The Alaska citizen., 1915-11-01

les told, such commodities as au
 gar. milk and fresh meat being un-
 known quantities.
 The man lives in the same man
 ner as he compels his wife and
 child to live. Dirt and filth abound in
 their dwelling place. Most of the
 time the child IS said tc te aImcl cu
 tirely without clothing of any kind, and
 the only clothing worn by the moth.
 CT is that cast off by her husband
 He. in tn" meantime being provided
 with the best that there is to b.,
 had in that line.
 In speaking of the matter Mrs
 Cloes said that it is not on ac.
 count of the parents that she is tell
 ing the story. but for the sax
 of the child now with the Shermans,
 the other here in town and the one
 as yet unborn. She says that, con trary to her expectations, she found
 the child now with it's parents very
 bright. She had previously been in formed that 1t was an imbeCile and
 that it could not talk, but states that Totatlanika men have told her
 the latter was true for a time for
 the reason that every time the child opened it's mouth to laugh, talk or
 cry, it's father would throw cup ful of cold water in it's face. The child now in the Brunette nome here and Is very bright, and is the pride of the household It could stay there forever as far as the
 Brunette family is concerned, but it is stated that the deranged mother
 says that she will take 1t away as soon as she reaches town. 1t is un- derStoOd that Mrs. John Patten, the children'5 grandmother, would take
 care of the one now with the parents if it's mother would jet 1t come to
 her, but that the mother will not consent to such an arrangement.
 It is rumored that the Woman s Civic club of Fairbanks will look into the matter of the Restitution of the Shermans. As far as can be a5certained it would seem that
 the man had always had enough mon ey to purchase clothing for himself, |; but his wife claims that he never mad enough to purchase stockings or underwear for herself and tAt.r 1 baby.
 It is known to be all absolute certainty that sherman had more nan $l00o last fall. In spite of
 this fact, however, his wife was
 compelled to beg practically every thing she had to eat or wear last
 winter, according to all reports. It is possible that a complaint charging insanity wlli be lodged | against Mrs. Sherman as soon as she arrives in town, and also chal ges of non support of his family may be made against the husband and 1 father, although no statement to that effect has been made.
 Sherman is declared to be par
 licularly brutal in his treatment of | dogs or other animals belonging to him. He usually manages, how ever, to be kind to them when anybody is around, reserving his | i'll treatment for d time when there is no one to see and hear. On ona | occasion he is said to have left a horse tied to a tree for two or three | days with nothing to eat, the story being to the effect that man
 came along and mercifully shot the beast. after 1t had got Gown on the ice and could not get up.
 A slight idea of Sherman's unpop-
 ularity in the Totatlanika may be
 gained from the following:
 We, the undersigned, miners of the Totatlanika, do hereby affirm
 that J P. Sherman. to our personal knowledge, is dishonest, unreliable and unscrupulous, and is held ir disrepute by the entire community. , (Signed) William McCarty, Charles Anderson, H. G. Cloes, Fred Thie- sen, James Larson, Nels Stol, John Cook, Charles Nelson, James Mur- nhY | A Lilly