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miles north of Dall Head on August 2. The case was continued to 

 the March. 1921. term of court. 



At the April term of court in Ketchikan, Gus Starkloff, who was 

 indicted the previous fall for unlawful fishing in Staney Creek, 

 Prince of Wales Island. September 22, 1919, was arraigned, pleaded 

 guilty, and paid a fine of $50. 



At the same term of court Jack Peratovich and five other natives 

 were arraigned under an indictment accusing them of fishing with a 

 seine in Staney Creek in 1919 contrary to law. They pleaded guilty 

 and were each fined $50. 



In October. 1919, T. Kato. a Japanese, was indicted as an alien for 

 fishing with a gill net in the waters of southeastern Alaska on June 

 5, 1919. The case was called for trial at Ketchikan on April 30 and 

 resulted in an instructed verdict for the defendant, it having been 

 testified that he was not fishing, but Avas merely demonstrating the 

 use of a gill net. 



Jenkins & Jenkins were indicted in 1919 at Ketchikan for having 

 driven a trap within a lateral distance of 600 yards of a floating 

 trap then in operation. The case was tried in Ivetchikan in April, 

 1920, resulting in an acquittal of the defendants on the ground that 

 the floating trap was movable, and that therefore only the lateral 

 distance interval of 100 ^-ards was applicable in this instance. 



At the September, 1910. term of the district court held at »Iuneau, 

 Tony Flagas was indicted for fishing in Bcrners Bay during the 

 close season on September 15, 1919. Counsel for the defenchmt de- 

 murred to the indictment for the reason that it did not state that 

 Flagas was fisliing for salmon. The demurrer was sustained, and 

 the violation is therefore in the status of having been unreported. 



On Sunday. May 23. Paul Kappas was found fishing with a gill 

 net in Shoemaker Bay. On May 24 a complaint was filed against 

 Rappas before the Ignited States commissioner at Wrangell, where- 

 upon he pleaded guilty and was fined $120 and costs of $8. 



On September 15, 1919, Pete Knutsen and Ole Knutsen were in- 

 dicted on two couuts for (a) fisliing in Petersburg Creek with a gill 

 net covering more than one-third the width of the stream and 

 (h) fishing with a gill net extending across more than one-third the 

 width of the water of the estuary at Petersburg Creek. They were 

 tried at Ketchikan on November 8, 1919, and convicted on the second 

 count. On November 15 motion for a new trial Avas made. It was 

 denied on November 13. 1920. and a fine of $250 and costs Avas im- 

 posed. Notice of an appeal Avas then giA'en but was not completed, 

 and the fine and costs of $56.65 Avere paid later. 



The case against the Hidden Inlet Canning Co., indicted in the fall 

 of 1919 for constructing in Peril Strait, near False Island, a fish 

 trap Avithin 500 yards of the mouth of a salmon stream, Avas tried 

 at Juneau October 11, 1920, and resulted in an acquittal of the com- 

 pany, there being no satisfactory evidence presented to the jury that 

 the stream Avas used by salmon. 



In September tAvo indictments Avere returned against the Hidden 

 Inlet Canning Co. The first coA'ered tAvo counts and accused the 

 company of not closing the tunnels of tAvo traps on Sunday. July 18. 

 Both traps were located on Chichagof Island, one being one-fourth 

 of a mile south of White Rock and the other 2 miles north of 

 Basket Bay. A plea of guilty on each count was entered Avhen the 

 case was called for trial in October, and a fine of $50 for each offense 



