Iditarod pioneer., 1911-12-16

1t they are as follows:
 First On April If, 1911, con- mittee composed of Dr.. Aline Bradley, Elizabeth K. Smart and Mary C. Cam bridge interviewed the judge. At that time they presented 0 Judge Overfeld set of resolutions passed at a meeting of the creditors, depositors and custom CTS of the Washington-Alaska Bank of Washington and the Washington Alaska Bank of Nevada, held at Fair banks March %, 1911, which asked for the following:
 l. The removal of F. w. Hawkins as receiver of the Washington Alaska bank
 ?. The appointment of a competent, courageous and conscientious citizen as a special officer to serve any necessary special venires for additional persons to fill the panel of any grand jury called 10 investigate the illeged fraud ulent acts of the officers of the Fair banks Banking Company, the Wash ington Alaska Bank of Washington. |. and the Washington-A Alaska Bank Of Ntva'a
 ,. The permission of the court to allow the depositors, creditors and GUS toners of said bank and institution and the attorney of said depositors, credit ors and customers to have an account ant or bank examiner investigate the accounts of said institution.
 In answer to this request the judge is said 10 have stated that he considered that Hawkins was gentleman; had perfect confidence in him; did not con sider the fact that he had been an officer of both the Washington-A laska Bank of Washington and the Washing to the usefulness of Flaw hins as re- eiver: nor did he consider the rumorS he had heard of Hawkins's life and domestic troubles as things that unfit him as receiver; nor could he see that Hawkins could have any object in re- tarding an investigation of the affairs of the bank, but, on the other hand, had subnitl ed 10 the grand jury all the evidence asked for and more: and would not remove Hawkins unless other and more substantial facts showing the un- fitness of Hawkins could be filed with him. The judge further stated his be- lief that the grand jury which investi- gated the taGk matters was a repre- sentative body, and explained the method of selecting grand jurors. The judge refused to allow the request for an accountant or for an examiner Of banks, stating tha' he had plans of his own he did not care to digulge at thai time. It ap Jears that Judge Overfeld had written the Attorney General on April 3, ten days before the interview, asking that an examiner be sent 10 in vestigate the bank matter.
 Second-It is claimed that F. ". Hawkins was appointed receiver at the of the directors of the failed bank and others.
 Thlrd -Bion A. Dodge, representing the Women Depositors' Committee, filed a petition in intervention which prayed for:
 l. That the petitioners be made par ties defendant in the action entitled Panama Valley Railroad Company and John Zug vs. Washington-Alaska Bank of Nevada.
 2. That the petitioners be permitted to defend the said action as against the plaintiffs and as against the defendants until d receiver shall have been ap- pointed for the Washington Alaska Bank of Washington, and thereafter, if necessary.
 8 That in said action or in any other action wherein the same may appear necessary, the court appoint receiver for the Washington-Alaska Bank of Washington with full powers in the premises.
 4. That the petitioners be permitted to employ accountant or bank exam iner, and that such examiner and the attorney for the petitioners be allowed to examine and audit the books of the Fairbanks Banking Company, the Washington-Alaska Bank of Washing ton, and the Washington-Al Bank of Nevada.
 5. That F. ". Hawkins be removed as one of the receivers of the Washing ton-A Iaska Bank of Nevada.
 6. That the receivers of the Wash ington- Alaska Bank of Nevada be in- structed by order of the court to dis purse no more moneys other than those required Tor nee ~ X 'H ~t- ',.