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BRIEF ITEMS FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE TERRITORY
EVENTS IN THE NORTH AS PORTRAYED IN THE
PRESS OF ALASKA
1 Collector of Customs J. C.
McBride is under the care of a
! physician at Berkeley, Cali
fornia, a sufferer from rheum
atism and neuritis.
Joseph Sale—sourdough
miner, of the Nome section,
was recently found dead in
his cabin, fully dressed for
work, with no signs of sick
ness. He was last seen alive
December 22 and it is known
he was alive, on Christmas.
He was found December 80.
Two oil permits for the Chig
nik district were recently is
sued from the Anchorage
Land Office.
A joint application has also
been received at the office for
an oil permit in the Iliamna
district. j
Word was rceived in Fair
banks a few days ago that'
Mickey Duggan was killed a
short time ago by falling down
a shaft at Poorman, in the
Ruby district. Death was in
stantaneous. Duggan had been
employed by Denny Coyle for
about two weeks at the time
of the accident.
Hijackers recently raided the
office of U. S. Commissioner
Thornton of Nome and hauled
away during the night 60 gal
lons of whiskey stored as evi
ednce. The officers followed
the tracks of the horses and
sleigh to an old dairy barn a
mile down the coast and found
the entire amount stored in
the basement. There are no
clues as to the identity of the
offenders except the size of
the horses’ hoofs. An invest
igation is now under way.
Jack Museth, Ketchikan
Sn.-UffTSi
Insuring the Perpetuation
of the Industry
lines of action are essential to the perpetuation of the salmon fishing
II industry of Alaska—legislation designed to temporarily decrease the pack
and constructive effort toward increasing the supply.
For many years the more responsible and representative element in the Salmon
Canning Industry has been working ceaselessly to procure legislation which would
insure sufficient escapement to the spawning beds to adequately stock them and at
the same time work the least possible harm to themselves and the fishermen of
Alaska.
In addition to lending their influence to the passage of such protective legialation,
the packers have expended and arc still expending large sums of money annually
in fighting the natural enemies which beset the salmon at every side. Experts have
repeatedly stated that the Dolly Varden trout and the tern each year, destroy
more salmon than are packed in all Alaska’s canneries.
A group of canners, which spent $25,000 during 1922 in the extermination of these
enemies to the industry, found that the stomach of the average three pound dolly
contained 150 salmon fry, and later, during the migration period, twenty yearling
salmon. These twenty yearling salmon at maturity would have been worth approxi
mately $16.00 on the market when canned.
Some of Alaska’s salmon packers have for years been carrying on a crusade against
these deadly enemies and many more are becoming interested along these lines.
In addition, they have been active in clearing the streams of obstructions, have
worked in conjunction with the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries in charting and cleaning
out the spawning beds, and have furnished boats to the Bureau for the patrolling of
the ground and protection of the spawning salmon.
Between the practical packer with an investment to protect and the intelligent
Alaskan with a great natural resource which ho desires to see perpetuated, and at
the same time producing wealth for the community, there can be no point of
difference.
AU that it required to bring about cloeer co-operation
it cloter acquaintance--more complete anderttanding.
The Canning Industry of Alaska
.Mi-I'
agent for the Pacific Steam
ship Company and widely
known in that section, has
been transferred to the Seattle
office of the company.
Gold production in the Fair
banks district, as handled by
the First National Bank of that
city, amounted to §784,182.74
during the fiscal year ended
December 5\ 1924^ or §231,275.
66 greadertlhan for the same
period of w&fr:*.
D. W. Flannigan, a prohibit
ion, afrd revenue officer, was
recently arrested at Fairbanks
for alleged assault on the per
son of Peter Kendall, a resi
dent of that city. Flannigan
was released on his own recog
nizance to appear in the
spring. Later, the United
States attorney at Fairbanks,
received an order from At
torney General Stone to dis
miss the case. It is alleged that
Flannigan entered and search
ed the cabin of Kendall with
out a starch warrant or other
authority of law, a"d U at his
assault i pon Kendall was oc
casioned by the protest of
Kendall to the action of the
officer. The action of the At
torney General not meeting
with the approval of the peo
ple of Fairbanks, Flannigan,
it is alleged, was recently
brought before the municipal
court at Fairbanks, and was
sentenced to pay a fine of one
hundred dollars and be im
prisioned for 20 days.
some wonaertul samples oi
rose quartz with free gold
have been taken from near
Gold Pan Creek in the Cassiar
where the placer gold discov
ery was made in September,
according to a cablegram re
cently received at Wrangell
from J. Frank Callbreath of
Telegraph Creek. The mes
sage stated that weather con
ditions are most favorable.
Dease Lake has been frozen
solid since December first.
There is six inches of snow at
Dease Lake and eighteen at
Telegraph Creek. Splendid ice
is on the Stikine. The weather
is clear and cold throughout
the Cassiar.
M. Suzuki, the Japanese
youth who shot and killed Mar
garet Andrianoff and wound
ed her mother in a clam can
nery at Petersburg last July,
was found guilty on a charge
of first degree murder in the
district court at Juneau rec
ently. The jury’s verdict read:
“guilty of murder in the first
degree without capital punish
ment.” Suzuki was sentenced
to imprisonment for life by
district judge T. M. Reed. Suz
uki killed the girl because she
refused to accept his attent
ions and afterward attempted
suicide.
Jacob Britt, son of Mr. and
Mrs. William Britt of Juneau,
has been nominated by Dele
gate Sutherland to take the
entrance examination for the
United States Naval Academy
at Annapolis.
A coroner’s jury at Juneau
found recently that the human
| skeleton found some time ago
on the Glass Peninsula by
i hunters was that of John Dug
an, a fisherman, who had been
missing for more than a year.
The jury determined that he
'•am? to hie death from natural
causes.
John O. Perry, who was cash
ier in the Valdez cable office
for several years after the first
cable to Valdez was laid, and
later connected with the Ketch
ikan cable office, dropped
dead in Seattle recently. He
recently retired from the Sig
nal Corps after 30 years of
army service and wa3 living
on a ranch near Seattle.
Jerry G. Galvin recently re
turned to Wrangell from a trip
to New York, where he went
to finance a milling plant for
his silver-lead mine, a short dis
tance beyond the head of Vir
ginia. Jle was successful and
states that a 30-ton mill and
tram line have been ordered.
i Mr. Galvin expects to be ship
ping concentrates before the
middle of the summer.
The recent telegraphic report
that President Coolidge had
reserved a strip of five miles
wide along the line of the
Alaska Railroad, appears to
have been an error. Later au
thentic reports are to the ef
fect that what the President
really did was to revoke in
part, executive orders of 1916
and 1917, reserving lands
along the right of way of the
railroad.
The report of the first year's
operations by the Chichagoff
Development Co., of the Chich
agoff mine, will show excel
lent progress and very satisfact
ory results, according to Gen
eral Manager George T. Jask
son. The company recently
completed the erection of a cy
anide plant at the mine to
I
handle the tailings.
The sale of the mining prop
erties of the Alaska Gastineau
Gold Mining Company under,
foreclosure proceedings held
at Juneau recently, resulted
their purchase by the Alaska
Gold Mines Company for $200,
000, the highest bid offered.
The properties included 80
lodeclaims, 6 placer claims,
the townsites of Thane and
Bo ■everance, the mill sites at
both places and the water
rights and power develop
ments. The original develop
ment cost of the property was
$16,500,000. The mortgage
foreclosed represented an in
debtedness of $6,700,000. The
foreclosure sale was necessary
to clear the title for the sale of
Thane townsite and mill site
and the water and power dev
elopment properties to eastern
nitrate interests.
Late regulations issued by
Secretary of Commerce Hoov
er establishing a closed season
for herring and providing oth
er inhibitions on the herring
industry ae declared by Alaska
fishermen to be of such drastic
and ill advised character as to
mean the practical wiping out
of the industry.
Under the new regulations
there is established a closed
season beginning January 1,
1925 for a period of eight and
a half months each year. The
open season is to be from June
1st. to September 15, both
dates, inclusive..
Experienced fishermen and
packers declare that the order
covers practically all of the
one period of the year when
the herring are poor and really
unfit for food, it being the
season immediately following
the spawning period.
Instructions have been receiv
ed by R. A. Darlmg, special
agent of the Juneau branch of
the Bureau of Investigation, to
open an office at Anchorage,
according to an announcement
recently made by Mr. Darling.
For the past year the only of
fice maintained in Alaska, b -
the Bureau has been at Jun
eau.
ENORMOUS DEMAND
FOR ALASKA FURS
We’re paying big prices for Alaska furs—demand strong.
We are the largest buyers of Alaska furs in this big
central market and we must have all kinds for quick sale.
Money sent same day shipment comes in—cash, draft or
money order, whichever you want. ACT NOW—if you
have one skin or a hundred. Ship to us at once.
ouke Fur Co.
ST. LOUIS, MO.
Fouke Grading ALWAYS Makes Your Fur Checks Bigger
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