The Alaska citizen. (Fairbanks, Alaska) 1910-1917, 1915-03-08

IHOiAhb lEiS lillHS VI Selling
Must liquor TO Indians has
o5ey Law. been looked upon as
one-sided affair in the
past but it seems now tina; the
Indians are going to be forced to
observe the law themselves.
1t will probably be of much inter
Fairbanks to attend cases involving
the sale of liquor to Indians to know
that Judge Jennings of the First
division has ruled that it is just as
much crime for an Indian to give
another Indian intoxicating liquor as
for white man to commit the crime.
This is explained in the following
item, appearing recently in the
juneau Empire:
In the case of Charles Desire
Matthews. James hansen and Chas.
Davis, natives. up before Judge Jen.
nings yesterday afternoon on the
charge OF giving liquor to natives,
his honor made it clear that he will
punish natives caught passing liquor
TO one another the same as white
men are punished.
1T seems the natives were having
good time and sort OF passed
around the liquor, which they had
secured from a white man. Sentence
was suspended until the district
attorney can inquire into the facts
concerning the white man"
Wants How many people there
To Know are who are always look
II All. ing for something for
which they do not have
to pay, is made evident by the let
ters received by the Fairbanks Com
mercial club and by the Land office
here, not to say anything about the
letters of similar nature received
by the newspapers and private indi-
viduals
1t seems that some peoples concep-
ton of Alaska is great warehouse
of gold and rich lands that may be
had for the asking. Usually these
questions include everything that
has to do with the resources of
the country, but one man writing
from a Southern state a few days
ago to the local land office, limited
his desires to land His letter is
short, but to answer it would require
a small book In the main ii is as
follows:
Please send me list of the
land, climate, water and timber as
free homesteads. Please send all
information
Sunshine If Fairbanks should be-
Tells come isolated from the
Date. rest OF the world and
should lose track of the
days of the year. it would be pos
sible for the Rev. G. G.. Bruce of
the Presbyterian church, to correct
the date every year on Washington's
birthday, provided the weather were
ear on that date.
However curious it may seem,
that is the day of the year when the
sun presents itself for the first time
each year in three different angles
into the Presbyterian parsonage.
On February %, the sun shines
through the ventilator in the east
room of the parsonage for the first
time each year. At noon on the
same date it is to be seen for the
first time each year above the roof
of an adjoining house, and in the
afternoon of the same date the rays
each year into a west room.
In this way, it is possible for the /,
minister to realize that it is the |,
birthday of the Father of his coun
try, regardless OF the calendar.
Charlie Was Charles w Joynt. the !
Recognized we'll known old timer
At Home. who returned last week !
that he is here to stay if his health |
will permit. He says that he was
sick nearly all of the time when he
was Outside and was thereby a
burden to all of the people he visit
ed. in his opinion. The climatic
conditions of the great state Of
Illinois are such that he took col1
every time he made move.
When Mr.. Joynt left here last
September, he stated that he was
going back to his old home at Pa
toka, Illinois, which he had not seen
for 80 years, without advising any
one as to his coming. 1t was his in