The Alaska citizen., 1917-09-03

rhe people Of this community to see the transaction and clear yourself of graft charges
 A. Yes, sir. that's the .dea | had, 10 show who bought ii. who sold 1t, and that none of the money could possibly have gotten 10 me. e Now. Mir Thompson. Mr Mar quam questioned you about the first dance given by tine Loyal Lensur. and on that question you said you printed the tickets tree2 A YoS, sir
 Q How did you. were you one of the subscribers towards the fund to purchase the armory? X Why. yes, took some-I was getting all the money I could to MT. Wood and took some stock in il in my oldest boys name, and l got in more money To him I believe than thought I did, and he has stock there to both myself and my oldest son. although l expect 10 take il in the boys name. l thought he would live 10 get the benefit of it better than I would
 Q You divided the money between yourself and your boy-Mr. Wood did2
 A. Yes, the boy didn't know 1t.
 Q Well, now, you paid Dick Wood cash for whatever he has down for either you or your boy?
 A. Yes, sir.
 0 Out of your own pocket?
 A Yes, sir.
 O. Now what was the agreement about the money as to whether il was to be private hall or as to whether it was to belong 10 tho public when paid for?
 A The decision of the executive committee and of those subscribers 10 the fund in the executive com mlttee, that 1t couldn't be anything else but a public building forever; that when the men who had sub scribed the money, if 1t continued to be rented and fl 1t did become money maker they got back their money those ol them who wanted il without interest, and it should be turned over to the city to be q public building forever
 e. Now how many-the Fairbanks Band, did it take any stock2
 A It took fifty dollars stock in it, it is their home; it is their home for practice and they give dances and the rent free, it is rent free for eyely public purpose,
 Q. For every public purpose?
 A Yes, sir; the Commercial club and the Agricultural Association and the Red Cross meet there.
 Q. And no rental charged fOr il? A. No rental could be charged for it. Nobody could use it who should pay rent.
 Q. And the rent coming from the territory is applied to the mortgage?
 A. To reduce the mortgage, yes.
 ., Now the dances the band gave, to whom did that money go?
 A IL went to the band entirely, no; cent to the association. Q. And how many dances has the Loyal League given?
 A Two.
 Q. And the money from these, where did that go to?
 A. There was a misunderstanding in the executive committee of the league. The secretary evidently thought that the trustee and the committee that handled, the purchase of this armory, they expected to give two dances, they figured they couldn't give any more-the first in June and the other in July-a patri- otic dance-and they thought they would get enough to clear the mort gage, but there was evidently a misunderstanding on the part Of the secretary and some of the eXecu- tive committee, because they named committee of league members 10 handle this first dance and they handled it, and instead of turning any profits over to MT Wood the trustee of the association, they turn ed it over to MT Clark, the secre- tary of the league, and he paid the premium out of the dance
 O. On the insurance?
 A Yes, sir and the rest of the money to pay the expenses of the league itself, telegrams and expen- diturcs the league had--none of that got tO Mr Wood