An Act to prohibit the manufacture or sale
of alcoholic liquors in the territory or
Alaska, and Tor other purposes
Be it enacted by the senate an" house or
representatives or the United States of
America in congress assembled, That on
and arter the tlrst day or January, A. I).
1918 it shall be unlawful Tor any person,
house, association, llrm, company, club or
corporation, his, its or their agents, offi
cers, clerks or servants, to manufacture,
sell, give, or otherwise dispose of, any in
toxicating liquor or alcohol or any kind In
the territory or Alaska, or to have in his
or its possession or to transport anje, in
toxicating liquor or alcohol in the territory
or Alaska unless the same was procured arid
is so possessed and transported as herein
arter provided.
Whenever the term “liquor,” “intoxicat
ing liquor” or “intoxicating liquors” is
used In this act It shall be deemed to in
clude whisky, brandy, rum, gin, wine, ale.
porter, beer, cordials, hard or fermented
cider, alcoholic bitters, ethyl alcohol, and
all malt liquors, including all alcoholic com
pounds classed by the United States inter
nal revenue bureau as “compound liquors :
Provided. That this act shall not apply to
methvl or wood alcohol.
That any person or persons, oi »nj
house, company, association, club or cor
poration, his, its or their agents, officers,
clerks or servants, who shall, directly or
indirectly, violate the provisions of this sec
tion, shall be deemed guilty of a misde
meanor, and upon conviction thereof shall
be lined not more than ? 1,000, or shall be
imprisoned for a period of not more than
one year, or by both such line and im
prisonment. . . ...
Sec 2 That before a pharmacist shall
be authorized to transport pure alcohol Tor
scientific, artistic or mechanical purposes,
or for compounding or preparing medicines,
as provided by this act. he shall procure a
permit for that purpose rrom the judge ol
■,he district court in the division where the
applicant resides.
Sec. 3. That to procure such permit a
pharmacist shall make and file with the
clerk of the said district court a statement
.'n writing, under oath, stating that he de
sires to transport pure alcohol for scien
tific, artistic or mechanical purposes, nr
for compounding, preparing or preserving
medicines only, as provided by this art.
and giving his name, the location of his
place of business, a statement that he is a
licensed pharmacist, that he is regularly
engaged in the practice of his profession at
the iocation named, and that he will not
violate the provisions of this act.
Sec. 4. That ir the judge of the district
court of any division in Alaska is satisfied
or the good faith of the applicant he shall
issue to such pharmacist a permit to trans
port pure alcohol for comoounding, pre
paring or preserving medicines or for sci
entific, artistic or mechanical purposes.
Such permit shall be substantially in the
following form:
“Permit to pharmacists to transport
pure alcohol for compounding, pre
paring and preserving medicines
only, or for scientific, artistic or me
chanical purposes.
“District court. - division, Terri
tory of Alaska, ss.
—-- --, a pharmacist, re
siding at -, is hereby permitted
to transport pure alcohol for com
pounding, preparing and preserving
medicines only, or Tor scientific, artis
tic or mechanical purposes. This per
mit can only be used for one ship
ment, and will be void after six months
from the date of issue.
“By order or the district court
aforesaid.
“Dated this - day or-, nine
teen hundred and -.
“Judge of the District Court."
gec. 5.—Tiiat said permit mentioned in
Sec. 4 hereof shall be issued upon forms
supplied bv the clerk or the district court,
and shall rontaln the permit, a copy of
the application Tor permit, and a copy or
the provisions of Sec. f> of this act, and
shall he issued under the seal or said
court, and shall he void tor transportation
purposes after six months from the date
of issuance. The clerk of said district
court shall keep in a separate book pro
vided Tor that purpose a record of permits
issued under this act, wherein shall be
entered the date and the number thereof,
the person to whom issued, and the pur
pose for which issued.
Sec. fi. That said permit shall be at
tached to and remain affixed in a conspicu
ous place upon any package or parcel con
taining pure alcohol imported into or
shipped in the territory of Alaska, and
when so affixed shall authorize any com
mon carrier or any person operating a
boat or venicie ror tno transportation 01
goods, wares or merchandise within the
territory or Alaska to transport, ship or
carry such pure alcohol. Any person so
transporting such alcohol shall, before the
delivery or such package or parcel, canoe'
said permit and so deface the same that
it can not be used again.
Sec. 7. That all express companies, rail
road companies, public or private carriers
are hereby required to keep a separate
book in which shall be entered, immedi
ately upon receipt thereof, the name of
the person to whom pure alcohol is shipped,
from what city or town and state the
same was shipped, and the name of the
shipper, the amount, and kind rereived, the
date when received, the date when deliv
ered, and to whom delivered, after which
record there shall he a blank space In
which the consignee shall be required to
sign his own name, in ink, before such
pure alcohol is delivered to such consignee,
which book shall be open to the inspec
tion of the public at any time during busi
ness hours or the company, and shall not
be removed from the place .where ft is re
quired to be kept. A copy of entries upon
such record herein provided to be kept,
when certified to by the agent of any ex
press or railroad company or any public
or private carrier In charge of the same,
shall constitute prima facie evidence of
the facts herein stated in any court of the
territory.
It shall be unlawful Tor any person,
house, association, firm, company, club or
corporation, his. Its or their agents, offi
cers, clerks or servants, to ship alcohol
or intoxicating liquor to a false or ficti
tious name or person, or any person to
receive or receipt for alcohol or Intoxicat
ing liquor in a raise or fictitious name.
Sec. 8. That any common carrier or
any person operating a boat or vehicle for
the transportation of goods, wares or mer
chandise may accept for tran=r>ortation and
may transport to anv place within the ter
ritory or Alaska shipments or wine for
sacramental purposes where there is at
tached to such sh'ompnt a coi-tmcate in
substantially the following form:
“I (or we) certify that this pack
age contains only -- (amount)
of - (wine), which has been
ordered bv-, who rep
resents himseir to be a duly author
ized and officiating priest or minister
of the-church at -. and
that said wine is desired Tor sacra
mental purposes only.
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(Signature or shipper.)
Sec. 9. That whenever a shipment of
wines for sacramnetal purposes shall have
been transported for delivery within the
territory of Alaska the delivering agent of
the transportation company must refuse to
deliver the same unless it is accompanied
by the certificate prescribed in Sec. 8 of
"-us act. and then on'y to the person to
vh-.m the same is addressed or upon his
written order. The transportation com
pany must keep a record of all shipments
and deliveries of wines for sacramental
purposes and must preserve Tor a period
or one year after their receipt all certill
eates accompanying such shipments and all
written orders upon which deliveries may
be made. Such records must In' open to
the Inspection of the public at any time
during olTlce hours.
Sec. 10. That any person who shall de
sire to purchase pure alcohol for scientific,
artistic or mechanical purposes shall apply
to the district court aforesaid for a permit
for that purpose. To prunin' such permit
he shall make and hie with the clerk of
. the district court a statement in writing,
i under oath, stating that he desires to pur
chase pure alcohol for scicniiiu'. artistic
i or mechanical purposes as provided by this
act, and giving Ills name and residence and
| the place at which such pure alcohol is to
I be used.
I Sec. II. That if the judge of said dis
j trlcl court is satisfied of the good faith of
! the applicant he shall issue to said appli
cant a permit to purchase a reasonable
I amount of pure alcohol for scieniihc, ar
i tlstic or mechanical purposes. The origi
nal of said permit shall have attached
thereto a duplicate copy, and each slmli
be numbered with the same number and
be in substantially the following rorni:
‘•District Court, - Division, Terri- ■
tory of Alaska, ss.
“--, residing at ■——,
is hereby permitted to purchase pure
alcohol in the amount or —- (here
insert quantity), to be used for sci
entific, autistic or mechanical purposes.
This permit can only be used Tor one
purchase, and the copy thereof at
tached hereto shall be conspicuously
pasted upon the package containing
said alcohol, and this permit to pur
chase shall be void after ninety days
from the date hereof.
“By order of the district court
aforesaid.
“Dated this - day of --,
nineteen hundred ar^d -.
“Judge or the District Court.”
Sec. 12. That the nermit mentioned in
Sec. 11 shall authorize the applicant to
purchase and any pharmacist to sell and
deliver to him the quantity named in the
said permit. The permit shall be can
celed, kept and retained on file for at least
one year by the pharmacist so selling said
nure alcohol, and the copy or said permit
shall he by the pharmacist conspicuously
pasted upon the receptacle containing said
alcohol, and shall so remain upon said re
ceptacle so long as tlie same shall contain
alcohol. Said permit and copy shall only
authorize one purchase and sale. It shall
be unlawful for any pharmacist to sell
pure alcohol without the permit herein
specified, or for any person to keep or have
in his possession any pure alcohol unless
Hie receptacle containing the same shall be
distinctly labeled with the copy of the per
mit authorizing the purchase of the same.
See. 13. That it shall be unlawful for
any person owning, leasing or occupying
or in possession or control of any prem
ises, building, vehicle, ear or boat to know
ingly permit thereon or therein the manu
facture, transportation, disposal, or the
keeping of Intoxicating liquor with intent
to manufacture, transport or dispose of
the same in violation of the provisions of
this act.
Sec. M. That it shall be unlawful for
any person to import, ship, sell, transport,
deliver, receive or have in his possession
any intoxicating liquors, except as in this
act provided.
See. 15. That any person who shall in
or upon any passenger roach, street ear,
boat, or in or upon any other vehicle com
monly used for the transportation of pas
sengers, or in or about any depot, plat
form or waiting room, drink any intoxicat
ing liquor of any kind, or any person who
shall be drunk or intoxicated in any public
or private road or street, or in any passen
ger rf.nrt), street ear, or any public place
or building, or at any public gathering, or
any person who shall be drunk or intoxi
cated and shall disturb the peace or any
person, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Sec. 16. That every person who shall
directly or indirectly keep or maintain ny
hiinsel'r or by associating with others, or
who shall in any manner aid, assist or abel
in keeping or maintaining any clubhouse,
or other place In which alcoholic liquor is
received or kept for the purpose of use,
girt, barter or sale, or for distribution or
division among the members of any club
or association by any means whatsoever,
or who shall maintain what is commonly
known as the “locker system” or other de
vice for evading the provisions of tills act.
"lid every person who shall use, barter,
sell, give away, or assist or abet in barter
ing, selling or giving away any liquors S“
-ereived or kept, shall be deemed guilty of
a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof
he subject to the penalties described in
sire. i of this act; and in all cases the
members, shareholders, associates or em
oloyes in any club or association mentioned
■n this section shall bo competent witnesses
to prove any violations of the provisions of
'his section of this act, or of any fact
'ending thereto; and no person shall he
excused from testifying as to any offense
committed by another against any of the
nrovislons of this act by rcaosn of his tes
timony tending to criminate himself, hut
the testimony given by such person shall
in no case be used against him.
The keeping or giving away or alcoholic
'iquors, or any schemes or devices what
ever, to evade the provisions of this act,
shall be deemed unlawful within the pro
visions of this act.
Sec. 17. That if one or more persons
who are competent witnesses shall charge,
on oath or affirmation, before the district
attorney or any of his deputies duly au
thorized to act for him, presenting that
any person, company, co-partnership, asso
ciation, club or corporation has or have
violated or Is violating the provisions or
this act by manufacturing, storing or de
positing, offering ror sale, keeping for sal."
i or use, trafficking in, bartering, exchanging
for goods, giving away, or otherwise fur
nishing alcoholic liquor, shall request said
district attorney or any of his assistants
duly authorized to act for tiim -Jp cause
to be issued a warrant, said attorney or
any of his assistants shall cause to be
issued such warrant, in which warrant the
room, house, building or other place in
which the violation is alleged to have oc
curred or is occurring shall be specifically
described; and said warrant shall be placed
in the hands of the marshal, his deputy, or
any town marshal or policeman in any town
in which the room, house, building or other
place above referred to is located, com
manding him to at once thoroughly search
said described room, house, building or
other place, and the appurtenances thereof;.
ano ir any sued ue iouiiu, iu use mm ma
possession and safely keep, to be produced
as evidence when required, all alcoholic
liquors and all the means of dispensing the
same, also all the paraphernalia or part or
the paraphernalia of a bar room or other
alcoholic liquor establishment, and any
United States internal revenue tax receipt
r certificate for the sale or alcoholic liquor,
effective as aforesaid, shall be prima facie
evidence of the violation of the provisions
of this act.
Sec. 18. That it shall not be necessary,
in order to convict any person, company,
house, association, co-partnership, club or
corporation, his, its or their agents, officers,
clerks or servants, of manufacturing, im
porting or selling alcoholic liquors, to
prove the actual manufacture, importing,
sale, delivery of, or payment Tor any alco
holic liquors, but the evidence of having
or keeping them in hand, stored or de
posited, taking orders for, or offering to
sell or barter, or exchanging them for
goods or merchandise, or giving them away,
shall be sufficient, to convict: nor shall it
be necessary in a warrant, information or
indictment to specify the particular kind
of alcoholic liquor which is made the sub
ject of a charge of violation of this act.
Sec. 19. That all houses, boats, boat
houses, buildings, club rooms and places’
or every description. Including drug stores,
where alcoholic liquors are manufactured,
stored, sold or vended, given away or fur
nished contrary to law, including those In
which clubs, orders or associations sell,
barter, give away, distribute or dispense
intoxicating liquors to their members by
any means or device whatever, as provided
in this act, shall be held, taken and deemed
common and public nuisances. And any
person who shall maintain, or shall aid or
abet, or knowingly he associated with oth
ers in maintaining such common and pub
lic nuisance, shall be guilty or a misde
meanor, and upon conviction thereof s fin 11
be subject to the penalties prescribed in
See. 1 of this act, and judgment shall be
given that such house, boat, building or
other place,- or any. room therein, be abated
or closed up as-a-place for the sale or
keeping of such liquor contrary to law, as
the court may determine.
See. 20. That’any i’nited States district
attorney for the territory of Alaska may
m^iHSHin an action in equity in tiie naim
of the; t’nited States to abate and per
petually enjoin such a nuisance as defined
in the preceding sectWm! No bond shall
he required. Any persbn violating the
terms of any injunction granted in such
proceedings shall be punished for contempt
by a tine of not more than $500 or by Im
prisonment in the federal jail for not more
than six months, or both such tine and im
prisonment, in tiie discretion of the court.
Sec. 21. That ir a tenant of a building
or tenement is convicted of using such
premises or any part thereof or maintain
ing a common nuisance, as hereinbefore
de!!ned, or of knowingly permitting such
use by another, the conviction of such use
shall render void ihe lease under which he
holds, and shall cause the right of posses
sion to revert to the owner or lessor, who
may, without process of law, make immedi
ate entry upon the premises, or may avail
himself "of the remedy provided for the
forcible detention thereof.
sec. 22. i nar anyone wuo Knowingly
permits any building owned or leased by
bbn or under his control, or any part
thereof, to he used in maintaining a com
mon nuisance hereinbefore described in
Sec. 19 of this act, neglects to take all
reasonable measures to eject therefrom the
nonS^n co using the same, shall he deemed
guilty or assisting in maintaining such nuis
ance.
Sec. 23. That no property right of any
kind shall exist in alcoholic liquors or bev
erages illegally manufactured, received,
possessed or stored under this act, and in
all such cases the liquors arc forfeited to
the l'idled States, and may be searched
for and seized and ordered to be destroyed
by tlie court after a conviction, when such
liquors have been seized for use as evi
dence, or upon satisfactory evidence to the
'•ourt presented by the district attorney
that such liquors are contraband.
See. 24. That any person convicted of a
violation of any of the provisions of this
act where the punishment therefor is not
herein specifically provided shall be pun
ished as provided by See. 1 of this act.
See. 25. That in case a pharmacist is
convicted under the provisions of this act
the judge of the district court, in addition
to the penalty provided in this act, may,
in his discretion, revoke his license to prac
tice pharmacy, and thereafter lie shad not
receive a license for one year.
Sec. 20. That the issuance hy the
United States of any internal revenue spe
cial stamp or receipt to any person as a
dealer in intoxicating liquors shell be
Drinia facie evidence of the sale of intoxi
cating liquors by such person during the
time the stamp or receipt is in force and
effect. A copy of such stamp or receipt
or of the record of the issuance thereof,
certified to by a United States internal
revenue officer having charge of such
record, is admissible as evidence in lik"
case and with like effect as the original
stamp or receipt.
See. 27. That it shall he the duty of the
governor of Alaska, the United States mar
shals and their deputies, mayors, and mem
bers of town councils, town marshals, and
police officers of all incorporated towns in
Alaska, all federal game wardens, agents
if the bureau of fisheries and forestry
■crvice, customs collectors and their depu
ties, employes of the bureau of education,
prosecuting attorneys and their deputies,
nad ail other federal and territorial execu
tive officers, to enforce the provisions of
this act.
Sec. 28. That prosecutions for violations
of the provisions of this act shall be on
‘nformaticn filed by any such officer
before any justice or the peace or
district judge, or upon indictment of
any grand jury or the territory of .Alaska,
and sa>d United States district attorney
or his depuly shall file such information
upon the presentation to him or his assist
ants of sworn information that the law has
been violated; and -in such prosecutions
•anyone making a false oath to any material
fact shall be deemed guilty of pepjury.
Sec. 29. That any person, company or
corporation who shall import or carry
liquors into or upon the territorial waters
of Alaska, in or imon any steamship, steam
boat, vessel, boar-or other water craft, or
shat! permit the same to be so imported or
carried into or upon said waters, except
under the provisions of this act, shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon convic
tion shall be punished as provided in Sec.
t of this act.
sec. 3U. mat in auoition 10 me power
now exercised the judges Of the district
-ourts of Alaska may grant liquor licenses
for any period of time less than one year
upon a pro rata of the license fee for one
year, but not to extend beyond the first
day of January, 1918, under the provisions
f law now in force there so far as the
=ame is applicable.
Sec. 31. That the legislature of the ter
ritory of Alaska may pass additional legis
lation in aid of the enforcement of this
act not inconsistent with its provisions.
Sec. 32. That in the interpretation of
this act words of the singular number shall
be deemed to include their plurals, and
words of the masculine gender shall be
deemed to include the feminine, as the
••aso may be.
Sec. 33. That this act shall be in full
Torce and effect on and after the first day
of January, 1918, and ail laws and parts
of laws inconsistent herewith be and they
are hereby repealed as of that date.
Approved February 14, 1917.
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William D. Boeker, aged 25 and un
married, who came to A'aska about 18
months ago from San Francisco, is in
quired for by his mother who is ill.
His mother’s address is: Mrs. A. S.
Boeker, 261 West Second North street,
Salt Lake City. Utah.
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Skagwav has donated $35,000 to the
Second Liberty Loan, which, figuring
the population at 700, is $50 for each
resident.
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YANKEES TO BEAR
BRUNT OF BATTLE
Washington, Dec. 24.—Ameri
can troops will soon be the prin
cipal body of fresh strategic
troops in reserve on the battle
field of Europe and will bear the
brunt of the fighting, Secretary
of War Baker indicated today,
and that this fact is fully appre
ciated by the enemy. The sec
retary also asserted that the re
cent peace feelers and the prepa
rations for an intensive drive on
the West front are the result of
the foregoing facts.
To Strong-Arm Macedonia
Germany has started a power
ful offensive in Macedonia, prob
ably to anticipate the allied cam
paign, which was about ready to
begin.
Are Keeping Teutons Back
1 Secretary of War Baker stated
today that the Italian armies
have successfully repulsed the
Teutons along the Italian lines.
Government’s Shipbuilding
The United States govern
ment’s shipbuilding for the first
year is one-fifth completed.
I. W. W. AGENTS
FACE UGLY CHARGE
Chicago, Dec. 24.—Rock salt contain
ing poison and disease germs was
shipped from St. Louis to cattle dealers
in the South and West by agems of
the I. W. W., was the charge made
todav by federal authorities.
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NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To J. F. Baird, Marie Baird and Char
les Hoxsio, and to their heirs and as
signs:
, You are hereby notified that the un
dersigned have expended in each of the
years 1915 and 191 (5 the sum of one hun
dred dollars in labor and improvements
upon each of the placer mining claims
known and described as follows, to wit:
The Rainbow association, situated at
the head of Fiat cretk, in Otter pre
cinct, Fourth division, territory of
Alaska, the location certificate of which
is found of record in book one of loca
tions, page 318, in the office .of the re
corder for said precinct: the Montana
association, adjoining the above-de
scribed Rainbow association, the Loca
tion certificate of which is found of rec
ord in volume one of Locations, page
318, in the office of the recorder of said
precinct; in order to hold said claim
under the provisions of Section 2324 of
the Revised Statutes of the United
States, and the amendment thereto ap
proved January 22, 1880,concerning an
nual labor upon mining claims, being
the amount required to hold said placer
mining claims for the periods ending on
the 31st day of December, 1915. and 1916.
And if, within ninety days from the
personal serviceof this notice, or within
ninety days after the publication there
of, vou fail or refuse to contribute your
proportion of such expenditure as a co
owner, your interests in the said two
placer mining claims will become the
property of the subscribers, your co
owners," who have made the required
expenditures, by the terms of said sec
tion. Geo. W. Albrecht.
Chas. E. Taylor.
First publication Nov. 3, 1917.
Last publication Feb. 2, 1918.
FORFEITURE NOTICE
To Gus Johnson, his heirs and assigns:
You are hereby notified that during
each of the years of 1913, 1914, 1915 and
1910 the undersigned has expended at
least one hundred dollars in labor and
improvements upon each of the follow
! ing named placer mining claims, to-wil:
j Lower 3, 4 and 5 above upper discovery
on Ophir creek in the Innoko mining
and recording district, in the territory
of Alaska, in which mining locations
you claim an undivided one-half inter
est, as shown by the records of said re
cording district”. The said labor was
performed as and for the annual repre
sentation of the said claims and each of
them for the said years of 1913, 1914,
1915 and 1916 as required by the laws
of the United States concerning annual
labor upon mining claims, and the
same was the amount required to hold
said claims for said years. You are
further notified that unless within 90
days after the completed service of
this notice upon you and within 90 days
after the publication thereof, you con
tribute your portion of said expendi
ture as a co-owner, to-wit: The sum of
two hundred dollars for each of said
claims and six hundred dollars in all,
your interest in said claims or in any
one of which you so fail to contribute
will be forfeited to the undersigned,
who has made such expenditure, and
will become his property in the manner
provided by law.
Dated at Ophir Septe mber 4, 1917.
ALFRED JOHNSON, Go-owner.
First publication Nov. 3, 1917.
Last publication Feb. 2. 1918
Partnership Dissolution
Notice is hereby given that the co
partnership heretofore existing be
tween the undersigned,^Joseph E. Riley
and Lottie R. Marston. under the firm
name and style of Otter Dredge Com
pany, at Otter precinct, Fourth divi
sion, Territory of Alaska, is this day
dissolved by mutual consent, Lottie R.
Marston selling her interest to Joseph
E. Riley, who will continue the busi
ness under the same firm name and
stvle, Otter Dredge Company.
Joseph E. Riley.
Lottie R. Marstgn.
Dated September 30, 1917.
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