The Alaska citizen., 1914-03-02

only afraid that he would not ac- cept the receiyership, and then 't draws the inference that he Is jus. AS good q business man now as he was then and just as dependable.
 When one understands the situa ion he must in way feel sense of sympathy for the editor of the News Miner. for he is between the devil and the deep sea. He is morally obligated to defend Moves, and he knows that if he is too open in such 4 defense. his paper is certain to suffer financially. for to back up an incompetent man and aid him 10 spend the money of large number of needy depositors will certainly make more enemies for his pape7 than almost anything else he can do | Ii is certainly an unenviable positio'
 for anybody to be In.
 If Moves had not realized that h. would profit from the favors extended
 to the editor of the NewsMner he probably would never have made i them. People who cannot be count
 ed on to help him keep his fat job
 did not get any consideration from
 Moves.
 There is another thing that shou3
 be made clear regarding the rela-
 tionship between Moves and the edi- | TOT of the News Miner. and which explains probably more than anythinr else the support given by the latter l to the receiver This important fea- 1 ure Of the affair is the fact that it
 was through the influence of the i editor of the News Miner that NoyeS was appointed receiver of the Wash 1 ington-Alaska bank.
 Soon after Moves was appointe' 1 the owner of The Citizen asked Judge Overfield, who had made the character was placed in that respon 1 sible position. It must be remember l ed that the owner of this paper ;e one of the depositors in the defunc
 bank, and that the appointment of 2 1 competent receiver was a matter of l personal interest to him.
 1 In reply to the question put to
 him, Judge Overfield explained that l he had appointed Moves because MT. l Thompson of the News-Miner had come to him and urged him to do SO declaring that Moves was a gool
 man for the position.
 | Sometime before the Washington
 Alaska bank failed, the owner of
 The Citizen consented to endorse a
 note in which he had no financial 1 interest, and this note was in the | Washington-A Alaska bank at the time 1 of the failure The man who really i owed the money was at that time in | Iditarod, but Moves would not go out of his way to collect the money rom the man who owed it, and the owner of this paper paid the debt of the other man. While this money
 was being collected from the owner of this paper, the latter had money due from the bank, but has been unable to collect 1t.
 This instance is cited simply to show that while Moves was prompt in collecting money from those not morally indebted to the bank, he made it easy for those whom he could use later
 The petition signed by more than 100 depositors of the defunct bank asking for Moves removal is one of the strongest evidences of the mans unpopularity. The circulators of the petition say that only about ten people. who happened to be Noyes special friends, refused to sign it.
 number of the depositors who are not living in Alaska now have written to ask that their names be added to the petition, and just the other day a depositor of the bank came to the office of The Citizen to ask where he could find the pc tition for he wanted to sign 1t, and he was told that to get his name on the petition he should apply to Judge Fuller, who has possession of
 it at the present time
 One of the many peculiar things about Moves end of the matter is the fact that some of the people who have signed the petition asking for his removal have since taken the trouble to go to the court to say that they did not intend to ask for his removal. People are not in the habit of changing their attitude On such an important matter unless pressure of some kind has been brought to bear on them. And who, indeed, would be interested in seeing that such pressure is brought to bear on them?
 There are many things that Moves