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HIGHWAY GAINS FRIENDS j
The extension of Pacific High
way from Seattle to Fairbanks is
gaining friends each day. The
Department of Interior collober
ating with Alaska and Canada
gives assurance of early steps to
make certain actual start on the
roadway.
Construction of such a high
way will mean immediate work
for many Alaskans—if they are
employed. The present stulted
labor condition will be given new
impetus and Alaskans will be
come more content to remain in
the land of their choice—bring
ing in familes and making per
manent a residence which is be
ing destroyed by present fishery
regulations.
A LOST CHAPEAUX
From Nome comes the report
that former Senator Jensen will
file in the Republican primaries
as a candidate for delegate to
Congress.
Jensen’s record in the Senate
was that of a servile tool of the
Juneau Empire with its gang of
Political What-nots. His record
alone will defeat him.
FOR WHOSE BENEFIT
Next week will be gathered,at]
Haines, the delegates to the con-'
mention of the Alaska Native
Brotherhood to discuss various
problems a fleeting their inter
ests. Chief of which are the sal
mon fisheries of the Territory.
A complete study has been
made of the condition of the
fisheries of the First Division
from Dixon Entrance to Yaku
tat; a study of salmon catch
and earnings of crews has been
gathered; a report completed as
to the regulation and enforce
ment made. The scope of which
study and effort beyond that of
any man or organizations will
bring to the attention of Con
gress the condition of affairs in
such manner as to be indisput
able.
The Indians of the First Di
vision are working to better the
entire fishing fleet of the Terri
tory so that Alaska may be a
better place for every fisherman
and every businessman to live in.
For the past ten years this or
ganization has been maligned
by predatory interests for po
litical purposes; it has received
no financial support from white
fisherman or business man—in
soite of the truth of their ef
forts.
From this convention will come
the seed which will eventually
get the fisheries of Alaska on a
real basis of conservation. This
convention will be as important
to the adopted residents of Alas
ka as the Native.
A careful study of their effort
is invited.
TIME TO RIG13T A WRONG
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In 1910 in San Francisco was
held a big Preparedness Parade
on which day explosives were
set on one of the streets, wreck
ing a building and killing sever
al by-standers. Tom Mooney and
Killings were arrested for this!
crime and convicted. Later ev
ery witness was proven a perjur
or and the e vidence “cooked”
to secure conviction of the labor
leaders. The trial judge went on
record as being convinced of the
innocence of the men; eleven of
fhe jurors took the same posi
tion; three governors and three
presidents have been importuned j
to right a great injustice. With
WORTHY CONDEMNATION
The Senate adopted the Nor
ris resolution reprimanding Sen
ator Bingham of Connecticut for
taking an officer of the Connec
ticut Manufacturers’ Associa
tion into the secret sessions of
the Senate Finance Committee
at a time when the bill was be
ing framed. While the blow was
somewhat sweetened it reminds
the Senate that such conduct is
an insult to a government of the
people, for the people, by the
people.
nary a reply. Recently Govern
or Young of California was re
ported as studying the case with
a view to righting the injustice.
New comes a woman in Ohio
who declares that her brother!
made a deathbed confession . to
her that on a promise of being i
‘ well paid” he planted the suit-'
case of explosives which de
stroyed a building and several
lives.
Nothing the State of Califor
nia can do at this time to recom
pense the men for the thirteen
years in the penitentiary—the
fullness of those years of life are
gone. Only the clearing of the
names of those men, who were
sacrificed upon the alters of
greed can be returned to them in
a measure. That should not be
tardy.
GAME COMMISSION MAKES
GOOD START
The Game Commission which
met in Juneau last week, made
a start in the right direction
jwhen it permitted the killing of
grizzly and hrown bear in all
parts of Alaska, limiting to a bag
of two only in certain sections
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of the country.
It appears to this paper that
the life of one federal employee
; counts for more than the many
| others that have been torn to
1 ic-ces, most severely wounded or
| in a number of cases, killed out
(right.
Alaskans can go back the past
two decades, counting the toll of
deaths by the brown and grizzly
bear, which if they had been
federal employees, would have
made early difference in the re
gulations.
The fisher folk dared not go
ashore at the head of Tyee as
the bear there have chased the
women folk and children right
up to the cannery. Last summer
one woman had to sit in stark ;
terror whilst a big brownie nozed
around her cabin, and she all |
alone, unable even to call for j
help; one man nailed two hides;
to his cabin wall and he did not |
have to leave his cabin to get j
them; the previous summer one!
fisherman had to talk like a
Dutch uncle for having two pelts
which were secured within a few
yards of the cannery cabins. And
ail along that shore of Admiral
ty those big bear abound.
Mo number of bear in the Ter
i dory is as valuable as the most,
illiterate Indian or any other i
race. If preservation of these;
brutes is the aim of the Commis
sion or of the Biological Survey,;
tnen this humble publication!
suggests that the Game Commis
sion and Biological Survey se
cure a number of these Horna
c’ay pets and turn them loose in
the wilds of Pennsylvania and
other thickly populated states
and then make it illegal to kill
the animals. Such game reserves!
should be established if it is the
sincere desire to preserve the
species from extinction. Alaska
has enough worries without be-j
ing the sanctuary of man-killing j
animals.
However, this publication eon- j
gratulates the Commission on
taking a step in the right direc
tion. The next step is a bounty*
on the animals as is being advo- j
cated in Canada.
THE WAGES OF SIN
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Closes now a chapter in the
life of a modern, moneyed fam
ly. Two different judges, one in
California and the other in
Washington, after sitting in
judgement decree that Alex
Pantages, theatrical man of Se
attle must sit in restrospectior
domiciled in a federal home, un
der guard for a long term oi
years for his attempted criminal
assault upon a young woman
who had gone to his office seek
ing work.
A just reward for a man held
in contempt by the theatrical
profession and others who knew
tlie story of an ingrate turning
upon the woman through whose
efforts he secured success. The
way of the transgressor is hard.
The other half of this family
was sentenced to ten years and
payment of a heavy fine for the
killing of a Japanese by hitting
him with a car while she was
Driving witti too much high-'
power liquids in her person to;
make safe driving.
The fine and punishment will1
never give back to those chil
dren their father and provider—
she will have ten years to re
gret while under probation—if
she lives that long. And the dis
honor and stygma of the bars
and stripes will continue to the
deathbed of both of them.
A DISGRACE TO AMERICANS
On another column we are re
printing from the pen of Vera
L. Connolly in Good Housekeep
ing, a story under the caption of
“We Still Get Robbed.” “A Cen
tury of Dishonor” is reaching in
to another century of discredit
to a liberty loving people. The
ignorance of the American citi
zens and their apathy to frauds,
scandals and conspiracies by the
Indian Bureau and its parasitic
leeches, is appalling,
i The story as told by Vera Con
noly has been substantiated in
every particular by a special
committee of the Senate which
included Senators Lynn J. Fra
zier of North Dakota and Bur
ton K. Wheeler of Montana.
The duplicity of former Commis
sioner of Indian Affairs was ex
I posed by these able senators and
[all down the line they expose a
[disgusting mess which for nau
seating putrid aroma is unex
celled. We lack the vocabulary
to decribe the lecherous system
which under the guise of pro
tecting its wards, uses the courts i
to defraud. The hearings he- j
fore this special committee is!
so disgusting that no person of
an iota of sensitiveness can sit
down to a meal immediatly af
ter reading some choice exerpts
from those hearings.
In spite of which the Indian
youth in 'the public schools and
and reservation school, each clay
repeat the Pledge of Allegiance
to the Flag in the name of Lib
city and Justice for All—but the
Indian.
PEACE MOVES
Following the Kellogg Peace
Pacts have come other moves to
insure World Peace. Reams of
paper and pounds of ink go to
telling of the aims of various na
tions to secure world peace.
On the other hand, these same i
nations are spending more mil- i
lions on armies and navies than!
is being spent in education to j
teach citizens to abhor war.
A few of the billions now being
spent on the tools for Mars, if
spent in making happy, content
ed citizenry, citizenry able to un
derstand other nations and to
eradicate greed and selfishness,
and secure world understanding
then only will world peace be as- j
sured.
THE RED CROSS DRIVE
The Drive for Red Cross Mem- ,
bership is on. The first unit re- j
porting in was the village of'
Yakutat.
Many have a wrong coo cep-1
tion of the work of this great or
ganization and the expenditure!
i
or its moneys.
Looking back the past year in
our own Alaska, in our own
United States and then across
to Europe and other continents,
we see the workings of a wonder-1
ful organization in its human!- j
larian functions. j
Truly, every town in Alaska |
should follow Yakutat and give;
an early and generous response;
to the call of the Reel Cross.
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