JOHN R BEEGLE
This enemy of resident fishermen
does a land-office business with resi
dent fishermen.
He is a strong- advocate for clos
ing Prince Rupert to American fish
ermen. These fishermen, however, be
lieving in turning the “other cheek,”
and so swarm to his office for one
last kiss just before departing for
Prince Rupert.
We have often wondered why the
Deep Sea Fishermen’s Union do not
call a meeting for the purpose of
requiring all their members to give
the Beegle all their business. If he
could get strong enough, he would
close Prince Rupert and then the
bottom would drop out of the hali
but market.
Do not forget how you slaved for
halibut at one cent to three cents •:
pound before the Canadians built
their railroad to Prince Rupert.
THE ALASKA ADVISORY
BOARD
The Bureau of Fisheries pretends
that its regulations, so unsatisfactory
to the resident shermen of Alaska
and so satisfactory to the large trap
owners and eannerymen, have had
the approval of the Alaska Advisory
Board.
What actually happens is this:
Henry O’Malley, Chief Fish Commis
sioner, prepares a bur.ch of rules,
talks them over with Burkhardt and
other influential eannerymen, secures
their approval, and then goes before
the so-called Alaska Advisory Board
and announces to them something
as follows: “These are the rules
which we propose to promulgate for
next year. All in favor say ‘Aye.
The “nays” are never called for. In
the language of one of the Advisory
Board, the pretense is described as
follows: “It (the meeting of the
Advisory Board) was the darndest
blufl I ever heard of. They did not
want any advice, nor did they have
•any use for anybody that offered
any.”
Tn talking to another member or
the Board, he said to us: “ J he
meeting was cut and dried. I he
rules adopted cannot be supported
by reason.” And yet Henry O’Mal
ley had the nerve to sit in our of
fice and tell us that the rules were
approved by a board of Alaskans.
He rather innocently stated the
truth when he made the following
remark in the presence of Congress
men Free, White, and Assistant Sec
retary of Commerce Ritchie and the
writer: “Before the rule closing the
Lym Canal District was put into
effect I had a talk with Fred Burk
hardt and he told me that the rule
was all right and that the Natives
could fish below the closed area.”
We suspected as much, and we found
that the same closing; order in Lynn
Canal began just above the last
good trap site owned by Burkhardt’s
company. We now refer to the
Eldred Rock trap. We did not sus
pect Mr. O’Malley to confess that
he allowed that trap to stay in at
the request of Mr. Burkhardt, but
the inference is that he did.
We have wondered why traps in
Icy Straits are permitted one and a
half miles apart by Mr. O’Malley,
whereas the Advisory Board recom
mended that they be not closer than
two miles. Perhaps Mr. O’Malley
talked with some other Burkhardt,
and reduced the distance to save
some other Eldred Rock trap.
TALKING WITHOUT
THINKING
The prosecuting attorney was ex
amining a negro witness.
“Now, Mose,” he said, “tell us
what you know about this fight.”
“Well, boss,” began Mose, “I
think—”
“I don’t want to know what you
think. Tell us what you know.”
“I think—”
“I told you not to tell us what
you think.”
“But boss,” said Mose, apologe
tically, “I ain’t no lawyer. 1 can’t
talk without thinking.”—Everybody’s.
It was at the altar.
“Do you take this woman to be
your lawful wedded wife; to have
and to hold, forsaking; all others—”
“One moment, parson,” said the
groom-to-be; and, stepping aside, he
bent over a gentleman in the sec
ond row and held a whispered con
ference.
“All right, go ahead,” he said
when he returned. “1 just wanted
to put that up to my attorney.”—
Richmond Times-Dispatch.
Senator Wesley L. Jones says that
“the respectable citizen” who fails
to observe the law is more danger
ous to the United States than the
“Red.” He was not thinking of
George Moody, representative from
Fairbanks, either, who “bought it by
the case and thus fooled the Juneau
profiteers” as he himself expressed
it.
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