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Newspaper
Fairbanks Daily Times
Location
Fairbanks, Alaska, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1908
Page
3
At a special meeting Fairbanks council discussed using current revenues to pay warrants in order and securing bank support to carry city scrip at par. Banks may accept portions of the paper. a stockholders meeting will consider aiding the plan. The ordinance indemnifies treasurer and bondsmen against losses from such payments.
Town officials review a $4 642 82 warrant load with most funds from salary and general accounts. Banks may offer up to 20 000 while the plan focuses on paying salaries first, diverting funds to the salary fund, and preserving city credit as finances show 99 150 in revenues and 59 510 in expenses for the year.
Billy Munson has furnished a new Alaska Fur House in the Barnette block on Second avenue between Cushman and Turner streets. The display features Alaska Indian curios and costly furs arranged to showcase fine craftsmanship. Public interest grows as the center aims to become interior Alaska’s fur buying hub.
Signor Caruso, the famed singer now earning a fabulous salary, grew up without encouragement from his father a mechanic who urged him to choose another path. His first weekly pay barely reached tenpence for singing in Naples church choir as reported by Tit-Bits for The News.
The city council elected W. S. Hunsacker poll tax collector to start once bond approved. Other applicants were E. S. Osborne-Vaudin Grant Murdock Peter Stell and Sam Wise. Hunsacker will seek payment from all male residents and may summons defaulters before Magistrate Taylor to secure revenue.
At a Fairbanks city council meeting Dr Sutherland criticized Fairbanks as a dumping ground for indigents from Alaska. Two destitute men arrived on the Delta and were placed in the hospital at city expense. Debate touched on steamer company responsibility and potential federal aid, with options to pay fares to move indigents elsewhere.
City council approves a 200 appropriation to send two men and two other patients who burden city funds to treatment or care. The measure follows remarks by a councilman on humanity and the physician's judgment guiding expenses.
Cardinal Logue speaks in New York at the one hundredth anniversary of the local diocese. He recalls the College of Cardinals during the Pius X election, noting the reluctant pope and Italians with a smelling bottle as a joke, and states the elected pope avoided the office.
Barbers and Saloon Men schedule a charity baseball game at Wilton Park next Sunday evening. Proceeds support the fund to send a nine to the outside. lineup lists Geis Saloon Mens and Barbers Taft Sousa Donnelly Baltoff Obey Sherman plus others with Leroy Tozier as umpire and 7 p m first pitch.
Railway whistle reforms win public approval as nations experiment with quieter methods. Austria uses dumb signal ing to start and stop trains, Belgium tests compressed air whistles, and Germany tries horn systems to reduce noise and distress.
The District Court of Alaska Third Division notes John Lund Andrew Nelson and C E Schen were adjudicated bankrupt on June 11 1908. A first creditors meeting is set for June 22 1908 at 2 PM in the referee in bankruptcy office Fairbanks Alaska to prove claims appoint a trustee and conduct related business. Henry Roden Referee in Bankruptcy.
The law partnership of Chas Ethelbert Claypool John Chas Kellum and Jas Tod Cowles practicing as Claypool Kellum Cowles was dissolved by mutual consent on May 30 1908. Files and records will remain with Arthur Frame at the Fairbanks Bank building until further notice.
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