THE FAIRBANKS HERALD
Volume 1.
FAIRBANKS, ALASKA, JULY 18,1915.
No. 3
SOURDOUGH DEMOCRAT GETS
APPOINTMENT
Party will be strengthened consid
erably up amongst the Koyukuk
hills.
Attorney B. J. Me. Ginnis, sourdough
ha* been appointed United States Com
missioner for the Koyukuk and is oil
his way to take up the duties of his of
fice and relieve Dr. C. 1$. Danfortli who
has held the position for over a year.
An enthusiastic Democrat, McGinnis
worked hard tor the success of the party
in the territory last summer and with a
change of administration was said to be
in line for the position of clerk of the
District Court, Fonrtli Division but J.
li. Clark got it instead.
Judge McGinnis will no doubt take an
active part in organizing tile Democrat
ic Club of the Koyukuk and strength
ening the party machinery in that part
of the country.
MINERS' LIENS TO
GET PREFERENCE
OR THE COURT CALLENDER.
Aooording to Section 10 of Senate Bill
No. 28 entittled: An Act fo provide for
the Liens of Laborers and Miners work
ing on, in and about Mines and Mining
property, Repealing the Act of the
Legislature of the Territory of Alaska,
entitled 'An Aot to create, establish and
provide for liens in favor of laborers
and material men, and repealing all
Acts in conflict herewith^’ approved
April 30, 1913, and declaring an emer
gency, ” miners, in actions to enforce
liens created under this Act will have
preference on the court callender.
The measure contained in Sec. 10 o f
the bill will be quite an improvement
over the old method which was bad for
both lftigants inasmuch as it would tie
up the ground besides working a hard
ship on the miner who had no other
means of livlihood than working in the
drift.
This Object Was
A Policeman
It Cost Dawson Exactly $5 to Show
His Country Cousins
the Sights.
PITTSBURG. March 16.—Andrew
Dawson, 25, took trwo guests from the
country out to “see the sights.” After
a while the trio came to a policeman
standing at Dimmer avenue and May
flower street. Andrew went up to him.
“This object.” he said, “is a police
man—-a piece of the city’s furniture. It
is placed upon this corner for the
edification of cynical and sarcastic
humanity. The shining badge upon
this handsome ornament is a match
scratcher, and the-—”
“Five dollars.” said the police court
magistrate today to Dawson.—-Ex.
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COURT TO RETURN
SOON
Judge Bunnell and other court of
ficials to be back in Fairbanks
ahead of schedule.
From reports, it seems now that Hon.
Charles K. Bunnell, Judge of the Dis
trict Court for the Fourth Division and
the rest of the court officials may he
back in Fairbanks earlier than was pre
viously expected The court matters at
Iditarod took but a short time and the
number of causes at Ruby are fewer
than at last session there.
The petit jury was instructed by
Judge Bunnell to report on September
6th, but it now looks as if the Court
would be back here sometime in Au
gust.
HENRY 8IEGAL
HOLDS MAZUMA
Convicted banker prefers going to
jail rather than give up the
filthy lucre.
Mr. Henry Siegel. who swindled |
thousands of New York's poor out of a
large sum of money in a dubious bank
ing scheme, has elected to go to jail for
ten months—less good conduct time,
which will make it eight and a half
months—rather than pay $150,000 to
his creditors. One hundred and fifty
thousand dollars, bo it remarked, is
only a small percentage of the sum in
volved.—New York Call.
BARNETTE GETTING
CLOSE ENOUGH TO
FAIRBANKS
Man Who Made and Unmade many
Alaskans to try his Hand Catch
ing Fish. Instead of Fishing for
Men he will fish for real Fish
This Time.
A Valdes exchange says that E. T.
Barnette, of Fairbanks notoriety, was a
passenger on the Admiral Evans en
route to Kodiak where he is to charter
a power launch for the Kuskokwim.
He contemplates the erection of a sal
mon cannery on the Kuskokwim.
A BAD ACCIDENT
A recent arival in town reporfc that
out on the Fox road near that burg lies
an auto in the ditch, smashed to pieces
and hanging on the wreck is a placard
bearing the inscription: “For Sale or
Rent, Apply Alaska Road Commis
sion.”
See AvakolT about having your watch
repaired.
NOBLEST ROMAN
OF THEM ALL
‘ ‘This was the noblest Roman of them
all;
All the conspirators, save only he.
Did that they did in envy of great Cae
sar;
He, only, in a general honest
thought.
And common good to all, made one of
them.”
General Villa lias written a note in
reply to the warning sent out by Pres
ident Wilson for the Mexican warring
factions to get together and bring out
peace in their distracted country. The
note ot Villa is addressed to Wilson and
in it the Mexican general expresses his
willingness to invite a new union of all
Mexicans for the purpose of working
together. He says this harmonious un
ion would insure the triumph of the re
volutionary principles which he has
been fighting for, make the condition of
the masses better, and abolish peonage.
The land question is a vital one to the
security of peace, and Villa asserts that
the agrarian problem, the division, of
land among the people, the abolishment
of the feudalism of the land owners,
and the extension of some general ed
ucational schemes among the poorer
classes, are the questions that must be
settled befoae the dove of peace can per
manently abide in Mexico.—-Ex,
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POLLASTRINE TO GO
TO TOLOVANA
Will Take In Another
Load of Freight
Joe Pollastrine with his motor boat
‘'Put-I’ut is again in Fairbanks and in
tends to leave for the Tolovanti with
another load of freight about the end ol
the weel*. Anyone having outfits going
in to the new diggings can leave orders
or can see him at Imperial Cigar store
Front street.
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GOL. BLETHEN GOES ON HIS
LAST CAMPAIGN
Newspaperman after stormy career
In MineapoHs and Seattle passes
over the hill.
“It is the lot of saint and sinner."
Colonel AldemJ. Blethen, proprietor
of the Seattlo Times was laid to rest in
Lmlteview Cemetery in Seattle on July
14th.
Blethen conducted a newspaper in
Minneapolis in the stormy days oi
thut city's existence but when civic pu
rity gained the ascendency he departed
and went to Seattle and grew up with
the town.
As an enemy of civic reform and or
ganized labor, among newspapermen
he had only one peer—Harrison Gray
Otis of the Los Angeles Times.
Some years ago, the Seattle newspa
per man was made a Regent of the
University of Washington, and his
memory will be cherished by the music
from the chimes that hang in the stee
ple of the institution, called the
“Blethen Chimes,’’ which were pre
sented by him to the university.
It is said that the deep baritone voice
ol Brother Stanley Hess and a light
treble voice which sounded like the
voice oi \V. H. Whitsly were heard at
intervals 'midst the shouts of the joy
riders the other night.
Mr. and Mrs. Lipman Smison are on
their way to Fairbanks. Anticipating;
their arrival, Aleck Sinison gave orders
to the painters and paperhangers to
get busy. Their house is now all ready
for them.
Bion A. Dodge returned this after -
from the Bluffs on the Chena River in
his motor boat, the Artful Dodger. He
reports fishing to have been excellent
and as proof of the truth of his state
ment, and to show us that it was no
bear story, he presented us with a mess
ol fine greyling.
Anderson and Darson are again ex
perimenting with their fast racing en
gine. They have taken it out of the
Ankle Deep and put it in the hydro
plane hull and are trying it up and
down the slough this evening.
Considerable interest is being taken
in fast racing engines and several local
men have intimated that next summer
may see several fast hydroplanes on the
Chena Slough.
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Dick Thorne is back again. He has
taben over the Gordon's Rink and is
now showing there every night.
FOR SALE
New Standard Dictionary and Encyc
lopedia. Over 450,000 words; in one
volume containing a complete history
of the world; weight about fourteen lbs
Morrocco binding, printed on fine bible
paper. Will be sold cheap. Owner going
to Tolovana. Inquire at Herald Office.