He is their little man and he glories iii it. The
“industry” must thrive and it is O’Malley’s be
lief that lie 'fnUat: protect it. Protect it from
its predatory °enemies, the gulls, the cormorants,
the seals and the local fishermen. There is in
all men a natural sympathy for living things,
and their distress or suffering pulls at ones
heartstrings, and so when O’Malley sees famish
ed gulls he pities them as any human being
would, and when he sees hungry fishermen and
their children, his heart goes out to them and
he says: “Poor creatures, how unfortunate,”
but they are outside of the “industry” and can
not enjoy the “liberties and opportunities in
the prosecution of fishing activities.”
Poor Henry; he cannot quite comprehend
what equity, justice and fairness require in the
administration of his office. With the crown
of Spencer F. Baird wobbling about his ears,
much like the Hebrew comedians antequated
derby hat, he tours the country to receive the
adulations of the “industry,” and, like King:
Dodo, he does not realize that all the cringing:
and courteseving of his subjects is to the crown
he wears and not to Dodo himself.
DAN SUTHERLAND.
RESULT OF ALASKA GAME
COMMISSION’S MEETING
JUNEAU, ALASKA
The Third Annual Meeting
of the Alaska Game Commis
sion closed in Juneau Jaunary
26, after having been in ses
sion fourteen days. The full
membership of the Commission
was present until the 18th
when Dr. Chase of the Third
Division was called home to
Cordova.
JJuring the session careful
consideration was given to a
large number of written and
verbal suggestions and construc
tive criticism proposing changes
or continuing in effect the pres
ent regulations affecting game,
fur and birds in the Territory.
The Commission does not
deem it advisable to announce
at this time detailed changes
which it is proposing for the
reason that announcement of
proposed changes would be mis
leading without the full text
of the regulations and act at
hand. Therefore, no announce
ment of detailed changes will
appear until the Regulations
are published in revised form
about April 1.
For Southeastern Alaska nc
material changes have been pro
posed, it being .found after
careful consideration of writ
ten suggestions received and
personal hearings held during
the meeting that the existing
regulations appear to meet fair
ly well the game and fur con
ditions as found in this par
ticular section. Any slight
changes which have been pro
posed for other pkrts of the
Territory have been primarilv
to bring into harmony open and
closed seasons as well as to
adjust certain trapping seasons
to meet climatic conditions.
The aim of the Commission is
to make the least possible num
ber of changes, and those which
are being proposed are designed
to assist in the production of
better quality furs and will al
so facilitate obtaining game
meat when it is in the best
condition.
Further attention was given
to the problem of stocking cer
tain lands in Alaska with valu
able fur bearing and game am
imals. It is announced that
excellent progress, esoecially in
the Prince William Sound and
Kodiak-Afognak Island sections,
has been made under the ap
propriation by the Territorial
Legislature and the Commis
sion expects during the present
calendar year to complete work
within the limits of funds ap
propriated. Members of the
Commission state that the
stocking of lands with furbear
ng animals is like making dol
lars grow where dollars have
not before grown and is vir
tually establishing a gigantic
public fur farm.
They annouce that reports
have been received from various
parts of the Territory which
indicate serious increase in
wolves and coyotes and that a
very insistent demand has a
risen for the inauguration of
predatory animals control meas
ures which have been used with
such excellent success in the
States. The Commission does
not at this time have funds
available for predatory animal
control work but is taking the
matter up with the Secretary
of Agriculture in an effort to
obtain funds for the inaugura
tion of this work in Alaska.
The reports on migratory wa
ter fowl indicate that there has
been no material decrease in
their number during the past
year. Some local areas report
more than the usual number,
goose being specially plentiful
in certain sections.
The caribou herds north of
the Alaska Range are gradual
ly increasing until at the pres
ent time there is a bountiful
supply fop use of the residents
of that section of Alaska. Moose
are gradually on the increase,
especially north of the Alaska
Range, and are holding their
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