Seward daily gateway. [volume], March 29, 1928, Page TWO, Image 2

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SCHOOL BOARD AT
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All past members of the Portlocl*
School Board were recently reelect
ed to serve for the coming year, ac
cording to word sent The Gateway in
the last mail.*
These include Nick Moonin, direc
tor; A. N. Nilson, treasurer; James
G. Collias, secretary.
There were a number of nomina
tions but few of these were seconded
with the result simmering down to
the former members who were elect
ed. Mr. Collias refused the nomina
tion but he didn’t get to “first base"
in his objections for every citizen, it
is said, voted him down and back.
Baseball tonight; City vs the Fire
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heel .50 to .65 cents.
SEWARD LEATHER WORKS
Concluding Dr. T. Gilbert Pearson’s
article on Alaskan eagles which began
yesterday.
Why should the East try to get us
to protect the eagle when Washing
ton (meaning the Government), thru
one of its bureaus, is systematically
seeking to exterminate the pretty
Terns that nest about certain Alas
kan lakes? The Government does
not help us kill the eagle, and yet it
is hiring men and supplying guns and
ammunition for. them to kill Terns
which could not possibly be so injuri
ous to fishing interests as are the
eagles, and which, by no stretch of
the imagination, could be regarded as
enemies of the fawns or lambs, ptar
migans and grouse.
He might have gone further and
mentioned that in the United States
eagles are specifically mentioned in
statistics as being protected only in
five states, viz., Indiana, Kansas, Ne
vada, Maine, and Massachusetts. In
25 states these birds are protected
only by implication, which means that
magistrates must put their own in
terpretation on the law as to whether
the eagle is protected. In 14 states
there is not even any implication that
they are protected, and in four states,
viz., Colorado, Georgia, South Caro
lina, and West Virginia, the laws in
clude them by name among the list
of destructive animals. To come a
step nearer our owm dooryards, he
might have noted that by Government
and state agreement, arrangements
VOTE FOR
BARTLEY HOWARD
Candidate for Republican
Nomination as Delegate
to Congress
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PRIMARY ELECTION APRIL 24, 1928
have been made whereby people may
shoot robins during the nesting sea
son when eating cultivated fruit in
New Hampshire, New York, Indiana,
Minnesota, and Oregon.
After I had made an address to an
audience on a steamship in Alaskan
waters, an Alaskan stood before me
with a hand on each hip, looked me
squarely in the eye, and propounded
this question: “What good is an
eagle anyway? I can understand you
wanting to protect ducks and geese
because they are good to eat, and a
large number should always be pre
served for breeding purposes. I can
understand you wanting to protect a
robin or a thrush because of the beau
ty of its song, and the argument for
protecting many other birds because
they eat insects and the seeds of
weeds is sound, but you cannot eat
an eagle; it does not sing; and so far
as I have ever heard it does not eat
weeds or insects or perform any other
special service for man. Is not your
interest simply prompted by a feel
ing of sentiment?”
“Why don’t you get after British
Columbia? It is nearer home,” quer
ied another man. “During flie years
1921 and 1922, that province paid
bounties on 9,917 eagles and stopped
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then only because the bounty funds
.became exhausted.”
Of course, it is a little difficult to
j answer all these questions satisfac
torily to the mind of the typical Alas
kan who has no special knowledge oe
interest in birds, and who lives in a
country where many conditions are
pretty hard, who has his own prob
lems of wresting a living from a land!
where conditions are forbidding, and
who lives in the midst of a widespread
feeling that the Government, in stop
ping development of certain resources
411 Alaska under the plea of ‘conserva
tion/ is working unjustly against the
Interests of the Alaskans.
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Offer of Governor Parks
Governor Parks, with whom I hare M
had some correspondence and with
j whom I had the pleasure of talking,
; offered any assistance he could ren
der in case the Audubon Associatio»
■ or other responsible body should care
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| to undertake a careful investigation
I of the feeding habits of the eagle, to
determine to what extent it is injuri
ous to mankind in Alaska.
Two Species of Eagles Involved
It should be borne in mind that
there are two species of eagles in
Alaska. One is the Golden Eagle,
which is found in the mountainous re
gions. Twice I saw one of these birds
swoop at a lamb of a mountain sheep,
in each case, however, the ewe was
alert and near its offspring, so the
eagle approached no nearer than SO
to 60 feet. I was told by some of the
men in authority in McKinley Nation
al Park, where I had made these ob
servations, that they had very little
evidence, if any, that the Golden ea
gle was destructive to wild lambs. In
my travels of bout 2,000 miles in the
interior of Yukon nd Alaska, I saw
perhaps six pairs of Golden eagles,
and throughout the entire area, during
the trip on the Yukon and Tanana
Rivers I saw only one pair of Bald
eagles.
The Bald eagle is found mostly
along the coast of eastern and south
ern Alaska, as well as about many of
the coast-wise lakes and on the low
er reaches of streams where fish are
(generally abundant,
i Political Alaska is divided in four
I “Divisions.” The first and third cov
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