The Alaska citizen., 1917-09-03

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 A No. sir.
 c First you went around with a list prepared by CIegg and Deal?
 A Ye-. they gave me that I didn't have authority to go from the committee; went partially around and that evening the com mlttcc held a meeting and this mat, ter was Jeff entirely in the province ol R (. Wood, he was chairman of the Finance Committee. this was his work, and they delegated to the FI- nance Committee the work oI raising these funds and Mr Wood asked that he be given the assistance Of two members. George Coleman and my self and he was given that assist. ancc. the three Of Us were named as committee 10 raise the funds on the telegram of Governor Strong, 10 go ahead and purchase the almOry And the next day Wood told me 10 go ahead and try these people out Mfr Wood being the head of the First National Bank and Mr Cole man head of the Northern Conner cial company, they all had business dealings with these business men l expected 10 get money from, and ! they were in no position to go to 1 them themselves and ask for sub 1 scriptions because these men might think future dealings depended on il.
 Mr. Marquam d moment, you l said that you had dealings with the business men you expected to get money from?
 \. Yes, on this list. ] Q Meaning thereby that these were the men you picked out?
 A. Well, l don't know as l picked them out
 O. You used that expression. didn't know whether it was mad yertent
 A Well, Mr Clees and MT. Deal gave me the list and there were names on the list and l added names that | could get money from, some of whom l didn't get money from. So l. assuming that none Of these men being afraid Of any business that l might have affecting them, I went out among them, l went from place to place: would ask man how he felt about il, taking so much stock were to be an association those men who put up the money would own this building themselves until such time as it was paid for. because there wouldn't be enough money raised to pay for il; We would try to raise money from rent from ! Illt SpNt HI!lthI anu ud4lltS, 'iIlu would feel them to ascertain if they felt like taking stock on the gov, ernmcnt offering to pay rent. Wher- ever man showed the least hesl- tancy about il l told him ii he wasn't in good shape to do it not to do il at all, We could get it anyway from those who were able to do 1t. So went round-as fast as 1 would get subscription, starting with Cle9g and Deal at two hundred dol lars apiece, and as fast as got subscriptions took the money to R. C. Wood immediately and when we collected the money, l think between the money handed to MT. Wood and the money l gave him we get about three thousand six hundred and ten dollars from subscriptions, and Mir Wood bought the building from Mr Gordon as trustee. l don't know what price he paid him, but be- lieve il was five thousand, l was told.
 MT Marquam Just testify as to what you know.
 The Court--The jury will pay no attention to what he thinks was paid for it, unless he knows.
 MT Pratt-Let me stop you there. You went around with the list and got them to sign their names or agree orally that they would pay so much?
 \, Just tell me orally how much they would pay-I had the names all on the list no man had to sign his name.
 c. And those who subscribed. some of them gave the money to Dick Woods and some of them gave it 10 you?
 A. Yes.
 O. And those who gave you the money, in what form would they