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his name disclosed.”
This "official” proceeds to arraign the fisheries ir
the aspect of rapacious buccaneers, depleting Alaska’*
salmon fisheries, while babies starve. He winds up by
saying that these same “Interests” blame the salmon
depletion to the eagle.
Page the delegate to congress.
But the piece de resistance in the Outdoor Life edit
orial is the analysis of the slaying of Forest Guard
Thayer by a brown bear, which was the motivating in
fluence for lifting the limit restrictions on bear by the
Biological Survey, and not because resident Alaskans
had been killed and their property destroyed by bear.
But Mr. Redding!on, chief of the bureau, is subjected
to sarcastic reference by Outdoor Life because he yield
ed to public pressure.
Listen to this:
“The history of the Thayer killing reveals two things: First, it
has been widely publicized by the ranching interests and used as a
black-jack to create public opinion in favor of bear extermination.
Second, the fact that Thayer was a U. S. Forest Service employee
on active duty has been used to obscure the sad fact that Thayer
was improperly armed the had an old Newton .30-06 and the old
government liard-pointed ammunition with 150-grain bullets), that
he took fright when he surprised the bear, and that the bear, if he
had no* been immediately wounded by Thayer's hasty and ill-timed
shot, probably would have made off. Thayer, who was accompanied
by Fred Herring, came upon the bear unexpectedly. Evidently the
bear had been asleep when the men came upon it. The bear
raised upon its haunches and Thayer fired.”
Let us analyze Mr. McGuire’s argument and opin
ions in tlie light of the element of fact found in the
above. The fact is (1) Thayer was killed; (2) he was
killed by a brown bear; )3) he was guarding U. S.
treasure—timber.
Mr. Mr.Guire overlooked a splendid advertising
opportunity at the point where he says Thayer was im
properly armed. Here he should have parenthetically
suggested: “When hunting the non-feroeious Alaska
brown bear one should always be armed with one of
Bunk & Co., special stainless, smokeless, non-kickless,
4-II-44-7-11 machine guns containing at least two clips
of Kiilem’s smokeless hand grenades, filled with attar
of roses which awakens a state of esthetic poetical tem
perament in the bear wherein he floats away on a rose
linted cloud into the lands of Morpheus like a chinaman
full of yen shee. And don’t overlook the chic hunting
togs advertised on page 13. They are calculated to scare
a brown bear into Bering Sea. While hunting brown
bear the “sportsmen” should never be accompanied by a
"‘renegade” guide, but should enlist the service of those
only employed by recognized commercial organizations
and carrying a certificate from the Game Commission,
of merit for sycophancy in the presence of their super
iors. One may distinquish easily by remembering that a
frontiersman who works in the hunting season to get
money with which to build a little home and raise a little
mutton, cannot be expected to possess the culture nec
essary to entertain a ‘"sportsmen” around the campfire.
Further summing up facts, we have the oft-repeat
ed statement that the Alaska Game Commission is more
amenable to the gentlemen who pass around the cigars
while indulging a glance at Alaska’s “rustic” and pic
turesque ‘‘peasantry” than it is to the voice of men
struggling to win this frontier. The substance of Mr.
McGuire’s editorial, traced to its source, should carry
great weight with a jury of public opinion.
We find that the ""Interests” and “money talks” is
not the plutocratic Alaskan with his axe and gun, but
the selfish interests of those who consider big game
hunters of more value economically than a permanent j
population, including babies and homes.
On the one hand is the sybarite, a product of a
plutocratic age that is fast crowding democracy from |
the stage and enthroning a privileged class, self-ordain-!
ed, possessed of the traditional taint of monarchial in
stitutions. They demand that Alaska be made a game
preserve for their pleasure, where they may slay for
the joy of witnessing a death struggle.
Here on the ground we have the traditional fron-,
tiersmen and pioneer, the prototype of the Pilgrim
Fathers, Daniel Boone, Ezra Meeker and the covered
wagon, plus their courage and enterprise in waging a
valiant battle against the wilderness, who kill only for
food, save when some of them serve the ""sportsmen”)
hunter, and commercialize only where dire necessity ;
presses.
This conflict of thought has endured since the days j
of Solomon’s temple, where the germ of democracy was!
horn, to later fructify in the Roman and Grecian repub- j
lies, the United States of America, the republic of;
France, the Cromwellian movement and on down the
line to the reconstruction after the World War. McGuf
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(By Special Correspondent)
j During the last month a wave of
I insanity seems to have engulfed
Kodiak precinct. Since May 26 the
*! following persons have been com
'mitted to the sanitarium at Morn
ingside; Jacob Kalmakoff, Estus
|Stream and Ole Kvandal. The last
!named person was committed June
30, 1930. The evidence showed that
ihis affliction is fear of death at
the hands of others- He believes
he is being poisoned, that others
are lying in ambush ready to shoot
him. When approached he will at
tempt to crawl under benches,
tables and even the stove.
He also thinks his bed is full of
snakes and that one particular
snake has a head on him as big as
a water bucket. Prior to his ap
I
prehension at Uzinki, he was hit
Ion the head with a cabl eand it is
! possible and surely to be hoped
i that treatment by the able medical
and surgical force at Morningside
may restore his mind to its normal
condition.
j The Fourth of July is but a day
distant and Kodiak will have a
celebration difficult to surpass in
many much larger towns or cities.
There are 23 canneries and sal
series in this precinct and many of
them will send their fishing craft
and other sea-going vessels here.
The Eider, Blue Wing, and Red
Wing of the Bureau of Fisheries are
in port. The S. S. Evans will be
here also the Starr arrives on that
date and it is very possible that
;the revenue cutter Chelan will be
here.
Thre is to be a baseball game be- :
tween the crew of the Surveyor and
the Kodiak “Blunderbuses”; a
marathon race and a great many
other sports and the whole thing
will be wound up by a big dance
with the Evans orchestra playing,
and the non-kick punch flowing
freely.
Our first class radio man, P. O.
Harshman who has served here
long and faithfully, will leave on |
the Evans and it will take a good
man to fill his position as efficient
ly as he has performed it.
The Bristol Bay fishing grounds ;
are the greatest in the world. Nine- j
ty-nine percent of the entire pack
there is of red salmon.
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