TTTE ALASKA FISHERMAN
Published the i5th of each month at Ketchikan, Alaska
/VILLIAM L. PAUL, ATTORNEY FOR THE
ALASKA NATIVE BROTHERHOOD
iCntered as second - class matter at the Post Office at
KETCHIKAN, ALASKA
HJBSCRPTION PRICE $2.00 FOR TWELVE ISSUES
OUR PLATFORM:
ALASKA FOR ALASKANS.
FULL TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENT.
ABOLISHMENT OF ALL TRAPS.
COMPETENT CHRISTIAN CITIZENSHIP.
'TERRITORIAL PLATFORM OF THE REPUBLICAN
PARTY PROPOSED
A number of the members of the last legislature
net informally one night and some one suggested that
v proposed Republican Platform be adopted for the
* ntire Territory.
We herewith print the result of this and other
discussions for the consideration of the Republican
Party in Alaska, to-wit:
1. Elective Territorial Officials for all major offices;
2. Separation of Territorial offices from federal offices;
o. Equitable taxation;
4. Trap-tax based on catch;
5. Discriminatory tax on non-resident fishermen.
<J. Repeal by Congress of Section 2 7 of the Jones
Merchant Marine Act.
PROMINENT CITIZENS
When Fred Handy, the prohibition agent, brought.
Sandy Levy to deputy U. S. Marshal William H. Cas
well on a charge of being drunk and disorderly, Cas
well said: “I have got to have a warrant or commit
ment before I can take him in.”
It makes a great difference who is arrested.
When the same deputy marshal asked United States
Commissioner over the phone what the bail would be.
he said: “Mr. Handy has brought one of the promi
nent citizens of Ketchikan here under arrest. What
will his bail be?”
At last in response to a question, the deputy mar
shal divulged the name of the prominent (?) citizen..
Is he prominent or notorious, Mr. Caswell?
BUSINESS CLUBS AND YOUNG MEN
Darwin Meisnest, spokesman of the Young Men's
Business Club of Seattle that flew over Alaska recently,
says the reason the fishermen sell their fish in Prince
Rupert is because they can also buy hard liquor their
Darwin now says that his words were misconstrued
and t ha I bis remarks about the “Volstead Act” were
made in a “jocular vein” and that, he did not 'intend
to offend the the fishermen!'
The tiling that Darwin T^Teisnest cannot understand
is this: in spite of the heavy hknd of law, fish still goes
east via Prince Rupert and not' Seattle.
IVIr. 11. IS. Locken, manager of the Fishing Ves
sel Owners’ Association of Seattle and Ketchikan, ex
plains the real reason which has not penetrated the
mind of the ex-manager of boys’ athletic clubs, as fol
lows:
“Fishermen must deliver their catches where they
can get the most money. The excursion party did not.
stay long enough in Ketchikan to learn that halibut
sold there goes east through Prince Rupert. The ves
sel owners resent the insinuations that halibut is sold
at Prince Rupert because liquor is obtainable. Halibut
fishing is too serious a business for that.”
TRAP FISH
On June 20th, the Sunny Point Cannery packed
its first thirty-seven cases of salmon—Pinks. They
wore trap fish from two traps.
There would he considerable rejoicing if they had
lieon seine fish. The resident seiner would have divid
ed his catch among five men which would have made
five wives happy and perhaps fifteen children, besides
the groceryman who had been carrying the families all
winter would have gotten his, and the merchant would
have sent his share to pay his debts.
Instead, two traps owned by one person got the
fish.
Tliis will be a fine country someday when the traps
are gone.
REPUBLICAN PRIMARY IN THE THIRD
The vote in the Third Division in the April pri
maries was:
Borgen of Anchorage,nominated for Senator;
For the House:
Tarwater of Anchorage. 1,222
Jos. Murray of Cordova . 1,049
Frank Foster of Cordova . . 981
James McCain of Anchorage . 987
A queer combination we must say and signifies
woeful ignorance on the part of the voters. Nothing
else explains this combination—some good, some very
had, for example,. Joseph Murray and Frank Foster
men who will vote against the people of Alaska everv
time.