Evening Star Newspaper, June 12, 1935, Page 13

Alaska Pioneers Back Up Law With Guns in Lack of Police Colonists Lay Down Rules for Tying |“nz Up Dogs at Night as Sleep Is F ound Difficult. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. they laid down the iaw-——and they're AN. | backing it up with guns. “What about people not tying up | type of PALMER, Alaska, June 12 (N. A).—You take in the old dlys of the golden West, when: there arose trouble too minor for a gun to settle, the boys got together in a noisy caucus, cussed hell out of each other, maybe had a fist fight or two and then parted with handclasps given and the trouble ended. ley, It seems that there live those in the pioneer colony who thought that in the absence of any uniformed cop they could run things to suit themselves. Briefly, they decided that the new General Council and its first law rela- tive to hounds running wild at night— when it's tough enough trying to sleep anyway, what with the sun tanning your hide at midnight—could go plumb to the devil, They've got a different slant on things now. Back Law Up With Guns. Pat Hemmer, grizzled, sinewy and fast lipped, called his headquarters camp colonists together, and together They do that in the Matanuska Val- | t00. these pooches as per the council’s or- ders?” Hemmer demanded. “Make 'em tie 'em up. tie 'em up,” several in yelled. “No, sir,” protested. ' “T'm Make ‘em the crowd tipping over urbue cans, and d 't that make a sweet song, maybe even sweeter than dogs.” M. D. Snodgrass is a resident set- tler, uun. Just tcrou the nflrold tracks from headquarters camp. or six o! his unu red pigs have been getting fat off the waste of some colo- nists who have been living high, since 21l they have to do to get food is to sign for it at the commissary. “We're talking aboul dogs, not " Hemmer stoutly asserted. Tie-Up After Dark. “I make a motion the camp tie up all dogs after dark,” a mackinawed, | whiskered pioneer suggested. Hem- mer repeated the motion. “Whatdya mean, tie ‘em up after THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON. _D._C. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 1935 M?" tho rouu:urnt dog owner de- -x dfln'r. mm um motion,” Hem- mer ref “¥You ssid after dark, and it never gets dar] “Well, make it 9:30 to 10 o'doek Everybody in favor of that “Wm'?m H.mm.n' ell, al er contin- “Pooches eauphyfila supposed to ur lo o'clock. If Q.hey‘r- not tied up, what are you going to do?” of e the women, | Candy Store Owner Couldn’t Stand botlnnlnl to get tough about sanitary condi 3 “Let each two streets dig a hole for dumping garbage,” Charlie Rud- dell recommended. Guns Mentioned Again. “¥eh, and then Butch won’t dig and they’ll come over and fill our hole Giblin snorted. talked about the 32. That seemed to settle that, and the convention passed s motion that a ::mge hole 12 by 12 by 10 feet deep dug. lug. “Good grief,” protested Lloyd Bell. | objecting to the size of the proposed garbage pit, “you could bury a dozen ' vi horses in a hole that size. Why don't everybody burn their garbage, cans and all, like we do? Then you wouldn’t need holes.” Bell wu outvneed lnd the sewage disposal hol Later mn clulhued Bell, ll!- ing he couldn’t possibly burn Otia Dot word “Wed fo & Botter one lnd finall ack—Ruddell clouted on the kisser! Bell bounced up lndm:delpunlenumll]mu the others separated it, forget 1t,” the cooler heads cautioned, and so the com- batants shook hands. (Copyright. lD—'fli b lh North rit Winlbh TSR et SWOON SAVES LIFE Sight of Robber’s Gun. | NEW YORK, June 13_(#).—Harry Mellinder, 52, Brooklyn @andy stare owner, fainted at the sight of a hn!d- up man's revolver tonight—and saved his life. 'r-o men entered Mellinder’s store. e began to raise his hands, fainted um fell. One of the bandits fired. mfl bullet lhuck where Mellinder’s ‘The hnd!u got $32 and escaped. Harry Hubbard, Lawyer, Dies. RYE, N. Y, June 12 (®).—Harry Hubbard, 75, former member of & New York law firm, died yesterday at his Summer residence, the Westches- try Club. His widow, the former Mrs. Harriet | Kennedy of Huntington, W. Va., sur- | ves. Don’t forget that grand old man... 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