The Alaska citizen., 1917-09-03

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 Q So .ar whole ,hIns Is indefinite, -y iar AS you're concernede
 4 As tar as my recollection serves me. the only definite proposition was i've thousand dollars, am saus, led there WAS no offer from New York
 . D!d you make them au offer some year and hall ago Jo sell ,hs property to i've thousand dol lars
 A tA.nk that's right. ycs. Later on n the same year when I re- turned 10 Fairbanks you wish He 10 relate this had some thought oi tearing the rink down and selling 4. for whA, material was in il. and spoke to MT. Riggs and he said he would take all the ron 1 had al seven hundred dollars; later on decided to keep It another year The object of offering 1t for sixty five hundred was because dry lum brr was very scarce in the camp and t looked like l could clear six thousand dollars. Of course, il would entail some expense in tear ,f
 c You keep sci of books
 A Yes, sir.
 Q In these books do you enter all your business transaction of that order?
 A Well, the check book would show all transaction regarding the rink, and the bank book would show the amount received
 e Do you bank with the First National bank?
 A Yes, sir
 e. Between the books Of the bank showing the deposits and checking withdrawals, and your own books, all your business transactions would be shown. would they?
 A. Yes.
 e. After you came back from the east the last time, MT Gordon, and at or about the time the negotiations were being conducted for the pur chase of this building, you heard, did you not, the fact or the state ment of fact or rumor ot fact wheth er il was fact or not, is not par tIcuIarly material, this building had been offered by you for sale for a price in the neighborhood of two thousand dollars?
 A Less than that
 e. You heard that?
 A. Yes.
 Q. You heard that, and presume il was quite general talk?
 A Not generally talked but l heard it stated that the lady in a meeting of the auxiliary society, the Red Cross of the Loyal League had stated at meeting, she had made a statement that it was offered for twelve hundred dollars; so as mat ter of curiosity l called the lady up, she had no phone but got her husband on the telephone and asked if she made the statement, and she and her husband came down ad stat ed they hadn't made the statement.
 Q. Was that Mrs Clegg?
 A. No, sir-do you want
 Q. Yes, if you care to state?
 A. It was Mrs. Sea.
 Q. You were cognzant of the fact that Mrs Clegg had made state ment in the meeting or after the adjournment of a meeting in which she objected strenuously to this wo- mans organization fathering or moth ering this proposition of selling tick cts for a dance because of the graft there was in it because the building had been offered to the Pioneers for less than two thousand dollars?
 A l didn't know that, no, sir.
 C. Your information was the state ment had been made by Mrs. Sea. and she disclaimed it?
 A Yes, sir.
 o. That came to you from other sources?
 A. No, sir-you mean from Mrs. Clegg?
 Q. No, what was said to have been stated from Mrs. Sea?
 A Why, the lady come in the store and said this statement hadn't been made, and that's all l know about it.
 Re-Direct Examination (By MT. PratD
 Q. Of this check you received for $3,50O you say you gave checks to Mir Wood?