Delegate Sutherland
Hits Salmon Packers
Washington Herald.
Denouncing as “preposterous and
malignantly false” tha statements of
the salmon packing corporations which
caused Attorney General Daugherty to
declare war on “fish pirates” Of Alaska,
Dan Sutherland, Delegate to Congress
from Alaska, yesterday addressed a
heated protest to the Department of
J ustice in which he charged that the
complainants are the real criminals
who are seekiug to divert attention
from their own operations and called
upon the department to prosecute
“both classes of Alaskan fish pirates.”
“If the courts will punish the arro
gant, selfish and avaricious pirates of
Chicago. Seattle, Portland and San
Francisco, who have always in the past,
and do at present consider themselves
immune from punishment, to an extent
commensurate with their crimes, the
evidence of which is on file in the de
partment, it will create wholesome re
gard for the laws by all classes in
Alaska,” Mr. Sutherland said.
The reference of the Attorney Gen
eral to the existence of a “veritable
bolsherLst reign of terror along the
coast,” particularly aroused the indig
nation of Mr. Sutherland, who asserted
that the department had been “misled
and fooled by falsehoods,”
“The letter from the cannery men on
which the Attorney General's state
ment was based is from beginning to
end a tissue of propagaDdic lies woven
around the fact that fish pirates, or
trap robbers, have operated to a rela
tively small extent in Alaskan waters
during the fishing season,” Mr. Suth
erland said.
“That these fish pirates, who are es
sentially petty thieves, should be pros
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ecuted without limit goes without say
iaj;, but when the cannery men use this
incident to malign and defame the
ceast residents of Alaska and represent
to the country that they are ‘pro
foundly impressed with the fact that
the anarchists and boishevists of South
eastern Alaska had enters <’ into a gen
eral scheme to overthrow the govern
ment and establish a soviet govern
ment,’ i deem it my duty to protest
against such a preposterous and ma
lignantly false accusation, and known
to be by the signer of the letter, against
the character ol a law-abiding and
loyal people, who proved their loyalty
by giving more men to tire war service
than any other governmental unit ir
proportion to population.”
The practices of a majority of the
packers who signed the complaint, or
the other hand, Mr. Sutherland as
sorted, wete “criminal, disloyal auc
un-American, as shown by the records
of the Juneau court for 1919, when live
of the signatory corporations pleat
guilty and were lined from $200 t<
$1,000 each for violation of the list inf
laws, arid by the report of the specia
war investigating committee, headet
by Representative Graham, of Illinois
which shows that live of them had suit
a total of 7,848 cases of decomposed fisl
to the war department for tin- Amor
ican army.
‘‘These men are the real autocratii
Romanoffs of Alaska,” Mr. Siuherlam
said. "For years they have monop
Olized patriotism and made it a weapoi
of exploitation. They represent fo thi
authorities at Washington that tin
resident Alaskan fishermen are disloya
and bolshevistic. We may look fo
them, whan under indictment, to craw
into the folds of the flag. Their d<
fense, as usual, will be that their dis
loyal employes are of pro-German sym
pathies. If these RomanolTs are curbt<
and restrained in their pernicious in
dustrial activities and some demount™
tion given by the Department of Jut
tice that our boasted equality befor
the law is not a dead letter in Alaska
there will be no necessity for alaru
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Mineral Application No. 0551.
U. S. Land Office, Nome, Alaska
Ai ,il -8th, 1922.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN tha
the Flume Dredge Company, a coi
poration, organized and existing un
der the laws of the State of Calif
ornia, whose postoffice address i
Mills Building, San Francisco, Calif
ornia, has made application, throug’
James M. Streeten, its authorize,
agent, whose post office address i
Nome, Alaska, before the Unitei
States Land Office of Nome, Alaska
for a United States Patent for th
consolidated placer mining clain
known as, THREE STAG ASSOCIA
TION, No. SEVEN BELOW DIS
COVERY ON YANKEE CREEK
and No. SIX BELOW DISCOVERS
ON YANKEE CREEK, in the In
noko Mining and Recording District
Territory of Alaska, and designate<
by the United States Surveyor Gen
eral of said territory as Minera
Survey No. 1274; the exterioi
boundaries of said placer claim, ac
cording to tho plat and field notes
of said survey, now on file in saic
land office (with a magnetic varia
tion of 20 deg. 12 min. E.), beinp
as follows:
THREE STAR ASSOCIATION—
Beginning at Cor. No. 1, a hewn
spruce post, 4 ft. long, 4 ins. sq.,
set 2 ft. in ground, in earth mound,
scribed 1-1274-38., whence U. S. I..
M. No. 1274 bears S. 52 deg. 38
min. E., 148.5 ft.; thence S. 46 deg.
39 min. W., 3034.2 ft. to Cor. No.
2; thence N. 28 deg. 48 min. W.,
646.15 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence N.
34 deg. 28 min. W., 662.65 ft. to
Cor. No. 4; thence N. 47 deg. 06
min. E., 2769.1 ft. to Cor. No. 5;
thence S. 43 deg. 26 min. E., 1259.1
ft. to Cor. No. 1, and place of be
ginning, containing an area of
84.12 acres.
NUMBER SEVEN BELOW DIS
COVERY—Beginning at Cor. No. 1,
identical with Cor. No. 3, Three
Star Association Placer, this survey,
a hewn spruce post, 4 ft. long, 4
ins. sq., set 2 ft. in ground, in
earth mound, scribed 3-1274-3S , and
1-1274-.; whence U. S. L. M. No.
1274 bears N. 61 deg. 34 min. E.,
2996.95 ft.; thence S. 41 deg. 09
min. E., 705.65 ft. to Cor. No. 2;
thence N. 35 deg. 24 min. W. 89S.9
ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence N. 60 deg.
34 min. E. 700.5 ft. to Cor. No. 4;
thence S. 34 deg. 28 min. E., 662.65
ft. to Cor. No. 1, and place of be
ginning, containing an area of
12.389 acres
NUMBER SIX BELOW DISCOV
ERY—Beginning at Cor. No. 1,
identical with Cor. No. 2, No. Seven
Below on Yankee Creek Placer, thin
survey, a hew spruce post, 4 ft. long
4 ins. sq., set 2 ft. in ground, in
earth mound, scribed 2-1274-7B.,
and 1 1274-6B.; whence U. S. L. M.
No. 1274 bears N. 57 deg. 43 min.
32 sec. E., 3666.52 ft.; thence S. 36
deg. 57 min. vV., 909.30 ft. to Cor.
No. 2; thence N. 50 deg 48 min. W.
840.2 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence N.
36 deg. 05 min. E., 1148.3 ft. to
Cor. No. 4; thence S. 35 deg. 24
min., E., 898.9 ft. to Cor. No. 1,
and place of beginning, containing
an area of 19.998 acres.
Expressly excepting and excluding
from this application the Three Star
Association placer of this same survey,
total area applied for 32.387 acres.
The adjoining claims are: on the
N. E., No. Ten Fraction, unsurvey
ed; on the S. E., claims unknown
and unsurveyed; on the S. W., No.
5 Below on Yankee Creek Placer,
unsurveyed, and on the N. W-,
claims unknown and unsurveyed.
U. S. L. M. No. 1274 is a hewn
spruce post, 8 ins. sq., 8 ft. long,
! 3 ft. in ground, situated on sloping
hillside in prominent place about 40
ft. in elevation above the bed of
Yankee Creek, Latitude - 63 deg.
I 03 min. N. Longitude - 156 deg. 19
I min. W.
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