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THE It LACK WHITE PLACE
by Ahn-Kutty
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ft was back in the wret days and
the time of sailing vessels. Tne
piuce, Frisco.
Around a certain gin-mill loung
* ed the usual gang of slianghaiers,
crimps, pimps, tnacques, confidence
men, underworld scalawags and sa
loon bums. The gin-mill wras one
of the blackest dumps along the
‘Frisco water front, albeit known a*
White’s place.
The general aim of the saloon
was to head in the unsuspecting, the
trancient, the country visitor ami
flood him with vile liquor, then
when stupified and properly skinned
drag him into a small boat, trail-p .rt
him to a waiting windjammer and
toss him down the glory hole until
he sobered. And when the poor de
vil wuuld wake he’d find himself t
«Ca an impressed sailor and in! debt
Some there wrere who didn’t succuml
quickly enough to the dope of the
bar-room and those wrere knock j
out either by rough house treatment
or by drugs . metimes both.
It was a fie.*' tusmess—in la: os
timation of those wTho ran it. Tin
destruction of souls for dollars hai
a lofty appeal to the wharf ra
owners, tin horn managers and tin
horde of cockroach lieutenants. Th<
shanghai roost was in commissioi
twenty four hours a day.
Naturally enf igh, even in tin
worst of the daT •*. days, a busines1
such as this was considered j;ia'
about the limit in degeneration, a’*:
it had to have a certain amount oi
protection to carry on. Therefore
tee Whites, of the black abyss, wen
schooled in dirty politics, in brib.
giving and in underworld rop fixing
One of the good things of the Voi
stead act was to put such cess-pools
out of business. The black hole ol
the Whites was forced to close when
California outwardly ditched the bar
tenders jacket and called itself dry
But so long in politics, in order
tr. keep what they called business
forging ahead, the Whites were, m
course, well up in the art of having
big (?) officials help them. One of
’em, immediately ’bout faced and
thru some kind of a pull got a job
ferreting those who handled the very
stuff he (White) peddled before the
war.
With a marshal’s badge pinned on
bis manly breast instead of a crimp’s
number—he now dictates the mora.s
of southeastern Alaska.
What may wo expect of a man, a
government official, who has been
schooled in the muck of a water
front hell
What may vre look for in upright
ness and fair effort from an official
who, at one time, was part and par
cel of an institution that tainted, in
its day, the water front of Frisco?
Can vfe feel that the law is safe
and citizenry protected when the one
supposed to uphold and protect is
daubed and plastered with the sew
age and filth of a crimp’s saloon and
a slianghaier’s nest?
T guess not. No buzzard’s egg
ever yet hatched out a swan.
How A1 White got the marshal’s
berth at Juneau doesn't matter just
now. He’s there and what we are
interested in is getting him out. He’s
not only foreign to Alaska, but he
is of an environment that smells bad
and his actions, are not to the lik
ing of Alaskan.
Rous mit em.
PROMOTED FOR LYING
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Tn a scathing denunciation of the
Bureau of Fisheries and Henry
O’Malley in a resolution passed by
the Territorial Legislature, the Hon.
Charles Ferguson, called attention to
the criminal waste and destruction
of the herring fisheries of Alaska
Governor Parks was new on the job,
and a new broom sweeps clean. He
had Earl Hunter, then a coming
young captain in the Bureau of Fish
eries fleet go out Chatham Straits
to investigate the charges.| Earl did
and after laying around a few har
bors and going out where the her
ring operators were NOT working,
he returned and reported in polite
words that the Hon. C. Ferguson
was a liar.
For which Earl Hunter, hanging
on to his job by the skin of his teeth,
received the note of and approba
tion of Henry O’Malley. Earl the
valiant defender of “scurrillons at
tacks on the herring industry” is the
handsome captain of the flagship of
Henry O’Malley’s fleet.
SHALL WE GO BACK
TO THE LOOM”
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United States Commissioner ot
fisheries, Henry O’Malley while in
Petersburg Wednesday evening ex
pressed himself quite freely upon th0
fisheries situation in Alaska. He was
, highly pleased with the run of th's
, year and particularly of the pack
which he said would run in the
neighborhood of 5,250,000 ease-;.
However, in the course of his conver
. sation he did admit that this was
[ about a million and a half cases toe
much for the good of the future oi
, the supply.
, When speaking of the catching o
l salmon by traps and seines lie ex
pressed himself as being in favor of
, the scientific trap “which- delivers
, fish in the best condition for cannin r
purposes.” When mention was made
of the lack of earning power of the
resident seiners owing to the trap
catch he immediately replied: “Shall
, we return to the old hand loom tr>
. produce cloth? The situation is
analygous.”
The run of salmon In the Ketchi
kin district was satisfactory as w:it
the escapement of salmon while tin
run in the Prince William Sound dls
trict was not at all satisfactory ac
cording to reports received by him.
So far the run on the West Coast of
Prince of Wales Island was a failure
And the run next year, he prophysied
would not be very good on account
of the poor escapement of two years
ago. He being a strong believer of
the two-year cycle of the pink sal
mon.
When mention of the herring fish
eries was made he waxed warm upon
that subject. “What difference
should it be to Alaska,” he said
“whether there were direct consumo
tion of herring as food or indrect
when put up as “Crisco” and meal
for cattle and chickens.” According
to Mr. O’Malley there is not a short
age or any danger of shortage of her
ring in the immediate future while
in the same breath he admitted that
for the past three years the run in
the Prince William Sound was not
normal. “There is one thing which
must be considered” he said speak
ing of the herring reduction plants
and that is that we must not promul
gate any regulations which might
be confiscatory until we have definite
information at hand that they are de
pleting that fisheries. They have
every right of encouragement and
every right to remain in business
that any other industry has.”
Speaking of the halibut industry
iallied to the herring fisheries In
said: “The halibut fishermen are des
troying their own fisheries. The pre
sent regulation of herring have been
made with view of helping conserve
that industry (halibut). We could
take the more radical view and re
fuse to permit the catching of her
ring for bait to conserve the halibut
but we are taking the easiest wa\
out of the situation to the benefit of
the halibut men.”
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EQUALIZING TAXES
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We sat through one evening’s ses
sion of the Board of Equalization
We are, because of that evening
misspent, more firmly convinced that
he matter of assessing properties
n Petersburg should be put under
he control of a man who has no in
crest in any property or business m
Petersburg.
There was plenty of evidence that
the present asessment was copied to
a large extent from previous tas
rolls. In a few cases a little was add
ed to previous assessment while In
the great majority of cases assess
ment remained the same.
We have maintained that the citv
can secure the services of a high
school kid to copy the assessment roli
and present same to the Board of
Equalization for its consideration
It would probably bo a saving of n
hundred dollars to do so. Under the
present system, The Alaskan will
urge, that in the future the Count*5!
elect said school kid to copy the roll*
and present same to the Board, t
would be just as justifiable as for
anv other person so to do.
This matter of taxing prLpert.j
is one requiring considerable tech
nlcal knowledge of real estate and
its values, taxation and its various
principles and principals. It is one
which under the laws of the Terri
or> must be applied equally and
justly without favor to one tax payer
over another. Any such action lay,
the city open to law suits and
he ignoring of taxes. The Alaskan
lias maintained that assessment'
heretofore and at present are not
based properly.
Section 59, Article 10 of the Trvv
of Alaska, 1923, provide that "ei
assessments shall be equal and uri
fe rm and based upon the ACTUAI
value of the property as
sessed, and prior to fixing the rare*
of levy said council shall sit an
publicly equalize the valuation of i;u
propelty assessed
During the session mentioned w
listened to comparative values o
properties, on front street with a 11 in
traffic and improvements and prep
erty in the hills surrounded by On
woods, without streets, water or an
other civic improvement. In pro
portion the back hills properties
some instances, because of a lit* (
new paint, are paying higher rats'
than more valuable properties oi
front street. In proportion to values
we assert. The difference in the as
sessment were so plain that it causer
in some instances the caustic com
ments of citizens present at tlu
meeting.
Time To Quit Kidding Ourselves
The growth" of Petersburg luv
come to such a state that it is time
that its council and citizens quit knl
ding themselves by this amateurish
method of collecting its reverin'*?
from properties. It is high time that
the services of one who has had ti;e
training and experience be put in
charge of the matter who will pro
ceed to make assessment without re
gard to this, or that clipue, clan,
interest or whatnot. Ketchikan.
\vrangell and Juneau have seen the
lignt of day and secured the services
of men who put assessment on such
a basis that there is no criticism
made of the manner and method uo-v
in vogue. Just recently Juneau
borrowed J. E. Johnson for this work
and he made a thorough job and if
j there has been any objection or kick
a<= to his methods, we have yet to
hear of it. Petersburg has grown up
considerably and it is time that ;t
betook unto itself grown up methods.
One lawsuit in court is enough to
have given a lesson. A second one \s
inexcusable.
The Alaskan will ever urge the ap
pointment of J. E. Johnson or any
other person so Qualified by his train
ing to be hired by the city. It is qir'te
possible that because of the hiring
of such a person, the burden of tax
ation might be more equitable equal
ised. A more satisfied community
resulting.
THE KAISER OF
ALASKA FISHERIES
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Henry O’Malley, the bureaucrat
who holds the destinies of Alaska
in his hands like every other auto
crat of history, ancient, mediaeval or
modern, is just as bull headed as any
of that class can be. He pictures
efficiency and capital invested as be
ing more necessary than the living
labor secures from industry. Con
science after coupons; obligations to
;he residents of the territory after
Evidends; man after money, seems
to be his slogan.
What matters it to this autocrat
that a man have live or six children
and a wife and perhaps aged parents
to support out of sixty days of fish
ing when the way to get salmon for
the canneries is by use of “modern,
scientific machinery.’’ “What go bach
to the antiquated system of fishing j
with nets? We might as well say go i
back to the use of the handloom. ’
In other words, to hell with the re
sidents who are absolutely depend
ent upon the fisheries for their living
have no business living so long as
traps can do the work. Human life
has no place in economic affairs of
the territory so long as the canning
system uses its traps and can get all
it wants through their use.
‘Look at the way those Indians
acted at Kake. quitting the cannery
without any consideration.” It was
damnable to his way of thinking Iliac
the Kake people refused to fish undei
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