The Alaska daily empire. [volume], April 08, 1913, Image 3

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Home-Smoked
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CAPITAL $50,000
SURPLUS $10,000
UNDIVIDED PROFITS $15,000
DEPOSITS OVER $400,000
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OFFICERS
T. F. KENNEDY, Pres.
JOHN RECK. Vice-Pres.
A. A. GABBS, Cashier
DIRECTORS
F W. BRADLEY
E. P. KENNEDY
GEO. F. MILLER
T. F. KENNEDY
JOHN RECK
P. H. FOX
A. A. GABBS
M. J. O'CONNOR
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Latest Novelties in
Tobacco Jars and
Pipe Racks
at Burford's
iMcKINLEY climbers
MAKING PROGRESS!
FAIRBANKS, March 24.?Archdea
con Hudson Stuck, and hris party are
making good headway on the trail to
con Hudson Stuck, and his party are j
the Kantishna on the way to attempt j
ascending ML McKinley, acording to
recent word brought to Fairbanks yes- i
terday afternoon by Robert Benner, I
and William Sheedy, prospectors, i
The men mushed In from Glen creek
with their dog team in five days and
met Stuck at the Thirty-Mile cabin j
on the Nenana, at the end of the Fish- j
er cut-off.
The party is made up of Hudson j
Stuck, archdeacon of the Episcopalian
missions; Harry P, Karstens, the Kan
tishna guide, known as "The Seventy-1
i Mile-Kid"; Robert G. Tatum, of the
| Nenana Mission; Walter Harper, the j
| archdeacon's half-breed attendant and,
; three Indians. Two dog teams, each
; with eight dogs, are beiug used to
haul the light load of goods from the
; Tanana to the mountain. The loads
will be augumented by nearly a ton ?
of provisions which are cached at
? Diamond City, on the Bearpaw river.
From there the teams will have to
; break trail to the base camp which
they intend to establish near the site
of the old Lloyd tent on the McKin
i ley fork of the Kantishna river.
The distance from Fairnanks to
Diamond City is estimated to be 190
, miles by the winter tril. The archdea
? con told the mushers that he expected
? to be there Sunday and start relaying
I the supplies to the McKinley fork.
? The going to the Kantishan has
>' been good for the climbing party, be
J cause of the fact that the miners of
? that district are engaged at present
? in hauling goods from the Tanana and
I have broken the trail almost to Dia
? mond City.
? Archdeacon Stuck believes that he
? and his party of climbers will be able
? to reach the top of the mighty peak,
? provided the weather conditions will
* permit
SHORT PARAGRAPHS
CONCERNING ALASKA
(Fron "Alaska, an Empire in the
.Making," by J. J. Underwood; pub
lished permission of Dodd, Mead &
| Company.)
Alaska has the highest mountain?
* Mt. McKinley?on the continent of
f North America, its utmost altitude
L is 20,41?4 feet.
P The cod banks of Alaska are said
t by the United States Fish Commission
t to be among the finest in the world,
r The same is true of the halibut
C banks.
L Cattle raised on government sta
J tions in Alaska under the Department
? of Agriculture are wintered with less
^ mortality than in the states of .Mon
J tana. North and South Dakota, or
? Kansas.
The temperature at many points in
I Southeastern and Southwestern Alas
?' ka is not as cold as at Washington,
t D. C . or New York City in the winter
* nor as warm as either of these places
| I in the summer. The atmosphere in
*' this section of Alaska is tempered by
? i the Japan current. East of the coast
J: range, however, the thermometer of
? j ten drops to seventv-two degrees bt}
? low zero in the winter and occassion
l ally rises to one hundred and six de
? grees in the summer.
? Alaska was bought for $7,200,000.
I It already has paid to the people of
* the United States in products, divi
dends approximating six thousand
three hundred per cent, on the invest
ment. It is worth today, not millions,
but billions.
Statistics show that in Alaska there
is less crime per capita than in any
state in the Union.
Alaska does not tolerate open gam
bling. Gambling was closed down
tight in the territory in 1906.
During the summer, Alaska, even
as far north as the Arctic ocean, is
carpeted with the most daintily col
ored and beautiful flowers, the prin
ciple specimens being, wild brier-rose
forget-me-nots, blue and yellow viol
ets, irises, poppies, butter-cups, ger
aniums, anemonies, blue-bells, daisies,
all the blooms of the berries, and
many others.
Alaska, acre for acre, is believed by
experts to be more valuable than
many of the states of the Union. Its
latent water-power energy is incalcu
lable.
The development of Alaska's re
sources is hardly yet begun, nor have
all of its possibilities been discover
ed. Only one-fifth of the territory has
been mapped, and many portions of
it have never been trodden by the
foot of white man. Practically all of
its wealth of forests, fisheries, and
minerals is still untouched by com
merce, and represents millions of dol
lars many times multiplied.
; GIRL ENDS UNHAPPY
LIFE BY SUICIDE
JOLIET. 111., April 7.?Mrs. Lena
Feunelli committed suicide here yes
terday, after a remarkable record.
She was married at 15 years of age,
divorced at 17, remarried at 18 and
her husband deserted her. She is a
suicide at 19.
The Daily Empire delivered In Ju
neau, Douglas and Treadwell for 81.00
a month.
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Agree That Pish Must
Have Better Protection
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what he would do if he hud absolute
control of the fishing industry and
wanted to protect it for himself. Mr.
Heckman replied that he would make
some regulations and enforce them.
What regulations?
Mr. Heckman stated that he
thought traps should be curtailed?u
cannery that now has seven should
be reduced to five. No more should
be allowed to be constructed and no
trap should be allowed within a mile
of a salmon stream. Seines and all
sorts of other fishing gear should be
kept 1800 feet from any stream. It
would not be necessary to limit the
number of seines. The season should
be closed earlier?not later than Sep
tember 1. in his section of the coun
try. He would have fast power boats
with inspectors aboard to sec that the
regulations were enforced.
Nels Nelson, of Petersburg, said
that he had been fishing in Alaskan
waters since 1887. He lives in Peters
burg and has a family there. He went
into the history of the town showing
how it had developed under the fish
ing industry into a thriving place and
was supporting a population of fisher
folk who built their homes there,
were schooling their children and be
coming attached to the soil. Then
he pictured the ruin that was staring
them in the face because fish, their
only resource were being exterminat
ed. This he attributed to traps most
ly *but acknowledeg that other forms
of fishing had helped in bringing
I about the results. As superintendent
of canneries he knew methods of op
erating and of getting the season's
pack. He could verify the statements
made by Air. Lewis the Indian who
charged that white men ravaged the
Anan because he put up the pack at
Santa Ana. With the new method-of
purse seines and power boats salmon
were caught in deep water and it was
not necessary to drag the streams.
The increasing number of traps were
depleting the waters of not only sal
mon but were catching halibut and
other fish that should be left for the
winter fishing. He agreed with Air.
Bell that there must be some protec
tion for the fish?not 011 account o 1
the capital invested in the business
but because of the people that depend
ed upon that industry for a livlihood.
He would like to have more hatcher
ies?they might get to be a success.
He was in favor of restricting the
seiners and operators of other gear to
a mile limit of spawning streams and
| of fast power uoats aim inspectors
to catch the violators of the law in
the fishing streams. His remedy is:
Abolish the traps; laws strictly en
forced on seines.
Rev. Rather Kashevaroff, who is
now fifty years of age was born at
Kodiak and has lived on the coast of
Alaska practically all his life. Fa
ther Kashaveroff says that he has ob
served the salmon and knows that
the supply is being diminished. He
gave some very interesting details
and historical facts to show that his
claim that the salmon are fust disap
pearing is well founded. He had seen
40,000 reds caught at Karluk in one
haul?now reds were very rare. The
fact that fish were getting scarce was
so noticeable that it could not be de
nied. Word came from the church
missions all along the coast and up
to Nushugak that salmon were scarce
and the natives were unable to get
enough for their wants. When asked
why, he replied that the waters were
fished out. Rev. KashaverofT's rem
edy is to close the season one month
earlier than at present and give the
salmon a chance to reach the spawn
ing grounds.
K. J. Jonnson, 01 wrungeu, sum mui
his occupation used to be that of fish
erman and that later he was a fish
buyer, but that now he was in the
transportation business. He said that
he was glad of an opportunity to tell
what he knew of the fishing industry
in Alaska. It is his belief that traps
are the most destructive gear now in
use. He had had an opportunity to
study traps and their effect on the
supply. While working for a Peters
burg cannery he said that they used
to violate the law repeatedly in or
der to get the season's pack. He
said that traps and seines had fished
out the Taku from Icy Straits until
hardly any more reds could be taken
in that stream. In 1901 he went to
Nushaghak. Here the traps worked
all the time?twenty-four hours out
of each day. He told of thousands
of fish that had been caught and
thrown away. The beach was strewn
with them and created such a stench
that one could not walk along It. The
Stikine, he said, was the only stream
that seemed to hold its own.
Captain George A. Howe came to
Alaska in 1886 and had fished nearly
every where that salmon were known
to exist in Alaska waters. He was
at Nushaghak in 1900 and said that
he wished to confirm the statement
made by Mr. Johnson about the thous
ands of salmon strewn along the
beach; he had helped dump the fish
overboard. The fish were brought in
such quantities that the cannery could
not handle them and they spoiled.
Captain Howe showed that there was
a great decrease in the wood river
supply owing to the fact that It was
overfished. Ho thinks traps are de
structlve and believes they should
be abolished. Another factor accord
ing to Captain Howe in destroying the
salmon is the destruction of herring,
his natural food supply. Herring are
caught and crushed into oil and fer
tilizers which should be stopped. Fish
traps are destructive. He believed
that hatcheries are a success and that
because the fry do not return to the
place they are hatched is no proof to
the contrary. His remedy for the sit
uation is to abolish some of the traps
and keep all fishermen a mile away |
from streams.
William H. Lewis, the Wrangell In-r
dlan, who appeared tit the previous -
session, made a statement to cover a ]
point that was overlooked. He said ;
the statement that fish held in a boat ?
were kept so long that they were not J
lit to can, was partly true?in the old .
days with a dragnet, which was Just |
as destructive as a trap. Now, how- ?
ever, power boats were in use with .
purse seines and fish were taken in |
deep water and brailed the same as | ?
from the trap and could be taken to1!
the cannery Just as fast as from the j;
trap. The fallacy of the trap not
fishing all the time because of dark- ]
ness was exposed by a statement that
it was daylight until 11 o'clock at
night during the fishing season. The
reported increase in packing is dut
to the increase in number of traps
and canneries and not to the increase i
in fish. He would leave it to any can
neryman; he did not think Mr. Heck
man would swear there had not been
a decrease.
Asked if the Indians did not en
gage in the lumbering business, he
replied that the forest reservations
had stopped any possibility of doing
this so as to gain a livlihood. The In
dian had but the one resource and it
was being destroyed.
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