The Alaska citizen., 1915-07-19

be sure that you do not attack him while he is in his own house. for the chances are that in that case you will be tried for burglary and sent to the peniten- tiary. just as though you had broken into his house and stolen something. IT. however. you attack him on the street with your fists, you will be tried for ordinary assault. a petty offense and probably fined 8 or 10
 This peculiar condition is the re suit of the way the Alaska law reads. and some people in ignorance of il may be sent 10 the peniten- tiary for what would generally be considered no crime.
 Judge Jennings, down at Juneau. ran across this peculiar feature of the law recently while trying the case of A Larson. who was charged with burglary. The following para graph taken from a story in the Juneau Empire, shows the novel way the court ruled in that case in this regard:
 Tn giving his instructions to the jury Judge Jennings informed them that they wanted to disassociate from their minds that because burg that it was necessary for a defend ant to enter a dwelling house for the purpose of stealing anything; that under the Alaska code any one who entered a private house for any unlawful intent or who committed an assault against any inmate of that crime of burglary. Attorney Milwee took exceptions to part of the in structions. which were allowed
 The jury in this case, however, found the defendant not guilty. Plays An item in the Juneau Joke On Empire provides a pos Governor. sible explanation for Gov
 ernOr strong snort stay in Fairbanks From this item t seems that he had to hurry back letters that have been sent to him as a result of the work of a practical joker,
 It is not often that practical joker spends his time in trying to play tricks on a governor, but this joker whoever he is, seems to have thought it a good plan to give Governor Strong some work. Following is the item in the Empire:
 Governor Strong has threatened to turn pugilist if he can find out the person responsible for the in sertion in half dozen American newspapers of an article telling men who are out of work to write to the Governor of Alaska and get the hundreds of jobs that are open in the Golden North.
 The Governors office has been literally swamped with inquiries from blacksmiths. carpenters, plumbers and other skilled and unskilled lab Orers.
 Fortunately. the advertisements did not instruct job-seekers to go to Alaska The ad told them to write to the Governor"
 
 Should Evidently the general Buy An land office in Washington, Atlas. D. C., is quite unable
 to give accurate infor nation about Alaska. for a man writing to the local land office ex plains that he was unable to find out from the general land office how far Fairbanks is from the Panama Valley.
 The writer, for some reason not quite clear, wants to get, if possible, to the Panama valley, but it seems that it did not occur to him to go to late atlas. He will probably be informed by the land office here that there is no distance between Fairbanks and the Panama valley, for the former is in the heart of the latter.
 The ignorance of this writer in regard to Alaskan geography seems to be much like that of tourist concerning whom one of the news papers of Southeastern Alaska tells a story.
 The tourist went ashore from a boat, and happened to get in conver- sation with the editor of the local newspaper. He asked numerous ques- tions about the age of the town, it's population and various other things, and then he ended by asking, "Is Alaska in the United States?" Why How official red tape" Title Is delays the wheels of Delayed governmental affairs has
 been brought to light in the slow way in which the govern ment is handling the purchase of the site for the proposed federal