SEWARD DAILY GATEWAY
OF SEWARD, ALASKA
Established, August 19, 1904
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THE LAW’S INJUSTICE
An Alaskan operator of an airplane
between Seward and Ketchikan was
arrested and taken to Portland, Ore.,
to face a charge of obtaining money
fraudulently. Ha was in jail over two
months. When his accuser, who lived
in Oklahoma, faced him, he discovered
that he was not the man wanted. The
culprit, who resembled him somewhat
in appearance, had used his name. No
doubt the innocent victim had told
that to the authorities and to every
body who would listen to him. Natu
rally he would only be jeered at for
trying to set up an alibi so thin that
few’ crooks resort to it. Yet he wras
innocent and suffered a grievous
wrong. Such things do happen—oc-;
casionally.—Bellingham Herald.
S400 FOR A HUSBAND
Our national slogan might well be:
“We strive to please.” Witness the
case of a Salem, Oregon, damsel,
w’hose age, appearance and other qual
ities or demerits, are hidden under a
cloak of anonymity. She has adver
tised for a husband. She wrants him
for only four months and will pay him
S400 at the end of that time—plus di
rorce expenses, no doubt. Well, the
American swain is not wanting wrhen
such cry for help goes up from a dam
sel in distress. They know’ her not,
or her motive, but more than fifty of
them have replied to the advertisement
to go over into Macedonia and help
a loving soulmate. We call this the
great American spirit. It is possible
that some of the fifty-odd are willing
to gamble on anything; that others
have no fondness for work and that
a marriage to them on a temporary
basis is but an incident in the situa
tion that looks like ready money at
$100 a month. We all like to think,
of course, that the whole pack of them
are inspired by chivalry and nothing
else—just a desire to be of assistance
in some trying feminine crisis unre
vealed. We like to think so, but we
don’t.
The mayor of St. Paul who “sat in”
as editor of one of the big St. Paul
newspapers the other night, let the
public into the secret that the job
was "the hardest he had ever tried to
do.” About 110^)00,000 people in the
United States could tell the world
differently.
$1.00 sale, Alaska Shop.
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LINOTYPE INSTALLED BY
NEWSY KUSKO TIMES
Arrivals from McGrath and Tokotna
state that Proprietor Grant of the
Kusko Times has installed one of the
late models of typesetting machinery
and has again commenced publication
of his newsy little sheet. Mr. Grant
is one of the deans of the newspaper
fraternity in Alaska. Many years ago
he used to work on some of the lead
ing publications of the country, and
was with Jack Underwood on some
of the Sound papers. The Kusko
Times has one of the largest fields in
the newspaper world, reaching from
Tokotna to the north pole and from
the Bering Sea to Hudson Bay.
WOMAN’S CLUB MEETING
The Seward Woman’s Club will meet
tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o’clock
at the apartments of Mrs. Eccles in
the Arcade building. A full attend
ance is requested.
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•when one of the family is
suddenly seized with agoniz
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COMPLETE REPORT
OF GRAND JURY
VALDEZ COURT
The grand jury at the Valdez term
of the district court which just ad
journed submitted a voluminous re
port in which are embodied many re
commendations, and it is herewith
published in full:
We the grand jury for the Novem
ber 2, 1925, term of the above entitled
court held at Valdez, territory and
division aforesaid, have finished our
work and beg to submit this, our final
report:
We have investigated all matters
brought before us and have returned
34 true bills and five not true bills.
We have examined 55 witnesses.
We have examined the offices of the
clerk of the district court, United
States attorney and the United States
marshal, including the jail and find
the business of said offices being con
ducted in a thorough and businesslike
manner.
We have visited and examined the
office of the United States commis
sioner at Valdez and find it being
conducted in an efficient and business
like manner.
We have also investigated the pub
lic school at Valdez and found the
same to be well organized and effi
ciently conducted.
In examination into a number of
narcotic cases arising in the Bristol
Bay section we find that a number of
defendants bound over by the com
missioners have been released on
nominal bail, so small that the defen
dants in 15 cases did not appear. We
recommend that the commissioners to
the westward be advised to fix bail in
these felony cases at a sum sufficient
to guarantee the appearance of the de
fendants. This is especially true as
to Commissioner Rivers of Bristol
Bay precinct.
Tn two cases hroueht before us we
learned that there has been a long
delay, which delay has resulted in a
loss of evidence. Both these cases
were homicides. We think that a fund
should be furnished the marshal so he
would be enabled to keep a man skill
ed in investigation work to thoroughly
look into the circumstances of report
ed crimes. It seems to us that the
appointment of such an officer would
result in the saving of a large sum
of money through avoiding the ne
cessity of bringing many witnesses
before the grand jury in cases where
no true bill is had and where the evi
dence of such witnesses obtained at
great cost may b'e of little value.
We have learned from our own ob
servation and from the records in the
offices of the clerk and district attor
ney that there are many crimes aris
ing from Kenai and in that immediate ;
vicinity. We learn that there are 500 1;
people or more at the place who are |
isolated during the winter and during j
the summer, that there are two large
canneries there whose crews are made
up in large part of Mexicans, Filipinos,
and Orientals, that there is no com
missioner, marshal or jail nearer than
Seldovia. We therefore, recommend
that a competent man be appointed
commissioner at Kenai, that a deputy
United States marshal be stationed
there and that a suitable building be
cither erected or rented for use as
a federal jail.
We recommend that United States
Commissioners in remote districts es- '
pecially be placed on salary. t
We find that there are many cases 1
n this division where the same men 1
lave been convicted many times for 1
various offenses, most of these crirni- 1
lals being aliens. We believe that the i
;erritorial legislature should pass an t
aabitual criminal act providing for £
severe punishment for these men and c
hat aliens convicted of crimes be de- c
Dorted.
It has been brought to notice of this A
aody that there is no provision made j
ay the department of justice for re
;urning persons held for the grand
ury upon whom not true bills has been ^
’eturned, or who have been indicted,
:ried and acquitted by a jury, to their
aomes after they have been released
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:rom custody.
A case in point is one John Kil- j
?onok, an Eskimo from Bering Sea.
Kilgonok was arrested some time last
svinter, charged with the crime of mur- j
ler. He was charged jointly with Mike ^
Eqwana with the killing of John Nott
schat, another native. It was proved ^
conclusively that Nottschatt was kill- .
cd by a bullet fired from a rifle and
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he rifle was in the hands of Mike
Cqwana. Annie Sinnetook, widow of
Sqwana testified that her husband had
:illecl Nottschatt. It was proved that
Qlgonok was armed only with a shot
;un and as there was no further evi
[ence a not true bill was returned
gainst him. He was released from
ustody by the United States marshal
>n the sixth of November.
Kilgonok is still in Valdez, being
without funds to enable him to reach
ds home.
A visit to the United States mar
hal’s office elicited the information
hat while provision is made for re
urning prisoners who have served
heir sentences to theft1 homes there
re no funds available to pay the ex
lenses of those against whom not true
dlls have been returned; or for wTho
tave been acquitted upon trial. Mar
hal Sullivan stated, however, that he
lad wired to the department for au
hority to pay the expenses of Kilgo
iok to his home. That the department
Las already authorized him to pay the
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