TOL. 4.
PETERSBURG, ALASKA, JULY, 19, 1929
no. i:
Senate Committee
Continue Hearings
Senators Burton K. Wheeler
of Montana and Lynn J. Frazier
of North Dakota are continuing
investigations of the activities
and misrule of the Bureau of In
dian Affairs throughout various
Indian reservations and Indian
schools.
Hearings which are being held
at Winnebago, Neb., tell of bru
tal floggings, peonage and poor
sanitary conditions at the In
dian schools, Genoa in particu
lar.
The investigations made by
these senators showed Commis
sioner of Indian Affairs Burke
to have been guilty of conniving*
to defraud one Jackson Barnett
lars. Burke resigned. Grand
jury investigation of the chican
ry of Burke and others was es
topped by Attorney General Sar
gent at the urgent telegraphic
request of Secretary of the In
terior Dr. Hubert Work.
The investigations of this sen
ate committee promises a clean
up of a gummy mess that out
stinks the oily Teapot Dome.
Tale of a Wander
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Abraham, Abraham, whither
art thou, Abraham, sighed Abe
Brackney a short time ago. The
aforementioned Abraham being
the right foot slipper lined with
golden fleece, that he had re
ceived Christmastime from a
good friend who wanted to make
life’s walk seem less hard for
Abe.
After wandering about town
for a couple of weeks it as
mysteriously reappeared and
was parked under the edge of
Abe’s bed. Soon it got the
wandering itch and started fast
and alone, up and down the
Coast; to old Minneapolis and
back; and again to Prince Ru
pert where the wish to be with
its hearts desire and mate over
came its lust to wander, so it
stole silently and stealthily back |
to Shrimpville and once again J
with a long drawn out sigh, |
parked under Abe’s bed once I
again. I
When Abe saw the cute toes I
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sticking out from under his
aforesaid place of repose he got
so excited that he swallowed his
“snoose.” He rushed out to the
store, tore open four boxes of
the flour that made Copenhag
en famous and told the boys to
all come up, rap on the covers
and take a big pinch.
And says Abe, while you are all
here, I am telling you that the
next snoose hound that lays his
hooks on those slippers will
have the best battle of his life,
“so help me faun.”
CARD OF THANKS
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We wish to express our sin
cere thanks for the beautiful
floral offerings and many kindly
expressions of sympathy in our
bereavement.
MRS. NELS NELSON
MRS. MINNIE HILL
ROSS NELSON
PIONEERS WANT JOBS
Don Meldrum, engineer for
paper interests surveying tim
ber areas and water power sites
was a local visitor during the
week. *
Canadians Confiscate
American Troilers
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The salmon trolling boat No.
557-GA and equipment was or
dered sold by British Admiral
ty Court recently. She was seiz
ed last May off Pachena Point
by a Canadian government pa
trol and charged with illegal
[fishing in British Columbia wa
ters.
Clemency will be asked by
counsel for the owners of the
vessel on the ground that it was
only by accident that the vessel i
got within the three-mile lim
it.
Hearing in the case of King
vs Jeanette, another American
vessel was being heard. The
master and owner of this craft
setting up the defense that he
was compelled to put ashore on
account of engine trouble.
Five other American vessels,
the Tacora, the We, the May, the
Mary C. Fischer and Catherine
B. are awaiting trial on the
same charge.
Good, Bad or More or
Less Indiffereent
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Roy Lyle, prohibition admin
istrator for Washington, Oregon
and Alaska, passing south thru
Juneau recently is quoted as
saying “prohibition conditions
in Alaska were not materially
different than elsewhere in the
nation.”
Pioneers Want lobs
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The Pioneers of Ketchikan in
a petition to the Bureau of Fish
eries are begging for an oppor
tunity to earn enough money to
allow them to remain independ
ent yet a little longer.
They call attention to the
fact that bureau agents are not
hiring bona fide residents but
are giving preference to young
er men who do not belong to the
Territory and are otherwise per
fectly able to earn their living.
Church for Schoolhouse
Arrangements are being made
by the Wrangell School Board,
the City Council and the Pres
byterian Church to use that
church to house the high school
grade next school year.
The present high school has
been condemned by the City
Council as being unfit, unsafe
and unsanitary.
Effort will be made to have an
election to permit the bonding
of the town for the purpose of
securing adequate school facili
ties. .,
Effort to manipulate Indian
vote last spring cost the town
a new school this year Having
opposed the bond issue last year
when the town was heavily in
debt, it was presumed that they
would again oppose the proposi
tion. A sufficient number of 'the
voters, favoring the bond issue
were disqualified, so that the
issue was lost by 11 votes. Since
that time the political leaders of j
the town have seen salvation
and have conferred with the In
dian leaders and secured their
support to secure another bill
authorize another bond issue
election.
James Gibson, U. S. Guard was
in town over Sunday.
Capt. Bidwell of the yacht Vig
ilant of Wrangell was in port a
couple of days this week.
[ Opening Season Is
j Not Promising
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j The trap season opened in the
| Ketchikan district with traps a
bit behind their usual schedule
as the weather has been so in
clement as to prevent trap crews
from getting the gear into the
water before the Fourth.
The seine crews of the south
ern and West Coast areas have
been ready since the Fourth and
most of the boats out trying to
get enough salmon to eat.
Last week sixteen boats were
tied together in Security Bay af
ter being all over the country
looking for fish. Kake, Kar
heen, Klawock and Craig were
represented. Out of the sixteen
crews, cannery tenders got just
nine hundred sockeyes, humps
and dogs.
A run was reported on the Pt.
Ward shores and down Ketchi
kan way, so the boats scattered
and headed south.
The July run has not materi
alized but the packers and the
Bureau of Fisheries still have a
lot of hope. Report from the
Juneau area was that nineteen
traps in one section after being
lifted and brailed did not bring
over a thousand mixed fish.
Trollers Have Tough Sledding
Over 1700 boats are reported
at Cape Omaney with not
enough fish in that section to
feed and gas up a fifth of that
number. It is predicted by the
men studying the situation that
about one thousand of them will
be hard put to buy oil with
which to get home on. Louis
Hanson, fish buyer is said to
have in the neighborhood of
twenty thousand dollars on his
books which the trollers hope
some day to repay.
One fisherman made the circle
from Security Bay to Gedney
Harbor, across to Omaney up
Baranof coast to Tyee and back
to Security Bay. His catch for
this run was three salmon.
HERRING SEINERS DO DIRTY
WORK
A little herring, and salmon
appeared off the Bay of Pillars.
Forthwith down swooped forty
seven imported herring seiners
who chased away what herring
they could not catch. The sal
mon which naturally followed
the feed, disappeared also. All
over the slack run of salmon is
reported with fishermen be
moaning the fact they cannot
even earn enough to tide them
over the winter.
IN APPRECIATION
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We wish to express our heart
felt appreciation to the Alaska
Native Sisterhood, Petersburg
Camp, the American Legion
Posts of Wrangell, Alaska and
Seattle, Wn., the American Le
gion Auxiliaries of Wrangell and
Seattle, and to all others who
so kindly helped with floral of
ferings, sympathy and help in
making easier for us to bear
the loss of our daughter and sis
ter Bessie Hanson.
ANDREW R. HANSON,
HENRY HANSON,
JOHN HANSON
ALBERT HANSON
Mrs. McGILTON
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ONE A VACATION
Miss Gertrude Otness, mem
ber of the local public school
teaching staff and assistant in
the post office since close of the
school term, left on the Alame
da for Seattle yesterday.
I Uniform Not So
Popular as in 1918
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The Brooklyn Navy Yard offi
cials recently started a rigid in
vestigation of the charge made
by Boatswain’s mate William De
Wert that he had been barred
from a Coney Island Skating
Rink because he was in uni
form. Rink officials said they
had barred De Wert “because he
wore no necktie.” Navy uni
forms don’t have neckties.
Which reminds one that be
fore the World War it was “do it
for the boys” but after the war
it was “Do the boys for it.”
O'Malley Goes to Seal
Rookeries
Henry O'Malley, Commissioner
of Fisheries left Seward recent
ly for the Pribilof Islands and
the Bristol Bay area.
Reports at hand quote him as
saying that 21,522 seal skins had
been taken up to the 6th of
July as compared to 18,023 on
the same date last year.
He is further quoted as saying
that the Alaska salmon pros
pects for this time of the year
look fairly good.
The resident Alaskan says the
salmon situation looks only as
bad and is only as bad as it has
been made by the misrule of the
Bureau of Fisheries.
Fried Eggs on Steps
On July 20 1928, Miss Mildred
Mercier cracked an egg and let
it fall on the steps of the Nation
al Capitol at Washington. The
thermometer was at 95; the egg
fried in four minutes and 32 se
conds and was put between two
slices of bread and eaten, in the
view of photographers and a
sizeable crowd.
Think this over when com
plaining of the coolness of this
summer in Petersburg.
An Interesting Wedding
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Lucio and Simplico Godino, j
twenty-year—old Filipino “Si- j
amese twins,” recently announc- |
ed their intention of marrying !
Natividad and Victorina Matos,
sisters, despite official opposi
tion. After marrying they in
tend coming to the United States
to enter vaudeville.
A license clerk’s ruling that
the twins were not single because
they were joined together was
overruled by the Philippine de
partment of justice, and they
will be granted license to marry.
BIOLOGICAL SURVEY HEAD
EXPECTED SOON
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Paul G. Redington, chief of
the U. S. Biological Survey is ex
pected to leave Seattle about the
middle of September on a tour
of inspection of the bureau’s!
stations in Alaska. He left the 1
national capital recently on his
; annual inspection trip. His pro
gram calls for a three months’
visit in the field, covering the
entire western field.
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Arrived at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. G. D. McDonald, Mon
day morning July 15th, a bounc
ing baby girl. Mother and
daughter doing nicely under the
care of Dr. Rude and Nurse
Henrietta Strand.
This pretty maid is the only
daughter and will be sister Jean
Elizabeth to four big brothers.
Governor Parks Returning From
Washington Where He Was Called
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OBJECTORS WIN PASSPORT
CASE RULING
Conscientious objectors and
others who oppose the use of
armed force are being permitted
to “affirm” to “support” the
Constitution of the United States
despite the recent ruling of the
Supreme Court that it is the
“fundamental duty of every ci
tizen to defend the Constitu- j
tion.”
This is a ruling of the State ]
Department in the case of Miss
Dorothy Detzer, executive se
cretary of the Women’s Interna
tional League for Peace and
Freedom. She refused to sub
scribe to the usual oath of al
legiance. However, she did agree
to subscribe to an alternate oath
where applicants preferred to
affirm to support the Constitu
tion. A case of taking the oath
to support the Constitution—but
with fingers crossed.
Stage a Stampede
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Seattle is staging another
Sourdough Stampede August 13
and 17. At least tv/o thousand
Sourdoughs are expected to be
in Seattle for tl\e celebration, re
presenting more than 100 cities
of the Northwest. This is in
tended to be a small duplication
of the stampede of ’98 only it
will not extend to the Northern
circles.
AT THE VARIETY
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. . On Sunday and Monday “The
Blue Danube” featuring Leatrice
Joy in a wonderful picture, and
A1 Cooke in Too Many Misses, a
side-splitting comedy.
Tuesday and Wednesday Bob
Custer in a Western thriller,
Western bulldog pluck. Bobby
Vernon in Jail Birdies will fur
nish the laugh fest.
Thursday and Friday Part
Three of the serial Melting Mil
lions. that interests a large
crowd. Monte Blue, packing a
punch in One Round Hogan, a
Warner Bros, production, for
lovers of the manly art.
ADMIRAL TAKEN OFF SHELF
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Rear Admiral Thomas P.
MacGruder U. S. N., “awaiting”
orders for three years since re
moval from his command fol
lowing publication of an article
in which he criticised conditions
in the navy has been ordered
back to active duty on August 1.
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FORMER NOME ATTORNEY DI
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Fred Harrison, recently resign
ed as United States district at
torney at Nome because of ill
ness, died at Juneau on the 13th
of this month while still in a
state of coma which resulted
from a paralytic stroke.
The War Department recently
announced that the fiscal year
which ended June 30 established
a record for traffic thru the Pa
nama Canal.
Canal authorities report that
the tolls collected amounted to
$27,128,889.30, compared with
the previous record during 1928
of $26,994449.70.
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Born to Mr. and Mrs. Keano,
Thursday, a baby girl. Mother
and little one getting along very
well.
PARKS RETURNING HOME
FROM Washrington
Governor of Alaska, George
A. Parks, who was suddenly call
ed back to Washington last
month left the national capitol
on the 13th enroute to Juneau.
His trip east is generally ad
mitted as being in connection
with his reappointment as gov
ernor of Alaska. His term ex
oired on the 12th of June, last.
It is persistently being report
ed that he will not be reap
pointed so that in event he does
not make the grade up capital
hill, he will remain in office un
til his successor is appointed and
qualifies for the office.
“Doc” Holmes of Texas is said
to have much support'* of influ
ential Republicans in and out
of his state.
Governor Parks is said to have
the Colorado congressional and
senatorial support, beside en -
dorsement of Captain Lathrop,
Alaska Republican National Com
mitteeman.
Engineer Heads In
By Airplane
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Majors Elliott and Gillette of
the U .S. Engineers Department
with headquarters at Juneau, ar
rived on the Alaska Aerial Expe
dition plane Wednesday about
dition plane about noon, Tues
day of this week and left for
Juneau the same afternoon on
the plane about four o’clock.
Th< came down to inspect
the work of the big dredge in
the Narrows which has l:-:i: go
ing ever the surveyed channel
on the Petersburg Bar and tak
1:.K cvi the fill which has set
tled s'nce the ■ hannel wj, dreb
Lurl a couple of years ago.
The plane on which the two
officers came was accomo ,<nie.l
by a second plane.
Earl Ohmer had the visitors
to a lunch at the Grand Cafe
where the inner man was cared
for.
* Women in Sawmill
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Women were employed for the
first time in the sawmill history
in Alaska when a small crew was
put to work last week in the
Wrangell Mill and Box Com
pany.
The local mill is getting out an
order of butter, cheese and poul
try boxes for shipment to the
middle west points. The boxes
are made mostly from salmon
box waste, and besides utilizing
the waste they provide an ad
ditional payroll. Women are
particularly adapted for this
form of work which requires ac
curacy and deftness in handling
the small pieces with a mini
mum of muscular effort.
N. Nussbaumer, manager of
the company, states that he has
inauguruated this work with the
hope that it will develop into a
year round payroll.
John Chidester, arraigned for
vagrancy in Lincoln, Nebraska,
pleaded he was a bootlegger, and %
got away with it. “Bootlegging
is an unlawful occupation only
when the bootlegger is caught,”
so ruled Municipal Judge Powers,
dismissing the complaint.
Aftr the first day’s splurge at
Anan Creek the fishermen could
not catch enough to eat.