Madsen To Speak
At KAlftS Meeting
Guest speaker at the next meet
ing of the Kodiak and Aleutian
Islands Historical Society Wednes
day, March 5„ will he Alf Madsen,
well-known Alaska Big Game
guide, and a long-time resident of
Kodiak. Madsen will also show
some of his color slides of the
huge Kodiak bear and other
Alaska wildlife.
The meeting, which will convene
at 8:00 pm, will be held in the
science room of the new high
school building instead of the
downtown school.
New members are invited to
join and participate in the activi
ties of the Society.
Seek Applicants
For Nurses Exams
Licensing examinations for pro
fessional and practical nurses will
be given in Anchorage March 22
and March 23. Nurses desiring to
take the examinat ions are required
to submit application together
with a transcript of school records
and a diploma of graduation from
an accredited school of nursing.
Nurses desiring to take the
examinations to be given Satur
day, March 22 and Sunday March
23 should write to Helen Jeffer
son, Secretary-Treasurer, Alaska
Board of Nursing, 1016 Birchway,
Anchorage, Alaska before March
15, 1958.
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Book Review
. ALASKAN POKER STORIES
by Kennfeth Qilbert. Illustrated
throughout by Eustace Galbert,
well-known sourdough and artist.
Published by Robert D. Seal.
An Alaskan book with all the
chaum of authenticity has just
been published. In an all-to-brief
volume, Kenneth Gilbert has put
together anecdotes of early min
ing days in a book entitled “Alask
an Poker Stories.”
The author has drawn heavily
from the yams of one Colonel
Bowie J. Kirby but states this is
not the story-teller’s real name.
The game of poker as it was
played in the early gold rush days
makes for fascinating reading. The
characters grouped together in this
small volume live up to their nick
names and impart a flavor un
matched and captivating.
There is the Whistling Kid, who
had the annoying habit of whist -
ing through his teeth—especially
annoying in a poker game. How
another poker player, Smoky Fal
lon by name, attempted to turn
this to his advantage and lost, is
told in a rib tickling manner.
Other characters are Calabash
Jones, described as “the homliest
prospector insidp. the, Arctic Cir
cle—who sported fi over-sized
bulb of a nose Ji&e a squash
gourd”—hence his nickname;
Stuttering Smith, of whom it was
said “had been around camp long
enough to stir suspicion that he
did not relv en*:*ely on luck and
skill to win at poker”; then there
was Holdout Jackson, innocent
looking, quiet little baldheaded
man. The two met in an all-out
game with an ending that should
n’t be spoiled in telling here.
The story “Poker-Wise Salmon,”
the kind apparently lay their eggs
only on the aces and kings, thus
enabling the owner—a trapwatch
man to win with ease. He was des
cribed as y genial, Jjewhiskered
old character” who happened to
have an old deck of cards when
four men dropped in on him.
“Strangest poker-player the
North has ever known—a charac
ter called Preacher Brown—raw
boned and rangy, with a fighting
jaw and eyes that blazed with in
tensity when Sroused.” But he had
been one of the slickest card deal
ers in Nevada until he “got relig
ion.” He built a church by sitting
in on one card game.
We could go on and tell you
about fascinating and fabulous
characters* who worked their
claims int;the summer, in the early
gold rush days and1* whiled away
their,time at the*poker table in
the winter. But why spoil these
good yarns.
Whether you are a poker player
or not you will literally “sweat”
with Lucky Simpson, the penny
ante player,, who unwittingly play
ed in a gahie for big starts
Whether he won or, lost, you wflrfl
lose by reading fliis one.
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of Kodiak holds services & Sun
day School every Sunday at 11 am.
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