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Town Gossip and Stories H» I he I at tier. Gref" Eyed S Monster a Gets B sy i Hurtling the quailfi* a tiotis of i or' tin m t" si' on the williams Jury the attorney for the defen at on account of o-r'ain statements tl.e prospective j u u w u ported to have made Vnd t i.>* n'lortiev introduced a vcitm—s to prove that the statements li id t•»• • • n made, h ,t his challenge was overruled Of course, the attorn*' peremptorily challenged the juror in question. It has since developed tliat the witness at the trial of challenge in quest'ott had more than one obj**t in attemplng to di»*i'*lit the sworn word of the juror to tin- effect that he could be la.r and impartial and still make the statement that ali of the defendants in the rape cases should lie hanged For it is very evident from happenings at a local saloon Saturday night that the green eyed monster entered into Ills cal u latlons That is. he is Jealous His Jealousy, however hsl him to over look a bet. for, had he kept still and allowed his rival to s:t on the Jury, lie would hav bail several days uninterrupted a-so- iati m with the woman in the ca-e < if course, it all • mi' .I In a little mixup. oi rather, in two of them. Just which got the best of the matter is not si !. hut it i.~ learned on good authority thit th* prospective juror had pose, ion of the highly prized piece of jewelry yesterday morning. Musician Fai:!i :ik ir tin with Flies The .. ,t a n That Coop Again, is, the a:: ’i — • ■.• at muv producing element ol tho city is without a first ela~s vio llnlst For Victor Durand, follow ing the frontier to Its wildest and woollest places, a.s he has always done, has cone to Woodchopper, to which place tho finer el ca nts of law and or<l< t havnot .. pi trated. Just when Victor will return ti Fairbanks h" did not state befori leaving. He is to be revularly em ployed in the Carroll ,v Burns amusement emporium and his abill ties as a musician are ure to be recognized by tlie dance" lov ■ g pub lie of the lower rh < r camp. It i« therefore certain tiiat Victor made a good move, as far as he himself is concerte d. Of course, he leaves Fairbanks and Fairbanks 1 lovers in the lurch, for there can be no violin music here with bin absent unless another violinist conies or is imported. Mr. Durand lias always made a I Hvelth**ed with his violin, and has done nothing else Hut It seems t t tie- time has now arrived when a pr f oonal violinist cannot malt* th*- big money which, in former dav> r- iilil* fell Into his hand for a v*t,. f* w hours' w ork And it would therefore seem that It Is up to some laxly, probably tin* commercial club or some fraternal organization '*> six* that Fairbanks gets another oixl violinist, \ 11 of which means that If a man cannot make a living her** play In the fiddle, he had better do somethin* ■1 si- on the side • • • Oddities Ther-> were numerous Of The qu'- -r ;.nd i'liiu.-ia'.'. Election. i; conm* t* t wph the city elect ton h* I . last Tuesday, some of which will b'-ar recounting It apix*ars that ' most of them were done by those who voted the ballots through ig norance of voting under the new election law, for a large number of the voters seem, by their ballots, to have forgotten that the election was for a mayor as well as for coun ' oilmen. on a few of the ballots the ratn° f Mayor Myers, the only candidate ad he»n scratched out. ami an other substituted. By far the larg est number, however, did not mark the mayor at all. Which fact was probably the reason that the mayor did not receive more votes. One of the ballots contained the name of Mrs. Myers as a sulc.iitute for her liu o-nd. Henrv T. if.iy. who ran ahead of the councumanic tic-k'i. received one vote. John A M Intosh. one of those elected to 'lie council, also received one vote, while Dan Callahan, though in jail was remembered by eight of his friends with six votes for mayor anti two for councilman. Even Biliy Butler got one vote. •Straw votes were taken in the Federal jail and at the school house in the jail Callahan, Adams, Moore and Mrs Hamilton were unanimous y elected, the number of votes cast being 12. The embryo voters a; the school house picked all of the andldates who were elected at the regular election. And in order that there might be some contest for the mayorship and for councilmen an extra ticket, composed of boys of the school, was in the field The voting was done by the pupils of the eighth grade and the high school. * * • Liquor Apropos of the fact Business that Seattleites are now Is Good. consuming an enormous amount of liquor brought from other places on the coast, in Wait for the New Goods, Ladies! They are on the trail between Chitina and Fairbanks and will be here within the next few days New Suits, New Coats New Dresses New Hats and Hat Shapes Fine Waists, Silk Sweaters,Corsets Middies and Long Coats EVERYTHING BEAUTIFUL GLASS BLOCK ri»n»f'qu<>ni e of Seattle being a <lrj town \\ F Thompson but lately returned burnt from the Outaidt telia an interesttng story of a for tiler Fmtbiuiksan An.1 it Is a story of the tall and rise of a bu-im :ii>n who now. although wlien Mr Thompson saw him In Cordova Iasi fall was flat broke. Is In a fa I way to make a fortune through his dealings In liquor with residents of Seattle The man in question Is Harry Ham burger well known In this city ami otht r Interior Alaskan towns. Mr Hamburger is known here as a shrtwd business man. and it wasn't (everybody who could worst him in a deal when he was In business In Fairbanks hut hard lurk overtook him and he was practically up against i It when Mr Thompson saw him at Cordova. The scene of the story now shifts to San Francisco, to which place , it seems that Mr Hamburger had i managed to get. And from this [point on, Mr. Thompson's story is purely hearsay. But. at any rate, after Mr Ham burger had reached San Francisco i he was met one day on the streel by Fernand de Journel He looked very seedy and told Mr. de Journel that he was hard put to know every day Just where his next meal was coming from or where he was [ going to lay his head when night came. But the next time Mr. de Journel met Mr Hamburger, or about the end of the next six weeks there was a great difference. For ' Mr. Hamburger, was all spruced up. so to speak, and looked like a million dollars all done up in one package. "How did you do it?" asked Mr. de Journel, and Ham burger said, "It was this way- — And then he told a story of how he noticed in a Seattle paper that the courts of the State of Washing ton had decided that the residents of the state might keep liquor in their homes and not be prosecuted I ile immediately conceived the idea of going into the liquor commission business and. accordingly, went to a wholesale house and laid his plan before tiie manager of the place The result was t hat he was financed to the extent of a few dollars for the purpose of getting out a circular letter to the effect that he was in the liquor commission busi ness, which he mailed to a number of his friends in Seattle. The re turning mail brought orders from practically all to whom the letters were sent, and from that moment the possibilities of the business op ened themsehes to Mr. Hamburger Therefore the former Fairbanksan is double shooting the turn. That j is, he gets a commission from the \ liquor house with which he does business, and from his customers in Seattle and other Washington i itles. And, according to the stories told, he Is reaping a profit of ap proximately $5,000 per month. * * * Dillon The chief topic of con Well And versation among tiie ! Hearty. many friends of Judge j John F. Dillon, who re turned to Fairbanks from the Outside during tiie past week, Is concerning how well the judge is looking. For it is tiie consensus of opinion among j those who have seen and talked with him, that Judge Dillon never j looked more hearty than he does j at the present time. The operation he had performed. | Judge Dillon states, was a complete { success in every way. And he at- ! tributes his quick recoverey from a | trouble wiiich was wasting him away j when he left Fairbanks last sum mer. to the skill of tiie surgeons at Mayo Brothers’ hospital. But that is not all. For when Judge Dillon went east after re covering from the operation, he went to his sister’s country home I in Wisconsin, where he was turned j loose among about 400 yellow legged chickens. Asked by a friend if \ the chickens were all there when j he started away, Judge Dillon said. 1 “I didn't take an Inventory to see.” More People Are Headed This Way Practically all information re- j ceived in Fairbanks from Cordova r Chitina is to the effect that a great many more people are now headed this way from the Outside Two big stage loads arrived during the past week, while two more are ! enroute. the last having left Chit 1 na Friday morning. It was reported i on the signal corps bulletin yester day as having passed Copper Cen ter yesterday morning at 5:30 o’clock. It has 12 passengers, but no first class mail. The passengers are as follows: Julius Guis, Jack Reagh and son, Captain Depuv. George llollvein, Minnie Rose, Mrs. Axel Carlsten and son, Mrs. John Lapp! and two children and Mary Taper. One stage reached Fairbanks Fri iay about noon. The passengers brought were Pat Meehan, John F Dillon, E. T. Sullivan, Mrs. Sulli van, Mrs. E. Herbert, William J Nolan, Mrs. Clara Allred, J. H. John son, George L. Sheppard, Miss V Wright, Miss B. Burnett. On aj stage arriving earlier in the week were Wallace Langley, J. H, Trout, J. Dobler, J. Watson, J. O. Ellis, W. W. Hunter, H. Henshaw, J. H Langley, Bob Kelty, Miss R. Martin, Miss Ella Knudson, Mrs. Ofenbach and J. F. Forgsen. The mill' of the gods seldom shut down for repairs. JUDGE BUNNELL IMPOSES FIRST RAPE SENTENCE WOOLDRIDGE GIVEN SIX YEARS IN PENITENTIARY—TWO OTHERS SENTENCED Saturday was sentence dhy In dl* trii't court And upon that occa sion three men. whose cases have gone through all of the legal prra readings, including motions for new trials usually presented by attor neys for defendants, were sentenced b\ Judge Charles E. Bunnell. \Y I! Wooldridge was giv.n siv years for an attempt to commit rape; Myers was given an aggregate sentence of five years for obtaining money and goods under false pre tenses, while Carl Johanson was given eigtit months in the federal jail lor larceny. When the Wooldridge matter came up Judge Bunnell asked the defend ant in the proceedings if he had mything to sav And Wooldridg answered In clear tones: "Yes, 1 have, judge. I am not guilty of the crime of which I was convicted, but I realize that the court has its duty to perform and I am ready and willing to listen to what the court lias to say." Bion A. Dodge, attorney for Wooldridge, then stated that he had nothing to say Picking up the compiled laws of Alaska, Judge Bunnell read the sec tion which applies to attempts to commit crime when there is no special provision of law covering ucli crime, and which provides that sentence in such cases can be just half what they would be under con viction for the crime itself. Several other legal points were also men ttoned by the judge, who then took up the eompili d laws and turned to the sections which provide punish ment foi the crime of rape and which show such punishment to be from three to 20 years in the pent tentiary. He then said that the at tempt ot which Wooldridge stood convicted would be punishable with from IS months to 10 years in the penitentiary. Continuing, the court said, in ef fect: "It is hardly necessary to go ever the evidence in the case. Ttie ■ jury found you guilty and I think you are guilty. I will even go fur tlier and say that I think you are lucky that the jury found you guilty on the second count and not guilty on the first count. I am not dis posed to recite all of the elements of the case from innuendo to some most deliberate attempts to pre vent the administration of justice I Many seem to think, and you seem to share in the opinion, that the methods used would be all right against anybody except you.” (Judge Bunnell was undoubtedly referring to the efforts of the defense to prove tiiat Wooldridge was being railroaded by the federal officials in that a trap was laid to catch him by representatives of the marshal’s office, although he made no state ment of fact). ”i'ou are a man of some ability and have had some advantages. In spite of the fact tiiat you say you are not guilty, several developments at the trial concerning your associa tions with this family (Herrington) tended to prove you guilty. Some ] evidence was introduced to show j tiiat you carried whiskey to the woman, (Mrs. Herrington), and I ! don’t think you would have gone : down there simply to give those potatoes to the family as an act of charity.” “May I say a word here?” aues tinned the defendant. “Certainly,” said Judge Bunnell. “Your honor I never meant that I went there on a charitable act. I went there to sell them potatoes; to sell them on time, as I knew the family to be \ hard up.” “Another question is, what to do In your case?” continued the court 'Some might think that conviction on such a charge alone, would be sufficient punishment. That might be true. Others might think that the court should take your family into consideration when passing sen tence. That might also be true. I do not intend to impose the maxi mum sentence upon you, neither do , ! intend to give you the minumum.” j Continuing, the court spoke of I the danger to society of stealthy j criminals. He said people gener I ally had some respect for the thief I who attended to his nefarious busi ! ness in the open and at ttie point of a gun, but that they had little or no respect for the man who would enter a house and steal $20 from a girl earning $1.50 per week. And then the sentence was passed. When Wooldridge broke in upon the judge's talk and denied that he had attempted to be charitable toward the Herringtons, his voice shook with emotion. Otherwise, lie took the sentence calmly walking from the court room with a firm step, and stopping to speak for r. moment with Marshal Erwin as he passed the place where the mar shal was sitting. Myers Sentenced. C. Myers did considerable talk ing when asked by the judge if he had anything to say why sentence should not be pronounced upon him His attorney, L,. R. Gillette, also s»iij a f< » in a in nr,»-r in ■-Inuating that t’» • me lenient »ith M\er« on > • i . t the fact that Insanity on the | » • of the defendant h I been n • ment In the trial District Mt rti" Hoth. Iti a abort Talk. stat*si that he thought Myers !• -it • ! i! ■ lic it as all of the evidence concerning him or h;s at tSom whl show that if he is insane at all it Is on the matter of committing crime. The court questioned Myers at considerable length and ended by saying: "Well you certainly are a mystery. 1 think you are g jilt;, ami that you are one of the most foxy criminals I ever saw And I am thoroughly of the opinion that the longer you are locked up the ls-tti i off society In general will b<v" And after reading from the com piled laws of Alaska the sections applicable to the case, the judge sentenced Myers to serve Is months on the first count in the indictment: 18 months on the second count and two years on the third count, mak ing a total of five years. Attorney Gillette then asked that a bond might be fixed pending appeal Judge Dunnell named the sum of $U>.00<> Johanson Gets His. Carl Johanson, the defendant in the larceny proceedings from Chat anika., was then called to his feet He had nothing to say when ques tioned by the court, but his attor noy, Thomas A. Marquam, said a fewr words bearing on the general good chaiacter of the defendant as a hard working man, and asking tie court for leniency. He further stated that he believed his client to be innocent of the crime of which he stood convicted. In his sentencing statement. Judge Bunnell said that he did not think that Johanson should he sent Out side, for the reason that it had been amply proven that he is a hard ■working man and that he merely got into trouble at Chatanika whirl) resulted in his conviction on the charge of larceny. He also road from the statutes the section which provides punishment for the offens* and also a section which allow - the court to exercise his discretion in the matter of sentences on n.n viction of all crime except murder and rape. But he also said that he could find nothing in the law which would permit him to merely fine the man. "And, sorry as 1 am to say it," concluded the judge, "it is the judgment of this court that you be remanded to the federal jail in Fairbanks for a period of eight months." Editor Elenry Is Found Not Guilty Showing that tlie policy of "free dom of tlie press” still exists, at least to a coneideraole extent, even in interior Alaska, the jury which sat on the case of the United States \s. George Hinton Henry in com missioner's court last Thur day af ternoon, found the defendant not guilty Henry, who is the editor ! of the Socialist Press, sin. o his arrest known as the "Free Press,’ was charged with criminal libel, the complainant in the esc bcit . George Herrington. ’I i.e libel was alleged' to have been committed agaP t I-vsr Herrington, a daughter of the com plainant, who has figured prominent ly in several of the rape trials in district court. The witnesses for the government were Laura Herrington. Clerk of Court J. E. Clark and Grace Carey I he defendant took the stand in hi' own behalf and Lon Richards was also a witness for the defense. All of the testimony was to tin effect that the conversation printed by Henry in his paper, and which was alleged to have been libelous, took place at the head of the front stairs leading into the court room in the federal building, and not in | the district attorney's office, as was stated in Henry’s article. It also | showed that the girl had said the words “But I wouldn’t tell on you," j but that she had said them only j when Richards had spoken of fu- j ture friendship between them by say- | ing that he thought he had better J stay away from her. It also showed that Richards had accosted the girl, not vice versa, as was printed in Henry’s paper, and that he had not | used reprimanding words to her, as i was also stated. Considerable was also said at the trial concerning a ! time about two years ago when Richards had something to do with the girl, the talk being to the ef fect that the district attorney would have had Richards indicted by the i 6001V Cylinder Atlantic Red Engine Star Dynamo Halvolinc Wolfshead Zeroline Pic ks Shovels Steam Hose Candles E. R. PEOPLES INCORPORATED T UK M( )])]<:]. TIIE BEST THE MARKET AFFORDS AT ALL SEASONS MARTIN KNIPPE EDWARD O’BRIEN PROPRIETORS ■s—ppumiuiMjgyftugy 'wmw irw mr "japaa— FAIRBANKS XATATOK 1 l\M OPEN DAY AND NIGHT ADMISSION 50c New Suits—New Interior—Same Old Spot ,-iand jury for assault had he known the circumstances when that both was in session. The jury which sat on the case was composed of the followi;, •• Alo\ Hanot, P. A. Rettig. E. \Y Oritlin. Fred Racy, George P>. Wesch, <\ a Boerner, \V. Parker, R. T Kubon E. H. Mack, R. C. Erchiim»*r ani .1. Anderson. PLEADS GUILTY CHANGES PLEA TO GUILTY OF ATTEMPTED RAPE—OTHER CHARGE IS DISMISSED. Last Thursday morning in district court Alferd Sutton, indicted by t recent grand jury on two chary.-. ipe and as cdt with P '• nt u commit rape, pleaded “guilty" t the lesser charge. lie had previ ew iy entered pleas of “not guilty” ti both charges, but his atterney, S H Mill wee, stated, when the time came for trial, that his client de sired to change Ills plea. The defendant was then interro gated by the court as to the plea he desired to enter. Apparently confused. Sutton said "Not Guilty," but quickly changed the plea to •'guilty.’’ The district attorney then moved that the more serious charge against Sutton, that of rape upon Grace Carey, be dismissed on the ground that there was not sufficient evi dence to convict. And the court so ordered. Laura Herrington is the girl con nected with the charge to which Sutn n ph adi d guilty. And as there were no trials of the charges, the facts and details concerning them have not been made public. A date for sentencing Sutton has not yet been set. According to the law bo fact's a sentence of from one to fifteen years. "Bryan to head third party Counting on “show” money. Mower and flf^PFVri Vegetable Onion Sets Lawn Grass White Glover Seed All Fresh, New Seeds NORTHERN COMMERCIAL CO. “Alaska’s Largest Outfitters” Fairbanks Chena n—■winiT——■——i—nwT—'tit—ltiniTiTni^TTrrMMnBMnnMMriiTTTnM The Pirate on Deck ——— ,m mm i m ii—i—m—ra ^rrNevv Silk Underwear, Kid Gloves, Skirts and Coats personally selected shown on living models. Fine Dress Trimmings, Gold and 1 Silver Cloth, Newest in Laces, Silk Hosiery, Waists Hats, Skirts and Trimmings on way, f AND EVERYTHING CHEAP ON The PIRATE SHIP