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Entered as Mconn-etnaa muster AB
tgust 29th, U»2S, at the postottee at
TVtkstna, Alaska, tinder the Act ut
TUtuxh 3, 1879.
Tukotna. Alaska. Ylarrh 19. 19:12.
OI R GAME LAWS.
(Stroller’s Weekly.)
The arrest and conviction of a trio
of Sitka residents for gross violation
*jf the Territorial game laws in the
indiscriminate slaughter of deer out
■of season, brings home to Alaska^*
■the fact that the advance of civiUaa*
ttion brings its penalties and punish*
uneiits. In years gone, by hundreds of
■doer were killed for their hides alone,
iaad the waste of meat was appalling.
But with increased population the
■wisdom of curtailing the slaughter
lbecame apparent and laws were
•.passed to protect game animals, furs
iand fish. While the game wardens
have been most lenient considering
•circumstances under which game is
Jkilled, had these men been destitute
•and killed a small quantity of meat
lor . food it is doubtful if they could
ihan; bean convicted by any Alaska
jury, but the fact , that seventeen
ihan>s were found together with a
'.barrel of salt venison, placed them
Ibeyond the plea of necessity and
proved beyond-the shadow of a doubt
ithat they intended selling the meat
;at a later period.
Living on a frontier the greater
]part of our life, we have had scant
.sympathy with game laws, or, in fact,
with laws of any kind relating to con
trol of a country’s resources, if these
resources were needed by the settlers
Jfcjt increasing progress in civiliza
tion has convinced us that if we are
•to have any game in the future it
snust be conserved in the present.
Our game laws represent the per
fected reasoning of our country’s
greatest conservationists,' and while
■to « degree these laws are inapplic
able to all localities they are the best
far the country as a whole and should
ibe respected and obeyed. If game is
allowed to be slaughtered indiscrim
inately, it stands to reason that with
in a short time our sportsmen will be
forced to shoot songbirds and all
•othere feathered denizens of the
woods., in the name of sport.
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Game animals and game birds hgvp
been killed with such frightful prodi
gality that within the past fifty ypprs
they have been practically extermini
3ted in many States. By careful prop
agation these areas have been re
stocked until they aragin are furnish
ing recreation and sport for maqy
thousands. But how much better
would it have been bad they been con
served with their original stocks.'
•There always have been and will be
to the end of time men who under the
guise of one pretext or another hog
the game, the fish and the fur unless
controled by their fellows. It is for
these men the laws are made. And
these human hogs make it worse for
the law-abiding sportsman who real
izes the work of the game wardens
and attempts to assist him in pre
serving our wild life.
At many points in Alaska settlers
and prospectors are compelled to live
off the game the}/ can kill, but there
is no excuse for this in this section,
where meat can be secured at any
time.
Therefore all true sportsmen will
congratulate Warden Frank Dufresne
and U. S. Commissioner DeArmond
upon their effective prosecution of
the men who so grossly violated all
sportsman’s ethics in their frightful
waste of game,
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DOCTOR-SENATOR ADVISES
CHANGES IN VOLSTEAD ACT
j "America cannot return to the
drink evil because America has not
given up the drink evil,” declared Dr.
Royal S. Copeland, United States
Senator from New York, in an ad
dress which was broadcast over a na
tional hookup a few evenings ago.
“No well-informed and candid per
son,” he argued, “can contend that
cause of true temperance has been
promoted by our Federal laws. Every
person who drank liquor when these
laws went into effect can get it and
is drinking liquor today. America has
j not abandoned the drink evil.
“I am a physician. Speaking in
• that capacity, I wish America had
abandoned the drink evil. Insted of
that, our cities have become crime
infested, the health of thousands is
being undermined, and the respect
for law which should control our
youth has disappeared. But it is on
health alone that I shall speak.
“When the Government undertook
to enforce th'e law against liquor it
abandoned its old-time effort to
guarantee the quality of the liquor.
What was at least pure in the sense
that harmful incidental ingredients
were not included with the beverage,
has become a reeking mass of poison
ous conditions. Those who drink the
stuff on the market are unwise be
yond words. But they do drink it and
will drink it, unless we can find a suc
cessful substitute for the present
legal failure to control the traffic.
“Millions of citizens are in revolt
against the law because they regard
the enactment as too rigid. These
laws cover nonintoxicating as well as
intoxicating liquors. If they were
modified to permit the sale of scien
tifically determined nonintoxicant,
millions who resent the present situa
tion would become honest adherents
to and supporters of the law.
“It is because I believe the welfare
of the country would be every way
every way promoted that I favor
modification of the Volstead Act.
Spell, modification is legally possible.
It is advocated by a vast number of
persons and by several nation-wide
associations of lawyers, doctors, le
gionnaires, craftsmen' and other or
ganizations in no wise selfishly inter
ested in the subject.
“It has been definitely planned by
the League for the Modification of
the Volstead Act to introduce legisla
tion at the present session of Con
gress intended to remedy the existing
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FIRE INSURANCE
You should carry a liberal ijn—t of fire insurance
for the sake of your .credit and your peace of mind,
Needless to say this insurance should be of the very
highest quality.
ThstV tbe Kind Written By
Alaska Insurance Agency
FAIRBANKS, At.A«|i
Imjtffre of Knab» Times.
evils in the Volstead Act and thereby
make it enforceable: .
“The Volstead Act as enforced ia
extremely obnoxious to American
medicine. It prohibits ■ the:. ‘doctor
from prescribing alcohol except under
| limitations which circumscribe., and.
j damage his usefulness. He is .-per-,
mitied to write 300 prescriptions for
(liquor within a period of 90 days and
I no more, no matter how. urgent may
be the necessity.
' "The Volstead Act is no-mare*, sa
• ered than is any other act- of Con- (
| grass. It Lx not the - Eighteenth.
! Amendment—it is merely, the , en-i
forcemeat act to make the Amend-.
; ment effective. If we have made'a
j mistake in the Volstead Act,:if 3ife*-1
j perience has taught us that -it con
! tains defeats, we -should mot .hesitate
to make corrections. By foolish, in- j
sistence upon the retention: of u the
original language we are making:.the
prohibition la wa stench .in the- nos
trils of good government and .a .men
; ace te the public welfare.
“Money is .piling up in the.hahdsof
the underworld, police .office osare
being bribed, and .the courts of-jiitice
are becoming polluted. Is there not
sanity enough, bravery enough; and
plain ordinary common sense enough,
to permit such modification of the
Volstead Act as will make it an in
strument of good ? As I view: it, it
is time the American peqpler took
stock gf themselves and determined
how to escape moral bankruptcy.”
"Big Brownie,” erstwhile monarch
of the Fairview Mountain placor min
ing region, was .executed last fall by
Matt Hamburger and Joe Kroskey.
They own a good stretch of'.placer
ground on Pass .creek, .near Fairview
Mountain, and last summer they de
cided to prospect the creek. H&dly
had they unloaded their packs and
begun to look around when “Big
Brownie-” coated himself on a nearby
grass slope and said something, which
in bear language .might haVe meant,
“Look who’s here with my dinner!”
For years ‘®ig Brownie” had ..been a
scourge of the district. He not .only
tore down caches and destroyed their
contents, but extended his ^eprpda*-..
dations to the interiors and exteriors
of cabins. Three years ago he visited
a cabin on Cottonwood creek, : and
when he departed it looked-as:.; if
some political convention had. just ad
journed. A year later he finished an
other cabin, and among lps acts of
vandalism was the smashing; of .a.
Lang stove. On another occasion: he
tore out six sluice boxes and..an: au
tomatic splasher on Chicago gulch.
Armed only with 30-30 rifles, Mam
burger and Kroskey hesitated about
opening an offensive, hoping £)ie king
of the range would depart. Caching
their food, they rigged a snare, using
dog chains and heavy wire. Th’is.thdy
attached to a log. Hardly, had.they
departed when the bear made a rec
onnoisance and wandered into' ;the >
snare. Attracted 'by what sounded ,
like a hog caller announcing pn: the ,
mike, the partners returned, andrwith
Big Brownie handicapped by theVlog,
they were able to dispatch him with
out danger of being annihilated.':
In the Probate Court for theJBetfcc* ;
Precinct. Fourth Division. Territory j
of Alaska.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS. • |
Notice is hereby given that all ered- !
itora having claims against the estate !
of Andrew Johnson, deceased, are*di- ]
rected to present them, together (with';
the proper vouchers, to the under
signed, at Bethel, Alaska, within six !
months from the date of this notice. 1
OSCAR 6AMUELSON,
Administrator.
Dated at Bethel. Alaska, January (,
1&S2.
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Frank J. Guskey
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