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POLITICAL BILL DESIRED
The Fairbanks Chamber of Com
merce is asking support from all
Chambers of Commerce to have
election dates set forward from No
vember to September in order
“that outgoing voters might cast
their ballot before they leave.”
They want to legalize what they
know to be illegal. In orc^r to
qualify as a voter in Alaska, one
must be a citizen of the United Sta
tes, resident of the territory for one
year preceding the election; six
months in the division and thirty
days in the precinct.
Under the proposed amendment
one can be a citizen, resident of
Alaska for six months and vote as
he darned well pleases, when and
where. The migratory birds who
exact toll from Alaska to spend it in
the States would disqualify bonaflde
residents and yet qualify themselves
in an illegal manner by changing
♦he Organic Act.
It goes without saying. We are
agin that proposition. We believe
that if Alaska is good enough to
make money in it is good enough to
live in. If it is good enough to live
in it is good enough to vote in under
our present Organic Act which wise
ly provides that the migratory birds
must migrate before the election
date rolls around.
GETS OUT BIG STICK
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In reply to the recent fishery re
gulations in the Cook Inlet district
the big canners say “Unless we
operate our canneries with traps we
will not operate at all.” The smaller
five in the form of resident Alaskans
have long said: “Unless you curtail
and abolish the traps system we
v, ill have to quit as we are starving
out now with too small earnings.”
As between the demand of capi
tal against the urge of human life,
capital counts for more these days
in America in general than human
life.
ONE TRAP—THIRTY ME\
One trap with a catch of 250.000
salmon is more than equivalent to
six seine crews of five men each. The
past several seasons the catch of
seining crews has not averagged 40.
000 but for purposes of argument
we will say they average that
amount.
The one trap with such a catch
operated with two men at the rate
of $100. a month on an average
plus what grub they can rake off.
A total of aiound $500. is spent by
(he watchmen mostly in Seattle after
their season is over. The owner
migrates to Seattle after laying his
political eggs and Alaskans must
work out their own salvation.
One crew will average under pre
sent prices about $300. or $1500.
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for the entire crew for the season. 1
The six crews on that basis will
earn $9,000: All of which is spent’
in Alaska.
Which is of most benefit to
Alaska.
HOW TO J'KEVUM’ THE T1A E
1. Avoid needless overcrowding.
2. Take advantage of sunshine.
3. Sleep with windows open.
4. Avoid people who are coughing
sneezing, or snuffling.
5. Wash your hands before eat
ing , and do not put your fingers in
your mouth.
6. Do not use napkins, towels,
spoons, forks, knives, and drinking
cups unless they are clean.
7. Use plenty of clean water, both
inside and outside. Eat wholesome
food. Sleep at least seven hours.
8. Keep away from houses with
influenza.
9. Avoid undue chilling of the
body.
10. Avoid dust and overheated
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rooms.
11. In case vou do contract the dis
ease, go to bed as soon as symptoms
develop and remain there until tho
roughly recovered. Call a pliysi
c.an at once.
These rules are set forth by Sur
geon-General Gumming to combat
the spread of the “flu.”
“Flu” strikes where resistance is
poor due to over-pleasure or work.
A little self-denial may prevent
the disease. It is certainly more
saving to go to bed and get a needed
test; to take everything quietly
than to become sick and incur medi
cal bills and even loss of life.
TIME TREY ORGANIZED
It i^ reported that preliminary
steps are being taken at Ketchikan
oy Alaskan Rollers to perfect an or
ganization of lishermen with a view
to secure a united front politically
to protect their interests and seek
piotection through legislation. It
is not stated whether this organiza
tion is allied to the Alaska Trollers’
Association or not, or whether it is
mother union to job Alaskans as
were some in the more remote pa3t.
The Alaska Trollers’ Association
is taking care of the problems in a
clean-cut and efficient manner. Any
other union at this time is about as
necessary as a second nose to a
nan’s face.
LOOKING FOR OVERCOATES
A United States Game Warden,
a common hinky-dink, two by four
'rough feeder from the coffers of
Uncle Sam has no more right to en
ter and search a boat without war
rant than a common thief. When
be so does he puts himself in the
same class with a thief. When he
loes so enter, it is at his own peril.
Some day, said buric rat wrill bump
into a hard boiled proposition and
the nthere will be crepe and a wood
en overcoat. Much gushing by the
Vampire crowd over the loss of an
efficient officer and gentleman.
the white plague shortens
LIFE
Every white baby born in this
country could expect to live to 5 7.3
years if tuberculosis were eradicat
ed, and ahe country would be saved
a loss of $179,000,000. This sum
is the annual monetary loss due to
deaths from tuberculosis, estimated
Harold D. Larson of the University
( f Wisconsin.
The loss of life expectation is 1.93
years for every white male at birth,
ne stated before members of the
American Association for the ad
vancement of Science.
COM PAN 1 DISCRIMINATES
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Libby, McNeil and Libby, opeia
Lors of a cannery at Yakutat have
long compelled their local fishermen
o operate with 60-fathom, gill nets
uid only in the ocean surf. While
ihey imported fishermen from the
round, gave them 250-fathom gill
nets and the best stake locations on
he rivers.
The Yakutat people this year re
gistered a real protest and with a
dosed fist. The first of its kind in
many a year. Their protest has
gained some headway and some of
hat Seattle discrimination will be
lone away with.
VOT A DRUNK DURING HOLIDAYS
The members of the Alaska Na
ive Brotherhood camps of Peters
mrg can say with considerable pride
'Not a drunk during the holidats.”
Vliich is a considerable more than
erne of our elite can say in either
own.
One of the sworn obligations upon
icing enrolled and admitted to ,
uembership ip these two Alaskan ,
organizations is observance of the
laws of the Unitet States, Alaska and
tne Constitution of the organization.
Drinking in and about their halls is
[positively forbidden and anyone in
| loxicated, regardless of social stand
ing, race or color, is firmly but kind
ly requested to leave the floor. Such
happened at Wrangell recently;such
happened in Petersburg within the
past week.
TRAPS ARE ILLEGAL
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ft is the contention of this paper
that traps are operated in violation
cf tlie laws which permit fishing in
Alaska and the Bill of rights granted
man and in force for these many
years.
“The right to fish in Alaska waters
shall be guaranteed to all.” Did
you operate a seine or gill net you
could not fish within 300 feet either
side of a trap. The guarantee grant
ed under the law is taken away by
the man made regulation of tho Bu
reau of Fisheries.
The right to hold trap locations is
a right taken from the people to
pass freely over such waters and in
some instances are menaces to navi
gation. The right of the people to
tree navigation and use of waters
was granted many years back but
under the free institutions of these
United States Alaskans become
worse than the serfs of former cen
tures.
KILLING OFF B. C. SEALS
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Progress towards killing off the
herds of hair seal, which have for
so long been waging war on British
Columbia salmon, is now being
shown according to reports to the
Vancouver headquarters of the De
partment of Fisheries.
In past seasons when the govern
ment ship “Givenchy” sailed away
fcr the seal rookeries it seemed as
though there was no decrease in
the number of seals noticed, but
now the vessel has returned from
, another seal killing expedition and
reports that there is a noticeable
decline in the number of seals ob
served in the rookeries. Even with
this decline, however, the “Given
chy” accounted for 1,142 seals on
the trip. In previous yesirs the kill
ings averaged over 2,000. The seals
are killed with a machine gun op
erated from the steamer or from a
boat.
Seals are blamed with devouring
over a dozen salmon each on a daily
average by local fishermen, and is
generally recognized as a serious
menace to the fish runs.—Canadian
Fisherman.
SEAL PELTS BRING HIGHER
PRICES AT MISSOURI AUCTION
Uncle Sam’s fur seal and fox
farming business on the Pribilof Is
lands were enriched by $437,115.60
on October 15 by a sale held by the
Foulke Fur Company of St. Louis,
for the account of the federal gov
ernment. Of this sum, $414,103.10
came from sealskins taken from the
islands.
Prices for sealskins and white and
blue fox pelts averaged higher than
were received at the last previous
sales held May 14, last.
Of the pelts placed on sale, 13,
460 were fur seal from the Pribilofs, j
five confiscated fur seal skins, 161
Japanese fur seal skins, 278 blue)
end 15 white fox pelts. The Jap
anese fur seal were the United Sta
tes’ share of such skins taken by the
Japanese government on Robben
Island in 1927, in accordance with
the provisions of the North Pacific
Sealing Convention of 1911. The
fox skins were taken on the Pribilof
Islands in the season of 1927-28.
Of the Pribilof Island fur seal
skins 7,174 dyed black, brought
$168,027, an average of $23.42 per
skin; 5260 dyed Dois de Champeche
(logwood brown), brought $226,844,
50, an average of $40.34 per skin;
14 dressed brought $1.40 and two
raw salted, $0,20, a total of $414,
103.10.
sold as follows: 123, dyed black!
brought $1,225; 21, dyed Bois del
Campeche brought $460; one wash- !
Jd and dressed 10 cents; and 16
Iry salted $1.60; a total of $1,686.-1
70.
One confiscated fur seal skin dyed
1’ois de Campeche brought $25, and
the other four, washed and dried,
SO cents.
The 278 blue fox skins brought
$20,698, an average of $74.09 per
skin, and the 115 white fox skins
brought $693, an average of $46.13
oer skin. At the last preceding sale,
May 14, 1928, the blue fox brought
an average of $61.34 per skin, and
the white for skin an average of
$47.97.
MNTV-FIVU TRAPS OUT
The Bureau of Fisheries and their
henchmen are real proud of putting
95 traps out of commission under
‘tie new regulations. Last year they
blatantly announced that the fisher
ies production would be curtailed
30 percent by the “new drastic re
gulations.” Before the end of the
>ear there were practically as many
traps in as prior to said regulations
and put. in so obviously in a discri
minatory manner that The Chronicle
of Ketchikan registered a howl.
O’Malley declared before the end of
[nst fishing season that the drastic
regulation was only 10 per cent
effective.
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A man who has lived and fished
in Alaska for many years came to
cur sanctum sanctorum recently and I
uaid : “O’Malley prefers blondes.”
Calling our attention to the traps
operated by Buschman in Indian
Pass which is virtually a river stream
from the ocean and that said chan
nel should be protected from trap
operation. But instead of checking
t.n the real sources of destruction
O’Malley as per usual distracts at
tention to such places by putting j
fool regulations which have virtual
ly little effect in other districts. In
other words, he closes up-stream
fishing but permits down stream j
fishing.
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ARRESTED BY DRY SQUAD
Two of the members of the dis
trict granr jury were arrester last
week fo violating the poliibition laws
while returning in an automobile
from an inspection of the workhouse
at Cocoquan, Va. All three have re
signed.
' FSHEREES REGULATIONS ON
COOK’S INLET A LEFT WALLOP
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Says the Anchorage Times about
lie recent re gulations promulgated
tiy the Bureau of Fisheries:
The order abolishing fish traps on
Cook Inlet, mention of which was
made in the Associated Press dis-!
patches received by the Times yes-;
ierday from the national capital,
comes as a big surprise to local own
ers of traps, who had no intimation
that such drastic action was con
temn lated by the bureau of fisheries.
And the belief is expressed that sev
■ ral of the larger canneries alang
the inlet will be compelled to sus
pend operations, if they are denied
the privilege of continuing to fish
by the trap method.
There were 100 or more traps in
operation in inlet waters last sea
son, 75 per cent of them being on
the east side and the remainder on
the west side of the inlet. Approxi
mately 18 new traps were installed
last season.”
It is the opinion of the trapmen
that the two large canneries at Kenai
will not attempt to operate if they
cannot use traps and the order will
nave the effect of making fishing
considerably more expensive for the
canneries which continue operating,
py necessitating the use of much
additional gear. And it will depend
entirely upon the price of salmon
■n the outside markets whether or
no the larger canneries will be able
<o operate wholly upon such gear
basis.
There are many who believe that
the abolition of traps will greatly
improve conditions in the fishing in
dustry by giving employment to more
fishermen and stimulating the ac
tivities of band canneries, thus
building a permanent population and
,liminating the importation of cheap
foreign labor each season. But if
the larger canneries are comoelled
to close, it will mean a heavy loss
to the owners of the plants and the
temporary loss at least of a consider
able employment which is now open
each season to residents of communi
ties where the plants are located
Should Anchorage plants close it
will mean a loss of many thousands
of dollars to the community each
bV miner.”
Do you still date your letters etc.,
9 28? so do we.
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hazeltixe is named
DRY-LAW INV ESTIGATOR
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F. A. Haziltine, former divisional
prohibition chief with headquarters
f;t Seattle, has received appointment
as senior prohibition investigator.
He has been acting in that capacity
since last August under temporary
appointment by J. M. Doran prohi
bition commissioner.
Hazel!ine covers Washington and
part of Oregon urging dry enforce
ment under local laws, which he
holds superior to the Volstead Act.
C. H. Sundmacher
Attorney at Law
Arctic Hotel Petersburg
Thomas B. Rhone, M. D.
Physician and Surgeon
Office Resident
Dawes Bldg. Arctic Hotel
TAXI
Phone 62
Wheeler Drug Co.
Deaf and Dumb Service
John Fanning
SHOE STORE
Dealer m
Complete line of Silk Hosiery
Best grade of Shoes for men,
women and children.
Best Quality Goods
at very low price.
Shoe repairing neatly done.
Buy at Star Bakery and Save Money
Fresh Doughnuts, Cup Cakes, Loo uis
and Cinnamon Rolls
Always on Hand Fresh
STAR BAKERY
AMERICA FIRST arrives in Pe
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for Juneau via Kake and way ports
about noou.
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