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MDOSEMEIIT
JUDGE OF DISTRICT COURT AT
FAIRBANKS DECIDES IN FAV
OR OF BUTCHER.
TIME LIMIT PUT ON SALES.
Game Cannot Be Disposed of After
Close of Season, But This Regula
tion Does Not Prohibit Holding
It.
Possession of moose meat at any
reason of the year is not a violation of
the law, according to a decision hand
ed down by Judge Charles E. Bun
nell, of the United States district
court at Fairbanks.
On June 22 the Fairbanks game
warden found in the possession of
George L. Morrison, a butcher of that
city, five hind quarters of moose and
seized the meat, the complaint being
based on section 333 of the game law,
which states that dealers can sell
game meat during the open season but j
must dispose of it within fifteen days
after the close of the season, which is,
December 10.
Morrison was fined $50 and costs in
the commissioner’s court and appealed
the case.
In the district court Attorney A. R.
Heilig, for Morrison, moved for a dis
missal of the case on the ground that
the complaint did not state a crime,
holding that, as long as Morrison did i
not sell any of the meat after Decern
ber 25, the mere possession of it did
not constitute a crime.
Upholds Defendant’s Contention.
Judge Bunnell’s decision substan
tially upholds this contention, as it
maintains that the unsold residue of
the stock may be kept on hand by the
dealer.
The game warden’s contention was
to the effect that congress intended to
retriet the killing of game and that it
permitted the sale of such moose meat
only under the stipulation that the
dealer must “dispose of” or, in other
words, get rid of, all meat by Decern- ^
her 25.
Stricter Rules Advocated.
As a result of the law having been
found to be the reverse of this conten
tion, the game warden is of the belief ,
that more restrictive regulations in .
regard to the possession of the meat
of game animals will be enacted by ,
congress or proclaimed by the secre
tary of agriculture, who is empowered
to take such action at his discretion.
If the court had held the possession
of moose meat to constitute a crime,!'
other persons besides meat dealers
would have been affected. Such a de
cision would have prevented any per
son from having out of the season any
such meat even for his own use.
J. B. Mertie, a government expert
minerologist, who has been visiting
the mines in the Ketchikan district for
the purpose of ascertaining the
amount of iron ore in that vicinity is
reported to have found plenty of iron
there, and was very favorably im
pressed by the showing.
WRESTLES TO LIBERTY.
Russian Prisoner of War Manages to
Get Into Holland’s Territory.
OLDENZAAN, Netherlands, Nov. 9. j
—A comic incident reported from the 1
frontier involved a Russian prisoner
of-war who was on the point of step
ping from German on to Netherlands
soil when he was grasped by a Ger
man sentry. A wrestle ensued. The
fugitive threw himself on the ground,
and lay with the upper part of his
body in Holland and the other in Ger
man territory.
A Dutch sentry rushed to the Rus
sian's help, seized him by the arms
and pulled. The German soldier pull
ed at the Russian’s legs in the oppos
ite direction. The Russian began to
IriA with the result that the Dutch
frontier guardian was able to haul
l»nn out of the “danger zone.”
OUR DAILY SPECIAL.
Success Also Depends on the Things
Ton Do Not Do.
JOHN VOLKMAN’S SPOUSE If
KILLED IN SEATTLE BY C.
BUTCHER, OF LATOUCHE.
HUSBAND WITH COMMISSION
Slayer, Who Had Been Attentive ti
Unfortunate Woman and Who Wai
Always Jealous of Her, Commits
Suicide.
Mrs. Bertha Volkman, 31 years old
wife of John Volkman, who is now ir
Anchorage, employed as a carpentei
by the Alaskan Engineering eommis
sion, was shot and killed at the hom<
■>f her sisters in Seattle by Charles
Butcher, who until recently workec
at Latouche. After slaying Mrs
Volkman, Butcher committed suicide
by sending a bullet into his head
News of the double tragedy was re
ceived here yesterday.
Mrs. Volkman made a fierce strug
gle for her life. Her clothing was
torn and other evidence of her des
perate fight for life was apparent ir
overturned chairs and the finding oi
Butcher’s watch on the floor with thr
crystal broken and the pieces of the
chain scattered about the room whert
the killing took place.
Mrs. Volkman was a sister of Pet<
Standridge, a professional ball player
formerly with the Seattle team, bui
now a member of the Los Angeles
No One Heard Shots.
Others in the house did not heal
die woman’s struggle for life or the
Fatal shots, and the bodies were nol
Found until after the arrival of the
police in response to a call made bj
Miss Katie Standridge, Mrs. Volk
nan’s sister. The officers broke the
loor from the hinges and found Mrs.
Volkman lying face down with Butch
?r’s body lying across her directly in
’ront of the door. A revolver lay on
;he floor nearby and a note, found in
Butcher’s vest pocket, asked that his
>ody be cremated.
Butcher had known Mrs Volkman
prior to her marriage to Volkman,
Butcher had been attentive to her,
iccording to the sisters, and was al
vays jealous of her. On arriving
Torn Latouche recently he was taken
nto the home of the three sisters
is a roomer and boarder.
Held Earnest Conversation.
Between 4 and 5 o’clock on the af
;ernoon of the tragedy Mrs. Volkman
md Butcher were engaged in an ear
lest conversation when Mrs. Volkman
said that she was going up-stairs tc
:alk to Butcher privately.
At 5:30 Miss Pearl Standridge, an
ither sister, returned home and, ask
ng for her sister, Mrs. Volkman, was
:old that she was down-town. A1
5:15, when the evening meal was pre
pared and set on the table, Miss Iva
;ie Standridge went to Mrs. Volk
nan’s room upstairs, but found it
„vas not occupied. She rapped al
Butcher’s door, but received no reply
rhinking they had gone for a shorl
iro 1 Lr elm Tirnnf fn fVm /^iininnr vnmv
igain to await their return.
Miss Katie Standridge said thal
she went up-stairs again at 8:30 anc
igain found her sister’s room unoc
cupied. On going to Butcher’s dooi
she noticed blood trickling from un
ier the door. Rapping and receiving
no response she at once notified th<
police.
Miss Pearl Standridge said tha
shortly after 5 o’clock she heard i
noise upstairs, but paid no attentioi
to it at the time. Neither of the sis
ters heard the four shots fired, whicl
have been accounted for by detective!
and the coroner.
Mrs. Volkman was shot in the ab
domen, the chest and in the back, an<
a single wound was found in the lef
side of Butcher’s head. The dea<
man was left-handed.
The not found in Butcher’s pocke
was penciled on the back of an en
velope of the Grays Harbor Ship
building company of Aberdeen, am
was addressed in typewriting to M
R. Ward, manager of that company.
It reads:
“Cremate my body. You will find
$76 in cash and liberty bonds for $500.
Send to my sister, Mrs. T. L. Gates,
Phillipsburg, Kan.
(Signed) “CHARLES BUTCHER.”
I The cash and bonds were found in
• Butcher’s coat packet.
Planned to Go to Aberdeen.
>
Detectives who investigated the
case, stated that the written note j
found in Butcher’s pocket indicates i
he may have contemplated the crime
i before he met Mrs. Volkman the aft- j
1 ernoon of the tragedy. He had told j
the three sisters that he intended j
j leaving for Aberdeen to go to work j
jin the shipyards there. Baggage
i chocks found in his pockets showed
that he had made all arrangements to
| leave.
j Miss Katie Standridge explained to
Pearl that Mrs. Volkman was down
s | town, because she believed Mrs. Volk
, j man wanted to talk to Butcher pri- ,
I vately and did not want to be inter
rupted.
AT LAND OFFICE
PURCHASER OF LAND FROM OR
IGINAL OWNER SHOULD
NOTIFY JUNEAU OF DEAL. ’
MAY SAVE MUCH TROUBLE.
Government Sends All its Official No
l
tices to Party of Record So As
signee of Title Should Put it on
File.
•
Purchasers of lots in this city from
persons who originally bought them
from the government should record!
the change in title at the federal land !
office in Juneau.
“It has been observed,” reads a
statement issued here by the Alaska
Engineering commission, “that a large j
Sending of Notices.
It frequently happens that official
notices are sent by the Juneau land j
office concerning public land entries j
; which includes application to purchase j
town lots, but such notices can be sent I
only to persons of record. If the land '
office is not notified that a lot has been i
transferred it cannot, of course, send I
j
notices to the assignee.
“Every assignee of a town lot is, j
therefore, advised not only to have his |
i deed of conveyance recorded in the lo- j
cal recording district, but he should j
also send a notice of the transfer to |
the land office in order that he may j
be informed of all official action taken
i concerning hi*
“This notice may consist of a letter
written to the register and receiver of
i the Juneau land office, giving the
nome of the original purchaser, the
number of lot and block and the name
and address of the assigne, and, if i
is recorded, the book and page of the
recorder’s record, and also the date ol
the deed.
“When such notice is filed with the
register and receiver of the Juneau
land office the assignee will receive
j notice of all official action taken rela
| tive the lot or entry.”
INSURANCE MAN GOES EAST.
J. C. Gaffney, prominent business
' man of Anchorage, will leave on the
Mariposa for the outside. Mr. Gaff
' ney will visit Caspar, Wyo., and then
' will visit all the large eastern cities.
He will take with him a number of
: photographs of the country around
l Anchorage, together with a number
i of maps and plats of the business
• section of Anchorage with the view
i of interesting eastern insurance com
i panies in establishing agencies here.
While in the east Mr. Gaffney will
■ endeavor to obtain a reduction of the
l prevailing insurance rates for the
t local merchants. While Mr. Gaffney
1 is away his insurance business will
be looked after by Robert Courtney.
; Mrs. Gaffney left a week ago on the
■ steamer Evans and is awaiting Mr.
■ Gaffney’s arrival in Seward where
1 she will join him and accompany him
. on his visit to the east.
EIGHTY ACRES ARE TAKEN FOR
TERMINAL AND WAREHOUSE
FACILITIES.
LAND FOR ESKA TOWNSITE.
TwentyAcres Is Withdrawn From En
try Near Coal Mine to Be Plotted
Into City Lots If Conditions
Warrant.
Eighty acres of land near Anchor- I
age and twenty acres near the Eska I
Creek coal mine have been withdrawn |
from entry by order of President Wil- j
son and will be reserved for govern-!
ment purposes.
The land withdrawn near here is for
the purpose of providing “an exten
sion of the railroad reserve in An
chorage,” so as to give “room for ter
minal factilities and for storage and
warehouses.” The tract is described :
as the northwest quarter of the south-'
west quarter and the southwest
quarter of the northwest quarter, sec- J
tion 9, township 13 north, range 3 j
west, Seward meridian.
The withdrawal of the twenty acres;
near the Eska creek coal mine is “for
purpose of enabling the government
to sell lots for townsite purposes at
the mine if conditions warrant.” In
this tract, specific reservation is made
to the United States of “all oil, coal
and other mineral deposits that may
be found within said land.” The tract
is described as the northwest quarter
of section 15, towmship 19 north, range
3 east, Seward meridian.
Earl Reuter, Plumber, and Frederick j
Paze, Longshoreman, Are Accused
of Holding Up Peter Olmed Wed- j
nesday Night.
Earl Reuter, a plumber empjoyed by j
Kennedy and Fiske and Frederick
Paze, a laborer and longshoreman, j
were arrested by Deputy Marshals C. |
W. Mossman and Harry Kavanaugh in i
connection with the robbery of Peter |
Olmed which occurred at about mid- 1
night Wednesday in the cigar and soft >
drink store conducted by Margaret
Russell, a negress, on C street be-j
tween 7th and 8th avenues.
Olmed was robbed of $8
Reuter is charged with highway j1
robbery while Paze is held as an ac- j.
complice. Both the accused men are'
held in jail pending a preliminary ! i
hearing before United States Commis-1
sioner Leopold David.
TRAINlERVKE
FIXED FOR WINTER
ALASKA ENGINEERING COMMIS
SION WILL NOT OPERATE
RAILROAD SUNDAYS.
A winter train service has been ar
ranged on the government railroad
Qnrl uronf ir»frw ftnnrlov "NIn.
vember 11. Thei'e will be no Sunday .
train during the winter months, ac
cording to the schedule which has just
been made public by J. T. Cunning
ham, trainmaster.
The train will leave Anchorage for
Chickaloon at 9 a. m. Monday, Wed
nesday and Friday, arriving there at
4:45 p. m. and, returning to Anchor
age, will leave Chickaloon at 7 a. m.
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, ar
riving here at 2:30 p. m.
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday a
train will leave Anchorage for Hous
ton at 9 a. m., arriving there at 1:45
p. m. Returning it will leave Hous
ton at 7:30 a. m. on Wednesday, Fri
day and Monday, arriving in Anchor
age at 11:40 a. m.
On Monday, Wednesday and Friday
a train will leave Anchorage for Pot
ter Creek at 1:30 p. m. arriving there
at 2:30 p. m. Returning it will leave
Potter Creek at 2:45 p. m. and arrive
in Anchorage at 3:45 the same day.
'fflmm
Bank ®f Alaska
ALASKA’S BRANCH BANKING SYSTEM
An Institution of Strength and Character
Capital $85,000 Surplus $20,500
Resources Over One Million Dollars.
FOUR BANKS:
SKAGWAY, ANCHORAGE, CORDOVA, WRANGELL
President—Andrew Stevenson.
Vice-President in Charge, Anchor
age—E; B. Ansley.
Assistant Cashier, Anchorge—M.
McVean.
Assistant to President and Audi
tor—B. A. Ross.
Vice-President, New York—A. A.
Benton.
Vice-President, in Training, Pres
idio, Cal.—J. T. Westermann. J
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Vice-President in Charge, Cordova
—W. R. Hillery.
Assistant Cashier, Cordova—B. R.
Colkett.
Vice-President, in Charge-Wran
gell—W. H. Warren.
Cashier in Charge, Skagway—W.
L. Landsborough.
Although an integral part of the one system, each branch has
had assigned to it the full amount of Capital required by the
Territorial Banking Board for the establishment of a Bank in such
a location. Each branch is therefore equipped to serve its cus
tomers as fully as any independent bank, but with the added
.strength and resources of the entire institution to draw upon.
Furthermore each is responsible to the Territorial Banking Board,
is examined and supervised independently and renders its state
ment direct to the Board. The Bank of Alaska is therefore, be
cause of its double supervision and safeguards, peculiarly “An
Institution of Strength and Character.”
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Polley Brothers
the fourth st. grocers
— for —
Matanuska Products
CABBAGE
CAULIFLOWER
RADISHES
TURNIPS
HEAD LETTUCE
NEW POTATOES
Fresh from the Ranch Three
Times a Week
/
George Rulapaugh, aged 43, died at ty
;he goverment hospital here late |
rhursday as a result of ptomaine pois- |
>ning. Mr. Rulapaugh is an oldtimer in | ji
;he country, having come to Alaska! i
Tom his home in Ohio fifteen years ] ]j
igo. He was a former partner of M. j H
L Donnelley in the plumbing business j 1
,vith a shop at Fifth avenue and D j 1
street, in this city. j
Mr. Rulapaugh was a member of j
;he Pioneers of Alaska Igloo No. 15 j!j
ind had been in Anchorage since May, j !j
L915. Before engaging in the plumb- !j
ng business he was associated with !j
,he Ship Creek Meat market. ; ^
•i
Mr. Rulapaugh leaves two sisters
md one brother in Toledo, Ohio. The
jody is now at the undertaking par- j |
ors of D. H. Williams. Funeral ar- j (
•angements have not yet been com- | [
aleted. i (
DAVID MAY BE
MUNLY’S ASSISTANT
The office of assistant district at
;orney for the third judicial division,
with headquarters at Anchorage, was
>ffered late yesterday afternoon to
United States Commissioner Leopold
David. The offer came in a cable
gram from United States District At
torney William A. Munly who is at
Valdez and who before his appoint
ment to the district attorneyship was
assistant district attorney here.
Judge David has the offer under
consideration and will accept or re
ject it within a few days.
In the event that the judge declines
the appointment, it is expected to go
to a non-resident attorney. In case
the judge accepts, C. H. Sundmacher,
of this city, is mentioned as a like
ly candidate for the commissioner
ship here.
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