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PETERSBURG ALASKA, OCTOBER 6,^1929
NO 12
Waile the whole country was
watching wihi intere t the pro
gress 01 iiie oi mo Soviet,
big plane coming n'oia i no oovi
i. u ui i cassia, two Soviet
promisors oi me Jii:versity ot.
ivio.voow siippeu tinobtrusive^ i
into Petersburg and out again,
iieoiu any noisy advertising’.:
•ihoy arc rroiesuors n. isoitsoii j
,uiti jl . iviaikovion, scientists.
mey are connected wnn tiie i
kiicv-Liail r ur Farms, proouuiy
aie largest such corporation in j
tiie world and they are here cii- j
mi u'oui me UnivCiSn-y oi ivios- \
COW iOl tiii' purpose nr kDVudj
me JDiue i* ox maasiry oi aia^- ;
na and tile various liieciioQs oi |
handling on the different is-'
ianus.
Au present they are on Skiff j
island, John riauimiu, and t.h-|
lil^ ill an Ox <S n>jr7SL0IYl
wincxi’io uuie iius oueii ilit nio^L j
saccess.*.ur of any in this ioi-•
vision, li iiUl Oi Lne Teiiitoiy.
Mr. iiauiand has tt&en them to
a ranch or two in Frederick
Pound ana it is nmr plan to see
a number Oi m.ioi laiiiis iOit
going to the Westward section.
They will report back to me
university cr Moscow in Febru
ary when they will make a com
plete report oi their observa
tions.
hhe Siberian Fur Farms with
\ 'hicn mey aie conn, etc d, last
vo i pi. .red oven three uiou
sitnci sit ei foxes and will be ill
the maruet later for a large
number oi the blues. It is ex
pected that this Soviet company
will also go into the raising of
the much valued Russia Saule.
An Able Fisherman
Proves Ability
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. .. We have heard seamen tell ol
“able .seamen' .and .iishermen
talk. oi’ .expert .fishermen.. Batj
the term able fisherman" is a j
new one, but from the following-,
story, is j usi/ified.
Ancon Larson, uB, uoesii t let
minor obstacles get in his way.
Pulling up the anchor of his boat
in Kizhuyuk Buy, oi Kodiak Is
land, Larson lost his false teeth
in 10 fathoms oi water. Larson
could not cllve in that depth.
That would have stumped most
people, but not Larson. He sim
ply threw out his anchor, pulled
himself clown into the water,
hand ever hand, rescued his
teeth, came to the surface, lifted
anchor and went on his way. His
eat, or whatever it was, became
known here when he returned
from his fishing trip. The raised
molars were prominently on
duty.—Seward Gateway
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POLITICAL PARTIES
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The next alignment of politic
al parties in Alaska will be only
nominally Republican and Dem
ocrat. The real struggle will be
along the line of liberalism ver
sus conservatism—the People
versus the Federals. Party lines
will be muchly lost in the strug
gle of the People to throw off
the shackles of federal bureau
cracy.
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The Prince of Wales, Ketchi
kan mailboat, is up to its usual
monkeyshines—late northbound
this week.
Doheny to Testify
in Tail Bripe Case
Edward L. Doheny will testi
ly at the forthcoming triai of
Albert B. Fall, former secretary
of the interior, on the charge of
accepting a bribe of $100,000
rom Doheney in connection
with the Elk Hills oil reserve .The
trial is set for Saturday before
lac District of Columbia Su
preme Court.
Since the indictment of Albert
Fall, Doheny has collected on
a mortgage against the Fall
ranch, which property is said to
be valued at $750,000. The line
f defense no doubt will be that
there was a business transac
tion covered by a mortgage and
therefore no bribery.
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Propose Resident
Fish Commission
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Honorable Henry O'Malley has
demonstrated his inability to
gra^p the human element factor
of the fisheries problem. He ig
nores and refuses, to even listen
to urgent requests for hearings
oy resident fishermen. His regu
lations are but words set to mus
ic arranged oy the Canning
Uomome. Ke has played ducks
and drakes with the “guaran
tee or ushery rights” which the
Congress incorporated in the Act
ji 1924 to protect the fisherman.
For these and many other
reasons we advocate a Resident1
risli Commission with powers to
onsider and pass upon regula
tions and rules set forth by the
Commissioner. That said board
shah follow the principle of the
csch- Cummings actproviding for
a, board of arbitration whereby
die differences arising from the
regulations or in the industry,
may oe adjudicated.
That the Board shall be com
oosed of one white fisherman,
not connected or related to any
cannery or interest; one Indian,
with the same prohibition; one
canneryman and the U. S. Com
missioner of Fisheries shall elect
the fifth member to that board.
That the Bureau of Fisheries
shall mark and define all salmon
streams and mouths according
to law and not the whim and
caprice of wandering bureau
That the Commission shall be
patterned after the Ganadian
Bureau and function in like
manner.
That confiscation procedure of
boats seized for violation of the
fisheries laws shall follow the
system used in confiscation of
automobiles in transportation of
liquors. This in order to get
away from the legalized black
mail system operated by the U.
S. Bureau of Fisheries and the
courts.
Arrangement of a sliding
closed season or a flexible sea
son, to get away from the pre
sent destructive system whereby
first run seeding is dug away by
the more heavily seeded last
runs.
With such a Commission, in
sympathy with the Territorial
problem and understanding it,
| better results will be realized to
the benefit of the industry.
Mrs. Torres Torreson was a
Ketchikan passenger on the Al
ameda to obtain the rights of
| citizenship through naturaliza
1 tion.
Senator Tells of
I
Booze Party
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Senator Brookhart, Republic
an of Iowa, recently described in
detail in the Senate a dinner at
the Willard Hotel given in hon
or of newly elected and re-elect
ed senators at which he said an
abundance of liquor was avail
able under the table behind a
curtain.
Because of this, District At
torney Rover stated he would be
glad to have Senator Borah “tes*
tify to any facts of which he has
personal knowledge.”
The next grand jury does not
meet until sometime this month.
Perhaps the ardor of the D. A.
will cool somewhat err the jury
meets.
TO MAKE WAR
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The Standard Oil Company
has declared a war that will be
welcomed from one end of the
land to the other That is, a wai
on ridding highways of the bill
boards. They are offering vari
ous subjects and prizes relative j
to this subject.
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Vexatious Problem
For Statesmen
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Prime Minister M'Donald of*
[.treat Britain will be honored
Sliest at a “stag affaii,” prob- I
.tbly the only official entertain
ment at which the prime minis- ‘
ter will be present while in
Washington without his daught
er. The dinner is being given by
Secretary Stimson, and dodges
[he social fight between Mrs.
Dolly Gann and Mrs. Alice
L_,ongworth—sister of the Vice
President, Curtis and wife of
Bon. Longworth, Speaker of the
Bouse of Representatives. Dur
ing the summer a sort of truce
was held. Just prior to that
Mrs. Gann won a tilt when the
foreign Ambassadors gave Mrs.
Gann the preference in their
ruling.
Census Taking Is
Now Underway
Beginning on the first of this
month, William Gribble, census
enumerator for Petersburg, Scow
Bay Road and Doyhoff, began
nis work. He is making rapid I
progress in his work and is se-|
curing fine co-operation ffom
all those he has met.
It is urged that everyone
who must leave town before be
ing enumerated get in touch
with Mr. Gribble in the evenings
at this office. This will facili
tate the work and insure enum
eration of every person.
WORTH REMEMBERING
Richard Coverdale of Glynn,
near Vancouver, B. C., was acci
dently shot and killed by his
brother on Vancouver Island.
His brother mistook him for a
deer. “Thot” has done a lot of
harm when misdirected—espe
cially when hunters shoot at
what “they thought” was a deer
instad of making sure of the
game and letting fire.
Miss Margaret Shakes of
Wrangell was a local visitor this
week.
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Elections-Sales
An offer from the Iowa Rail
way ana Light Corporation, Ce
dar Rapids. Iowa, to take over
the municipal electric light
plant in Gliduen. Iowa, was re
nte ted last week by live to one
by the voters. The corporation
I offered $50,000 for the property,
j An offer of $110,300 has been
made to South Sioux City, Neb.,
ior its municipal electric light
plant by W. J. Bertke, president
of the Sioux City (Iowa) Gas &
Electric Company, and if it is
accepted the Nebraska proper
ties may eventually be combined
with the Sioux City utility. A
year ago South Sioux City re
jected an offer for the purchase
of the property at a lower figure.
An election will probably be
held.
Pierre (S.D.) voters at a spe
cial election on September 4 de
cided more than two to one
against the sale of the munic
ipal lighting plant to the North
western Public Service Com
pany. Unofficial figures gave
the count of 1,039 against the
sale and 492 for it. The com
pany had made an offer of $325,
000 for the plant.
The city Council of Cedartown
Ga., has sold to the Georgia
Power Company the municipal
electric light plant and fran
chise for $575,000.
Following the overwhelming
defeat reported of the offer of
$400,500 by the Republic Service
Corporation of Coatsville, Pa.,
for the municipal electric fran
chise of Radford, Va., a tenta
tive offer of $600,000 has been
made. This offer is said to be
from a Chicago company, and is
said to be under consideration
by the Council. Radford’s elec
trical property includes a water
power site on the Little River,
and many citizens are convinced
that it is worth $1,000,000.
Grafton, N. D, voted an ex
penditure of $77 000 for a new
municipal electric plant at a
special election which brought
to a climax a campaign over the
issue whether the municipality
should improve existing facil
ities or grant a franchise to a
private power corporation.
The Twelfth Annual Report
of Carl D. Thompson, secretary
of the Public Ownership League
of America, has this to say, un
der the heading “Municipal
Ownership Campaigns”: “Stead
ily throughout the year the Pub
lic Ownership League has re
sponded to calls from various
parts of the country to assist
very important municipal own
ership campaigns. One of these
trips took the secretary to south
ern Idaho for a series of lec
tures and addresses. Several
trips were made to Nebraska,!
others to different points in
Missouri, Arkansas, Ohio, New
York, Kansas, Wisconsin, Minne
sota, Indiana, Iowa, Illinois and
Kentucky. In this way the
league has campainged in thir
teen states during the year—in
some of them repeatedly. It is
estimated that 80 per cent of
of the campaigns were success
ful, either in defeating the sale
of a municipal plant or in pro
moting new projects.”
Gordon McDonald has moved
! his logging camp from Duncan
Canal down to the Ketchikan
j district.
New Angle Booze
Question Arises
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The older the prohibition
question, the more vexatious
it becomes and the more angles
are bumped into.
The latest being an attempt
on the part of the government
to confiscate an electric plant
aiiegedly used by bootleggers on
an elk breeding farm at Middle
boro, Mass., to run stills.
The Circuit Court of Appeals
pointed out that such a prece
dent would make huge public
utility electric light companies
subject to seizure if a bootlegger
tapped their juice to make his
own juice.
Tory governer Kohler of Wis
consin precipitated the fight by
and thru his Kohler Company of
Wisconsin. The company resist
ed seizure claiming that inno
cent owners of property were en
titled to some protection when
it was used without their knowl
edge and consent. The district
court and the government held
otherwise.
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Fish Trapping Is
Charge in Oregon
W. T. Downs of Celilo, Oregon,
was indicted by the Wasco Co.,
Oregon, grand jury, charged
with operating a fish trap
The indictment charges that
Downs dammed and obstructed
a waterway of the Columbia
River at Celilo Falls so that sal
mon and other fish could not es
cape. Several wagonloads of
salmon were taken from this
trap by employees of Downs, In
dian witnesses informed the
grand jury.
Indians fighting traps in Ore
gon. Indians fighting traps in
Alaska. Violation of law to op
erate a trap in Oregon—viola
tion of vested rights for Indians
io use seines in Alaska. No can
do, no savvy.
Pension System vs
“Pioneer Hemes”
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An old-age pension system can
be maintained at much less ex
pense than is now required to
operate 62 almshouses with 35,
000 inmates, scattered thruout
the state of New York, is the as
sertion of Abraham Epstein, se
cretary of the American Associ
ation for Old Age Security, in
testimony before the commission
created by the state of New York
legislature to investigate the ad
visability of tnacting an old-age
pension law.
NO MONKEY BUSINESS
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A monkey inoculated with the
deadly infantile paralysis germs
escaped from the experimental
laboratories of McGill Univers
ity, Montreal, Que., last Friday.
The police were ordered to kill
it on sight—no monkey business
a-tall with that member of the
simian family.
MUSICIAN ILL
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John Phillip Sousa, famous
band conductor and more fa
mous because of his musical
compositions was taken suddenly
ill in Syracuse, New York just
before a concert he was to have
conducted.
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Salmon Packs
First Division
Year
1878...
1879
1880
1881
1882
1883
1884
1885
1886
1887
1888
1889
1890
1891
1892
1893
1894
1895
1896
1897
1898
1899
1900
1901
1902
1903
1904
1905
1906
1907
1908
1909
1.910
1912
1911
1913
1914
1915
1916
1917
1918
1919
1920
Total
Canneries
.. .2.
2
1
1
1
4
4
3
4
5
6
12
12
11
7
8
7
7
9
9
9
9
16
21
26
21
12
13
20
22
22
19
23
51
32
42
45
46
54
60
75
75
80
Pack
.8,159
12,530
6,539
8,977
11,501
20,040
22,189
16,728
18,660
31,462
81,128
141,760
142,901
456,615
115,722
136,053
142,544
148,476
262,381
271,867
251,385
310,219
456,639
735,499
906,676
642,305
596,003
433,607
767,285
887,503
1.011.648
852,870
1,066,399
2.033.648
1,580,868
1,793,851
1,789,031
2,540,436
2,223,658
3,284.408
3,385,740
3,108.364
2,202,276
34,589,500
Misuse of Our
11 judicial System
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The Colorado Conference of
.he Methodist Episcopal Church,
neeting in Denver, recently had
:his to say relative to the misuse
)f the judicial system:
“Property rights possess no in
herent sacredness which puts
:hem beyond the reach of criti
cism and revision by Christian
society.
“Wealth created by society
should be created to the
development of all the people in
ways to be determined by the
people themselves.
“Misuse of our pudicial sys
tem by powerful interests in
times of industrial conflict tends
to bring into dispute all demo
cratic processes.”
BOOZE GANG FARES BADLl
IN COURT
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Jack Frazier, Joe Burdette anil
W. Jacobson were sentenced to
one year each in the Skagway
Federal Jail and to pungle up
one thousand simoleons. each.
F. Durban and K. L. Foote
will each pay their Uncle Sam a
thousand dollars for the keep of
a year in the Federal Jail at Ju
neau.
Jack Barseth, 30 months at
McNeil’s Island and $1,000; R.
Hanson, one year at Juneau and
$1,000; .Charles ..Mitchel, ..18
moons at McNeil’s and $100.; C.
Fraser two years at McNeil’s.
Barseth, Hansen and Mitchel
allowed 30 days to perfect ap
peals. A1 Reed was sentenced to
McNeil’s for 10 years for the kill
iny of Brudeseth at Saginaw last