VOL. 4.
PETERSBURG, ALASKA, S PTEMBER 13, 1929
NO. 9 *
Local Troilers
Ordered to Slop
Local liandtroliers who had
not made any money daring the
whole summer . this week went
out in the Narrows and picked
op a few stray salmon which
they offered local buyers. A re
presentative of the Bureau o
Fisheries noting the activity
warned the buyers not to pur
chase the fish and the troilers to
desist from their operations.
The dignity of the O'Malley
made regulation is upheld; a
lew stray salmon are preserved
for the traps and alien fishermen
and the resident troller goes
back to his shack to wonder
where and how he is going to
get the wherewithal to buy a lit
tle coffee and sugar and beans
for the morrow.
“All Is Mot Gold
That Glitters”
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All is not gold that glitters nor
all tales of gold diggings in
Alaska true was evidenced re
cently in Seattle before Judge
Arlam Beeler’s court by James
Campbell who advanced to Geo.
Csgood, J. D. Hull, C. D. Lewis
rnd L. W. Steele, Seattle and
Alaska mining men, to develop
a gold claim in the Forty Mile
district south of Dawson, some
ten thousand dollars.
Campbell was told by the pro
moters that the claim was so
rich that one could “shovel up
gold from the surface,” and the
property was worth about $200,-;
000,000.
The claim failed to develop asj
per representations of the quar
tet so Campbell is asking for his
$10,000 with interest since Jan
uary 13, 1925.
Alaska Jury Law
Held to be N. G.
United States District Judge
Justin W. Harding rendered an
opinion recently at Ketchikan in
court in which he holds that the
Terrtorial Legislature exceeded
its authority when it passed the
legislative act or 1925 prescrib
ing the manner in which juries
may be drawn. The objection to
the jury drawing system was
raised by attorney Grigsby in
the case of H. Oyamada charged
with assault with intent to com
mit rape on two small girls.
Judge Harding after taking
the matter under advisement for
30 minutes was of the opinion
that Congress, in the enabling
act, did not empower the legis
lature to enact such legislation.
Big Ditch Shows Profit
■For the fiscal year just closed,
the Panama Canal showed re
ceipts of $27,127,376.81, a gain of
'about $200,000 over the high
mark of last year.
Expenditures on the canal ran
less than $9,000,000 per year
The government’s net opera
tions on the canal, therefore, is
( about $18,000,000 this year.
The steamer Alameda was in
port southbound yesterday even
ing with a heavy passenger list.
'Attempted Arson
At Sing Lee’s
When the steamer Queen was
in port northbound last week,
Sing Lee and clerks were busy
'■becking over freight invoices
and in the rush of business the
fire went out. Sing went to
■nat the fire, using coal oil for
priming and when a match was
out to the kindling a sudden
blaze shot up carring the fire to
the 'coal oil’ which was really
distillate. Some one had taken
Sing’s coal oil bottle and filled it
with distillate with the above
esnlt. Sing has had a special
watchmen patrolling about his
buildings since.
Had Sing Lost his head and
not thrown the distillate into a
swill bucket and had not his
clerks been coolheaded, a very
cad fi-’e might have resulted;
one which would probably have
gutted from Enge’s theatre to
the City Hall and on the oppo
site side of the street from the
federal post office to the Totem;
Art Shop. The town is to be
congratulated that the dastard
ly act of the incendiary failed.
Special Show is ;
Good At Variety
Norway’s greatest feature film
success “A Mountain Romance”
will be presented at the Variety
Theatre, Saturday and Sunday
by Saebjorn Buttedahl. The
film is an adaptation from Nor
way’s oldest and most popular
comic opera, with titles in both
English and Norwegian.
The cast of “A Mountain Ro
mance” contains the best film
actors of the Scandinavian
countries.
Mr. Buttedahl wrill sing Folk
Songs and give readings in En
glish, Norwegian and Swedish.
NEW FISH LINE AND HOOK
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Out of Sanger. Texas comes
<he story that Paul Saulsmen
put his bare feet in a creek on a
hot day and felt something bit
ing his big toe. He gave the foot
a swing and he lifted a 17
pound catfish on the bank.
TWICE A YEAR NOT ENUFF
Mrs. Inez Hamm of Muncie
Indiana filed complaint for a
divorce from her husband James
alleging that since their marri
age in November of 1928 untL
their separation in May of 1929
James bed taken but tw- baths,
and those only at her insistence.
The Whole Works
Charles Newton of Kake, was
called to appear before U. S. Bu
reau of Fisheries agent, Judge,
Prosecuting Attorney, Jury Capt.
O’Connors to answer the charge
of fishing in an unlawful area.
Mr. Newton was represented by
R. E. Robertson. After consider
able palavering, Captain O’Con
nors permitted Newton to return
home providing he paid a fine of
$150. The matter was not pre
sented to or before the District
Court, no representative of the
Department of Jusitice in on the
deal—’twasn’t necessary.
After thinking the matter ov
er Charley is wondering what
became of the $150 he paid.
Survey Develops
Unknown Lands
A power site of more than 20,
000 horsepower was discovered in
:he Juneau district by the Alas
ka Aerial Expedition, recently
when doing aerial topographical
work. The aerial survey is ex
pected to prove extremely valu
able in connection with power
development for the manufac
ture of wood pulp in Alaska.
Lakes, streams, and other im
portant topographic features of
the forests, the existence of
which hitherto has not been
known, have been revealed by
the survey of the forests from
the air.
Before the aerial survey ex-r
pedition began its work none oi
the greater part of the land sur
face of southeastern Alaska had
ever been surveyed. The shore
lines of the islands and the
mainland had been delineated,
but farther inland the maps
were ’largely blank, even within
one mile of tidewater. In 1926
a total of 10,000 square miles
was mapped. The work was con -
tinued and completed in the (
Panhandle Division.
The need for accurate maps oi |
Southeastern Alaska is impera- "
live in connection with pros
pecting and mining, commercial
fishing, lumbering, water power
development, and industrial uti
lization of the resources of the
region in general. The extend- 1
id investigation of timber and *
water power resources which
were made as a preliminary '
step in the prospective estab
lishment of a paper-making in
dustry in Alaska has greatly ac
centuated this need. The forests
af the southern district alone
can supply a fourth of the news- ,
r
print needs of the United States
in perpetuity. v
Under the present Forest Ser- -t
'/ice administration, this timber t
will be cut no faster than it ^
grows, if it is cut at all, so that ,
the industry, once established in j
Alaska, will have an unfailing
source of supply. . ;
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A1 Reed Given
Ten Year Sentence1
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A! Reed who was indicted for '
the murder of Ole Brudeseth at |
Saginaw Bay this fall entered a
plea of guilty to the charge of ‘
manslaughter before Judge J. W. !
Harding and was given a sen
tence of 10 years at McNeil’s Is
land.
* Alter Several Years
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After several years had elaps
ed from the date of the peculiar
negotiations between former se
cretary of the Interior Albert B.
Fall adn Doheny of oil fame,
Fall is scheduled to face the
court and federal prosecutors,
virtually a prisoner. From the
j president’s cabinet to the crim
| inal docket is a long j ump and
| he was a long time being forced
I to make the distance. Date for
| trial is set for the 7th of Octo
j ber.
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An epidemic of cold of quite a;
j severe nature is going the round
land not a few locallites have^
{been laid up with it.
B. C. Will Do Share
Long Highway
While the Washington State
Good Roads Association conven
tion planned to make the main
item of its program the exten
sion of Pacific Highway to Alas
ka, Canadian officials and offi
cials of the United States gov
ernment have already started
action looking over the great
project.
Says an old Alaska of the pro
posed highway: “I sincerely'
hope the Highway will sonn be
ready so that we can motor to
dear old Alaska. Real estate
will then take a jump in Peters
burg and other towns elsewhere
along the new highway. After 1
this proposed highway is built
Alaska will soon gain statehood, <
then the big boom will start in j
ill parts of Alaska.” <
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(J. S. Newsprint ;
July Production I
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Canadian July newsprint pro- t
luction was 229,059 tons, and c
dreign shipments 227,502. For r
he seven months just ended 1,
>40,519 tons were produced and i
,532,909 shipped. The United J
States July production was 109,
>78, and shipments 101,016. For
he seven months just ended;
107,363 and 819,762 tons were
'roduced and shipped respcc
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Walks to Death
Singing Song *
Constantine Beaver, Kusko- c
:wim Indian, walked to his e
leath on the scaffold at Fair
>anks last Saturday, chanting -
lis tribal death song and with- -
•ut showing trace of fear. The {
rap was sprung at 4:16 o’clock 1
ind the physician pronounced ^
lim dead nine minutes later. "
Beaver was convicted of kill- ("
ng another Indian in a drunk- £
■n brawl. c
Every effort was made to se- *
•ure executive clemency but c
^resident Hoover remained deaf £
o all of them.
For the killing in a drunken
)rawl Beaver pays the extreme )
penalty. For the same crime, 1
3ut uninfluenced by use of liquor 1
Armstrong of Kodiak gets 15 (
real's; another murderer in the
Westward section was given the 4
>ame term. Verily it is beyond l1
he understanding of the In
dian.
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Huston New
Chairman
The Republican party reached
into southern territory and pick
ed out Cladius H. Huston for its
chairman of the Republican Na-'
tional Committee.
Mr. Huston was the personal
choice of President Hoover and
during the Coolidge administra
tion was assistant secretary of
commerce under Hoover.
Kids are gathering ' in brass
and copper for the junkman.
Put locks on your sheds and
shops.
Aftermath Last
Nov. Election
The Times desires to announce
that the libel suit instituted
against this paper last spring by
Attorney Arthur Frame has
been settled and will be dismiss
ed. This action arose from the
publication of an article v/ritten
by J. A. Magill and published in
The Times under date of Octo
ber 3, 1928, as a paid advertise
ment, and claimed by Mr. Frame
Times desires to say that it had
nothing to do with the writing
Dr the composition of the article
and that it is no part of the pol
cy of this paper to permit its
columns to be used for the pur
Dose of defaming the character
u’ the reputation of any person
Arthur Frame has resided in An
•horage since the founding of
he town. His standards as a 1
mblic official, as a private citi- i
en, and as an attorney have al
ways been of the highest and
?he Times sincerely regrets if
anything has been said through
ts columns, or in the publica
ion of the article complained
>f, which reflects upon his good
iame.—Anchorage Times.
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Actor Is Here;
Saebjorn Buttedahl, notec
Norwegian actor and sculptor
cho has been visiting with Paul
[ansen, of Sunde DeEvers, Ket
hikan for the past two months
rrived in Petersburg this morn
ig and will present an eight
eel film from an adaptation ol
most popular Norwegian comic
pera and will also present sev
ral Folk Songs and readings.
Mr. Buttedahl for his sculp
ural work is recognized both in
Lmerica and Europe. In the
heatre he was for 17 years an
mportant player at the Central
’heatre, Oslo, the- principal li
erary theatre of Norway, devot
d to Ibsen repertory and classic
.1 plays. He has filled a number
f other great roles in other
•lays in other theatres of the
ontinent and was also guest
tar in Stockholm, Copenhagen
nd Helsingfors.
This is his third year in the
Jnited States, spending a year
n Minnesota and the balance of
he time between New York and
Chicago.
Mr. Buttedahl will leave for
runeau after filling his engage
nents here. From Juneau he
eaves for New York where he
vill continue his work.
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ON INSPECTION TRIP
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Auditor Cash Cole and High
way Engineer R. J. Sommers are
m an inspection tour to Hyder
,o inspect road work in the Sal
mon River section.
ROBBED OF PROFITS
Fish buyer Capt. Marshal of
the Phoenix was robbed of $700
from his pilot house while he
went up town in the First City
last week. The craft was at the
city dock.
The Starr-Collinson cannery
at Moira Sound near Ketchikan
was destroyed by fire last Fri
day. With the cannery went a
thousand cases of salmon. The
owners of the company are re
lated to F. S. Barnes of Wrangell.
U. S. An Electrical
Nation
The United States is the
greatest electrical nation in the
world, yet transmission lines still
are spreading faster than rail
ways in the early days of steam
transportation. Slightly more
;han 30,000 miles were built in
the first 30 years’ railway con
struction, whereas 50,000 miles
of current transmission lines
were built in 1922-28, inclusive.
The sum of $1,091,774,405 was
■pent for electric transmission
ines from 1921-27 inclusive,
vhich is even more striking
vhen we consider the value of
ill our railways after seventy
ive years’ expansion, which was
>nly $11,244,852, according to
'uthorities on electrical trans
nission. Four thousand addi
ional towns have been wired in
-he past five years, a 25 per cent
ncrease.
Some of that
'Real Good Stuff'
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The federal dry administrat
r of Los Angeles gives out the
ollowing, compiled by the fed
ral chemist. Ninety-eight per
ent of illicit liquor is unsafe for
se, and that just 2 per cent of
he illicit whiskey sold is “real
tuff.” The question we are
sked is, How much of the Alas
a parched tongue palliator is
etter than Los Angeles’ 98 per
ent.
VHY PICK ON DOUKHOBERS
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A bunch of Doukhobers were
rrested at Nelson, B. C., for
arading the streets in the garb
f Adam. It took six provincial
nd sixty special officers to fill
he city jail with the back to
ature flock. Wonder why the
olice stopped with the Douk
obers.
Radford's brother
Killed in Accident
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Charles, brother of Command
r A. W. Radford of the Alaska
Serial Expedition was killed in
in aeroplane accident last week,
le is survived by a wife and
hree small daughters.
Ketchikan Has Bad
Fire Scare
Water fronters in Ketchikan
•eceived no end of thrills when
die tender Windsor, belonging
;o R. Thompson and chartered
:o the U. S. Lighthouse Service,
;ook fire. On board the vessel
vas a cargo of dynamite for
2ape Decision.. The dynamite
vas thrown overboard and the
dames finally subdued
Aviator Ancel Eckman, oper
ator .of the Washington-Alaska
Airways has announced that he
will take his plane south about
the 20th of the month when he
will close the season for his com
pany.
They have handled close on to
a thousand passengers and cov
ered about 60,000 air miles.
The steamer Queen is due in
at six o’clock this evening.