TIIF ALASKA FISHERMAN
Published the 15th of each month at Ketchikan, Alaska
WILLIAM L. PAUL, ATTORNEY FOR THE
ALASKA NATIVE BROTHERHOOD
Enterou as second class matter at the Post Ollice at
KETCHIKAN, ALASKA
SUBSCJIPTION PRICE $2.00 FOR TWELVE ISSUES
OUR PLATFORM:
ALASKA FOR ALASKANS.
FULL TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENT.
COMPETENT CHRISTIAN CITIZENSHIP.
ABOLISHMENT OF ALL TRAPS.
WHERE DID THEY GET THEIR MILLIONS OE
ACRES OF LANDS?
We have no doubt that, following the usual
practice where large interests are concerned, that
the charges made by the Eskimos against the Lo
mens of Nome that the Lomens will be exonerat
ed; the Eskimos will be told that they should know
better than to make charges against one million
dollars; and that the publicity artists will continue
to figure how well off these “ungrateful” Eski
mos are anyhow.
We have admired the versatility of these Lo
mens. The old man is on the bench and the 100
per cent Americans of Boston Tea Party lineage
who live in Nome make a wonderful echo even to
the unspoken wishes of that fine gentleman.
(There being no mountains about Nome, some
thing must act as an echo).
When Ralph Lomen was a member of the Lower
House, somebody asked him if he was going to vote
for the “Lomen subsidy,” and he answered, “Of
course. On the face of the law, it is not for the
Lomens altlio I suppose they will get it.” How
different even from the despised Senator Grundy
who refused to vote on the wool schedule because
he owned a wool factory.
Then the Lomens became impatient with the
slowness with which their flock of reindeer were
increasing, and behold, a Lomen legislator got and
passed a law that gave presumptive ownership of
little reindeer to whoever first branded it.
Then somebody wanted to buy reindeer from
the Eskimos and the question of price came up.
That was easily settled by showing that the Lo
mens sell their deer to the Arctic Packing Com
pany for only $3 per head, and so that is the price
the paternal government says that the deer are
worth. Nobody seems to care that the Arctic
Packing Company is another form of Lomen. So
what difference does it make if Lomen only pays
Lomen $3 per head. But when Lomen sells to the
Canadian Government, the price was $85 per head
for one lot of 3,000 deer. And when Carsten Pack
ing Company (the Lomen selling agents in Seat
tle) sells, it charges by the carcass 18 cents per
pound; short saddles, .25 cents; long saddles, .24
cents; fawn carcass without hide, .29 cents; liv
ers, .30 cents; Lomen roasts .35 cents; fawn legs,
.35 cents.
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IIow They Arc Financed
In their finances one is compelled to admire
them. Just what the relations of the different
companies are is not clear, but of course will be
easily explained (by the right people).
There is the Lomen Reindeer Corporation, a
Delaware corporation, Ralph Lomen, vice-presi
dent.
The Lomen Reindeer Company, an Alaskan
corporation, Carl J. Lomen, President, Ralph Lo
men, vice-president; Alfred J. Lomen, field man
ager; capital $4,900,000.
The Arctic Packing Company, an Alaska cor
poration, L. D. Suleleen, president, Ralph Lomen,
vice-president.
The Interstate Sales and Publicity Company, a
Washington corporation, who bought 200,000
shares of the Lomen Reindeer Company stock.
The Arctic Transport Company, Ralph Lomen,
president, subsidized by the Alaska Legislature,
through the votes of the Nome statesmen, often
times said statesmen are mere employees of the
Lomen interests who are allowed a vacation that
corresponds with the term of the Legislature.
This year, quite lucky, Alfred Lomen is slated
for the Territorial Senate, that is if the 100 per
centers of Nome do the expected. It is expected
that “Slim” will be returned to help out in the
House.
The fine thing about the Democracy practic
ed in Alaska is that less than 400 voters of the
Nome Division have the selection of the two sen
ators and four representatives, a smaller number
of voters than is contained in one precinct of Ju
neau or Ketchikan.
Their Grazing fa i iris
This group of patriots claim to control some
EIGHT MILLION ACRES of grazing land. And
they claim to own 250,000 head of reindeer, or for
that matter, if they claimed 1,000,000 who would
deny them?
They say their lands are divided thus: Kotze
bue range, 3,464,315 acres; Buckland range, 1,358,
111 acres; Teller Range, 911,851 acres; Golovin
range 689,767 acres; Egawik range 618,000 acres;
Koyuk range 565,410 acres.
Considering the fact that all of these lands