It lias always been thus.
Give tliem another dunce!
You have tooled them beiore and might—
l&iVA 11 liMhi IO l^L'l'l?
‘The movement oi the order ot Tioneers ot Alaska
to retain the existing pension laws and Tioneers
t mini! privileges the same us at present seems to Oo
u popular one.”—Strollers Weekly.
iViisinioi’med people, (is it due to illiteracy!) aie
still cnuiging the Indians ot Alaska with desiring to
cnange Uie existing pension law's both Old Age and
.Destitute xvlotners and Orphans.
me iNUUVOS Oi xi-iasixa, ou icu ao v»c «.*v.
sausned with the present pension laws and are uol
u,a«.mg ioi any changes.
Indians are now eligible to pensions under tlie
aame rules as wliite people.
x'erliaps it would ue ashing bUoiler Wliite to mueli
lo request him to read tile present pension laws, and
it be cannot understand plain hinglish, there are a
number oi Indians who could explain the law to him.
ii is tune to drop tne Race Issue.
The way to do it is to obey the Golden Rule. Is
that bard to do?
MY ALASKA
Oh Alaska! It does seem to me
Your foothills reach beneath the sea.
I sail thru liquid valleys where
On earth no place can this compare.
I climb your rugged mountain slopes
Past gold that every seeker gloats,
And then upon your brow I stand
And get a glimpse of wonderland.
Where feet of man have seldom trod
And viewed this master work of God.
To those brave spirits who shall dare,
He, all his wonderous scenes will share.
The moose, the elk, the goat and deer
Nod friendly greeting to you here
While joyous birds among the trees
Welcome you with sweet melodies.
The golden eagle scars on high
And looks down on you from the sky.
It seems to me he does surmise
Our longing dream of paradise.
They called you “Seward’s Folly’’
So ’tis said,
But a lasting crown of wisdom
Now rests upon his head. —Frank W. Silvis.
Fish Hatcheries
(Continued Iroin Page Three)
(signed by)
Wm. Due, M. P. Lunenbeurg, tv
H, Chairman.
C. H. Dickie, M. P. Duncan, B. C.
L. H. Martell, M. P., Windson, N.S
W. G. McQuarrie, M. P., New West
minister, B. C.
A. W. Neill, M.P., Alberni, B. C.
A. Stork, M. P., Prince Rupert, B.C.
The investigation held hearings at
25 towns, and fishing locations.
The commission examined 191
men in the fishing industry, includ
ing cannerymen. managers of can
nery corporations, and both seine
and gill net fishermen.
Concerning this list, the commis
sion said;
“The foregoing list, we submit,
is sufficient proof that the enquiry
was comprehensive, and that every
phase of the fishing industry in
British Columbia was duly repres
ented and heard from.*'
Did He Tell The Truth
Ward T. Bower, Chief Agent of
the Bureau of Fisheries in his
taper read before the American
Association for the Advancement of
Science, on June 17> 1920, and
trm'< e. »i. full in the Alaska h-ily
Empire of June 20, 1920, said in
part;
RE; FLOATING TRAPS
“A need of the fishery is absolute
prohibition of large off shore float
ing traps. Within the last year or
two improvements in the construc
tion of floating traps have made
i\ possible to anchor devices of
this kind in exposed offshore wat
ers where their use previously was
not considered possible. These
traps should be PROHIBITED not
ou’y for the reason that they con
si itute a serious menace to neviga
tion but for the further important
reason that they are almost aeualn
to be VERT HARMFUL to the
Bui in on industry in the course i £ a
few years. If the few concaves
now operating these floating traps
continue their use, other concerns
in the same region will be forced
to adopt similar devices for rea
sons of self protection. If a cut
thro n policy is put into actual
pi notice the end of the salmon
industry as a going commercial
business can easily be forecast"
Exerpts from petition sent to the
Bureau of Fisheries, Wash., D. C.
from San Francisco in 1907, by
certain salmon packers and fisher
men of the Bristol Bay district, to
the end “that the use of all fish
traps and stationery fishing gear
w.’il be prohibited on the Wood
and Nushagak rivers, Bristol Bay,
Alaska.”
They state that both rivers have
“peculiar advantages for the loca
tion and maintainance of traps;”
that fish traps have been construct
ed on both sides of those streams,
so that a fish missing a trap on one