not expected to operate. Most of
them are reported to be located
in tlie southern end of the dis
trict.
No information has been given
out on prices that will be paid to
seiners and independent trap
men for fish this year. It is un
derstood that few of the can
neries will use any seine boats
and most of the fish probably
will be obtained by the canners
in their own traps—Empire
Editorial Note: The desire of
the canneries is expressed hi the
last sentence: Our people should
go trolling.
There will be an upheaval in
the tr riling fisheries this year
along witli the shake-up in the
halibu and seine fisheries. The
controversy between the halibut
fishermen and vessel owners
continues; the seiners wifi be
forced out of the seining game
in order that a few traps may
give employment to the import
ed laborer; the fishermen turns
to the trolling end and there he
is forced to take whatever price
may be offered—anything to get
something to eat. With present
prices for king salmon down to
19 cents for large reds, it is not
improbable that the prices will
go as low as ten cents per pound,
if not lower
In the end, the resident busi
nessmen will admit that they
should have given heed to the
warnings of this publication and.
The Alaskan. With a resident
population without work or on
a cheap pay basis, the business
men cannot hope to expect to
operate this year with good pro
fit—unless they expect to gei
the business from the trap oper
ators. But if they do, we promise
to show them a white crow.
-x
An engine can blow off steam
much more safely than a man
.can.
INDIANS PLAN COURT
ACTION
-x
A reeky point of the Oregon
shore at Celilo Falls, Oregon
scene of frequent personal and
legal altercations over fishing
rights, will again enter the
courts with the Yakima Indians
planning to bring a civil suit in
the Federal District Court to
reimburse them for alleged de
privation of their accustomed
fibbing grounds over a forty-year
period. The Yekimas will claim
that this promontory was one
of their regular and accustomed
fishing places and that they have
suffered $50,000 damages in not
being permitted to catch salm
on there.
BIOLOGJCAI, SURVEY
PROTECTION LWV PASSES
A bill sponsored by the Bio
logical Survey for the legaliza
tion of the illegal acts of its a
gontpassed both houses of
Congress recently. Under the
provisions of this lav/, any game
warden or officer of the Game
Commission, or other employee,
may enter automobiles, cabins,
boats, scows, etc., without search
warrant, IB they have anv rea
;on to believe contrabrand game
or furs may be concealed.
Under the provisions of this
act, the Commission may impose
a system of licenses but the
Commission has signified its in
tention of holding this phase <>;
the act in abeyance until next
year. It will be taken up at the
meetings of the Game Commis
sion next year.
The power of the bureaucrat
in Alaska is demonstrated in the
passage of this act, which was
in spite of opposition from vJ • •
tually every organization in A
laska. The purpose of which law
v/as to legalize the illegal search
ing of camps, boats, etc., bv em
ployees of the Game Ccmmiss’o.-i
and Biological Survey. In the
past these tin gods of the Bio
logical Survey have entered the
camps of resident Alaskans and
searched without warrant
whether they had any idea or
not that there was illegal game
or furs in the camp. The opposi
tion to such illegal acts was the
real reason back of the poweiful
lobby which engineered the new
law through Congress.
-x
Make more of what you have,
and you cannot envy those who
have more.
-x
One’s greatest personal enmity
is his enmity against another.
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