The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 22, 1932, Page 6

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 1932. - FOR ADMIRALTY BRUIN RESERVE Easterner Declares Alaska Brownies Are Not Dangerous (Continued rrom Page One) I shall not go into detail on my experiences with Alakan brown and grizzly bears, which, while there I studied in an intimate and open- minded way. When I first went to the grizzly and brown bear country, Alaska, I had the usual sports- man’s concept of the nature of the bears, viz, that he was innatel: ferocious and dangerous when en- couhtered. Had Seen Dozen Grizzlies Over & period of 15 yeras of hunt- ing in the Rocky Mountains, from Colorado “to the most northern parts, T had possibly seen a dozen | grizdlies, mostly at long range. It was the usual experience of the hunter, and was not sufficient for me to pass any judgment generally on their character and disposition. I went to Alaska, therefore, with the idea that is prevalent not only in Alaska, but in the States as well Three years of intimate contact with these grizzly and brown bears, principally on Admiralty, Chichagof and Baranof Island, but also the Kenai Peninsula and interior of Alaska, have dispelled that general idea. During this time, I saw pos- sibly 250, and was in sufficiently close contact with 180 at least, to have studied them at close range, wvarying from 10 féet to 150 feet. In all cases the bears showed practically no ferocious attributes. In only two cases was there any- thing that might be called a charge and in both cases when the bear came within 15 feet, he was stop- ped not by a bullet, but by my companion, Allen Hasselborg point- ing 'a gun at him and yelling at the top of his voice, with the result that the bear suddenly ‘stopped growling and went on his way as 4 nothing happened. Of course, we were not shooting, and if we Had been, there might have been a dif- ferent story, but That would have been my funeral. Th ebear has as much right to object to being killed as a human being, and anyone who takes it upon himself to kil a bear or shoot at close range has to take the consequences. Deaths And Injuries T know there have been a num- Ber of deaths from the bears in Alagka, and & copsiderable number of people injured. There Is no ques- tion that such cases are regrettable, but before the bear is condemned one should try to know whether the instance was the fault of the ibear, or of the injured man. T be- ileve that in most cases charges by bears are grossly exaggerated. A man who has been attacked, nat- rally is going to blame the bear ratheér than himself for any care- TessT or foolhardiness on his part. The very fact that the num- iers of comparatively minor injuries from, bears are a score or more nes the number of Instances of deaths, shows that the bear Is rot { death-dealing animal. It is cer- tain he would have had the power. 0 kill in each instance if he had e desire, or if it were his nature. rule, ‘they are content when tacked or wounded at close quar- ters to take a few bites, very much H_‘ké'.p dog and go on, possibly dying a few hundred feet off. . Hasselborg of Juneau was e’ by a bear a number of years , and Dr. Simpson said it was 5, twenty-second case of bear {njury, and in every case the bear Bad a fear of man, and wished to get,_away as soon as possible. Of course, most Alaskans remember the Thayer case. Cited and Published Tt has been cited and published as. a typical instance of an unpro- K7 and savage attack by a bear. As a matter of fact, T am informed very reliable sources that it was not an unprovoked attack Tt appears that when Mr. Thayer on the bear it stood up. The very often does this because yesight is poor and he wants Thayer was prob- He thought he he fired the bear had no intention wounded and attacked ense like a human would, or any other self respecting Apima,l, The only way the bear knew. how (AAex’end himself was to go after the person who was shooting at him and trying to kill him. . In the recent hearing before Senate , Committee on' Wild _ Resources, before which 1 , it was not disputed by tives of the Forestry Ser- that this may have been the explanation of this regret- ‘happening. So much for th? of a great many residents ska toward the grizly and bears. The next issue in- [ in this moyement is th: _island, it is estimated, con- “hears of four different @d{park in Alaska, and the only simi- ySpecies. It is unique in the respect that in no other area’are here so Imany grizely and brown bears of is estimated half or the grizzly and brown bear b plation of Alaska, I It is an island which has been practically uninhabited, and with~ out any commercial or agricultural devclopments. The Indian name “Hoctsinoo,” which in Indian lang- uage meant ‘Fortress of the Griz 2ly,” shows that from time I memorial it has been of ‘the famous and magnificent bears of Alaska, and should be retained as a refuge for these animals which attracted more I fin the territory. There i§ ‘no ques- ftion but that the brown bears ko the westward of the peninsula on Kodiak Island have been shot down to a vanishing point. Senator Wal- cott, the Chairman of the Senate Committeg on Wild Life Resources who has made an exhaustive study cn the stbject last summer in Alaska, is the authority’ for the followirig' statement: “If the griz- Zly and brown bears are to be saved {n any proper number, Ad- miralty Island is the piace.” Commercial Development It is proposed to develop wood pulp on Admiralty, Chicagoff, or Baranof Tslands under the so- called options given to Mr. Cameron of the San Francisco Chronicle: 1 appreciate as well as anyone in Alaska, the great need for com- mefelal development, not only in the Juneau area, but in all parts of Alaska. T understand the appeal! that thé possibilities of this devel- opment would naturally make to risidents, and I appreciate th rés:ntment they might feel if there was any interference with this development, and T appreciate | that no one, either resident or outsider, Should do anything to stop the much needed commercial activities, particularly in this sec- tion, without good reason. I do not believe there is any reason to interfere with this prc- jéct. T believé: that it can be done by eliminating Admiralty Island. The, reasons given by the Forestry Service for Admirelty is essential to fully complement and use all the water power in that area which might ‘be made available by run- ning wood pulp mills. This seems shortsighted, There is sufficient timber in the Juneau area to sup- ply all the wood pulp that would be in demand from. that area for _ | sideration, the home | hunters and sportsmen to Alaska |’ than any other specimen of game| | Inave never seen @ human being and have looked to the West over Alpine- {like mtuntain psaks of Ohichagof and Barancf Islands. I hdve walked among the beautiful glaciers’ which | stud Admiiralty T8land, and made| my way up the beautiful rivers|Wuthfully the case of the need of and creeks. I have scen a great deal of Alaska, both Southeastern Alaska and the interior and to my |mind, taking everything into con- including .the lovely Island ‘and ne! Island are the gems of the Chatham Straits Yo thé Admiralty 15:3 |whole Alaskan . territory, Beautiful Thland A Passage for tains, waterways, and virgin forests. |To let the lumberjack au passers-by would be a desecra- the Alaskans themselves, the residents of the Unifed States: At a minimum expenditure suffi- hours of Juneau, tors and sportsmen. The pulp mills near 100 workmen. Most of them would would come from the outside. The limitations. There would be no- limit, how- every, to what Juneau, particularly and Alaska in general would gain if Admiralty Island were made a centef of attraction as & national | park. The average American does not know that 4 trip to Alaska not only gives an ocean vyvoyage comparable to a trip to, Europe, but presents scenery more beatli- ful than that fo Switzerland. There is no limit to the possibilities. State of Marine Revenue Look what has been done in the State of Maine, ‘one of our most prosperous and important 90 per cent of its income and prosperity to the thousands of vacationists, summer home owners, and sportsmen who spend their time there annually. the next hundred years to come, without, touching a stick of timber on Admiralty. Great Wood Pulp Area One must aso appreciate that| there is also a greal i area in the Southern section fromj Keétchikan up to within 150 miles of Juneau, that is going to supply a great: amount of wood pulp, so 1 believe that from a_ practical standpoint Admiralty could be elim- opment, and still not take anything! away fro mthe industrial activity in the Juneau area. There is one other ground on| which T wish to. make this appeal for Admiralty Island as a sanc- tuary or a national park. All who may read this article realize the ever-increasing number of wurlst,si that are coming not only from the United States, but from all over the world to €ee the grandeurs of Alaska. Tt has been in récent years only that the number of tourist visitors and sportsmen have show: an appreciable increase in spite of the fact that there has never been a proper amount of appeal to tourists and vacationists through proper facilities. What little pub- licity there has been has been prin- cipally by the railroads and steam- ship lines. Consider what ‘Alaska has to offer to the average tourist or vacationist who probably is limited fo from three to five weeks vaca- tion. If he comes from the east- ern part of the United States where a great proportion come from, two weeks are taken from his vacation for the travel across the continent, which leaves but two or three weeks at the most to visit Alaska. ‘Another four days is consumed by the steamer trip up to Juneau which means ten days more taken from his vacation, and that means that the average man has only a week to ten days left. It seems that morth and visit < National Park, the only mational lar area with hotel facilities, Comments on Tourist Travel What happens to the other 90 per cent? Either they have to be content with a few hours stop- over in one of the half dozen on the steamer routes, or the Canadian Yukon coun- j desert, |sands of visitors who expend mil- |- i summer | inated from the wood pulp devel- |homes. They even invented the || Look at Florida—a few years ago a wasteland. Millions of dollars have been spent there for improve- ments, cities, fine homes, and un- told millions visit it on vacations every year. And what has it got? t wood pulp!It cannot begin to rival the beau- | ty of Alaska. Look at Southern California—A short while ago in large part a and now if ‘attracts thou- lions building beautiful character of Ramona to attract visitors. The visitors are shown the place whers Ramona was mar- ried, and the spot where she lies buried, and they reverently lay wreaths on this grave—yet she is a fictional character that never really existed! has nothing comparable to Maine |in the Northeast, Florida in the South and Southern California in the Southwest Quick Time to Juneau know that he can reach Juneau almost as quickly and' cheaply ‘from the East as he can reach |California. Audiences have been ‘amazed when on lecturing I told ithem they could leave New York and be amidst the grizzly bears of Admiralty Island in six days, 'five days by rail to Prince Rupert, 'with the increase in Commlittee for Preservation movement, park area near Juneau. talks over nationwide networks, of Alaska and what it Yas to offer. I “individually result is that aside from the few dollars fhat the 'average tourist spends for souvenifs, restaurants, all that merchants _in Gabadian reached from Juneau. There is soene'fy near June: nw ' of . with 1 n- assed ' Alpine ry could be a most magn nt way. Most looking in, three several thousand grizzly and|flower-covered plateaus, among the | comprehensive o} beautiful Sitka deer who vely. L e Before Senaté Committee inadian | presented very much what I have territory ontlined in this letter. I, of course, moreé _nto detafl, and the 4 nts of our movement were au' offering thelgiven full opportunity to meet . Admiralty | the arguments, The entire pro- went N |cpeding is about to be printed as a public document, and copies . be bad by writing to the ¢ Commiitee on Wild Life Re. sources, to the Alaska Game Com. Alaskans do not know Admiralty,|mission, or to Delegate Wicker-| Enclosed herewith is over 100 miles it ‘borders inside pastage that most steam- ngérs' sée, Thé jnside ge is known. the wofld over ts_beautiful scpnery or moun- loose to |slash it and break it down, part- |teularly that part of it in' view of tion and an outrage, not only to but to clent trails could be opened up into the interior of Admiralty to make it 'easily accessible within a few and facilities made for enterfaining visitors and vacationists. It would be at the very gateway of Alaska to the ever-increasing ‘thousands of wisi- Juneau might possibly give employment to be machinists and mechanics who benefit to the Juneau area from such development would have its states in the East. Maine owes| 'Our northwestern TUnited States | ‘The average American does not | ‘and less than a day by steamship 'to Admiralty or Juneau. Distance ldoes not mean much these days speed of travel. Adso, there is the aeroplane. It is in a spirit of cooperation and enlightenment that I write this letter to appeal fto all the residents of Alaska. I realize that little can’ be accomplished withou! their cobperation. Both individually and as Chairman of the Special of Alaska 'bears of the New York| Zoological Society and the American Soctety of Mammalogists, I have spent a great deal of time and my own personal money on be- ¥ [half hot only of this laudible consgrvation mov but also to indicate the need of a national I have given over fifteen radio extolling the magnificent features I feel that fn view of all this, Il4ova churches was making a dona- h‘&?""" y mfmh in what [4ion cofleotion #6F the - heathens and what the committees are doing ot ‘ingerest to_readers |9CT, Mot T eonaa : o leaflet| -Dally Empire Want Ads Pay entitled, aged 8, Home, . which is bel distributed through the Nz vations, Inc., New York Zoologica motogists, the . Alaska will find editorials various newspapers throughout the United States. Possibly you m: you. above letter. Thanking you: for your courte and cooperation i printing s Sincerely yCUrs; « JOHN ‘M. HOBZWORTH, e ‘Miss Margaret Weightman, Public Health Nurse for the -Bureai of Indfan Affairs, reports that she ministered to 123 cases of flu among Indians and gave nursing treatment to a total of 205 patients during February at Wrangell. { For $3,000, to be paid in install- ments of $250 monthly beginning Deécember 15, 1934, the town of Wrangell has acquired the meters, poles and wires, constituting, the light and power distributing sys- tem formerly owned by the Wrau- gell Lumber Company but now held by the Bank of Alaska as trustee for bondholders. The town will use the distributing system in con- nection with its own ‘electric light | and power plant. | Every morning and noon, cod- liver oil is given pupils as they| enter the Indian School at Klawock and warm milk is provided every pupil at recess. In the past two months, the average gain in weight has been three pounds per pupil. | Heavy snow has crushed the | bridge across Power Creek to the | American Legion Cabin near Cor- | dova. The span was built last year land will have to be entirely re- placed. Minimum shipments to Seattle of 1100 cases of canned crab weekly are | expected to be made by the Alaska |Food Products of Cordova. The cannery is working to capacity and is using all the crabs that fisher- imen can bring to it. Mr. and Mrs. ‘Adolph Ammon, each nearly 70 years old, recently left Chitina for the Kotsina district to do work on their copper claims there. This is their thirty-first trip to the Kotsina region. They travel with two horses hitched to double ender sleds. Mr. Ammon driyes one and Mrs. Ammon the other. Two or three weeks, depending ‘on the weather, will be required to reach their destination. Public_schools at Cordova were closed several days as a result of 'a mild form of influenza having |afflicted about half the pupils. Tynee Pennenan and Eric Eklund were married at Cordova.’ Miss Aline Winquist, nurse at the Cordova General Hospital, was taken by airplane to Kennecott to relieve the nurse in the hospital ithere, who had been stricken by \apendicitis and who had been sub- |jected to a surgical operation. Near the wharf at Valdez & 80- pound halibut was caught by Larry Gregrorieff. Air mail envelopes having celled stamps which were carried by (Clayton L. Scott in the first com- ‘mercial air-mail service across the igulf of Alaska from Cordova .to Seattle in 1929 are now worth $10 leach, it is reported. About six |months ago they were quoted at $1.50. Donna Pederson, aged 7, rescued |her brother, aged 5, from drowning near the Ocean 'Wharf at Cordova. ‘meboywns!pl&imgmaskm. and fell into bay. Donna —— A charity collection at Cordeva. it was One of ‘the Cor- and some unidentified “neathen” was $10. QUIEM MASS SAID took place there last Friday. Re- lquiem mass was said by Bishop |J. R. Crimont. Interment was in the Catholic Plot in Evergreen Cemetery. “Our American Grizzlies ARGUMENTS FOR SANCTUARY NOT BASED ON FACT Vast Area Need Not Be Set Assocfation of Wild Life Comiser- Society, American Society of Mam- which I believe - states Grizzly and Brown Bears for proper protection and| adequate sanctuary. You will note this leaflet contains a cartoon v Darling (Ding). Also, enclosed you taken from | [find space in future issues to pub-| lish this material ‘or excerpts from same, If so, our association and| committeés will be very grateful to|Cummings, he declares, did a great deal of the work on the manuscript T would welcome any letters| from Alaskans in response to me‘cribcrg cabin at Mole Harbor, and | he wrote Hasselborg sometime later i has gohe'to the purpose for which | in Cordova stole it. The amount f = FOR LATE M. STANTON| Funeral services were held this {most morning in the Catholic Church of | the Nativity for the late Michael [itory Stanton -of Tenakee whose death fcéri i 1 | | Aside for Wild Life Safety (Continuea trom Page One) many reasons is vitally important to the success of the project. The forestry 'experts: “on the basis of intense study, and de- tailed surveys over a period of 12 years, expending ' thousands' of dollars, of the United States Forest Service agree with them. When you reject their findings,' is it reasonable to expect any unbiased person to accept ‘your judgment as disinterested? Below Park Standard You advoeate making a national park out of Admiralty Island. You 1927-28-29. Hasselborg = denies you Were there in 1927, but says you did hile you and he were at the Has- 7 |he had completed it and mailed it to you in iber. open letter in your columns, T am, The fifst chapfer. purporis o b6 |an account of your expedition to | Admiralty Tsland in 1927. Possibly you mteant 1926, of did you? IfNot, | tnien i, is Possibly puke fietion. You | wére not in Alaska in 1927, atleast | thore 18,00 record of it to be found anywhere, ‘You did 4 Hitle cruis- |ing on the shores of Baranof and | Chichagof Islands with Walter Sharp and another man named Lynch in 1926, and spent two and (one-half days at Hasselborg’s in that year., When you next met Hasselborg in 1928, you told him you had been elsewhere in 1927. 1f, as Hasselborg asserts, Prof. Cum- mings is the real author of Holz- worth’s. “Wild Grizzlies of Alaska,” he had in mind your 1926 ex- periences rather than those which befell you in 1927. Since you make no. reference to Cummings at all, I presume even the fact of his existence has escaped your mem- cry. You can_readily realize under ch circumstances you can hardly be taken seriously in Alaska. Never- theless, you have managed to arouse some alarm among genuine conservationists that threatens to do incaleulable injury to Alaska which makes your vicious broad- sides more evil than if they were founded on fact and disseminated by someone of responsibility. Inaccuracy Is Shown Your claim that “in all cases the - bears showed mno ferocious attributes” may be true insofar as your personal experience Is concerned. It is utterly at varl ance with ‘the facts generally known and admitted except by biased or predudiced observers. Your statement of the Thnyerl case is mot in accord with the statement made under oath by Fred Herring, Thayer's companion when he was killed by a brown |bear near Eliza Harbor on October 16, 1929. Believing you do not desire to do the dead man an in- justice, T quote from Herring’s account of ‘the regrettable tragedy: We were crossing an open muskeg ‘when I heard a noise and saw a movement in the brush about 15 feet behind and to the left of us. Then I saw the bear raise up his head and foreguarters, He was plainly seen. He was a large brown bear, very dark in color and apparently fully mature. T said “There's a bear, Jack.” And I started immediately for a tree. \As T passed Jack he shot, and almost fmediately the bear be- gan to howl. I ran about 2§ yards and climbed a ftree. From the tree I Heard the noise of a struggle and saw the movements through the underbrush, and then first rea- lized what had happened. This is altogether different from your own statement. It seems clear that Thayer did not walk up on the bear, as you allege, but that he and Herring had passed the ani- mal which charged them from the rear. No Bear Complex You intimate that Alaskans have a bear complex. Let me assure you this is not the case. More than 20 years residence in Alaska has convinced me that most Alas- kans respect for the brown bear, but they do not regard him a$ an ogre nor desire his extermination. They are anxious to give him every reasonable measire Of Pro- insure the perpetuity the species. If this fact ugere tion to tec of |tirst recognized by - eastern con fairficulty. But wheén you ‘common ground. in love with Alaska. making investigations tha |seryationists before ' they under- | {You say “I'am quite as much -as any fisucl i B Hive. sai | ousa Admiralty Island iumber forferness to do what you didnt do|the National Association of Wild spend less than three days with him in 1926. B2 that as it may, you ought to know from personal ob- servation there isn't a single pre- dominating feature, nor any com- bination of natural by Congrass. It does not begin to| country. It has nothing in the way of scenery or natural wonders, and no anim~l life, even including the lbrown dnd grizzly bears, thai can- not be overmatched in many other sections of Alaska. It hasn't a single glacier deemed sufficiently important to justify a name. Tts forests are duplicated by every other island and the mainland sections of southeast Alaska just as its lakes and streams are. Tts mountains are insignificant in size when measured by those of the mainland and o not: differ any from those of all of Alexander Archipelago, Tts animal life, in- cluding the brown bears, is not notable .for superiority over that of the surrounding country. ¥ou have been there and you know these things are true. Attempt Is Outrage You clamor for a bear sanctuary, but you have never offered a single convincing proof that one is mec- essary for preserving that ani- mal from extermination. You have not because you cannot. You make emotional appeals and by insinu- ations and silly deductions rouse fears of the sentimentalists to the end that you can put across some- thing that can be truly termed nothing except an ouirage on Alaska. Your own descriptions of the methods of procedure used in facing down brown bear brand you as ignorant. You may convince the uninitiate that Allen Hasselbors, your favorite guide, “yelled at the top of his voice” to frighten away a charginge brownie. Hasselborg never did any such foolish stunt and you who have hunted with him know it. If there is any doubt in your mind, write Mr. Hasselborg and he will clear it away. He may have talked to the bear. He does, sometimes success- fully. If soft words fail nim, and they have more often than not, ‘he has not ‘hesitated to use hot lead. You argue from an aesthétic standpoint that timber operations will destroy the scenic value of: the “Inside Passage.” Under the scien~ tific plan of forest utilizdtion ad- opted by the United States Forest Service, and ‘mow -in operation here in a small-way, this could not occur. Maine, Florida, California and other. places you mention have not handicapped industrial devel- say you have visited it three times.! i phenomena, | paper changing it from national on it that would- justify such action | for meet the standard required for| lall other national parks of the|bear complex. If it had, it would lv,h,e island, ‘and they are increas- yourself unless accompanied by one of the most compebtent guides| and bear hunters ‘this ‘Territory knows. No intelligent person can | approve of such & proposition. To permit such crowds of tourists to roam at large in such a bear pas- ture would be to invite inevitable disaster and lead to almost cer- tain loss of life. The bears are there in great number. The Streams swarmi with trout and salmon. The plateaus are full of wild flowers, and Sitka deer roam the hills and ; valleys as they have done since before the Runssians came. Making out of it a national park would add nothing to their numbers' and little to their life span. And if a hotel conces- sion there isn't a good business venture: mow,! it will not be just because somebody . signs a slip of to ,national park. Sanctuaries Now. I have said that Alal und a has no sound a protest at the very gen- erous manner in which a pater- nally-minded government has tied up much of its land area in sanc- tuaries. The coastal species of the brown bear have a range estimated to ‘cover 96,398 square miles. O7 that range there are sanctuaries aggregating 7,868 square miles, more than elght per cemt of the entire range, in which no hunting or killing is- permitted. Included in it are Unimak Island in the Aleu- tian chain, Katmai National Mon- ument on ‘the Alaska Peninsula, ‘Glacier Bay in Southeast Alaska, Kurzof Island in the same section and a small reserve ncar Cord- ova. In 40, 938 square miles for years there has been only a limited hunt- ing season, usually 60 ‘days in the Fall and 30 to 45 in the Spring, with a bag limit of two animals ifor resident and non-resident alike. Beginning this year 22518 square miles additional will be put in the same category. That leaves 25071 'square miles in which there is no bag limit for residents, but a two- limit for non-residents. And this area does mnot include Baranof, Chichagof or Admiralty Island. Can anyone who Has no special interest to Serve justly' claim that the bear is unprotected? Population Over-estimated You declare thai the bear popu- lation of @Admiralty Island com- prises 50 per cent of the total bear of the Territory. You fail to say how you arrive at that con- clusion. There are a lot of bear on ing every year. They have been doing so for some 20 years. Allen Hasselborg is my authority for this statement. Admiralty island contains 1,600 square miles of land area. This is about 1.7 percent of the coastal bear range, You ought to know, certainly every other man who is familiar with the Alaska coast does, that half of Alaska’s coastal Bears do not have their habitat in less than two per cent of the range. "The very absurdity of the proposition is sufficient to refute it. b 'What evidences have ‘you- that ! Admiralty’s ~bear - population s |menaced, its size decreasing? You \give none’ at. all. The facts ate all to the contrary. Records of the | Alaska - 'Gdmeé Commission - show opment i making the most of their soenic @nd other resources, Neither will Alaska. ; Figures Are Misleading You minimize ‘the importance of -the projected pulp and paper manufacturing - establishment here by saying it will employ 100 men~ Ocean Falls and Powell River] British Columbia of which 1 am sure you have some knowledge; support o ten thousand ' people in similar ostablishments of no ' greater size!| You have far underestimated the mills to keep it running, lwoodsmen and transportation em- ployees to furnish them with raw supplies. And this is a sample of of your entire argument. | material “benefits to be attained from establishing a national park on Admiralty Island. You speak of hotels and bridle, or foot trails as if by some magic they spring up nt of a new park. You know this lis not true. The ! build and operate national any_promise of profit from a venture, and not a tior b ‘Turned populations of ‘seven tof number of men it will require 10 fxs operate a 500 ton paper mill, pulp fq Insidiously, you point to thef. ernight following the establish- | K hotels, but farms them out |y ithat in the pericd “from 1928 to 1931, inclusive, only 26 bears wete 'killed, on the island. Reco: r(k':d( |the United States Forest Service 'show that members of its field | force, - ‘in - protecting themselves, ‘from 1920 to date have Kkilled Life Conservationists, Inc., stoop to uch foul tactics is, or ought -to be, primp - facie evidence that this great crusade on behall of the bears of Alaska is mot altogether |the altruistic movement that it is sought . to_have the public at large, and particularly all nature lovers, believe to be the case. e s 0 L 8 LEWIS SUBMITS DETAILED PLAN OF BETTERMENT President of Junéau Water Company Outlines Im- provement Program (Continued irom Page One) provements within a ble time, and to be completed by early. Fall. “7—All steps will be taken to in- sure adequate supply of water for fire protection at all times in the reserve tank. “8—To submit the system to a reasonable test at such time and under such conditions as the Coun- cil and the company may agree up- on after the above enumerated ur- prevements and changes have been made.” This program was delivered to the City Clerk today by Mr. Roden. It differs in some measure from the request of the Council, voiced at the regular meeting last Friday and again last night. Business At Peak The company's business is now ag large as ever in its history, Mr; Lewis said last night. Ot reached its highest point prior to this in 1915 and declined from that time until about 1921 when it began ta climb again. It has gradually built up' until at the present time i% lequals the 1915 mark. A n response to questions from the Council, Mr. Lewis said he was _ planning to expand to take care ‘of the future needs as they arise, He said there are two possible sources to be utilized for an in- creased supply. One of these is t5hrough the development of upper Gold Creek, which he said, would probably necessitate condemnation proceedings through court action against other owners of water rights. Salmon Cregk is the second source, - Just what method of ob- taining water from there would be necessary he was not prepared to say. . It, also, might require con- “ demnation acti he sald. G PERJURY CHARGE IS FILED AGAINST LON DOGGETT OF HYDER Charged with perjury as the re- |sult of testimony given by him in a irecent trial at Ketchikan in which he was one of the defendants, Lon | Doggett, Hyder, was arrested here vesterday by Federal officials on:a complaint made by George ‘W.' Folta, Assistant United States At- torney. He will have a hearing /in the United States Commission- Doggett, is it claimed, testified at. Ketchikan he had never been con- victed of more than one crime. Records from the United States |Kelly, were acquitted 1 | Ketchikan of violating the National :ct.me from it agrees [Mr. Hasselborg's own view, which it -was prohibited th i sy other gt O chen e estimates ‘that there has been 2 300 per cent ise since 1907 when. he mw vestigations for the University of California. Altruism I to 3,000 overnight. Your own fig- would, therefore, put the - ry's bear population at from 6,000 o 10,000 is a pretty res- 5 Miss Maizie School graduate, class of 1931, was initiated 'recently into Vanadis Bragi, an honor society at the, Bel- lingham State Normal School, ac- cording t0 word received Dy her fof this city. Membership in this soclety is re- garded as a high honor, not often conferred upon _students in their first year at Nm“;;&u mam mmm complete the full three-year course ap Bellingham. . ol A2 By e 5 Trotzky Not Wanted i Czechoglovald Mfs. Roy Rutherford is & pas- senger on the southbound steam- here this morning. She will in the States. - Gttt TAKES BUSINESS TRIP Judge H. B. LeFevre left for States, this morning on the ship Princess Norah. His e it ey in connection with business mat- . 7 Daily Empire Want Ads Pay shortly before Jidge Charles Sey . S er's Court. L * }