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VOL. 3
PETERSBURG, ALASKA AUGUST 24, 1928
NO. 6
“Proof of the PuddiiT ”
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The assumption lias been preponri
erantlv steadfast that mining is au
extremely hazardous investment,
literally, thousands shudder at the
very thought of placing their hard
earned i ioney in mining ventures yet
fervently embiace the opportunity
to put t .(hi savings in a mercantile
business or realize what chance they
have of getting their money back
to say nothing of profits, when once
their money is in these occupatons.
BrHdstreefs compilations of business
successes indicates that in a met
eantile business the investor has less
than one chance in ten for success
In manufacturing the odds are al
most eight to one against him, while
in agriculture more than five to one
against. In comparison to these
slight chances for safety in invest
ment we find MINING with every
two out of three ventures successful.
In actual figures we have the store
emphatically demonstrated:
MINING-6 7%
Farming - ----18%
Manufacturing - - - - 13%
Merchandising ----- 9%
Another angle to look at the cam
parative industries, after having* so
convincingly shattered the illusion
as to their safety and 11011-safety, m
the measure of profit they return.
\:ul again we find that mining re
turns a percentage of profit over
whelmingly larger than any othe<’
industry. Mining returns more than
six times the percentage of profit
given investors in any other indus
try.
Again the figures tell the story:
MINING-186%
Insurance --31%
Motors - --------8%
Rails - -.- 5 V's %
\gain we say “the proof of the
pudding,” —“Underground”
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Fishing Season Closes
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The summer fishing season closed i
in the southern district on the’ 20th i
of August. A number of canneries f
expect to open in September for fall i
fishing. 1
Fraser River fishermen have re t
turned to their fishing operations af
tsr their closed season and are of- t
ft;red seventy cents for sockeye sal- l
mon. The same species of salmon in ]
Alaska waters bring from 25 to 35 -
cents. s
Makes “Small” Profit ;
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The Port Altlirop cannery made
a profit according to reports of three
quarter of a million dollars. They
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sold enough trap fish to pay oper
ating expenses of their cannery. This
outfit has a couple other canneries
waich are said to have made a fine
profit on their operations.
A STIFF JOLT
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U. S. Commissioner Kehoe of
Ketchikan handed Richard Anderson
a jolt. of twelve hundred simoleons
fcr violation of the laws of the land
NORWEGIAN WHALERS
ESTABLISH RECORD
A record in the history of Nor
wegian whaling has been made in
the 1927-2S whaling season just
closed in Norway. With but one
exception all fields exceeded all ex
pectations, the total yield amount
ing to about 745,000 barrels.
Several expeditions sent off one
month earlier than usual began op
erations in the pack ice the past
season, with the result that they al
realy had produced large yields be
fore others reached the fields. The
reports received were promising
from the start and continued so with
few exceptions, throughout the eu
tiie season.
MAYNARD TO BE CANNED
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A1 Maynard, The Astoria Bull, a
terms himself, general superintend
ent of the Skinner and Eddy cun
nery, is reported as not being ui;
the good graces of the Skinner and
Eddy company. His mishaidling ol j
the strile situation this summer n; j
Kake and his general attitude o; |
tninking he owned the cannery, w •
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reported as not being to the liking
of ‘Kinky” Alexander, Alaska mao
ager of the corporation. “Kinky”
in a confidential mood with a friend
said “E;ther I or A1 will have to g d
opt as there is not room in the com
pany for both of us.” A1 is cannery 1
boss and “Kinky” is boss of the
bosses.
Putting up New Her
ring Product
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'ames H. Wakefield, manager ,.f
:ht- herring plant at Red PI iff Bay
:ame to Petersburg last nignt br’tx,* «
n r along wit him several boxes
i‘ kippered herring which he pi-sed
liong to Earl Ohmer, Bert Cmiel
us. The Bank of Petersburg an 1 to
)ur humble selves.
Sampling the product before tcd1
ng of it w assure our readers that
t is mighty good stuff.
:Ir. Wake eld stated that his plant j
mt up foi thousand cases of this j
ish and is having no difficulty in
itiding a market for it. If they could
landie it in packages with oiled pa
ler at a reasonable profit, he said
nat lie probably could handle about
on thousand cases more of it.
The herring are the medium sized
lernng which the Jewish market in
e east do not consider as good as
he extra large herring. As real food
alue there is but very little, if any.
liflerence between the larger and
miller herring. Heretofore and
hiring the present season, more her
ing went thru the plants as fertil
zer and “criseo” than went out as
ood. This pioneering of the Wake
ields opens new fields for the her- ^
ing industry and will receive the
leartv support of The Alaskan along
hat line.
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Mr. Wakefield was quite optomis
ic about the pack and plans on a
)igger pack next year. Last year
le put up 1,100 cases and this year
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1,000 cases. Another year at pre
ent rate of progress he will he able
o put up considerable more for the
>lant, has been equipped with cold
forage and smoking facilities which
vill enable him to work on a bigger
icale. Along with the kippering the
.Wakefields have put up 26,000 bar
els of herring which receives the
tearty approbation of all Alaskans.
Tne small herring still go in to
ertilizer. The solution for which
vas not discussed with Mr. Wake
ield.
According to Mr. Wakefield, the
•un in Chatham Straits and Fred
erick Sound was a failure. The run
)f herring near Noyes Island and
Lynn Canal saved the situation fcr
he plants now numbering 17 in the
Dne district. An unprecedented catch
3f 80,000 barrels has been report
?d beyond Prince William Sound
some 900 miles
I. W. W. SENTENCED
FOR INSULTING FLAG
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John Stevenson tore down an
American flag at Ketchikan, step
ped on it and spit on it, and when
arrested told U. S. Commissioner
J. W. Kehoe that he was a Bolshe
vik anjd an I. W. W. and didn’t care
how big a sentence he was given, ac
cording to advices received by U. S
Marshal Albert Whi|;e yesterday at
Juneau. Judge Kehoe sentenced
Stevenson to serve one year in the
Federal jail at Juneau and pay a
fine of $500, a later message said.
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U. S. Marshal Al White
Advising Criminals
There is a strong connection be
tween A1 White, United States Mar
shal, William H. Caswell, his chief
deputy at Ketchikan and Sandy
Levy, long reputed to be a leading
ivmtlegger and other worse things,
also of Ketchikan.
When Levy was arrested and
tiled recently on a charge of being
drunk and disorderly, guard Davis
was an important witness as to the
fact of drunkenness. He told spe
cial officer Fred Handy that Levy
\vas “crazy drunk.” But when he
was on the witness stand, he denied
the drunkenness and said that Levy
vues “r •azy” and had no smell or
(•iqum on him,” a statement that
was refuted by every other enforce
ment officer called witness.
This uuige in Davis’s testimony
has been attributed to the special
interest which chief deputy Casweli
has in Levy, for on good authority
tve have on it that “There was noth
ing that Caswell hated to do more
than arrest Levy.”
Enters Marshal White
Marshal White arrived conveni
n'! tly in Ketchikan very soon after
Levy was convicted to take a prison
er t > Juneau. He also made it “con
venient” to talk to George Grigsby,
hevv’s attorney, and gave Grigsbv
some free advice.
“I don't believe that a prohibi
ion officer has any right to arrest
l man for being drunk and disor
lerlv under the Volstead Act” the
J KITED STATES MARSHAL SAID.
‘Furthermore, I believe you ought
o appeal the case, and I am sure,
>ven if you lose, the worst you will
jet is $2 50. fine.”
AASH !N(«TOX HARBOR FUNDS
ARE DIVIDED
Out of the annual collections of
eases from tidelands and harbor
irons 75 per cent is divided among
lie counties of the state fronting
xpon salt water. King County, out
>f a total of $45,246, is receiving $6,
).:'4, the largest apportionment ex
ulting Pacific. That county re
vives $27,493 because of its exten
:ive fishing areas under lease. San
luan, with $1.7 S, is at the bottom
>f the list.
LAST IDLE SHIP AT WORK
The freighter Admiral Rodman,
vhich has beer lying idle in Lake
jnion, has been ordered out on serv
:u, being the last of the laid up
leet. She was loaded and cleared
'or Alaska under the command of
Captain John Anderson. The Pacific
Steamship Co. has now 24 vessels
'n commission with a total of 15 34
lie", serving every port on the Paci
fic Coast from San Diego to Cook In
et.
Teacher Appointed
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Mrs. Katherine Sellers of Anchor
age, fomerly Territorial teacher at
V' acker City and Kasaan, has been
appointed to teach in the U. S. Bur
eau School this year. She will ar
ri\e from the north shortly.
The last word in the matter of
school building has evidently been
said. It is expected that the Feder
al Jail will be turned over to the
Bureau of Education very shortly
unless some other unforseen plan in
tervenes. “What a nice garden.”
Knutsen Brothers are busy turn
ing out lumber orders for the Vari
ety Theatre. Rasmus Enge is re
ported as contemplating considerable
renovating of his building in the
near future. >
Has any thing worse ever occur
red in the history of Alaska than
this instance of the SWORN OFFIC
ER OF THE LAW advising a con
victed prisoner to appeal assuring
him that the worst he would get
would be a fine of $250. instead of
the six months jail and $750. im
posed on him in the Commissioner’s
court? MARSHALS. ADVISING
CONVICTED BOOTLEGGERS! ! !
And why the special interest of
the United States Marshal in Sandy
Levy, a notorious bootlegger? Why
the former frequent meetings al
ways in Seattle. Salt Lake City, and
other places between this influential
personage of the underworld and
White then applying for the job of
Un ted States Marshal in this First
Division of Alaska? “Conveniently*
stopping at the same hotel at times.
Even the boat Helmar purchased
to chase bootleggers was so purchas
ed under the interested eye of Sandy
L-iy by his “friend” Albert White.
Was the meeting “accidental?”
White' says it was. Well then, was
the Marshal’s advice to appeal
Levy’s case another “accident” of
the same kind?
We are getting too many “acci
dents” for the public good.
Tlu* $250. Assurance
What was the meaning behind the
assurance that “the worst Levy
would get would be a $25 0. fine.”
Does White expect to use his in
fluence with the “new judge.”
We Charge
We charge that Albert White,
former saloon keeper, is unfit for the
position of United States Marshal;
That he has violated his oath of
Odds and Ends
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Jr. James Sender, optician form
ei!\ of Ketchikan and now of Seat
tle, arrived in on the mailboat from
Kake way this morning. He re
ports our neighboring town as be
ing muchly deserted. Dr. Sender
plans on stopping in Petersburg for
three days and will then move on to
other districts fitting glasses for
those who need them.
William L. Paul, attorney of
Ketchikan, left Ketchikan this morn
ing by way of Craig for Petersburg
He will not arrive in port until
some time next week.
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Billy Gribble who has been a sum
mer widower the past couple of
weeks says that being a canopener
cook is the cat’s pajamas. He ex
pects Mrs. Gribble to return from
Wrangell shortly where she has been
visiting with Mrs. Oscar Carlson.
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■‘The Rainmakers” shown at the
Variety Theatre is a story by the
late Gerald Beaumont and if any
thing like the original story is a
humdinger.
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Mr. and Mrs. Charles Newton
came over from Kake yesterday.
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Rev. David Waggoner passed thru
Petersburg late last week on the
Princeton. He was taking to Metla
katla Mr. and Mrs Wolf of Kake.
The transfer of Mr. Wolf is much re
gretted by the Kake people as they
declare that he has been one of the
best principals in charge of that sta
tion. However, they rejoice with
him in this transfer which in fact is
a promotion as Metlakatla has the
reputation of being the best station
in the Alaska service.
office by encouraging convicted crim
inals to appeal with the assurance,
that the penalty would be greatly
reduced;
That White has forced his depu
ties to make “contributions” to pay
his (White’s) expenses while he
journeyed to Idaho ostensibly to
campaign for Senator Gooding;
That for this and other pretend
ed reasons, White has compelled
the deputies (respected by the Peo
ple of Ketchikan-) to resign because
these deputies could not come thru
with a sufficient “contribution.” #
That Marshal White continues to
employ C. V. Brown as deputy mar
shal, Brown has been guilty of bru
tally to men in process of arrest for
no cause whatever, on one occasion
Brown clubbed an unresisting pris
oner up a flight of stairs numbering
about 100.
That Marshal White has turned
his department into an institution
of private graft, hiring his relatives
and shifting prisontrs from place to
place so that lie and his relatives
could collect “blood money” at so
much per day;
That by his negilgence he not on
ly al'owed a prisoner to escape but
he was not aware of the escape for
several days and only discovered it
when the prisoner’s attorney called
for him;
For these and many other reas
ons, and for his misfeasance and
malfeasance in office, for his colos
sal ignorance, illiteracy and bunk,
MARSHAL ALBERT WHIDK
SHOULD BE REMOVED FROM HIS
OFFICE.
(Signed) WILLIAM L. PAUL
FROM A BELATED EXCHANGE
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On the 8th of August, the Alaska
Agricultural College and Biological
Station was saved from fire by
propt work. A brush fire got beyond
control and was sweeping its way to
ward the college when the people
of Fairbanks hurried with tractors
and graders and checking the ad
vance of the fire. Trenches were
dug around the college buildings
and Biologinal Survey Station. It is
estimated that about $12,000 dam
age was done to the reindeer pas
tures.
Paul J. Redington, chief of the
Biological Survey happened to be in
Fairbanks and “through his prompt
assistance” the fire was checked.
He was hurt by a falling tree, the
branches of which grazed his arm.
New Fish Regulations
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The regulation for the protection
of the fisheries of Alaska published
in Department of Commerce Circular
No. 251, fourteenth edition, issued
under date of December 12, 1927,
together with subsequent regulations,
are hereby amended by the following
regulation:
.Southeastern Alaska Area
Central District
Salmon fishery.- Regulation No. 6
i< amended to read as follows
Commercial fishing for salmon is
prohibited in Tenakee Inlet and
Freshwater Bay within a line from
North Passage Point to South Pass
age Point: Provided, That this pro
hibition shall not apply to trolling
in the periods from January 1 to
July 15, both dates inclusive, and
from 6o'clock antemeridan August
i 7 to 6 o’clock postmeridanj Sept. 29,
in each calendar year.
E. F. Morgan
j Acting Secretary of Commerce
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; The Northwestern is due in port
Sunday.
Smith Denounces
Saloons Favors Ca
nadian System
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Governor A1 Smith of New York*
Democratic presidential nominee
a speech declared himself as opposed
to the saloon system but favoring
the Canadian system which is dis
pensaries under government control.
He declared that the President of
the United States has two duties --
enforcement of the Volstead Law and
recommending changes in the law
to congress. He condemned the pro
hibition law as being inaccurate in
legal content ot lighter liquors and
unscientific .in principle. He advo
cates amending of the Volstead act
to permit each State to fix its own
standard and also a referendum for
the Eighteenth Amendment in vie.v
of the present evils.
In regard to the McNary-Haugen
farm relief bill which was vetoed by
President Coolidge he declared.
“Whether the veto was right or
wrong it is undisputed that no ade
quate substitute ever was recom
mended to Congress by the President
and no constructive plan of relief
was formulated by any leader of the
Republican party.”
He promised action in the Nica
raguan and Mexican policies which
he heartily denounced.
Senator Nye of North Davota, pro
gressive Republican has come out in
support of Herbert Hoover.
Should Kill the Brutes
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The brown or grizzly bear of Ad
miralty Island and other sections ul
Alaska are under the protection or
the “sports” of the States. Because
ot their activities it is unlawful to
kill one of those bear or to have its
hide in possession.
This summer was reported from
Tyee more of the beasts in the im
mediate vicinity of the cannery than
was ever seen before. They were so
numerous that the women dared
not go out picking berries; tlie
children dared not wander any dis
tance along the beach from the can
nery. So plentiful that most any
time of the day the bear could be
seen gamboling playfully along the
beach; those who ventured up a near
by stream declared they saw almost
as many salmon along the banks as
thev saw in the stream. One of the
men in the canniery got up one
early morning and killed two bear
which were prowling near his cabin.
Shortly after the killing a repre
sentative of the Biological Survey
seeing the hides proceeded
j to arrest the man. It matter
ed not that the bear were a menace
to the people and that they were out
of their habitat prowling around the
cannery shacks;it mattered not that
they might kill some one. Nay, the
law had been transgressed and the
dignity of the law must be upheld —
for the benefit of Eastern sport hunt
ers. However, after much pleading
on the part of the man who killed
the bear and the manager of the
cannery, the Biological Survey re
presentative agreed to shut his eyes
to the violation but he warned
“Don’t let it happen again.”
The only answer to this damfool
law is to kill everyone of the darn
ed grizzly pests that stick their
within gunshot distance. And for
good measure, about two dozen of
the Eastern sportsmen should be
compelled to mooch along the beach
at Tyee when the bear are feeding—
the hike to be without gun lest they
be tempted to shoot their pets.
A goodly portion of the passengers
on the Alameda southbound yester
day wef migratory cannery crews