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8 THE SUNDAY OREGONIATT, PORTLAND, AUGUST 22, 1920 DRASTIC FISH LAW CHANGES ADVOCATED Ruinous Practices Legal in Columbia, Charge. MESH RULING WANTED eO0,O0O-Case Mark for Chinook Salmon Pack Can Be Attained In 5 Years, Says Writer. ASTORIA, Or, Adj. 18. (To the Editor. In perusln your editorial. "Destruction of the Salmon Industry," in your Issue of Augrust 14. I note the havoc to the salmon described there. Something should be done to protect the youngr and immature sal mon and other seafood life on their feeding ground! at sea, but it should rot .stop at that. Thla protection should be extended, to the whole Col umbia river as well. Warnings have been sounded again and again against our present mode of fishing, but to no avail. The re sult has been a SO per cent pack of Chinook salmon, and a decrease in the Ulue Back ealmon pack from 100.000 to -9000 cases annually. The once plentiful July salmon is a thing of the past, and this cannot be laid to fishing with purse seines and troll, nor to gill nets in the river, but to wheels, traps and seines. Secretary Shoemaker evidently looked only to the west. Had he also looked to th.e east, he would have ob tained a greater light as to what is needed fully to protect the Columbia river salmon industry. He described what he saw outside the Columbia, but evidently has not paid any at tention to what happen to the thou sands upon thousands of salmon that pass up the river during the closed months of March and April, and dur ing the period between August 25 and September 10 annually. Celilo rails Is Line. Had he been on the upper river, below Celilo falls. May 1 and Septem- I ber 10 and remained there a few days, he would have discovered that the protection the salmon derive from our closed seasons ceases as- soon as Celilo falls are reached. in later years the amount of sal mon taken by the up-river fisheries has been kept a secret. On May 1, 1912, Seufert's fisheries alone caught over 127 tons of salmon; add thereto the catches of the other fisheries on the upper river and it can be safely said that about 400 tons of salmon were caught that day, and every one of these salmon were protected-while they were in the lower river, on their Journey up. Thus it seems our closed seasons are only to get more salmon to the up-river fisheries. Mr. Shoemaker's suggested remedy wherewith to protect and build up the salmon industry will not suffice, and I doubt very much that he, or any other person high up In the serv ice of the fisheries department, dare to sponsor proper remedies. When Mr. Van Dusen, master fish warden from 1901 to May, 1908, after years of research and study, recom mended to the state- board of fish commissioners that similar laws as those enacted by the 1901 legislative session for the Oregon coaet streams be enacted for the Columbia river, giving good reasons, such as an in crease in the Chinook salmon catch in our coast streams, after five years' protection, from 699, S38 pounds to 3, 018.980 pounds, and the Silver salmon catch from 2,990,462 pounds to 4,721,- 000 pounds, etc., he was given the grand bounce by that board and a commercial drummer, who knew nothing about the salmon, but was and do his bidding, was appointed to take Van Dusen's place. No doubt spawning beds, all commercial fish ing above tide-water must cease. (b) . To protect the small and im mature salmon, a mesh regulation must be provided. (c) . To protect the email salmon on their way from their spawning beds to the sea, proper screening must be provided at the intake of every irrigation ditch. (d). Prohibit purse seines in the salmon fisheries. These proposed changes will in five years bring the Royal Chinook salmon pack back to the 600,000-case mark and another 200.000 cases of diversified ealmon annually. H. M. LORNTSEN, Secretary Columbia River fisher men's Protective union. . POLITICAL CLIMAX CONFRONTS State Convention System on Trial This Week. FIGHT FDH LAND BEGUN LEGIOX ASKS H.VLT IX. LIXK RIVER. OPERATION'S. Big Dam, It Is Said, Would Innn. date 10,000 Acres of Land Desired by ex-Soldiers. Immediate cessation of work by the California-Oregon Power company on theLink river ,oam in the upper Klamath country, which it Is feared would flood 10,000' acres of govern ment land, ana conservation of water for 30,000 acres as proposed In the Raker bill and 75,000 acres at Tule lake are the demands made by the American Legion, department of Ore gon, in protests telegraphed to the department of the interior by G.Lane Goodell, state vice-commander of the legion. Lemuel Bolles, national adjutant of the American Legion, and John Tay lor, chief counsel of the legion at Washington, 13. C, have been informed of tfce fight begun by Klamath post to preserve the Interests of ex-service men who have preferential rights of settlement on the land in question. In a reply received at state headquar ters in Portland yesterday from Mr. Taylor, it is asserted that the matter has been taken up with the Interior department and a decision from Sec retary Payne is expected soon. From J. H. Carnahan, commander of Klamath post, Vice-Commander Goodell received the following tele gram late yesterday: "Senator Chamberlain and Repre sentative Sinnott have sent strong messages to Secretary Payne calling for immediate cessation of work by the power company on the Link river dam until the question of protecting government land and conserving wa- er for 105.000 more acres can oe settled finally. "The power company is working with feverish haste to complete the dam before action can be taken to protect our Interests. Immediate pres sure js imperative if the situation Is to be saved for the boys of the legion." SCHOOL WALLS TO RISE 'onndation Completed at Klamath Falls for Catholic Academy. KLAMATH FALLS, Or., Aug. 21. Special.) Work on the superstruc ture of the new Catholic academy. which will cost $100,000, will be started within a. few days by Ran dall at Henry, contractors. The foun dation is practically 'completed. The building will be three stories high, with a ground area of 70x140 feet. It will have classrooms for eight elementary grades and a full high school course. There will he special rooms for music, art and sew ng classes. In addition there will be dormitory, living quarters and dining rooms for the 12 Catholic sis ters of Nazareth, who will have charge of the school, and 100 board ing pupils and a large gymnasium. our master fish maker know this, CANDIDATES TO BE NAMED Republicans to Gather at Pocatello and Democrats at Idaho Falls Xext Tuesday. BOISE, Idaho, Aue. 21. (Special.) Idaho is on the eve of what Is con sidered by political party leaders to r be one of the most Intensely interest ing political climaxes in its history, for on Tuesday of this week the re publican and democratic parties will decide who will be their senatorial congressional, gubernatorial and state ticket nominees. Added to this is the admitted fact that the state con vention system, to which Idaho has returned by virtue -of the act of the last legislature, is on trial. By the acts and decisions of these two con ventions will be determined whether or not the people again will take back into their hands the power to name directly their own candidates for public office. The county primaries held a month ago at which delegates to county conventions were elected, followed by the county conventions themselves this week, resulted in the election of delegates to the stare conventions. With the exception of Shoshone coun ty where a protest delegation was elected to the state convention of the democratic party, there were no con. tests. The main contest within the republican party was staged at Boise where one of the most turbulent and noisy conventions in the history of the party took place. In most coun ties, however, there was little interest manifested in the primary elections and hardly more in the county con vention. Hand-picking Popular Diversion. Hand-picking or delegates seemed to be a popular diversion. The demo cratic party has gone on record against the system and proposes to make it one of the main issues at the coming election. Senator Borah has told the leaders of his own party that if they do not declare for repeal of the amendatory law and substitu tion of a strong primary law, they may expect to meet defeat at the general election, losing the state ticket and the legislature. He wilt be a factor at the republican convention. The republican state convention warden and Shoe hence their silence. Laws Sought for Years. Public spirited men, men not blind ed by the disease called greed and grab, have for years been endeavor Jng to get reasonable salmon laws for the Columbia river, such as have been applied to other depleted salmon etreams and proved beneficial. They even invoked the Initiative in 1908, and through it enacted a law, by a majority vote or nearly 26.000, pro hibiting all commercial fishing in the Sandy river and in the Columbia river east of Its confluence with the Sandy, However, those who have become rich by the ruination of our once great industry, succeeded by ways Best known to themselves to get th law repealed by the 1909 legislature and the work, of destruction goes merrily on. Knowing that purse selnee. where ever permitted to operate, in a short time destroy the fisheries, the writer many years back. In Seattle, when talking to Mr. Darwin, the Washing ton fish commissioner, sounded the warning as to what would happen to the Puget aound salmon if purse seines were not eliminated there. He gave the writer the big ha-ha and dubbed him a calamity hewler. But It did happen. Darwin has seen the light and is doing his very best to get rid ot the purse seine pest. That the trollers caught many small ealmon cannot be denied, but these would not have been caught had the cannery men not accepted them. The trollers, however, have seen the folly of their way and but very few of the small fish are caught by them now; their mode of fishing is no more de structive than that of the sports. GUI Nee anel Troll Books. There would not have been so many ealmon caught by the gill nets with a troll hook and with troll hook marks as there are if what you say is a fact: "Fish thus hooked are fatally injured and are jerked from the barbs to find their way to the waiting crabs." Tou also said: Certain stunted fish, as Jack salmon, would be mature at 20 inches. Hence the concession In legal length, which It muet not be forgotten contemplates that aJl fish are of mature age when taken But beyond the three-mile limit the mere youngsters are 20 inehes In length, etc. Does it Bound reasonable that a 20 inch salmon outside the three-mile limit today is a youngster and to morrow if caught In a Sand island seine, or in a trap gill nets do not catch such small salmon is entitled to the name "JackT" When It was discovered what an enormous amount of small ealmon was caught and destroyed by small mesh gear, such as traps, seines and wheels, laws that would stop this -waste were denounced. It was then and not until then that this "Jack Salmon" myth was sprung by the operators and Owners who were profiting ty the use of gear, to fool the public for a while at least. Everything prohibited In other sal mon streams Is legalized on the Columbia river. If effective salmon protection for the Columbia is want ed, our present laws must be changed, and I suggest the following: (a). For the protection of the parent salmon on the upper river on their way to and on their natural Prosser Orchard Sold. PROSSER, Wash., Aug. 21. (Spe cial.) G. M. Hamilton, formerly in the hardware business in Portland, has bought from the Central Yakima Ranches company the five-acre or chard tract one mile north of Proeser formerly owned by Professor P. A. Wright. Mr. Hamilton had previously nought the Rev. Lee Ferguson prop erty Joining this five acres. Pro fessor Wright bought the orchard last year for less than one-third of what he received for it, and the Central Yakima Ranches company in turn re ceived a considerable advance -over the price it paid for the orchard Mr. Hamilton receives the crop. S. A R. green stamps for cash, Holman Fuel Co. Main 363. 680-21. Adv. Chopped Off! To introduce the splendid Vacuum-cup Washing-Machine, Motor-driven, Gas heated. - This week .... Only while they last . . . Come in tomorrow .... Portland Gas & Coke Co., Alder,' Near 6th. will be held at Pocatello Tuesday and as the law makes it mandatory for all political parties to hold their convention on the same date, the democratic state convention "will be held at Idaho Falls at the same time. The democrats have no such prob lem to face as' the republicans when they meet in state convention. United States Senator Nugent and his friends will.be in control. Senator Nugent will'be renominated. He will dictate largely the nominee for governor. Who that man will be depends, it now appears, on the action taken by the republican convention. Nugent's former henchman, Joseph H. Pence is being groomed for the position, but there are other aspirants, as. for in stance. Senator Pettibone of Idaho county, the only candidate openly in the field. Presure is also being brought to bear on Chief Justice Morgan of the supreme court to accept the nomina tion. The solid north would like to push him into the gubernatorial chair. The southeast is more inclined toward D L. Evans of Malad, who has been anxious to lead his party for some years. Ed L. Bryan of Caldwell, judge of the seventh judicial district court, has been indorsed by the demo crats of Washington county for gov ernor and it is understood he has stated he will accept the nomination if it is tendered to him. Taylor Cummings of Twin Falls has been indorsed by the democrats of that county for congressman. Mayor Whitaker of Pocatello, who was nominated by the non-partisans at their state convention far repre sentative, issued a statement in which he said that while he appreciates the tendered support of the league he is still a democrat and if he runs for any office it will be on the demo cratic ticket. Mr. Evans will, many party leaders here believe, be the gubernatorial nominee. Gooding Likely Nominee. The situation within the republican party has so crystallized itself as to make several things quite apparent and likely to happen when the con vention meets. One of them is th Frank R. Gooding probably will be the nominee for United States sena tor. The other is that Governor Davis will go into the convention with the largest number of votes to his credit, but not sufficient to control abso lutely. Gooding appears to have clear sailing ahead. BOISE, Idaho, Aug. 21. (Special.) iThat the delegates Instructed for Governor Davis and. Colonel L. V. Patch last uesday by the Ada county republican convention were not le gally elected, is claimed by about SO delegates to that convention who responded to a call, issued tocTay and elected a contesting delegation of 15 delegates at a meeting held at the labor temple. A protest to seating ' the Patch Davis delegates was authorized and filed with State Chairman Thomas, who with the republican state com mittee will hear the contest at Poca tello. The new delegates named at the meeting today are Hugh Sproat, Charles Wilmot, P. E. Cavaney. C. F. Koelsch, Mrs. Brasted, J. J. Fisher, C. A. Graves, Bartlette Sinclair, E. G. Eagleson, H. A. Lawson. H. E. Neal, Mrs. Illingsworth, M. E. Wright, Rob. ert McCraeken and W. H. Thompson. GOVERNOR GUIUHG DECRIES OF FOREST Legislation May Be Asked to Save State's Beauty. COMPANY ASKED TO AID Letter Points Out That Woods Be side Highways Should Be Saved to Interest Tourists. SALEM, Or., Aug. 21. (Special.) Outlining plans ana recommending legislation, if necessary, whereby the natural beauties of Oregon, particu larly the forests along the highways may be preserved, is the purpose of a committee appointed by Governor Olcott today. Members of the com mittee aro W. B. Ayer. Rabbi Wise and Allen Lewis, Portland; E. N. Hurd, seaside and Mrs. W. H. Kinney, Astoria- Concurrent with appolntlpg the committee the governor also sent a letter to William Pierce Johnson. president of the Crown Willamette Paper company, with headquarters in San Francisco urging that the cor poration of which he is at the head spare from devastation the forests along the coast highway from Seaside to Cannon beach. Protest Written Company. "While In Clatsop county Tecently,' said the governor's letter, "my atten tlon was forcibly directed to the work of devastation of the forests along the highway from Seaside to Cannon beach. This road is traveled during the summer months of the year by more tourists than any other in Ore gon and is one of the beauty spots of the state, because of the immense timber growth which surround it on all sides. "The destruction of the forest i noted with dismay by all tourists as they reach the devastated portion where the land is being fast denuded of its magnificent timber growth, "As I understood it your company is cutting this timber. Also that your company has just recently acquired large timber holdings on Tillamook head, adjacent thereto. "1 fully realize that the owner of private property has a right to dis pose of it as -he wishes within the law, and It is not my attempt in any way to curtail our largest industry, but Oregon now boasts of its scenic wonders which are attracting tourUts from all parts of the world. "Foremost among these wonders are our forests, ana If we could pro. teet the forests which are Immediately contiguous to the highways, we could! retain at least a semblance of the; Dtauijr wnicn means so inuvu iu uu, i state. "If it is possible to do so I hope to evolve in eome way legislation which may protect forests directly along our highways. How far this may go and in what way It can be done, I cannot say at this time, but I am writing you with the hope that possibly you may order the operations along the Cannon beach highway, directed in such a manner that a portion of the forest along the road may be retained for a time at least, until some steps may be- taken whereby satisfactory ad justment of this matter may be ob tained for both the owners of the timber tracts and the public at large. One who travels the Cannon beach highway and sees the vast difference between the virgin forests and the barren stumpy ground after the foreet has been denuded, is deeply impressed with the necessity for preservation of such wonderful nat ural beauty." Commission Also Called On. Another letter inclosing the com munication sent to Mr. Pierce was forwarded to the state highway com mission by Governor Olcott asking that that body lend its co-operation in preserving the beauties which mean so much to Oregon. The question of preserving the natural beauty along the state high ways is one which has long been in my mind," said the executive's letter to the highway commission, '"and I have been evolving some plan for meeting the situation. Frankly, I have reached no satisfactory conclu sion as yet. as to how to go about the task of remedying the evil which is presented. I Deiieve. nowever, there Is some remedy and that. Oregon should take steps at this time before it is too late to preserve some of the things witn which nature en-lowed us. "I most respectfully bespeak the co-operation of your commission in this movement and any way you may assist. - "Just what you can do at this time, I do not know, but it occurred to me that the members of the commission may be able to outline some method which would help to a certain extent. "If It's possible to do so, I hope to be able to secure legislation along these lines which will be beneficial, wnat tnat legislation might be, I am unable to say at the present time, but it. is a matter which will be in vestigated thoroughly and every ef fort will be made by the executive department, at least, toward that end "But it is not ail a matter of mere dollars and cents. We in .Oregon love beauty and all that it means, we wisn to see our cniidren grow up In the same environment which Iras meant so much to use. I sincere ly trust that all Oregon, working to gether toward this common end, will in some wayvhrlng about the greatly desired result." "DRYS" TO UTILIZE PETITIONS III FIGHT Rehabilitation of Prohibition Party Is Sought. WOMAN TO WAGE WAR Mrs. TJnruh Says She Is Determined to Know How Party Has Been Pnt Out of Commission. Carrolls Logger Injured. KELSO. Wash., Aug. 21. (Special.) John Peterson sustained a broken leg at the Ames and Grindle sawmill at Carrolls today when he was struck by a rolling log. He was brought to Kelso for medical attention. tlon would be made more certain through the petition medium. Mrs. Unruh accepted this advice, and left for Portland tonight to place the necessary petitions in circulation. During her stay here, Mrs. Unruh called at the offices of Governor Ol cott, and lauded the executive for his action in calling the legislature into session last winter instead of waiting until 35 states had ratified woman suffrage. SALEM, Or., Aug. 21. (Special.) Rehabilitation of the prohibition party In the third congressional dis trict by means of petitions rather than by a legal fight against any opinion that Attorney-General Brown may give regarding the status of the political organization, was the deci sion reached by Mrs. Ada Wallace Unruh, executive secretary of the Ore gon prohibition committee, following a conference here today with John Cochran, assistant secretary of state; W. O. Bailey, assistant attorney-general, and subsequent telephone com munication with Attorney - General Brown, who is now in Roseburg. i hese petitions must contain signa tures of 5 per cent of the votes cast in the third congressional district in the 1918 election, and must be filed with the secretary of state not later than September 7. "I have on my fighting clothes and am going to determine for my own satisfaction by what process the pro hibition party In the third congres sional district can be put out of com mission," was Mrs. Unruh's assertion following her arrival in Salem, Legal Residence Denied. "It Is my private opinion that the office of representative in congress is a state, ratner than a district, of fice. If this is true, there Is no doubt In my mind that the nomination of Dr. Lovejoy by the prohibitionists for representative in congress from the third congressional district was legal artd that her certificate will have ta be accepted when presented to the secretary of state TWO FINED " $150 EACH Silverton Farmer and Chinaman Confess to Liquor Manufacture. ' Two men, Posey Lacey, a Silverton farmer, and Chinn Geek, a Chinaman from Milwaukie, were fined $150 each esterday by Federal Judge Bean after having confessed to making in toxicating liquors. Aoout 80 gallons f mash was found on Lacey's place. also six quarts of liquor. Geek was manufacturing rice whisky, or saki He had in his possession 250 gallons of mash and 20 gallons of finished whisky. Ah Yen, a laborer employed by Geek and involved in the charges, was dismissed. A total of $400 was collected in fines in the federal court yesterday. Elvin E. Whetstone, a war veteran of Albany, paid siuo after lie had admitted theft of an automobile tire hung by a parcels post delivery- man on a rural mail box. . f INCREASE IS 74 PER CENT Many New Students Seek Entry to Home Economics School. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COL I.EGE, CORVALLIS, Aug. 21. (Spe cial.) An increase of 74 per cent in the number of credentials received from new students seeking entrance to the school of home economics over the number received last year, is reported by the office of the registrar. Last year 557 students enrolled in the school, anj 200 enrolled in other schools on the campus took work in some of the departments of home economics. The teaching staff is being strengthened to meet the expected Increase. C0REANS FILE PROTEST Japan's Warning of Cholera Fails to Deter U. S. Congressmen. PEKIN, China, Aug. 21. A group of Corean leaders, following the American congressional party from Shanghai, conferred with Senator William J. Harris of Georgia and Mrs. Unruh said she based her con tention rn nn InVAstlo-iitlnn whirih In - I dicated that not all representatives 'Stephen G Porter, representative of were legal residents ef . e"no ' h ,i i Koreans in congress the districts elected. in which they were Petitions to Be Prepared. 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