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FISH BILL PRESENTED
HI ALASKA DELEGATE
Alaska's Congres ional Representa
tive Continues Fight Against
Secretary Hoover
PROVIDES FOR A COMMISSION
No Exclusive Rights to Be Given
and Corporation or Cannery—
May Abate Traps
The fisheries bill passed by the
li)2o Alaska Legislature, known as
the Grant Fish Bill, which Congress
was memorialized to enact, was intro
duced in the House of Representatives
last month as House Bill No. 752, cop
ies of which have been received by
The Gateway. It provides for the
administration of the industry by an
Alaska Fish Commission, appointed
by the Governor of the Territory,
with the approval of the Territorial
Senate, and for employment by the
Commission of a director of fisheries,
chief warden, hatchery superinten
dent and other employes.
The measure was introduced as a
part of a concurrent resolution last
spring in the House by D. G. Grant,
of Wrangell, anil in the Senate by
Charles Brown of Nome. At that
time it was generally understood that
Delegate Sutherland had caused the
introduction of the resolution and he
was in constant attendance at com
mittee hearings when it was being
considered supporting and advocating
its passage. It passed the House on
April 27 and the Senate on May 1.
Rejected by Hoover
Some of the main provisions of the
bill sections seven and eight, aimed
at trap fishing and zoning are virtu
ally identical with those rejected by
the National administration at the
last session of congress when it dis
approved the famous White Fish Bill,
and over which the bitter row against
the Bureau of Fisheries and the Bu
reau of Commerce was started by the
Delegate. These provisions were em
phatically disapproved by both Sec
retary Hoover and Fish Commissioner
Henry O’Malley, who were understood
to have the support of the President.
The attitude of the Administration
led to charges by the Delegate that
the Department of Commerce was
giving away' Alaskan fisheries to the
Packers’ Trust which Mr. Sutherland
alleged was dictating the terms, con
ditions and zoning in the Bureau’s
administrative regulations of the
Alaska fishing reserves created by
executive orders proclaimed by' then
President Harding.
Duties of Commission
The proposed Alaska Fish Com
mission would consist of three mem
ber? appointed by the Governor and
with the advice and consent of the
Senate. The first commissioners shall
be appointed for two, three, and four
years respectively, and thereafter one
Commissioner shall be appointed each
year for a four year term. Commis
sioners shall receive a salary of 31200
per year and necessary traveling and
subsistence expenses when away from
home. The Commission is given com
plete control over the fisheries with
large discretionary powers as to lim
iting the catch, closing sections of the
waters from fishing, establishing a
closed season, etc.
A Director of Fisheries is created as
secretary and executive officer of the
commission, devoting his entire time
to the business and receiving a sal
ary of $5,000 a year. The Director of
Fisheries is given power to appoint
a Chief Warden and a Chief Super
intendent of Hatcheries with the ap
proval of the Commission, each at a
saiaiy of $3,000 a year. He shall also
name assistants to each of these and
em^iey other assistants as the G nu
m.-ion may author?e.
:No Evousive Rights Permitted
In Ff'r'ition to providing that no
trap, f eu or floating, wire or pound
net shall be constructed in any bay;
■r.iet 01 estuary, the width which
is three miles or less at its entrance
or within cne mile of the ert’ance of
**ny bay, inlet, estuary or channel
that is two miles or more in width,
the lav would provide that “no ex
clusive or several right of fishery
c.hnll he iccognized or granced in the
Territorial waters of Alaska.”
May Abate Traps
The law provides that where fish
ing shail be closed it must be closed
against e\erybody and that where
fishing fh permitted it shall be open
to every citizen of the United States,
that it snail be the duty of the Com
mission to remove or abate any fix
ed or portable fishing appliance
which in its use may operate as an
exclusive right within the area of
its operation; that the members of
the Commission, Director of Fisher
ies, and such other officers as may
be designated by the Commission
may have the authority to arres.
without warrant or other process
any persons violating the law or any
regulation; that the Commission may
.confiscate any apparatus or appliance
used in violation of law or any fish
eries products taken contrary to law;
that the Commission and its agents
may Inspect all premises, appliances
and yrop-iityj that it may determine
the location of the mouths of streams,
etc.; that it may determine what
streams, lakes, etc., are apawning
giounds; that it may cause the ex
termination of predatory birds and
; animals which prey upon the fish.
Licem es
The law would require those en
gaged in the fisheries industry to
| procure a license for each establish
| ment and to get a license for any
! appliance used. The Alaska Legis
lature is given authority to fix the
| fees for licenses and other privi
| leges and the Commission is au
| thorized to collect them anti expend
! the proceeds under the law.
Miscellaneous Provisions
No person would be permitted to
i use a purse seine more than 200
I fathoms or beach seine more than
I MOO fathoms in length; no gill net
shall exceed 200 fathoms and no
meshes used of less than five and
| three-quarters inches when stretched.
The Commission is authorized to
establish and change at pleasure the
closed seasons; the possession of fish
during the closed season is made un
lawful.
The planting of fish or spawn with
out first getting permission of the
i Commission is prohibited. The law
! would iprohibit the wasting of food
fish, make unlawful the use of food
spears or gaffs or the pollution of
I waters.
Dnins and obstructions are prohib
ited, unless with the consent of
the Commission and then fish ways
i or ladders must be constructed.
Aliens are denied the right to fish
in Alaskan waters and piracy is out
lawed.
The Commission is authorized to
build or acquire and maintain fisn
hatcheries.
Packers are .prohibited from us
j ing fish that have been transported
more than 100 miles without boxing
or icing, or to pack fish that have
been removed from the waters more
than 48 hours.
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WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 1 —
Former president Woodrow Wil
son rallied at noon and talked in
whispers but physicians say the
end cannot be long delayed.
“You have done the best you
could,” said Wilson to Grayson
just before he fell & leep, “but I
am a broken machine.”
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.—Woodrow
Wilson suffered a serious digestive
disturbance, Dr. Grayson stated last
night.
Wilson Gravely III.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.—Wilson is
| reported worse today and gravely ill,
i attending physicians admitted.
Hovering Over Death.
| WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.—-Woodrow
Wilson’s death within a few hours is
! inevitable Doctor Grayson so inform
ed Mrs. Wilson today.
T am ready,” the ex-President re
j plied.
Members of the family have been
| summoned by Mrs. Wilson and three
physicians are in constant attendance
and President Coolidge sent a mes
sage to Mrs. Wilson.
English Premier Anxious to Come to
Terms With Soviets Provided
They Pay for Privilege
LONDON, Jan. 30.—Premier Mac
Donald indicated to Moscow today
that Russia must recognize her pre
war treaties and debts before the
present British Labor government will
extend recognition.
New shipment of Men's overcoats
Urbach. tf
Literary Digest Falls
For More Alaska Bunk
A recent issue of the Literary Di
gest, supposed to be a palladium of
; truth, contains an alleged letter from
i a supposed Arasuan, containing the
■ statement that “ruthless and law
breaking hunteis and hordes of rab
ijus a*c Utrimating and threatening
to exterminate the great moose herds
of the Kenai Peninsula oi Alaska.
The article goes on to say that the
| moose are being kihed off by butchers
and starved out by rabbits, which
i can get at tile rood quicker tuna me
larger and clumsier animals.”
As the editor of the Literary Di
gest lives several thousand miles
irom tne much-maligned Kenai pe
ninsula, and the editor of the Gate
way iives in its immediate vicinity, or
to be more accurate, on a portion of
! uic ...o.csJu pcnuisuia, once again
: am 1 compelled to lake up the cudgels
i of publicity and answer some dam
phooi statement that has no truth nor
I authority of fact.
Despite the assertions of the con
tributor to American Forestry, sign
! mg nmiseii * An ^viasKm.i, we are
; compelled to accept the Statements of
! iocux guiucs ana game uardeus and
: deny the allegations m into. Game
vVaruen Vreoige u. Gotier lias made
a nau uozen trips tnrougn tiie penin
sula, around Hie pemnsuia and across
i the peninsuia, ami he asserts with no
j intention to spoil a good sob-story,
! that moose wintered better and are
more plentiful than tor many years;
' and Mr. Hank Frost, who recently
■ spent a month or so in the heart of
• the peninsuia with a Hungarian count
i wnose name must be sneezed, asserts
that he saw moose by the hundred,
and was forced to herd the cows and
calves away in order Hint the Count
might get room to shoot at a bull
moose. Seventy-six moose were seen
; from one point near Juneau lake ah
cows and young bulls. The laws of
the Territory permit hunters to kill
two moose per season, in case one de
sires moose meat. There are hun
dreds of residents of the peninsuia
who do not kill one moose in a season
or even in a iite time the editor be
i mg one of the aforesaid hunters who
j has no hankering to pack a thousand
; pounds of strong meat over a poor
! trail.
Let it be understood that nothing
in this article is intended to depre
, date the \aiue oi' the big game
j sportsman irom tne bfates to tue
residents of the ivenai peninsula. The
sportsman nom outsiue pays, and
pays well for the privilege of kiilling
his tropnies, and is a tiisiinct asset
to every business man and resident
of Seward. Thousands of dollars
were spent here in 1Pz3, and thou
sands more will be spent this year by
weal iny outside sportsmen, who pay
on an average of 32500 for each hunt
here. It is an industry which prop
erly nourished will furnish revenue
for all the ages. With adequate pro
tection the game will increase to a
point where the feed will support the
herds, and will give a perpetual in
come to guides, packers and business
men.
It may be true that the natives of
Kenai, a cannery camp on Cook In
let, live on moose meat, and it may
| be true they feed their dogs the
j portions they cannot eat themselves,
i but the greatest wasters and destroy
ers of game we have with us are the
cannery crews, brought from the out
side each year and taken back to the
states when they finish placing pink
fishes in pretty cans. These men
are entertained by Alaskans during
the summer months, and they come
armed cap a pie and kill all in sight.
Personally, being an old timer in the
Territory, I am deeply prejudiced
against cheechako sportsmen shooting
moose out of season, and am also
averse to seeing cannery crews fed
moosemeat in extensive qantities
this meat being killed out of season;
but, we have one game warden for a
country as large as the New England
States, and part of Canada, and one
trip takes all his expense money, and
there you are. The accommodating
Easterner, headed by Dr. Hornaday
as an advisory board, makes our
game laws for us, believing that men
living in Alaska have not the perspi
cacity to make laws for themselves,
and the all-wise government provides
wardens for protection of the game;
but neglects to provide a sufficient
salary for the warden to live on.
More game is killed and wasted by
so-called scientific parties and big
game hunters from the States, than
a whole town of Alaskans would kill
in many years. Take the party head
ed several years ago by a Denver
clamorist for conservation: This party
killed enough gome on its head-hunt
! ing trip to feed a village a year, and
J lest no guilty one escape, even shot
j nanny goats on Skolai glacier, allow
j mg them to drop in the crevasses and
remain there. Other scientific parties
| have been equally as guilty.
The Alaskan hunter anil prospector
is one of the most enthusiastic con
servationists on earth. He kills only
what he wants to eat, anil eats what
he kills. Of course he feeds his dogs
on the poorer parts of the carcass.
Dogs are as important in this country
as a horse to the man outside, and
dogs canqot eat grass, u/ness ail flesh
is grass. They must be supported and
1 to support them they must be fed
meat. An Alaskan could do without
j his dog team about as easily as your
; eastern larmer can do without his
team of horses. The natives must eat
: meat and fish. The fish are corralled
1 by the outside capitalist, and there
j xore poor Lo turns to moosemeat, and
j occasionally dogmeat, if the game has j
j oeen run out of the district by the
: cannery sport with his .22 high-power
; and uncouth ignorance of the nghts of
i others.
Kenai has about 300 population and
j 450 moose a year would be over a
I moose to the jperson. This is about
oOO pounds of meat per head per an
num. No wonder the natives are dis
eased and lazy. Up to date the hunt
ers of Seward have brought in six
moose. These animals are found from
the town limits to a distance of 30
| miles away; if the hunters were as
; bloodthirsty and guilty of game law'
infractions as the Digest w’ould have i
us believe there would have been at I
least a thousand killed, as Seward is j
three times as large as Kenai. But
| five moose to 1000 inhabitants does ;
not show much intent in law viola
tions.
If rabbits are as numerous as the
writers claims the dogs could be fed
i rabbits, unless these animals become j
so active from snatching their feed
{from under the noses of the clumsy
: moose that they climb a tree. The
| rabbits do take considerable moose
xeed by eating the young willows and
urowse moose feed on, but who knows
but hat the moose may yet be forced
to eat the rabbits. If fifty per cent
of the calves perished from starvation
j there must have been some moose
j calves born, as the crop is unusually
1 arge this year, owing to fine weather
i conditions and light snows.
The tameness of these animals is
| evidence of their numbers. This win
! ter one hunter left Seward and went
; to the fiats, where within three hours
i after leaving camp he had bagged
I his limit. Like shooting a cow in a
! herd.
i A I_l_l_l_i iL. __a_ a„
have her business and her game laws
administered by every one else but
Alaskans. It has been but a few weeks
since Eastern papers panned resi
dents of the Territory for killing the
bald eagle. The same papers came
out and advocated sportsmen shooting
the crow at every opportunity. The
crow compares to the eagle in vi
ciousness and as a destroyer at about
the same ratio a porch-climber com
pares with some of our government
grafters. If Alaskans, who have no
crows, advocated a law protecting
crows for Easterners, imagine the
howl that would go up. And yet our
citizens know far more about crows
than do Easterners about moose or
eagles. Now that the Digest has
symphonized the Moose Blues, and
the echoes of the requiem have hard
ly died away, we ask the boy to page
Dr. Homaday. He can tell 'em the
facts, despite his few weeks residence
in the Territory as a head-hunter.
An “Alaskan” may have written
the alleged article to the Digest. We
have ’em here in 57 varieties of in
telligence and sanity. But the pro
test about the dogs being fed the
best in the land does not sound much
like an Alaskan.
SAYS HOUR-GLASS STOMACH
CAUSED DEATH OF WOMAN
LONDON, Feb. 1.—The “hour-glass”
stomach is the newest freak illness.
The new disease came to light at an
Inquest on an elderly woman who had
suddenly died while in apparently
good health. Testifying as to the
cause of death, her doctor said that
she suffered from chronic indigestion
and an hour-glass stomach, meaning
that the stomach was in two parts—
food having to pass like the sand In
an hour glass from the upper to the
lower portion to Insure perfect diges
tion.
Her last meal had failed to pass in
to the lower portion of her stomach
and had caused death^ according to
the doctor.
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NEGRO IS HANGED
FOR BRUTAL KILLING
FORT MADISON, la., Feb. 1.—Roy
Maupin, negro was hanged at 7:30
a. m. today for the murder of Joe Hay
es, Carney, la., miner. As the trap was
sprung and Maupin dropped to
his death the rope which suspended
him broke midway between the noose
and the knot which fastened it to the
gallows and the body fell to the
ground.
Warden T. P. Hollowell ordered the
prison physicians to apply their stet'n
escopes at once and they found that
Maupin s neck was broken by the
fall. He was pronounced dead at 7:41
fifteen minutes after the t trap was
sprung. Physicians said the breaking
of the rope had not effect upon Mau
pin, and pointed out that death oc
curred in approximately the same
time as at all of the executions at the
prison in the last eighteen months.
WIFE OF THIRTY ASKS DECREE
FROM HUSBAND OF SIXTY
MOUNT VERNON, Fob. 1—Charg
ing non-support and cruelty, Mrs. L.
Wood has started court action for di
vorce in the superior court here
against her husband, Green Wood, 60
years of age. The couple, who have
lived at Bow for two or three years
were married at Mason, N. C., in 1907
and have four children ranging from
5 to 14 years.
Notice of Hearing on the Final Report
And Account of Administrator,
No. 82.
In the Probate court for the Territo
ry of Alaska, Third Division, Ke
nai Precinct, at Seward.
In the matter of the Estate of Daniel
A. Sullivan, deceased
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
Edgar R. Tarwater, the duly appoint
ed, qualified and acting administrator
of the estate of Daniel A. Sullivan,
I Deceased, has filed in the above en
titled court his Final Report and Ac
count, and that March 22nd, 1924, at
the hour of 2-00 P. M. O’clock in the
court room of said court at Seward,
Alaska, has been set as the time and
place for the hearing on said final re
port and account
All persons having any interest in
theabove entitled estate are hereby
admonished and cited to appear at
said time and place and offer their
j objections it any, why said final Re
port and Account should not be ap
i proved and settled and said estate be
; closed in accordance with law.
This notice is dated and the date of
its first publication is the 19th day of
January, 1924.
EDGAR R. TARWATER,
Administrator of Estate of Daniei A.
Sullivan, Deceased.
Jan. 19, 26; Feb. 2, 9, and 16, 1924
Be sure and attend the meeting of
the Seward Game Club at the Gate
way if you are interested in the wild
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