REX BEACH TAKES THE BAT
DENIES SOFT IMPEACHMENT
OF FAIRBANKS CITIZEN
Rex Beach put his foot down and de
nies that ho ever lived with a Native
woman of Rampart known as Annie
l.yons and also hy the poetic title of
"Short and Dirty." In the interior
yet. the last time at Ruby, this famed
Indian maid resides and all the people
in there took it for granted that she
formerly lived at Rampart as the wife
of the novelist. Recently the Fair
banks Citizen published the story
known so long to others but never
published before, and now comes Rex
with a characteristic letter telling the
truth ol the whole affair and, inciden
tally, roasting the editor of that paper.
Anyone who has the pleasure of know
ing Miss Short and Dirty would rather
admire the taste of Beach in denying
the soft impeachment, but here goes
his letter and it is certainly worth
leading:
“New York, Jan, 5, 1917:—The Edi
tor Aaska Citizen, Fairbanks, Alas
ka.
"Dear Sir:
"I am in receipt of a copy of your
newspaper, dated September 25th, I91«,
containing a story, headed:
"Rex Reach's Former Wife in Jail
Here.
"Alaskan Wife of Famous Writer is
Serving Term for Vagrancy.
"There follows a unique and highly
imaginative account of a drunken
squaw, who poses for Kodak-bearing
tourists at four-hits a pose, on the
strength of the statement that she liv
ed as my wife in the early days of
Rampart City.
“I am lost in udmlratiou of The
Alaska Citizen's enterprise, its at:
curacy and its nose for news it rep
resents journalism in its highest form.
And I congratulate the Citizen upon
its staff of fiction writers. Undoubt
edly there is something in the Alaska
cliimate whirh stimulates the imagin
ation.
“Your story gains in interest and
impressiveness, if that is possible, by
reason of its grave, almost melancholy
positiveness. When you assert"*****
The former wife of Rex Beach is there
fore practically certain that she will
not want this winter * * •" and “there
is hut little doubt that the woman's
story that she lived with Rex Beach
is true * * *" I note that you do not
make use of the customary "It is al
leged,” “She states," "We are inform
ed,” and the like. Doubtless you con
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siiln stit’li qualifying phmess to ba
men- rhetorical refinements or literary
airs without meaning or purpose ami
totally lacking in journalistic vigor.
"My dear Alaska Citizen, allow me
lo assure you in all gravity and in
earnestness equalling yours, that the
matrimonial claims of your injured
squaw are qurely imaginary and that
her past, so far as 1 am concerned,
is blameless. As to your assertion
that I ‘taught her to drink," and
that her association with me is re
sponsible for ‘all of her troubles’—
l must likewise deny the soft Im
peachment. Crimes of various sorts
you may attriibute to me, and perhaps
villi reason, but 1 hi.vi no squaws up
on my conscience.
"Nor do I drink. In view of your
rugged virility, 1 make the latter con
fession with terpidatlon, if not with
shame, for doubtless by so dong I
fall even lower in your estimation.And
yet in my endeavor to be strictly
truthful to you, at whatever cost to
my own feelings, I shall confess more.
Now that 1 am in a mood to confess,
I shall bare my darkest and most
secret past to your accusing eye, even
at the risk of reputation, honor, every
tiling! Yes— even at the risk of being
misquoted in your inaccurate but en
tertaining columns.
“Here then is the horible truth: I
did know a squaw named Annie—
perhaps she was Lyon then, as now
—certainly somebody is. Please take
no offense, dear Citizen. Her name
was Annie, but she was better known
in the colorful and expressive Idiom
of P, a in pact, is "Short and Dirty."
The nickname. I assure you was no'
unwarranted. The lady who lan
quishes in your local bastile as the
result of the evil influences you so
generously attribute to her associa
tion with ino, may he the same—I
don’t know. I am to believe it for
1 recall no other "Annie" in Ham part,
and the one 1 knew was even at that
time marked with a ravenous appetite
for booze.
"You will doubtless find verifica
tion to your assertions that she was
my former wife, when I confess that
the same roof sheltered both of us
for a time. Hut it so hnpiiened that
it likewise sheltered five other white
men, two of whom had come from
the States with me in search of gold
and glory. These two young men,
each now prosperous in business, were
my partners. They will undoubted
ly find much interest in your story’
of my past. But, to return to that
roof—alas! it, and Annie herself be
longed to another—a man from whom
my partners and I had taken a mining
lease. I regret to state that we were
not a happy family—even during the
brief interval that we all dwelt there
together. Memory tells mo that one
reason I left that roof and sought an
other was because Annie, my "sour
dough" associate helpmate, insisted
upon boiling frozen fish heads in a
tomato can and eating the eyes while
we college boys were at our meals.
It was not appetizing to try to eat
while those flsh-craniums were being
vacuum cleaned. Nor wore Annie's
other habits those to which we were
accustomed In our homes.
"Anyhow, I moved. I am moved
now, to tears, at the thought that,
all unwittingly, 1 injured the maiden’s
prospects, wrecked her later life nnd
Dream Theater
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
Two Nights Only
THE PAWN
F FORTUNE
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became a squaw-man, by refusing to
stand for those fish beads.
"I am' assuming, of course, that the
intemperate lady mentioned in your
columns and my ex-associate’s light
o’ love are one and the same. But
1 hear you scoff. I hear you exclaim,
Ha! the wretch betrays himself! An
other’s wife forsooth! This Beach
has written nothing but lies about Al
aska. This is a gross libel upon what
constitutes his crowning infamy.
‘‘In the light of those fortifying dis
closures contained in your dignified
tslitorial page of September 25th, I am
reminded that a man’s evil deeds will
rise to plague him, and 1 am constrain
ed to advise all young men that they
cannot be too careful in sowing their
wild oats, lest, surer than shooting,
some insane editor will harvest them,
and offer them for public sale.
HOPELESS
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"that you say you are a cook, yet you
have no references?”
"O'ill tell yez th’ troot’, mum," re
plied Bridget. "()i wuz always i:i
wan place, mum, till th’ people died.”
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COMPARATIVE
TEMPERATURES
Following ate the lowest recorded
temperatures for this year and lust
on the <la>» leaiguuted. Th*j minus
sign before a number munme below
faro.
It. S Weather Bureau.
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March 2 . —11 30
March 3. —4 32
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March 28 .—3 —2
March 29. —18 9
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".My dear Alaska Citizen, you can
not know what emotions you have
aroused in this breast of mine by thus
prying in'o a past which 1 considered
dead and gone, nor with what feelings
1 shall paste your clipping into my
scrap-book after it has gone the
rounds of those other fellows who
knew 'Short and Dirty.' It has the
making of a splendid press story in it,
and I trust you will pardon me if 1
avail myself of that fact, giving due
credit of course, to The Alaska Citizen.
“In closing, permit me to assure you
that you have added greatly to the en
joyment of a dull winter, even though
that enjoyment is tempered by the
melancholy conviction that your paper
is edited by a maniac.
"Admiringly and sympathetically
I yours,
"K10X DKAOH."
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