FISH PRICES
Fish prices up to and including
Tuesday, August 5th, 1924, were as
follows:
Chums at 20c; sockeyes at 35c;
cohoe at 15c; humps at 8c; delivered.
Beginning Wednesday the 6th, the
prices were quoted as 6c for hump
ies and 10c for chums.
The reduction followed the meet
ing of all the cannerymen in the of
fice of the Honorable Lester Gore,
Assistant United States District At
torney.
Another meeting was held by the
cannerymen and trapmen on Thurs
day afternoon. This time it was not
in the office of the Honorable Lester
Gore, Assistant United States Dis
trict Attorney. At this meeting, the
cannerymen again considered the
matter of fish prices, and the black
list which was and had been former
ly prepared in the office of the
Honorable Lester Gore, Assistant
United States District Attorney,
which list was sent out by the Hon
orable George D. Beaumont, United
States Marshal for the First Judi
cial Division of Alaska.
The cannerymen and trapmen had
another meeting last Friday even
ing.
While the cannerymen are violat
ing the Sherman anti-trust act, the
District Attorney’s office sleeps and
slumbers, and the U. S. Marshal
dreams about the violation of law
(in Oregon or elsewhere). The Dis
trict Attorney would like very much
to stop trap robbing, and so would
the Marshal, but it has not yet oc
curred to these officers that the
Sherman Act is on the books and
that a violation of this act is a
CRIME.
ABOVE LAW
Practically every trap in the Ket
chikan district is operating contrary
to law.
The Bureau of Fisheries are fully
aware of that fact.
But the Bureau of Fisheries who
have been demanding the full re
sponsibility for law enforcement
and who now have it are shutting
their eyes to these violations of our
laws by these trapmen.
The law has been such since 190b
that these traps must have an open
ing in the heart nearest the pot of
the trap 25 feet wide clear down to
the bottom. This was the decision
of the circuit court of appeals.
Since that decision was made the
Bureau of Fisheries have written
a letter to the cannerymen saying
that their view of the law was quite
different from that of the circuit
court of appeals, and that they
would not enforce the courts rulings.
Indeed, if the trapmen should only
have an opening 25 feet wide at the
top merely shoving over one corner
and having a V-shape, that would
be all right, and that the Bureau of
Fisheries would not prosecute them.
This year the Bureau said they
would enforce the law. F. E. Harris
& Co. asked the district court to
enjoin the enforcement of these
criminal statutes, and Judge Thomas
M. Reed said he would not do so,
and furthermore that the law as
written must be obeyed.
But the Bureau still shuts its eyes
and these illegal traps still operate.
Henry O’Malley and E. M. Ball still
make their excuses; but don’t for
get it “They know their master’s
voice.”
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MAUD HAZEL
For
CHARTER
Ketchikan Phone Black 63
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We would be willing to wager the
entire crew of any fisherman in
Alaska that a crew composed of
Hoover, O’Malley, Troy, Robertson
and Bone would starve if they had
to get out to catch salmon for their
living.
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Metlakatla, Alaska
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PROPERLY DONE.
KETCHIKAN,
ALASKA