for mildcure salmon approximately
are the same as last year. To ground
prices, dealers must add three cents,
plus, for delivery; also cost of
tierces, freight, labor, salt, over
head, packing, repacking charges
and waste, on account of heads
hrnes and shrinkage. You also fail to
state the reason the average boat
du not make money at 18-S-5 and
20 cents for cohoes, up to time yen
quit fishing. Fish had not appear
ed in volume such as should now
bu the case and with the usual run
in the latter part of June and July
and August the chances for the
workers are excellent and have nl
waVs been so at previously low< r
puces. Cape Flattery prices now
are 1S-9-7, with a 15-pound limit
On this basis considering our addi
tional expenses on account of freight
labor, etc., we maintain 16-7-5 pro
per, considering present market.
Although we are offering you 16-S-5.
the mildcurers of Alaska are no1
happy, because we find happiness
ir work and believe it to best in
terests of everyone to be producing
rather than arguing.”
ANCHORAGE TIMES PRAISES
8CHOETTLEI
We are not surprised to read
great praise of Jack Schoettler, edit
or of the Petersburg press, in the
Anchorage Times. The article tell-,
about Jack’s purchase of his part
ner’s interest in the plant.
The Times says: “Under the di
lection of Mr. Schoettler ami M,\
b'lstad, the Petersburg press has
been one of the best weekly news
parsers Alaska has ever had. That
it will continue to be so under the
control of Mr. Schoettler aloii"
there is no doubt.”
We quote a few excerpts from a
ringle issue of the PRESS to give
you a line on this most excellent pa
p-r:
“We know this, and we are sure
of it; Mr. Marquam has lived in
Fairbanks for 16 years; has invest
ed his earnings there; has reared
family there; lias won a re
"Mention for himself there by rea
son of his ability, his courage arul
his honesty; * * * in other words,
tint the people of his home district
are giving him a clean bill of health
without equivocation.”
Speaking of Sutherland, Sclioet
tlev’s paper says:
It makes our blood boil to think
what the man has stooped to, for his
purpose was—what? To remedy
conditions that he might have
thought existed? Oh, No!”
Speaking about Wickersham in
the famous Valentine affidavit,
Sehnettler says:
‘ Now Mr. Voter, who are you
going to believe; the man who is
al’eged to have written the affidavit
cud who declares in such terms he
used above that he had nothing to
do with it or are you going to believe
those who published and circulat
ed such a filthy thing when Mr. Val
e?itine was thought to be dying?”
lack suppressed the fact that the
“filth” was an affidavit made and
signed by Valentine and published
by Wickersham later when Valen
tine attempted to tell the world what
a pure statesman Marquam was.
The ideals of Jack are no highec
than Tom Marquam. We are now
wondering where the editor of the
A nc borage Times could stand to
look up to the Petersburg press.
It is a paradox—that Fishermen
bemoan the fact that the papers of
Alaska support the non-resident and
predatory interests and yet these
papers exist only because of this
support. If Jack Schoettler and
Charlie Fiske bad had their wish,
Tom Marquam would today be in
( ongress representing the father
hood and motherhood of Alaskans.
It seems to us the old story of
“feeding snakes” again.
TELL THE TRUTH, JENSON
rI'he Republican Club of Nome
was led to oppose the Controller
or Home Rule Bill after hearing
Tom Jenson explain (?) what it
meant.
Tom Jenson, formerly Senator
from the Second Division for reas
ons of State but not Clerk of the
Court at Nome for reasons of Pock
et Book, told the Republicans that
“IP THE CONTROLLER BILL BE
CAME A LAW, THE APPROPRIA
TIONS PROM THE FEDERAL
GOVERNMENT WOULD BE STOP
PED.”
Toni is just a plain liar.
He knows the facts but conceals
them.
The truth about the Controller
Pil! is this:—In respect to those
duties which Congress in the Or
ganic Act said Alaska could legis
late (collection of taxes, manage
ment of the Pioneer’s Home, oul
age pensions, examination of bank ,
mines, schools and such matters'
and which have been entrusted
Federal employees BY the legisla
tive, these federal officials shall be
relieved and the duties given by the
legislature to officials ELECTED
by the people of Alaska.
.^ederal activities, authority and
appropriations WILL NOT be affect
ed in ANY way whatsoever. It is
merely proposed that Alaska per
form the duties that Congress in
tended Alaska should perform and
which prior legislatures had given
(as a mere temporary devise so it
was argued there being no money
in the treasury of Alaska) to feder
al officials.
Governor
1 lie federal governor will cou
t’ nie to perform the duties assign
ed him by CONGRESS. But he will
have no duties to perform by direc
tion of the legislature (appoint
ment of examining boards, over-sight
of Pioneer’s Home, pension fund
duties).
Secretary
The federal secretary will con
tinue to perform the duties under