THE ALASKA FISHERMAN
Published the 15th of each month at Ketchikan, Alaska
WILLIAM L. PAUL, ATTORNEY FOR THE
ALASKA NATIVE BROTHERHOOD
Entered as second • class matter at the Post Office at
KETCHIKAN, ALASKA
SUBSCRPTION PRICE $2.00 FOR TWELVE ISSUES
OUR PLATFORM:
ALASKA FOR ALASKANS.
FULL TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENT.
ABOLISHMENT OF ALL TRAPS.
COMPETENT CHRISTIAN CITIZENSHIP.
WANTS TO BE SENATOR
....Allen Shattuck, who was sent to the last
House of Representatives by the votes of Ketchi
kan, recently appeared before Supt. W. C. Van
dervoort, of the United States Railway Mail Ser
vice, and asked that the Chatham mail service be
routed out of Juneau instead of Ketchikan. Mr.
Vandervoort came to Alaska to investigate this
question.
When Mr. Shattuck files again (he aspires
this time to be Senator) it is not unlikely that
Ketchikan will again send him to the Alaska Le
gislature to give him power lo hurt Ketchikan in
fi vor of June u where he has large realty hold
ings.
ENVIRONMENT PLUS NATURE
....Nature has its immutable laws, but change
able through environment. We do not agree with
the Philosopher of the Hills, writing for the Se
attle STAR. We elucidate:
Was born in Telegraph Creek, B. C. twenty
five years ago, more or less, a boy—the son of a
Britisher and an Indian mother. Deserted by the
father, the child was adopted by a Chinese, when
about four years old. Between the age of six and
eight, he was sent to China and remained there
until he was past twenty, when he returned to the
United States. In every respect that Indian-Brit
isher was a Chinaman, dress, carriage and thot.
Nature may rebel, out environment mo^s.
An Indian girl was adopted at Yakutat by a
Scandinavian missionary. Moving to Chicago with
the family, the girl remained in the Windy City
until she was graduated from high school. She
returned to Alaska and resided in Petersburg for a
short while. This girl had not one drop of Can
casian blood in her, but she had a lot of their en
vironment and in every respect, language, thot,
and action, this Indian girl was a Scandinavian.
“Nature rebels,” but environment had everything
to do in its development of this girl’s character in
every way.
During the Indian war days a little white girl
was captured by the Indians of New York and
when she reached maturity, was married to a
Seneca chief. Later when she was returned to
her own relatives she pined for her adopted peo
ple—the Seneca Indians—and was not content
until she had returned to them. Was her envi
ronment responsible for her desire to return or
not?
A white girl was abandoned by her mother on
the doorstep of an Indian home. In every respect
that red-headed white girl is today a Tahltan In
dian Wv man. “Nature,” maybe “the Rebel” but
environment has much to do with character in its
development.
NORMAL YEAR FOR SALMON
-X
Reports have been made during the summer
that the run of salmon was normal. The follow
ing figures tell a different story:
Petersburg Packing Company, Wrangell Nar
rows Packing Company, Lake Bay, Thiele and
Baines canneries at Wrangell*, Point Ward and
Burnet Inlet canneries put up a few cases more
than 153,000 this summer.
During a normal season the following was the
pack:
Petersburg.50,000
A’aska Packers. 75,000
Lake Bay. 40,000
Point Ward.35,000
Banta Ana.35,000
Burnet. 25,000
Sanitary Packing. 35,000
Mountain Point.10,000
Over 300,000 cases during a normal year even
when using the most conservative figures. The
Alaska Packer’s were good for 100 to 120,000 and
ail the other canneries likewise averaged better
than the above making their average normal pack
mon than 400,000 which is somewhat better than
ano. different from the packs of today.—Petersburg
ALASKAN.
HAS ANOTHER KING ARISEN
-X
Several generations of Americans have come
and gone since that ancient fetish—“The king