VOL. I
PETERSBURG, ALASKA DECEMBER 3 1926
NO. 21
A! DEER IN RtPEAL PRIMARY
BRUSH AND KILLS FRIEND IN WASHINGTON
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Sigurd Omsted was accidentally
shot and killed by Einar Hille while
hunting in Duncan Canal last Sun
day.
Sigurd Omsted, Einar Hille and
Harold Omsted of Sigurd went in
to the woods to hunt deer. Before
going out they planned to hunt in
a straight line back into the woods
and not to travel in circles. Hille
saw a movement in the brush and
thinking it a deer, raised his gun and
fired, shooting Omsted in the kfdney*
The hunters returned and report
ed the affair to the United States
A very near tragfedy occurred, sim
ilar to that experienced last sum
mer by Frank Raynor, when Mr. AL
Hoist of Farragut Bay, went down
into the engine room of his gasboat
with a lantern. There was a leak
in the gas t^hk and a terrific explo
sion occurred which completely
shattered the boat and set it afire.
After several frantic efforts, Holst
finally plawed his way through the
fames and leaped overboard. Pete
Jorgenson and son Albert, rushed
the injured man into Petersburg.
He was badly burned * abouT the
head and arms, but was otherwise
uninjured.
The Department of State has an
nounced that the Japanese Govern
ment has promulgated an ordinance
making effective the alien land law
which permits aliens to hold pro
ptrty in Japan.
Trior to this time, aliens in Jap
an have been unable to acquire title
to Japanese land, it was explained,
but but they were able to lease
land indefinitely. The law now
going into effect provides that an
imperial decree may exempt from
its enabling provisions the citizens
of a nation which refuses to give
similar land rights to Japanese na
tionals.
However, the present imperial or
dinance contains no provision, which
would discriminate against the ci
tizens of California or other States
Yiiiich refuse to allow Japanese to
own land, The Department of State
is informed that the Japanese Gov
ernment does not contemplate any
such discrimination. The ordi
nance became of effect the tenth of
this month.
WIRES CROSSED.
In our last issue we reported that
the yong son of Mr. and Mrs. Chas.
V hippie of Scow Bay had broken an
arm the early part of last week. We
make correction of this statement,
for we learn that when the band
ages were removed for an examina
tion of the arm, the little fellow
reached up and put his arms around
his father’s neck and put his weighl
upon the alleged broken member
Try Jonn Fanning for Arch 8a
vpr Shoes for men, women and chil
dren. First class Kosery on hand
Commissioner here. A jury was im
panelled to investigate the case and
the findings returned was accident
al death by shooting at the ha’nds of
Hille. Harold Omsted. surviving
.brother testifying that the men were
on the best of terms and had had no
disagreement of any kind at any
time.
The deceased had just come to
America from Norway but a couple
of months while the others htd been
residents in the United States for
about six years.
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Announcement by Karl K. Katz,
passenger representative of the
Northern Pacifiic Railways that will
be of interest to our readers and
other Alaskans states that arrange
ments have been made whereby
summer tourist fares for 1927, both
east and west bound Chicago, St.
Lon is, New Orleans, St. Paul, Min
neapolis, Omaha and Kansas City
to north Pacific points as were in
effect for 1926. The selling dates
will be the same as last year with
exception of eastbound tickets
which will be sold up to and includ
ing September 30th, which is 15
days later than heretofore.
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Seator Hiram Johnson, of Calif
ornia commenting on the recent de
cision of the United States Supreme
Court regarding the President’s
power of removal of officials, as a
constitutional interpretation “which
may have far reaching consequenc
es.” He said that all will now ac
quiesce but that differences of opin
ion will continue to exist “as to the
policy which ought to prevail.”
He said that “a right of arbitrary
and absolute removal, notwithstand
ing a fixed term, penalizes independ
ent service to thepeople and puts a
premium upon obsequious complac
ency to power.”
‘ Finally now,” he said, the power
lies ready to the hand bold enough
oi partizan enough to employ ft—
the power, uncontrolled and uncon
trollable, of removal.”
1 he decision of the Supreme
Court was rendered in the case of
Postmaster Myers of Portland. At
torney for Mr. Myers is asking a re
view of the case by the Court. In
event the review is granted it is not
improbable that the Court may re
verse its position for argument by
minority in this case was well
founded in law.
WOMEN’S COMMUNITY LEAGUE
The Women’s Community League
held its regular meeting at the pars
nage on Wednesday evening. Be
sides the discussion of the Food
Sale to take place at Hogue and
Tveten’s store,, the organization un
animously voted to buy a new stove
for the church. The meeting was
very enjoyable and the ladies are
enthusiastically looking forward tc
the future things they are planning
It has been announced in Seattle
that at the next session of the State
legislature, a bill will be inroduced
repealing of the direct primary law.
j In ieu of the primary system, pre
cinct delegates are to be elected to
form a nominating committee.
Precnct delegates are to meet in
! their precints and nominate legisla
tive candidates; they will then meet
wih othtr delegates and county com
missioners. This will be followed
by a county convention of all dele
gates for the nomination of county
candidates. State candidates will be
nominated when all the delegates
meet in a state convention. Group
ing in congressional districts for the
nonmination of congressional candi
dates.
“A prominent businessman of Ko
diak informed me while we were in
port a few days ago that the outlook
for a cold storage plant was very en
couraging and that every indication
pointed to the fact a plant would
soon be constructed at Kodiak,”
stated Mr. Terhune, of the Biologic
al Survey, Alaska Game Comisaion,
who was a guest yesterday at the,
Chamber of Commerce luncheon
held at the Seward Grill. Mr. Ter
hune returned to Seward on the De
partment’s vessel Seal which has
been on a five months cruise to
V estward and Bristol Bay points.
—Seward Gateway.
FILM AMERICAN
LIFE FOR ALIENS
An innovation in Americanization
methods among newly arrived im
migrant aliens was launched this
month when the S. S. Leviathan
while proceeding up New York
Harbor entertained (steerage passen
gers with motion pictures depicting
life and customs in the new home of
their adoption.
Secretary of Labor Davis was one
of a party of officials invited by
Will Hays, president of the moving
picture producers, to witness the
first performance.
In the future immigrant-carrying
steamships will show such films to
the steerage passengers while cross
ing the Atlantic.
Manuel Quezon, president of the
Philippine senate, Manuel Osmena,
speaker of the house, • alon with
CJarko M. Recto, democratic leader
were delegated by a joint session
of the legislature, to protest against
the recent action of Governor Wood
in abolishing the board of control.
The men will make a direct appeal
to congress against what they term
reactionary legislation.
The Women’s Community League
is planning a Food Sale which will
be held at Hogue and Tveten’s
store on Saturday morning. Be on
time (10 a. m.) and get first choice
of all the good eats.
The Lakina, Alaska Steamship
Company’s freighter is calling in
» Petersburg this week with 150 tons
of coal.
Bishop Peter Trimble Roe, Bishop
of the Episcopal Church in Alaska,
officiated at the funeral of Mrs.
James Wickersham November the
27th in San Francisco. Judge Wick
ersham and son Darrow P. Wicker
sham of San Francisco were present.
Interment of her remains will be
made at Tacoma beside her other
sons.
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The members of the Alaska Game
Commission are mailing individuals
and organizations in the Terri
tory interested in wild life perpetu
ation, invitations to submit com
ments and constructive criticism re
lating to the Alaska Game regula
tions now in force and suggestions
for their improvement . All such
recommendations will be given care
coi.sideration by the Commission at
its meeting in Juneau next Janu
ary.
Many person's realizing the value
of a resident hunting license for de
tecting and eliminating ineligibles
have recommended that a resident
hunting license be required. This
subject will be considered by the
Commission at its meeting and cht
Commission invites Alaskans to sub
mit their views regarding it.
The Commission cordially Invl\ >
all persons interested to attend the
meeting at that time and presen'
their views in person, or, il they
cannot appear in person, to vrit;e
either to a member of the Commis
sion or to the Juneau office of the
Commission, such ideas as they have
for the improvement of the Alaska
Game Regulations.
At the meeting held in Juneau
February 1926, several persons ap
peared before the Commission with
valuable suggestions and a large
number of communications were giv
en careful consideration. Many of
these were the basis for changes in
the Regulations.
COMBI RADIO
JIATIONS
The broadcasting companies of
Japan have decided to join their in
terests in the formation of one com
pany which will control all broad
casting in the country. It is the
general opinion of those interested
in radio broadcasting in Japan, that
this move is directed and guided by
the Government.
Arthur R. Gould, Republican nom
inee, is accused of exceeding legal
campaign expenses in the primary
and with giving a bribe of $100,000
sreveral years ago to the premier of
New Brunswick. A senatorial in
vestigation of the charges has been
asked.
Lepers in the United States num
borin 394 since 1921, have been un
der the care of the Public Health
Service at Carville, La. Of this num
ber 62 were admitted thia fiscal
year. i
After spending the summer in
Alaska, U. S. Fish Commissioner re
turned to Washington to publish
reports of the “amazing increase’’ of
salmon in Alaska. Not content with
the publishing of a falsity at the ex
pense of the Government other
‘ beneficial” reports are made. That
Alaskans might know the kind of
Commissioner we have directing our
fisheries and his success at conserv
ing seed fish we publish the report
in part:
“The regulations promulgated un
der the law of June 6, 1924, gov
erning the fisheries of Alaske are
proving beneficial and are being
complied with in better spirit with
the result that the Alaska salmon
fisheries are in a healthy condition.
There has been an increase of 1,700,
0U0, cases in the Alaska pack of
salmon as compared with the 1925
the pack of pink salmon (which ma
tt: res in two years) being the largest
in the history of the industry.
‘With present facilities the bu
reau is unable to suppyl all appli
cants for fish for stocking waters,
theie being an annual carry-over of
irore than 5,000 applications. Ef
forts are being made to meet this
demand by enlarging its pond sys
tems, providing additional hatchery
troughs, growing more fish to the
fingerling size and through the de
velopment of co-operative fish nurs
eries.
Since the first of July sixty-three
new radio broadcasting stations and
sixty-two changes in wave lengths
reported to the Department of Com
merce by its radio supervisors in the
nine radio districts of the United
States.
According to the officials practic
ally all of the changes of the 62
changes in wave length were made
because of lack of restriction and re
gulation of radio broadcasting
which was brought about by the de
cision of the Attorney General di
vesting the Department of Com
merce of regulatory control.
The present chaos in the air is
to be augmented by 46 stations that
are preparng for power increase.
There are 40 new stations under
construction and indefinite plans for
82 more according to records on file
iu the Department of Commerce.
NEW FISHING DEVICE
It was recently reported in the
“Scandinavian Shipping Gazette,”
that an engineer of Iceland has per
fected a light which can be used in
desp-sea fishing for attracting fish
to nets.
The invention makes it possible
not only to illuminate bar-nets, but
also all other kinds of nets. Ice
landic experts declare that the prob
lem has been solved in a very prac
tical way, and the installation is
cheap.
The attraction of fish to light has
been known for many years but no
practica If or the installation of the
light had been found so that it could
be used in deep-sea fishing. *
PORT OF MISSING MEN
. Information is desired by the Gov
ernor’s Office, Juneau, Alaska, re
garding Forrest N. Handy, who left
San Francisco in 1898 for Alaska
as manager of the Copper Riv‘er
and Yukon Transportation Co.. ..
GOVERNOR’S OFFICE
The cooperative fish nursery
arouses the interest of the public in
the production and protection of
fish, brings financial support from
TtfOSE MOST INTERESTED, reduc
es the bureau’s distribution costs,
insures the rearing of a larger
number of fry to the fingerling sizes,
simplifies the distribution of such
dsh, and promises to be one of the
greatest advances made in recent
years to keep our streams stocked
Durin the past year the output of
vith trout.
the bureau’s totaled 5,232,000,000.
r 1« re were allotments of over 67,
000.000 to State authorities and
shipments of 3,716,000 fish and
eggs to foreign countries.”
(Wonder how many millions of fry
the bureau has turned loose since
the inception of the hatchery system
in Alaska. We used to hear of 15,
000,000 fry turned loose at the time
and the only results that the bureau
can show at this time are depleted
red salmon streams and fine hatcher"
ery systems with eight foot board
walks, waste of good meal, and fat
tened gulls along of course with the
thousands of dollars wasted.
The only thing that the “Swivel
chair” fish experts under and over
the Irish Lord in the Bureau of fish
eries can point at as a success is the
complete fizzle of their job of con
Several cases of reindeer meat
viere canned recently by the canning
car at Anchorage. This was with
the view of learning more about the
commercial value of the undertak
ing.
Those who ate tne canned meat
declared it had a fine flavor and
tasted somewhat like veal. More of
the meat will be canned and shipped
to Seattle where it will be used in
some dinner by the Chamber of
Commerce. It is hoped that this
will interest capita lto put in a can
nery in operation for the canning
of reindeer.
The Pacific American Fisheries
Company of Bellingham, Wash.,
operating several canneries in Alas
ka, has recently purchased the
steamer Pansa, 7,700 tons, as an
addition to its fleet. The Pansa is
a Shipping Board vessel, now in dry
docks in San Francisco. As soon
as it passes inspection it will be
placed in commission. Its first con
signment will be a cargo of piling
for new cannery docks in the north.
(It would appear that Alaska has
vot. sufficient timber from which
to cut piling. Probably there are no
loggers in Alaska to cut the timber.
Talk about “yeast cakes!”
I UR CATCH DECREASES
The Bioolgical Survey recently re
ported that the steadily diminish
ing supply of fur animals in the
tnited States tends to prove that
the “fur wearer” is increasing fast
er than the “fur bearer.” Collect
ors of raw furs estimate that the
catch during the past season 1925
26 was approximately 20 percent less
than the previous season.
Ralph Kitzmiller, of the Anchor
age Drug Store, has been named as
a member om the Territorial Board
of Pharmacy by Governor Parks.