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VOL. 3
PETERSBURG, ALASKA SEPTEMBER 14 (928
NO. 9
City Dads Back Up
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‘ They buried him darkly at dead
of night, as the course to the ram
pans they hurried" but there war,
considerable conversation about
and a vengeful gleam in the eyes ot
some of the city dads as they decid -
ed last night not to try to enforce
an ordinance to charge a licence h ■
for driving an automobile in the city
limits by non-residents of Seward.
Vnd while the sadness sat lik
cloud of-gloom upon the brows of t!
edv solons they went further I'm.
that and decided to return the in
money of $2.50 that has already !>• ■ 1
paid in by several automobile owne
who live adjacent to the city. Tlre>
seemed to hate to do it because wlm ,
with the new school, the Low* .
Creek flume, the dog poisoner re- ;
ward and the high tariff on wet put
tv Tul everything, Seward ir.,'
every dollar she can get.
it seems that the fee had 1 >ec i j
gladly paid by several persons ar un 1
the fringes of the city and who tlio*
it only right that they might contri
bute a small amount toward the up
keep of the city streets.
There was one, however, who flat
ly refused to pay and defied the eliie:
of police and the < ouueil to make 1 in
pay. The matter was argued before
and argued again last night regard
ing the legality of the assessm u!
of the license fee and as to v' etln
it could he legally collected from one
who did not live within the corpora*;
confines of the city but who never
theless used the streets of the <
to drive around on his bus! a ess or
pleasure.
li was decided that it w >sn’t v, >C n
while to go to the mat t '!
lion. Rather give-up tr>
$2.50 than going to court about it.
and in the meantime pay back to
those who bad made no kick. Hut :
was said, there was a veug Till gb am
and local traffic regulations will be
strictly enforced in some directia is.
Gateway—
Booze Killing 'Em Off !
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Health conditions in the X nitod
Stoles and Canada for the tir.-t si:;
months of this year were slighth
better than the average, but m
qnite so good as those of the ’• ?- e j
period last year, "according to the-*
regular health sun y of ike Mt
ropolitan Life Insurant'. C i
Figures on
eating: Two lumen d a d e •
four deaths wore chronicled fi ■
this cause as against SCO for t ’ • 1
half of last year.
Since January 1, l'.;22. p d -
six and a half ' : at
3. 1S2 deaths from 1
the 17,000 000 p l a rs i
Laited States, and 32 among the 1,
000.000 policyholders in i .m i
In other words “borne” 1. ill •
'em six times as fas' >. : i - • •
as in Canada.
There was an in >.•
20 ner cent in the d • < -
er.xa and pneumonia. VFn” h.is a.
been epidemic this p v, 1 :
exacted a larger toll ■ e •
al years back.
Tuberculosis continues in- : • s '
decline, which began more h ■ .0
years ago, but took its ptroser: ; in
ite trend about 1911. The C
is not great, but it is cons! mid
Cancer, organic heart disease and
diabetes are on the upward n id
at least among the policyholders of
the Metropolitan. Among the popu
lation! generally, it is considered
that the upward climb of diabetes
has been checked. There used to
be a theory that the negro race was
much less susceptible to this disease
than the white. That, says the Me
tropolitan, has been proved<untrue.
’ • d°:e of Juneau was a
visitor in Petersburg today enroute
6CTO Chomley for fall fishing.
SOI'ms LIKE REAL CITY
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Tile report ol' the Ketchikan city
treasure shows that figures on the
“red side of the ledger” have hem
wiped out and there now is a sub
stantial balance of $30,000, Also the
city has retired $10,000 worth of
s hoci bonds. Taxes have been com
ing in fairly well and the1 total of
id*2.Set 2,7 lias been collected, about
(he same as for the same period
last year.
Wrangell* Mill and Power, Com
1 any. Wrangell, is again in opera
tion after considerable enforced idle
ness l his summer.
Tne Vare
ft
The Senate committee in the con
test of William B. Wilson for the
''.mite seat claimed by William- S
Pennsylvania “boss” disclosed
i! a1 he Republican (Vare ) commit
. t- Alleghany county at that elec
icu hired .'>,040 “messengers” and
4,‘j:;0 “watchers” or 9,870 in all
Hi men were paid $5 per day.
T s sa;no committee paid $1,000 to
Mi cl.airman of the “Italian Voters’
League to “disseminate informa
t ton.”
I*Id;NTV OF CARS
V ..Iking, if ft was ever an art
will soon he a lost one. There is
,'C.v one automobile for every sixty
fourth person in the world, the
Ci.mmc,ce Department finds. Two
ye; rs ago every sixty-sixtli person
had one. The estimated world pop
ulation for 1928 is 1,900,000,0C0
and there are in operation 29,700,
not automobiles. The high percent
er o: auivlisues in the United States
brings down the ratio for this
country for 1 928 to one car for each
five persons, while at the end of the
list is Abyssinia where but one auto
ibile is running; for every 91,742,
vole. Outside of the United States
MigV'ii has one automobile for each
u'ghl persons, while Canada and
New Zealand each have a car for
every ten and Australia one for four
L eu. In Monaco, noted for its gam
bling facilities, there is one car for
every eighteen inhabitants. Great
Britian has one car for every forty
one persons, and France one for
aeh forty, while Germany has one
for each 137 and Italy one for each
2F-{. Argentina has an automobile
or each thirty-eight, persons, while
Brazil has one for each 2G4. Ire
land has one for eaeli eight-one and
Alaska one for each twenty-eight.
.Among the countries where auto
mobile? are relatively unknown was
included Afghanistan with a car for
each 40.000, and the Spitzberg Is
lands, with a car for each 82.400
Arrested 2t Ketchikan
Leon Basliore, formerly of Sitka.
taken from the freiclr r Lep
er ' at Ketchikan recently* upon a
r legrapliie warrant issued by Judge
F. Coke Hill, -on charge of viola
id. m of section 951 and 952 of the
; era piled Laws of Alaska, by an al
1 .-uvd attempt on the part of defend
ant to defraud his creditors. The
warrant was issued at Cordova and
| in default of $J00 bail, Bashore was
Ire nrned to that place.
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ANOTHER HAWAIIAN CRUISE
A third Hawaiian cruise sponsor
ed bv the Seattle Chamber of Com
merce is scheduled to leave Seattle
January 15th on the steamer Aleu
tian. If you are going you should
j get in touch with the nearest agent
! of the Alaska Steamship Company
' and sign up for your resrvations.
' The return to Seattle is dated Feb
'ruajy 13th via San Francisco.
1 Fraser River Salmon
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To find salmon spawning in Urn
upper reaches oi' the Fraser, once
the greatest salmon breeding water*,
in the world, is like “hunting for a
needle in a haystack,” says the an
imal report of the provincial fisheries
department.
Deputy Commissioner John I*. Bab
ecck says that during the last fisii
season that he “saw and heard ot
fewer soclceye spawning ai*eas in the
Fraser basin above Hells Gate can
y< n in August and September than
in any preceding year of twenty
four years experience.” He added
that there can not be any consider
able run of sockeyes four hence
from the number of sockeyes which
spawned in the upper lakes of the
Fraser basin last year.
Reports on the halibut situation
in northern B. C. waters are like
wise pessimistic. The necessity oi
a measure to conserve the halibut
lisheries was stressed.
The combined pack of sockeyes
in provincial and Washington waters
jot the Fraser system last year total
ed 158,98.7 cases, the largest since
li'iT, and 100 per cent greater than
four years ago.
Unemployment
According tofigures gathered by
tbe American Federation ' of Labor,
j unemployment a m o n g organized
| wage earners decreased during the
| month of June 2 per cent as com
| lured with May; figures for July
showed an increase of unployment
for the month compared with June.
Morton to Campaign
Attorney Harry F. Morton of
Anchorage received a call to report
to Fred W. Johnson, Salt Lake City,
U! charge of the western headquar
ters of the Smith organization. Mi
Morton will »»■ one of the speaker;
;n that jurisdiction. A substantia
'allowance for expenses accompanm :
He summons.
Htrry for several years was a
charge of the Pioneers’ Home, Sit
ha. He resigned to make room for
another then went into law prac
tice in Juneau from which place he
went to Anchorage. During the last
legislature alleged Republicans at
tempted to appoint him as clerk of
tbe legislature but failed of their
effort.
Campaigning for the national
parties has its own rewards besides
financial remunerations for travel
ling expenses.
RULWAY SCHOOL CARS
PROVING BIG SUCCESS
' Three more railway cars are to
j be fitted up as school houses and us
' ed by the Department of Education,
in co-operation with tile railways
to carry educational opportunities
to the settiers in northern Ontario.
The success which followed thn
introduction of two “little red school
' houses on wheels” exceeded expecta
tions. The school is carried by the
I railways from place to place. The
I pupils receive a few days instruction
| and are left* with home work until
I the school is again placed on the
! siding a month or so later.
The teachers in charge of the
I schools declare that, the school lib
j rary is untilized by the adults to the
1 limit and a preference is shown .fot
j constitutional history, applied sci
1 ence and the classics.
| Each school has a library of 300
j volumes, but owing to the demand
the government has decided to great
j ly enlarge this facility for the new
; term which opens in September.
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Steamer Queen is due north to
morrow.
] >ISQUIETIXG ItUM<) IIS
Current rumor lias it that Presi
dent Coolidge will not send th :
name of Roy O. West, the new Sec
relary of the Interior to the Senate
foi confirmation when Congress con
voues next December.
' nder the law, a recess appoint
ee holds office until the end of the
next session of congress. In ihli
ca.e, that will be the end of Air.
Ccolulge’s term in the White House
and of course the end of Air. West’s
term in the Interior Department
The idea, of course, is to avoid the
fignt which the administration knows
the Progressive Republicans and
other Senators will make a gains:
v\ est’s confirmation.
The Secretary of the Interior is
ex officio member of the Federal Wuf
e: Power Commission, which has su
preme authority over power pro
jects on the public domain -Bould
ei Dam, for example.
But Air. West is the lieutenant of
Sam Insull, the power magnate of
Chicago, and the biggest single unit
o" the Power Trust. In effect,
West’s appointment put the Power
Trust in the cabinet.
liven if West’s name is not sent
in. the fireworks are likely to break
out, anyway. But, of course, the
S mate cannot reject an appointment
not sent in.—LABOR, Washinggton.
D. C.
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Hits Reactionaries
In his acceptance speech Cover,i
or A1 Smith made some mighty per
tinent statements and well worth
remembering. Hitting at the reac
tionaries he said:
“Dominant in the nation today t
the element which proclaims and ex
ecutes the political theories against
which the party liberals like Roose
velt and La Follette and their party
insurgents have rebelled. This re
actionary element seeks to vindi
cyp the theory of benevolent oli
garchy.
“It makes the concern of govern
m nt not people but material things
“I have fought this spirit in my
own state. I shall know how to
firht it in the nation.
? : Chicago
A special grand jury invest:.^allag
crimes growing uut of the April p i
lnaries turned in a report which de
scribed the Police Department as
“rotten to the core.”—Ihis in re
ference to a previous administra
tion to the present police depart
ment.
Mrs. Andrew Wikan was operated
or. in the Petersburg Hospital Mon
day. She is getting along very
meely.
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Selby Bohall got a bad cut on the
fort almost severing two toes. An
operation was necessary which was
performed by Drs. Standard in the
Petersburg hospital.
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Hllen Mae Standard is leaving for
Nampa, Idaho where she will attend
Northwest Nazarene College the next
nine months. Dr. Susie V. Standard
will accompany her as far as Ket
cl,ikan where she will attend the Le
gion Auxiliary convention next week.
The big tides and heavy rains
wiil drive the tail end of the salmon
run up to their spawning grounds
The seiners will return and spend
their Warnings or pay up bills ac
cumulated last winter.
Renee Sellers arrived in from
Kake on the mail boat today and. is
on her way to Anchorage.
I Violated Game Law
Harry Courtney of Juneau when
attacked by a big brown bear re
cently near Juneau sent a chunk of
lead into a vital spot at less than
40 feet distance, the bear coming
at him full tilt. Two others which
he’ scared up with the shut, from
close by made a hurried retreat.
hid. liote:—Tin:* ALASKAN sug
gests that the Biological Survey go
oat with hunters and drive these
dangerous bear away with tin cans
a so foghorns. Such nice little pets
(of the Biological Survey) shouid be
protected from the vicious guns of
; resident hunters.
Profitable Seal Hunting
The hunting of hair seal is an oc
cupation that will bring fair returns
tor the time and energy c..p- tided,
according to John Iloa.ce. a local man
v ho has been hunting seals for over
a month.
Having nothing eh->e to do John
decided to tackle the seal proposi
tion which heretofore has failed to
interest anyone in tiiis section
V hen he was in town last week he
reported that iti 4 5 days he had ta
ken 82 hair seal. On these he wit!
receive a bounty of 2 each. He ex
pects to be abb to sell the skins at
from $3 to $5 each.
White out hunting seals he killed
7 1 eagles for which he will receive n
bo ;nty of one dollar each.
Jtoaeh states that when he has
killed too seals lie will make a ship
n eat <a skins and also put in a claim
for bounty lot that number. The
m.i d of t he seals killed were taken
at La conie bay although he says
tee e are nhintv of them on the St i
lie m
l i n a.
oat m doing
■ hat he ex
rd motor to
Ve to place
UK;
tting
an
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put in ion ‘
However, h
has bet
■ n working for
is no snap, as ii *
nd v c rlt I h ird
- that ih the 45
; u ing seals he
has bn-raed n:. a about iheir halTt
a. i is sure that in the future he
, m Ice .i better dun ing than he
did at the beginning.
In ! w o' i1 i locality
is *iot M CU s; ion m! du ling them o *
hii!:•!g U'lii. The p blem 1st o re
cover their bodies after they are
kill ed.—Wr a nge 11 Sentinel
WHY?
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About 8.25 per cent, of the sol
diers in the United States army d *
j sorted during the first six months
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of the year. This is approximately
10,000 who face the penitenti r;»
rather than finish their term of en
list jnen.
Gilbert’s Successor
Dr. Willis H. Rich, of Stanford
l niversify lias been appointed to
succeed the late Dr. Charles IT. Gil
bert field assistant to the Bureau of
Fisheries. Dr. Rich is now in Alas
ka conducting fisheries investiga
tions.
KOI RACKETEERS RANG UP
PROMT OF 10 MILLIONS
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Operations of Philadelphia’s li
quor racketeers netted them $10,
000,000 during the last year.
This became known as the special
grand jury resumed its probe today
into underworld conditions here.
Detectives working undjpr District
Attorney John Monaghan uncoverea
evidence that fifteen bootleggers had
deposited this vast sum in twenty
banks and trust companies here un
der fictitious names.
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Too Much Lip
Details of a race battle on the Mil
waukee line between Renton and
Pluck River Junction, last Saturday,
in which She lower lip of a Japanese
section crew “straw boss” was bitten
off by a Filipino, was reported Fri
day by the sheriff’s office.
Frank Hashi, 41), the “straw boss,’
and his brother, Jimmie Hashi, 55,
were at liberty Friday under $1,000
bail each on a charge of second de
gree assault.
According to Antonino Epecto,
F-iiiaino section hand, lie was tame
dug ties when Hashi, his boss, shovei
him away, knocked him down ana
be .it him with a rock. Joe Hill and
Harry Ryslcamp, deputy sheriffs, re
|)o-t a far different version. The;,
say the Filipino and four country
men attacked Hashi when the latter
ordered Epecto to “do his work o
l-i't,” Three Japanese rushed to
Hashi's assistance.. Epecto, the of
tic rs say, bit Hashi’s lip.
The Japanese were at work Fri
iev and the Filipinos had .Auit. the
deputies said.
Runs away to School
lsobel Wilson, one of the Kak*#
giro recently refused admittance to
the* local “public” school by the
School Board, fearful that she
would fail to make her grade on ae
count of too much loss of time from
classroom, hopped on the mailboat
without the consent of her parent*
.ltd returned to Kake to enter the
>chool there. She is very desirous
o' completing her grade so that she
: 'i enter high school in the states
next year.
rage Gen, $, Butler
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Records of a firm of public ac
countants recently seized by the
District Attorney for Philadelphia
s ow ineontrovertibly that police
police officials and bootleggers bank
ot >10.000.000. rFlie records seized
how enormous sums paid police of
ficers and police officials.
Scott C. Bullit was elected in the
A aiiiington Democratic primaries
tr run for the office of governor of
that Commonwealth next November.
Governor Hartley, in spite of the
Op rnpia “capital gang” was running
st.ong and every indicaion that he
would run to succeed himself in
tin: Republican elections.
''/hat A1 Smith will say when he
wet.s into the White House: ‘ Good
n inning Mr. President Hoover.”
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Mrs. M, Jackson Dies
Mrs. Maggie Jackson, resident of
Petersburg for several ^ears died at
m.on of Thursday the 12 th of
tuberculosis. She had been ill 'for
jswveral months and took a turn fo
the worse while working in the Sha
ken cannery this summer. Her soa
Henry brought her home immediate
ly after the closed season for fish
ing as she was not expected to live
for any great length of time.
She is survived by two sons, Hen
ry and Willie Jackson who are both
in Petersburg and present at her
bidside during the last moments of
her mortal life. She was also a
v ember of the Wrangell Camp of
the Alaska Native Sisterhood.
Funeral services will be held In
the Salvation Army Barracks Sat
uvJay afternoon and interment in
the local cemetery.
All members of the Alaska Native
Sisterhood are requested to be pre
sent at the last services over the
body of their departed sister.