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Fast and commodious steamers sailing between Seattle, Ketchikan,
Wrangell, Juneau, Skagway. Cordova, Valdez and Seward.
Saif Seattle Arrive Seward
PEB. 16 . ALAMEDA FEB. 22
, FEB. 24 .ALASKA MAR. 2
MAR. 1 .MARIPOSA MAR. 6
This company reserves the right to change schedule of steamers with
out notice. Tickets on sale at up-town office, Empress Building.
J. J. LANKIN, P. B, TRACY,
Agent. General Agent.
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Feb. 15 .FARRAGUT. Feb 22
Feb. 25 WATSON .. Mar. 4
Mar. 2.EVANS.Mar. 9
Mar. 9..FARRAGUT..Mar. 16
Mar. 19 ..WATSON.. Mar. 26
Sailings from Seattle to *
CALIFORNIA
Mondays, Fridays & Saturdays i
Steamers j
President, Gorernor, Queen, j
Senator, Umatilla, Admiral |
Schley and Admiral Dewey, j
I SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ROUTE. Q
San Francisco to Los Angeles, daily except Sunday. 3
San Francisco to San Diego, Monday, Thursday and Saturday. 9
STEAMERS HARVARD, YALE, PRESIDENT, GOVERNOR, 3
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REX BEAGR
DENIES STORE
OE NATIVE WIFE
Some time ago the Fairbanks Citi
zen published a sensational story rel
ative to one Annie Lyon, a native
woman from Tanana, who was at that
time in the federal jail on the charge
of vagrancy. This debauched native
claimed that she had lived as the wife
of Rex Reach, the now famous novel
ist, during the early days of Rampart.
The story finally reached Mr. Beach
in New York, and he wrote the edi
tor of the Fairbanks paper the follow
ing emphatic denial of the flounted
falsehood:
“I am in receipt of a copy of your
newspaper, dated September 25, 1916,
containing a story headed:
“REX BEACH’S FORMER WIFE IN
J AIL HERE.
“Alaskan Wife of Famous Writer Is
Serving Term for Vagrancy.”
“There follows a unique anil highly
imaginative account of a drunken
squaw, who poses for Kodak-bearing
tourists at fou>- bits a pose, on the
strength of the statement tha-. she
lived as my wik in the early days of
Rampart City.
“I am lost in admiration of tile
Alaska Citizen’s enterprise, its ac
curacy and its nose for news; it rep
resents journalism in its highest fcrm.
And I congratulate The Citizen upon
its staff of fiction writers. Undoubt
edly there is something in the Alas
kan climate which stimulates the im
agination.
“Your story gains in interest and
impressiveness if that is possible, by
reason of its grave, almost me'nr
choly assumption of truth, and in its
! amazing positiveness. When you as
| sert “* * * The former wife of
! Rex Beach is therefore practieallv
I certain that she will not want this
winter * * ” and "there is but lit
tle 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 alleged,”
“She states,” “We are informed,” and
the like. Doubtless you consider such
j qualifying phrases to be mere rhefor
i ical refinements or literary airs with
out meaning or purpose and totally
I lacking in journalistic vigor.
“My dear Alaska Citizen, ailow me
to assure you in all gravity and in
earnestness equalling yours, that the
matrimonial claims of your injured
squaw are purely imaginary and that
her past, so far as 1 am concei ned,
is blameless. As to your assertion
that I “taught her to drink” and that
her association with me »s responsi
ble for ‘all of her troubles’—I must
likewise deny the soft impeachment.
Crimes of various sorts you may at
tribute to me, and perhaps with rea
son, but I have no squaws upon my
conscience.
“Nor do I drink. In view of your
I rugged virility, I make the latter
confession with trepidation, if not,
with shame, for doubtless by so doing
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 I 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, ev
| erything! Yes—even at the risk of
being misquoted in your inaccurate
but entertaining columns.
“Here, then, is the ho.rrible truth:
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I did not 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 Rampart as ‘Short and Dirty.’ The
nickname, I assure you, was not up
warranted. The lady who languishes
in your bastile as the result of the
evil influences you so generously at
tribute to her association with me,
may be the same—I don’t know. I
am led to believe it is, for I recall no
other ‘Annie’ in Rampart, and the one
I knew was even at that time marked
with a ravenous appetite for booze.
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“You will doubtless find verifica
tion for your assertion that she was
my former wife, when 1 confess that
the same roof sheltered both of us for
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j a time. Hut it so happened that it
! likewise sheltered five other white
| men, two of whom had come from the
! states with me in search of gold and
j glory. These two young men, each
now prosperous in business, were my
partners. They will undoubtedly find
much interest in your story of my
past. But to return to that roof—
alas! it, and Annie herself, belonged
to another—a man from whom my
partners and 1 had taken a mining
lease. I regret to state that we were
not a happy family—even during tne
brief interval we all dwelt there to
gether. Memory tells me that one
reason was because Annie, my “sour
dough” associate’s helpmate, insisted
upon boiling frozen fish heads in a to
mato can and eating the eyes while
we college boys were at our meals.
It was not appetizing to try to eat
while those fish craniums were being
vacuum cleaned. Nor were Annie's
other habits those to which we were
accustomed in our homes.
“Anyhow, 1 moved. I am moved
, now to tears, at the thought that all
i unwittingly, I injured the maiden’s
prospects, wrecked her later life and
became a squaw man, by refusing to
stand for these fish heads.
"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 I
hear you scoff. I hear you exclaim,
'11a! the wretch betrays himself. An
other’s wife forsooth! This Beach has
written nothing but lies about Alaska.
i This is a gross libel upon the name
of her fair daughters and constitutes
his crowning infamy.’
“In the light of those mortifying
disclosures contained in your dignified
editorial page of September 25, 1 am
reminded that a man’s evil deeds will
rise to plague him, and 1 am con
strained to advise all young men that
they cannot be too careful in sowing
their wild oats, lest, surer than shoot
ing, some insane editor will harvest
them, and offer them for public sale.
“My dear Alaska Citizen, you can
not know what emotions you have
aroused in this breast of mine by thus
prying into a past which I considered
dead and gone, nor with what feel
ings I shall paste your clipping into
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my scrap book, after it has gone the
rounds of those other fellows who
knew ‘Short and Dirty.’ It has the
makings of a splendid press story in
it, and I trust you will pardon me if
I avail myself of that fact, giving due
credit, of course to The Alaska Citi
zen.
“In closing, permit me to assure
you that you have added greatly to
the enjoyment of a dull winter, even
though that enjoyment is tempered
by the melancholy conviction that
your paper is edited by a maniac,
i “Admiringly and sympathetically
I yours. REX BEACH.”
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