THE ALASKA FISHERMAN
Published the 15th of each month at Petersburg.
Alaska, by A. N. B. Publishing Co.
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ALASKA FOR ALASKANS.
FULL TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENT.
COMPETENT CHRISTIAN CITIZENSHIP.
ABOLISHMENT OF ALL TRAPS.
WILLIAM L. PAUL
Independent Candidate For
Attorney General
On the frontice piece William L. Paul declares
his platform. The electorate is invited to read and
study that platform. Whether he is elected as in
dependent Attorney General for the Territory or
not, it is a good platform for any candidate for
that office to follow.
The call has been made from several quarters
for him to complete the petitions filed last April
for his candidacy. He has finally qualified to run
and it remains to be seen how sincere his many
“frieiids” are in their urgings that he enter onpe
again the political arena of the Territory.
Against him are Mr. James Truitt of Anchor
age and John Rustgard, incumbent. Truitt also
ran two years ago. Has been in the district at
torney’s office as assistant or something else or
other. A commissioner or something else like that
and a Democrat. We believe he is one of those
Democrats who is a democrat before and after the
primary elections. A strange breed in Alaska.
John Rustgard has been attorney general for
the territory for the past twelve years. The best
part of his tenure of office has been the $60,000 or
more dollars that he has benefitted by being a
Republican for John Rustgard only. A bit more of
his political history is published on another page
of this issue. It will all be interesting to the voters
of the Territory.
It is believed in some quarters that this elec
tion will be a tame affair—a walk-away for Mr.
Truitt. That all remains to be seen and the voters
themselves will have quite a bit to say about it
also. A never to be forgotten fact.
WANTED—A CONSPIRATOR . \
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John Rustgard, who for the past 12 years has
filled the office of Attorney General without any 1
conspicuous success except in his effort to block
the expenditure of $25,000 Territorial appropria
tion for the first link of the Matanuska highway,
has issued a statement that in spite of the fact
that he is appointed District Judge at Nome, he is
still a candidate for Attorney General.
We wonder just who is conspiring to give
Rustgard $10,000 a year. Whether Mr. Hoover, who
appointed him, the Attorney General of the Unit
ed States, Delegate Wickersham or Captain Lath
rop, all of whom endorsed him, we are unable to
guess. But we are looking for that man. We want
to catch him and tie him until he hands us a
$10,000 job. Of .course, jobs like that mean little to
one who has fed at the public trough as long as
Rustgard has.—Seward Gateway.
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O’MALLEY’S REGULATIONS ADMIT OF
DESTRUCTION OF EARLY PINK SALMON RUN
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By the 30th of July the pink salmon run in
Prince William Sound had just come in as in days
of old. The run was so heavy and the packs so
limited, that Commissioner O’Malley granted the
canneries a new lease on life by giving them 72
hours additional to catch salmon. The season was
to close on the 3rd of August but the reprieve
gave them a three-day extension.
N. O. Hardy, whose reward for legislative
services to the canners was appointed as a fish
warden, wired in that the fish were showing in
larger numbers at all points. The canners stated
that the run was abnormally heavy in that dis
tiict. (Hear! Hear!)
Reports from Port Althrop by this same date
indicated that the run was just reaching Icy
St raits and Cross Sound. In the past this cannery
had 100.000 cases up by closing date but they
were fa.” from their capacity and were desirous of
receiving an extension in fishing lime.
The run had not reached Chatham Straits—
the Libby cannery at Kake having put up the
most of their pack from Icy Straits as their traps
in the Chatham district had failed to produce any
fish in the fishless waters.
The run in the Frederick Sound district ac
cording to the fishermen was a complete failure
there being no run in June and July. The conten
tion that breeding late fish begets late fish is un
deniable in view of the condition of the fisheries
in this district. The protected runs—or the runs