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PETERSBURG, ALASKA SEPTEMBER 8 1928
NO. 8
Maynard Charged
illegal Fishing
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A1 Maynard, superintendent of the
Skinner and Fddy plant at kake u.
this week charged wit.hr t,so wanton
waste and destruction of salmon.'
Complaint was made by > me of ; ,■
own employees. Specific'charget
destroying approximately ;](),. i
salmon was made madt by ( apt.
O'Connor of the Bureau of Fi:'u •
its. Capt. O'Connors made
rough investigation ad then u
the charge. it e slated t ;t
R’.aynatal had to pa. eni• r<- .1
spot is to ’is . alt S. v t i :
til*; l . S. Marshal.
FA .MO ITS HOAKOWA! v
ising '.:»?;«■< .
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.More than SCO,000 board
Sitka spruce deck luma, r " a - u :
in construction of tVe On
boardwalk, Ocean Ciiy. M. it w
3x4 inehcs vertical grab:, , h *.
ish, B. & Better grade.
Vertical grained West t oast hei’
lock 2-inch decking he; ! •• n . a
to replace portions of th h. ir
walk at Atlantic City, N. J.
A Great Rejoicing
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Announcement was made t: f ’
part of the week that the Ole
in rg Packing Company was n
operate when the fall season
ing opened, doing down t lt< d i
we found large bright smile
fa* ° of every business man ;
universal stattmen; t!:at "aow'tl
fishermen will have a chance to nmi:
a few dollars and the}’ can p.y th V
bills and have a little m ne . >
spend.
I s \ VS BORAH TO BACK DEMO
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Borah republicans will support
i whatever Democrat is named to con
test lohn Thomas’ candidacy to take
(he Tdaho United States senatorial
( nail vacated by the death of Frank
Gooding. That is the prediction of
1 lie .1. Aker, chairman of the Ada
County Taxpayers’ League, from
' (\ Friday, for the 21st national
Conference on Taxation.
\iier said Democrats of his stat>
will name a candidate soon in place
Cha v Clark of Mackay. who will
not qualify, tho nominated at the
o,u" convention at Orangeville
l «*•> -day. Political dopesters believe
; f'v • don’s ex-state senator, Tann.i
i will he Thomas’ opponent.
The Idaho Democrats expect to
v. >ep the state with an anti-ma
c campaign. Their ticket is
i cued by Hen Ross, Pocatello may
or. St levied Tuesday to oppose re
gion of Senator H. C. Baldridge
The Idaho Democrats will oppos°
( • pressman Addison 'T. Smith’s re
i ■ i ni with R. J. Harding, Oneida
copnty state senator.
SA iMOX FISH HR-MAX -
FORFEITS MOTORBOAT j
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Sophias Mavrikas, Puget Sound
i h. "man, must relinquish his mo
; • • oat to the state because he was
- hi Co fishiiig for salmon without
a state license. The supreme court
■o held today in a decision which re
' - r-ed the King County court. The
C v > < our; v as inclined to leniencj
because the man was fifty-five years
aye and coutiscation of his boat
would deprive him of a means of
livelihood, and also because the of
lvuce was his first one. The high1
court ruled that it is mandatory upon
1) ■ ourt to order confiscation. I
Airplane Finds Man
lost 40 Days -
An epic of hardship, endurance
and friendship came to a happy end
ing here last week when Andy Tay
lor, prospector, after being lost 4 0
days in the woods was brought back
to life and civilization in an airplane
by his old-time friend, Fred Coleman,
who prospected with him 20 years
ago.
When he became lost from his
party, Taylor had three matches, an
ax, and a broken penknife. He used
the matches trying vainly to kindle
a signal fire. He broke the ax handle
throwing it at a partridge, and for
some reason did not try to fit the
ax with a new handle. The broken
penknife he retained, and with it, a
one stage of his journey, built a
raft with which he crossed a con
siderable lake.
He lived on dead fish and frogs
eaten raw, of course, with rare ber
ries. He was at the end of his
strength when found.
All who knew the circumstances
agreed that Taylor must be dead long
ago, but Coleman refused to give up
He organized an expedition of res
cue and stuck to the search, in de
fiance of all probablities, and finali;
found his old partner at Burnt wood
Like.
Taylor was too weak to travel far
ther, so Coleman stayed and nursed
him while the others trekked thru
th° woods to Cold Lake for a plane,
li came and took out the rescue!
man and his devoted friend. Taylor
is now recovering at a hospital in
Winnipeg.—LABOR.
Northwestern due S P. M. Saturday
Limiting- of Catch Asked To
Protect Halibut Fisheries
Material has boon collect.d by fbet
staff, not merely from voyages on j
fishing vessels, but through op< ; • |
tions of vessels chartered for f
purpose.^ Thousands of halibut lia/ej
been caught and released with nui »
bered tags attached, and have be .J
recovered from fishermen through
rewards offered.
From the records thus furnish d ;
U has been possible to determine the!
migrations of the halibut. Exteu !
sive studies of the physical char;
teristics and the growth of the d
ferent “races” have confirmed sue - !
findings.
The drift of the eggs and larv ■<. j
in the open ocean have been s
by means of fine-meshed silk nets
and by observation oi the currents :
The results of these ’ ^logical stud-j
ies, in conjunction with ilmse from |
the statistics, form the basis for the j
conclusions reached in this report.
Fisheries for halibut are prosecni- j
ed in the North Pacific and th, X vein
Atlantic oceans, and yield about flb.
000,000 pounds, which is covered
bv the terms of this convention, is
the greatest in the world.
The annual catch exceeds r>0,000.
000 pounds, which represents abo .
60 per cent of Ihe world’s catch. O.
the remainder about 30,000,000 ac
credited to European countries ami
6.QOO.OOO to the Atlantic coast of
this continent.
The value of the Pacific halibut
catch to fishermen is about $7,000,
000 annually, and it is consequently
one of the most important fisheries
in North American waters. The Pa
cific halibut is, therefore, one of the
most important species of food fishes
indigeneous to the waters of the
North American Continent.
Pacific Halibut Fishercry
Is Greatest in World
The Pacific halibut fishery origin
ated soon after the lirst railway com
munication. was established between
the two coasts of the United Stales.
It is, therefore comparatively young.
It had its inception in 18 88 near
Cane Flattery, at the entrance to
.Tuan De Fuca Strait. The fishery
expanded rapidly and by 1910 it had
extended to grounds off Cape Omma
ney, Baranof Island, six hundred
miles to the north.
Subsequent expansion has extend
ed the lislieries until it now covers
about 1,800 miles of coast. •Form
erly as many fish were taken from
tne 000-mile stretch as are now pro
cured from the entire area of 1,800
miles
The banks on the eastern side of
the Gulf of Alaska, which yield
.pawning fish, were first exploited
in i913. In 192 6 the larger boats
made by far the greater part of their
catches in the vicinity of Kodiak Is
i uid, in tlie western side of the Gulf
of Alaska, about 1,200 miles beyond
1 he original fishery.
The catch on the older grounds
south of Cape Onimaney has decreas
ed from a total in excess of 50,000, I
000 pounds in 1910 to about 20,000,
000 in 192G, and much greater effort
was exerted in making the catch 2n
the latter year.
It is evident that the present level
of production has been maintained
by extending fishing operations to
new areas, as the catch on the old
er grounds decrease, and by increas
ing the intensity of the fishing
effort.
The amount of gear now used on
j the older hanks is about two and
1 one-half times the quantity formerlv
! used, yet the present catch is only
i about 40 per cent of the former yieid
from these grounds. Under the stress
af this great intensification of fishing
afi'ort the abundance of fish on tnc
older banks has fallen enormously,
to 16 per cent of the abundance iu
1906.
More dear Required For
Same Fish Catch
Where in 1906 the catch per set
of a unit of fishing gear was nearly
o00 pounds, in 1926 it was below b
pounds. Expressed in another way
it required six units of gear to catch
as many fish as one unit caught in
1906. The decline has gone on at
en even rate and shows no tendency
tc slacken.
Accompanying this fall in abund
ance there has been a decrease in
the average size of the fish landed,
and a great increase in the percent
age of undersized fish. For exam
ple, between 1919 and 1926 the per
centage of undersized fish from the
older banks increased from 20 to
30 per cent.
Idle more recently exploited banks?
to the westward show the same
trend, the catch having fallen from
170 pounds per unit gear in 1923 to
100 pounds in 1926, and was still
lower in 1927, while at the same
time there was an, increase of fish
under 11% pounds.
The rapidity of decline is regard
ed as especially serious because of
the very slow rate of growth of the
halibut, an adult being from 12 tc
25 years, or over, in age. Hence
the present decline has taken place
within the life span of one halibui
of ordinarily large size.
As nearly all the fish which are be
jing caught now were spawned eigh
i or ten years ago, the abundance o:
the younger fish, which will annuall:
continued to page three
School Board Refuse Admittance
Kake Girls to “Public'’ School
The children of Thomas Austin
and Roy Bean who recently came
here from Kake were refused ad
mittance to the Petersburg Public
Schools by the School Board in a
meeting this week. Reason—mis
for: une (if it is) to be born Indian.
Idr. Austin and ftir. Bean had both
taken their children in the fifth, %ev
enth and eighth grades to school
and asked Mr. Conrad Bowman, prin
ci.aai of the school to enter them in
there grades. He advised them that
“the school was full and that there
were no more books,’’ so they could
not lie accommodated. The" men
both members of the Alaska Native
Brotherhood at Kake, then request
ed Louis F. Paul, president of the
fraud Camp op the organization to
present the matter to the School
Board This was done in the letter
, which follows
I Mrs. Lee, Ghn rman
Petersburg School Board,
p e t e r s b u r g, A1 a s I t a
My dear Mr.-:. Lee: —
The parents of Alice, Lillian and
Label Wilson li tv asked Mr. Bow
man ’ to cuter those girls in the
grades of the public school. He ad
vises that tho grades arc full and
that there are no books for any mo: e
pupils
If such is a fact then any en
trance in these grades by any other
pupil this year is not possible. Or
else there is a discrimination against
the children because of their parent
age.
I call your attention to the fac"
that the father of these children as
a I co in the case of Thomas Austin
that they hold receipts for school
tax, public moneys which is being ex
pended by the Territory for tlm
maintenance of public schools. Any
public money so expanded under th ?
law must be expended without dis
crimination regardless of any other
school'maintained by the United
States government.
In the case ot Petersburg public
school I further call your attention
that the first Nelson school establish
et1 was with federal money expend
ed by Congress and parents used to
go around to gather Indian children
ii order to secure the quota cl child
ren required by the law.
I am asking the school board 1o
handle this situation in a fair man -
ner without recourse to tire courts
as will be necessary in event dis
crimination is continued. !n pos
session of your Board is ! t.ei
from Attorney General itust rr rd -w
vising the local school board that i
is the right of every child, Indian.
Japanese or any other child to en
ter school. Recourse to the com”
is unnecessary and expensive but hi
such worthy cases we will be com
pelled to follow such a course r
gardless.
So far it has been the desire of out
people to enter those children v :
meet the standards of health ;u ”
sanitation as set up by 'orm r>
er Henderson when the scho: 1 oo
troversy first started in 19 21. The? •
is no attempt nor desire to force i
to any school board children bob
ti p fourth grade who have not met
the standard set forth. To caw.
such cases to the courts will opei
the way for every child regardless of
their grades or worthiness of cn
ti -nice.
As our people raise their child
ren to the higher standard of schol
arship, health and sanitation the:
move to the incorporated districts
wiipre the school opportunities al
beit er than that offered by the Bur
eau of Education. ..lore dc bro <h • •
equal and better opportune: '.c- of
education offered by the pu hr
school system. At best any m
gated school cannot oomp te v-s.tv
nor offer the environment c- ’ n
eentive for more rapid progress
therefore it cannot be equal in eduru
tion opportunity.
The charitable thing for any school
board to do with any people desiring
to rise out of poorer environment is
to give them the opportunity as of
fered by your schools.
1 trust that you will cal! y r
board together and discuss t! - m.r
ter thoroughly and that it may b
settled without recourse ro tin
courts. As it will be under hie di
rection of the Grand Camp of th->
Alaska Native Brotherhood ordered
in convention two years ago.
Very respectfully yours,
■ (signed) L. F. Paul
Alaska Native Brother, o ml.
! On Woilno:day evening the Boar 1
i..rt i o i onsid i' t he i :>! limit ion fo*
..n •••• of Use girl.--.. However, in
{' ;■ ui'tevnoon members of the Boar I
v/i'.-i. about to go* a -cpresslom; of see
t:-it <-s to * h< cuci it si. Wi en Um
; 'a ini In the ling it v. ns wit h
r i:.t rj ;lir, .-s t tie ir *?ot io
though *■’-*'* r • w:! no little :> 11 * * rn v :
x • make n .;1:o • feinm s in eon
Shpring th. mat ;r. The mat;or
v ,.R fit‘ •! v ' . ’)!• i. t ■
by Mi.e a- venal inf : .1 < of 1 ■ cour
oil. including .y- r 1 Swans-';
a*:a the K -F -r ho applicnip
Mr. Paul ••vprrs • , : <■ feet, that : -
c in hire a of ,-i!: ■ a h. * wore pa. yin
snr ■ - - - a i h ■ rival ' refi ad
r ■; it ? a :* to the schools war not 1
gal nor right. C lied atu-uti u • >
fht> on; • from Attorney G ml
Kiedgard to the School Board :>bo-p
live years ago in which he declared
that “public moss■ y- mu ■ !• • -• ■ -ei
for public purposes" and i: ;11 th
rignt of any Indian child 1
School was leg, 1. The condition ot
the Bureau School;: in the past and
ore ' ■ re shown l norm
; ’ i ; e >
F ,-y c.: - - t ; m
-sear:
' Ur t ;:a a -- • <■:
requirement th late a 1 <
! where he had experience cm-1 si:: dm
1 criminations wove Swag p1 ie.-d
|ieavlng to the • to deduw •
I faci that or account of c = edition >
| Oregon and WrclFnen-’i it was rich
■ for Petershuv g l o d i : m i n a tv a gain
I st Indian child; •: n. When rskod ns
to his answer to applicants for on
trance he said while h. probably ah
’ ’Used that Hue gv.d Sill and
i 1* sutiieient books on. han:i he mean1
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It., pp understood by t in-in that t; ■
j intent to keep Indian children on
jv.as the Inst ruction of the Board. He
be. loved that this matt or should he
carried into the court/, and set i led
once and- for <11. Iw-.iving Hie idea
, in the e inds of ~o :e present the ■
j Continued on page two ! bird coin;: u
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Reception Was Good
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fames Brennan who returned again i
f’om Ketchikan speaks moat highly
of the spontaneous and kindly re
ception he received from everyone I
during the time he was at Ketchi-1
lean. Old friends and new visited him
in the hospital and cheered the long
hours he Had to lay in bed while the
bone on his broken ieg was knitting
together. He gave full credit to
Dr. Ellis for the excellent surgical
work which will permit him to walk
again without trouble due to short
ened leg and also for the fact it
j was thru effort of Dr. Ellis that
Dr. Rich of Tacoma stopped over a
day e,nd performed the difficult oper
ation of bone grafting. Speaking
of his trip to Ketchikan on the Cy
gan he was unstinted in his praise
of the officers and wives and crew
in their effort to make him forget
the excruciating pain he was suffer
ing.
Leviathan be Sold
' The United States and American
Merchant lines including the Levia
thain, will be advertised for sale
next, week, the United States ship
ping board announced recently."''
JAIL DRUNKEN DRIVERS
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Drunken drivers of automobiles
are to be given no quarter in On
tario. Attorney General W. II. Price
lias announced that a conviction f '
being drunk while in charge of a
car will mean jail without the option
of a fine.
fishermen on strike
AGAINST CUT IN WAGES
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The city of New Bedford, Mass
was taced with an industrial cri
sis recently when the fishing fleet
j tied up as the result of a strike of
j fishermen. They alleged that their
I working rules had been changed so
^ as to reduce earnings by about $10
a trip.
As it is possible to average onlv
about 25 trips a season this is a se
rious reduction.
The men belong to the Fishe?
men’s Union of the Atlantic, branch
of the International Seamen’s Union
The owners claim that as high as
$180 a trip is made by the fishermen,
but this is called absurd by the
spokesmen of the union. They point
out the extreme hardships, and haz
ards of the occupation and say that
under the peculiar system of pay
ment the men do not get any pay £o-*
some of their most trying trips, in
fact have to pocket losses.
Arrested Foi Murder
t e*» >rt. v ; > wived to Juneau las
ve-ck from Sit: : Jus
f -unit dead viih Ids
f'vuj every indication <•
(I « arti ion: of . jv dic<
sentatives to Sitki i
invest igate. IU-pon
a in an wa
i ad erushea
murder. Tin
sent repiv
; media tuh ti
his week e
to the effect that Alb-uu. Grant, was
a’’rested for the i turner oi horn
J. rites. Grant was .’.cor to jail at
Juneau where lie is lodged without
hood on the charge of murder. An
other score for demon rum, moon
i^hine, wines, canned heat, and de
natured alcohol.
The Deputy Marshal from Idaho
moved bag and baggage and extra
suit cases to Chet Holm's residence.
V . en to equipment for which no re
cord s^cau be shown as being pur
chased by the department of justice
were moved.
Have Record Share,
Capt. L. C. Sundo and two com
panions recently sold a fare of bai
lout in Seattle for $1,GS5. which is
probably the most successful trip re
ported this year. This was the re
sult of a thirteen day trip in a 33.is
foot beat.