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side authority, the first council
was roughly organized at Kake,
Chief Tom who had long held
out against the new life, now
gave up his tribal power and
consented to be governed by the
newly-elected officers.
The very next year they start
ed construction of the first
board sidewalk in Kake, com
pleting it during the winter.
This plank street was consider
ed another step from the old to
the new life. Everybody was
happy. They decided to cele
brate and did have one of the
biggest celebrations ever held in
Kake. There were races and
games played but the most im
portant event was the ceremony
.to commemorate the change to
I the new life. Mrs. Envoy New-!
ton, (new Mrs. Field Captain
Newton) had the honor of driv-l
!ng the spike since she had been
a Christian leader and was the;
most worthy person. Thereafter!
:he street was known as Silver!
street as a witness to the event
which took place there, and the
lay, January eighth, has since
been celebrated as “Kake Day.”;
The following year the Terri
torial Legislature at Juneau,
1earning of the move at Kake,
granted permission to certain'
ullages to organize self-govern
ment. Villages had to petition
the U. S. Commissioner for this1
right, and Kake was the first'
to petition. Charles Newton,!
(Field Captain), Frank Booth,j
Fred Friday, David Stuteen,j
(Envoy), Haynes DeWitte and
the white Missionary were ap-j
oointed to go to Wrangell with
the petition. When they re
turned with the charter they re
organized with full authority
and for the first time, the new
life was backed with authority.
Just to show how strict they
made the law in those days; A
number of people tried to prac
tice the old customs again and
were fined twenty-five dollars
a piece. From that time on the
oeople began to fear the law.
drinking decreased and the bad
old customs declined rapidly.
They became Christians and be
gan the practice of Christian
principles.
Once the people looked back
upon the old customs they saw
how bad and foolish these things
were, and they were ashamed
and regretted it. Then each
one promised, “Never will I turn
back to the old customs but
I will go onward with the new
life until I expire.”
Editor’s note: The above assay
was written by Ronald Bean of
Kake. Ronald two years ago,
took second prize in the Rhetor
ical Contest held under the aus
pices of the Alaska Native Bro
therhood, Sitka Convention. He
Is now in his second year of
h'gh school work in the Kake
Indian Bureau School.
Washington Newsletter
By Will A. Steel
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In the year 1930, the gold out
out from Alaska amounted to
407,356 ounces, with a value of
$8,420,800, which was second in
production in the United States,
California taking the lead with
a value of $9,308,300. Some of
the Government officials in
Washington predict that for the
year 1931 Alaska will take the
lead in the output of gold, which
amounted to $47,247,600 in the
United States last year.
President Hoover, on August 4,
; signed an executive order ex
; eluding three tracts of land from
J the Tongass National Forest in
; Alaska, heretofore occupied as
J homesteads or for cannery pur
l poses, and restoring them for en
l! try under the applicable land
l laws. Included in this order is a
k tract of 2.54 acres occupied by
^ Con E. Giebel, under special use
k permit from the Forest Service
^ which he desires to enter unde:
s the act of March 3. 1927.
% Efforts are being made to have
' some of the big salmon packers
. in Alaska give a little more thol
I to the needs of the Natives, par
ticularly in the matter of secur
ing employment in the fisheries
I Writing on this subject, the
.manager of one of the large
companies says: “I realize tha
the conditions are riot goexi a
some of the canneries. For in
*j stance, during the past winte
the Natives at two of our opera
tions had no money or food, and
I instructed our representative
to help l y giving some of these
men a certain amount of work
each week in clearing land, when
the land probably will nave no
value to us for many years to
come, i believe if more salmon
packers steamship companies,
and miners will assist a’ong
these lines to uplift the Natives,
the day will come when we will
be more proud of our Natives
in Alaska than could well be
imagined.
A newspaper man from the
Westward writes a strong letter
to the Assistant Director of the
Department of Commerce, in the
plea to have Alaska represented
in the “Commerce Reports—a
Weekly Survey of Foreign Trade.’
He cites the article written and
delivered by Delegate Wicker
sham on “Alaska’s Trade Value
to the United States,” upon the
occasion of the completion of
the Capitol at Juneau last Feb -
ruary, as an example of what
might well be brought before
the people of the country. In
closing his letter the writer says:
“The weight of evidence in fa
vor of Alaska is impressive. In
creased public interest in the
Territory, the development of
more scientific and accurate
methods of analyzing her trade,
coupled with an effort to bring
the facts before the thoughtful
citizens not only in the States
but in all parts of the world,
will receive its due share of at
tention.
Ever since the Lindberghs de -
cided on flying their route tc
Japan, and particularly since
their so-journ at Point Barrow
and Nome, the newspapers in
the Eastern states have been
playing up Alaska in front page
headlines, as possibly never be
fore.
The National Museum in
Washington looks forward eag
erly and anxiously to the annual
pilgrimage of Dr. Ales Hrdlicka,
| anthropologist, to the western
part of Alaska, where he now is.
| In recent letters received by Dr.
! Walter Hough, Curator of the
Museum, Dr. Hrdlicka states:
| “Everything goes well, and I
have already 37 boxes of speci
|mens, not a few of them just
precious. Had great good for
tune throughout. Found i n
place four more of the Falsom
type arrow points on the Nak
nek, with quite a few other in
teresting things. The chief
gathering, however, is in the line
of skeletons.
“These were enclosed in earth
crude cribs, with a little figure
on it, deep below 4 to 16 inches
of frozen ground, in a regular
eoM and protected storage.
“As a starter I got a large
lamp with a little figure on it,
not as nice as those in Philadel
phia, New York or Juneau, but
of the same class and connect
ing closely with the pottery of
Costa Rica.”
Dr. Hrdlicka also wrote that
he had gathered 16 boxes of
specimens, including 40 skele
tons which he had to dig out of
the ground from their burial
places, an arrow point with
gouging resembing that of the
“Nelson’s knife” and thus con
necting with Asia, and many
“barbed points.”
This collection was made
along the Nugashik. Molchatne,
and Woods River, he said. The
whole collection will be brought
to the National Museum for de
tailed study and comparison to
furnish links to the advance of
the aborigines.
Many Seattle citizens and for
mer Alaskans have been inter
ested in the case of Iginio Gag
lione, which has been before
the Department of Labor, for
some time past. In the early
days of the development of Alas
ka, Mr. Gaglione was a resident
of Juneau, Nome and then Fair
banks, where he had valuable
holdings on Dome Creek. At a
time when his father was seri
ously ill, the son left Alaska foi
■ his native heath of Italy. Bui
! he did not return to America
within five years and when hi
j did return, it was on a limiter
■ permit. He * has been engaged
•jin business at Seattle for sever
als years and is a member of
the Seattle Chamber of Com
merce. The Immigration Bureau
thought that under the law he
had overstaid his time and
should be deported. He was gic
en a hearing and the matter
finally reported to the Depart
ment of Labor at Washington,
where a rehearing was had, with
the result that the Delegate has
just received a letter from the
Commissioner General of the
Bureau of Immigration, which
says:
“Referring to your interest in
the case of Iginio Gaglione. I
am pleased to inform you that
the Department, in view of ex-!
ceptional circumstances, has
concluded not to enter an order j
of deportation at this time, but
has granted permission for the
alien to depart voluntarily from'
the United States on or before i
February 1, 1931. Unless he:
does depart, an order of deport-j
ation will be entered and de
portation effected, in which
event he will not, under exiting
law, be permitted to reenter the
United States.” This conces-’on
to depart is all that Mr. Gaali
one desired, and he will later j
have an opportunity to return;
under the regular immigration
laws.
The inspection division of the
Post Office Department has dis
covered a shortage of $2,10') in'
the accounts of the Postmaster
at Unga. As a con-equenee Om
E Sjoberg has been instated as
Acting Postmaster, pending the
naming of a permanent official.
Recause of the curtailment o
postal business at» Kennecott,;
ihat office has been relegated:
from the third to the fcu'dhj
class. A petition has been filed i
vdth the Post Office Depart-j
ment requesting the re-ehro-;
lishment of the office at AlatnaJ
|which is on the Koyukuk River
ard on the mail routes between
Tanana and Betties. The Epis
copal Mission and an important!
trading post are at Alatna. The:
residents of H. Timothy’s
which is north-west cf the Chis
na Mining section, are petition
ing the Department for the re
establishment of the post office
at this location. The office wasi
closed five years ago when Rev !
|Wright, the missionary, left andj
there was no one else who was|
willing to act as Postmaster. The
mission is to be reopened and i
:Rev. E. A. McIntosh is agreeable
I to serving as Postmaster. The
; Bureau of Indian Affairs is alsoj
j opening a school there next:
I month.
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In a recent letter from Henry
O’Malley, Commissioner of Fish
eries, he states that the run of
salmon this year in Alaskan
v/aters is proving very satisfac
tory adding: “Bristol Bay di 1
not secure a big pack, but very
much better than last year, as
they packed nearly 1,000,000
cases. The Nushagak side of the
bay was poor, but that was fore
cast from the statistics avail
able. The south side has done
very well. Chignik is having a
good run of reds. The run of
pinks around Kodiak is excel
lent, altho there is a shortage of
reds in that area. Cook Inlet is
behind last year but the season
in 1930 was an exceptionally
good one in that area. Prince
William Sound to date is ahead
of last season. Southeastern
Alaska is not up to 1930, but it
looks as if it was going to be an
improvement over 1929, which
of course was the return from
the fish of 1927, which was an
extremely poor year.”
Altho the Alaska salmon pack
of 1931 promises to exceed the
average year, there is a feai
that there will be further de
cline in the selling price, which
went down last year and hardly
netted production costs. The
packing of salmon is a business
subject to great fluctuations as
is shown by the figures for 1929
and 1930. A decline was record
ed from 1,700,000 cases of red
salmon in 1929 to 850,000 case"
in 1930. The total pack of lv-0
v’as valued at $47,700,009 and
, that of 1930 was $29,900,000 for
. all types of salmon. The figures
' on red salmon compare with a
l total pack of that type of fish
i with the record of 2,600,000 cas
• es in 1918, a figure abnormally
COLISEUM
Last Time To-Night
“The Sea God”
With Richard Arlen, Fay Wray
and Eugene Pallet
Saturday Only
Bob Steele in
“Land oi Missing Men”
With Chapter 5 of "Spell of
the Cirus"
Sunday and Monday
Edmond Lowe in
“Scotland Yard”
Greetings to Legionaires
and Ladies
And may you all have a
good time while in
PETERSBURG
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high. R. S. Hollinghead. Assist
ant Chief, Foodstuffs Division
Department of Commerce, in
discussing the Alaska salmon
pack last week said: “While the
pack this year may even be larg
er than the early stages indi
cate, there is not the prospect
of great profits for the canning
companies who are faced with
production costs that threaten to
eat up much of their returns.
The companies, however, are
generally regarded as being well
financed anfi able to stand the
difficulties that have accom
panied the economic distress
characterizing general condi
tions.”
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STORMY PROBLEM OF
VETERAN RELIEF, CONGRESS
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What is the matter with vet
eran relief?
What has the government of
the United States done to take
care c. her soldiers of the world
war?
What is the present adminis
tration going to recommend to
Congress in December, particu
larly regarding inequalities in
the treatment of veterans of dif
ferent wars?
What new demands for relief
will bob up?
These are big questions^ and
they are being carefully consid
ered, not only by those in charge
of administration of the law, but
by many veterans’ organizations,
which present their own pro
grams, their own proposals and
panaceas.
Something will come up when
congress gets back. General
Frank T. Hines, Administrator
of Veterans’ Affairs, says a new
policy is needed. He plans to
ask Congress to do something.
Millions of Americans and
! their families are directly con
cerned, for any veterans’ legda
ition is likely to strike them in
|the pocket nerve; whether fa
j vorably or unfavorably.
With the world depression, a
huge deficit in the United
States treasury for the fiscal
I year which ended June 30, and
prospects for a rejuggling of in
ternational obligations growing
lout of the reopening of any kind
cf veterans’ legislation, with
prospects of a change in bene
fits, even for a leveling of these
is bound to provoke sharpest
sprutiny and long lively debate.
Despite this, administration
appears ready now to put its
hand to the plow and cut a new
clean furrow across the field of
veteran relief.
Immediately after the war
there were many and varied
places where the veteran had
to go for relief. Sometimes he
would be sent to two or three
cities to get what he was after.
There was the navy depart
ment, the war department, the
bureau cf war risk insurance;
the public health service, all of
which examined a claimant be -
fore he secured any service . A’l
of which is now concentrated
imore closely and because cf
; which, better service is now be
! ing given those who paid the
jpenalt yof war.—Oregonian.
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