VOL. 2
PETERSBURG, ALASKA NOVEMBER 18, 1927
NO. 19
Commercial Club
Atmosphere
.-'t the Petersburg Commercial
Club meeting of last Wednesday
evening a communication from Dan
Sutherland was read. This was re
lative to the request of the Club,
some time back, on the placing of
a revenue, or coast guard, ship at
Petersburg. The indications are
that this particular locality will be
made headquarters for such a ves
sel so soon as oue is available. In
fact at this time there are building
in the East several ships for coast
guard work, and it is likely that
when these take the water one of
them, or one already iu the West,
will be stationed here.
The Club asked the Light House
Department to place a marker ol
some kind on the Mitchell Point
Reef, and this will probably be done
soon. Mitchell Point is a dangerous
scattering of bad rocks and naviga
tion there in the dark or in snow
storms is always risky.
Fred Nelson resigned from the
Publicity Committee and Harold
Dawes was appointed to take his ,
place.
The Committee out on collections ,
if funds to send a representative of
mr local Harbor Board to W ashing
ton to assist in placing dredging
and harbor requirements of Peters
burg before Government authorities, i
claimed that they found mighty few i
running over themselves to donate
money for the occasion. Really,
tney found it rather hard to get any ,
one interested in a cash subscrip
tions.
Down to the matter of a rep
resentative of the Harbor Board to
go to Washington there was but ;
one signified a willingness and he,
the City Mayor. Mr. Swanson will
leave here late in November or in
early December and will be absent
on the harbor business alone for
approximately two weeks.
No definite word had been re
ceived bearing on how the “herring
petitions” were getting along, and
action thereon was postponed until
such time as returns come in. There
are a number of petitions in circula
tion and are now scattered pretty
much about. Requests have been
sent to those who are handling them
to get a wiggle on so that they may
be in by the 1st of December.
TO PROTECT BIRDS
I
Mrs. Grace Rainey Rogers (Louis
iana) recently made a Sift of $156,
000.00 to the National Association
of Audubon Societies: The sum is
an endowment fund for mainten
ance of the Paul J. Rainy Wild Life
Sanctuary in Louisiana. This Sanc
tuary was the hunting preserve of
the late Mr. Rainy, hut at his
death his sister, Mrs. Rogers, pres
ented the large tract to the Audu
bon Association. This was in 1924
The Louisiana Sanctuary is pro
bably the largest of the bird reser
vations in the States and is a rest
ing and feeding place for a myriaa
of water fowl. More than fifty
thousand wild geese were counted
in one section of the Sanctuary feed
ing at one time this fall.
AVIRELESS BY S. S. YUKON
“Eleven persons perish in explo
sion on board a fishing boat about
fifty miles Southwest from here
(Juneau). Nine bodies have been
recovered.”
The above is all we know, as we
go to press about the terrible ac
cident that happened to the boat
and Its human cargo some where
between Juneau and Sitka.
GAUNT GRAY WOLVES
Over in the Petersburg Creek
valley, these cold days, gray timber
wolves are numerous. At a wood
camp there the first ui the week
ciuue a large pack came into view,
auu several small pacts have been
keeping the trails warm along me
creek banks since loose who want
a dollar or two for Christmas
change, and have an idea that they
can snag one or more, should sneak
over ana try their luck. there’s a
iair bounty on wolves, you know,
and the pelts hate a value worth
considering, luvery well gotten out
of the way means a dozen or more
deer lor next season's wild meat
supply at home.
iiADhV SC ADDED.
What came near a fatal accident
happened last Friday afternoon to
Mr. and Mrs. Dan Sulphen’s little
girl, Marian. The little tot got
lioki of the wire cord of the coftee
percolator and pulled percolator ana
scalding coiiee down on top or her.
i’iie severe burns were along the
left side of her face and left should
er. ban reported to The Alaskat
shortly before going to press that
he sufferer was doing nicely and
getting along well.
AN INJURED KNEE
Dick Hansen, the manipulator of
rnal sacks for the Chris Tveten
foal Co., is laid up with a badb
vrenched knee. He was injured
Monday evening and has been out (
jf commission since. The first re
i
port that a wild goose bit him on
he pants while lie was gunning for
ihil'illoo birds down blind chough
way is incorrect. Dick is too good
i hunter and too sure a marksman
.o allow any goose Yard lo chew
loles in his trousers.
NEW YORK ON RAW FURS
The raw fur trade of late in tin-*
argei fur markets of the East is
musing a bit of uneasiness. In
Jiose furs used for trimmings, such
is certain kinds of fox and wolf
:he market is disappointing. How
ever. there are those who anticipate
an upward trend in trimming furs
should raw and cold weather break
along the Eastern coast. The re
port is made that the price's ot last
year were far too high on mink,
’coon and muskrat and if there is
no sales improvement soon the
prices this winter will be much low
er. Reliable fur quotations, hold
ing good until the 1st of November
for mink (Northern Pacific Coast)
$10 to $6. For muskrat, (Western
Canada), $1.30 to .50. Laud Otter,
Northern Pacific Coast) $20 to $8.
Wild silver fox, (Northern) $300
to $25. Black Bear, (Northwest
ern) $13 to $6. Brown Bear, no
demand. Lynx, (Northern) $27 to
$17. Timber Wolves, (N. W,) $18
to $11. Marten (Canada) $30 to
$10. Ermine (Weasel—Northern L1
R.) white, $3., yellowish $1.50.
IN FROM THE STATES
The steamship Alaska of the Al
aska Steamship Company’s fleet ar
rived in from the states from around j
Decision Tuesday with mail and
passengers and some freight. Her
stay here was brief.
GOT $50 ANYHOW.
The recent rummage sale which
was carried on by the local Parent
Teachers’ Association, at the Tele
phone Exchange Building, netted
the organization around $50. Thh
sum will be used in finishing the
Assembly Hall of the, new school
buildings.
Listen Petersburg
Tome, good people of Petersburg,
and fall in line. The RED CROSS
drive is on and the organization
needs your assistance.
This is the annual roll call, you
know, and will run along until the
24th tof November—Thanksgiving.
(Began on Armistice Day.)
Mrs. Hob Allen is the Chairman
of t lie Canvassing Committee and
when she, or her representatives,
IN FROM KAKE
Jim Koosk and John Bean, with
their families on the seine boat
Loomis, arrived in town from Kake
in early part of the week. The seas
were running so high around Point
McCartney when the Loomis pulled
out of Kake, the boat was forced to
turn around and the run was made
to Petersburg by way of Rocky Pass.
That Point McCartney region is a
mighty dangerous stretch of water
in Taku or east or nor’ east winds.
HAVE VOU A LITTLE COTTON
IN YOUR SHIRT?
According to the Bureau of Cen
sus, Department of Agriculture, the
following is a month’s cotton bus
iness in the United States.
Consumed in the United States
luring September 627,321 bales.
Balts run to around 475 pounds
3aeh. in September, on the 30th,
there were in factories etc., 1,118,
776 bales. In compresses and in
storage, 3,96 4,680 bales. During
September there were 32 and one
third millions of cotton spindles
active in the country. However,
there are, active and idle, some 164
millions of spindles.
We imported from Eygpt for two
months, ending September 30t'n
nearly 35,000 bales; from Peru, 8.
2S5 bales; from China, 2,-850 bales
from Mexico, 54 bales; from British
India, 9,840 bales; from all other
regions, 594 bales.
We shipped, in running bale3
which included what are termed
“linters”: To the United Kingdom,
108,593 bales; to France, 127,483
bales; to Italy, 48,118; to Germany
246.396 bales and to all other parts
of Europe, 214,867 bales.. Then to
Japan, 91,5 67 bales; to other ori
ental countries and outlying islands
(all nationalities) 33,068 bales.
Making a total in exports of 971,
352 bales a3 against considerably
over a million bales in 1926,—same
time of year. The total imports
were 56,387 bales against 23,276
bales for same period in 1926. It
is figured that the world’s supply of
cotton (excluding linters) for 1926
was approximately 28 millions of
bales of 478 lbs each.
The consumption of cotton in
creased in the Americas during
September 1927.
Did you note the German pur
chase of cotton? It is far ahead
of the shipments to any other sing
le country. They say that statis
tics are wofully dry things to run
over, but there is a lot of interest
in running down the above figures.
It tells almost as plain as a picture
about what Europe and the Orient
are doing.
THE BENNY BENSON PRIZE
The prize that goes to Benny Ben
|son, the lad who successfully design
jed the flag of Alaska in the Amer
ican Legion contest some time back,
is now on display at The Peoples’
Drug Store. It is a $115.00 Hamil
ton watch of white gold, beautifully
engraved and a fitting tribute to
youthful teffort. Go and look at it.
c?*ll on you do all that you can to
aid the Rood cause.
The RED CROSS is constantly at
work in a mighty big field where,
in fone part or another, distress is
calling, calling, calling and no one
knows just how soon its helping
hand may be needed here. It’s all
for a very worthy reason, friends.
Become a member.
BOWER ON SALMON
_____
Mr. W. T. Bower is the Assistant
in charge of the Division of Alaska
Fisheries, of the United States Bu
reau of Fisheries.
He has written a great number
of articles for the press in a Top
ical Survey of various bureaus and
divicions under such headings as:
Public Health, Foreign Relations,
Education, Finance, Conservation,
Industry, Transportation, Taxation,
Social Welfare, Trade Practices,
Science, Shipping, Foreign Trade,
Arts, Public Utilities, Communica
tions, National Defense, Law En
forcement, Labor, Statistical Re
search, Insular and Indian affairs,
Aeronautics, Agriculture.
In Article number 24 he has hit
close to where we live and taken up
salmon. His article bearing on the
fisheries of Alaska is much too long
to give word for word, and we have
taken the liberty to dig here and
there for a paragraph or two we
know will be of interest.
He begins article 24 as follows:
“The function and the activities of
the Alaska Division of the Bureau
of Fisheries, Department of Com
merce, partake of two more or less
distinct lines of endeavor: First,
the protection" and conservation of
the Salmon and other fishes, and
second, the administration of the
fur seal herd including, incidentally,
sea otters, walruses and sea lions
of Alaska. Also the support and
maintenance of the inhabitants of
the Pribilof Island, Behring Sea.”
“As indicative of the extent and
complexity of conserving the fishes
of Alaska, it is necessary to deal
with an industry employing 28,000
persons, with an investment of
$75,000,000 capital, and yielding
products worth $55,000,000 annual
ly, and moreover located along more
than 10,000 miles of coast line and
embracing salmon, halibut, herring,
cod, whales, clams, crabs, shrimps
and less important species.”
Mr. Bower says farther: “Alas
ka produces two-thirds of the
world’s supply of salmon.”
“The salmon industry includes ap
proximately 85% of the fishery acti
vity of the Territory.”
“The new law (The act of, June,
1924) gives broad and comprehen
sive authority to the Secretary of
Commerce to establish fishing areas
and within these areas prescribe
seasons, kinds of apparatus, and
places where fishing may be con
ducted.”
“In all waters where salmon run
there shall be an escapement of not
less than 50 per centum to the
spawning grounds.”
“To establish migration routes of
salmon large numbers of fish have
been tagged and released. The
subsequent recapture of a portion of
the tagged fish gives valuable data
showing what waters must be con
sidered in seeking to protect the
run of salmon to any particular
stream.”
“Activities other than above, in
clude the removal of natural bar
riers, waterfalls, logs and other ob
structions which prevent the ascent
of the salmon to the spawning
j grounds.”
NO ONE’S HAT SPOILED
Last week a tall piling standing
along side of the Citizen’s Dock
float got weary of feeding teredos,
| sea anemones and sand flea's. Get
ting tired, it laid down, and laid so
heavily that it went through the
deck of the float, breaking the tie
timbers, fore and aft planking and
the float stringers. Fortunately, no
one was near at the time of the
tumble, so no one’s hat was injured.
The falling stick barely missed two
{of the inshore boats moored along
side of the float. Repairs were im
mediately made to the float and new
piling will be driven soon.
WHO DID?
“Who put the overalls in Mrs.
Murphy’s chowder’’ is old stuff. It’s
passe. It’s out of date. But what
we’d like to know is: who swiped
the deer Brown had in cold storage?
Those deer, by the way, were evid
ence, or to be uaed as evidence, in
the coming hearing of David Paul.
We asked Paul about it this Thurs
day morning and he said: “I don’t
think any body stole 'em. Brown
took ’em, I guess to feed his pris
oners.” Odd, isn't it?
OFF THE ROAD
John Samuelson and wife, Clar
ence Bong and Martin Samuelson,
all riding in a car Monday night
down the Scow Bay road were
thrown out and more or less scratch
ed when their automobile jumped
the track and went down the grade.
The machine was rather badly
damaged and it is lucky, indeed,
that the riders got off no well as
they did.
READ THIS.
Seizures: Prize Fight Films: Act
of July 31st, 1912. Movie picture
films upon which are printed pict
ures of the boxing contest at
Chicago between Dempsey and Tun
ney were •shown by petitioner in
Philadelphia. /
The pictures were NOT those
transported contrary to Federal
law, but were made in Pensylvania
from them, either directly from ne
gatives transported or from nega
tives made from positives trans
ported.
It was not shown that petitioner
had any part in their transporta
tion, held: NO FACT APPEARS
WHICH JUSTIFY SEIZURE , AND
CONTINUED RETENTION OF THE
FILMS. Stanley Company of Amer
ica vs Mathues et al. (District
Court, Eastern District of Pennsyl
vania). Index page, 2493, Col. 4
Vol. 11.)
(Note by Ed.) The upper case
letters are ours. You may get a
glimpse now how we get our
fight pictures. \
SISTER SHIPS
The Wisconsin and the Washing
ton, sister boats, and herring killers
arrived in from the north'ard Wed
nesday night. They hail from Se
ward.
A CHANGE IN BOATS
The Alaska Steamship Company’s
steamer Northwestern will take the
run of the S. S. Aleutian while she
(Aleutian) is off for the warm
south seas.
NO MORE INTEREST
No more interest will be paid
on $720,000,000 outstanding second
Liberty Bonds after Tuesday, Nov
ermber 15tb, 1927.
A Very Interesting
Program
The Armistice Day program at
The MacGregor Threatre last Friday
afternoon was a success. There was
no dragging, no hitching nor hail
ing and the whole affair seemed to
run along as an oiled machine.
1 The band music was appropriate
and thoroughly enjoyed. The two
reels of war time comedy were
screams. In truth one of the best
screen attempts in the fun lino
we’ve seen for a long time, albeit
there wa3 too much pie casting in
the army kitchen fracas. “The
World is Waiting For The Sunrise.”
a pretty melody by the High School
Chorus, was nicely rendered and
well received.
The brief talk by Fred Nelson
was good. We have heard a deal
of comment on the speach in the
street and, although there way a
considerable drift in opposition to
Mr. Nelson’s ideas of a lasting peace,
the general feeling was that he
handled his subject well. The speak
er’s voice c irly over
the big hall.
The tenor solo by young Joseph
Kahklen, of the Petersburg High
School was all right, but Joe should
sing from the stage instead of from
out of the pit. He has a splendid
voice and it carries pleasantly, but
he doe3 himself an injustice in sing
ing so far below his audience. Last
Friday one could scarcely hear the
lowr notes from the middle of th*.
hall back and it was next to impos
sible to catch a word of the song,
in any position.
The Boy Scout drill on the stage
was fine. Go to it lads, you are
a credit to the code, the drill mast
er and yourselves. , Your work made
a very pleasing addition to the day’s
program.
The old Civil War song, “Tenting
Tonight,” was beautifully restored
and musically interpreted by Mrs.
Andrew Johnson.
“Young Fellow, My Lad,” a war
time composition in verse, as read
by Miss Mary Reep was just first
rate, but Miss Reep handicapped
herself as did Kahklen by reading
her selection too far below her
hearers.
Get up on the stage, folk, if you
care to be heard. You can’t do
yourselves justice down where no
one can see nor hear you.
ANOTHER INDUSTRY
John Kolstrand has opened up a
blacksmith and repair shop on the
water front in the rear of the City
Hall. Mr. Kolstrand is a thorough
mechanic and for a long time was
engaged in blacksmithing and re
pair work in Seattle, Tacoma and at
the Bremerton Navy Yard.
GOING SOUTH FROM THE
KODIAK COUNTRY
The big herring flshei, Chris C,
with a part load of salt herring,
stopped at the Citizen’s float for a
couple of days in the early part of
the week. She is Seattle bound.
All of the herring season the Chris
C has been among the shoals of the
small fish along the Kodiak Island
coast. She departed at 5 A. M.
Tuesday.
THANKSGIVING BALL AT
SALES’ INN
For those who care to shake a
foot and enjoy good music there'll
be an opportunity next Wednesday
evening at Sales’ Inn. Remember,
Wenesday, November 23rd. There'U
be a bite to eat, too.