The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-10-28
LOVE, DIVORCE, SPICY YLETTERS,
 WERE MINGLED

E. T. Barnette, founder of Fair banks, and founderer of Fairbanks banks, has again been brought before the courts and the public in a bad light. This time as the faithless hus- band of the devoted wife who stood by him so nobly through all his former troubles.
 Copies of the San Francisco Ex- aminer of September 18th arriving in last nights mail contain an ac- count of the divorce proceedings in stituted by Mrs. Barnette at San Francisco and the prompt divorce that was granted to her on the evil dence submitted. Two letters in feminine handwriting carelessly left by Barnette among bunch of busi- ness papers, excited his wife's curi- osity and revealed situation that left her no alternative but perman- ent separation from the man to whom she had devotedly clung through many years of trouble and humilia. tion caused by his devious business methods and resultant misadventures and entanglements.
 The letters in question are pub lished in full and are exceedingly interesting reading. They are unique in that while they clearly reveal rela- tions between the writer and Bar nette that would cause any wife to seek divorce, they also disclose an infatuation on the part of the woman in the case for one of Barnettes friends and attorneys who seems to be something of a gay Lothario him. self. in fact. regular Don Juan, and even more adept at the game than Barnette. In fact, both the letters contain more about the other man than they do about protestations of affection for Bainette. and the lat ter seems to have lost out both with his wife and the charmer.
 In one letter she says. You and your MT. T. are certainly adept in your team work. l am impellantly curious to ascertain which one of you is the pupil and which the tutor. Though am inclined to imagine that T. taught you your tricks, since his assortment is much the larger, Is it your continuous and combined habit to make desperate love to fool ish ladies and then run away as far as you can go?
 q miss T. horribly, and l hate him for it. He is assuredly possessed of a most extraordinary personality, but when one considers how it has been acquired, thee zfssch of the charm pals. He exudes an aura of many, many women. and 1t is this dear deadness of their spirit which in oculates anew those others who are so unlucky as to become enmeshed in his net of LOVELY LIES. T. has not written me letter since he left, and l am greatly grieved over it. Ten days he has been gone. l have written you from the first, and now l reiterate finally that the very best thing about him is his fondness and loyalty to you; and this l am confi- dent is genuine. But he has faked and fooled women so long that he cannot appreciate one who cannot match her own chicaneries with his superb flim-flam. Mind you, do not mean to say that I do not like him, TOO WELL, but he is not worth it. AS for personal and business integ- rity-his affairs with men-he is more than commonly trustworthy, but when it comes to womanliness in the female of the species. he thinks there ain't no such thing. and be- sides. he hopes there is not. think really decent and virtuous woman would bore him to extinc- tion. (Think I have not bored him to date.)"
 It would be interesting to know who the other man is, but Barnette sure iS in hard luck