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IN FIVE YEARS
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“In five years there will be on
ly trap fishing. Regulations will
be so arranged that seines will
be entirely eliminated,” so spoke
a representative of the United
Slates Bureau of Fisheries to a
salmon packer.
Likewise this publication pre
dicts in answar to the represent
ative of the United States Bu
reau of Canneries, Ltd:
The year following promulga
tion of such a regulation will
see angered Alaskans retaliat
ing by destruction of property
and perhaps human life. It has
ever been thus that when the
overlords become so greedy that
they try to force labor off the
earth, labor girds up its loins
and takes the law into its own
hands. A good recent example
of which are the textile mills of
the Carolinas.
This is not a threat. It is a
statement arising from expres
sions made by white fishermen
and Indian fishermen. “Let the
buyer beware.”
CLEANING OUT WASHINGTON
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announcement comes the kbvg
George Remus, Jess Smith &
Company along with higher-ups
in Washington did a landoffice
business in the liquor business
and peddling of liquor permits.
Jess Smith “committed suicide”
and Remus, after salting down
over seven million dollars in a
Cincinnatti bank, was jailed and
convicted on a charge of wife
murder.
Recently in Washington comes
report from Seattle that the old
Olmstead liquor ring, with con
nivance of federal officials,
smuggled into Seattle between
90 and 100,000 cases of liquor
reaching figures approximating
six million dollars.
It appears that the powers
that be do not want honest offi
cials and that they appoint to
office men who are known guz
zlers of booze and were or are
more or less connected with the
booze ring.
Arrests are made of petty lar
ceny operators or those com
bines outside of the favored and
protected rings.
Men who are honest have ev
ery influence thrown in the way
of their efficient service and
political pressure is brought to
bear to secure dismissal of such
officials.
In another genaration, at the
present rate, we may expect a
government by super-bootleg
gers. The little fellow will have
to get off the earth.
GRAFT
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Was a time when “graft” and
“grafter” were terms of appro
brium. Today when the charge
of grafting is broadcast the
nation at large glances indiffer
ently at the exposure and pass
it by in a mad rush for pleasure.
Those honest men who uncov
er the stinking messes are in
turn damned by being called
radicals.
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PLAIN SKUNK
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During the recent fishing sea
son a Petersburg man was fish
ing in a stream at night. While
his net was in the water, along
comes a hi-j acker and copped
the net with fish. He sold the fish
and turned the net over to the
Bureau of Fisheries agent and
then tried to spread the report
that the net was confiscated by
a fisheries agent.
This informer was a chee
chako of the type the real pio
neers used to hang alongside of
the trails as a warning to others
: f his ilk.
BY FEDERAL PERMISSION
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Three men were fishing for
salmon in the creeks near Ju
neau, delivering their fish to the
Taku Cannery by truck.
The matter was reported to
the U. S. Marshal’s Office and
that office took the matter up
V/ith “Captain” O’Conner with
the request that he make im
mediate investigation.
Two days after the matter
was brought to the attention of
the “Captain.’ He asknowledged
receipt of the information. BUT
the fishing continued unmolest
ed by the trap protection bureau
and its mannikins.
IGNORES REPORT
. .A report was sent from Kake
to Mr. “Captain” O’Connor that
one of his stream watchmen (?) j
was fishing illegally in a closed
area—the stream in fact. The
inefficiency of the “Captain” is j
emphasized by the fact that he j
has ignored the complaint.
Is it a wonder that more than 1
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one-half the streams are now
barren of salmon?
INGRATE
was reported from Juneau;
last week that at great hazard!
'to themslves, John Hunter and
Willis George put a line'-on the
\Vidgeon and with two boats—
Traveller and Frances—pulledj
the vessel off.
“Captain” O’Conner upon his
return to Juneau scoffed at the
story as told by the crews of the
two boats. Belittled the account
and denied that they (the buric
lats) were in any danger from
the elements.
It was just too bad that the
crews had that spark of man
hood and humanity to go to the
aid of such as “Captain” O’Con
nor. Any ingrate should be left
to the tender mercies of the ele
ments of Chatham Straits when
oroused in its fury.
Personally we know Captain
John Hunter, who has been
ionored by the people of An
goon by electing him its mayor;
and our contact with the “Cap
tain” has been since 1918 when
we typed out some of his fishery
reports at Fort Seward. As be
tween the so-called captain and
Capt. Hunter, we will take the
word of the latter.
THE WHOLE ROSTER
A number of years ago, so the i
story goes, a number of men
from Fort Seward were out on a
hunt. In the party was a Ma
jor, Lieutenant, Sergeant, Cor
poral and a couple of buck pri
vates, along with Mister O’Con
nor.
Said one of the men: “We
have every rank of the Post here
represented save “Captain.” Up
on which the Major retorted:
“There’s the captain,” pointing
at Mister O’Connors.
And he has been “captain ev
er since.
CIVILIZATION A VENEER
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Not long since at Auburndale,
[near Auburn, Washington, the
newly-purchased home of Geo.1
W. Summers, Seattle negro, was
destroyed by fire. On going to
the homes of neighbors to learn
che cause of the conflagration,
without a single exception, they
tefused to speak to him, shut
ting the doors of their homes in
liis face.
The origin of the fire was
clearly that of a firebug. He re
ported the matter to officials,
and they “hoped” to establish
incendariasm and to make an
arrest.
The savings of a lifetime was
represented in the little home.
After all, the veneer of civi
lization is pretty thin and it is
easily scratched off and exposed
by racial contacts. The religion
of the bible is for heathen and
the colored races—not to be
practiced by the so-called su
perior races.
“Don’t do as I do, but do as I
preach” seems to be supplanting
the Golden Rule “Do unto others
as you would have them do to
you.”
THE PRETENSE CONTINUES
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Before his election to the
presidency, Mr. Hoover wrote an
article on hatcheries and which
was published by the Isaac Wal
ton League. He questioned the
worth of the hatchery system at
that time. Long before that
the Alaska Native Brotherhood
declared the government owned
and operated hatcheries nothing
but a farce and the privately
owned hatcheries a tax dodging
proposition, in that the operat
ors received a rebate of four
cents the case on the finished
product.
In 1927 Senator Heckman, ap
pearing before the Territorial
Legislature declared he would
not invest eleven cents of his
own money in any hatchery sys
tem.
Recently over five million sal
mon eggs were shipped from
Seward to be hatched out in the
various hatcheries of Oregon
and Washington.
Thtr* shipment is from Litnik
John Fanning
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