THE CORDOVA DAILY TIMES
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TUESDAY, JUNE 29, 1920
REPUBLICAN TICKET
For President—
WARREN G. HARDING.
For Vice President—
CALVIN COOLIDGE.
For Delegate to Congress—
DAN SUTHERLAND.
For Attorney General—
JOHN RUSTGARD
For Senator—
E. E. CHAMBERLAIN.
For Representatives—
A. E. LATHROP
JOS. H. MURPHY
R. E. ELSNER
A. H. FRAME.
For Road Commissioner—
GUST JOHNSON
TIME TO CALL A HALT
No more complete exemplification
of the fable of the man who killed the
goose that laid the golden egg, can be
found than exists in the slaughter of
the salmon canning industry of Cor
dova by the destruction of salmon at
or near the spawning grounds.
With the example of the Fraser
river, once the greatest producer of
canned salmon in the Northwest, now
barren of fish, before them, the fish
eries department, to which the people
of the territory of Alaska look for pro
tection, they having been denied the
right to protect themselves by the
emasculated territorial enabling act,
has-for four years permitted the tak
ing of salmon in vast quantities, in
one season -a million, from the waters
of the Copper river at a point many
miles from the ocean. These fish had
overcome their natural enemies, seals,
sea loins and other predatory agencies,
and heavy with spawn, had but a short
distance further to go in order to
function as nature intended, for the
propogation of their species.
Complaints have been made and
hearings had before the fish commis
sion for the past three years, at which
the folly of permitting this slaughter
was clearly demonstrated. As a re
sult of these hearings, minor regula
tions were thrown as a sop to the com
plainants. A rule was made forbid
ding the take of salmon in Miles lake
or the canyon until the fifteenth of
June. During the season of 1919, this
rule was effective as the season was
an early one and many fish got up the
river in time to escape the numerous
appliances placed in the lake and river
for their destruction. Even the Cop
per River Indians say they were able
• to catch some fish at their homes near
Chitina and Copper Center, for the
first time in four seasons. At that,
the cannery at the canyon, took about
a quarter of a million fish from the
river. The present season is a late
one for fish and present indications
are that few fish indeed will get by
the cannery. Dividends to the outside
owners of the cannery should be large,
a source of great gratification to resi
dents of Alaska and something to re
member with pride when the cycle of
four years has passed and there are
no descendants of this year’s run to
come back up the river.
One would think that the other can
neries would be sufficiently interested
in their own investments to raise so
strenuous a protest against this short
sighted policy as would result in im
mediate action on the part of the
bureau of fisheries. But, on the other
hand, when one considers that the can
neries of Alaska are owned almost en
tirely in the states, that their build
ings are erected from lumber brought
from Puget sound, that their machin
ery is brought from the states, their
boxes and cans are imported from the
outside, their supplies of food and ma- ]
terials are purchased in the states,
and that most of them run their own
stores, that their freight is brought
in their own ships and hulks, that most
of their men are hired in the states,
their way paid to Alaska and back to
Seattle as soon as the season is over
where they are paid off; that a large
proportion of the help employed con
sists of Chinese. Japanese and Fili
pinos; that a cannery is not deemed
a good investment unless the entire
plant can be paid for during the first
season’s operations and that about the
only thing left in Alaska with the ex
ception of the empty buildings, at the
close of the season, is the smell of the
offal from the fish cleaning. In view
of all these matters, it is not surpris
ing that the cannery men take but
little interest in what may happen to
Alaska’s fish supply four or five years
hence.
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The people of Alaska want outside
capital. We want canneries. But
those of us who make our homes here,
who live in the country because we
believe in it and love it, deeply resent
a policy on the part of the government
or of anyone else which can only re
sult in the gutting of our natural re
sources for the benefit of a few gaso
line burning stockholders resident of
Seattle or San Francisco.
It is probable that after the govern
ment has sent up a few more fish ex
perts to pass a pleasant and profitable
vacation in admiring the scenic beauty
of Alaska and to return to the states
with long reports on the cause of the
I decrease of the red salmon, the gov
ernment may do something. It is our
opinion, however, that by the time
suitable regulations have been made
for the proper preservation of the fish,
salmon will be scarcer than cannery
men’s homes in Alaska.
ALL IS NOT HARMONY
The Alaska delegation to the na
tional Democratic convention at San
Francisco may be split wide open
over the prohibition and Wilson dic
tation. A split is forecasted in view
of the decided stand of Thos. J- Don
okoe in favor of the nomination of
Edwards or Cox on a “wideopen wet
platform.” Donohoe is for a wet plat
form and against dictation by either
Wilson or Bryan.
National Committeeman Donohoe
aid he had up to the time Harding
was named favored McAdoo, but the
nomination of Harding made the nom
ination of Cox or Edwards important
to the success of the party. A split
is predicted on account of the num
ber of Alaskan presidential appointees
on the San Francisco delegation.
These, it is believed, will be for the
Wilson program, which now threatens
to be bitterly opposed by many nation
al Democratic leaders.
Donohoe has never asked any per
sonal favors of the Wilson adminis
tration and will probably take a very
independent stand at San Francisco.
He will sit with the Alaskan delega
tion on a proxy. If a split occurs it
will be between Governor Riggs, head
ing the Alaska officials of the dele
gation, and Donohoe, heading those
not holding, federal positions.—Alaska
Dispatch.
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MAKE EFFORT |
TO SAVE NECK
OF BROTHER
DILLON, Mont., June 29 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Deploring his broth
er’s fate and inquiring whether or not
he could do something to keep him
from the gallows, William Yiek. of
Milwaukee. Wisconsin, has written an
attorney here concerning his brother
Albert who was convicted of the mur
der of Sheriff C. K. Wyman and sen
tenced to hang. He wrote that he is
soon to leave for the west in an ef
fort to save his brother from execu
tion.
Attorneys who defended Albert Yiek
prepared a bill of exceptions for
which the court granted time after
sentence had been imposed- If not
granted a new trial, it was announced
that the case would be appealed.
Meanwhile a local contractor com
menced building a gallows, and con
structed a high board fence around
the jail yard preparatory for execu
tion.
Within thirty days after Albert
Yiek had been released from serving
a term at the state prison in Deer
Lodge he had been tried and sen
tenced to hang for the murder of
the sheriff of Beaverhead county,
who was killed at Monida, near the
Idaho border. Yiek was charged with
resisting arrest when Sheriff Wyman
was attempting to take him into cus
tody for Idaho authorities.
BALTIC FISHERMEN
MAKE GOOD CATCHES
BERLIN, June 29 (by Associated
Press).—After the long war interval
North Sea and Baltic fishermen re
port enormous catches of fish. At
Hamburg and Cuxhaven alone, 10.000
tons of fish have been landed in one
single month. From Kiel and Lue
beck come similar reports of immense
shoals of herrings and other fish.
Nevertheless, fish does not seem to
become any cheaper on the Berlin
market.
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