skins into jail for hunting game
out of season.
Now the sons and grandsons
cf those ancient braves, who
signed the game treatywith
such dignified rejoicing and ex
changing of presents, are agai 1
to test their rights under tlx 3
pact. On September 2, the Sno
cualmie and Skit braves, in full
tribal regalia, will appear in
Justice of the Peace John P».
Gordon’s court to seek acquittal
of three Indian bucks, charged
with violating game laws.
The accused are Lucian Aleck
cf Marblemount, who shot a
deer last week, and Clarence
and Jim Barr of Preston, who
(ounty Game Warden A. J.
Beach says, he found stalking
deer above North Bend.
‘ I’m sorry for the Indians,”
said Beach, who has released
the hunters on their persjnal
recognizance, “but the treaty
says they may hunt and fish on
ly ‘in common’ with white men.
\ I’m afraid the old settlers put
over a fast one on our copper
colored friends, because I in
terpret ‘in common’ to mean
they may hunt and fish, off the
reservation, in times of open
season.”
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Private opinion is weak, but
public opinion is almost omni
potent.—Henry Ward Beecher.
ALASKA'S HEALTH
From Seattle Times
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The proposal to consolidate
all public health work under the
United States Public Health Ser
vice deserves serious considera
tion of the federal and terri
torial governments. Already
four or five federal bureaus are
furnishing medical relief to dif
ferent groups in Alaska, and the
coordination of these various
activities and services under one
administrative head would fos
ter economy as well as efficiency.
Alaska is a land of magnifi
cent distances, with a popula
tion of approximately sixty
thousand persons. The whit#
population fluctuates sharply.as
between winter and summer.
Tourist travel is steadily In
creasing, so that the health
problems of the Territory are oi
vital importance to Seattle the
gateway to the Northland. The
control of communicable dis
eases would be made easier and
more certain if one administrat
ive head directed all health ac
tivities. There is no practicable
way at present of handling this
situation, except by improving
health conditions in Alaska it
self. , ^
Dr. L. D. Fricks, medical di
rector of the Public Health Set
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