Iditarod pioneer., 1917-03-17
CARRIE NATION OF ALASKA"
 RESIDES ON NEW RAILROAD

Mrs. Al Roberts, formerly Mrs. Dabney, at Roosevelt, has gained nationwide fame through the pen of Mrs. Ella A. Boole, tenn perance worker and clubwoman of New York. who visited Seward in the course Of a territorial campaign last year, says the Seward Gateway, which reprints the follow ing from & recent issue of the Literary Dl- geSt
 "She doesn't smash saloons, nor deliver public lectures on temperance, but she Is doing a great work toward eliminating the use of whisky in the huge Northwest terri tory of America. Her name is Mrs. Dabney first name unknown, for in the Alaska coun- try men either call you by your first name and forget your other one, or, If they have a great deal of respect for you, you are called Mir and Mrs, and the name your parents gave you is forgotten. And respect Is exactly what Mrs Dabney gets-from every miner and traveller every trader and wandering wayfarer. They know better, she says than to try to deceive her when they appear at the camp with 8 bottle ln the back pocket In the Union Signal Miss Ella A. BooIe of the w. c. T. U. tells us all about visit to Mrs Dabney, We read:
 Mile 2312 is a station on the new gov ernment railway between Seward and An chorage, Alaska. It is 8 square building made of logs, and, although everything about the place is primitive, 1t Is scrupu- lously clean. Sometimes seventy-tive men who work on the railroad take their meals there Mrs Dabney is the housekeeper, and a good cook and, with the he lp of a friend, does all the work.
 "'When the government began the con- struction of the railroad 1t established its base at Anchorage, at the head of Cook Inlet In two years time this has grown to be town of 5000. The government made it a prohibition town, and also let it be definitely known that no drinking would be tolerated among the employees, and no liquor could be sold at the roadhouses.
 "'All types of men are at Mile 23H2, and last Fourth of July twenty-five of them se- cured demijohn of whisky and several bottles. Mrs Dabney walked in upon the company while they were drinking. She ordered the owner of the house, her en- ployer to go to his room, escorting him there She told him to go to bed, and locked the door, Going back to the com pany, she attempted to break the demijohn, but the bottle was too strong. She then poured out the whisky smashed the recep- tacles and threw the bottles of whisky into Kenai lake When one man called her second Carrie Nation she simply said she did not propose to clean up after men who got drunk; that the government rules for bade the use of liquor, and she would see to it that they were enforced, and that no
 hor +obla ,bo h ol hoap drinking. It is said she enforced her words with threatening finger. The men sub mitted, and while they were at dinner the construction boss came in and, before all the men, apologized. He said she was right, and that he would not ask her to serve meals to him or anybody else who had been 1 drinking. No man took offense at her ac- 1 tion, knowing it to be right.
 l ""We had heard the story from others, but it was interesting to hear Mrs. Dabney tell it herself. She added: T can find whisky any time they bring it in. The other day man appeared with suit case I suspected he had liquor, and l went up to him and said, Give me that whisky '' She said he meekly opened his suit case took out the bottle, and handed 1t to her She threw it into the lake.
 elf you could see this little whlte-hareo woman and learn how firmly she stands ioi the enforcement of the law, and then realize how seventy-fve men submit to her martial law, you would appreciate it, and you would know how the men respect her. It had hurt her little when the men called her Carrie Nation, but when told her how Car rie Nation never attacked any saloon ex. cept illegal ones, and how the people o1