~KL ASK AJ-FISRSl SET. SEW
RECORD.4929; VAliUBF HIGH
Exclusive NofHhe fur seal take on
the PribHof -islands, fur:ahipped from
Alaska in 1U29 numbered 297,147
pelts, having\a> total value of $4,513,
863.76, according to figures made pub
lic at Juneamrecently. by H. W. Ter
hune, executive officer of the Alaska
Game (Jornmiosiun.
The. .fur stai taken->on the Pribilofs
was 4MU67.iakins, estimated at $721,,•
000, bringing the /grand total for the
fur industry to 337,515 skins, worth
$5,234*863.7-6.
..SetsfNew Record.
This -<sets> a new record for the in
dustry. ...Il'hfvPrevious high mark was
Aade iif I928^»then all shipments, ex
clsuive of sealskins, were valued at
$4,298,637.13 and included beaver
wortb/$854^512, numbering 32,717 in
dividuak-pelts. .The beaver season was
not opened last year and only a few
pelts were hipped, the value dropping ■
to $40,008.75.
The main; factor in the increase was
the advonce o,f prices of most furs.
Blacfcdaear, beaver, coyote, silver, red,
croasn&lftck* white and blue fox, lynx,
marten, mink, otter, wolf and wolver
ine- hll brought better prices. The
aveageor for blue foxes jumped from,
$68.52 in 1928 to $101.33 last year;j
white fox from $46.50 to $66.25;
black fox from $52 to $65; eras? fox
fiom $63.37 to $96.62; red fox from
$38.28 to $49.60; silver fox from $121
to-$125; mink from $16.87 to $20.70.
Decline in Number.
There was a decline in the total
.number of skins taken, the catch
dropping from 336,077 in 1928 to j
287,448 in 1929. There was a loss of j
31,166 beaver pelts; about 5,000 in
red fox, 2,600 in lynx, 7,000 in musk
iat. Gains were made in white fox,
..which jumped from 4,533 to 12,179;
.^ermine from 10,253 to 17,467, and
...smaller gains i nother species.
. The list of the fur shipments for
.‘.the year, howing total returns, fol
lows:
- Hear—
.. black or glacier
j. Polar .
i. Beaver .
«. Gpyote .
. b ox—
.. Red ...
\ Gross .
Silver .
Black ..
. White.
Blue* -.
- Hare ..-.
Lynx .
. Marmot .
. Marten* .
. Mink ...
. Muskrat...
* Otter .
'• Weasel (ermine) ..
*. Wolf..
.. Wolverine .
2,381.35
2.400.00
40,608.75
9.840.00
1,042,740.-0
300,31)1.58
146,000.00
3.355.00
733,784.75
808,208.08
200.50
462.832.50
180.50
8.280.00
552.586.50
194.184.50
92,939.94
30,392.58
28,586.40
17,416.35
Total.$4,477,441.82
fribilof Island (Foxes
only)—
White . 556.02
Blue . 35,865.92
Grand total .$4,513,863.76
•No .open season; trapped 1922-23
. season.
; SEA. LION A NO-GOOD MAM
MAL, SAY MANY FISHERMEN
The regulation of the United States
Department of Commerce which pro
tects sea lions from being killed, un
less found, in the act of destroying
food lish, is about to expire. It is
reported, however, that the Depart
ment is considering a new regulation
which wodld continue the protection
for another two-year period.
Alaska fishermen, paticularly sal
mon trailers,. have criticised this pol
icy of the.Covernment and are op-,
posed to any protection for these
mammals, u It* is geneally understood
that Eastern conservationist influ
< race is responsible for that policy.
Troliars*alaini the sea lion is high-1
. ly destructive to salmon and herring,
1 both being consumed in large mim
ic hers for food- and that it kills .many
• laiimnramesnTiMrnsir-* 111 "*“"ii'
RE
which it docs not eat. Representa
tives of trollers who were in Juneau
at the 1921) session of the Alaska
Legislature told the legislators that
more salmon were taken by sea lions
in Alaska waters than were taken by
tish traya and all other gear com
bined. Estimaters of the number in
waters between Dixon Entrance and
(Jape Spencer ran anywhere from a
few thousand to 100,000.
Several years ago the British Co
lumbia government removed protec
tion on sea lions and launched an
active campaign of destruction. Since
then the numbers in Southeastern
waters have largely increased and
many fishermen have contended they
are being driven from British Colum
bia waters noth.
PROHIBITION MUST GO, DE
CLARES REPRESENTATIVE J.
M. BECK OF PENNSYLVANIA
(Continued from Page 2.)
tion, which is not self-enforcing, de
pends upon the prep<^nderating will
of each living generation, for, as Jef
ferson aid, "the Constitution is for
the living and not for the dead.”
A clear distinction must be made
between the clauses of the Constitu
tion that are in themselves a man
date to Congress on the one hand, and
a mere delegation to Congress of
power to da a thing. In other words,
the Constitution grants to Congress
many powers and takes many objec
tives, but leaves to the political dis
cretion of Congress the question as
to the manner of their exercise, or
whether they shall be exercised at
all. . . .
It must be conceded that the first
section of the Eighteenth Amendment
does contain a prohibition, which,
however, is a mere brutem fulmen
without enforcing statutes. But the
second section stufws that the Eigh
teenth .Aiuendjnent is. not. self-en
forcing,' for it vests in Congress and
the several states concurrent power
"to enforce this article by appropri
ate legislation.” . . . Each living
generation can determine for itself
whether they will pass affirmative
legislation to enforce the Eighteenth
Amendment, or leave it without en
forcing statutes.
Even if this were not so, Congress
could, without any violation of the
Constitution, reach the conclusion
that the methods of enforcement and
the actual enforcement of the Eigh
teenth Amendment were best left to
the states.
When the American people thus
recognize that the non-exercise of &
power is nqt necessarily a challenge
to the Constitution, they will in due
time wholly sweep away that mons
trous compound of iniquity and folly,
the Volstead law, and upon its ruins
build afresh.
MATTER OF PUNCTUATION.
"Nowadays considerable stress is
laid upon punctuation, and examiners
are kee nin ascertaining whether stu
dents are properly euipped in this
respect,” says London Tid-Bits.
Evidently due attention was not
paid to the subject formerly, or it
would not have been necessary for
Lord Lyttleton to pay some hundreds
of pounds for the punctuation of his
•History of Henry the Second.’
"Doctor Johnston states that he
would not trust the printer, but em
ployed a man who professed to be an
expert, and yet, notwithstanding the
great outlay, the work was badly
done.
“Printers must have taken on this
duty in the past, for we find Lord
Jeffrey, the Edinburgh reviewer, be
seeching his printer not to ’sprinkle
his pepper box full of commas’ too
generously over his work.
“This promiscuous prinktpg i Re
sponsible for some pectiMeir mistakes.
An Irish advertiser, forinstanqe, re
quired ‘A country girl ta;W*sh> and
milk one cow,’ while* :an*t)|er paper
offered * Agood stylish bifiycje, . 10
pounds for s*le„by a youagt,bpty en
ameled black; tahd: geared to sbsty
eight.'
"The United States* suffered; heav-i
ily through the -wongful ptaeiogv/of
a co^nma some .Clears ago. . The Con
gress drafted a hill, and in enumerat
ing the articles to be admitted free
included ‘all foreign fruit-plants.’
"When copying, however, the clerk
omitted the hyphen ..and placed .a
comma alter fruity so that‘the clause!
read, ‘all foreign fruit, plants, and so
forth.’
“As the matter could not be recti
fied for about a year, all kinds of for
eign fruits, such as lemons, oranges,
grapes, bananas, and other, entered
duty free, and the government lostcat
least 12,000,000.’*
THE JOY OF BEING THE EDITOR.
Getting out this paper is no picnic,
if we print jokes, people say we are
Billy; if we don’t, they say we are too
serious. We are too lazy to write
them ourselves, if we don’t, we are
too fond of our own news.
If we stick close to the' job all day,
we ought to be out hunting up news.
If we do get qut and try to hustle,
we ought to be on the job in the
office.
if we don’t print contributions, we
don’t appreciate true genius; and if
we do print them, the. paper is filled
with junk.
If we make x change in the other
fellow’s write-up, we ara too critical.
If we don’t, we are asleep.
Now, like as not, someone will say
we took this from some other paper.
We did.
Only about 1 person in 10 in Amer
ica saves money; in England, 303 out
of every 1,000 have savings accounts.
United States mints made more
than 46,000,000 coins for foreign na
tions last year.
At 8 per cent compound interest,
your money will double itself in nine
years.
The inscription an the . medal
awarded to Edison by Congress reads,
“He illuminated the path of progress
by bis inventions.
In the Probate Court at Kuby, biolato
Precinet, Fourth Division, Terri
tory of Alaska, before William H.
Orowdea. United States Commis
aione r and ex-officio Probate
Judge.
In tba matter of the Estate of Bob
ert Fulkerson, deceased. «
Notice is hereby given that Jilin
Dunn, administrator of the estate ot
Robert Fulkerson, deceased, has rent
dered and presented for settlement
and filed a this court the final ae-»
count of Lis administration of said}
estate, and that Tuesday, the 20th
day ef June, 1930, at-2 o’clock p. m,
at the Court Boom of the United!
States Commissioner’s Office, in Bulgy,
Nvlato Precinct, Fourth Division,
Territory of Alaska, has been duly
appointed by the said Court, as the;
time and place, for the holding of
said final account, at which time and
place any person interested in said
estate may appear and file exceptions
in writing to said account, and con
test the same.
JOHN W. DUNN,
Administrator ef the Estate of
Bobert Fulkerson, deceased.
First publication April 19, 1930.
Last pnbteeiton, May 17 4930.
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