ore of his deputies around to collect
the assessments. The amount White
asked for was FIFTY DOLLAR':,.
Was that the real reason he fire.l
(transferred) certain of his deputies
knowing very well that the “trans
lei would lead to their resignation?
Deputy Marshal Caswell, U. S.
Ma ’shal White’s “messenger boy,”
was Marshal White’s candidate for
Delegate to the Republican Conven
tion, and on their representatto i
that they were friends of the Na
tives, the Natives were asked an t
did vote (many of them) for C's
well. Marshal White is construi i;
t ie law so that Indian children ca li
ne t get money from the tuna for
the relief of destitution. WhUe
new holds that altho the lewis'.11 »ir-*
lies not said so, the money is only
for white children, and tYr-ief i«'
he will amend the law and act a •
cc i dinglv.
The situation is this: —
Marshal White, a republic 1 ap
pointee, consults with the loading
Dmocrat as to appointments it, Ju
neau ;
He keeps as his leading deputy
a notorious democrat;
he keeps in office C. V. Drown a
m; i utterly unfit for any public of
He punishes deputies who were
not active in supporting his candi
date for office hv “transferring'’
th cm;
Pe levies upon his officers and col
1. (Ms tribute for which he makes no
a counting under the excuse that Ir
is campaigning for the election of
a United States Senator—even tho
he was told to go home.
Me usurps the duty of the District
Court and discriminates against des
titute Native children contrary to
the letter of the law appropriating
the funds.
He places a certain William H
Caswell in charge of the Ketchikan
office who promptly appoints men as
deputies who from their own recent
record are unfit for such commis
sions.
lie may receive a reappointment
by showing Mr. Hoover that he—
White—was for Hoover (until Hoov
e'• learns that White was also for
Curtis).
Some folks are natural born pol
iticians—like an ostrich.
A rlAlLlilllOAK
While United States Marshal A1
W hite was sleeping on his laurels of
icing the “best, enforcing officer’
in Alaska. Charles Sinclair walked
out of jail.
It is reported that he was gone
about four days BEFORE the effi
cient gentleman from IDAHO found
out that his guest was gone. The
renort in the newspaper indicates
11:r*t if it had not been for a call by
the attorney, Mr. White won id
still he ignorant of the escape.
In a similar case, but one in which
the officer was without blame for
tin' escape because the prisoner
climbed out of a porthole considered
too small for a big man, Mr. White
collected some $180. from deputy
Kuckenbecker of Ketchikan. Alt ho
Mr. Kuckenbecker was without
blame, Mr. White, who was even
timn riding his deputy, would nor.
assist in a remittance of the penal
ty.
We think he was even then plan
ning to “transfer” Mr. Kuckenback
er to replace him by the doctor
of polities, Caswell, over whose an
point men t together with his assist
ants has caused much rejoicing
among the “knowing” and alarm
among the citizens who knew Kuck
enbacker and Pickett as honest of
ii ers.
The people are not forgetting that
Caswell was once the manager of
A1 White’s saloon and a leading
bootlegger of Ketchikan. Sandy
Levy, his bartender.
' Customer—Have you something
that will cure fleas on a dog?
Hruggist—I don’t, know. What’s
the matter with the fleas?
VICTORY FOR THM UURKAU
Relow we quote an editorial from
the Cordova Times. If the facts
;ire truly stated, we rejoice with th *
“Times.” The Bureau of Fisher
ies may lie learning their lesson.
The trouble with the Bureau was
that it did nothing to prevent tii.-j
denletion of the Copper River when
everybody knew that it was being
destroyed of fish eighty miles up
the river.
""he fact that restriction will re
store a depleted river is encourag
ing.
The article follows:
Victory for Bureau
Vhile waiting for the next run 10
sfit, the local fishermen are telling
of the exceptional catches made la. t
week in the vicinity of Cordova.
Score a victory for the Bureau of
Fisheries.
Not so many years ago it seem
ed as though the Prince William
Sound fisheries faced extinction.
(V-redv canneries were fishing every
thing dry. Traps were preventing
tin spawning fish from propogating
th'ir number. The greatest fisher
ies in the world had dropped down
until many canneries were forced •••>
close.
Tn 1919 the Copper River was
roy’ricted, in 1921 it was closed to
all fishing.
The fish were allowed to spawn,
seagulls and seals, condemned as
dnving the fish away, were found
to lie only a minor trouble. These
wo-e natural enemies, the fish ov
ercame them, and now, seven years
after the Bureau placed its restric
tions on fishing, the fish are back,
and back in what seems possibly
will be a record run.
Man cannot learn his lesson by
reason. We pick the last flower,
kid the last bear, catch the last
fish and then wonder why we are
poverty stricken. Nature wisely
teaches bv hitting our pocketbook.
Even the “American creed” is not
unknown to Ihe laws of natural
economics and conservation.