VOL. 3.
PETERSBURG. ALASKA, APRIL, 5. 1929
NO. 38
Important Fish
Pact Signed
A treaty for the preservation
ar.d extension of sockeye salmon
fisheries of the Fraser River Sys
tem, which includes the waters
contiguous to the State of Wash
ington and the province of Bri
tish Columbia, was signed last
month by Secretary Kellogg and
the Canadian minister, Vincent
Massey.
The treaty provides for estab
lishment of an international fish
eries commission of six mem
bers, three for the United States
and three for Canada. The com
missioner of Fisheries of the
United States will be one of the
American members.
The commission is charged
with the duty of making a tho
rough investigation into the na
tural history of the sockeye sal
mon and is given power to de
velop the fisheries and to main
tain hatcheries.
It also is given power to es
tablish a closed season when
fishing for Sockeye salmon will
be prohibited, between June 1
and August 20 in each year, and
to regulate the character and
size of fishing gear.
The treaty is concluded for a
period of sixteen years, after
which it is subject to termina
tion on notice of one year by the
government of either country.
The treaty is the first that has
been signed by the United States
wUh a Canadian resident minis
ver at wasiungiuii, ana is axsu
the iast treaty signed by Sec
retary during his term of office
Other treaties proposed by Ca
nada met with opposition from
American canning interests and
failed to receive endorsement of
the United States Senate. On
each occasion Canada was com
pelled to repeal laws made to
conform with the proposed
treaty.
Committee Work Under
Way on Gym
The Commercial Club at its
Wednesday night meeting again
took up the matter of building
a school gymnasium. The gen
eral plan being along the lines
as suggested by Mr. Ohmer at
the reception to the basketball
team last Saturday night.
Letters are being written to
the various organizations of the
town, asking them to appoint a
representative to meet in com
mittee on the 16th of April. At
which time plans for the hall
will be outlined and estimates oi
costs secured. Further plans
will be made at the same time tc
canvass the membership of aL
organizations for funds witt
which to build the gymnasium.
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Dr. Tracy Acquitted
Dr. Tracy of Seattle, medica
man on trial for the death o
Miss Fallis, by giving a dose o
aqua ammonia instead of aro
matic ammonia, was acquitte<
on the third ballot by the jur;
in the case Wednesday in Seat
tie. The first ballot stood 9-3
second ballot 11-1 and the thin
Danot not guilty. uonsiaer
able expression was demonstrat
ed in Seattle over the acquittal.
Hans Wick brought up the
cannery crew on the Redwood
this morning.
Artistic, Accurate,
Informative
me Admiral Line has j ust put
out an elaborate brochure in col
ors entitled 'Cruising the World s
omootnest Waterway Through
one msiae Tassage and Ten i'nou
sand rsiands oi AlasKa.” The
orocnure is proiuseiy illustrat
ed and is one oi tiie most at
tractive ever published relating
,u tiie territory.
••oouineastern Alaska Sum
meriand,.me Trip oi a Thou
sand Thrills” "Southern Alaska
oruises and Mendennail Gla
cier' are titles of the cnapters in
uuc ^/aiiipiliet,
imtuguuiu the OOOft a COlii
^iCiiciioive eiiOrt nas oeeu matte
i/o picsent tne Territory in its
true ngnt anu onset uie effect oi
tiie totuaiicnig ox authors and
scenario writers wno nave paint
ed tne .territory as a narsn,
xoreoiuding lanu oi ice and snow,
me cdors tnruout the oook
nave oeen careiuiiy selected to
wonvey a leeinig oi warmth and
sunshine, and ail reierence to
ice, snow, ana dog teams which,
while striking the popular fan
cy, have a tendency to further
me popular misconception of the
Territory, have been avoided
both in text and illustrations.
The center of the brochure con
tains a pictorial map of the Ter
ritory, nine by twenty inches,
which, like the cover and frontis
piece, is in four colors. Partic
ular emphasis is placed, thru
the book, on the Southeastern
section which is referred to as
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Cadman Arrives On The
Steamer Redwood
Charles Wakefield Cadman
and Madame Beeler, who are giv
ing a concert at the MacGregor
tonight, arrived on the Redwood
from Ketchikan this morning.
Madame Beeler is described as
one of the best singers on the
Pacific Coast. She is said to pos
sess a voice of almost gorgeous
fulness and having the ability tc
handles her voice with great
adroitness.
It would be futile for us to try
to write anything about Mr. Cad
man. Friends in Ketchikan say
“Don’t miss it or you will always
be sorry.”
The concert will be at the Mac
Gregor who is to be congraut
lated on fringing such artists tc
Petersburg.
CONTROLLER BILL LIKELk TC
PASS HOUSE
The famous Controller Bill i;
now before the House for it.
shearing knife and blue pencil
Right now indications are tha
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a yy in w jja.iocu wjr uiai uuuu;ti
of the legislature without any
material change in the principle
involved. Report for the time
being was that the Federal Bri
gade Forces and the Political
Trough Party of hyphenate by
partizans, were going to slash
it to pieces and incorporate the
old idea of giving all Territorial
powers into the hands of the fed
eral go\ornor or his henchmen.]
Put evidently the Senate holds
the whip hand and is cracking
the whip over the lower house.
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The ladies of the American Le
gion Auxiliary will be entertain
ed by Mrs. A. 3. Holt at a social
meeting next Thursday evening,
April 11th. Ladies who are elig
ible for membership are particu
larly invited.
Keception Big Success
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. .Hie big reception planned ana
tenucicu uy me i . a. a. ior luc
uasaetuau team was neia at tne
oons ox Norway riau last baiur
uay evening.
lviayor owanson was acting
enanman oi tne nrst part 01 trie
evenings anan wnen a program
was given, music oy tne oanu,
accoruian soio oy Mr. remeoerg,
60io oy Miss iuman owanson,
song oy scnooi girls ana song oy
uie xngn scnooi stuuents look up
uie nrst pan, oi tne program,
me airterent memoers oi tne
team Wiucn maae tne trip west
waiu were caiiea. A very notice
ctoxe part or tneir speecn was tne
mouesty oi eacn one wiio taikeu
not oi indiviuuai eiiort or in
praise oi tne team Put oi experi
ences and pleasures, coaches
rimes and Wariieid doth spoke,
Wariieid on the trip made and
ms appreciation ox the oppor
tunity oi having gone. Ames
Drought out moral irom the re
sult oi the entire series and finai
games and irom tiie inception oi
tne game here. That the great
lesson to be learned was that
nothing worth while can be ac
complished without tight and ef
fort.
Mr. Ohmer was then called on
for a talk. He congratulated
the team and the coaches for the
success attained and compared it
to a similar experience in his own
life thirty years back—experi
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Consider Reiund Bill
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In the consideration .of .the
Steel School Refund Bill, indi
cations are that the House will
make a cut in the appropriations
and that they will also slice a
bit from the College appropria
tions by paring it down to $135,
000,
HOUSE PASSES OLD AGE PEN
SION BILL
The House this week passed
the Old Age allowance by in
creasing to $35 the allowance to
men who arrived in Alaska prior
to 1906. The reaction to this
measure is doubtful at this time,
especially in view of campaign
promises made by the controll
ing faction of the House at Sit
ka.
FAT FOR BIOLOGICAL
SURVEY
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I A measure was passed appro
priating $30,000 for predatory
, animal control. This will fur
, ther the work of such men as Mr.
Stewart whose work will be a
‘ benefit to the Territory.
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A Real 40 Per Cent'r
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Representative William M.
Morgan, of Ohio, supporter of
the new Jones Bill making a fel
ony for having in possession or
dealing in any liquor business,
had his trunk searched and two
bottles of whiskey and two bot
tles of champagne discovered by
the prohi’s this week. He stated
that it was for a friend who was
sick, But Oh, you Ohio!
A goody sale will be held by the
American Legion Auxiliary on
Saturday afternoon from 2 until
4, April 6th, at the Telephone
Office. There are promises of a
fine selection of cakes, bread,
pies, baked beans, etc. .
Still Building Pulp
Mills mWasii.
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Ais iii v a i. wnai was regardeo
as uie iirst step tuwaia Uie proo
aoie location oi anouier puip
aim was ta.ti.en last wee*. in isv
cxctt wneu a suusiuiary 01 Uie
Ajcneioacn icaper company, uie
Aiiternationai wooa m ouipinte
company, uocaineu a uu-uay op
tion ior a si^e on uie bnonomisn
xtiver ana contracted wiui uie
oanyon nuinoer Company lor
UAic enure waste from tnat saw
mill for tne next twenty years.
Definite plans for actual con
struction work on the mill were
not revealed. If the company
iaiis to exercise its option, how
ever, the waste material contract
ed for will be used by the com
panies big mill at Port Town
send.
House Has Problems
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The Territorial House at Ju
neau, yesterday was wrestling
with the election bill. They de
feated the Rotary Ballot and the
provision requiring officials to
resign to bar one candidate or
candidate for other office. They
then adopted an amendment re
quiring that a resident of any
Division of Alaska may vote in
any precinct in that Division.
Thiele on Temporary
A Joint Committe has ar
ranged that Secretary Karl
Thiele shall continue in office
until remedial legislation has
bee passed allowing the appro
priation of monies from the Ter
ritorial treasury to cover $2,000
formerly appropriated by the le
gislature.
This appropriation was held
by the courts to have been pai 1
illegally and was stopped. Dele -
gate Sutherland carried a Bill
through Congress allowing the
money to be paid by the Treas
urer upon appropriation by the
legislature.
The salary, Federal and Ter
ritorial was $5,600 but since the
court action has been only $3,
000.
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Shake-up in Pen
All winter long reports of un
dercover agents at work in dif
ferent penal institutions. One
such agent was incarcerated in
McNeil’s Island and when con
ditions became impossible he
sent a code message to Wash
ington and orders were immedi
ately issued for his release. It
is supposed that Warden Archer
at McNeil’s, is making a special
“called” visit to Washington ir
view of the present shake-up in
various federal penitentiaries.
Married at Hydabuug
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Miss Mildred Imhoff and Lloyd
Scott, young people of Hydaburg
were married the latter part oi
last month in Hydaburg. A wed
ding party was given by parents
of the bride. Many presents
were given the happy young
couple. After the dinner the
party repaired to the Brother
hood hall where all held forth
for the evening in a dance with
music by the local orchestra and
an especially imported saxo
phone artist from View Cove.
Both bride and groom attend
ed high school at Hydaburp.
Trollers Advise O’Malley And
Ask War on Sea Lions
Mr. Henry O’Malley,
Commissioner of Fisheries,
Washington, D. C_
Dear Sir;
referring now to your favor oi
February 23, 1929, we beg leave
to make the following reply to
the questions in the order of
your asking;
X. What percentage of the
catch consists of fish under six
pounds?
Answer. Our best estimate is
that this amounts to 3 per cent.
2. What is the maximum, tne
minimum, and the average of
number of trolling lines per
boat?
Answer. The maximum is 7,
the minimum 4, and the aver
age number of trolling is 5. We
affirm that no person who is
trolling seriously uses less than
4.
3. How many hooks are or
dinarily used on each trolling
line?
Answer. Three.
Answer:According to the fish
iormation available to you, how
many trolling boats are operat
ed in southeastern Alaska by
resident trollers, natives ana
whites, and how many come into
southeastern Alaska each sea
son from the outside?
Answer: Acording to the fish
^ng tax collectors there were
j 1,705 resident trollers and 905
nonresident trollers in south
eastern Alaska last year.
5. How many of these boats
are ordinarily operated in the
months of January, February,
and March?
Answer: During January and
February about 25 per cent of
uhe resident trollers, and during
March 75 per cent thereof. The
nonresident trollers come in
April and May.
We note that you say you are
not satisfied as to the effective
ness of our proposed regulation
making it unlawful to catch for
commercial use any king sal
mon that would dress under six
pounds.
You must grant us this—that
we speak from our experience
and on a subject on which you
Good Bye Henderson
“Wei die Arbeit, so der Lon/’
Lester D. Henderson, deposed
Commissioner of Education is on
the Admiral Rogers enroute to
Spokane where he expects to
make connections with another
lucrative position in education
al lines. Other federal officials
who have dominated the politi
cal situation in the Territory as
a general rule have left the Ter
ritory after being divorced from
their positions. It was rather
hoped that Mr. Henderson would
remain in the Territory and be
come a candidate for re-electior
•to the office which he is leav
ing.
It is said that Professor Kell
er is at Lewiston, and has a gooc
chance of being elected Superin
ment an dthe foundations read]
tendent of schools.
Support for Hospital
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Senator Benjamin has intro
duced in the Senate a bill ex
tending hospital aid to childrei
in the Orthopedic Hospital, to i
maximum of $1500 each.
now confess you are very uncer
tain, which uncertainty, your
letter, says, has developed since
we began to correspond with
you on the subject of regula
tions that has shut us up.
We hope that the closing order
will be rescinded because it does
particle to the conserva
tion of the king salmon. The
only effect is this—that resident
Alaskans will have to share with
the nonresident troller in April
the same fish which these same
Alaskans might have caught
during January, February and
March. If these early king sal
mon were spawn fish, the clos
ing order would help. But these
king salmon are feeding fish
which will continue to swim
around the outside trolling areas
looking for feed to April and on.
Now as to your promise of
“more effective restrictive meas
ures” interpreted in the light of
your last paragraph in which
you state that inferentially our
organization desires “to avoid
anything more than possibly a
very nominal restriction of sal
mon trolling operations” permit
us to say that such an inference
questions our good faith and is
not warranted by the facts
which in short are these—you
have prohibited trolling during
January, February and March
for purposes of conservation, and
we have made such a strong
case against the effectiveness of
that order that in your last let
terse you admit that perhaps
the order “is less effective as a
conservation measure than at
first contemplated.” If you had
given us the opportunity of ad
vising with you similar to your
conferences in Seattle with other
fishing interests, we would have
brought up our proposed sub
stitute, namely, that king sal
mon that would dress under six
pounds be protected during the
; entire year. The results of your
plan would be wiped out in April,
whereas our plan would save
three per cent of the king sal
mon.
We are in earnest in our de
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. LEGAL HOLIDAY
.. To the list of legal holidays in
Alaska was added Armistice Day
by the legislature this week. Tho
this day is generally recognized
and accepted as a holiday it was
never officially so until now. It
will receive endorsement of the
Governor.
Higher License for Fish
ermen Wednesday
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Senator Benjamin's fisheries
license bill, will be made special
order of business next Wednes
day. The bill has been amend
ed so that the old rates prevail
for the seiners, leaving the poor
■ slaves without any relief from
I foreign competition. License
■ for alien fishermen operating
r trolling boats up to 20 feet long,
is set at $50; for operators of
boats over that length the tax
is set at $150.
This has the support of virtu
ally every resident business in
terest and all fishermen. The
seiner, however, who has no re
lief from foreign seine, foreign
1 trap competition will secure no
* relief from the “buncum” plat
formers.