THE ANCHORAGE DAILY TIMES
AND COOK INLET PIONEER.
ANCHORAGE PUBLISHING CO.
Anchorage, Alaska.
CHAS. E. HERRON. Publisher._
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Entered in the Anchorage Postoffice June 5, 1916. as second class matter
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ANCHORAGE, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MARCH 13, HU 7.
CERTAINLY, WE MUST HAVE A COURTHOUSE.
Of course The Times is in complete harmony with tilt* pe
tition praying for the construction of an adequate court house
building in Anchorage, drawn by the local bar association and
sent to the department of .justice at Washington. We not only
urge the erection of a big federal building, hut we, plead for the
appointment of a district .judge to permanently occupy it, to
gether with other officials of his court. As we have pointed out
several times before, Anchorage is the most populous tolvn in
the Third division of Alaska. There is every indication that
it will retain this lead, so firmly established is it, and so var
ied are the resources native to the Cook inlet country. It is
only a question of time when the establishment of a district
court here will be a vital necessity, so what’s the use of delay
ing in the matter? The Valdez Prospector is somewhat peeved
at The Times’ insistence for a district judge at Anchorage, be
ing under the impression that we are seeking to get the district
court removed from Valdez to Anchorage. Not at all. Let the
district court remain at Valdez, but establish a new judicial dis
trict, with Anchorage as the headquarters. That is what we
are working for. That is what we are looking for. This would
come under the head of new business, so to speak, and certain
ly Anchorage is well within its rights in seeking to get all the
new enterprises and industries it can.
The secretary of the interior, in his annual report, points
out the necessity for another district judge in Alaska, calling
attention to the fact that the judges in the First and Third di
visions of the territory have more work than they can handle.
A solution of the problem would be to lessen the western limits
of the First, division, tacking it on to, the Third division, and
then creating a new division with Anchorage as the headquar
ters, and thus taking a great burden off of the Third division
judge.
We quote that part of the secretary of the Interior’s annual
report dealing with the appointment of an additional judge for
Alaska, as follows:
The Courts.—The work of the United States district courts
in at least two of the four of the judicial divisions into which
Alaska is divided, namely, the First and Third, has increased
largely during the recent years. In the First judicial division
the court has been almost continuously in session for the past
two years, with the-result that the presiding judge is geeatly
overworked, and there is a congestion of business, and civil
litigants suffer because of it. A similar condition exists in the
Third judicial division, and the suggestion is made that an ad
ditional judge be appointed for the territory; the judge so ap
pointed could he appointed to try cases in any of the four judi
cial divisions as needed, and in this way the trial of cases, civil
and criminal, would be expedited and the overworked judges
would not be compelled to render service at the risk ot their
health.”*
BILLINGSLEY STILL BEING CROSS- •
EXAMINED BY COUNSEL FOR DEFENSE
SEATTLE, March 13.—Logan Billingsley is still on the
witness stand in the Gill-Beckingham-Hodge bootlegging case,
and is being cross-examined by Walter Fulton, of counsel tor
the defense. Yesterday afternoon the witness testified that he
gave Di\ Matthews a thousand dollars to hire detectives to get
evidence against Mayor Gill, on which to base a recall move
ment directed against him. He also gave John Fvans, a Times
reporter, an ex-convict and fugitive from justice, $50. Evans,
he said, flew the scene when the bootlegging expose came about
and has not been heard of since, to his knowledge.
Question by Fulton—“When you had a setlement with the
mayor, was there anything said or understood about quitting
business?”
Witness—“No, but 1 remember when the first edition of
The Times came out, it said that I had agreed to quit. 1 did not
want people to think that I was going to quit, so 1 fixed it with
Evans, The Times reporter, to have it fixed in the second edi
tion.”
Still, under cross-examination by Fulton, Billingsley tes
tified; in response to a question: “I told the mayor that I ex
pected to pay for what I got; that while I did not want to be
hounded to death, as I had been, I expected to have some trou
ble; that I just wanted an even break”* |
Fulton—“Did fow tell the may#1 the amount of money
contained in the roll of bills you say v'iVu laid on his desk?”
Witness—“I think I said that it was more money than J
had ever given up before. As I remember, I did not mention
the amount, but the mayor thought it was $7,500. Vandeveer
told me not to offer the mayor less than $7,500.”
RIOTS IN RUSSIA.
STOCKHOLM, March 13.—Advices from Russia state that
serious food riots, coupled with peace demonstrations, are tak
ing place, in Petrograd, Moscow and other important cities in
the czar’s domain. The riots in Petrograd and Moscow are so
serious that it may lie necessary to invoke martial law.
FIFTY KILLED BY TORNADO.
INDIANAPOLIS, March 13.—Nearly fifty bodies have
been recovered from the ruins caused by the terrible tornado
that swept Newcastle, Indiana, Sunday. Twenty-four of the
victims are women. The search for other victims is in pro
gress.
“The Store that Has What You Want—When Yon Want It”
Loussac’s Daily Gossip
TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 1917.
Vol. No. 202. ANCHORAGE, ALASKA, 4th and D
SERVICE AND THE PUBLIC
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other person’s place. We believe that we are here to serve the
people who are at all times entitled to the benefit of our knowl
edge of the goods we sell. *
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more than price; therefore we do not carry inferior merchan
dise of any sort. We believe that the public is our employer,
whose interests are ours and furthermore whose best interest is
buying standard merchandise regardless qjf price.
For Quality Drugs and Sundries Come to Us.
Kastman Kodaks, films and Amateur Supplies are the best
on the market. “If it is not an Eastman it is not a Kodak.”
We carry a complete line.
In order to introduce the Red Feather line of Toilet Arti
cles, we will sell a 25c tube of Red Feather Cold Cream at 15c.
The Vernice face powder is some powder (for particular
people only.)
Perfection Toilet Cream, 35c and (J5c per bottle.
“Red Feather” Liquid'Face Powder, 75c per bottle.
Egg Malted Milk at our Soda Fountain is prepared with
Over the Trail Eggs.
Victor Phonographs and Records—\Ve have the agency for
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NEW YORK, Feb. 15.—Government
charts of the harbor at Anchorage,
Alaska, and other channels and har
bors of that territory, were found to
day among the belongings of Herbert
Sauer, aged 22, by federal officials,
when an examination of the personal
effects of the young man was being
made after he had been convicted of
j murder and sentenced to the peniten
tiary. Later it was learned that Sauer
had been in the employ of the coast
guard service and that he had deserted |
the coast guard cutter Apache in Ap
ril, 1916. Prior to that time the
Apache had been operating in Alaska
waters. -
Questioned regarding the maps,
i Sauer said he wished to make a name
for himself when he returned to the j
I fatherland. He did not deny that he
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had stolen the maps.
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SPRING HATS
We still have ah excellent showing of adVa'fice Spring Millinery which arrived
over-the trail, and which are the very latest word in 1917 styles. These hats are the ->•
last, which ai*e expected to arrive before the arrival of through boats from Seattle.
MRS. MAUDE C CATTLE
" Is leaving Seattle today for Anchorage. She wires that all her Spring and Sum
mer purchases have been made and that on the first boat from the outside the
STYLE SHOP will have the largest and most select stock of Ladies’ goods ever
brought to Anchorage.
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