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HERRING INDUSTRY
FACES NEAR RUIN
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(Stroller’s Weekly.)
That the herring industry of Alas
ka will be practically wiped out and
the halibut fishing materially crip
pled if the recently-promulgated or
ders of Secretary Hoover of the De
partment of Commerce are carried
out were the statements made at the
meeting of the Juneau Chamber of
Commerce yesterday by Mayor F. A.
J. Gallwas of Douglas, and Angus
Graham of the same place, who with
L. W. Kilburn, also of Douglas, were
guests of the chamber luncheon on
invitation. All the parties are
heavily interested in the Douglas
Fish company which represents an
investment of upward of $70,000
and which has already established a
heavy and profitable trade with the
Orient.
The late fishing regulations sent
out by the Department of Commerce
provide that, beginning with Janu
ary 1, 1925, there be a closed season
for herring eight and a half months
each year and that the open season
be from June 1 until September 15,
both dates inclusive, of each year.
Mayor Gallwas went into detail
concerning the herring industry as
it is carried on in Alaska and de
clared that it is the branch of the
fishing industry in which the poor
man can engage at a profit; that
the herring business is usually car
ried on at numerous small and inex
pensive plants where from 50 to 150
barrels represent a season’s pack;
that many of these small packers
have their all invested in their busi
ness and that to enforce the regula
tions as announced will result in
financial disaster. He also showed
that not to exceed 25 per cent of the
herring taken by the former usual
Scotch Cure packers were used owing
to at least 75 per cent being under
size, are utilized whereas the Ori
ental trade takes everything large
and small and is glad to pay a good
price for same.
Mr. Graham also made a very en
lightening talk on the herring indus
try which business he has followed
practically all his life, having fished
in the North sea for many years and
where, he asserted two million bar
rels of herring are annually packed
and that the waters of Alaska are as
heavily stocked with herring as are
those of the North sea. Mr. Graham
also stated that 40,000 barrels of
herring were exported from British
Columbia last year, being sold to
the same trade as that to which
Alaska’s pack is sold and he said
there was fully ten times more her
ring in Alaska than in British Co
lumbia waters.
Mr. Graham further stated that
the open season as set apart by the
Hoover order covers practically all
of the one season in the year in
which the herring are poor and prac
tically unfitted for food, it being the
season immediately following the
spawning period. He further showed
where compliance with the order
will work a hardship on the halibut
fishermen who will be deprived of
bait during the greater portion of
the halibut season.
Plainly the talks of the Douglas
men created considerable interest
and after some discussion and con
sideration as to the best means of
procedure, President DeVighne in
structed the Legislative committee
to prepare a statement, after confer
ring with the Douglas parties, and
others interested, and forward copies
of it to Secretary Hoover and Dan
Sutherland asking that modifications
be made suitable to existing condi
tions.
CARRIER WHO THREW
AWAY MAIL WHEN HE
WAS SICK IS FINED
PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 27.—Vernon
H. Ruscoe, former mail carrier, was
fined $350 by Federal Judge Wol
verton today after pleading guilty
to a charge of having thrown away
first class mail matter.
Ruscoe, who had been a mail car
rier for five years in a residential
district, was ill September 15 and his
mail wras unusually heavy, accord
ing to his explanation. Thinking to
lighten the burden he put what he
thought to be several bundles of
second class matter in a gunny sack
and hid it under the porch of his
home. When he moved from the
house new tenants found the mail
and reported to the postal authori
ties.
Ruscoe wTas indicted and dismissed
from the postal service. His attor
ney explained that there was no ex
cuse for his action, and threw his
client on the mercy of the court.
What Bill Des Aulniers can’t un
derstand about the radio is how the
static knows you have company that
night.
THERMOMETER SLOWLY
ASCENDING UPWARD
TACOMA, Wn., Dec. 27.—The first
break in the cold wave that has
gripped the Pacific coast for the past
week was perceived yesterday when
the Weather Bureau officials report
ed a slight raise in temperature. Low
est was eight about as compared with
6.8 the day before. The Bureau re
ports that there is a storm brewing
in the Pacific ocean and moving to
ward the coast. With the arrival of
the storm, the cold snay should def
initely end.
Sumner Smith, operator in the Hope
district, arrived on the Northwest
ern.
Northwest Rum Pirates
Take No Chances, Repulse
VICTORIA, B. C., Dec. 27.—Kill
first and board afterwards is the
policy of Pacific Northwest rum
pirates, according to officers who
have been investigating the Beryl
G. hijacking mystery, which so far
has resulted in the arrest of five
men, while warrants for tw'o others
have been issued. It is known that
the hijackers killed Captain W. S.
Gillis and his son William, aged 18,
before the $23,000 liquor cargo was
removed from the Beryl G.
This warfare, savage though con
cealed, has played a prominent part
in the illicit liquor running that has
taken place between Canadian and
United States points on this coast in
recent years. In fact it is a known
thing that rum carriers exchange |
shots with almost any boat that ap-1
proaches them, other than one ob
viously containing police or customs
officers. So far the law has been
respected in the sense that the rum
carriers will seldom fire on a uni
form.
In the Gillis case, it is asserted,
the bandits got close up to the Beryl
G. by means of the fact that one of
their party wore a policeman’s uni
form. The anomaly of the situation
is that the liquor running, with
proper papers is no offense on this
side of the line and can be openly
plied, whereas once across the bor
der line the carriers are offenders
against the American code and liable
to long terms of imprisonment.
From this it springs that rum car
riers fear no uniform wrhile in
Canadian waters, and it was by this
means that the bandits in the Beryl
G. case worked up on their prey
without the fusillade of shots that
might normally have greeted such a
maneuver.
Sold wholesale on Canadian soil at
around 40 a case, containing eigh
teen bottles, liquor retail in Seattle
in the rum trade at $6 a bottle, or
well over $100 a case. A modest
percentage of the rake-off goes to
the carriers who run the liquor
across the border; another small
! portion to distribution men in Se
attle, and the remainder is profit tor
the men who finance the deal.
The high retail value of the con
traband liquor makes rum piracy as
profitable as bank robbery, with
heretofore far less risk to the oper
ators. Rum pirates have sprung into
existence and multiplied within tlie
last few’ years until today a state
of piracy equalling that of the “good
INVENTORY
SALE
BARGAINS IN
ALL LINES
ELLSWORTH'S
ANDY’S EXPRESS
MEETS ALL BOATS AND
TRAINS
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Phone Madison 143
SEWARD GRILL
PRIVATE DINING ROOMS
Pleasant Surroundings
Courteous Treatment
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT
old days” infests shipping on rum
row.
On the Atlantic seaboard outside
the twelve-mile limit cargo carriers
of 5,000 and 6,000 tons burden have
been boarded by pirates and their
cargoes seized. On this coast the
piratical attempts are on a smaller
scale, but with the same disregard
for life.
MILK PRODUCERS ARRESTED
ON A CHARGE SABOTAGE
OAKLAND, Dec. 27.—Twenty-two
milk producers of the Tracy district
were arrested in Altamont Pass to
day and lodged in the county jail here
charged with sabotage in connection
with the Oakland Milk Producers’
strike.
They were alleged to have been
holding up drivers and dumping milk
on the ground at the roadside to pre- ;
vent its being brought into Oakland, j
Pickets were on the road through
out the night and as far as known |
only one truck load of milk made
its way through the lines.
Teacher: Johnny, what are the
two genders?
Johnny: Masculine and feminine.
The masculine is divided into tem- j
perate and intemperate, and the fem
inine into frigid and torrid.
MEXICAN PRISONERS
ARE SECURELY TIED
DOLGLAS, Ariz., Dec. 27.—Twelve
men captured in Agua Prieta in a
roundup of alleged revolutionists and
marched to Naco, from which point
they will be sent by train to Nogales
for trial, reached Naco Sunday after
noon, according to information re
ceived here. The prisoners, bound
hand to hand and ankle to ankle,
to prevent any attempts to escape,
withstood the hardships of the long
desert march stoically, it is reported.
The captives will leave Naco today
by train for Nogales.
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