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S> U SCRIPT ION RATES
Tie Alaskan, six mouths... $2.50
Alaskan. .,»t vear.. $4.00
A. N. B P CRUSHING COMPANY
Louis F. Paul. Eaitor and Manager.
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SALMON PRICES
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Prices on canned salmon quot
ed last week in the Seattle mar
kets was as follows:
Red Alaska. $2.75..
King.. . . . 2.25
Cohoes. 2.25
Pinks.. . . . $1.50-1.60
Chums. 1.35
Red Alaska.$2.75-2.85
The whole sale prices there
fore on these salmon are as fol
lows:
Sockeye. $11.00
Cohoes. $9.00
Pinks. **.40
Chums.- • 5.40
The prices in this district paid
for salmon to fishermen was as
follows:
Sockeye.25
Cohoes.25
Pinks.01
Chums.06-.08
The number of pinks averaged
from thirteen to seventeen to
the case; chums six; cohoes, 6;
sockeye, 8..
With the number of salmon per
case known and prices paid it is
quite plain how long it will take
a fisherman to become a million
aire. Adding $2.50 for cost of
boxes, tin, transportation, in
surance and production labor, it
is' also plain why the canners
are able to bask in sunny Calif
ornia and tour the country—
all at the expense of resident
fishermen and business men.
Yet, when resident fisherman
ask for the simple right to earn
a cultural wage, he is called a
‘ radical,” “bolshivik,” political
scheme*, a lot of harder
names not permissible in the
mails.
DRUNK WITH POWER
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A young attorney of Seattle,
formerly connected with the
prosecuting attorney’s office re
cently plead guilty to driving a
car in Seattle while drunk.
This same attorney had been
very assiduous in his prosecution
of booze cases and drunken driv
ing. He fell by the wayside and
became entangled in the moils of
the law because he abused his
power and no doubt thought
himself beyond prosecution for
his defection.
It is this abuse of power and
authority throughout the entire
United States that is creating
frictions between enforcement
officers and the general public
and which is causing a disbelief
in the sincerity of every man
who has to do with enforcement
cf the prohibition law.
We call attention to the fact
at this time that it was abuse of
power that created the downfall
of Rome. Today in many quar
ters the history of the United
States is pointed out as being
analagous with that of Rome. Let
the citizen beware and let him
curb the abuses of power which
aecur in many forms.
JUDGESE DIFFER
Judge Bourquin holds that
having been in jail is no bar to
naturalization. He believes that
a man who pays his debt in pris
on and has been released will
make a good citizen.
“The man in jail was not vio
lating the law, but obeying it,”
he said.
A local citizen recently was re
fused his naturalization papers
in Ketchikan because within the
past three years he had been ar- j
rested and served time for being j
drunk. He was told to return
next year for his papers. ;
The question we have in mind
is did the Petersburg man pay
to society for his violation oi a
minor law and must his punish
ment continue indefinitely be
cause of that infraction?
Was the Alaska judge right
and Judge Bourquin wrong?
A RAP AT KORN AD AY
I recall that Dr. Hornaday, in
his endeavors for the protection
end preservation of the Alaska
brown bear—an animal which is
in truth, shamefully harried—
gave it as his firm conviction
that these fearsome creatures
seldom if ever make an unpro
voked attack upon man. The
Alaskans, however, know a great
deal better. They have seen
the men whom bears have maul
ed, and without provocation.
But I have nowhere read that
this testimony moved Dr. Horna
day to change his mind. Un
doubtedly he was wrong about
the bears.—Portland Oregonian.
There is no doubt of it at all All
Tie evidence presented is that
Dr. Kornaaay’s ferocious pets
do more damage to human life
each year than they are worth
to the country; this is not tak
ing into consideration the live
stock that they have preyed up
on and destroyed. No, human
and human property is no:
worth anything to those men
for whose sport and pleasure the
bear are being conserved.
IT WILL BE A SORRY DAY
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For the Oregon fishermen
[when and if Henry O'Malley is
! givpn rnntrnl over the fisheries
| of the State of Oregon as indi
cated on another column.
Why any State should wish to
give up to federal control its
state rights and powers is be
yond conception. To change
from efficient State control,
management and regulation to
the inefficient, corporation con
trolled federal fisheries bureau
is but to spell the doom of the
State fisheries and beginning of
future trouble and worries of the
fishermen.
Under the State control, the
laborer has the right to recall
the State Fish and Game Com
mission, if in the minds of the
electorate its affairs are not be
ing properly managed; under
the O’Malley bureaucracy neith
er labor nor the State will have
anything to do or say about the
management or mismanagement
fair or unfair regultaion and
administration and parcelling of
favors to the special vested in
terests.
house on each side containing
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WHY NO INCREASE IN THE
POPULATION OF ALASKA
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From dates of its purchase,
Alaska has been governed by
imported bureaucrats. Only on
rare occasion has an Alaskan
been given power over and con
trol over affairs of the territory.
When Alaskans are appointed to
any office they have been hedg
ed in on all sides and hampered
and restricted to the hurt of
the country.
Under federal bureaucratic i
control natural resources have
been exploited and millions of
dollars taken out and the only
reinvestment made in the Ter
ritory has been only what w-as
absolutely compulsory to keep
ramshackle buildings from fall
ing into the bays,
lias been in etaoin shrdlu cmfw
Klawock cannery which was
started a half century ago today
is no larger than it was three j
years after it was started; Lor- j
lug, Alaska Packers' town has
less population than it did two
decades ago; Petersburg can
nery has added nothing to the
permanent population of Peters
burg; and so the story goes
from Dixon Entrance to the Arc
tic Circle.
During the same period Can
ada has increased in population
amazinly. Every natural re
source to be found in Canada is
to be found in Alaska. The fish
eries alone would support twice
the present population—but bu
reaucratic mismangement and
unfair overregulation continues
to drive men to leave the terri
tory.
It is well to remember—the
lack of population in Alaska is
due to ignorance lack of inter
est and unfair regulation. No
other reason can be given. Alas
kans could not do worse and
having an intimate understand
ng of the local problems—will
do a lot better.
WORTH SOMETHING
Recently was paid by a collect
or in New York, the sum of
57,900 for a $5 gold piece pri
vately minted in California in
1849. The coin bears on its faer
a shield depicting a cowboy
throwing a lariat, with a bear
and a deer on th other side.
Minted 80 years ago, this coin
passed through the hands of, we
may well say, thousands. Its val
ue increasing each year and
numismatists and collectors look
mg for it, one person out of the
thousands noticed the odity of
• he coin and cashed in on his
observation and curiosity.
No house is large enough for
two grouches.
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