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On November 23 complaint was filed in the United States commis- 

 sioner's court at Ketchikan accusing the Fresh Fish Co. of fishing 

 during the weekh' close season on August 1 with a trap located on 

 the eastern shore of Prince of Wales Island, S^ miles north of Cape 

 Chacon. The company pleaded guilty and paid a fine of $50 and 

 costs of $5.50. 



The Starr-Collinson Packing Co. was indicted at the November 

 term of court in Ketchikan for not opening the heart walls of its 

 trap Xo. 748. Prince of Wales Island, during the weekly close season 

 on August 1. The case has not been tried. 



On July 21 a complaint was filed before the United States com- 

 missioner at Latouche accusing the Copper River Packing Co. and 

 Kentuck Graves and Edward Hammer, two of its fishermen, of 

 setting a gill net in Eshamy Lagoon on July 15 a distance of 192 

 feet from a net of the Kenai Packing Co. Upon trial, pleas of guilty 

 were entered and a fine of $25 and cost was imposed. 



A second complaint was filed on July 21 in the same court, charg- 

 ing the Copper Piver Packing Co., Kentuck (iraves, and Edward 

 Hammer with setting another gill net a distance of LS2 feet from the 

 net of the Kenai Packing Co. Graves assumed responsibility and 

 pleaded guilty when the case was called for trial. He was fined $25 

 and costs. 



On July 1 a complaint was filed before the United States com- 

 missioner at Valdez. charging the Copper Piver Packing Co. with 

 having set a trap within 500 yards of the mouth of a salmon stream 

 on Chenega Island. The trial of the case began August 10 and con- 

 tinued until noon August 12. The defendant company was accjuitted, 

 the court holding that the mouth of the stream was above the 

 lagoon, a distance of more than 500 yards, and, further, that the 

 stream was not one in which salmon could spawn or would be chosen 

 by salmon for spawning. 



On July 21 a comjjlaint was filed before the United States com- 

 missioner at Latouche, accusing the Copper River Packing Co., Ken- 

 tuck Graves, and Edward Hammer of setting a net on July 15 within 

 500 yards of the mouth of a red salmon stream em])tying into 

 E.shamy Lagoon. When the case came up for trial, July 24, the 

 defendants i:)roduced as witness a surveyor who disputed the measure- 

 ments made by a witness for the Government. The case \vas finally 

 dropped on condition that the company vacate the site, which it did. 



On July 21 comi)laint was filed before the United States commis- 

 sioner at Latouche charging that A. Gustofson and J. S. (iroU had 

 fished with two traps at the entrance of Eshamy Lagoon on Sunday, 

 July 18. (iustofson assumed responsibility, pleaded guilty, and was 

 fined $1 and costs for each offense. 



On July 21 the King Salmon Fisheries Co. was accused in a com- 

 plaint filed before the commissioner at Latouche of having set on 

 July 14 two nets within 500 yards of t-lie mouth of Miners River, a 

 red^ salmon stream tributary to Unakwik Inlet, Prince William 

 Sound. J. S. Groll, superintendent for the company, H. L. Neilson 

 and W. St. Clair, fishermen, appeared as defendants in the case. 

 Pleas of guilty were entered, and a fine of $25 and costs was imposed 

 in earh case. 



During the weekly dose season on Saturday. July 10, a trap at 

 Knowles Head belonging to the Moore Packing Co. was found to 



