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OUR STAFF .ARTIST happened to be-on the scene yes
terday, when the great conflagration broke out in that
place that’s always being burned up-”E” Company Bar
racks* Hence the illustrations* The Board of Investi
gation is working busily to determine the cause of the
horrible outbreak of flame, and at last reports sus
picion had narrowed down to smokers of ’’Barking Dog”,
’’Buckingham”, and ”3lue Boar” concoctions* Everybody
who has ever been near asphixiated by some of the above
mentioned reeks and fumes hopes that the guilty par
ties may be apprehended* Our valiant Fire Marshal and
his nsble assistant distinguished themselves,as usual,
by the sang froid with which they watched others work*
/ f • —^ CONCERNING A RUMOR that McCoy is to be made a
V Corporal,the Count of Monte Cristo arose and said
’'Well, I* d sooner see him made xhan some of these other
Bohunks." (0! .01 Mac,-and ire never suspected it.)Later-we understand
that the sad news is only too true.Mac has been made#
WHEN SUTHERLAND WAS Mail Orderly the order read,
"in addition to-his other duties”. they call the Mail Orderly
Postmaster. How come? And he has an Assistant*! Worse and more of it*
HOW UNFORTUNATE it "/as that the late military suc
cesses of the Turkish Army were not nor© general!3
FURLOUGHS (Parr,Parrish,Strong,and Hoss).They leav
for an extended visit in the Chilkat Valley. They expect to he enter
tained at least, for a tine by the Chilkat Lake Club,(Pres*-Benj*Mil
ler; Sec*ty;-Cletus Swiclu)
MESS SERGEANT REED, who has been taking a Corres
pondence Course in Animal Husbandry, frora the North Pole Agricultural
College,this week' passed a highly successful examination in the prep
aration of swine for human consumption. The entire company congratu
lates him on his signal success.
SERGEANT MASURY is still confined to the Hospital*
He is suffering from over-indulgence in the manly art of "skipping th
rope*”
’jVHICH HUSBAND! .(Ihis actually happened at a post
not a thousand niles fron ChilKoot 3arracks»'
IArs#3lank was visiting at a neighbors when an orderly
cane, in,after just stopping at her house* The conversation
. Mrs,3lank • «« ,rIs ny husband hone?'*
Orderly »«••* f,Yes, narfn,"
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