The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-02-16
REX BEACH WRITES CLEVER SATIRE
 TO ALASKAN EDITOR WHO PUT OVER YARN ON SQUAW AS A FORMER FROU

' in the colorful and expressive idiom of Rampant as Short and Dirty The nickname, 1 assure you, was not unwarranted. The lady who Ian guiShes in your bastile as result of the evil influences you so generously attribute to her Association with me, may be the Same-I don't know. 1 am led to believe it is, for recall no other Annie in Rampant, and the one 1 knew was even at that time marked with a ravenous appetite for booze.
 "You will doubtless find verifcation for your assertion that she was my former wife, when 1 confess that the same roof sheltered both of us for a time. But it so happened that it ] likewise sheltered five other white men, two of whom had come from the states with me in search of gold and glory. These two young men, each HCw prosperous in business, were my partners. They will undoubtedly find much interest in your story of my past. But to return to that roof alas! it, and Annie herself, belonged to another-a man from whom my partners and 1 had taken a mining lease. I regret to state that we were not happy family-even during the brief interval we all dwelt there to- gether. Memory tells me that one reason was because Annie, my sour dough" associates helpmate, insisted upon boiling frozen fish heads in a tomato can and eating the eyes while we college boys were at our meals. It was not appetizing to try to eat while those fish craniumS were being vacuum cleaned. Nor was Annie's { other habits those to which we were accustomed in our homes.
 Anyhow, l moved. l am moved now to tears at the thought that all unwittingly, l injured the maiden'S prospects, wrecked her later life and became Squaw man, by refusing to stand for those fish heads.
 q am assuming, of course that the incorporate lady mentioned in your columns and my ex-asscoiate's light O love are one and the same. But l linear your scoff. l hear you exclaim, 'Ha! the wretch betrays himself. An others wife, forsooth! This Beach has written nothing but lies about Alaska. This is a gross libel upon the name of her fair daughters and constitutes his crowning infamy.'
 'In the light of those mortifying disclosures contained in your dgnitied editorial page of September 25, l am reminded that mans evil deeds will rise and plague him, and am con strained to advise all young men that they cannot be too careful in sowing their wild oats, lest, surer than a shooting, some insane editor will har- vest them, and offer them for public sale.
 "My dear Alaska Citizen, you can not know what emotions you have aroused in this breast of mine by thus prying into a past which considered
 dead and gone, nor with what feel ings I shall paste your clipping into my scrap book, after it has gone the rounds of those other fellows who knew Short and Dirty It has the makings of a splendid press story in it, and I trust you will pardon me if I avail myself of that fact, giving due credit, of course, to The Alaska Citi- zen.
 "In closing, permit me to assure you that you have added greatly to the enjoyment of a dull winter, even though that enjoyment is tempered by the melancholy conviction that your paper is edited by maniac.
 "Admiringly and. sympatheticalIy yours. REX BEACH" I Waterfll & Frazier whiskey at