The Alaska citizen., 1917-03-26


 ed States district court, Fourth diyi- sion, opened in Fairbanks yesterday . Judge Charles l.. Bunnell was on 1 the bench. and those summoned as grand jurors were in attendance, with the exception of B r. Tuddlestun, who 1t developed later, had not been ] served. ant those who hdd been rx- cused from duty by the court. Chief ! Deputy Marshal Joseph II. Miller acted as court crier al the opening, which was followed by the roll call of jurors. Eighteen men responded when their names were called, and after being examined as to their qualifications were excused, to re 1 port at the afternoon session. The court then ordered special venire of four names to fill the grand jury list up to twenty-two returnable at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. At that hour all of the grand jurymen were in their places They are the fol lowing: Joe Shaw, C. T. Glasscock, Robert Staples. C. x. CreameT, C. ". Porter, Louis Larson, P. F. Dun lap, II. | Miller, D. II. Delaney William Haldane Dave Choato, F. E. Drane. Joe Gertz, Albert Vile, John Smith. J. C. Keller, Ed Hearn, G. II. Person. George Markus, J. E. Bar rack Axcl Carlsten, E. \. Suter. I'm mcd.ately after court convened at the afternoon session and the jury roll had been called, Judge BunneH named II. l. Miller, of Brooks, as foreman. and read his instructions. George Markus is understood to have been elected secretary of the body when it retired to start it's delib- eration8 in accordance with the in structions. Ed poppail has been named grand jury baiIitf, ~.hle Tom Markuson and William Gorbracht are in attendance as baiIifis in the court room.
 Those who were excused from grand jury service by Judge Bunnel at the morning session of court were R. E. Burns, D. r. Eagan and F. II. Stewart w. ". O'Leary had not been served and B. F. Huddlestun failed to respond to his name.
 From II o'clock in the morning, the time that court convened, until noon. the time was taken up with gcneralities. The report of Clerk of Court J. E. Clark was received, ae- cepted and placed on file. \ number of peace bond matters were then brought to the attention of the court, and the cases of the United States ys. Oscar and Victor Anderson, and of the United States ys. Everett Houser, were dismissed upon the motion of the District Attorney R. r. Roth. The district attorney also asked for a dismissal of the cases against J. P. Rose, Henry Paul and Sam Aguzoff which were grand jury bndOvers.
 The matter of the granting of liquor licenses was then taken up by the court. It resulted in the granting of ten licenses with the issuance of instructions by Judge Bunnell that all of the applicants be refunded the pro rata part of the money they have paid in to the clerk for the time less than year, until January 1, 1918, when the ter r.tory goes dry, that the licenses have to run.
 The licenses granted and the dates from which they will run until mid night, December 31. are as follows:
 Emil Dorfner, Olnes, license grant . ed and expires on December r, 1917. .
 Charles Linquist & Mcdonald, Flat, | license to expire December 20, 1917. 1
 A. Barbettini, Fox, from January IT, 1917, to December 31, 1917.
 Charles E. Hoxie, Long City, to eX- pire December 30, 1917.
 John A. Moe, Fairbanks, from Feb . ruary 1, 1917, to December 31, 1917. l
 w. w. Archibald, Loop ROadhouse, . from February 15, 1917, to December . 31, 1917.
 Meisingseth & Ward, Brooks, Feb 1. ruary 1, 1917, to December 31, 1917. |
 Hubert Conter, Fairbanks creek, l. from March 10, 1917 to December 31, 1917.
 Michael Jordan, Gilmore from Mar. r, 1917, to December 31, 1917.
 N. G. Cox, Chatanika, from March | 16, 1917, to December 31, 1917.
 The only license objected to by | the court was that of Julius Rahms dorf, of Rampant. It is signed, said | Judge Bunnell, by fortyeight names, 1 while he also has petition signed | by forty-one of the residents of Ram 1 part, asking that the license be held | up by the court, and stating that | eight of those who signed the liquor i application are aliens. Other dOcu- | ments tended to show that some of those who signed the petition against ! the granting of the license were chil- | dren. All would indicate that there is now a small-sized prohibition war