LOCAL POLICE IS
GIVEN BOAST FROM
GRAND JURY REPORT
The Grand Jury on Wednesday
at noon finished its labors for
the special October term, and ren
dered the following report to Judge
Thomas M. Reed: l
We, the Grand Jury, duly em
paneled for the special October
term of court, 1925, in the above
entitled court, held at Ketchikan,
Territory of Alaska, Division Num
ber One, composed of five women
and seventeen men, beg to submit
the following report:
We have been in session nine
days, have had under consideration
seventeen cases. We have returned
thirteen true bills and three not true
bills; have examined seventy-five
witnesses.
It has been brought to the
attention of the Grand Jury at
least forty-eight women whose mor
als and habits are most question
able are residing in the residential
and business sections of the Town
of Ketchikan, conducting either
houses of ill fame, bootlegging es
tablishments or houses of assig
nation. This, in the opinion of the
Grand Jury, is a deplorable situa
tion that should be remedied, and
we emphatically recommend that
approprirte and vigorous steps be
taken prcmptly by the Federal and
city officials to abate this condi
tion, either by prosecution or by
actions In abatement against the
property occupied by such persons
with a view of having such prop
erty closed from all occupation.
We further recommend that act
ive steps be taken to prevent gam
bling.
This Grand Jury finds that the
City Council of Ketchikan is res
ponsible for the appointment and
the activities of the police force.
We find that this police force is
grossly inefficient, if not corrupt,
and we recommend that this con
dition be corrected at the earliest
possible date.
The Grand Jury has investigated
complaints of reckless and illegal
automobile driving, both on the
Federal highways outside of the
limits of the Town of Ketchikan,
and within the corporate limits on
the streets. We find that there
i* much xwWm dftnjwm
driving in violation of the traffic
laws, which imperils the lives of
pedestrains as well as other auto
mobilists. The Common Council of
the Town of Ketchikan^ we are
informed, has employed traffic offi
cers to regulate traffic within the
corporate limits of the city. We
are further informed that the city
would instruct its traffic officers to
prevent violations of the traffic
laws on the Federal highways ad
jacent to tha city if they were
empowered to do so. We, there
fore, recommend that the traffic
officers to be employed by the city
be commissioned by the Federal
peace officers with a view to en
forcing the traffic laws on the
Federal highways. The Grand Jury
also desires to call this matter to
the attention of the public and
recommends to our citizens that
they report violations of traffic
laws, both within and without the
corporate limits of the town when
they come to their notice.
We have discussed the results
of the White Fisheries Bill and
the regulations enacted thereunder
by the Honorable Secretary of
Commerce. We believe this to be
the most beneficial legislation ever
enacted for Alaska. It has been
brought to our attention that cer
tain proposed changes of these
regulations have been reommen
ded as follows:
That the weekly closed period
should be extended beyond the
thirty-six hour period and that the
fishing season should be lengthened.
It is the unanimous belief of this
Grand Jury that no change should
be made in the present weekly
closed period or the length of the
fishing season. Extending the sea
son tends to an inferior product
and depletion of the supply.
We also recommend that should
future regulations increase the le
gal distance between trap sites
thus eliminating certain traps, that
the trap holding prior right ac
cording1 to the records in the
United States Engineer’s office shall
be permitted to continue operations
in preference to later locators.
We have examined the Ketchi
kan court house and jail and urg
ently call attention to the reports
of former Grand Juries, particu
larly the Grand Jury of the spe
cial April 1925 term, condemning
this building for the use as a Court
house and jail. We also endur e
the recommendation of former
Grand Juries, the City Council, the
Commercial Club of Ketchikan and
other bodies, that a proper Feder
al building be constructed at Ket
chikan for the use of all govern
ment agencies.
We have examined the records
in the recorder’s office at Ketchikan
and find that in some of the older
record; many instruments were im
perfectly recorded. In deeds of rec
ord we find that in some cases
vital parts of the description of
Ketchikan Steam
Laundry
F. J. CHAPMAN, Prop.
Nothing but first class work done
oa tisf actio n guaran teed
Ketchikan, - Phone 24 - Aaska
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