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ENGLAND ADDS HER BIT TO GAIETY NATIONS
The English have long enjoyed the indoor sport of
•looking down their extensive noses at the quaint goings
on in these .crude United States, and remarking that
some things are really done evah so much bettah in Lon
don.
We do furnish our share of the world’s comedy,
of course. Occasionally we pop up with a Huey Long
to receive, in green silk pajamas, the skipper of a visit
ing warship; or we send a Zioncheck to Congress, or
bring forth a technocracy pipedream, or find some oth
er way of provoking condescending mirth abroad.
But we have never yet created a world crisis by
rowing about whether a woman who has two living
ex-husbands is to occupy our White House as the coun
try’s Number One Woman.
In spite of its immensely serious aspect, the great
Wally Simpson affair had just the faintest but most un
mistable flavor of Graustark. It might have been de
vised by Robert W. Chambers, with music by Sigmund
Romberg. That it should have happened in England, of
all places, is enough to make a supreme court justice
chuckle.
Stanley Baldwin, most conscientious and well-in
tentioned of statesmen did, look ever so slightly fluster
ed as he bumbled back and forth between palace and
prime minister’s residence. The cabinet, convening sol
emnly to deal with the menace of a charming young
woman from Baltimore, did look like something out of
Gilbert and Sullivan. The two people who managed to
retain their dignity are precisely the two about whom
all the fuss was made—Edward and Mrs. Simpson.
All this, apparently, is just what you let yourself in
for by keeping an anachronism alive in this modern
world.
England, a most thorough-going democracy, has
kept the institution of kingship. With everything else
in the land brought up to date, it has insisted on pre
serving the kingship under glass, like a treasured frag
ment of the 18th century.
The king has none of the power his forebears en
joyed, but he is supposed to play by the same rules they
played by, to act as if he and all his connections were of
finer clay than that of the common folk.
It seems to have occurred to Edward that this is
pretty ridiculous. Why not take this museum piece out
from under its glass case, blow off the cobwebs, and
bring it up to date?
Why not, indeed? Citizens of a republic are pro
bably barred, by the nature of things from discussing
the question intelligently; yet they can hardly be blam
ed for taking an intense interest in it, any more than
they can be blamed for having a sneaking feeling that
what Edward was fighting, was principally dyed-inthe
wool old fogeyism.—Exchange
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Interesting items
About Alaskans
Fairbanks Chamber of Com
merce recently adopted resolu
tions asking a highway be con
structed to the Goodpaster area
and the Forty-Mile country.
Yukon Territory recently com
pleted a highway from Dawson
to the Alaska boundary. It will
be a part of the international
highway when it is completed.
Taking of testimony was con
tinued at Fairbanks in the case
of Joe Mitchell vs. James E. Bar
rack, S. L. Godfrey and Bertha E
Selberg as garnishees. The sum
of $2441 arising from a wood con
tract is involved.
Mr and Mrs Wm. Casler, Mata
nuska valley colonists, make five
gallons of ice cream each morn
ing, using part of the cream from
three cows and ice from their
own lake. The Caslers then drive
into Palmer and dispose of their
product. The family has put up
40 quarts of homegrown peas, 60
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quarts of wild raspberries, and
have a large assortment of veget
ables stored, as well as 50 salmon
smoked and 60 others canned.
They have a storehouse full, of
meats. They say they could not
begin to do that in the States, and
are full of praise for Alaska.
A new teacher for the Bayview
school near Seward is expected
to arrive shortly. There are 80
pupils attending the Bayview
school and three regular teachers
are employed. H. L. Holt is
principal.
How to take steps which might
be really effective against the
constant growing wolf menace
was discussed at a meeting of the
Tanana Valley Sportsmen’s Asso
ciation recently. It is said wol
ves are increasing rapidly and
are terribly destructive to game.
Set upon and robbed in Seattle,
Fred Musjgerd of Fairbanks, is
now at the home of a nephew in '
the coast city recovering from in-j
juries received. A message said
that Musjgerd was ill and in a
dazed condition. It is not known
how much was stolen but he had
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a draft for a large amount when
he left for the States. He was
badly beaten, and bruised. Pay
ment on the draft was taken and
stopped. Musjgerd is a familiar
figure in Fairbanks as he had liv
ed there since the early days and
had not been out for 40 years.
He operated the Crystal Wells in
the Interior city, selling water.
Federal authorities are moving
vigorously to stamp out a prac
tice of issuing “rubber” checks
which has nearly reached an epi
demic in Fairbanks. Two men
were arrested recently for issu
ing checks without funds, and
are now serving a term in jail.
George E. Richardson was given
60 days in jail. The complaint
was made by the Griffin Candy
Store where the man had cashed
a check for $10. He also has
cashed several other checks. Ear
lier in the week Frank Bach was
given 30 days for passing a bad
check on the Tavern Cafe. Sev
eral others are under suspicion
but those swindled have refused
to make complaint.
Like all children of teen age, a
young lad of Fairbanks was told
Notice of Sale of P roperty on City’s Delinquent Tax Roll
In the matter of the Delinquent
Tax Roll of the City of Nome,
Territory of Alaska, for the tax
year 1935.
NOTICE is hereby given that
by virtue of an order of sale, is
sued by the District Court for
the Territory of Alaska, Second
Division, on the 31st day of Dec
ember, 1936, in the matter of
the Application of the City of
Nome, Alaska, for Adjustment of
; the Delinquent Tax Roll of Read
Property for the Year 1935, and
j for an Order of Sale thereon,
to said Court duly presented and
filed, and by and under the direc
tion of the Common Council of
the City of Nome, pursuant to
the statutes of the Territory of
Alaska and the ordinances of the
said city, all in such cases made
and provided, I, the undersigned
City Clierk of the City of Nome,
Alaska, will sell at puolic auc
tion, to the highest bidder, for
cash, on the 26th day of January
1937. commencing at 10 o’clock
A. M. of said day, at the Clerk’s
office in the City Hall in said
City, and if not concluded on
said day, to be continued from
day to day thereafter, each of
the lots, tracts and parcels of
land hereinafter described and
iset forth, for the amount of the
•delinquent tax, penalty, inter
ests and cost due to the said
City upon said lots, tracts or
parcels, a particular description
of each including penalty and in
terest up to the date of the sale,
and costs incurred and allowed
by the said Court in the total
sum of $84.70, the latter sum to
■be divided proportionately
among the said lots, tracts, or
parcels and amounting to $28.23
for each thereof, all being listed
below, and together also with ac
cruing costs of sale to be divid
ed proportionately in like man
| ner.
1935 Costs
Description Assessed To „ „ . __, „ , ,
Tax Pen. Int. T’date Total
Lot 46, Block 6 Leo Kent 10.00 .50 .60 28.23 39.33
S. 92’ Lot 8, Block 15 Leo Kent 9.40 .47 .56 28.23 38.66
W. 27’Lot 24 Bl’k 66 Mrs.C.Ahiyah 3.00 .15 .18 28.23 31.56
And NOTICE is further given
that each of the above described
lots, tracts or parcels will be sold
separately, and if sufficient is not
bid at such sale to discharge the
amount due thereon for taxes,
penalty, interest and costs, the
same shall be bid in by the Clerk
of the City of Nome for and on
behalf of the said City, for the
amount of such taxes, penalty,
interest and costs.
As used herein the figure 1935
refers to the taxes for that year
that became delinquent on the
3rd Saturday of January, 1936.
WITNESS my hand and the
Seal of the City of Nome, Alas
ka, this 2nd day of January,
1937.
(SEAL)
M. J. WALSH,
City Clerk
Publish—Jan. 2, 9, 16, 23, 1937.
his tongue would stick to cold
iron. He did not believe it, and
tried it. His tongue stuck fast
to a grader parked in front of his
home, and was forced to stand
there for some time before he
was found. He could not shout,
but in trying to do so his tongue
was badly bitten and blood was
running from his mouth. Hot
cloths were applied to the iron
and in a few minutes the heat re
leased the boy’s tongue, but he
was a badly frightened boy. This
is the second case known, as Vic
Rivers, now senator-elect, to the
legislature stuck his tongue to an
iron bridge in Dawson many
years ago and was compelled
to remain until the bridge was
heated before he was released.
That black bears, contrary to
prevailing impressions, take hea
vy toll of moose and caribou was
told at a meeting of the Sports
men’s Association at Fairbanks.
Examination of the stomachs of
bears killed show that they had
fed on moose and caribou.
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Neville Chamberlain (above) was
considered as a possible successor
to Prime Minister 8tanley Baldwin
should the latter resign because of
the assumption of responsibility In
the constitutional criolcowhich ended
In King Edward’s abdication from
the British throne to bo froe to
marry Mrs. Wallis Simpson. (Asso
ciated Press Photo)
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