ENOUGH IS PLENTY
FOR UNCLE GEORGE
Cordova North Star: All old timers know George Butler. He
was in Dawson in the early days, and later settled in Fairbanks.
He has made several fortunes, aud has been “bumped” several
times. A. J. Nelson, manager of the Anglo-Canadian Land and
Stock Company, recently wrote to Butler offering him stock in a
land company, and accompanied by a prospectus, showing the fine
quality of land held by the company. Following is Mr. Butler’s
reply, which will commend itself to his Cordova acquaintances:
A.-C. L. and S. Co., Seattle, Wash.:
Gentlemen—If you will furnish me with the name of the man
who represented me to you as a man who would stand for being
“bumped” frequently in the same manner and spot, I will be under
obligations to you. I desire to place him on my list of those to
watch out for.
You: ' 1 invitation to pui’chase stock in your company, which
has for - use the subduing of a large tract of barren land in
Canada, w at nand, and in reply would say: Not for me the chance
taking that is the lot of the foreigner who butts into Sir Wilfrid’s
Land—I have had mine. It is a great country, but the percentage
is too largely in favor of the dealer, and the deal never passes. A
country where one’s holdings may be rendered minus at any min
ute by the scratch of a pen in the hands of politicians who are such
handy penmen, can never appeal to mo again. The opportunity
to grab a chunk of the sun-baked arid lands of the Canadian North
west, and, after wrestling with it two or three lifetimes and raise a
small crop of decrepit wheat and a large crop of blisters and half
breed children, must be foregone by your Uncle George—I have
troubles of my own.
Don’t hold this magnificent opportunity open for me any
longer than you can help—let it go to the first sucker who has not
been up against the game. Just because I have been bumped is no
reason why I should “knock” your game, although I do feel a
little sore that you should try to play a return engagement with
me, and so soon after my trimming. There are so many raw spots
left on me as the result of that trimming, that it is just as well
that you approached, me upon the subject by letter instead of in
person. Yours respectfully,
GEORGE BUTLER.
fMo Place
For Drunks
Okmulgee o’.- . .Tunf 1*. —“We don't
Jaw on our »iae. ; ...iou'1 passengers of
the right sort will be more fully pro
tected from the company of drunkards
on the train.”
That railroads are taking advar.fage
intend to
men of n
tion to
h drunken
a disposi
conductui.
• :ot ns,” said a
■ ■at we have the
| of the Oklahoma law shich gives them
i the right to refuse to carry intoxicated
| persons is shown almost daily when
i conductors and brakemen on passenger
| trains do not allow drunken people to
j board the train. An incident of this
I kind occurred at Muskogee yesterday at
' the Frisco depot, when a citizen of Ok
mulgee. in an intoxicated condition, at
tempted to board the train for home.
The trainmen refused to let him on,
and in the argument following the city
i police ifrrived and arrested him. Only
recently a well-known Tusla citizen was
1 ejected from a Midland Valley passen
. ger train out on the open prairie sev
; eral miles from town, as.he was acting
, boisterous and wouldn't listen to advice.
Judge Cushman
Now at Valdez
i
Judge Cushman, of the Fourth ;
division of Alaska, arrived inj
Juneau June 24 and from there
he went to Valdez. E. M. Lar
kin, who for two years was treas
urer of Pierce county, Washing
ton, will be Judge Cushman’s
clerk of the court. Mrs. Cush
man did not accompany her hus
band North. as she had gone to
the East, where her father is at
the present time on a sick bed.
Mr. Wickersham
Coining to Alaska
Delegate Jas. Wickersham left
Washington last week for Alaska,
and during the summer will visit
many localities. Bernard Goss,
Mr. Wickersham’s private secre
tary, will remain in the vicinity
of Washington during his chief’s
sojourn in Alaska, and will de
liver a number of lectures before
Eagle lodges.
Nome Man Drunk
When He Married
Los Angeles, June 22.—Cyrus Kester
lias applied to the court here for an
annulment of his marriage vows, claim
ing that he was intoxicated and drugged
when he was married. It is claimed
that he is a well-known Nome man.
alleges that he v.as drunk last March
when he v. as wed, and the whisky gave
him a creepy feeling, leading him to
believe that it had been drugged. He
states that the woman whom he mar
ried was his cousin, and that she se
cured thousands of dollars of his
money. The wife is in Seattle. The
court has taken the case under advise
ment until an answer can be filed,
showing the wife’s side of the story.
Squirrel Whisky
Sir Thomas Dear told an amusing
j story at the opening at Dewar house
i recently concerning a liquid which he
REV. BILLY SUNDAY
READING SCRIPTURE
Here is the story of David and Goliath as it is said to
have been recently told by the Rev. Billy Sunday, with ap
propriate gestures, to a rapt congregation of eight thou
sand:
“An4 so David’s pa comes up to him where he was
working in the field and says: ‘Dave, better go up to the
house/ Your ilia’s anxious about the boys fighting in the
army', hasn’t heard from them by phone or anything, and
she’d like you should look them up.’ So Dave hops on a
trolley and hikes to the front, and stays there witli his
brothers over night.
“In the morning old Goliath comes out in front of
of the Philistines and dares the Israelitas to'flght him.
“ ‘Who’s that big stiff making all the big talk out
there?’ asks Dave.
“‘Why, that’s the head cheese, the big noise,’ says
his brothers.
“ ‘Why don’t some one soak him one?’ asks Dave.
“ ‘We’ve all got cold feet,’ says the Israelites.
“ ‘You fellows make me tired,’ says Dave, and he
pikes out to the brook and gets four pebbles in his shep
herd’s sack, slams one at Goliath, and soaks him in the coco
between the lamps. Goliath goes to the mat, takes the
count, and Dave pokes him in the slats, chops off his block,
and the whole Philistine gang skidooded.— Harper’s
Weekly. _
sampled in the prohibition state of
Maine, United States of America, says
the London Globe. When he asked
what it was made of he was told that
the blender took a gallon of wood alco
hol, put a wineglass of glycerine in it
to mellow it, then ground down some
plug tobacco and strained it through a
cheesecloth to give it a flavor, and
united the whole with a gallon of
water. It was called “squirrel whisky”
because “those who drank it talked
nutty and climbed tross.”
Health is wealth, but not for the
doctor.
Visiting in Dawson
John L. Sale, accompanied by
Mrs. Sale and children, was a
passenger on the steamer Delta
last Friday night on his way to
Dawson to look after his business
affairs in that city. Mr. Sale has
been the leading jeweler of the
North for many years, and has
large jewelry manufacturing es
tablishments in Fairbanks and
Dawson. He expects to be in the
I Yukon city about & month.
JACK O'HARA JACK HUNNEWELL
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