small Place. ter all, when one com
 mences to run around bit. but only seems large when il is in ones thoughts or when a person who starts to travel around it is in a hurry. is evidenced by one of the stories told by Emil Hurja concerning a little experience he had in Copenhagen, Denmark. last winter MT. Hurja was a mem Der of the Ford peace party which went to Copenhagen early in the spring In fact he was three mem bers all in one For as the official representative of Governor J. F. A Strong he was a peace dele gate; as correspondent of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer he was a representative of the press, and he also went as the representative of the student body of the University of Washington But all of those things are outside the story.
 MT. Hurja was riding along in a street car in Copenhagen one day All about him were natives of the country. and Hurja could not under stand a word they were saying. And being a congenial soul, he looked about to see if there wasn't some body on the car whom he could talk to.
 Finally Hurja saw young lady (you should hear his chicken stories) in another seat not far from him. He noticed that she had nothing to say to anyone around her and that she presented dis tinctly different appearance from nearly all of the other women in the car
 Hurja therefore made up his mind that he would approach this young lady for an interview. Accordingly, he put on his newspaper" front and accosted her. He says now that he doesn't know what he would have done had he been rebuked, but that he probably would have made up an excuse of some kind
 He first said: Pardon me but aren't you an American?"
 Well, l should say I am," she answered, where in the world do you come from and how are you?'
 Pm from Alaska" answered Hurja.
 What part?" asked the girl.
 Fairbanks" said Hurja
 Then you must know Phil Knowl- ton?' questioned the young lady.
 And then it developed that the girl was the daughter of Leland Stanford University professor and that she was taking postgraduate course in architecture in Copenha- gen and that she was an old friend Of Phillip A knowlton, formerly superintendent of schools here.
 Not being able to talk to the people with whom he came in con tact caused Hurja considerable bother For being newspaper man he followed his nose wher- ever it took him, and as a conse- quence was running around contin- ually. One time he nearly got lost | DttduSe He Coulul tell ldAiCdo driver where he wanted to go, and he didn't know where he was at the time, either Therefore, the next time he went away from his hotel he decided he would find a taxi driver who could speak Eng fish, if such thing were possible.
 Accordingly Hurja started out one morning to find just such person. He accosted two or three, and final ly came to another one. To him he put the question Do you speak English" And the driver of the taXicab answered Fl yes! was born in New York Speak it better'n you do."
 And of course that particular taxi cab driver got all of the business of the younger members of the Ford peace party from that time on.
 A complete account of Hurja' s experiences abroad would fill good sized book In fact, he now has a book of them as he wrote them up
 YUKON ARRIVES.
 The steamer Yukon, of the Ameri can-Yukon Navigation company, ar