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ABOLISHING SALMON HATCHERIES
Reports are current that among the matters coming
before the Legislature this session will be that of chang
ing the regulation with respect to returning salmon fry
to the waters of the Territory in lieu of taxes.
Judged by frequent expressions of cannery manag
ers, there will be little opposition to the change, many
having expressed the desire to get out of the hatchery
business if possible.
While the hatchery has proved a valuable accessory
to propagation of the fish, it has not fully solved the ques
tion. There are other ways which appear to have more
to recommend them and which apparently come nearer
a solution. Among them is the providing of means for
the fish to reach thespawning grounds and combating the
predatory enemies of the young salmon. If the money
expended by the canneries in maintaining hatcheries was
expended in clearing streams of obstructions, placing
fish ladders or chutes where obstructions cannot be re
moved, and Territorial hatcheries* maintained at their
highest degree of efficiency, it would not be necessary
for the private enterprises to engage in the hatchery busi
ness.
An unequal element intrudes in the present situation,
in that the small canneryman does not enjoy the rebate of
taxes enjoyed by the larger concerns that are financially
able to erect hatcheries. It would seem more fair to
discontinue the rebate system and utilize the revenue
thus collected to provide more facilities for clearing
streams.
BUREAUCRATIC JUNKETING
Each year sees the heads of the Heinz Bureaus, pack
ing their club bags and journeying to Washington to pay
hohage to the royal personages clustered about the
throne. It would be interesting to know just how much
of the public moneys are expended thus annually on these
junketing trips and those of “special observers,, and in
vestigators dispatched to Alaska annually to spend a
week or ten days to ascertain if the Bolshevik have come
over from Siberia to steal the Alaska Railroad.
While the government is considering the question of
economy it might not be a bad idea to check up this item
along with several other fungus growths that are the out
come of Bureaucracy.
Now comes another agitation from the Atlantic coast
for greater restrictions with respect to game and fur in
Alaska that the “tired business man” may have better
opportunity for a week’s shooting. Why not declare an
open season on Chicago gunmen and save the cost of a
trip to the “frozen North?”
Aimee pinched out, " Peaches” and ""Daddy” are off the
""pay streak,” Charlie and Lita’s latest six-reel, super
iodine masterpiece proved a fiizzle, there is a halt in Con
gressional investigations, so all we have to look forward
to is the Daugherty trial, until spring and the hives.
Gauged by reports coming out of Anchorage with
respect to the battle over the electric light situation it is
becoming more and more like that dear Seattle.
British widows grabbed off 4,500 bachelors during
the past year, which shows there is hazards in other
things besides war.
Here the Chinese press agents have been working up
a good running story with the promise of a great decisive
battle for control of the chop suey and wor main trust,
and then the story pinches out.
Saturday is a holiday, Abraham Lincoln’s birthday,
and the bank and postoffice may be closed. Also, maybe,
the Gateway will join in the celebration.
With Mexico, Nicaragua, Chile, Portugal and China
all enjoying revolutions it becomes to look like the good
old days before the coming of the League of Nations.
DAWSON, Feb. 11.—Hunker roost
ers are selling at a premium these
days, and little wonder, following
the novel discovery which wa.s made
Wednesday at the summit hotel,
! owned by Joseph Fournier. The
proprietor of the Summit hotel killed
ja six-months-old-rooster, and imagine
his surprise when a 75 cent nugget
was found in the craw of the bird
when it was being dressed. The dis
covery was made by the All Gold
miner, Duncan Miohie, who was a
visitor at the roadhouse at the time.
Last year Archie Macherson pur
chased some chickens from Joe
Fournier and in two of the chickens
he found nuggets, one weighing to
the value of 60 cents. Either there
is free milling gold quartz outcrop
ping at the summit or the chickens
raised in that part of the district
are, forsooth, real “gold diggers.”
PEKMI FUR" DECLARED
ENTITLED TO FREE ENTRY
NEW YORK, Feb. 11. (JP)—Mer
chandise described as “Pekan fur”
iwas the subject of a test case decid
ed by the United States Custom
! Court in favor of A. D. Jones, of St.
Louis. This fur, Judge McClelland;
I finds, is entitled to free entry under |
! paragraph 1579 as furs not specially j
provided for. The collector assessed J
duty at 40 ner cent under paragraph'
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1420. His action is reversed by the i
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court.
At the trial testimony was intro-!
duced to show that the animal from j
which the skin in question was taken j
is known as a fisher and belongs to !
the mink family. It was imported in j
its natural condition, or raw skin
tanned.
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APASTIME IN TEXAS
HOUSTON, Tex., Feb. 11. (^—De
prived of the opportunity of playing
In snow, Houston children have
evolved the nearest thing to it. While
their northern friends are coasting
they enjoy a sport known as “snow
less sledding.”
A boy discovered that a board and
wet grass on a knoll was a fair
southern substitute for an icy north
ern hill. Inventive genius led him
to fashion a sled with wooden run
ners and it was not long until most
of the children in the neighborhood
had followed his lead. Now “sliding”
on the grass has intrigued a host of
juveniles.
The Candy Cottage, the
home of Velvet Ice Cream,
the best on the market.
Seattle Tee Cream at Schallerer'a
Alaska Shop. tf
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