Douglas Island news., 1913-04-09

: II. E. Ellis, of Valdez, had one or ms
 horses killed after he had assured him.
 self that it was suffering from glanders- i The animal was taken to the beach and shot. Mir. Ellis, fearing that the dogs
 might catch the dread disease if they
 ate of the carcass, stationed man with ! the dead horse to prevent their touch ! ing it and this morning it was burned. ! The department of the interior has
 been wired to send to Valdez five bot
 ties of "Mallien," which is used to test
 animals which have no outward sign or
 the disease The quartermaster's de-
 partment at Fort Liscum has been forced to kill 43 out of 48 head of stock
 at the fort in the past year and as far
 as can be ascertaiued the five remain.
 ing head are free from trouble. One of
 the men employed by the quartermas- tel's departmens was sent to Seattle having caught the disease, but all ef- forts to save his life were in vain.
 The Chicago Record. Herald has the
 following to say of suffrage in Alaska:
 The only territorial legislature in the United States (continental) has granted
 full suffrage to women. Why Alaska
 has eufranchised the women is ques- ton easy to answer. It wants more Of | them and it wants them on any terms. ! If suffrage will make Alaska more at-
 tractive to women, they can have It. Jury service is a burden as we'll as a privilege, and Alaska exempts women ] from such service. But if they shall ask for jury service, they will get It without dissenting vote. In fact, they
 will get anything if they will only come
 and marry the miners, fishermen, pros-
 pectors aud others who are unanl.
 mously opposed to single blessedness.
 Alaska suggests new way of getting suffrage-a better way than violence. i Let the women threaten to emigrate from the states that deny them the
 votes to states or territories that grant
 it. In this way they will get votes go. 1 iug aud coming, as it were.
 airbanks.-Attorney Rider, of Okla homa, the new attorney for Receiver Moves of the defunct Barnette banks, is here to conclusion the civil suits
 against the officers, directors aud stock
 holders connected with the former Barnette banks and endeavor to collect
 funds which, it is alleged, was misap- propriated by them. Judge Overtield,
 while sitting at Fairbanks, directed that civil actions against the officers and it is these suits which are now to
 be brought to trial, and, if successful, the depositors' money will all be re- covered and repaid to them with the loss only of interest. Fifty per cent was paid by Receiver Moves last June from the sale of assets of the bank and
 he still has the Gold Bar Lumber com. pany stock, which it is hoped will
 bring in S2OO,000 The Dexter Horton
 bank holds mortgage of SllO,OOO on
 this stock. The bank failed for about
 million dollars. The expense of the
 receivership under Judge Overfield has
 been very nominal, every effort being made to secure for the innocent depos-
 itors the money they had entrusted to
 the bank. A further dividend is ex-
 pected of 20 per cent from rents and
 collections made by the receiver. Capt. Barnette's Fairbanks property was all
 deeded to the court to protect any un- paid depositors of the bank and also
 six per cent interest on the deposits.