The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-04-08

O'CLOCK AND banks can lie down ALL IS WELL. to pleasant dreams
 with the calm assur- ance that no alien enemy will dare to commit any depreciation against city property. Every night, com mencing at 9 o'clock and all through the long hours till A. M., broad daylight, our brave citizen-soldiers pa- trol the town, armed to the teeth with a "gat," and woe to the man caught by one of this valiant band.
 Monday a we'll known business man who resides in the warehouse district came home from the Pio- neers meeting about l A. M. and found his wife tossing about in bed, nervous in the extreme, and so wrought up that she was ready to scream at the first move of the burglar she was expecting any mo- ment. "Oh, George!" she exclaimed There are a couple of strange men
 
 lurking around and watching the house; they pass about every twen- ty minutes, and l know they want to break in, for they whispered to- gether under the window for about ten minutes. I was going to tele- phone if you didn't come soon."
 This lady's experiences were differ ent from the Garden Island resident who says she always thought sleuths "pussy-footed it" about and hold con- sultation with silky voice." but the two giants who patrolled her dis trict Tuesday from 3 to 5 A. M. made as much noise marching in front of her home as Grants army did while marching through Georgia, and their tones as they passed with in a few feet of her window were not even near silk" but reminded her of the megaphone men at a football game.
 Bill Jackson, the regular city night watchman, took refuge the first night in Garden Island. He said every time he went into or out of a ware house he saw faces peering around the corners, and once caught the gleam of a gun, and that settled it. He is English and does not care to adorn an "alien enemy grave" so he vamoosed. One loyal leaguer saw his flash lightning bug" in Thorne's as he was fixing the fires and followed him inside, so he con. cluded Fairbanks to be unhealthy for watchmen and made a social visit to The Citizen office till day light.
 Arthur Williams caught a real bur. glar-almost. He saw the Blue Parka Man" lodging in and out of the doorways on upper Front street with a sack on his back and laid for him. But after Hawkshaw ques- tioning he found the sack contained the early edition of The Citizen and the Blue Parka Man" was only the circulator at work.
 G. E. Beraud held up Walter Gould, the N. c. night watchman, whose duties require him to go through all the company warehouses every hour. Our brave "ally" thought sure he had caught a Bolsheviki at work, but the prisoner explained his presence satisfactorily and was per mitted to resume his worfk.
 Thursday evening the three chap lains of the regiment, Rev. Messrs. Lumpkin, Krieger and Marble, did guard duty. and had their presence on the streets been advertised in advance it is safe to say some of the members of their respective con gregations might have called an earli- CT adjournment of the owl Club" and walked only down the streets called straight.
 The police department and regular watchman will adopt safety first" uniforms, consisting of blood-rec mackinaw coats, white duck trousers and miners caps with torches. Any one prowling around the machine shops and food storage warehouses are liable to be shot first and found guilty afterwards. (This is no joke). HOW One of the young OLD ladies from the fed IS ANN? eral hall went over