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“It is hard to believe that Unit
ed States Commissioner V.” (for
Valorous) “A. Paine of Juneau is
fcullty of the offense charged In the
indictment returned by the Juneau
grand jury recently; it is hard to
believe that any commissioner, par
ticularly an Alaska commissioner,
would deliberately advise a person
to vote unless he believed that per
son entitled to vote. It is easier
to believe that Commissioner Paine
is a victim of an unfriendly grand
jury or that the grand jury played
into the hands of individuals who
conspired to cause the Commission
er embarrassment.-Anchorage Times
The oath which Valorous A.
Paine advised Mr. Kirberger to
swear to was that Kirberger was a
resident of the Territory for one
continuosly prior to said election;
six months in the precinct and
thirty days continuously a resident
in the precinct prior to said elec
tion. The oath subscribed to pro
vides for that much and no more.
When the valorous one advised Mr.
Kirberger to vote, knowing that he
had not been a resident of Juneau
the required thirty days, he knew
he v/as violating a law but just thot
the “old gang’’ is still in the ring
and have gotten by with a lot
of other stuff, we can get by with
this.
We do not believe Mr. Kirber
gcr intentionally guilty of violat
ing the law and like many others
< f his friends, we are sorry that he
was pulled into such a jackpot.
When we see an Alaskan Com
missioner juggling precincts for the
purpose of affecting election re
turns in contravention to lawt we
certainly have no pity to waste on
such a Commissioner when he vio
lates his oath of office.
In the meantime we juggle the
memory of George Arthur, “Lest
he forget, lest he forget,” that only
a short time back in the caseof U.
S. vs. Charley Jones, an Indian,
charged with illegally voting at
Wrangell, attorney for defense chal
lenged the Constitutionality of this
law. And District Attorney George
Arthur was unable to answer the
argument. Lest we be "without an
ejection law, said Judge Reed, he
would not pass on the point raised.
In other words, the law under which
Valorus did wrongfully advise his
frieDd on, is not a constitutional.
Knowing all the circumstances, no
one will say that “they were all out
cf step but Valorous.”
WHAT DEPLETION CAN DO
Governor Parks in his recent re
port says that while visiting
report says, "the depression in that
district and in lessor degree in
the lower Kuskokwim region, may
be attributed to the closing of
fisheries. Tor many years the resi
dents in those districts derived a
substantial revenue from the sal
mon fisheries and, as in some other
regions, unrestricted fishing deplet
ed the supply to the point of extinc
tion, hence it was necessary to close
the areas to commercial fishing in
an effort to perpetuate the species.
The closed season has been enforced
several years thus depriving the
residents of one of their chief
sources of revenue). The results
are inevitable, the population is
decreasing, regular steamboat trans
portation below Holy Cross has been
replaced by small gasoline launches
operating on a bimonthly schedule,
many of the traders are reducing
their stocks of goods or closing out
their business, in fact the entire
lower Yukon district is less pros
perous than it has been for years."
What a sad commentary for the
Governor to make anent that great
salmon stream which a few years
ago canners said could never be de
pleted and that the cry of deple
tion by old resident fisherman was
bat the quacking of "radicles."
The “amazing” report by Secre
tary Hoover bespeaks just such a
financial condition in the First Di
vision as well as in other Divisions
uependent upon the fisheries for its
greatest revenue.
Just go over that report and
frankly ask yourself how you like
steamboat service a la gasboat; how
you like to see business houses cut
ting down on their business or sell
ing out and the population decreas
ing. Fine business when we can
say “the district is less prosperous
than it has been for years.”
We are pessimistic about the con
dition of our fisheries. Every indi
cation of decreasing fisheries can
be pointed to by practicle fishermen.
Go to fishing communities and an
alyze the credit standing of the
stores and you will find that “too
much credit has been extended to
fishermen” with the result that the
businessmen are over a barrel—loss
of trade on the one hand and loss of
customers on the other.
Help yourself to the mustard, if
you like it. Bring on your pulp in
dustry and the Irish Lord O’Malley,
the fish experts who do not know
th© difference between a cork line
and a lead line, the Fish Barons and
ail can have all the fish that are
left in another ten years provided
they will stay in Alaska and can
them. We will fatten bank re
1 arts with pulp mill earnings and
perchance take a trip or two to
Europe and be just “poor fish” gen
erally
CIRCULATES PETITION
Eddie Berkeley., a well known
Naive fisherman and trapper of
Wrangell, has circulated a petition
for the extension of the season for
taking mink, otter and weasel.
Mr. Berkeley has secured over
200 signatures to the petition which
is addressed to the Alaska Game
Commission and which reads as fol
lows:
“We, the undersigned trappers
of Wrangell and vicinity do hereby
petition you to extend the season
for trapping in District No. 1,
eas of longittude 132° to March 31
for mink, otter and weasel.”
The Wrangell Commercial Club
at its meeting on Monday night
paused a resolution endorsing the
above petition. —Wrangell Senti
nel.
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