Published Weekly In The Interest Of The Working-- Class.
No, M
FAIRBANKS, ALASKA, Sept, 5, 1914.
Vjl.
District Attorney Crossley Tells Council
To open Up 4ih Avenue cr fig Will
Do It Himself.
By an order of District At
™ torney Crossley issued under
date of Aug. 31 the citycoun
cil is directed to abolish the
red light district on 4t|i avg.
ftnd open up the street to traf
fic within 30 days, or, faij
ing to comply with the order
he will take action himself,
proceeding under the federal
siatutes.
This matter has been pen
ding a long time. There has
been considerable objection
fcr several years to the pre
re rt. kcation of the “row/’
ard rr pch agitation for its re
trova! to a more isolated sec
tion of town. Almost every
body has realized that it
ought to be moved, but ow
ingto the naturally trouble
some nature of the task and
the difficulty of finding ano
|) ther location, previous coun
cils as well as the present
one have been loth to touch
it, and it is also claimed that
the influence of certain busi
ness interests '.which- have
profited by the present loca.
tjon of the district have al
ways operated as a deterrent
against its removal,
So Ihe matter has dragged
along until last winter when
because ot numerous com
plaints lodged with the At
orney-General in Washing
ton, the district attorney was
instructed to see that the
street was opened up and gi
ven over to legitimate occu
pancy.
Before his departure for
the outside last winter Mr.
Crossley warned the council
j that the row in its present
;location must be abolished,
i but the council thinking, pel
haps, that he was joking- oi
the matter could be smooth’
ed over and postponed, let
i the warning go unheeded,
j But Crpssley wasn’t joking,
and the city fathers are up
against the alternative of at
tending to a piece of city bus
ipess themselves or having it
attended to for them. It is
, not known which they wi.
! choose. Nor is it known win
;ther they will designate:
i {>lace where a new row ma\
I be built up. or let the resi
! dents of the present one tak<
i up their abode in differed
I parts of che town. Objections
! will probably be raised in ei
| ther case. No section oi
town will want a red light
district, and the women wiii
not make acceptable neigh
bors if allowed to scatter a
bout the town.
In any event, because oi
! having to move on such
short notice at this time ol
the year, considerable hard
ship will be inflicted upon the
women, that coujei just at
well have been avoided, hac!
the council taken hold of the
j matter promptly when first
told that 4th aye, w'oulc
have to be opened up.
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Of late years Alaska has
become a veritable “port of
missing men.’' The mails are
freighted with anxious en
quires from relations and
friends in the States for men
I who have drifted to the
j north in search of fortune,
[never to be heard of again.
| Men disappear from the
j sight of their friends here as
^ suddenly and compiei ely as if
j the earth had opened and
swallowed them up. Coinci
den Jy and with alarming
frequency, the dead bodies
- f men are being discovered,
■ suaily decomposed and un
■ecognizable, though in ma
•y instances ascertainable
hat death had been met
•vith in a violent manner at
die hands of another man—
often waylaid and murderer,
on the Ion 1/ trail. At the pre
sent time there are some fif
teen of these gruesome dis
eoveries and mysterious dis
appearances puzzling the au
Lhorities of this division a
ione, but under the piesen.
regulations of the depart
menc of justice and the inad
equate force of deputy ma
shals, it is impossible to in-'
vestigete them, and in cast* ,
of murder, ferret out and j
bring to justice the perpetra
tors of the crime.
This condition of affairs'
has Jed to much agitation du |
ring the past year or two for
the assignment of: eeret ser
vice men to this country or
tiie appointment of deputy
marshals charged with the
duty of investigating these
cases and for the purpose of
patrolling the water courses
and trails and Covering wide
stretches of country that sel
dom see an officer of the law,
that tnusliers and proipectois
may he protected from inurdei
>ua fiends and shielded from
other dungers that. ! eset them.
At Inst through the earnest so |
1.citation of District Alorney
Urosshy, the attorney Genera,
oime months ago authorized tlx
ippoinunent. of several deput\
marshals for the work above ou;
lined and advised the U. S. Mai
Ph il’s office ljere to that effect.
1 Hiief Deputy ( lark at once wireu
Marshal Erwin who was the.,
outside, hut Erwin for reason
t.esi known io himself though
{"v to moke a wjt|,
ilie department on fhr score of
f c- noiny and to discredit the
distnet attorney, hastened to
W tshingion and by represent
>"tr !hat such officers were not
necessary, peruaded (ho alter
"ev general to rescind the order
U is almost incredible that
Mars ha] Erwin holding one 0f
ilie most important official p03i
tsons in the Division, and char
eed with tlie protection of the
liv is and property of the people,
wonid go as far as that, when
lie knows as everybody else
Knows, that there is crying need
<>r such officers. But a j olitici
an is a politician, though some
itnes u poor one, and if Marshal
let * in paid more attention to
the du ies of his office and to
th> people, and less to political
sktt! duggery and efforts to dis
credit and embarrass really con
scienlions officials, lie would
make a more acceptable official
’o the people of this Division,
and there would he fower charg
s filed against, him at Washing
Ion.
i
San Francisco, July 27.— An'
emmissary of Yuan Shi Kai.pres-!
ident of China, who came to this
country to attempt to.'bring about
an understanding with the Chin
ese residents in this country, who
are believed to bo strongly in
clined to favor the Chinese revo
lutionary elements, was forced
to flee from the country in fear j
of hi8 life. The emmissary had i
hardly landed and proceeded
about his mission before h£<Dund
to his sorrow that the Chinese
i
Of this country were bitter oppo
nents of the present administra
tion which while republican in
name virtually has re-established
the old tyrannical’methods of rul
ing the people. Doctor Sun, who
was principally responsible for
the revolution which made China
a republic, still has a large fol-l
lowing among the American Chi-j
nese, and these are inclined to
consider that a revolution will
again gain sufficient ground in
China to overthrow the present
government. Many operating:
bands are at present busy in that
country, while Doctor Sun is re
ported as being- in Japan direct
ing the revolutionary elements
from that side.
It is believed that Yuan’s em
rmssary, after having ascertained
that any attempt to pacify the
American Chinese is futile, will
return to his native land and so
report to the president.