BARNETTE’S
PAST LIFE
Rich Fairbanks Man Con
fronted by a Prison
Record.
Under n Seattle date line of Nov. 27
the Fairbanks Times prints an expose
of the former life of K. T. Barnette, the
rich banker and mine operator of the
Tanana valley, showing that he is an
ex-penitentiary conviet.
The story came out during the trial of
the suit of .1. II, Uauston against Bar
nette, for a partnership accounting.
Uauston alleges that he grubstaked
Barnette in 1901, when the latter was
stranded at St. Michael, with a stock of
goods to open a trading post on the
Tanana river. Plaintiff shipped the
goods in and furnished money to the
amount of $6,000, and in other ways
assisted him to establish himself in
business. He denies Barnette's defense
that he was to receive the money back
with interest.
In accounting lor tlie stock sinu money
which Causton had given him Barnette
testified that in an effort to dispose of
t lie grubstake lie left his brother-in daw,
Frank .1. Clearv, in charge of the stock
of goods at Fairbanks, and. in 1SKJ3
Cleary sold the stock and embezzled
$14,000. Barnette said lie had taken no
action against Cleary on account of the
family relationship.
When cross examined and asked if he
had ever been in Oregon, ltarnette de
nied that he had been in that state.
Finally when the records of the Oregon
penitentiary were produced, Barnette
admitted that in 188t> he had been con
victed of larceny bv bailee. He then
told the entire story, omitting nothing,
and seemed to be iclieved when he had
concluded his statement.
He said in 1880 he had taken $2,000
belonging to tieorge l»e Wolf. He told
He Wolf the money had been taken from
him by an Indian. Feeling secure in
the story he had told, Barnette went
about his way; but in the meantime He
Wolf had Iwn watching him and finally
caught him with the money on him.
Barnette was eronvicted and -entenerd
to four years in the Salem |f nitentiary.
At the end of eighteen months la’ was
pardoned by the governor.
It will Is- shown, counsel (or plaintiff
told the court, that on ull the claims
which Barnette staked by |».wer of
attorney, or by proxy, in the vicinity of
Fairlmuks, la1 u-ed the names of tin sc
who had signed the petition to the gov
ernor for Ids purdoii. The plaintiff will
also attack Barnette's citizenship on the
grounds that it was red .i|pard>n lie re
ceived, but a commutation of sentence,
to whieh was attached the t|tiahfic»lion
that when once out ol prison la- noi-t
never again enter the slate of Oregon.
Mail your copy of this papier home
SHOOTING
TO KILL
Dick Creighton Sent to Jail
for Firing Through a
Window.
A preliminary hearing held before
Commissioner Green yesterday after
noon resulted in Dick Creighton being
held to appear before the grand jury on
a charge of shooting with intent to kill
or do great bodily harm to Frank Ham
mond. The accused was sent to jail in
default of $3,000 bail.
The shooting occurred at the Florence
saloon about 3 o’clock Monday morning.
The evidence showed that a woman
named Belle was at the bar drinking
when Creighton entered the place. 11c
was asked to drink and called for ab
sinthe. Hammond was serving behind
the bar and Bat keeper Kadigan was in
front. Kadigan told Creighton there
was no absinthe and advised him to
“cut out” such “dope.” Argument en
sued and Creighton attempted to strike
Kadigan with a chair and a rough house
developed with an offensive and defen
sive alliance existing between Creighton
and the woman. Day Barkeeper Down
ing, who was rooming upstairs, ran
down and the scrimmage ended with
Creighton having the worst of it. He
was taken back apd washed up at the
sink; everybody agreed to drop the
matter, and Creighton left, saying he
would go home.
Some ten minutes later, while Ham
mond, Kadigan and Downing were
standing talking at the bar, two shots
crashed through the front window, a
few feet away. One or two other shots
were also heard, but it is not known
w here the last bullets went. Either the
first or second shot wounded Hammond
very slightly in the arm.
Mr. Downing ran out of the back door
and got Deputy Marshal Drake, who
made the arrest later.
40 DROWNED
NEAR SEATTLE
The little steamer I>ix, in trying to
X'ross the l«i«> of the steamer .leannie
seven inik-H "tit of Seattle harhor Xox.
1H, was struek ami,lshi|,s ami sank im
metliatelv. None extc|,t those on tleek
were saveil. the others, numlieriiiK forty,
k'ointf *lown with the vessel. The known
lost are:
W. E. MePnirt. — Durrey, Fretl p.
E-Hirot, t Ityler, \\ (toiler a lx I hrotlor,
Kr»sl Hon let, Peter Hn/utti, ltal|ili
t lark, Mrs. forth wife of siiperinteml
ent of Port Hlakrlx Mills; Mrs. <iranitor,
August lie Ison anti wife, James Smith,
wife .hi | Is,i , Frank Mi t'arrie. John
Crating. \ Welmter, II Itlair, Martin
llan-on \IU rt Melionahl. Swan Swan*
son, \\ m. Unwell. Peter I air son, llol.in.l
I! Print am I son. fixe t 'hinrse ami Ja|-s,
t . J K» Ilex. 1 s army ■ j Parker,
engineer "I l*n C I <e unison, mate;
I harlt s \\ iliiaoi ,,f ptullaril. Haijioia
••anti tw o firemen, one lieekhantl
pnmnnrH' rtnmrs rrinnrinnrimrinr
| S. E. HEETER,
I Freighter and Packer
C Good Equipments and
$o Service Unexcelled
Meeting of Rampart
Miners Association
The regular meeting of the RAMPART
MINERS ASSOCIATION is hereby called for
Rampart, Tuesday, Jan. 1, at 1 p. m. at J.C.
hall; and at Eureka side Sunday, Jan. 6, at
1 p. m., at some place to be designated by
notices posted later.
A revision of by-laws will be considerad.
F. J. EARNING, Secretary.
STAMPS TO BEAR
NAME OF OFFICE
The postoffice department will here
after print the name of the postoffice |
across all stamp* hereafter ordered by
postmasters. The stamps in future will j
look like those now used in the Philip
pines and in Porto Rico and Panama.
The new arrangement will be of use in
tracing stolen stamps and will give the
department a chance to keep tab on the
mail-order houses who at present re-1
reive a large quantity of stamps from
outside places in quantity larger than
jiermitted under the statute. As it is at
present any postmaster could cancel for
his own use the first $o0 worth of stamps
in every quarter of the ]>ostal year and
thus make his salary the larger. In
many cases these small postmasters
would take the stamps and send them
on to the mail-order houses and thus
make their commission. Another evil
that will be prevented is the matter of
the raising of the salaries in fourth-class
offices where a postmaster finds that he
is shy just $40 or $.'>0 in order that his
salary may be raised another $100 for
the next year. It has often happened
that in such cases the postmaster would
appropriate these ♦An or more and thus
get double the money return in salary.
j JULIUS RAHMSTORF,
l GENERAL
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