The largest boiler in the country is being installed by Lipsett
Bros, on their claim 2 a. bench. Otter creek. The boiler, which
is of VO horse power, was talien from the mouth of Otter Sunday
last. li weighed i ight ions and eight head of horses were
neer.-sarv to transport it. At one stage of tin'journey somethin
ice which they were ctossing caved in, but fortunately the outfit
managed to pull the boiler on to firm ice before both bobs went
through. Quite a lot of open water was visible after passing over.
The Lipsett Bros, have a large piece of ground which they
expect to work out next summer. They already have a 40 horse
power boiler which was used the past season, and this, in addition
to the one of VO horse power just installed, will make the most
powerful outfit in this section of the country.
A very good season is predicted for Otter next year.
Teamsters and pedestrians should feel grateful to the proprie
tors of the Summit roadhouse for the beacon light which they
have installed. The light is suspended 40 feet from the ground
and is visible from the first hill out of town to the head of Flat.
The beacon-light will be of great value to travelers during
stormy weather, as it will enable them to get their bearings if
they get mixed upon the many trails which now intersect the
route to Flat.
Fairoanks, Dec. 9. —Billy Casey, Tommy Bullone a> d Mert
Marston, who left Iditarod November la, arrived here December 6.
Loss Bernard, of the Fairbanks News-Miner staff, was married
yesterday to Mrs. Edythe Bradb rv.
Martin Harrais has been elected president of the Tanana Val
ley Democratic club.
Sam Bonnitield, together with six other insane, left for Port
land Thursday.
Fairbanks, Dec S —A new license ruling by Julge Ovetfield is
likely to have a far-reaching efle -t upon the saloon bush ess. B\ t e
appointment of a commissioner at Olnes saloon licenses are now per
missible there. In appointing the commissionei Judge Ovetfield sug
gested that it there were to he any applications for licenses the number
-should be limited to one. or two at most
Notwithsia:; .i g the judge's hint six petitions'were circulated, and
as was to be expected, retuseed by the comt In returning the peii
lions to Olnes judge Overfield asked the citizens to exercse mote dis
crimination in signing new petitions with the idea of limiting the
number of licenses.
Martin’s restaurant was out of business for a few hours last
Tuesday, as a result of an explosion in the hot water coil.
For some time past the restaurant has been closed for a few
hours nightly, and the cold snap on Monday night froze the water
in the pipes. As was to be expected an explosion took place dur
ing the thawing out process. Fortunately no ore was hurt, but
Martin Popiclt bad a very narrow escape. Repairs to tlm stove
were soon under way, and business was resumed in the evening.
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Some time Iasi. September charges were preferred in the De
partmen.t of Justice against District Judge Peter D. Overfield of
the Fourth division of Alaska. To a very few people in the Idita
rod the charges became known soon after they had been made.
Certain affidavits, among them one from Commissioner E. M Stan
ton, have been forwarded from here in relation to the matter.
The charges in full are contained in the Fairbanks Citizen of
Nov. 13. According to that paper it had been known at Fairbanks
for many weeks that the charges had been preferred, but secrecy
was maintained in the department’s actions. Mr. Procter, who
was conducting an investigation for the department, refused to
give out any information, and the Citizen does not say from whom
it obtained the copy of the charges it makes public. As stated by
it they are as follows:
First — On April 14, 1911, a com
mittee composed of Dr. Aline Bradley,
Elizabeth K Smart and Mary C. Cam
bridge interviewed the judge. At that
time they presented to Judge Overfield
a set of resolutions passed at a meeting
of the creditors, depositors and custom
ers of the Washington-Alaska Bank
of Washington and the Washington
Alaska Bank of Nevada, held at Fair
banks March 29, 1911, which asked for
the following:
1. The removal of F. W. Hawkins as
receiver of the Washington-Alaska
bank.
2. The appointment of a competent,
courageous and conscientious citizen as
a special officer to serve any necessary
special venires for additional persons
to fill the panel of any grand jury
called to investigate the t lleged fraud
! ulent acts of the officers of the Fair
banks Banking Company, the Wash
ington Alaska Bank of Washingtnr.
jand the Washington-Alaska Bank ol
; A I va i.
3. The permission of tlie court to
allow the depositors, creditors and cus
tomers of said bank and institution and
the attorney of said depositors, credit
ors and customers to have an account
ant or bank examiner investigate the
accounts of said institution.
In answer to this request the judge
is said to have stated that he considered
that Hawkins was a gentleman; had
perfect confidence in him; did not con
sider tiie fact that he had been an
officer of both the Washington-Alaska
Bank of Washington and the Washing
ton- Alaska Bank of Nevada a barrier
to the usefulness of Hawkins as re
ceiver; nor did lie consider tiie rumors
he iiad beard of Hawkins’s life and
domestic troubles as things that unfit
him as receiver; nor could lie see that
Hawkins could have any object in re
tarding an investigation of the ufTairs
of tiie bank, but, on the other hand,
had submitted to the grand jury all the
evidence asked for and more: and would
not remove Hawkins unless other and
more substantial facts showing' the un
fitness of Hawkins could be tiled with
him. The judge further stated his be
lief that tiie grand jury which investi
gated the lank matters was a repre
sentative body, and explained the
method of selecting grand jurors. The
judge refused to allow the request for
an accountant or for an examiner of
banks, stating tha’ he had plans of his
own lie did not rare to divulge at that
time. [It appears lhut Judge Overfleld
had written the Attorney General on
April 3, ten days before the interview,
asking that an examiner be sent to in
vestigate the bank matter.]
Second — It is claimed that F. W.
Hawkins was appointed receiver at tiie
request of the directors of the failed
bank and others.
Hurd— Bion A. Dodge, representing
the Women Depositors’ Committee,
filed a petition in intervention which
prayed for:
1. That the petitioners be made par
ties defendant in the action entitled
Tanana Valley Railroad Company and
John Zug vs. Washington-Alaska Bank
of Nevada.
2. That the petitioners be permitted
to defend the said action as against the
plaintiffs and as against the defendants
until a receiver shall have been ap
pointed for the Washington-Alaska
Bank of Washington, and thereafter, if
necessary.
3. That in said action or in any other
action wherein the same may appear
necessary, the court appoint a receiver
for the Washington-Alaska Bank of
Washington with full powers in the
premises.
4. That the petitioners be permitted
to employ accountant or bank exam
iner, and that such examiner and the
attorney for the petitioners be allowed
to examine and audit the books of the
Fairbanks Banking Company, the
Washington-Alaska Bank of Washing
ton, and the Washington-Alaska Bank
of Nevada.
5. That F. W. Hawkins be removed
as one of the receivers of the Washing
ton-Alaska Bank of Nevada.
6. That the receivers of the Wash
ington-Alaska Bank of Nevada be in
structed by order of the court to dis
burse no more moneys other than those
i- q . • ' r »' ' x
. he teg .1 • ■ " p
Alaska B.ti.h W...-i,,t,g
Washington-Alaska Bank of Nevada
be determined and established, or until
further order of the court.
7. For such other and further relief
in the premises as the court may think
just.
This petition tvas denied, and the
order denying t tie same, on file in the
office of tlte clerk, states that there
was a stipulation agreed upon by the
attorneys to the effect that the only
question presented to the court was
whether the parties whom Dodge rep
resented had a right to intervene. It
is claimed that, there was no stipulation
made in open court to that effect. Ask
the judge why this petition was denied.
Fourth — It. is claimed that since
Judge Overfield has been on t lie bench
at Fairbanks it is practically impossi
I ble for the district attorney to secure
convictions, especially for violations of
the liquor laws, and lhat the attitude
assumed by the judge toward the dis
j i rict attorney’s office is largely respon
sible for failure to convict.
Fifth The claim is made that the
attitude of the court toward the office
of the district attorney, and especially
toward Mr. Crossley, has been dis
courteous and detrimental to the eases
which the district attorney's office are
endeavoring to prosecute for the gov
ernment, and is a matter of much
comment, not only among the public in
general, but among the attorneys and
jurors who have been in the court
room.
Sixth—It is claimed that the judge
lias attempted to place Mr. Crossley in
such a position that he could beheld
in contempt.
Seventh—It is claimed that an edito
rial appearing in the Fairbanks News
Miner under date of May 15, 1911,
which seriously reflected upon Mr.
Crcssley and especially the manner in
which he had attempted to prosecute
liquor cases, was shown to the judge in
his chambers before its publication,
and that he was fully aware of the
contents of this editorial before its
publication.
Eighth—It is claimed that Mr. Cross
ley’s objections to Certain liquor li
censes are frequently overruled by the
court without any witnesses called by
the district attorney in support of his
objections being heard. That the judge
assumes to pass upon applications for
liquor licenses without giving those in
terested an opportunity to be heard.
Ninth—At the February, 1911. terra
of court the regular panel of jurors
was reduced to fifteen men, and Mr.
Cross ley's request to the court that
the panel be increased to the regular
number was disallowed, and as a con
sequence it was necessary to summon
jurors under writ of special venire in
practically every case that was tried
during the term, with the result that
some of the jurors selected in tha
manner were decidedly unsat sfactory,
being drawn from cigar stores, sa
loons, etc.
Tenth—As instances of the manner
in which the court shows its prejudice,
in the case of the United States vs.
W illiam Reagan, on a charge of rape,
the judge refused to allow as evidence
certain evidence showing that the de
fendant had induced the girl upon
whom the assault had been made to
drink beer and whisky, although Mr.
Crossley cited authorities to support
his contention that such evidence
should be allowed. During this case
the judge is said to have scored Mr.
Crossley in open court, stating that lie
had been the most t ersistent and an
noying attorney that practiced before
him, and intimated that it was, either
from ignorance, a contemptuous disre
gard of the court, or because he wanted
more favors than any other attorney.
It is said that Mr. Crossley endeavored
to reply that he wanted no favors, only
what he was entitled to as an officer of
the court, but that he was cut short by
the judge and not given an opportunity
to answer. It is stated that in this
case the court had given out that there
would be no time limit to the closing
arguments, and the attorneys for the ;
defense were allowed to consume as'
much time as they wislel. while Mr.
Crossley was stopped by t he judge after
he had been talking for twenty-five j
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tlie defendant’s attorneys, though Mr.
Crossley was stopped by the judge
when tie talked forty minutes.
Eleventh—The judge went duck
hunting with bartenders last spring.
Twelfth — It is charged that the
judge considers among his friends and
that he treats with great courtesy cer
tain of the saloon men of Fairbanks,
and others who are reputed jury fixers,
and that he is very friendly with cer
tain persons who are desirous of pre
venting any investigation of the Wash
ington-Alaska Bank matters, especially
Messrs. McGinn and Woods.
Thirteenth—It is claimed that tie
gravid jury which considered the hank
matters brought to the judge a pre
sentment containing about twelve
pages of matter which lie read over in
a very short time, something like
thirty miuutes, and within that time
wrote out one and one half or tw<
pages of legal-cap paper containing hi.
answer thereto, and that the grand
jury became discouraged, thinking the
answer was insufficient, and failed it
render any indictment in I he bank
matter, it is claimed that in dismiss
ing them, the judge made a scoring
address to them for their failure to in
dict or place the responsibility where
it belonged.
Fourteenth—It is claimed that alt lie
time the grand jury took up the inves
tigation of tiie bank matters, Mr.
Crossley was requested to appoint
Morton Stevens as a special attorney
to assist Mr. Crossley and the grand
jury in investigating t he hank matters,
and it is claimed that the judges him
self urged the appointment of Mr.
Stevens, and that Mr. Stevens was to
i tally unfit to act in sucli a capacity by
reason of t he fact that he had the rep
utation of being a confirmed drunkard
and a tricky lawyer.
Fifteenth—The appointment of E. M.
Stanton as commissioner and deputy
clerk of the court at iditarod is criti
cised, owing to the fact that Mr. Stan
ton is reported to have been in the
habit of spendmg his evenings in
gambling resorts and drinking. It is
claimed that tbo night before his de
parture for Iditarod was spent in riding
about between Fairbanks and the
creeks with two notorious women of
tlie town, and that before leaving the
following day lie attemptad to evade
paying a large hotel bill he owed in
Fairbanks, and also a large bili for the
use of tlie automobile the night before.
Sixteenth—The appointment of Abe
Spring as commissioner at Circle, is
criticised upon the ground that his
reputation is such, financially and as
regards morals and honesty, as to make
him totally unfit to hold such a position
\ of responsibility under the government.
It is further claimed that this appoint
ment was made largely at the urgent
request of one Geis, a saloon keeper at
’ Fairbanks.
Seventeenth - It is claimed that ex
' Commissioner Olson and former Deputy
! Marshal Q liner, who were stationed at
Hot Springs, were removed without
sufficient cause being shown when they
were industrious in their efforts to
properly administer justice in their
district.
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From E A. Metz, P. O. Box 595,
Chicago, III., comes an inquiry for
William A. Wiley. Wiley left St.
Louis for the Klondike in 189*. He
remained in Dawson for some years
and later went to Nome. Ho is enti
tled to several thousand dollars under
the will of a man whom he at one time
befriended. Those knowing anything
about Mr. Wiley would render a service
by communicating with Mr. Metz at
the above address.
Herbert L. Kimball, of 1220 Old Na
tional Bank Building, Spokane, would
like to locate C. Ekman. Ekruan
wrote to his family last February say
ing that he proposed going on a hunt
ing trip, since which time nothing has
been heard of him.
In addition to the above, th“ g >v
ernor’s office at Juneau is in receipt of
the following inquiries:
Copenhaver, John Lloyd—Native of j
Virginia, 25 years old; small for his 1
age. Left State of Washington for'
Alaska, Sept. 28, 1910. Father and
mother anxious to hear.
McLeod, Kenneth—Native of Nova
Scotia. 28 years old; last heard from
June 10, 1907, when he was in or near
Fairbanks, working for a telegraph
company. Mother inquiring for him.
Ftenwick, J. B.—Native of Illinois;
last heard from July J>, 1911, when he
was at Iditarod. but expected to leave
scon tor Fugle or Fairbanks. Father
anxious to locate him.
Ruinmel, Fred William —Has not
been heard from for 18 years. Sister
is anxious to locate him.
Wylie, Thomas—About 4(i years old;
supposed to lie prospecting in Alaska.
Last heard from about a year ago
Daughter in California is dtsirous of
heat ing from him.
Any information sent to the gover
nor’s office, Juneau, Alaska, will be
promptly forwarded to the relatives of
the above named missing persons.
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Otter Masonic club held their regular fortnightly meeting
Thursday, December 7, at the new club room on Front street
Flat city, and elected the following officers for the next six
months: Dr. E. M. Spaulding, president; Grant Murdock, vice
president; Thos. McMahon, secretary treasurer. After an en
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