The Alaska citizen., 1914-03-02
HERE IS EVASlVE DEFENSE MADE
 BY MOVES TIMES.

WHERE ARE HE CHARGES Y The Alaska Citizen would have it's readers believe that it is not sup porting the fight which is being made 70 quash certain litiation in s.ituted bF Receiver Noy es-that it does no favor the termination of the receivership of the Washington Alaska bank so that Captain Barnette may escape payment of the balance that is still due his former deposi- tors; yet The Citizen is doing it's most to secure the removal Of Receiver Noyes and to have the af- fairs of the institution turned over to an underpaid accountant who would lind it more convenient and probably more profitable to do the bidding of Captain Barnet e's attorneys than to safeguard the interests of the de positOrs.
 50 far as Inc Times Is concerned The Citizen may go as far as il likes in it's attack upon Receiver Moves. The mere the reeeiYorship md tho affairs oI the hank are dis cusscd. he better il will be for the lepositors and the public generally for there are some apparently who are net get aFara that they are be ing used to further the interests of Captain Barnc te and his associates But The Citizen can nope to gain nothing by dealing in generalities The deposttoas who believe that MT NoEes is the right man to have charge of the affairs of the defunct bank nus. be shown before they will consent to his removal, and We chal- lenge The Citizen to produce eTi- leuce Of single instance wherein he receiver has not acted for the best interests of those who are de pending upon him for results.
 "One interes ing point was brought out in yesterdays discussion of the petitions which were circulated by former Receiver E. H, Mack last fall The filing Of the petitions has been delayed, says The Citizen to await the arrival of Attorney J. l.. McGinn, who will return from the Outside soon. The depositors have not selected an attorney, and will not do so until after a confer ence is held with MT. McGinn.'
 We suspected that the petitions were circulated at the instance of MT. McGinn with the object in view of getting rid of the present receiver and invalidating the agreement with Cap.ain Barnctte, but we were un- prepared 10 hear that the depOsitOrs had taken Mr. McGinn so completely into their confidence as to depend upon them for advice. Such state ment is ridiculous on the face of il, SHt that is about as convincing as an of the arguments which have hpan advanced against the receiver.
 "ts a matter of fact, number of -h0sn who signed the petitions in question asked that their names be erased after they learned the real object of the petitions, They say thav at ached their signatures while under misapprehension, and we have no doubt the others who signed did so without realizing the danger 0us nature of the proceeding. But if there are any who still believe tha, the petitio9s should be filea with the court, we doubt very much f thev Yi'l seek the advice of At torncv McGinn before starting pro ceedings."
 OF CALIFORNIA DEPOsITORs. 3 are sometimes bunCoed by slow re Francisco Star of recent date. The clearly the dangers to be found in lip, and 1t Is that thing against which { of the men and women whose money bank. The article in the Star is in California Safe Deposit & Trust md of 3h per cent on their money the second dividend, the first one, per cent The Depositors' Associa- D the stockholders of the footed bank the barefaced thieVery and sWindling hypocrite, J. Dalzell Brown, and his chapter in the most gigantic thievery trated under the laws of California here is small prospect of any further ,n among the common herd. though gal hocus pocus, will receive a special
 in the valuable corner lot upon sands.
 at the laws Of California. and the rotten that it took seven years to
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