“ESOAPJflMENT SMALL”
Commissioner O’Malley is report
ed as being deeply disappointed ai
the escapement at Anan Creek
where only about 35,000 ■'salmon
had escaped to spawning beds; and
at Olive Creek was even less satis
factory.
We remember when the Alaska
Packers at Wrangell alone, put up
67,000 cases of salmon by the 1st
of August from Anan and a
large number of scowloads of sal
mon shipped to Coring at the same
time; Santa Ana cannery put up
the same year 35,000 cases of sal
mon from the same district without
the use of a single trap; Lake Bay
put up about 20,000 i'rom that area
and tlie Kasaan, Chomley and Yes
Bay canneries further drew on the
this famous stream.
To see 100,000 salmon in the la
goon at Anan was a common sight
witnessed by certain inon now pro
minent in the canning world.
Hauls at the mouth of the Anan
creek were not satisfactory if less
than 10,000 and it was a common
sight to see hauls of 30,000 along
the Point Warde shores below the
creek. And the Commissioner has
the temerity recently to tell old
time fishermen that an escapement
of 200,000 salmon to Anan was a
satisfactory escapement.
The “illiterate” native will tell
Doctor Gilbert that there is no mys
tery in the non-appearance of the
salmon, the only mysterious thing
being the fact that the fisheries has
lasted as long as it has in spite of
the intensive trap fishing and the
Bureau of Fisheries.
BENNIE BENSON IS INDIGNANT
OVER FRAG CHARGE
Bennie Benson is highly indig
nant.
Bennie is also hurt.
He is indignant because William
Simpsom of Vancouver, B. C., says
he copied Simpson’s design for the
Alaska flag.
He is hurt because Stroller
White, in quoting Simpson, referred
to him as a “breed” pupil at the
Jesse Lee Home.
Bennie says he would be proud
to be called an Aleut, or a white
boy, but the use of the term
“breed” i3 too ofteu employed as
an obnoxious term.
However, Bennie strikes back at
Mr. Simpsn something like Jack
Dempsey shot that punch to the
center of Mr. Sharkey’s warehouse.
“I was not aware that Great
Britain in addition to claiming to
rule the waves, included the firma
ment with the Big Dipper and the
North Star.”
Zowie- Mr. Referee count slow
ly.
Bennie rallied from the 3ting of
Mr. Simpson’s aspersions of plag
iarism long enough to allow his
fighting blood to rise. He says the
children of the Jesse Lee Home are
taught something different from
deceit and falsehood. He is not in
the habit of employing either. As
for Mr. Simpson, he has never
heard of the gentleman, nor that
there was anyone in Canada labor
ing give the Dominion a distinct
ive flag of its own. He has always
seen the Union Jack serving as the
emblem of Britain’s “Dominions be
yond the seas.”
But Bennie is willing to do the
right thing by King George V.,
Umperor of India, Defender of the
faith, Ruler of the Waves, Master
of the Jam Trust, Five O’clock Tea
and Cornish Pasties. If he can be
shown that he has transgressed in
ternational law ,the covenant of
the League of Nations and the
Versailles treaty, he is willing to
offer his apologies to King George
to prevent war.
As Capt. Ralph Guthrie with a
squad of doughboys, raised the
flag and it was accepted by the
American Legion, Bennie believes
he has, as Mark Twain suggested,
“his gang” with him if anybody
starts anything.—Seward Gateway
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