Iditarod pioneer., 1917-03-17

more than he makes a year as sparrow nurse in Kansas City.
 "'What do you mean by 8 sparrow nurse"
 Dad Is Sparrow Nurse"
 "He is a watchman in the city parks- head watchman Can you imagine it? He would rather be an owl watcher all bis life 1 wrote to my family today that l never wanted to have anything more to do with them, and told them never to claim me. l won't let anybody call me a Kansas City girl am an Alaska girl, and if l have to go back there to prove 1t l an going back there \
 "Louise said that her parents were Aus trlan, and that she was one ot ten chli dren. Her parents and older brothers and sisters kept up their Austrian connections and talked the language, she said, whereas she became Americanized by working as telephone girl in Kansas City, after leaving a convent school managed by Austrian priests.
 "They did not have an American idea she said They thought girl ought to marry young, and they wanted me to marry the first Austrian who came along with $2OO l wanted to be an American, 80 l left them and went to an aunt in Alaska worked as a telephone girl at Juneau
 Her Juneau Experience
 Someone who thought Louise might be deviating again asked her about her work in Juneau and she satisfied him that she was back on firm ground by the ring of truth in her answer, If we felt like It We gave them the number Otherwise We would tell them to take out the phone
 It was there, she said, she met Jim Ma loney, who gave her the diamond earrings and the engagement ring on her finger He bought the telephone company and l went with it, she said. The $l,000 which she brought from Alaska she said consisted of savings of S30 month for three years AS a telephone girl. The best evidence inst her fame burst upon her unexpectedly is in the fact that she failed to assume new name, so that her week of greatness came to an end as soon as Kansas City heard about it. Asked about this fatal error she said she was afraid to. She had heard that it was penitentiary offense.
 "'One thing my father says IS absolutely false Louise insisted. That is that l was biscuit shooter I never waited on table in my life Please don't call me biscuit shooter have shot plugs in a switchboard and even won a medal at Juneau for eff ciency in shooting plugs, but that is all Met Nice People" Louise said she did not like the decep- tion she had been practicing, but that it had caused her to meet number of nice people and to give her start on what she expected to be her new life, so that she did not have the heart to say I am liar An accomplishment she has hidden dur ing the week, because it did not go with her delightful simplicity and ignorance, IS | that she knows several languages. "T know seven more or less she said, and I guess they will help me out here I | learned Austrian and Italian at school. l learned Russian, Belgian and French in Alaska, and 1 know English and Kansas l City
 Her Intentions Were Good Miss Sachen says she IS not going back to Kansas City She is going to stay here and go to work, and she is going to move away 1 from the fashionable hotel where it costs too much for any young woman with $50 and prospects to live.
 But. listen she said, my intentions was good'"