farmers and beachcombers do
not know anything about our
eagle problem, but I ask you in
all seriousness, Will, is it not just
possible that we know as much
about our eagle problem as those
outsiders who are trying so hard
to legislate for us? You will note
1 call it OUR problem Whose
else can it be? So far, no one has
claimed that the Alaskan eagle
migrates to the States, hence the
problem if it is a problem at all,
is peculiarly Alaska’s own. When
have Alaskans tried to legislate
for Washington or California?
Rut Oh, the regulations that
have been put over on us ! I need
you, yourself, are one of those
not remind you of them, since
thousands of Alaskans who have
lolt. the inc.' easing difficulty of
abiding by the laws and regula
tions and maintaining at the
same time that respect which a
citizen owes to his government.
You passed it up as a bad job,
Will, but a few of the rest of us
are trying to hold the fort. To be
sure, if we are allowed to handle
our own affairs, it is we who
may make mistakes just as oth
ers have done before us. Perhap;
it is an unjustifiable conceit, bu
it pleases us to imagine that oui
.Creator endowed us with pretty
much the same brand of intelli
jgence as that which he blessec
'our brothers in the States. An
we then, such children that we
1 cannot be trusted to make suet
appropriations as we feel the
need of or disburse our tax mon
ley according to the judgment ol
our own legislators? The mon
ey does not leave the Territory
it merely changes hands amongst
the members of our own family
and while we have spent it we
still .have it. It is not traffic
that is likely to make of South
east Alaska a pauper section for
Seatte to lsupport.
However, if we burn ourselves,
it is we who must sit on the blis
ters.
Is it possible that the people
of Washington and California
have no problems of their own?
If so, who is attending to them
while they are so industriously
solving ours? If the people of
Washington and California want
to turn their own country over
1 M. S. “Pacific” leaves Pe-1
| tersburg for Port Alexander
| every Friday at 4 p.m.
p - Folgers Coffee -
| J. B. Caro Company
^c-oooooooo.o.oo'o^o.o.onoooo^occCf^oaamo^aoao.oro.oxioo^ow^
§
The New yorl<
Pool Billiard And Card Room
Choice Cigars, Tobaccos And Candies
New Tables And Equipment
Dick Kuwata, Prop.
i . f
Get your Drugs, Medical Supplies and Sundries at .1
?
People9s Drug Co.
DAHL and SKEI, Owners.
Prescriptions filled by Graduate Pharmacist ^
ooooooo^macrmaaaomo.om^ac^omctao^mactctao^ctacttecf^acm*
LOAF CAKES
trench Crecm Lemon Cream
Mocha and Devils hood
THE STAR BAKERY §
•o^orioomcrom^a^c8^o:<Kemc8^cft^x>^aaom»m«o:cfO‘o:c«xc-oo
THE CANNING SEASON
IS HERE AGAIN
-X
And We Have All Kinds Of
FRUIT JARS
JAR CAPS & LIDS
RUBBER RINGS
JELLY GLASSES
AND THE MUCH NEEDED
“CERTO”
_—-— ■■ VI.J..i.Lii'iil iiii'iTniiiiiMHiiTHiiiipTuApirHftqTmrniHinrrm'iiiiTiiimniiiiimrTimunnwiTi'iin.mr,..:.
iiMiiMitTnfn5mil>Trrr:TTTTTmr!iniiilMnl^ii>u-‘ —.«
QUALITY AND SERVICE PHONE 55
T>- modern Grocery
to the propagation of eagles,
wolves, bears, and cougars, Alas
kans will not interfere, but we
hope to turn Alaska into a com
munity of homes—at least such
[ portions of it as we choose to
; consider suitable; nor can we
i' understand why others should
11 wish to thwart our purpose. The
pioneers of every sec ton of our
country have found i necessary
to obtain some measure of con
trol over predatory b; *ds, and
beasts, for their own protection,
but this is the first instance I
can find any record of where
the people of any State or Ter
ritory were blamed for trying to
reduce competition for posses
sion.
Now, just what manner of a
creature is this eagle that Alas
kans are asked to support by the
tens of thousands? You have
stated that the eagle harms no
man. Bear with me a iittle. Will,
while we examine that state
ment. Throughout the world and
throughout the centuries the
eagle has been considred a bird
of prey Is that slander? Did
he get that reputation for eating
spawned out slunkers after the
salmon run? Then what does he
do for a living the balance of the
year?—dig worms? In spite of
your statement in the Seattle
Times, pardon me for still think
ing that the eagle prefers a good
fresh live fish heading upstream
to an old rotten slunker drifting
down. I have seen them taking
salmon from the salt water, and
I suppose you have. So has every
other fisherman. But the salmon
are so much easier to catch when
they are fighting their way up
over the riffles. But what of it?
jA salmon is worth ten cents on
less delivered to the cannery. It
!was not the eagles that put the
resident fishermen of Alaska on
the starvation list and the fish
ermen have never made the
claim that you state in your let
ter to The Times. We blame that
on the ill-conceived regulations
of a Fisheries Bureau that does
not give Alaskans credit for know
ing anything about their own
problems.
During the first half of July
the young Canada geese are not
yet able to fly and the old ones
have shed their wing quills and
for the time being can only wad
dle about the meadows. Right
now, on the Stikine flats, Blind
Slough, Rocky Pass, in the la
goon at the head of Duncan
Canal and dozens of other plac
es, there are hundreds of half
grown goslings with a bunch of
eagles camp-following the flock
They are not looking for spawn
ed-out salmon in those mead
ows and the bones of the dead
under the cotton-wood trees of
the North Arm of the Stikine
jure not fish bones.
I On Woewodskl Island I saw
two spotted fawns dead and
partly eaten, the marks of eagles
being unmistakable, and I surely
meant to be fair in arriving at
my conculsions for I do not be
lieve in passing condemnation
! without considering the defense
| of the accused.
j In Rocky Pass, your own old
stamping ground, when the deer
.were feeding on th beach in the
dead of winter, two eagles killed
a full-grown doe by darting al
ternately at her head, turning
[her this way and that way to
; prevent her from reahcing the
timber, until she was so utterly
confused and parylized with
[right that they finally picked
out her eyes. Perhaps the deer
died partly from fright. Old
Man Kinney (I believe you knew
him) witnessed the performance.
He wen ashore and got the deer.
According to his version, he sav
ed the meat.” I remember sug
gesting to him that he had
. merely made it necessary for the
eagles to kill another one.
j On Read Island in Farragut
Bay, Peter Jorgenson rescued a
live fox pup from an eagle. The
side of the pup was torn open
and its intestines protruding.
The wound was stitched, the pup
sewed up in a bandage about its
middle to prevent it from burst
ing the stitches. The fox recov
ered completely to maturity. Now
it might be that some other fox
i tore this pup’s belly open and
, the eagle finding it in distress,
■ was merely playing the Good
i Samaritan and was tenderly car
. rying it to a place of safety where
i it could nurse the pup and feed
• it on worms and spawned salmon
■'even as the ravens brought
crackers and cheese to the babes
in the woods, but it would be
hard to make our friend Jorgen
son believe it. Such instances
can be multiplied not to infinity
but certainly to monotony and
if you still believe the eagle is
innocent you are perfectly entit
led to think so. but the final ver
dict must be rendered by the re
sident citizens of Aiaska.
But there is one point, howev
er, that I wish to thrust good and
deep. That “Great National
Bird, the eagle, that was selected
as the head piece for our coun
try’s loftiest totem” is a purely
imaginary, glorified, idealized |
figure, a harmless emblem.,
champion flagpole sitter of them j
all. He does not eat spawned
salmon at any season of the year.
Our fathers did not place a car
lion eater above our flag. Old]
Baldy, himself, is a different j
critter. He is a killer twelve
months in the year, changing his'
diet to whatever is available ac
cording to the season. He tolls
not, neither does he spin (or dig
worms). Is that the kind of a
foil’d we want our neighbors tej
think we emulate? No bounty j
can stigmatize the eagle that sits;
on the flagpole. Neither does the
bounty stigmatize Baldy, the kill j
er. Whatever stigma attaches I
his name and fame he has brot j
upon himself by his slaughter of
the innocents and his refusal to
cig worms. He is always on the j
consumer end, a star boarder,,
nothing does he produce
As to his being “our feather-1
ed friend of song and story,” the.
only song I ever him sing sound
ed to me like a war-cry and the
stories are all dead agin’ him.
And furthermore. Will, if yo\J
have pity to spare, why not be- j
stow it on some bird that needs
it, say for instance. Kink O’Mal
ley of the Fisheries Bureau?
There is one bird 'that needs a I
j'rind, for some day Alaska will j
be permitted to deal with her.
predatory birds and animals]
without interference, and I nia..
that early in the morning of that
day, if not sooner, a bounty wil.j
be placed also on kinks.
No, Will, the eagles aren’t all
(dead—yet—nor all our other
tormentors, either.
Yours very truly,
C. O. Parks.
--x
Juneau, Alaska
July 23, 1930 |
Editor The Alaskan-,
Petersburg, Alaska
Dear Sir: |
Sixty-thousand eagles — forty i
thousand dollars—Doctor Graves J
thirty thousand dollars—Doctor ^
Loftus thirty thousand dollars—
Totals $110,000 dollars—for the,
benefit of the fox farmer. Andj
what have we got—Sans Dr.*
Graves—sans eagles — bulloneyj
Doctor Loftus if he is not any!
better than Graves.
Are the fox farmers a special1
lot of Alaskans who must
be subsidized petted and pamp
ered in order to get them to fight
lout against the odds of nature?
| Why not subsidize the fisher?
I men? The storekeeps who gam
ble on fishermen’s accounts that
there will be a run of salmon—j
last year—this year—next year?;
Did the Fromm Brothers of
Wisconsin whine about the odd?
t hey had to encounter or-did they
makd honest effort and study to
make of their fox farm a sue-1
cess? They started with a red '
fox then switched to silvers and i
last year turned a gross of bet-1
ter than two million dollars and!
further they give to their State j
University twenty-five thousand!
collars a year for scientific re-|
search work to benefit the indus- j
try.
Get off that eagle stuff. For
get the bounty—play the game
giving and taking as every other
man in Alaska or elsewhere.
Yours truly
Klondike Smith i
AN AMAZING SPECTACLE
-x
I.ast week, we published cor
respondence from United State:
Bureau of Fisheries as follows:
.“You are hereby notified not to
open your trap Territorial license
No. 30-523, situated about one
mile north cf Ship Island * * * as
it would be in conflict with the
Alaska Pacific Corporation float
ing traps * * *. .The above is by
order of United States Attorney
13. D, Stabler.”
The United States District At
torney has defined duties and he
is under bond to prosecute those
duties fairly, imparl ially and in
an honest manner. The Code of
Laws defining the duties of said
D. A., says: “It shall be the duty
of EVERY District Attorney to
prosecute in his district, all de
linquents for crimes and offenses
cognizable under the authority of
the United States and all civil
actions in which the United
States is concerned, * * * * ”
There is no word in the Code
which declares that the office of
District Attorney shall be a kite
to the bureaucratic tail of the
cannery trust of Alaska. No
where in the Code is it designat
ed that the district attorney
hall be the cringing pawn of
illiterate and ignorant men
whose sole recommendation for
holding their positions under the
Bureau of Fisheries is their will
ingness to be the doormats of the
bosses—to be men without a soul
of their own; to be men who are
brave cowards because of the
vast, unrestrained, autocratic
power of a bureau which is sub
servient—disgustingly so—to the
every wish of the Fish Barons.
“It shall be the duty of every
district attorney to prosecute
all delinquents* * * ”. In the in
stance above related the Alaska
Pacific Corporation deliberately
constructed and set two traps in
violation of law—after the Clar
ence Straits Fish Co., had built
and set their trap The little in
dependent trapman had com
plied with the law and paid for
his license to do business in a
legitimate manner. The violation
. of law was by the big corporation
—but money has power—it talks
—it does many things in a mys
terious way—it is an open sesame
to big business which has plemy
with which to “grease” favo s
its w :v and obnoxious little to -
lows < ut of the wav.
The uuty of the District v..
torney was not to order the Cl ic
encc ."hraits Fish Co., to refr.i n
irom operating their trap, but to
arrest all who violated the law—
and not threaten the small oper
ator with criminal action be
cause his location was in conflict,
with those of a corporation’s.
The office of the district at- j
torney is not that of a leg
al advisor or tool of any ccr-|
poration—even if the officials of,
j the Bureau of Fisheries try to use'
jit as such. In this instance the
j district attorney has been made
I —perhaps unwittingly sn—the
j club with which to whip compe
tition out of the way of a big
corporation.
The courts do not stand in
good repute as it is, according to
the writings of such men as the
late Chief Justice Taft and Mi
Child’s, former ambassador to
Great Britain. And the willing
ness to lend its power to money
bags as above indicated, brings
it in a contemptuous light with
the rank and file of citizenry.
And it is this contempt of offic
ers of the court and the dilatory
methods of courts which makes
the fertile breeding grounds of
communism which apparently is
spreading its propaganda in
the fields of labor.
--—x
THE CREW OF ADMIRALS
| It has been suggested that a
crew of fish experts and scientif
ic men get out on a seineboat to
demonstrate the practicality ' or
impracticality of the present sal
mon fishing regulations in Alas
ka. The crew to be made up of
Henry O’Malley, Admiral, U . S.
E. F., Earl N Hunter, vice Admir
al, Captain O’Conner of the Bull
frog Infantry, Lieut. Troy, Sar
geant Major Pegues, Top sar
geant, “Peanuts” and corporal of
the guard Stroller White. Each
and everyone of this crew is an
authority on fishing salmon and
gear used in that game. They
would give the industry some
real valuable suggestions if they
got on the pulling end of a seine
in any section of the First Divi
sion. They might even starve.
But what if they did?
Willyou investigate
ONE POLICY
that gives you aii\
of this ?
Providing Against
ACCIDENT - SICKNESS
OLD AGE - DEATH
A small deposit each year payable
monthly, semi-annually or annually
during the earning period of your
life will provide:
$5000 in cash if you die from
natural causes.
$10000 if you die from accident
And in case of permanent total
disability:
1. Waive all premium payments.
2. Pay you $25 per Week for one
year; anti after 00 days.
3. Pay you $60 per month for
life; and
4. Pay $5000 to your beneficiary
when you die.
5. If disability involves loss of
limbs or sight as result of acci
dent, the company will pay you
$5000 cash IMMEDIATELY,
in addition to all other benefits.
For complete details, mail
coupon below to
GUY SKYMAN, Local Agent
JB u w
Prices Effective Saturday and Monday
Sugar - 16 lbs. - $1.00
Milk - 11 Cans $1.00
Borden's or Darigold
Marshmallows lb. . .35c
Fresh and Fluffy
Toilet Soap - . 3 for .25c
Lux, Palmolive, Life Buoy
Tomatoes - 3 large cans .50c
With puree
a
Thompson’s Chocolate lb. 50c
Malted Milk
Candy . , . per lb. 25c
Fancy Mixed
Dunbar Oysters ... 35c
2 cans
Carnation Cats ... 45c
Premium
Snowflakes.43c
Large Caddy
Corn .... 3 cans 45c
American Sweet
Waldorf Toilet Tissue 25c
3 Rolls
B & M Brown Bread . . 27c
Large Can
Soap ... 10 bars 45c
P & G or Crystal White
Rockdell Whole wheat 36c
Pancake Flour
Rath’s Canned Chicken
Whole . $2.00
Halves
NQTE:-We rlso carry a full line of Scandinavian Sardines, Toasts, Anchovies,
etc.