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The Alaska Citizen 1 ri;i.isni:i) weekly by J HARMON CASKEY Prop CITIZEN BLOCK FAIRBANKS. Entered s Second Class Matter, May 14 19H). at the postoffice at Fair banks Alaska, under the Act of .March 3 1879. THIS PA . CENTRAL CFFICCS ' NEW YORK AND CHICAGO BRANCHES IN ALL THE 1 CITM SUBSCRIPTION PRICE One Year (In advance) {10. t)< Six Months (In Advance) 3 do Three .Months (In Advance) . 2.at one Month . It" 5 tide Copies . .2. Day of Publication . MONDAV Phene Phone DISCOVERED ViHOS BOSE. The cat Is out of un bag already and l. i- now Mi.vvn ta aa an lute certainly who was the boss cn tin* late grand jury Marshal laiwii. is talking, and from Ilia talk tn people of i nc community will 1 able to distinguish tin- Cod Almighty of the Tanana Valley. W- • ch rt’lng ovet t! •• vIndl a Jnn of the niat.- ..al s olLcc- during t' oast week the diminutiv. p i coinage made the bald statement t 6 repreF t of The Citizen i. the presence of at least two of hi. deputies, ilia' if it had not be for liis liifluiTin1 tlie wnt.-r el t . article would have been indicted That he went to one of the most prominent nun on the grand jury and asked that they refrain from Investigating our citizenship and ac tions while a resident of the Klon dike capital. When asked why he did that notil act, his ansver was that if w. were indicied tie n it would look like a political framenp tend he would wait until the next gran, jury for his revenge, or words tc (hat effect. For his action in this matter, i such is the fact, we refuse t tie the leas' bit grateful to M: Erwin, or l > consider ourselves un der any obligations to him II cannct buy our silence, neither cai he intimidate us by his statemen that he might go before the me. grand jury with our case. All wc care to say to him in that cornice tion is that he can go as far as he likes and we will be here fighting his crooked methods when the trai is sprung. It might throw a little light on recent happenings to analyze th>s great statesman’s words. lie claims that he was big enough, and had tin power to prevent our indictment if that be true did he not also have the power to have other men ir dieted against whom he had per social grievances and who were i his way politically? The result o the Investigations by the body it question was the return of two indict ments against men who were offensive ly active against the marshal, and b;. virtue cf a verdict being rendered against one of them he gets b swelled up that he is most willin to tell what else would have hap pened but for the reason that the play would be too raw and the people of the community would no; stanu tne gatr. Now what is his ground for threat ening that at some future sessioi of the grand jury ho might tak our case before them? In the year 1899 the writer wen to- Dawson to help install the Dali. News plant. At that time the min ers of the country were being rob bed right and left by as crooked t gang of officials as ever kept om of jail. Everything was graft, am they stopped at nothing to gain the! ends. An election came on ant with It one of the fiercest politica fights ever known in the North tool place. By virtue of having th( reins of the government In thei: own hands, the officials were doin just about as ’hey pleased and wer carrying things with a high hand Every man in the country, regard less of nationality, had more o: less to do with events at that time for they were the ones that were being systematically robbed. Many went just as tar as they could with out jeopardizing their citizenship and even at that some overstepped the mark and have since been rein stated. They were all in the fight against a rasially gang of grafters and the final outcome of the cor rupt situation was their defeat at the polls after running one of thf gang half over the town with i> rope ready for business if he die! not perform certain acts, and it is needless to say that he did what he was requested to do. In this fight the writer was in the thick of it. He was opposed to gang robbery then just as much as he Is today, and was making the fight then just as he is today—for the betterment of conditions of Ihe masses and the death of gang rule. It won in the upper country, though they had to have a rope in evidence and It may have to come to that here yet. This grand jury boss, conceiving the idea that we had taken out our papers, commenced an official probe and received what was pur ported to be an oath of allegiance, and forthwith had It printed In the gang's official organ, but be failed to have published the u... of the clerk of the eouit. ' z "That the said Caskey, not withstanding the taking and fli lng of said oath, has not been legally naturalized and no c. r tifhate of naturalization has ever been issued or properly applied for for the said James H. Caskey in the Yukon t.rri tory " Taking the matter of oui Ca nadian naturalization up with Hon leorge Iiiack. governor of the ter , ritory, a' a subsequent date, tilt , •'allowing answer was received "Under the Natural.sili u A t a dupiicat ■ of the c'Ttlli ate of naturalization has to bo so t to the secretary of state at Ot tawa and to remain on file Upon application to the =. ere lary of ia e for a copy of the cert li ate of naturalization is ;p d t . easkey I am inform' d tha no such certllicate is in f.. . ; nd . trti i r that no nut urali/.ali.m returns w-re i.c 1. i from Yukon previous to l'j , There is no record in l;;e court minutes here, (either of the judge or the clerk of the couit) of the granting of this natural; zatiun No tlaplivatof t eel ti.icv.to is or. file at C'ttu.a rial it is not Id.; 1 y tha' L-nit; cates were issued t.* Ca ’.■■■•• Th< o are the facts •< toe • >_ ;... t I r; i in it l.' ts . .1 l.i fho Citizen olliit. lla •.•dial id • in knows these facts just as wd s wo do, but he makes the as.--.er ion tl at only for tho fttet that i could show up his jobbery ton plain y lie w ould have had us lnoicte . .nd "that ho may do It yet at sum .os' uuent session." In other worus, he toon the oc.' ; ion offered to pass an Intimida: ng threat, thinking in his shrunken ieurt that he could cause us t et up on him and allow his crook.-, uethods to continue. lie was never farther from the nark In his life. We have rot ai •jved at our present ago to h eared Iv the hooting of an o 1 file grand uiry did return six or even indict'm nts, which, for rea -otis best known to the court oth ers. remain onserved, and he might ust as well have let tins proceed ings in our case come to an issu< ,nd if a true hill was returned i' could have been held up with tHr lalanee <f the bunch until his of. i iobs had been finished. The marshal’s admissions are ver> lamasing and made at a momen; when drunk with tlie victory of carrying out a well concocted plan \’ot being able to have a m:u liseharged front a position wliieti urnished bread and butter ior tin mouths of his family, he de’.iberat y set a tray for him, and when a erm in the penitentiary is staring the victim in the face, the official legenerate brags of his power and resorts to threats and intimidation. How long will tho people of the community put. up with such things? THE WOOLDRIDGE CASE. The sensational case of W H. Wooldridge, charged with rape upon the person of a girl under the age of consent, came to a termmination last Tuesday, when the jury re turned a ve-dict of guilty of the ■barge of an attempt, which carries with It a sentence of imprisonment n the pentitentiary for a term ol rot less than one year nor more i.an ten yea'-s. The verdict of the Jury la not In lccord with the views of a larg • najorlty of the citizens of the com nunity, who, however, were exclud -d from the court room during the irogress of the trial. From the >vidence which has been made pub ic the peoplo are firmly convinced that the marshal's office and their tactics were more on trial than was Wooldridge, and that his convic tion was of a secondary nature and it became necessary to send him to the penitentiary to uphold tin marshal. Some few people argue that Inav nuch as a crime had been commit ted someone must pay the penalty and there is but little doubt in the minds of many that there was an ’lenient of guilt In the matter, bu' the defendant in the case has the sympathy of the community from the fact that there are extenuating circumstances, and further that the marshal’s office set a trap to catch rn enemy of the marshal himself This view is taken from the fact that Mr. Wooldridge, as a notary public, put his seal upon an affi davit which was very damaging to the marshal, and another which re fleeted against the good name of the prosecuting attorney At a very early stage of the trial the defendant’s attorney drew the ^.formation from Joe Mi'ler, chief deputy in the marshal’s office, that he had gone to the Alaskan En gineering commission’s office at the solicitation of Marshal Erwin and requested the official In charge to dispense with the services of one W. H. Wooldridge for good and sufficient reasons best known to himself Be it to the everlasting credit of that official, to use the words of Torn Marquam, no atten tion was paid to the request, and the man contnued to labor and re ceive his wages as before. Marshal Erwin was checkmated in his attempt to harass Wooldridge and cause his dismissal, so he had to look In another direction for the revenge so earnestly sought and de voutly d«alr«d. Knowing the Iran’s fa.I « I a trap bail' d v. th t!: • atr-vc rat drawing nuald'-a kn-a n t ■ i ;■ commonly nil i d "Jail l al; i was proven on the wJtni * t r. ' that Wooldridge bad n t b< < n around the Herrington j . r > two years prior to the tenth or eleventh of February and i w > as positively stat1 ■! that t ■ tr was ait for him in the district at tomey's ollice the day bof re 1>. Joe Miller II was proven on the stand F at i 1 ott’e r f whi Vi nurcha • 5 -> ■ 1 15 In the aft moon was . : • •o Mrs Herrington at 10:30 in thr mnminc of the same day. w.r>! would be an titter I nnssibllity. and that the bottle sh rn in rvlli tv wm not tbe bottle bought, but one of twice lu .-!z" .v 1 i.ihic. AM these thn.es were bring’t ot’t in • : d n"\ but f r all F t toe v . ■ . 8 ;)|j ( wee vindicated in it’- trap and • ny metl ' • of Ians for men M”'',’ jntw ' * .1 * Sbal’s office, an 1 •’. ’--I hi If. ’ . : ’ tivin ' put w hi re 1 ’ • d c v t’ 1 sot b’te him. The p 5ople of th mmt er« not aroused over F’e f t a* : was Would; idee v.’i.o was :: ’ F • at. but that tin tnipnlmn ’■ mid stoop n the nu tiiod ■ " i ■ ■ 1 11 c.c cnpi is11 11 ir ends. T1 i ’.o net know w’-nt minttt > it t: : •’ • b-» some n an of . taudinar in t ; ’onmutnlty who would In ur tin ■mnlty of ’1 - • officials and to v1 at ort ’Pt t’’< y v t’ ’ is conviction upon trumped up ’barges and of!'*-! it c.T-atpfon They may ea ”> their cons' ! mees with the tlioieht that the end justi Bos the meat’s, but we can a ’ir them that the utter contempt with which they are held in thin co: < munity for their display of unfair ness will follow them to their dying day PRINTING THE NEWS. The evidence breught out during the trial of Bobby .Jones last week is not published iu The Citizen this week, and there is a reason. At a conference called by Judg-. Buunoll just before tho taking oi evidence in tho above case repre sentatives of the three pap- rs wen addressed by the judge as to the hardship in totting a jury for l'u ture trials if any of the testimony was printed, end of course if one paper printed some of it the n ,t one would go a little deep r inio it aud when i. came The Citizen turn we would have the whol. story. Judge Iiunneil did not make tills as a request for the suppres.-,iu: of tho news, and left the matte: entirely up to the papers them selves to handle as little or a; much as they could agree on. Both tho “kept lad;." aud t:.i News-Miner agreed that they woul-. refrain from publishing tin t -. mony and would confine them selves to mere details. The Chi zen did not promise anything. However, wo were inclined t take into consideration lie iroubi o' tho court in the selection o: jurymen for future cases aud tk likewise, at tha samo time pro;. lug that it was legitimate news, u which Judge Bunnell r.greed. Since then we liavo been think ing the matter over aud cannot - fur the life of us why we should exclude any news upon tho ground stated Dy tno judge. The people who buy The Cttiz-n do . o teeau.-; they get all the news there is, and that Is the reason why our sub scription list has been continually growing. They are entitled to what they pay for il it is to he had. However, we meditated deeply on our rights and came to < :.ir dt: nation too late to do us a iv g joc’. this week In the Jones case. We could go ahead and publish the testimony, because we did not enter Into the compact, but by remaining quiet we practically committed our selves and if would bo unfair tc the otiiers at tho conf: r ■ <■ to print the story now. Therefore our readers will bo disappointed, but we can promise them that, with this fair notice to our contemporaries we will have the balance of the eases, if admitted to the cturiroom PRIMARY ELECl'IUN. On next Saturday, which i ih 25 th of tho month, the polls ihi the Democratic primaries will b open in the city hall from the hour, of 12 o’clock noon until 8 in th evening, at which time every pci son in the Fairbanks voting pi, cinct who embraces the Democrat faith will have tho privilege cl casting his or her vote for twent;. three delegates to represent t Fourth division at the nominating convention to be held at Jun s, just a month later, or, in otV r words, on the 24th day of April. This will lie the last opportunity offered for i.wo long years to a ’ minister a lebuke to the presen i officials of the party in this dis trict and to register a protest to the national party for their failure to carry out the principles of the organization. You have the chance to register your protest in good and vigorous terms by casting a vote for all those who are opposed t the present ring rule. Marshal Erwin wants to go to the convention so that he can again attend the national convention, am’ there fix up Ms fences for his re tention in the office he now bolds and it U the duty of every' Demo ' t in the Fourth division, who ia t wholly in ac on! with ills con ' it if the o i ii c' and who ii sills I that he is using tho party f^r ' -vn ends- -botti fiaancj and re- to imt only attend tho pri ri 3 on next Saturday but to pm : or her best ellorts forth to get tln r there who have be.- me luk« wmr.u and disgusted with the way things lave gone in the past tw, y ears. i’ll© women of the town have tli s mte voting privileges as the men nd it is to be lioped that they will like an actin' interest and plan I’m gang just where they belong They are Just as disgusted with tlie gum shoe tactics adopted by the II rial., as aro the men of the com and it Is to be hop< ! that tf'N will assort their rights am' . f ■ their protests. W it known hs t • Australian 1 i I t will be used- a ballot e.,n it hi it'v the name of every candl <’ii' nil t hi ballot will be ini ti I'd t>> an election officer at the lire i: handed to the voter. He ■ r sh" will t in repair to a su'tabl t ' * irk that ba’lct. t uttlng • oppivit- the twenty-tlirei It is desired to vote for. Tht n ' ■ d on the tic'; t bv the no': . . g • !o faction have pledged Urn' * t i > are elected to attend the '• e v< nticui and do n >t go ttiat they v id give their proxy to someone who '. ill veto it against "the gang." Thii Is 'he last opportunity we i1 liate before the primaries to '■ail tho attention of our readers to this Important event, and we firm 'y believe that it would not bo nec essary to do so again. v " v.■you see an omcm :'gn b!ot It out. Vote the opposi lion ticket straight and make it a t-diing and lasting rebuke. Every Democrat is supposed to do his or her duty. WHO’S DOING IT. A secret Indictment is returned and the court instructs that a bench warrant issue for the arrest of the , person indicted. The bench war ! rant is usually placed in the hands ; of tlie marshal for immediate ser ve e and unless otherwise instruct ed that officer immediately arrests tlie accused. The district attorney usually directs such matters be I cause lie lias knowledge of the evi dence against tlie accused and tlie ; court, relying upon the honesty of the attorney, respects his wishes in the matter. Sometimes the bench warrant is ordered issued, but. upon request of the district attorney, is withheld from the marshal until the former instructs service. We un : dot-stand that in the present cases of secret indictments the court or d red bench warrants to issue but not to be served until the district | attorney instructed. There can be no criticism upon the court, be ■i'lso there is nothing wrong in instructions. The court cannot now the secret reason for the war : r-'nts not being served unless the I llstrlct attorney Informs the court. "JAIL BAIT" will be used in the . future the same as in the past by | the marshal’s office. They will soon ! get the population whittled down j to just where they can handle things. ERWIN says that If Joe Miller | had cast a black bail against the vi iter in the ballot at the Tanana club we would have been turned down when applying for admission. I.klc-nlly Erwin passed up a bet. WHAT Intel est could a grizzled old court bailiff have In the out come of the Wooldridge case which would cause him to go down the street throwing his hat up In the air and proclaiming "victory?" * * * THU Forty-Ninth Star, published by Frame at Valdez, had a Fair banks Chicken story In his Issue of the 4th of March, and propounds merles which tho Fairbanks people cannot answer. ■* * * SOME families are getting gu t. a "grubstake" from the government In the way of witness fees. There is one bright ray, however. The "Jail halt” will have reached the age of consent In another year, so they will only have abou* one more chance at the trough. There Is a man In our town And he Is wondrous wise. He jumped upon a speech he wrote And scratched out all the I's. But then, remembering who he was. He quickly grabbed his pen, And with a thousand strenuous strokes He put them in again. $ * * IT is easily understood why the higher-ups of the marshal’s office would get soused the night the jury returned a verdict of guilty against Wooldridge, but why the clerk of the court should join in the hilarity is mere than the average man can understand. Can it be that he had a finger in the pie? * * • AN exchange Bays that Bud Fisher gets $75 000 a year for darwing a daily picture of Mutt and Jeff. Stubs Erwin gets less money than Bud. but he does less for what he does get. His "get even” schemes keep him busy the most of his time, and the remainder is spent in Washington answering charges. » * * THE “kept lady,” that accurate disspminator of truth stated last Tuesday that in the appointment of Mrs Gillette as one of the judges of election, she would be the first woman to ever hold n like p >siti..i here. Contrary to their statcni* ut. however. Mis. Fred Lewis, of <Jai den Island, was a judge at the dele gate election held two years as > « LAST Monday evening tin Now Miner almost accused The Citizen ol receiving or being bought off by a subscription from some official. ll that family journal can and will it 11 who that official was we will (>■ i greatly obliged, for they are so f. w and far between on our subscri; tion books tnat we arc afraid wn have overlooked something. if thi Issue suits th' News Miner any bet ter will they please retract i:ie:: Insinuations! • ♦ • THE argument advanced by th prosecuting attorney's office for th. withholding of service in the s. : • Indictments was that, being of tin same nature of crime it would create a prejudice and til" govern inent would not be able t.» <»H’:' convictions In any of the cases If the withholding of service is ol benefit to the government, why no give the defendants the sain slderation and allow them the bem - fit of knowing who the indictments are against? Is it i.iir t t , eused to give the government all he best of It? * * * IF one or two of the secret is dictments should subsequently pro to he for that many of the v. :: nesses testifying lu the WoolJiid, ase, could Mr. It. FUoth ever con vince the public that he did not n the knowledge as clubs to get tin testimony desired to convict? And suppose again, that a couple or ail of these Indictments should he din missed at the request of the prose cuting attorney, even before or after service, would it change the view of the people one whit? That phase of the matter Is entirely in tie hands of Mr. R. FRoth. GRIN. When everything’s bad an’ you feci sad, An’ the world seems indigo blue. Just looka here, there's nothin’ queer, Ttie trouble’s all in you You may be broke, an’ minus your puke. An’ ye think you’re down an out; Don’t let things slip, get a good grip, Shovel hard, she’s hound to ran out.” If ye jolly u'ong, when things go wrong, And worry none a’tail, it’ll all come right as sure as nig'u. If you'll oniy hit tlie ball. The pessimistic guy (either you or I). Never succeeds in the end. It’s the fellow that’ll smite all the while, That’s "a nan among the men.” Did ye ever know, (or do ye think It's so) It Is just h£ easy to grin, As set down an’ whine, mope an' pine When your pay dirt comes to an end. Work like the devil, be on the level, An’ ye’ll get there after while Don’t be a grouch, got outa the ■touch; Work hard, play hard, an’ SMILE. * —MORRISON. Old Applicants Will Be Dropped In district court last Monday night Judge Charles E. Bunnell granted permission to the district attorney's office to drop from the list of nat ! urallzatlon applicants all of those whose names had been on the list for two years -or more. All who are dropped will be notified of such action by the clerk of court. The request to drop the names i was made of the court by Assistant j District Attorney Harry E. Pratt : and the court Instructed him to j draw up the order. The matter was brought at the conclusion of the naturalization hearing, when seven men were admitted to citizen ship. They were Salve Tobiason. j IT Delaney. M. Meisingseth, C. \ K. Prless, M. L. Forstdhagen, Joseph j Werner and H. D. Petorson. Election Judges Named By Council The chief business of the city council meeting of last Monday night was the appointment of the judges and clerks of the election which was held last Wednesday. Three ballots were taken by the councilmen before the five persons necessary could be named front the list of eight who had made applica tion for the positions, Mrs. L. It Gillette being elected on the third The Judges of the election were ballot. Mrs. L. R. Gillette and William E. Kenyon. The clerks of election were Henry T. Ray and R. A Jack son. F. R. McDonald was named Inspector. Other applicants for positions on the election board wero Mrs. C. E Knudson, J. H. Chaffeo and William Butler. The contest was spirited throughout Tonight at Theme’s Seven Beautiful Reels, Taken in the California Redwoods. SALOMY JANE A macterpiece of characterization of viri! Wr.'ern types as Bret Harte knew them. An extraordinary fine production of Paul Armstrong'^ de ightfnl filmlzation of a litera:y gem ‘aken at the original locations. BEATRiZ M ICHELENA Superfinely supported by a notable cast 01 Favorites in eluding House eten as “the Man." Admission 50c ONE SHOW.AT S:iJ0 sharp Commissioner Riggs Writes on I ungsten On a receiis mall from the Out side the Fairbanks Commercial club was in receipt of a letter from Thomas Riggs Jr., of tile Ala^kim Engineering commission, relative to the tungsten industry in this part of the count! y. The letter is as follows : “Washington D, ('. Feb, til, 1T*I•; "Mr. Wallace Cathcart, Secretary Fairbanks Commercial Club. Fair banks. Alaska. “Dear Mr. Cathcart "This is to confirm my telegram of today to be sent from Seattle by Mr C. E. Dole, our purchasing agent. I ired as follows: " ‘Please send promised letter re carding tungsten.' “The matter of tungsten is i ■ reiving a great deal of attention. In response to my letters to tungsten dealers quoting part of your provi ous telegram, l received replies showing great interest. I have en deavored to put them in touch either with you or with Johnson .v Ewers. I hope that we can promote an interest in prospecting for tung 'on, in ! i , ’i etj! wi'l have a h" value, not only for the period of t' - war, but for several years after the war. There should be as good de posits in the Fairbanks district as that discovered by Mr. Johnson. "I have noted the activities of the Fairbanks Commercial chib with a great deal of interest and plea sure, I think Fairbanks is to bo congratulated upon having such an aggressive body. "With very kind regards to you, I am always "Cordially yours, "THOMAS RIGGS, JR. “Member of Commission" The man with the guinea hen laugh is the joy of the funny story teller. Let Squires do your WOOD SAWING Prices Reasonable Orders taken at the IMPERIAL CIGAR Store DR. MELVILLE G. EVANS Physician and Surgeon OFFICE FIRST NATIONAL BANK BUILDING FAIRBANKS. TELEPHONE 130 V. GENERA! MERCHANDISE REMEMBER the old reliable that you could ALWAYS come to in time of NEED. He is iu need of your trade NOW. J. L. WHITE, OLNES Cushman Et. Opp. Courthouse. THE LAW OF NATURALIZA TION MADE EASY TO UNDERSTAND. A booklet ntai j the essen tial Information, with questions and answers, to secu e your second papers. They are print ed in Russian, Swedish, Nor wegian, Greek, Italian and Eng lish; also one containing the Con stitution of the United States. They contain much data, histor ical and political, which is un obtainable in the usual course of reading. Prepare yourself CIGARS CHOCOLATES AND CANDIES SCHOOL TABLETS TOOTH PASTE AND BRUSHES CIGARETTES SMOKING TOBACCO Orders taken for Rubber Stamps. Legal Forms for Sale. Postage Stamps at all Hours. GEO. L. BELLOWS. Notary Public. 1916 ALL THIS YLAR [[There is nothing in the home ™ that will give more pleasure JJ when you have company than a well filled sideboard of the very best in the liquor line. C]We can supply the last word in high class liquors, both imported and domestic. CjjOur Cigars and Cigarettes are also the best grades manufactured._ THE GLOBE BAR JOHN MOE, Prop.