Tensas gazette., 1917-03-09

boardin' houses, believe. No, don't
know nothin' about Kuyukuk. She
played the big towns for the best jobs,
| guess"
"DiamOnd?" added the parent claim
ant, and there was note of pride in
his voice. "Yes, she sure has 'em.
Got 'em savin' her wages, she said.
Jack? Yes, l heard O. him, too.
Jacks her feller up there. He runs
saloon up in Alaska. 1 wanted her
to marry him while the goin' was good.
but she wouldn't promise to-"
Last June, so Sachen says, his daugh-
ter wearied of Kansas City and
yearned for wider fields.
$50 he added "she beat it to Chi
cagO, because she could get SS week
there. Now l seen all those pieces in
the New York papers, but someone has
got things twisted"
1t was recounted to him that Louise
spoke lovingly of her dogs" who
whirled her through the vastneSs of
northern Alaska, on her sled.
Knew Dogs All Htght.
"She went as witness in a dog
case to court last sunSner," said the
alleged parent.
Here a young man, who was listen
ing impatiently TO Sachen. Indignantly
announced that Miss Sachen's old
friends didn't want to be called
"sledge dogs" and added scornfully
that when she went to court to testify
person, she "was all dolled up" She
wore, among other thiSgs, some silk
stockings, a bird of paradise feather
and white dress-"which was some
short" ended the chrOnicler.
All of this, of course, is contrary to
Miss Sachen. She said when she ar
rived here that she was child of ma
ttre who knew naught of civilization
save that garnered from fleeting trains
as she sped to New York, and during
"A short pause in Kansas City, where
she stayed with half sister. She
told of her log cabin, of the men-folks
laboring in their chill PENTHOUSE, and
of "the spring cleanup" which gave
her gold in "her poke to come to New
York.
Admits She Is Impostor.
With eyes Redeemed from weeping
Miss Sachen admitted in the hotel that
/ she was an impostOr.
Chicago was too wise for me-" she
wept, "but it was easy to put 1t across
here in New York. And I'd have kept
it up. too, if pa hadn't spilled the
beans In Kansas City,"
/ Miss Sachen said she got tired Of be-
ing lust nobody" In Chicago. She had
visited Alaska once with her aunt, and
one day she mentioned Juneau and
Fairbanks to a friend. She noticed
it made a difference. Her other friends
soon began calling her "the girl from
Alaska"
Miss Sachen determined to be real
sensation. She took all her savings
and "blew" into New York with a
rush, and registered from Kuyukuk,
/ Alaska.
Says She Is "Done" With Father.
When she was finally caught after
her discovery, Miss Sachen had this to
say of her father, Nick:
"And here's me maxim him an
Alaska miner and stringin' gold mug
gets around his neck, when he's only
an owl watchman out there, and he
throws me down. Well, I'm done with
him. I'm goin' to keep on being the
Girl from Alaska don't care what
happens.
Just being Nick Sachen's daughter
never got me nothin', and when come
here and said l was the daughter of
an Alaska miner all the swell people
of New York never imagined would
speak to me took me up and l had q
chance to get some real money.
"Why, was going to bring him here
and make him my secretary. Now
suppose l got to 60 back to pushin
plugs"
'Pushin Plugs" Miss Sachen ex
planned was the work Of telephone