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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.
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To introduce the splendid
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heated. -
This week ....
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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.
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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.
At the conference this afternoon
Mrs. Unruh was advised' that in view
of previous opinions of the attorney
general which indicated that the pro
hibition party was dead In the third
congressional district, its rehabilita-
presented orally and documentarily
grievances against Japanese rule in
Corea. and urged assistance from the
Americans.
The fact that the Japanese legation
here warned the American congres
sional party of prevalence of cholera
in Corea failed to result in any
change in the party ltinery through
Corea to Japan.
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