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WHAT IS NEWS.
The efforts of the Bureau of Fish
eries to convince the American Pub
lic that the shortage of salmon is
not due to their regulatory system
would be amusing to Alaskans who
know the truth if it were not for
the dubious outlook for the coming
winter among the fishermen.
The following clipping from the
Washington News of September 28
is similar to the propaganda fur
nished to all the press by the Bur
eau.
‘•SALMON YIELD SHORT;
PRICE INCREASE SEEN”
Subterranean Disturbances Blamed
for Killing of Young; Packers
May Lose Millions.
‘‘In spite of the fact that the Com
merce Department has been enforc
ing strict fishing regulations, de
signed to provide an adequate sup
ply of salmon for the world’s mar
ket, the catch this year is lower
than it has been since 1921 and
5,000,000 cases short of market
demands.
For some reason the fish turned
wary, and nets and traps went emp
ty. Fishermen and paikers stand
to lose millions of dollars while the
retail price of salmon is scheduled
to rise considerably.
The Alaskan pack, which pro
vides a major portion of America’s
table salmon, will not exceed 3,400,
000 cases while the British Colum
bia pack will be one-lialf of what
it was last year.
Deputy Commissioner Itadcliffe
advanced the opinion that millions
of the young salmon had been killed
by subterranean distrubances.”
The decline of the Alaska salmon
supply is not interesting news but
the reading public will surely sit
up and take notice when Mr. Rad
elifie of the Bureau annouces that
millions of the young salmon were
killed by subterranean disturbances
What is pure and unadulterated
bunk to Alaskans is interesting
news to people in the states who
know nothing regarding the condi
tions that govern the salmon supply
and take their information from
government bureaus.
CANCELLATION UPHELD
In the U. S. Daily, Washington,
D. C., of October 11th there is a
complete digest of the U. S. Su
preme Court decision in the famous
—or infamous—Teapot Dome oil
affair. Mr. Justice Butler delivered
the -Court opinion and it is point
ed out that there was fraud, evident
ly, from the beginning of the Fall
Sinclair activities. By the decision
of the Court the United States
Government is benefitted to the
tune of approximately $2,000,000
in cash settlement. Secretary
of the Navy, Curtis D. Wilbur,
states, in connection with the de
cision, that the Sinclair interests
lose about $10,000,000. The Gov
ernment will gain possession of oil
tanks at Portsmouth, N. H. valued
at $1,000,000 and a deal of other
equipment elsewhere. Twenty-seven
oil retainers on the lease and more
than 60 producing wells and the oi!
lands now go back to absolute U
S. ownership. The Court, in refer
ring to Fall, who negotiated the
lease and agreements as Secretary
of the Interior, claims that the ev
ldence shows he was a “faithless
public officer.” In the vernacular
of the street this would be express
ed as a “damn crook.” The court
considered the Government allega
tion that Fall received $230,500.00
in Liberty Bonds as a portion of
his price and goes on record in the
statement: “That the company or
ganized in New York to purchase
WHY $581 DIFFERENCE?
It is because the Port of Seattle
(city owned and managed) docks
are better equipped and operated
on a smaller expense account than
privately owned wharfage of New
Yorky or is there some other rea
son? Look at this: An ocean
freighter recently took onboard, as
part of her cargo for the West—
loaded at New York—an 85 foot
motor vessel. The loading charge
there was $700. At the Smith Cove
Terminal, city dock, Seattle, the 85
foot yacht was unloaded for $119.
There’s just a much work and it
calls for practically the same equip
ment to unload as to load this class
of freight, but a difference of $581,
in the doing of it is amazing.
If some men owned the earth
they would try to dodge the tax-col
lector just the same.
A man’s head is like his pocket j
book—it’s not the outside appear-j
ance but what it contains that
counts.
oil, out of which the bond transac
tion arose, was for no legitimate
purpose.’” In the several inferioi
court decisions, prior to the pre
sentation of the case before the
highest tribunal, the public was
muchly up a stump in an endeavor
to fathom a head or tail to the big
“transaction.” Editorials, even, m
several publications of large cir
culation favored the Fall-Sinclan
defense and thought it more sinned
against than sinning. With the de
cision, October 10, of the U. b
Supreme Court the affair is definitc
ly settled. And the Mammoth Oil
Co., Sinclair Crude Oil Purchasing
Co. and the Sinclair Pipe Line Co
stand discredited. Sinclair and
Fall as well as a number of official.
of other oil companies were prett.
well grease smeared and the stair
is more or less lasting. The odd
part of the oily deal comes out in
the apparent ease of Fall in the
crooked work from the very firsl
negotiations. Seemingly, if he
wanted any order he just wrote il
himself and he got the signature
of the proper officials—even up tc
the President, himself—for anj
thing he desired. He craved con
trol, absolutely, of the Governmenl
oil lands, and, one way or another
he got it. The immaculate gall ol
the looters in this gigantic swindle
Is more a cause of wonder than ad
miration, surely.
FIRE PREVENTION WEEK
Fire Prevention Week calls fresl
attention to the fact that 12,00C
lives and more than $1,500,000,000
in building and production were
lost last year, the tremendous tol
of fire in this country..
Much of the loss was wholly un
necessary. Three-fourths of this
country’s residence fires are from
roof and chimney scpirces. In th<
city of Lansing, Mich., of 375 fires
reported in five months, 17G wen
from wood or coal blazes.
Those who are responsible foi
Fire Prevention Week use it t(
draw national attention to the im
portanee of curbing our immenst
fire losses. The tragedy of it all ii
that probably 90 per cent of ou:
fires are preventable. Losses art
much lower during the month o
our annual prevention week.
An old batchelor says that womei
are given to small talk in largi
quantities.
WHOSE FIGHT—CONSERVATION
For a number of years the Alaska j
Native Brotherhood, the native
people of the Territory and a few
friends have been joined together in
a seeming hopeless attempt to com
pel the Bureau of Fisheries to con
serve the fisheries of Alaska. Since
1912 they have been in the open
declaring that unless the depart
ment in charge of this industry po
mulgated real regulatory measuros
for conservation, the Territory
would lose its greatest industry.
The Bureau of Fisheries pooh
poohed the idea that there was any
danger of depletion; the Fish Bar
ons declared that depletion was an
impossibility; the people of the Ter
ritory were indifferent and even
the fishermen, aside from the native
made no attempt to stop this pros
titution of the “silver horde.”
These “ignorant, illiterate natives”
showed facts pointing conclusively
to the depletion of halibut, salmon
and herring but none gave the heed.
Today it is admitted by all forces in
the Territory, that the herring fish
cries are nearing destruction; scien
lists now point to the depletion of
the halibut fisheries and they are
given ear where no heed was given
the native born fisherman; the Bu
reau of Fisheries admits and re
fuses to admit that the salmon
failure this year was due to over
production or destruction of seed
fish in previous years and try to
lull the people of the Territory into
believing “Cataclysmic upheavals’
and “submarine earthquakes” are
the cause of the disappearance of
the salmon*.
But no time since the fight be
gan have the people been so hopeful
of success in securing regulator}
measures for the protection of the
fisheries. The department in charge
of this protection have no way to
turn, they are on the horns of a
dillema: They destroy themselves
with the facts of the past summer
or they are destroyed by the can
ners. Regulation of gear is inevit
able and regardless' of what banks
or interests are interested in Alask *
fislieiies, they will have to bow to
| the laws of nature and the demand
[ of resident. Alaskans.
PAPER MEN FINISH SURVEY OF TIM HER SOUTHEAST ALASKA
Estimates for the Alaska road ,
commission for next year, aggregat
in $1,234000, have been approved by
the war department and submitted
to the bureau of budget, it was an-1
nounced at Juneau recently by of
ficials of the road building organi-1
zation. This is a material increase ■
over estimates approved by the de- j
partment last year.
Several projected harbor improve
ments were approved by the U. S.'
board of engineers for rivers and i
harbors and have been submited to j
the buget. This is as far as the J
war department can go,» it was,
pointed out, the matter of appropria-j
tions to cover the estimates beingj
WHAT’S IX A NAME
’Tis funny: Wrangell Narrows or
Petersburg Narrows? Somethere
are who feel that Wrangell town is
getting something that doesn’t be
long to her when the Narrows,
which doesn’t touch anywhere near
her door bear the name, geograph
ically. of Wrangell.
Is the town of Wrangell any the
better off because a big island in the
Arctic Sea is, also, a Wrangell on
the map? And why call the crook
ed, rocky and narrow waterway
Petersburg Narrows? At best it’s
but a higfi tide cut-off from a long
course around Kupreanoff and Kuiu
Islands.
Petersburg is surely blessed with
, its harbor that is a harbor in any
wind, but it gains no particular
, prestige in the Narrows beyond the
North entrance. We don’t think
there’s any advertising value nor
publicity prize in the Narrows and
we should like to hear from Wran
gell—the town—and learn just how
much she has gotten ou of the wa
ter way through its name of Wran
' gell Narrows. Wrangell, the high
. Russian official, adventurer and ex
plorer, has his cognomen pretty
well plastered over and around the
Territory. He didn’t desire to be
forgotten and in his lack of desire
, he had no idea that he’d be the
cause of a wrangle ages later. In
ways marine the long reach of wa
, ter is seldom referred to as other
than just: The Narrows. So far
as names go that’s enough. There’s
nothing gained by dropping Wran
( gell nor by adding Petersburg, nor
Scow Bay nor Tonka. Better cet,
( why not revive the name given it
( long, long before any Russian drift*
, ed this way?
. ANCHORAGE FAIR A SUCCESS
1 The stockholders of the Western
Alaska Fair Association who were
present at a special meeting called
! recently, had the pleasure of hear
ing read a very gratifying report
3 of the financial condition of the as
f sociation resulting from the 1927
fair. The report showed a balance
of $2,000 when all bills had been
paid and accounts receiveable ad
1 justed.
Be sure you are right, then shoot.
subject to revision by the bureau of
budget and action by congress.
The rivers and harbors projects
approved by the board of engineers
were: dredging at Ketchikan creek
and construction of a rock break
water for a shelter and anchorage
for small boats, requiring the dredg
ing of approximately 160,000 square
feet; improvements at Port Alex
ander by widening the entrance to
150 feet and dredging it so sa to
give a depth of 15 reet at mean
low water; and construction of a
small boat refuge at Seward, Resur
rection bay, including a rock break
water and dredging to give a depth
of 12 feet at mean low water.
SOUND SALMON PACK
The 192 7 Puget Sound salmor
pack was announced -at 675,788
cases, by Charles R. Pollock, statf
■supervisor of fisheries. Of this num
ber, 503,095 cases wtre humpbacks,
37,4 6 4 were Chinooks, 87.944 were
sockees, 45,236 were silvers or
cohoes, 1935 wore chums and 106
were steelheads.
Sympathy is like blonde hair; a
lot of it isn't the real thing.
BRITISH COLUMBIA FISHERMEN
DESIRE FISHERIES CURBED
Vancouver, B. C.—Because of the |j
scarcity of salmon, a 50 per cent *
decrease in fishing gear in British *
Columbia waters will be asked of
the department of marine and fish
eries by cannery operators and fish
men, who decided to send a delega
tion to Ottawa to urge legislation
to that end.
The fishermen will ask that the
number of gill nets be cut 30 per
cent. and the number of seines cut
50 per cent, and that the British
Columbia coast be divided into
areas. Seines and nets will be al
lowed to fish only in . those areas
for which licenses are taken out.
Each canner will be allowed a cer
tain number of seines and gill nets,
and only a certain amount of gear
be operated in each area.
The Japanese government pays
a substantial subsidy to fishing ves
sels equipped with Diesel or semi
Diesel engines.
SCENT
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Because of its two leaven
ing units Crescent has
more leavening power, and
hence isamost dependable
baking powder.
Thousands of women of
the West have used Cres
cent for years.
From your grocer.
CRESCENT
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Uncle Ben Says
“With good health nevvy, a fellow
is more apt to season his requests
with sugar.”
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HEALTH FOLLOWS
CHIROPRACTIC CORRECTS
PRESSURE ON SPINAL
NERVES IN DISEASES OF
THE FOLLOWING OKbANS:
HEAD
EYES
EARS
NOSE
THROAT
ARMS
x HEART
LUNGS
Vv\ liver
Ay STOMACH
, \\Y PANCREAS
AW SPLEEN
KIDNEYS
BOWELS
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Spinal c^ColuimMOWER LiM8S
The lower nerve
UNDERTHE MAGNIFY
ING CLASS IS PINCHED
BY A MISALIGNED JOINT.
PINCHED NERVES CANNOT
TRANSMIT HEALTHFUL
IMPULSES. CHIROPRAC
TICADJUSTING RE
MOVES THE PRESSURE.
THE UPPER NERVE IS
FREE AS NATURE INTENDS.
Muscular rheumatism is a disease
which attacks GS3 separate muscles,
but so intense is the pain that any
sufferer would say the figure was
far too low. Trouble of this type
is due to improper elimination.
Poisons which should be discharg
ed from the kidneys work into the
system and lodge in the muscles.
Failure of elimination is due
I spinal pressure upon nerves carry
ing energy from brain to kidneys
This pressure can be removed by
Chiropractic adjustments.
Adjustments Made Him Well
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to Y
i “I had suffered from what was
I diagnosed as muscular rheumatism
for a long time without any releif.
I tried Chiropractic on the advice of
a friend, without much hope, as the <♦
♦>
best physicians I could find had ♦>
done me no good, but after a series ❖
of adjustments I was completely
well.”—J. Hyde, Chiropractic Re
search Bureau, Statement No. 1261C.
LEON ENSCH, D. C.
CHIROPRACTOR
13 YEARS EXPERIENCE
Petersburg, — — Alaska
John Fanning
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