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TOKOTNA, ALASKA. FEB. 14, 192T.
Case of Prohibition
Enforcer Flannigan
in Fairbanks Court
Fairbanks News-Miner.
For small salaries and easy jobs it is
always easy to pet men, but they are
generally Dot the kind of men who
should be trusted with the administra
tion of justice. When men commit
crimes to prove crimes against other
men there is wonderment and protest—
“‘how do-they pet that way?” Always
in a pioneer country are pioneers who
demand that the pame be played ac
cording to the rules, and when justice
refuses to work in the good old-fash
ioned way, a frontier wonders aDd pro
tests. A prohibition enforeer, whom it
is claimed is traveliop under an as
sumed name, assiased by our United
States marshal’s oaice, attempted an
illegal entry and seizure, such as never
could stand up in our federal court. In
the process thereof he was alleped to
have knocked the 80-year-o’d house
holder down. Eventually a warrant
was issued for him, on an assault
charge, and he was bound over to the
grand jury. That was due course of
law. If he wasn’t guilty he did oot
need to fear a jury or trial. Suddenly
Same' the news that the district attor
ney’s office had dismissed the case
against him, without hearing and with
suit trial.
People here oot only marveled—they
hollered. In a ona-newspaper town the
people complain to their cowspaper.
For that we went to the Department of
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j Tokotna, Alaska
Justus tor an explanation, througn oui
;ongressmao, Yesterday we received
the answer by wire, as follows;
Washington, Jan. 8.— W. F. Thomp
son, Fairbanks—The biodover case o
Lhe United States vs. Flanigan wai
brought to the attention of the prohi
bitioo department and a complete re
port from their Alaska agents (deputi
marshals?) was sent to Washington
On the strength of the report Prohibl
tioe Commissioner Haynes asked thi
Department of Justice to protect thi
interests of the prohibition departmen
in the case A complete statement o
the case was made to the Departmen
of Justice br the United States attor
ney at Fairbanks, which was reviewec
in the Department of Justice, anp thi
United States attorney was adviser
that citations of similar cases and de
cisions tn courts of appeal would indi
cate that the government had no case
and advised the United States attcrcej
to use his own judgment.
Dam SCTHERtAND,1
Delegate from Alaska.
It used to be that law was law. jus
tice was justice, and law enforceri
hewed to the line, let the chips fal
where they might. Now, It appears
the opinion of one young mac In au
thorny is preferred against the com
bined judgment of twenty-four grant
jury men and women of age and er.
perience in this district. The districi
attorney used the judgment which kep
the case from coming to trial—whethei
it was his ju igment or Flanigan’s is i
matter of interest.
Flannigan Gets 20 Days in Jail
Fairbauks, Jan. 15. —D. W. Flau
oigan, prohibition agent, who was ar
rented here October 2C, charged wit!
Illegal entry into the bouse of Petei
Kendel. who was suspected of being <
violator of the dry law, and with as
saulting Kendel, the case later beia*
dismissed by District Attorney Juliet
A, Hurley, was rearreeted last week
bv the city authorities and tried in th<
magistrate's court yesterday afternoon
Flannigan was sentenced to pay i
line of 9100 and serve twenty days it
the city jail.
Julian A. Hurley, district attorney
who defended Flannigan, has indicate®
that he would appeal the ease to th<
district court.
Says Jazz and Movies
Wrecking Home Life
Philadelphia.—Jazz, movies and the
general craving for excitemeot are
battering Cupid for a knockout and
Iriviog nuptial harks oc the rocks."
That ia the opinion of Judge Lewis,
of the domestic relations branch of th<
municipal court.
“The marriage institution is under
going some serious changes, and old
s> lages which people oDce quoted as In
f illihle are entirely disci edited today,’’
Judge Lewis said.
“There are two good sources of trrtu
ble, and both at the root have the same
cause. It is the modern desire for ex
si cement.
“People are not contented with th«
simpler pleasures of the home that
satisfied nearly everyone a few years
bick. Manv matrimonial troubles havi
arisen because the husband has ad
vanced more rapidly than the wife,
torough his business, which took him
nut among people, while she remained
at home.
“In other cases the wife does not
Stay quietly at home. She also craves
axcitement, aud attends the movies
pegularjv, cramming romantic fancies
L i her bead which makes her discon
tented with the matter-of fact routine
of married life.”
The divorce court ie a real menace
to family life, for in most cases where
children are to be given io custody tbe
family cannot be treated In piecemeal
fashion—it must be considered as a
unit, according to Judge Lewis.
,‘Marriege is a most human institu
tion,” one which must be protected
and steered safely through troubled
waters,” be said. “These troubled
waters are not for the most part huge,
dramatic typhoons, but little disturb- I
ances, day after day until the husband
or wife can bear it n<» longer and feels
there must be a legal endiotr in the
' divorce court.”
Id ten years the domestic relations
court here ba9 handled cases involving
53,353 families.
Vladimir Baranoff, of San Francisco.
' who claims to be a grandson of Alex
' ander Baranoff. founder of Sitka, first
1 Russian governor of Russian America,
-■ expects to be appointed governor of
Alaska, according to a statement made
| bv Her, -A. P. Ka>bevaroff. who saw
him recently in San Francisco.
"Mr. Baranoff called me up aod
asked me to call on him,” 9sid the Roy.
Mr. Kasbevaroff, "and I did so. He is
a due appearing man and apparently a
man of wide 'information. In the pres
eoce of several gentletnuo he told me
that he Lad been promised the ap
t pointmeot as governor of Alaska. He
said he was a personal friend of Presi
dent Coolidge and r.as expecting to
• bear from him.”
Father Kashevaroff said Mr. Bara
ooflf told him he was a nativ of Suka.
that he lived in Nome for ten years, !
• and that he was much interested in :
> Alaska.
Notice of Dissolution. :
Noiico is hereby given that on Janu
ary 21st. 1925. the partnership hereto
j hire existing between Walter W.
JohDsoD, U. G. Prake and Thomas P.
Ait ken, under the name of Kuskokwioi
Dredging Company. was dissolved bv
mutual eoosent, the said Thomas P.
Aitken withdrawing from said part
nership aud its mining operations.
(Signed) THOMAS P. AITKEN,
W. W. JOHNSON,
H G. Peake
Id the Probate Court for Otter Pre- I
oinct, FouHh Divisiiu Territory
of Alaska, before ti n. f? J. Stier,
commissioner and ex offleto probate
judge.
In the matter *if the estate of Fred E.
Soule, deceased—Probate No. 42.
Notice of 'final Heariagi
Notrfce is hereby given that the near
ing of objections to the final report and
account of Jra jpy Wood, as adtciais
trator of 'the estate of Fred E. Soule,
deceased, will b« held in the probate
court room at Flat, Alaska, on Satur
dty, March 14th; 1925, at two u'clock
in the afieroooo.
Dated at Flat; Alaska, Dec '24! 1924:
[Seal] i E J STIEK,
Probate Judge.
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