VOL. I
PETERSBURG, ALASKA MAY 6, 1927
NO. 43
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GRANTED
Judges James Wickersham has
been granted temporary restraining
order stopping payment of any Ter
ritorial money t,o Governors, Se
cretarys, Speaker and President of
ilie Senate on the ground that the
same are unlawful.
During the fight on the Control
ler Bill the question o fthe legality
iaised by the Progressives. How
ever the Conservatives consdiered
the same a bluff and defeated the
bills aimed to avoid the present
situation.
The Legislature adjourned sine
die. At the last moment effort was
made to suspend the Rules and to
pass bills for an elective Treasurer
and to increase the Pension of Pi
oneers but the effort was defeated
by a combination of Gaffney, Lo,
men, Sheldon and Murray although
assured that both bills would pass.
The puprpose of the injunction
now brought is to bring about the
separation of Federal and Territor
ial duties. m
The great lesson of this session
is that money and not humanity in
fluences most men also that people
dependent upon salaries cannot
stand the pressure. -
The fishery program of the First
Division was defeated by close
margin due to desertion of Smith
and Grier. The Progressive lineup
was Benjamin, Ferguson, Paul,
Worth, Sundquist, Johnston, Ross,
with Smith and Grier usually with
them, especially on elective meas
ures.
The bomb shell thrown into the
Camp of the Conservatives was more
of a thunderbolt to them than the
hop of Senator Dunn.. In event the
restraining order is made perma
nent it will be necessary for the
Governor to call a session of the
Legislature to remedy the defect in
the law in order that the Territory
may have the funds with which to
*
properly function Territorial affairs, i
NEW DRUG STORE IN TOWN
I. M. Dahl, formerly in the fox
ranch game near Petersburg, had'
leased the lower floor of the Mer
cantile Building from H. A. Dawes
this week. He plans "to open a
drug store in this building about
the first of June. Mr. Dawes is sell
ing out his mercantile stock and
will buy the building and make^ the
upper floor into office rooms.
With new buildings going up,
new business and industrys com
ing to town, the future seems to
grow more bright for our ’burg.
WINDHAM BAY MINE
Supplies are being carried to the
mining property at Wndham Bay b>
the America First. Carl S. Willis of
Milwaukee who i sresident manager
and 12 men arrived to commence
operations at the mine. The ore
runs from $20. to $40. the ton. A
tota 1 of3 5 claims comprise the
group that will be worked.
King plans holding real Scotch
party, says the Associated Press re
port. Lots of other such partys
are held by lesser people
Ethnologists Coming
Study Alaska
The Smithsonian Institution hai
announced the dispatch of an ex
pedition to Alaska for an investiga
tion with a view to determinng i
possible the t routes of imigration o
prehistoric man from Asia to Ameri
ca
Henry B Collins, Jr, and T. Dah
Stewart, both of the Smithsoniai
Institution are to make up the ex
pedition. This expedition is the firsi
step in the fulfillment of the Smith
sonian Institute’s plan for a system
atic investigation in Alaska with a
view of discovering if possible
routes of migration of prehistoric
man from Asia to America. This
plan was developed as a result ol
the survey by Dr. Alex Hrdlicka
under the auspices of the Smith
sonian’s Bureau of Ethnology.
The two investigators will do
their main work this * summer on
Nunivak Island, an isolated spot on
the edge of the Arctic, about which
no Scientific information of any
sort exists. To reach the island, the
Smithsonian men, are dependent up
on the courtesy of the Bureau ol
Education, whose boat stops there.
They do not know how they will
get away from the island as no
boats call there regularly.
Dr. Hrdlcika. while making his
survey last summer, found tkat the
natives of Nunivak represent one
of the most conservative Eskimo
groups left. The investigators hope
ro get from them, consequently,
tribal lore which other Alaskan Es
kimos have forgotten. Many old
sites also are reported on the island
and these will be excavated.
The expedition is being made pos
sible by the aid of the Bureau of
American Ethnology, the National
Museum, the American Association
for the Advancement of Science and
the American Council of Learned
Societies.
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Girls' Program Good
The program given last Friday
evening by the Utomigi Camp Fire
Girls was one of the most success
ful home talent productions ever
staged in Petersburg.
Each number was exceptionally
good and the program was varied
enough to make an exceedingly well
balanced production. The costumes
cf the dancers were dainty and
suitable, showing thoughtful se
lection and artistic taste.
Little Lenore Stoll’s rendering
of the Charleston was especially
clever and the Coon Shuffle tool
the house. The plump little bun
nies also brought forth much ap
plause. Mertie Johnson’s rythmi<
natural dance was daintily ex
pressed, and Henrietta Dahl’s in
terpr/fetation of the Frog Dance ant
the Highland Fling by Margare
Johnson were very well executed
The stately Minuet was well re
ceived; while the audience showe<
their appreciation of Lillian Nor
berg’s dialect readings by insistinj
on,an encore. Miss Mary Reep, whi
is visiting in Petersburg, favore<
the audience with a beautiful plan
sfdecton.
The theatre was filled to capa
city and the Camp Fire Girls wer
well pleased with the appreciatio:
and support given them.
Sidelights on
Legislature
The days of this legislature are
drawing to a close, it being one of
the bitterest tights ever put up by
any legislators for the protection of
huroaucrocy.. . . __.
By Monday noon it appeared as
the general appropriations measure
would be held up and that no ap
propriations . is . passed. at . this
session Under the organic law it
would be possible to call an extra
session of the legislature after be
ing authorized so to do by the Pres
ident.
By the 55th day the House had
not introduced the bill except by
Title so the Senate introduced a
measure which was opposed by Sen
ator Brown. Chairman Ross of the
House Ways and Means Committee
introduced the bill but opposition
to it was made by Murray. Mr. Paul
while admitting the correcness of
Murray’s contention declared that
objection to the Senate Bill would
be made on the same ground. The
matter was carried over another
day when it was allowed* to bo en
tered but the gentleman from Nome
immediately began to raise parlia
mentary questions to prevent its
consideration. It is supposed here
I that the ruling of Speaker Smith
j would be against the point of order
raised by Lomen.
The wolf bounty bill is having
heavy going due to difference of
opinion between the two houses. A
conference committee was appoint
ad to iron out the differences.
The hill recreating the office of
attorney general was defeated in
the Senate by a vote of 5-3. Nuif
sed.
Benny to Get Prize Trip
The Senate passed the bill auth
orizing $1,500 for the expenses
Benny Benson, Indian boy of Sew
, ai d, to Washington where he will
present the new Territorial flag to
President Coolidge.
The measure authorizing the ex
penditure of $15,000 for the em
ployment of a veterinarian to ad
vise fox farmers is now up to the
Governor for his signature
Hatchery Bill Again Defeated
Senator Jenson after a hard fight
got the appropriation for the hatch
eiy at Ketchikan raised to $10,000
but the bill was again defeated in
the House Good riddance of a
waste of tax money
The general tax measure is con
siderably higher on the salmon in
dustry and mines The tax on oil
and fertilizer is at a figure where
the wanton waste of food fish will
becurtailed . The rate on trap
caught fish less than 100,00 is
raised from $2. to $5. the thousand
case. The proposed rate on mines
is 1 percent on all net incomes
making a tax of 4 cents the case
mines is 1 percent on all net in
comes in excess of $10,000.
Game Birds Protected in Alaska by Regulation
After consultation with the Alas
ka Came Commission, Secretary of
i Agriculture Jardine has approved
an amendment to the regulations
under the Alaska game law that ab
rogates the season on greater and
lesser yellowlegs that was to have
opened in the Territory on Septem
ber 1. This change is made to con
' form with a new regulation under
the migratory bird treaty act, which
closes the season on yellowlegs for
two years throughout the United
States, and Alaska.
| Regulation 12—Open seasons on
j Certain Game Birds. .
, Except in areas closed to hunting
] undes Regulation 14, game birds
may be taktn during the follow ng
open season:.
Grouse and ptai”..'gan—Septem
ber 1 to February 2-s. . •
Duck (except elder duck), go
brant, and Wilson sinpe or juk
snipe—September 1 to Decern oer
1 15.
Regulation 13 is amended to read
j as follows:
..Daily bag and maximum pjgsts
j sion iim ts on certain Game I»i d«».
A person may take in any* o •<.
day during the open season prescrib
hed therefor in regulation 12 n •* 1
"1 exceed the following numhci
' game Lirds, which numbers shall
3 include any game birds taken by
I any o*f er person who for hi»*e at
} compares or assists Mm In taking
them:
Grouse and ptarmigan.—Gr us.*
15 in the aggregate of aU kinds,
ptarmigan, 25 in the aggregate of
1 all ki but not tc exceed 25 in
• be agf regate of a* hinds ofgrou*
Narrows Partly Closed
The matter of closing the Nar
rows to steamer traffic was taken
under advisement by Major Oliver
and the managers of tho steamship
lines. The Nrarows will be closed
to traffic on May the 10th when the
contratctor arrives from Seatle. Af
er September the Narrows wlil be
closed only at certain times, dates
of which will be announced. The
contractor expects to work through
the winter
The Puget Sound Bridge and
Dredge Company of Seattle is
handling he project
THe channel wi) 1 not be closed
to the smaller gasboats and halibut
beet is the assurance that has been
received.
James G. Truit is in charge of
the work in the Narrows nad is get
ng the prelmnary survey work in
and p armigan.
Duck (except eider duck), 25 In
the aggTeate of al* kinds; goose v
in the aggregate of ai kinds; b*uc
fc
. .Wilson snipe or jacksnipe—20.
A person may possess from the
beginning of the open season to
ten days after the close of the open
season not to exceed 75 in the ag
gregate of all kinds of migratory
waterfowl at ony one time.
It is further provided that after
90 days after publication of regu
lations 12 and 13, respecting the
open seasons and bag limits on cer
tain game birds in Alaska, made
and published on April 2, 1927, un
der authority of the Alaska game
law, shall be and are hereby re
voked
Local Plans For July
Fourth Celebration
The mass meeting which was
called by Mayor Swanson for Wed
nesday evening at 7:30 sharp tn
d{scuss the local Fourth of July
Celebration, was held in the Town
j Hall according to schedule with an
ly ten citizens to make the "mass.
If Petersburg is not going to give
any better support to the celebra
I tion than she did to the preltmin
| ary call for help in the arrange
I ments, what kind of a Fourth can
she expect to put across. Out of
j the citizens present only one was a
woman. Aren’t the women of Pe
tersburg citizens??. This is to be
YOUR celebration. YOUR Town is
what you make it and It is up to
each one of you to lend yours up
port wholeheartedly to make this
National Holiday and make it a ce
lebration to be proud of and long
tc be remembered—not a farce.
Other towns do it, why not Peters
burg,
The Mayor called the meeting to
order and appointed Mrs. J .A. Men
denhall ms Secretary, to act as such
throughout all the prelimianry ar
rangements. Quite a bit of discus
sion ensued as to th% method of
handling the arrangements and it
was finally decided that the Town
as a whole should take over the
Celebration.
A motion was sustained that the
Secretary be instructed tg write a
letter to each organization in the
Town asking that a Committee of
two be appointed by each to meet
with the Mayor and Secretary in the
Town Hall on Wednesday evening.
May 18, at 7:30 sharp. The sug
gestion was also made that the can
nery crew be invited to send on*
representative to the meeting as we
wish their support. This plan of
proceedure does not put the re
sponsibility upon any one organi
zation and makes of it a Civic af
fair. If it is a failure, the blame
will lie at the door of each citizen
who did not cooperate. If it is a
success, the celebration will be as
sured to future years and you will
be justly proud of your Town. Pe
tersburg needs your support. Unite
and make this the most Glorious
Fourth ever.
YAKUT AT OLL TO BE STRUCK
SOON SAYS F. ALDRICH
'Frank A. Aldrich, well known
pioneer, returned to uJneau on the
Admiral Watson this morning frotn
Yakutat where he has been doing
assessment work on his oil claims.
Mr. Aldrich will remain in Juneau
until next fonth when he will re
turn to Yakutat for further work
! He plans to have a geologist exam
| ine his property this summer.
■ Mr. Aldrich states that the oil
j drilling at Yakutat Beach, about
t>0 miles from Yakutat, is pro
gressing splendidly. The General
Petroleum Company undo rthe sup
down over 1500 feet and it i sex
pected oil will be struck anytime.
Oil seepages may be seen for over
20 miles along the beach. The
drilling has been going along slow
according to Aldrich because of
the sandstone which has been struck
about 1200 feet underground and
the rock is so hard little progress
can be made.
It is rumored in Cakutat that M.
J. Sullivan, who left Juneau several
months ago for the East to raise
money for further work, has been
successful and will come north
shortly with a drill which will be
installed this summer.—Em
‘PLAN NEW UNIT
HlfORfl-ELEGIRIC
The matter of Installing an addi
tional unit at the hydro-electric
plant Scow Bay wan brought up at
the last meeting of the City Council
It wan decided that blue prints of
the works be i*timd in order that
preliminary work may be com
menced at an early date. The mat
ter of excavating. clearing tha
around* and erecting the building
will be first undertaken.
The matter of congested condition
and the clerk was instructed to
write the Warrack Construction
Company for advice in the matter.
A petition for a sewer on E
street was gratnted and the work
authorized.
A permit was granted Dr L P.
Dawes of Juneau to make an ex
tension to his wharf.
Club Assured Service
On Wednesday evening the Com
mercial Ciib held ita regular lunch
and business meeting.
The Club extended a vote of ap
preciation to the Council for their
reimbursement of 150. spent by the
Club In sending a delegate to Ju
neau regarding the appropriation
for a road from Tide Water to
Blind Slough.
An extensive letter was read from
1 General Steeae relative to the
| dredging of the Narrows. He stat
jcd that the passenger steamers
' would not be allowed to pass thru
the Narrows this summer but he al
so stated that they would not in
terfere with the traffic of gasboats
and fishing craft thru the Narrows.
Information was received that
the Soutbeaut«*rn Alaska boat* of
the Admiral Line would make Pe
tersburg both north and south and
their Southwestern boats would
call at least part of the tinfe, ar
accominodate the shippers of sea
food.
A communication was read from
'he President of the Alaska Teach
ers Association, Supt Conrad Bow
man, stating that the Association
plans to hare an all Alaska exhib
it at the National Teacher's Asso
ciation which is to be held in Seat
tle In June. The plan provides for
an exhibit from the different Alas
ka towns and schools In all parts
of the Territory with a display of
samples and specimens of the re
sources of each locality as well as
the school work. A room is to be
fitted up in one of the hotels for
asking each Commercial Club to
appropriate at least $5. towards tLe
expense of the enterprise. The lo
cal organization felt the idea was
so well worth while that they gen
erously voted to give |10. The
steamship lines hare agreed to car
ry the displays free of charge so the
<nly expense will be the show
room. However M each of the Com
mercial Clubs give as generously
c* the Petersburg C ub did. that
expense will be met easily.
RETURNS ni.SCLOHE BIO STAKES
According to arrlces received the
ice sweepstakes thise year at Ne
nana will be the greatest wnlch ths
guessers In the anual event have ev
er participated. No reports had
been received as to the nhmber of
tickets had been sold but ft Is pre
sumed that the gross sales will be
close to 40.000 tickets.
The lucky numbers last year re
ceived $7,000 each with a total of
25,000 guesses.