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...Payment of the $7,200,000 was made by a check on the Treasury signed by Treasurer of the U. S. Francis Elias Spinner, drawn to the order of Russian Minister Edward de Stoeckl and dated Aug. 1, 1868. When Alaska's voteless Delegate to Congress, Anthony Dimond, last week asked permission to transfer the check to Juneau for permanent display in that capital's Historical Library and Museum, General Accounting Office authorities were forced shamefacedly to announce that the historic draft -long since canceled and filed in the U. S. archives-had been unaccountably mislaid...
...fashioned attic, valuable relics may be misplaced but rarely lost. Last week, after three days' frantic search, the Alaskan check turned up in a musty drawer of the General" Accounting Office where it had reposed since 1921. By this time, the House had passed Delegate Dimond's bill and it had gone to the Senate Committee on Territories and Insular Affairs. The Senate Committee decided that, since the check, a piece of national property, was so easily lost, it would be better to send a photostatic copy to Juneau and dispatch the draft itself, for safekeeping...
...Congressman but an elected Delegate is Alaska's Anthony Joseph Dimond in Washington...
...Long before I reached Delegate Dimond's identification of Wilbur Pledge Brown, I had identified the gentleman as Wilbur Pledge, phoney-check artist and alleged newspaper...
Cracked Delegate Dimond: "If you should happen to see him [Wilbur Pledge Brown] walking down the street with Ananias on one side and Sapphira on the other you might be certain that he was in the bosom of his family...