1*UTTIN« “FRIKXDK" STRUUlU
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» . Washington, f>. C*.
Dec. 10 tli, ID ITS
Editor Til K ALASKA WEEKLY,
Seattle, Washington.
M;* floar Sir: —
In your issue of November
1'»2S. in an article Instiled FIFTH
TIME Sl.'TJ IKK LAND IS DELL
HATE, you ouoto "friends" of mine
:»s saving that tlii.s will be my lust
r-rm in Oongrisn, that I intended
to return to the working of placer
ground in the Ruby section, that 1
have mining property there of
“commercial importance,'' and that
through tho death of a relative T
HOC!UK -'c TVKTK.V CO.
Dealers in
General Mmlwiiilise
"Tlic Dost of Kverylhinj' for
K very Laxly”
(T1TIZKXS CO-OI'KKATIVR
WlfAItF CO.
Trade n Pol orslnir;;—
Port of Prosperity
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THWA1TKS PHOTO SHOP
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cop vi x (i—KM«\ iu; j xc
Wrangell Steam
Laundry
M. 0. JOHNSON, Prop.
I’irst Class Work
Telephone 2?
have come info Twenty-five or lliir
iv thousand dollars.
! wish vn:i would I>o good enough
to say, in your columns, to those
"friends” and to the people of Alas
ka : —
1st: That when I have decided to
it tire from Congress tiio announce
•m nt of H at retirement will conic
from me and will not he issued
thrungh “friends.”
2nd. That I have no mining pro
perty of '‘commercial importance”
in the Itubv district, and for that
i.vson I am not planning to mine
hi that section.
3rd. 't hat [ have received no le
gacy of 52‘>.000.00 or $30,000.00
through the death of a relative.
I find that with my "friends” who
ai’u arranging my retirement from
C ingress the wish is father to the
thought, hut just why they arrange
for my business occupation after
retirement and conjure up this le
gacy is beyond my comprehension,
pion.
Sincerely yours.
IJA.V SOTfl&IlLAKD
Delegate to Congress.
spkakino oi:t of tuux
The Petersburg Press, a Tom Mar
cmam admirer. prints the following:
"The nssf-tion that "breed late
!i~li and you get late fish,” is based
on tbc pjin*M!. stream theory; that
The
I
l?u<ter!»orn link cry
House that Quality ttuilt
Ketchikan, Alaska
CANADIAN FISH & COLD STORAGE
COMPANY, Ltd.
PISINCF. IsntKIST. is. t'A.XAHA
ofr, r die fishermen of .Alasl-a tlio means of obtainin';
luj»]i,»st Jiricra for liiei- halibut :m«I salmon.
Avc have recently reconst ruetrcl our Ire; plant and now
pif>iliic<' only lianl iro inesevves th<» fish
••lie liuiiilrt’d j.iir i mit.
1j», that every flsli returns to the
si ream In which it was spawned.
IIow much reliance can be placed In
♦his theory is shown by the tact
taat pome two thousaud blue backs
spawned, tagged and liberated in
the Fraser Itiver when they were n
year old were almost all of them
caught In the following cycle year
in the Columbia Itiver.
Without realizing it, ho lias ask
ed tho real question about the pro
rogation o£ flsh, towit: Is the im
pulse that causes the salmon to re
turn to Its "parent stream" in the
or Is It acquire! by the finger
ling after It Is born?
If in the egg, Columbia River
blue backs will return to tho Co
lumbia River even though hatched
in the Fraser River. If acquired
by the iingerling, it will retnrn
where hatched.
We realize that there are many
hard questions: Why do th© small
uockeyes return past many streams
only to spawn In Kouks Creek, near
Wrangell, and Noclcer Bay, Baran
of Island? and many others that we
will ask Jacky Schedler, the man
without either backbone or mind of
Ms own—or shall we say he is
bank-minded?
This enemy of tho fishermen of
Petersburg should bo branded.
WHO IS TO BLAME
.Challenge Oath Not Legal
The oath ?ent out to election pre
cincts by the authorities and print
ed below is not the one prescribed
by Congress
“I do solemnly swear (affirm)
that I am twenty-one years of age
and a citizen of the United States;
(hat I am an actual and bona tide ■
r« sident of Alaska and have been
fitch a* resident the entire year Im
mediately preceding this election, •
and have been a resident of the
* list Judicial Division, Territory of
Maska, for thirty (HO) days next .
preceding this election and that I
have not voted at this election.”
The law requires 30 days in. the
rrccinct.
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