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GRAND JURY
WANTSTRAPS*
ABOLISHED
To the lion. Charles E. Bunnell, Judge
of the District Court for the Terri
tory of Alaska, Third Division:
We. the grand jury of the district
court for the territory of Alaska, Third
division, at the October 6, 1919, term
pf said court, held at Valdez, Alaska,
hereby submit our final report:
We have investigated all cases and
matters brought before us and have
returned twenty “true bills” and four
“not true bills.” We have examined
forty-four witnesses.
We have examined the office of the
United States district attorney and
were favorably impressed with the
careful and competent manner in
'which it is being conducted and with
the just treatment of those accused
and the dispatch of business which
comes before this office.
We have examined the office of the
clerk of the district court and found
this department of the court in the
highest state of efficiency, and being
conducted in a very though and busi
nesslike manner.
We have investigated the office of
the United States marshal, the fed
eral jail and the court house, and
found the same very thoroughly
equipped with all modern equipment
for the administration of their duty.
The federal jail is being maintained
in a clean and humane manner, fully
equipped with modern lighting system,
and the sanitary conditions are excel
lent. They have every convenience
tor the pastime and diversion of the
prisoners.
We visited the offices of the United
States commissioner and found this
office being conducted in a very ef
ficient manner. We do, however, rec
ommend that United States connnis
sioneres be paid a regular salary in
stead of depending on the fee system,
as has been previously recommended
by a number of grand juries.
We very urgently recommend the
establishment of a aounted police sys
tem in the territory of Alaska along
the lines of what is known as the
Northwest mounted police system in
Canana and Yukon territory.
We recommend the abolishment of
fish traps in the territory and the es
tablishment of fish hatcheries through
out the territory wherever they are
possible. We also recommend the
abolishing of fishing for salmon for
canning and salting purposes in all
fresh water streams.
We recommend that a government
inspector be appointed for each can
nery to see that fish are in proper
condition before being placed in cans.
We recommend the enforcement of
game laws, particularly to the shoot
ing of ducks, geese, etc.
Dated at Valdez, territory of Alaska,
this 13th day of October, 1919.
W. E. BROWN, Foreman.
GOVERNMENT RAILWAY
EMPLOYES MUST STAND
PHYSICAL EXAMINATION
According to General Circular No.
2. signed by Frederick Mears, chair
man and chief engineer of the Alaskan
engineering commission, hereafter it
will be necessary for all new employes
to submit to a physical examination
before entering the service of the com
mission. Heads of departments are
directed to have all new employes pre
sent themselves to the chief surgeon
for physical examination. In case of
employes for whom employment
papers are made, the chief surgeon
Will note on form 120 as to whether or
not the new employe is able to per
form the work to which he has been
assigned. In the cases of laborers for
whom no employment papers are
made, the physician in charge will
issue a certificate as to the physical
condition of the applicant, which will
be taken up by the timekeeper and
forwarded to the department head.
Under no consideration should an em
ploye be put in a position after the
chief surgeon has stated that the ap
plicant is physically unfit to perform
the duties required of him. The chief
surgeon will arrange to examine" all
persons now in the service for whom
no physical examination has been
made, and will submit to the engineer
in charge a report of employes found
physically unfit to perform their du
ties, and arrangements should be made
to transfer such employes to other
work if possible.
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COSTS CRIMINAL
CASES CAN BE
ASSESSED
A cable message received last week
from the clerk of the circuit court of
appeals, Ninth circuit, states that that
court has affirmed the decision of the
lower court in Sentencing W. H. John
son to nine months in the federal jail
on a charge of being a pimp. This
case was commenced in the commis
sioner’s court at Anchorage, where the
defendant was found guilty and given
nine months in the federal jail. Upon
appeal to the district court the case
was tried in May, 1918, and the de
fendant again found guilty by a jury,
whereupon Judge F. M. Brown sen
tenced him to serve nine months in
the federal jail. Appeal was made
to the circuit court of appeals and the
decision affirmed. j
This case is of peculiar interest to
the territory, in that it effectually dis
poses of the question of the right of
the court to assess costs against a
defendant in criminal cases. The mat
ter had long been debated by attor
neys, but no decision bearing on the
matter had been handed down. The
decision just rendered by the court
of appeals not only applies in this
court but to the whole territory, and
will be taken as a precedent.
This is one of the causes which Dis
trict Attorney W. H. Munley success
fully argued during his absence in
San Francisco last spring, where he
also appeared before the court in the
John Shea case, wrhich was decided
in his favor.
This is the fourth case appealed
from the local court this year in which
the findings of the lower court have
been confirmed, and is a good record.
“FACE IN THE DARK”
IS MASTER ROBBER
As Jane Ridgeway in “The Face in
the Dark,” by the famous Irvin S.
Cobb, at the Empress theater this
evening. Mae Marsh. Goldwyn star,
essays the most interesting role of
her career.
She is Jane Ridgeway, daughter of
a retired secret service man. The
girl has been brought up on the prob
lems- which confront a great detec
tive, having been her father’s compan
ion from her babyhood. She has ad
vised him on many of his most dif
ficult cases until she has acquired a
skill in unraveling mysteries and fol
lowing clues second only to that of
her father himself. Yet she does not j
dream that the father she adores is ■
in league with a band of master coun
terfeiters who use the knowledge sup
plied by RidgeWay to rob banks all
over the country.
Ridgeway and his pals are domi
nated by a man whose name they do
not know. Nor do they know his face.
At their conferences he sits shielded
by a blinding light, concealing his face
in shadow and allowing only his hands
to be seen when he passes to his sub
ordinates the counterfeit money which
is substituted for the real currency
when it is removed from the banks.
He is the baffling face in the tlark.
Jane’s sweetheart is a young pay
ing teller of a country bank, Richard
Grant. When this institution is
robbed suspicion points to Richard as
the thief. He is imprisoned, and it is
through the efforts of Jane to clear
his name that she comes upon a star
tling clue.
With the net tightening around him
as a result of his daughter’s discov
ery, Ridgeway puts the situation be
fore his pals. The “face in the dark”
offers him money to get out of the
country, whereupon Ridgeway dashes
aside the light and looks upon the face
of the arch-thief. Subsequent devel
opments form a sensational climax.
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Alaska
Steamship Compai
Regular Sailings Between Seattle,
Ketchikan, Juneau, Cordova, Valdez,
Ellamar, Liscum, Latouche, Seward
FROM SEATTLE— SAILS SOUTH—
Oct. 4.NORTHWESTERN.Oct. 14
Oct. 9.ALASKA.Oct. 19
Oct. 16. ALAMEDA Oct. 26
Oct. 23.NORTHWESTERN.Nov. 2
Steamer Alameda will make trip to Anchorage.
Frequent sailings of freighters carrying explosives.
This schedule subject to change without notice.
* F. B. TRACY, Agent
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About Nov. 10 WATSON .Oct. 25
Three Sailings per Week from Seattle for San Francisco, Los An- l
geles and San Diego. For further information call
Office phone 223. L. A. COUNTS, AGENT Res. Lathrop Apts. j
Copper River and
NorthwesternRy.
Trains leave Cordova for Chitina Monday and Thursday.
Trains leave Chitina for Kennecott Tuesday and Friday.
Trains leave Kennecott for Chitina Sunday and Thursday.
Trains leave Chitina for Cordova Tuesday and Friday.
Dining Car in Connection with all Regular
Passenger Trains between Cordova and Chitina.
Freight received and delivered at Cordova ~
Wharf tioiu !) a. m. to 3 p m., except Sundays.
Ti k. is mi sale at Second Street Depot office
ou mu before departure of trains.
CALEE CORSEJR .'superintendent
D. L. LEATON, Ticket Agent