The Alaska citizen., 1917-09-03

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 A gave q true report Of the con. ditions of the trail; l don, consider that 1 knocked it--with the amount Of money spent on the trail con. sidered they had poor trail.
 c. And you went quite into de. tails in other matters?
 A. Yes, sir.
 Q. As a matter of fact. you have pIided yourself of leading criticism on almost everything around the town?
 A. If 1t Is something of d jus: na. ture l certainly pride myself on it; don't attempt to take up anything else except on those lines. Q. Oh, no
 A. (continuing) and in this case
 c. Qnterrupting) And in this par ticular case you heard some rumors that the armory had been offered for lower price?
 A No, l can't say in that way the way it came to me it WAS au ab- solute fact coming from her hus- band who surely must know.
 c. All hearsay, all around?
 hn will be on the stand will state that il came from headquarters. e. You're telling what somebody told you?
 A l cant believe that everything that is said is lie.
 O. Except the man yop're publish ing something about?
 A. Well, don't say he ia liar, l simply asked a question. The dis crepancy seemed pretty great to me between two thousand dollars and five thousand dollars deals--asiIe from that l heard .he thing all around the town.
 c. You heard M: Gordon testify yesterday that he never made an offer of less than five thousand donsISy
 A. . heard that, yes, sir.
 O. And you heard the president of the Loyal League, MT. Clegg and Mr Wood and MT. Clark all testify 1homlson hadn't gotten cent?
 A. I heard it, ye3. sir
 Q. And you hearl Gordon testify A> 1al not?
 4 | did.
 C, Your paper i..t morning didn1 give any of the government testi mcny this mornlat i'd you!
 A l intended to publish the whole thing-if 1t was my own case l would-my counsel advised me il wouldn't be proper.
 Q, The public were merely told about your being on the stand and your testimony?
 A. l don't know really; l haven't read the story this morning.
 Q. That's all. Redirect Examination (By MT. Mar
 Quam)
 Q. Now with regard to this paper Mir Pratt showed you. You testi- fled that you signed according to your remembrance, an oath of resi- | dence
 A. An oath of residence as l un- derstood it. I didn't understand the | oath of allegiance was given to any | of us
 Q. And the paper shown you pur- | ports to be an oath of residence and | allegiance, typewriter or printed to- gether?
 A. Yes. sir.
 Q. Who did you go to or what | official did you consult or consulted | you upon this matter and who ad- | vised with you upon this question of what you were doing and what you ] had to do to become citizen and | as to what the course of procedure 1 were?
 A. Well, there was no official at all. In the height of the campaign i it was the Joe Clark element up | there against the Condon element, l we had pretty bad bunch to deal with and of course about sixty per | cent of the people were Americans | and they were trying to throw down the government gang by beating them at the election. At that time We were running the Idle Hour club a good many of us for home com forts and home cooking, twenty-five or thirty of us there
 O. Qnterrupting) I'm not talking about that-you needn't go into de- tails After your friends and you