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sEWARD, ALASKA
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A JOKE IN THE BILL
The indefatigable efforts of the can
nery interests, through their attor
ney, Mr. C. E. McCord, to secure the
passage of the White Bill, shows
there is a colored gentleman in the
fuel bin. Unless the leopard can
change its spots and the spirit of
greed be worked over, no bill sanc
tioned by cannery interests in the
States, can be of any benefit to Alas
ka. While there must be some meas
ure taken to protect and preserve the
vanishing salmon, up to the present
time Alaska’s efforts have been block
ed by the lobby maintained at Wash
ington, and the proposed reservation
plan has been shown to be nothing
more or less than a restriction of the
smaller interests with the fishing
grounds turned over to the combine.
In case if was desired to really pro
tect the fish, no new licenses would
be issued and canneries built. . The
pack instead of being smaller, under
the reserve system was larger. One
cannot take the fish from the waters
and have more fish thereby. It is
impossible to eat your loaf and have
it. Practically every reservation sup
plied more fish than the year previ
ously, which was all right for the can
ners but hard on the fish supply.
In case the government really de
sires to protect and conserve the fish
eries of Alaska, and passes some law
really efficient in that it limits the
pack instead of increasing it, every
Alaskan will be found behind the pro
position. But so far, the laws and re
strictions have hampered the home
tanner, and given the larger combin
ations of the States greater latitude
in their fishing.
There is but one way to preserve
the fish. That is to cease catching
them in the streams and sloughs
where they congregate to go to the
spawning grounds. Any government
chart with cannery sites marked on
it, will show why the fish are disap
pearing. They are not allowed free
access to the streams. The canners
complain that unless they are allow
ed to fish the mouths of the streams
they cannot fish. This may be true,
and again it may not be. In any case
fish must reach the headwaters of the
streams to deposit their eggs. They
are shut off by a maze of nets, traps,
and seines, it is useless to pass laws
regulating the amount of pack unless
stringent laws are passed prohibiting
operations at the mouths of streams.
What Alaska needs more than any
one thing is local canneries. One
small cannery in Seward leaves more
money here than the F. A. F. or the
Alaska Packers. It provides light
work at good pay t o women and boys,
and the fish packed by the smaller
concerns is cleaner, fresher and a fin
er food product. An hundred Alaskan
owed canneries would be of direct
benefit to every citizen. The larger
combinations are a menace to the
smaller concerns, and, take lrom the
Territory without giving a reasonable
return.
The White Bill may be meritorious,
but the fact that it is sponsored by
the fish trust causes Alaskans to look
for the joker in the Bill.
SCHOOL GYM WANTED
The students of the local school are
working unceasingly for a gymnasium.
They have used their scanty fund in
purchasing equipment which should
have been furnished by the district,
and both teaching staff and students
are greatly hampered by lack of an
assembly hall. Now a gym, 40x100
' feet would cost a considerable sum,
but it would be one of the greatest in
vestments yet made by the town. It
would give the youngsters and citi
zens a common meeting ground for
their sports and entertainments, pro
vide an assembly room for the school,
give a stage and auditorium for such
plays as would be staged by the stud
ents and faculty, and make for a bet
ter spirit all round among the citizens
who lack amusements and exercise in
the long winter months. It is useless
to provide the best teaching staff ob
tainable and handicap them them by
poor equipment. A Steinmetz would
be an impossibility without a labora
tory.
Every school in the States now rec
ognizes that to have an efficient pupil
an efficient body must oc built up,
I! LIBERTY
THEATRE
l M f
TONIGHT!
THE STUPENDOUS FEATURE
under supervision of competent in
structors. A good gymnasium excites
greater interest in the school work,,
and adds to the zest of learning.. A
one story building, such as described
above, with stage, balcony, indoor rac
ing track, cloak rooms, and lavatory,
would cost perhaps $20,000 to $35,000.
The town could easily borrow the
money for the project, and pay for it
a little a t a time, provided a low rate
of interest could be obtained.. it
would place Seward at once in a pos
ition where students would prefer to
remain at home instead of going out
side for their schooling. They do this,
not because of better teaching staff,
but because of better facilities for rec
reational exercises. If it is deadly
monotonous for an older person, thru
an Alaskan winter, think what the
youngster must suffer in their desire
for pasttime.
GENUINE SERVICE
The “power of the press” some
times is doubted nowadays upon the
score that there is no successor to
Horace Greeley, Charles A. Dana or
Henry Waterson or any other of their
class. But all of the powTer of the
press that ought to exist is power to
be serviceable. Opportunities for ser
vice continue, and service is done.
A large company in Wisconsin has
paid to the family of Martin Tabert
of Munich N. D., $20,000 because Ta
bert, who, in 1921, set out to see the
world, was, in 1922, flogged to death
in a convict-labor camp conducted by
the company in Florida. This settle
ment grows out of the New York
World’s investigation of the death of
Tabert.
In a country in which homicide sta
tistics show, less than two of 10 men
arraigned for murder pay the death
penalty, this lad from the Northwest
paid his life for a stolen ride on a
Florida train.
The convict-leasing system was ab
olished by the Florida legislature as a
result of the New York World’s airing
of the Tabert case and the brutalities
of the convict-leasing system.
Thus a New York newspaper forced
substantial reform of government in
Florida and caused a lumber company
in Wisconsin to pay $20 000 to North
Dakota relatives of the victim of a
"whipping boss” in the Florida flat
woods. Here is a striking illustration
of the “power of the press,” a strik
ing example of service.
Suits made to measure, see Urbach.
WANTED—Ten thousand men with
long hair and whiskers to call at the
O. K. Barber Shop. tf
APPLICATION FOR PERMIT
Department of the Interior, United
States Land Office, Anchorage (for
merly Juneau), Alaska.
January 31, 1924.
Notice is Hereby Given that John
H. Costello for himself and as trus
tee for Edward W. Hoffman, Thomas I
A. Costello, John H. Costello, Jr.,1
WiHiam 0. Brunskill, John Brunskill,
Wm. 0. Stevens and Percival Bruns
kill, has applied for oil and gas pros
pecting permits under section 22 of
the act of February 25, 1920, (41
Stat., 437) for the following described
lands:
Serial 04713
Rex Oil Claims Nos. 1, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10,
11, 12, described as an area commenc
ing at corner No. 1, of said Claim No.
1 from which the northeast corner 1
Sec. 1, T. 29 S., R. 41 W., S. M.. bears
north 14 deg. 34 min. 44 sec. west,
15,162.28 ft. distant; thence from said
comer No. 1, S. 41 deg. 00 min. W.,
7920 ft., thence S. 49 deg. 00 min. east,
10,560 feet.; thence north 41 deg.
00 min. east, 2640 ft.; thence north
49 deg. 00 min. west, 5280 ft.; thence
north 41 deg. 00 min. east, 5280 ft.;
:hence north 49 deg. 00 min. west,
5280 ft. to the place of beginning.
Containing 1280 acres situate in the
Kodiak Recording District, Alaska and
on Rex Creek, a tributary of Dry
Bay. on the Alaska Peninsula.
Serial 04855
Bear Creek Oil Claims Nos. 3, 4, 5,
6, 7, 8, 23 and 24, described as an
area commencing at a point of said
Claim No. 23 known as Corner No. 4
from which the northe&st comer
Sec. 36, T. 29 S., R. 42 W., S. M.,
bears south 88 deg. 46 min. 59 sec.
W., 18,657.70 feet distant; thence from
said Corner No. 4 of Claim No. 23,
south 46 deg. 45 min. E., 5284 ft.;
thence south 49 deg. 00 min. E., 10,560
ft.; thence north 41 deg. 00 min. E.,
3960 ft.; thence north 49 deg. 00 min.
W., 10,560 ft.; thence south 41 deg.
00 min. W., 1320 ft.; thence north 46
deg. 45 min. W., 5284 ft.; thence
south 41 deg. 00 min. W.. 2640 ft. to
the place of beginning, said area em
bracing 1280 acres and being situa
ted in Kodiak Recording District,
Alaska, and on Bear Creek, a tribu
tary of Lake Bee’ arof on the Alaska
Peninsula.
Serial 04856
Salmon Creek Oil Claims Nos. 4, 5,
6. 7, 8, 13, 14, 15, described as an
area commencing at a corner known
as Corner No. 3 of said Claim No. 13
from which the southeast corner
Sec. 36, T. 29 S., R. 42 W., S. M„
bears north 71 deg. 9 min. 45 sec.
W., 11.173.03 ft. distant; thence from
said Corner No. 3 south 37 deg. 15
min. E., 5393 ft.; thence south 49
deg. 00 min. E., 10,560 ft.; thense
north 41 deg. 00 min. E., 2640 ft.;
thence north 49 deg. 00 min. W., 5280
ft.; thence north 41 deg. 00 min. E.
1320 ft.; thence north 49 deg. 00 min.
W., 5280 ft.; thence north 37 deg. 15
min. W., 5393 ft.; thence south 41
deg. 00 min. W., 3960 ft. to the place
of beginning, said area embracing
1280 acres and being situated in Ko
diak Recording District, Alaska, and
on Salmon Creek, a tributary of Lake
echarof on the Alaska Peninsula.
Serial 04857
Bear Creek Oil Claims Nos. 9, 10,
11. 12, 13 16, 21 and 22 described as i
m area commencing at a point known \
as Corner No. 4 of the said Claim No. i
21 from which the northeast corner
Sec. 36, T. 29 S., R. 42 W., S. M.,
bears north 84 deg. 36 min. 40 sec.
west, 16,996.61 feet distant; thence
from said corner No. 4 south 46 deg.
45 min. E., 5284 ft.; thence south 41
deg. 00 min. W., 2640 ft.; thence
south 49 00 min. E., 5280 ft.;
thence north 41 deg. 00 min. E., 2640
ft.; thence south 49 deg. 00 min. E., j
5280 f\; thence north 41 deg. 00 min. I
E., 2640 ft.; thence north 49 deg. 00 I
min. W. 10,560 ft.; thence north 46 j
deg. 45 min. W., 5284 ft.; thence south ;
41 deg. 00 min. W.. 2640 ft., to the I
.place of beginning, said area embrac- j
mg 1280 acres anti situated in the Ko- ,
diak Recording District, Alaska, and j
on Bear Creek, a tributary of Lake j
Becharof on the Alaska Peninsula.
Any and all persons having adverse
or conflicting claims to said land are
hereby notified that a full statement
under oath of such tflaim, should be
filed in this office showing a superior
right to a permit or lease under said
act, or valid existing adverse or con
flicting claim to the land, or the min-1
erals or oil therein und^r the public
land laws on or before March 12, 1924, j
otherwise, such claims may be disre- j
garded in granting the permits or
leases applied for.
FRANK A. BOYLE,
Register, j
First publication Feb. 5, 1924
Last publication March 11, 1924
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Chronic Diseases a Specialty
Phone Madison 90, Seward, Alaska.
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