VOL. 3.
PETERSBURG, ALASKA, MAY, 17, 1929
NO. 44.
Salmon Treaty
A benefit
Senator Wesley L. Jones ol
Washington speaking of the re
cent international salmon treaty
said:
‘The United States and Can
ada have entered into a treaty
dealing with the Fraser hirer
sockeye salmon situation. Fish
going up that stream used to
be a great resource of our state
andv Canada. It has dwindled
during the last several years to
an insignificant one.
“It is the object of this treaty
to restore this resource to its
old-time importance, by the re
gulation and supervision of wat
ers in the United States and
Canada through which the sal
mon must go on their way to
the spawning grounds on the
Fraser River. This regulation
and supervision is to be done by
a commission of six members,
three for the United States and
three for Canada. One of our
commissioners will be the Unit
ed States fish commissioner,
and two others are to oe ap
pointed by the President. These
two wiii be citizens of the state '
of Washington.
“A fundam i oh:action to
the treaty 1 cen suggest:
That is, that : floral control
should be pen c l over the
waters within o hate except
for navigation roses. I am
in favor of this as a general
rule. There are exceptions
however to all rules, 1 firs
is one.
“The sockeyc salmon situa
tion cannot be dealt v 1th ad
equately by the state and Can
ada acting separately. They
cannot enter into a treaty.
Neither country can enter into
the waters of the other for re
gulatory purposes. The only
way the situation can be dealt
with is by the point action of
the United States and Canada
or Great Britain. That is what
this treaty provides for. If ac
tion of this kind is not taken,
there seems no hope of ever
restoring this resource.
“Under this treaty no decision
can be reached on any question
except by the agreement of the
commissioners of each country.
This, in my judgment, insures
the protection of the interests
of each country so far as it is
reasonably possible to do so.”
Cold Storage At
Wrangell Closes
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The Wrangell Cold Storage is
closing down operations until
difficulties within the company
have been settled by the Dis
trict court. The company which
owned in part by Wrangell
citizens. No audit of the books
have been made since first date
of operation and nothing is
known as to whether the plant
has made or lost money. When
stockholders ask for the books
‘they are in Ohio’ and when
one of the stockholders was in
Ohio recently asking for the
books “they are in Alaska.” So
the matter has been carried in
to the court for adjudication.
In the meantime representa
tives of the management of
that company are stationed at
Juneau and Petersburg operat
ing independently of the com
pany. Mr. Mundy has moved
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Poppy Day A;
Thruout the country May 25* h
will be observed as “Foppy D.;y.’
Observance of the clay locally
will be sponsored by the Ameri •
can Legion Auxiliary whose
members will sell 500 out of 8,
500 purchased for Alaska. Th^se
poples are made by disabled var
veterans in hospitals, who are
thereby enabled to earn some
money by their own efforts; and
any profits from the sale of the
ilower go toward welfare work
or community service entirely
Reminder of Pulp
f } I C
in States
. . AddihOi..;.! details of plans of
the $12,000,000 Puget Sound
Pulp and Timber Company for a
mill at the site of the old ship
yard adjacent to the Clarke
Nickerson mill, disclose that the
proposed $3,500,000 plant will
not only manufacture pulp for
paper making purposes, but it
will also include a sawmill where
first grade logs will be milled
and clear lumber cut.
Gssian Anderson, president of
the company who recently re
turned to Everett, Washington,
froi i New York, emphasized that
the mill will make its pulp from
forest wood only, and that every
bit of clear lumber available in
the first grade logs will be milled
for sale as lumber, so that max
imum revenues and utilization
can be had.
Incorporated into the mill it
self will be a complete power
plant, wherein the electrical
uncut for operation of giant
pulp making machinery, chop
per.'- and other equipment, will
be generated.
T ie output of pulp will be en
tirely bleached sulphite of the
highest grade.
Ring Round Rosy
“Doc” Holmes of Texas, for
mer Nome druggist Capt Alfred
D. Williams of Cordova, Gov.
George A. Parks are in re
ceptive mood for the appoint
ment as governor of the Terri
tory for the next four years.
“Doc” Holmes millionaire oil
king of Texas, has the active
support of virtually all the Re
publicans of Texas who are
drawing on neighboring states
for political support for their
candidate. Capt Williams is
said to have the backing of
Senator Borah of Idaho and
Senator Reed of Pennsylvania. \
George A. Parks is said to have)
the support of the chairman of j
the National Republican Party. J
Captain Williams is said to be j
well known in the westward
sections, is said to be a staunch
Republican. He was one of the
stampeders into the Klondike
in ’98, owned and operated his
own river steamer on the Yu
kon; mined on his own account
in the Rampart district; was
in the fur trading business in
the Yukon country for several
years and is now concerned in
the reindeer industry with
headquarters at Kokrines.
WANT HIM RELEASED
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Friends of Harry Sinclair,
serving a sentence of three
months for contempt of the
Senate, are seeking his release
by circulating a petition asking
President Hoover to pardon the
oily magnate.
Commencement Program At
MacGregor's Tonight
1. Invocation
2. Instrumental Duet . .Henrietta Dahl and Helen Hunspedt
3. Salutatory. Herbert Mjorud
4. School Spirit—What Is It.Mathew F. Raynor
5. Extra-Curricular Activities During the Past Four Years ..
—Arnold Wasvick
6. Something About Each oi Us.Thelma Martens
7. Solo, All Joy Be Thine Anderson) .Joseph Kahklen
8. Our High School Days.Ragna Ness
9. My Dream.Julia Wasvick
10. Is Manual Training Worthwhile?.Harold Runstad
11. Solo, My Laddie, (Thayer).Mrs. Andrew Johnson
12. Presenting Class Present.David Morgan
13. Acceptance of Present.Paul Tveten
President, High School Student Association
14 Valedictory.Helen Lur.d
15 (a) Sweet Genevieve, (Tucker)
(b) I Love You Truly (Bondi . ..High School Boys’ Octette
16. Presentation of Class.C. H. Bowman
17. Awarding of Diplomas.Mrs. Magnhild Lee
Chairman, Board of Education.
mer will likely exceed that ofNorthwest and Alaska this sum
Public vs. Private
Ownership Li
The agitation for the sale of
the local hydro-electric plant
has somewhat subsided and ac
tive propaganda is not so loud
as it was a few weeks since.
However, it is worth any citiz
en’s time to know the difference
in cost of electric power be
tween public and privately own
ed hydro-electric plants.
OTTAWA’S LOCAL HYDRO
SHAMES POWER TRUST
The annual report for 1928 of
the local Hydro Commission,
which manages Ottawa’s pub
licly-owned electic light plant,
is not very pleasant reading for
the power trust.
It reveals that in addition to
supplying the people of the
Canadian capital with the
cheapest electric power rates in
the world, the plant is in won
derful financial condition.
There is a net surplus for the
year of $62,458.
The value of the plant—tak
en at actual cost, less deprecia
tion—and other assets is now
$2,678,432. Liabilities tatol
$1,079,142, but Hydro has a sur
plus of $1,599,290, and a depre
ciation reserve of $670,000.
Hydro was established here in
1905, some years before the On
tario government created its
great provincial public owner
ship enterprise.
At that time it had 1,314
customers and a revenue of
j $47,313. Now there were 13,223
(customers, with a revenue of
| $569,983.
j “This,” says the Ottawa
Journal, “is a remarkable story.
It shows what can be achieved
by public ownership—when ad
ministered in the right way.”
Class Largest to
SGraduate
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The graduating class is made
up of the following: Helen Lund,
Julia Wasvick, Thelma Martens,
Ragne Ness, Arnold Wasvick,
Harold Runstad, Herbert Mjo
rud, Matt Rayner, David Mor
gan and Joseph Kahklen.
Four members of the class
are lettermen on the All-Alas
ka Champion Basketball team
and will leave places for the
next years’ team that will be
hard to fill: Wasvick, Runstad,
Mjorud and Kahklen.
War Veterans— j
'Tenshun!
Approximately four hundred
thousand veterans of the World
War have failed to file applica
tion for Adjusted Service Cer
tificates (commonly k own as
the “Bonus which law wra*
passed by Congress on May "9,
1924.
The time within which these
applications must be fned will
expire during this year, and
Congress will not likelv extend
the time, since it has already
made one such extension.
Under this law all enlisted
men who served more th i sixty
days are entitled to the Bonus,
tne amount being d jpenden'
upon the length of so- ice of
the soldier.
Veterans who have nut field
Ve terans who have not filed
application should do so now.
If a veteran died eit ler be
fore or since the enact ment of
this law without making appli
cation, then the widow or chil
dren or the dependent mother
or father of the veteran may do
so now.
These applications iiu:ci be
filed soon or it will be to * late. I
am anxious that all ir4 ores ted
parties residing within the Con
gressional District which I re
present may not be barred) from
making claim by reason of lim
itation.
Those desiring further infor
mation or application blanks
should write at once.
DAN A. SUTHERLAND,
House of Representatives,
Washington, D. C.
Show For Benefit
Champs
Rasmus Enge put on the pho
jtoplay “The Great Mail Rob
hery” by Joseph P. Kennedy un
der direction of George B.
Seitz. This picture was sponsor
ed by the local Commercial Club
for the purpose of defraying
certain deficits incurred by the
basketball team on its trip to
Fairbanks.
The basketball boys and the
Chamber of Commerce apreci
ate the generous spirit on the
part of Mr. Enge in placing this
show at their disposal.
Alaska Steamship Co. liner
Alaska was in port this morning
sauthbound.
| Special Meeting Council
Okeys Road Work
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The city council held a spe
cial meeting Monday, last, to
consider the Siems-Carlson bid
for surfacing the roads down
south Petersburg way. The bid
was accepted and thet company
has already commenced working
on the project. When complet
ed one can travel over that road
without endangering himself.
The Forestry boat, Tahn, was
in port Tuesday, enroute to Ju
neau.
Mushes Over The
Great Divide
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“Dad” Hinchelwood died on
Wednesday afternoon at the Pi
oneers’ Home, Sitka. Mr. Ket
tleson, manager of the Home.,
wired Earl Ohmer, Tuesday af
ternoon, that “Dad” was sinking
very rapidly and did not hold out
any hope of life for any length
of time. Wednesday Robert Al
’en received a message that Dad 1
had mushed over the Great Di- '
vide. He was buried yesterday *
in the national cemetery at Sit
ka. ■
“Dad” was along about eighty
years of age, strong and vigor- :
ous, with a mind, active and (
clear as a bell until his last ill- ]
ness when stricken with paraly- 1
sis. Even after that, friends (
commented on his accuracy of 1
statement. ;
He came to Alaska the first ’
time about fifty years ago and 1
went to the westward sections. 1
He went back to the States but *
only to return to Alaska which
he had learned to love as his
i
home.
While a great one to tell of in
cidents and contacts of his life, ‘
he did not tell of relations that
might be interested. He was the
youngest of several brothers and
it is probable that he was the
last of the line.
“Dad” was a man of convic
tion and principle and lived as
he believed, a clean life with
kindliness and consideration for
everyone.
Old Age Pensions
Get Right of Way
A lot of jockying was done
by the last territorial legislat
ure on the question of pioneers
pension or old pension. That
this matter is being given ser
ious thought nationally has
just been called to our atten
tion. If present plans are car
ried out and the old age pen
sion act becomes effective then
Alaska will have a more de
finite and tangible plan to
work on than was presented
the last legislature.
New York, April 29—Ten
states of the Union now have
old-age pension laws, and Sen
ator C. C. Dill of Washington
has promised to introduce a
Federal old-age pension bill and
to press for action. Congress
man W. I. Sirovich of New
York has submitted a similar
proposal in the House.
These were perhaps the out
standing features of the Second
National Conference on Old Age
Security held here last week.
Theodore L. Bierck, former
police commissioner of Jersey
City, said that the habit of dis
carding elderly men in industry
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The Law Has
Not Changed
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It is being persistently report
ed to this publication that the
Forestry Bureau is setting forth
a policy of refusing to grant
homestead applications to bona
fide applicants. That they are
ruling that homesteads up to
160 acres is not permissable but
that 5 acre tracts will be allow
ed—except with applications
that have been pending. Cer
tain applications seem to bear
this statement out.
That the homestead laws have
not changed except to make it
easier for the hunter and fish
erman to take up small tracts
in line with their business. The
following governs the case:
Any citizen of the United
States 21 years of age employ
ed by citizens of the United
States, associations of such
citizens, or by corporations or
ganized under the laws of the
United States, or of any State
)r Territory, whose employer is
engaged in trade, manufacture
)r other productive industry,
md any citizen of the United
States 21 years of age who is
limself engaged in trade, manu
facture, or other productive in
lustry may purchase one claim,
lot exceeding five acres, of un
•eserved public lands, such tract
)f land not to include mineral,
:oal, oil or gas lands, in Alaska
is a homestead or headquart
ers, under rules and regulations
o be prescribed by the Secretary
>f the Interior, upon payment
)f $2.50 an acre.
ALIENS—cannot secure title
under this act, hence permits
will be issued to citizens only.
SURVEY AND REPORT will be
made of any or if there are no
.conflicting claims. If the tract
| is not needed for public pur
poses and is suitable for home
steading, a listing survey will be
made a report prepared by ex
amining officer. If permit is is
sued and all requirements met
by permittee, elimination of the
land will be recommended at
the end of three full years res
idence so patent may be appli
ed for.
Public Uses—timber areas
valuable for timber stands will
not be available. Permits will
not be granted with water
power development, for logging
or timber right-of-ways or
storage areas, for road or trail
or other public right-of-way, or
other public uses.
Permit, if there is no objec
tion to occupancy of lands for
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SCHOOL CLOSES TODAY
The children in the public
,and high schools were busy to
day gathering up odds and ends
of school equipment and re
turning them to their proper
places. Examinations were
held during the week and
grades recorded of the years'
work of each pupil.
All of the teachers have made
applications for reappointment
and expect to return to their
positions next fall.
The work of the year will
finally be summed up at the
commencement exercises which
are to be held at the MacGreg
or Theater tonight. Mr. Bow
man will present the class and
Mrs. Harold Lee, chairman of
the School Board will make
presentation of diplomas to the
members of the graduating
class.