RUBY ITEMS BY
LATE ARRIVALS
Merchants Trimming Ex
penses—Miners Waiting
For Snow.
Wallev Labosky lias just compleeteda
fine cabin in Ruby city.
Vachon & Sterling have -their ware
house compleeted and are, doing; busi
ness. Harry, Hamburger is with them.
There is a bunch of good, honest,
hardworking men around Ruby, says a
late arrival from there, and as soon as
the show conies, you will seem them all
mushing out on the creeks.
H. C. Wallack and Otto Troelde have
landed their outfit, consisting of two
tons of provisions, a drill, a boiler and
a hoist at Birches. They intend to do
considerable prospecting in that vicin
ity this winter.
John Kehoe has put up a slab ware
house on the beach at Iiuby and is now
disposing of his stock of vegetables from
there. He has sold all of his pork and
a good deal of his vegetables. He will
probably sell out clean during the next
few weeks. He is getting good, fair
prices for everything.
The steamer Marathon, Bill Sherwin
owner, arrived from Ruby Thursday
noon with four passengers. They were
Charles Phillips, who conducted The
Place To Eat restaurent, but who lately
leased the establishment and will prob
ably winter around Hot Spring where
lie is interested in some mining ground;
Tom Patterson who formerly conducted
a restaurant on Flat creek and H. W'al
liek and Otto Troehle, mining men who
came on board at Birches.
Late arrivals from Ruby state that
business is falling off in Ruby and that
the merchants and saloonkeepers are
beginning to curtail expenses. George
Carl’s saloon, the Senate, the only place
in town that furnished music, has this
week dispensed with the services of
Professor Ernest Bergman, violinist,
whose modest salerv of $15 per, together
with the $10 per day salerv of Claud
Myrick, one of Paderiwinskis favorite
pupils, now goes into the sinking fund
of the proprietor of the establishment.
Down at the Post the tell the
the story that Lieutenant Riley one
time to^k the examination for the police
force. When they asked him how far
it was from New York to Chicago he
said “I'll be damned if I know. If
that’s going to be my beat, to hell
with it.” _
“Realism may be carried too far.”
The speaker was a well known play
wright of New York and he was con
demning certain over-realistic plays he
had seen in Paris.
“They were so realistic,” lie said,
“that they inflicted pain and disgust on
the audience. The audience under this
excessive realism suffered like Mrs.
Blank.
“Mrs. Blank was horror-struck to see
her little daughter come home from the
beach one morning with her new silk
frock cut into about a hundred holes of
various sizes.
“What on earth,” the mother cried,
“have you cut all those holes in your
frock for?”
“We was playing store,’ the little girl
replied, ‘and I was the Swiss cheese.”
CLARK THE
TELECRAPHER
Operator Does Stunt That
Once More Gets His Name
In the Paper
Down in the government telegraph
office the other day the Newark Kid was
watching the Chief take a long mes
| sage and copy it oh the typewriter
| The message was coining along too fast
for the Kid, who could only once in while
make out a word. Suddenly one of the
type in the typewriter got caught in
the ribbon. The Chief took out his
pencil and punched twa> or three4 time-'
I at the letter. . Jinking he couldnt’t ti.«
| it that way he unhooked the carriage
and took it off. Then he got the letter
out; wound up the slack in the ribbon,
replaced the carriage and started
in to catch up with the Fairbanks !
operator w ho had all the whil r
been pounding away without a break.
The Kid’s eyes began to stick out when
he saw the Chief poking at the
letter without checking the sending
operator, and the longer he worked the ;
further the Kid’s eyes bunged out.
When the Chief got his machine in :
order and was ready to again start copy
ing, the sending operator was about
seventy words ahead of him. It wts
i like listening to the Fairbanks opera
! tor spelling out a long message and at |
the same time pounding out on the!
typewriter the words he had been spel
ling a minute or two before. The only
thing that kept the Kid’s eyes from
popping clear out on the floor was the
fact that the chief didn’t want to take |
j the trouble to put on a new ribbon.
GOOD WHISKEY
GOOD NEWSPAP’il
Distiller Notes Effect But
Fails To Deduct
Cause.
Seattle, Sept. 17, 1911.
M kssrs. Stoddard & Kay,
Xanana, Alaska.
Gentlemen :
It was with great pleasure that I re
ceived a copy of the most Northerly
published paper in the world, today, the
Yukon Vallej' News.
Allow me to say that I read over tbs
paper thoroughly and I found lots of
good spicy news in it, and in general a
mighty good sheet and the man w ho Iooks
after it must be all right. Another thingl
noticed was on the top of the third page
that you are advertising a mighty good
whiskey. I am sending this paper to
New York to a friend of mine to show
him that they use and advertise the be:d
goods away up to the Arctic circle, and
if not too much to ask of you I would
like you to send me another copy of the
paper to show around here.
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I am,
Yours respectfully,
E. T. Morris,
General Northwestern Representative,
Julius Kessler & Co., Distillers. 1
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