The Alaska citizen., 1911-04-03

course in the bank matter will. how ever, rather disturb the impression the Times Is just now trying tr create. i e, that it has been con sistent in it's Jogging" of Captain Barnette. To facilitate th,s few extracts from the Times arc given herewith
 When the Times published Cap tain Barnette's first statement. on Wednesday. February 9. an introduc- tion was appended which read as follows:
 ''In brief, Captain Barnette offers 10 reimburse the smaller depositors immediately providing the larger creditors, upon security he has 10 give them. will wait for their money until the assets of the bank can be realized upon"
 Whereas there was not one word in the statement by which Barnette intimated he would dig up one cent at once to pay the smaller dcIos tors or anyone else. All he said was that he wanted the larger deposftCrs to stand aside while the money DE ING COLLECTED BY THE RE CEIVERS was allowed to apply to the payment of the smaller deposi- tors
 In the same issue the Times had the following to say editorially:
 If Captain Barnette is in no way responsible for the failure of the hank, as he would have it appear in his statement. then his action at this time is magnanimous in the ex- treme. He is coming to the rescue of the disabled institution and its lepositors in way that Is deserving If the sincerest appreciation, and he should be met a good halfway by the fepositors in his efforts to straigh ten out the tangle."
 When Barnette's second statement was issued on March 2, the Times editorial comment was as follows:
 The proposal made to the depos- itors of the Washing gtOn-Alaska bank last evening by Captain Barnette has the appearance of being fair. and in accepting the security offered them by the president of the SIS pended institution the depositors have done the wise thing"
 On Thursday, March g. the Times issued bulletins in town to the ef- feet that 1t would have a seasofiCnll story to tell in the morning in regard 10 the negotiations between the com mittee and Barnette. The statement was given to the paper by the de- Dositors' committee but Leroy TOZier Captain Barnette's attorney. went t. the Times office and reasoned with Roy Southworth, one of the lessees of the Times. and the statement was not run, nor has it ever yet been given to the public.
 Later that night the committee ten tatively accepted the securities and the Times editorially on Friday March 10, said after explaining at Nangth what fortunate thing it was for the depositors that Barnette had turned over the securities:
 There are two ways of looking
  it must be admitted that Captain Barnette Is deserving Of some cor sideration. If he is not ill any wav responsible for the failure of the bank, as he has all along maintained. his offer at this time is generous In he extreme; if he is responsible for the failure, then he is doing apparently the best he can to square himself, though it is no more than any honest man would do un- Ter the circumstances.
 Again when the hitch came and he depositors' committee refused to accept the securities, the Times in an editorial, March 12, said:
 
 Captain Barnette has any intention of avoiding payment of the defci' that will remain after the assets of the bank have been realized upon. He has repeatedly said that he came 70 Fairbanks with no other object in view, and he claims that his reason for offering securities instead of cash is because he has no monev And what he says may be true. He even may be justified in withhold ing the fifty thousand dollars which the committee has asked him to place in the hands of the receivers as an evidence of good faith. The Times can readily understand that large amount of money will be required to effect a deal such as the captain contemplates, and we can also see where the depoSitors might benefit through such trans action"
 How do these editorial statements square with the one made in the issue of the Times of Thursday last? Here it is:
 Tt is the opinion of the Times now, as 1t has been since the days Captain Barnette tried to appropriate the whole of Dome creek, that the president of the Washing on-Alaska