Seattle, Feb. 2—Determined to save every depositor from losing a
dollar, as a result of that institution having been thrown into the hands
of a receiver, Capt. Barnette has thrust aside all his business affairs on
the Outside and is going to Fairbanks, there to remain until the bank’s
obligations have been made good dollar lor dollar. He left on the
Victoria last night, accompanied by Mrs. Barnette, pending whose con
valescence from a severe illness, he has been delayed here and in Cali
foruia.
“There is no reason in the world why this bank’s affairs cannot be
straightened out and these depositors paid every cent they have put
in," said Captain Barnette before leaving. “I teel certain that I will
be able to clear up everything, conditional only upon a willingness of
the court to help me. Of that, of course, I am reasonably certain, for
it is the duty of the court to use its authority on behalf of those threat
ened with loss.
“What all my plan is I cannot state at this time, but you can say
the first thing I do will be to take care of the small depositors, more
particularly the accounts of the working people. Some of the large de
positors here already have given their assent to a plan I have formulated
to accomplish this- -one through which every small depositor could be
paid immediately. I feel confident Fairbanks creditors will agree to my
plan, just as soon as they hear it. My anxiety to see to it that every
man gets his money back is not due to a sense of being bound, or any
feeling of responsibility, for I am not culpable nor held in any way. I
am anxious to rectify matters because I want to protect the depositors,
nearly everyone of whom I know personally, and to clear my name of
unjust and libelous charges that have been made.
Captain Barnette has convinced Fairbanks depositors here who
lost heavily by the bank’s closing that he will stick by them and by the
bank until everything is cleared up and they are lending hen every aid
in their power, believing he is the only one who can save the situation
Some of them sav his intention is, if the right disposition is shown by
the larger creditors, to place hi.s whole fortune and influence at the com
mand of a satisfactory officer, to be selected by the court, to clear the
whole indebtedness. Asked if such were true, Barnette would not
make any answer: his only reply being: "Just say I am going to
Fairbanks to stay until every man has been paid ; that I won’t quit
until that has been accomplished. My fiiends know me well enough
to know what that means.”
Jack Smith, one of the foremost characters of the early days in the
Klondike, and discoverer of the rich Bonanza properties, is in Seattle,
seriously ill, afflicted with dropsy. His life is despaired of and he is ex
pected to pass away at any time. Those who paiticipated in the great
stampede to the Klondike will remember Jack Smith in connection with
Circle City, where lie prominently figured at one time. It was there
that he took unto himself a native squaw for a wife, but upon his rich
strike in the Bonanza country, he dropped the Indian and married a
white woman who also figured in the early history of the North. Smith
is confined at a local hospital and is unable to walk or sleep and is in
such a condition that death will prove a relief to the one-time famous
miner.
As the result of a decision handed down by Judge Murane, in the
district court, at Nome recently, A1 Henriquez, proprietor of the Beach
saloon at Council, will he compelled to dispose of his stock and
place of business, within a period of twenty days. Henriquez
was summoned before the court at the instance of the marshal’s
office, which department charged that the Council saloon man permitted
gambling on his premises and upon his failure, to show just cause why
his saloon license should not be revoked, the permit was anuuled by
Judge Murane, His attorney submitted a petition endorsing Hen
riquez's character and ability and which was signed by 70 of the 74
residents of Council. The document set forth that the saloonman was
a man of good moral habits as well as a good citizen. In rendering his
decision Judge Murane pointed out that the fact that the population of
Council held the defendant as a good citizen, did not make him such in
the eyes of the court, when he was proven a law breaker. According
to Judge Murane, and to the laws governing the issuing of liquor
licenses, Henriquez broke the oath he took, when he applied for the
permit, when he allowed gambling in his place. "Because this man
has not kept his cath, is no reason why I should not respect my oath
of office,” said Judge Murane. "In keeping my oath, I am not follow
ing out any policy but am simply doing my duty as judge ol this court.”
At Phoenix, Ariz., on January 9>h, George Meyers, said to be a
well known Alaska miner, today shot and killed his wife and after
wards blew his own brains out, in a mad fit ot jealousy. It was known
that Meyers was insanely jealous of his young wife, and she had told
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confidants that on previous occasions he had threatened to kill her if he
had any reason to think that she bestowed her affections on other men.
It was well known that the family life of these people was anything but
happy on account of the insanely jealous nature of Meyers.
A man named Pete Hanson, better known as “Black Pete," died
yesterday in the Holy Cross hospital, at Nome on January 7U1. Pete
; was an old timer, and has been here since the early days. Heart dis
j ease was the cause of his death.
Nome Nugget, January 17th : Sunday morning at S o’clock the
bird with the hill sailed over Nome from the direction of the Mioadk
islands, and brought a fine baby boy to Mr. and Mrs. Harry Fijiwara,
who runs the Occidental restaurant on Front street. Ur. J. M. Sloan
has given out the advance information that this baby is, or will be a
voter, having been born on American soil. Many of the Nugget readers
will remember the young mother who was sent to Nome in bond, as it
were to marry “Harry ” A year ago last summer the marriage con
tract was signed in the presence of Judge F. 1J. Fuller, who was the
United States commissioner of the Nome district at that time, and the
judge was in doubt as to the legal status of having to kiss all brides who
were married by the commissioner. Both mother and baby are doing
well, and Dr. Sloan reports that this is the first Japanese baby ever
born in Nome.
Dismantling dredges and reassembling them in different parts of
the creeks is now part of the regular routine in mining life in the Daw
son counlty. During the mouth of November no less than three were
dismantled and moved as far as thirteen miles to other parts of the
creeks. It was first determined to move them entire, but the under
taking was given up. and all were first dismantled.
Tlie Canadian railway commission has again decided that the rates
of the White Pass railroad are exorbitant ami that a reduction is neces
sary for the good of the country. For the third time the concern will
be notified to reduce the present rates to a minimum and this time the
commission will see that their command is complied with. Since the
W. P. Railroad company has been in active operation a standard in
fees has been recognized but as the figu.es were fixed by the company
officials and not by the railway commission they are considered enor
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THAT KUSKOKWIM
TELEPHONE LINE
In the issue of Feb. 2nd, the Fair
banks News-Miner is authority for the
statement that the Kuskokwim country
is to have a telephone system next sum
mer and that the supplies have already
been ordered on the Outside to besent
in by way of Bethel.
Everything points to Georgetown '
as the Kuskokwim station, says the
Fairbanks paper, and the telephone
will be used in conjunction with the
wireless.
When interviewed here, concerning j
the establishment of such a line, Henry
Weir, manager of the local telephone
company, stated that nothing definite
had been decided upon here, since they
have been waiting for further develop
ments on the Kuskokwim.
He admitted that supplies had been 1;
ordered, and that it would take but a !
short time to do the work, in case the
Kuskokwim line be decided upon.
Dawson
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According to Bob Griffis’ report from
Seward, Dick Dawson, formerly a well
known saloon man of Nome, is break- j
With a partner, Mr. Nuter, he is!
opening up a big hydraulic proposition ■
at a point four miles this side of Kern i
creek, the present terminus of the1
Alaska Northern and it is considered
one of the finest prospects in the coun- j
try._
When you visit Flat creek call atj
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House for a lunch.
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USES LARGE WHIP
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Seattle, Jan. 29—Lured to a room in :
the Archibald hotel at ten o’clock last
night by a false message, A. F. Ruser,
formerly cashier of the Dome City
hank, was lashed with a horsewhip till
he could hardly stand by Mrs. Carbon- j
neau and two burly helpers, who held !
him helpless while she plied the whip. I
After the whipping of Ruser, Mrs.
Carbonneau and her helpers mysterious
ly disappeared and cannot he found.
Ruser is now in the city hospital hav
ing his injuries attended to.
Mrs. Carbonneau came here from
North Yakima yesterday and located
Ruser. She then lured him to the ho
tel by means of a message which stated
that a man named Brown wished to see
him at the Archibald. When Ruser
knocked at the door the two men pul
led him into the room and locked the
door. Mrs. Carbonneau soon came in
ana commenced asiting noser questions
and then the men tore his clothes from ]
his back and she slashed him unmerci-j
fully across the face and body.
She stated that she was thrashing
him on account of the suit he has in
stituted reflecting on the business in
tegrity of herself and her sister Mar
garet Mulrooney. This suit instituted
against Margaret Mulrooney charges
her with the embezzlement of $10,500
while acting as cashier of the bank.
Seattle, Jan. 31—The foul attack
made upon Miss Margaret Mulrooney
by A. F. Ruser of Dome. Alaska, and
the punishment meted out to him by
Mrs. Carbonneau. who horsewhipped
him until he cried like a baby, is the
topic of conversation among Alaskans
here, all of whom are indignant at
Ruser's making such a charge against
Miss Mulrooney.
In an interview today, Mrs. Carbon
neau denied that anyone held Ruser
while she whipped him, and said that
there were a number of Alaskans in
the city who wmnted to take the punish
ment of Ruser into their own hands,
but she considered it a family affair,
and attended to the matter herself.
Fairbanks Girl
Called by Death
Miss Ragna Hofseth, the popular |
young lady who was taken suddenly ill
on the afternoon of January 29 at the
Bevans house in Fairbanks, where she
was employed as a waitress, passed
away at St. Joseph’s hospital ou the
morning of February 2.
The young lady was operated on the
day following her sudden seizure, and
it was discovered that one of the larger
blood vessels of the abdominal cavity
was ruptured, and it is probable that
the great loss of blood before the oper
ation rendered her too weak to over
come the effects of the ordeal.
In the following two or three days
she suffered a number of hemorrhages,
terminating in unconsciousness and
death. Miss Hofseth was a native of
Norway and came to Alaska three
years ago from England. She leaves a
mother and two sisters in Aalesund, I
Norway, two brothers in the Iditarod,
and one on the Outside.
DOC MADING BREAKS
INTO QUARTZ GAME
Struck with the quartz rage that is
now working in the think tanks of Se
ward people, Doc Mading, the Flat
creek layman who went Outside this
winter, purchased in on one of the
mines there, according to Bob Griffis,
and laid in about $18,000 worth of stock.
He took a good look around Seward,
and found things very promising in the
quartz outlook. They are hauling the !
stamps out for a mill at a point 35 miles j
the other side of Susitna, and this side
of the end of the railroad.
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