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TRAPPERS UP AGAINST IT
According to the December issue of the
New York Trade Review, the total imports
of raw furs to the United States for the
nine months ended September 1925, amount
ed to ninety-four million, ninety-six thous
and, six hundred and twenty-six dollars, as
compared with sixty-five million, seven Hun
dred forty-three thousand, two hundred sev
enty-three dollars, the same period of 1924.
Most of the increase coming from Fernet
Russia, either directly or indirectly. The
largest importation, being two million, nl
ty-one thousand one hundred and eighty
fox, not including silver grays or black. The
result of these heavy importations was to
lower the price of raw furs, particularly the
red fox. The last protective tariff bill pass
ed by Congress, provided for no duty on any
kind of raw furs imported into the United
States, except a light tax on silver gray and
black fox. There are high duties on prac
tically every product the farmers of the
grain growing states produce, on the dried
fruits and nuts grown in California and
Florida and virtually every article of every
description manufactured in the United
States is protected from. importations by
both advalorem and specific duties. Even
all kinds of manufactured furs are protect
ed by a high duty. And the Alaskan pays
his share of these duties on everything he
buys, but when he comes to sell his products
he must compete with the fur traders and
fur trappers of Russia, Australia, South
America, Manchuria and all the countries
of the world, and furs are a luxury at that.
No wonder the population of Alaska is
on the wane, for the average prospector
earns his living by trapping, and by the
time he gets his furs outside in the summer
he strikes a bad market and gets discour
aging results. In addition to this, the Alas
ka territorial legislature imposes a tax. on
every fur he catches and both the territo
rial and federal authorities impose a tax on
fur traders.
Let there be less howling about the ap
propriations for Alaska by Congressmen
who belong to the “Pork BarreF legislation
class for their own states, let there be the
same kind of protective legislation for Al
aska as for every state in the Union, and
fewer “Pin Head” Government officials
sent to Alaska, who are the greatest detri
ment and menace to the best interests of
this vast domain of great natural resources
and trust to Alaskans to do the rest.
Particularly the women, when they
passed the Arcade gardens Saturday morn
ing following debarking from the steamer
Starr, set down their grips and stopped for
minutes, gazing at the green sward and
beautiful flowers. Their silence spoke vol
umes.
Some laws may seem to have no teeth,
but they show unmistakable evidence of
ivory.
You read it in The Gateway first!
Germany will have no try-out in the
big League this season.
TELEGRAPH BREVITIES
FAMOUS AVIATOR PINCHED
SEATTLE, May 31. (TP)—Lieut.-Comdr. James H.
Strong, famous navy flier and former commander
of PB-1 plane, which was to have left San Francisco
on the Honolulu non-stop flight is fac'ng arrest after
secret warrants w-ere sworn out on him charging
conspiracy to violate the prohibition law.
A TOUGH BUNCH
PORTOLA, Calif., May 31. (/Pt—While their -wo
men companions sat in an auto and Avatched wTith in
terest, two bandits, with drawn revolvers entered
the Plumas County Banks her^ yesterday morning
and help up and bound and gagged the cashier and
escaped with a $9,163 loot.
GENERAL IS KILLED
PARIS, May 31. (>P)—The spectacular career of
General Simmon Folura, former president of the TTk
ranian Republic and later ousted by the Bolshevik
regime, ended here last night when he was shot and
killed by an Ukranian Jew who accosted him on a
street here.
WARRANT OUT FOR JACK
MADERA, May 31. (/P)—A warrant was issued
for the arrest of Jack Dempsey, world’s champion
heavyweight pugilist on charges of speeding. Demp
sey was cited to appear yesterday. His $100 bond,
which had been put up when arrested by police was
forfeited. Dempsey is now in North Carolina.
DOPE PEDDLERS NABBED
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., May 31. </P)—•On in
formation given out by prisoners in the Ingleside
county jail here, an inmate who was trying to free
herself of the drug habit was the leader of a ring
for the peddling of dope inside the jail cells to ad
dicts it was uncovered yesterday. The alleged wo
man ringleader was arrested.
MANILA CASUALTY LIST
MANILA, May 31. (JP)—The constabulary killed
23 Moros. One constable was killed when he fired
on a Moro from the fort, bringing the total Moro
dead to S4. Seven members of the constabulary
were killed and 34 wounded during the outrage.
ETHEL PLEADS GUILTY
SEATTLE, May 31. (/P)—Ethel Dow, tearfully,
pleaded guilty to grand larceny. Sentence was de
ferred until the completion of the investigation. She
said she had no lawyer and further more, didn’t
want one.
FUNDAMENTALISTS ARE VICTORS
BALTIMORE, Md., May 31. t/P)—Hisses and cat
calls worked the Presbyterian Assembly in session
here which culminated in a Fundamentalist victory.
The adoption of the rule to rotate membership
boards was passed. The resolution was a minority
report which Mark Mathews of Seattle, pastor of
the First Presbyterian church presented.
REFUSES PRESIDENCY
WARSAW, May 31. (>Pt—Pilsudski refused the
presidency when the chamber of deputies, sitting
as a National assembly gave him 292 votes and Bnin
ski, candidate for the Right parties, 193. Pilsudski
refused on the ground that the constitution doesn't
authorize the president to dissolve parliament in an
emergency.
DAWES SETS FIRST STONE
MARION, O., May 31. (JP)—Vice-President of the
United States Charles G. Dawes set in place the first
stone of the Harding Memorial which will be a huge
sarcophagus of white marble, costing SSOO.OOO. The
memorial will be completed in 18 months.
SWAT KINGS FALL DOWN
CHICAGO, 111., May 31. (£*)—The home run clou
ters in the major leagues, who were setting the pace
last week did not keep up to their stride despite the
fact that more than 50 circuit clouts were registered.
Ruth knocked only one bringing his total up to 16,
one better than he had May 31, 1921.
TENNIS STARS MEET AGAIN
PARIS, May 31. (/P)—Helen Wills and Suzanne
Lenglen may again meet in combat in the first of the
International Hard Court Tennis Championships, be
ginning June 2nd.
PAYS TRIBUTE TO DEAD
BRUSSELS, Belgium, May 31. (£>)—King Albert
paid tribute to the American dead as the United
States citizens thruout the world began the observ
ance of Memorial Day.
ATTACKED BY OWN PEOPLE
MADRID, May 31. (,-P)—Abd El Krim has been at
tacked by his own people according to reports from
the Riffs’ strongholds yesterday.
VOTED TO ISSUE MORE STOCK
NEW YORK, May 31. (TP)—The American Tele
phone and Telegraph Company voted to issue $154,
000,000 new stock bringing the outstanding share
capitalization to more than a billion dollars.
BOSTON, Mass., May 31. (JP)—The Harvard Ob
servatory confirmed the genuiness of the discovery
by the German astronomers of a star which is 10,
000,000 times brighter than the Sun but many mill
ion miles farther away from our Earth.
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FREE SOUVENIRS TONIGHT.
Each person attending Tuesday will receive
with Murdock’s compliments a
FREE SOUVENIR
Some of the Souvenirs include Oriental Bud
dha lamp and incense burners, crystal gazing
ball, East Indian incense, fortune telling outfits,
charts of hand and other favors of value
Charleston Dance Program
and Other Surprises
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