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which in this case was $500, or a total of $1,000 that must be paid. 
This action is final, unless the circuit court of appeals, to which the 
case may be taken, reverses the judgment of the lower court. 
The Abercrombie Packing Co. was tried in the United States com- 
missioner’s court at Cordova on July 1 for having fished at six places 
in Miles Lake in June, 1918, with gill nets set less than 600 feet apart, 
and for fishing in Abercrombie Canyon at two points on the east 
bank of the Copper River at intervals of less than 300 feet, all in 
violation of the regulations of December 29, 1917. A plea of guilty 
was entered on all complaints and a fine of $500 was paid. In 
October the grand jury at Valdez returned a true bill against the 
Abercrombie Packing Co. on four counts involving violations of the 
order of December 29, 1917, by the use of set nets in Miles Lake in 
June, 1918, at less than 600 feet apart. The Northwestern Fisheries 
Co. and the Canoe Pass Packing Co. were also indicted jointly on four 
counts for similar offenses. 
The Carlisle Packing Co. was indicted in October on three counts 
for the operation between Mountain Slough and Cape Whitshed of 
three fishing appliances, each consisting of two distinct traps having 
their complement of parts, the lead of one being attached to the pot 
of the other, in total disregard of the endwise distance interval of 
100 yards required by law. The Canoe Pass Packing Co. was indicted 
for the operation of a similar appliance. 
On July 10 the Northwestern Fisheries Co. and the Canoe Pass 
Packing Co. were tried for wanton waste of salmon at Miles Lake on 
June 20. Pleas of guilty were entered, and each company was fined 
$200 and costs. Tom Teets was tried for a similar offense, but was 
acquitted. 
The Valdez Packing Co. was tried and convicted on August 14 
before the United States commissioner at Cordova, on a charge of 
having permitted two traps in Fidalgo Bay to fish during the weekly 
close period of July 13 and 14. A fine of $500 was imposed for each 
trap. The watchman at each trap was also tried and fined $100. 
The cases were appealed. Settlement was finally effected at Valdez 
on September 27, when the case was heard informally by Judge 
Bunnell. The company, after being convicted of the offense charged 
in the United States commissioner’s court at Cordova, now pleaded 
guilty and secured a reduction of the fine from $500 to $100 for each 
trap. The fines imposed by the lower court against the watchmen 
were waived, and the case against them was dismissed. 
On August 22 the Copper River Packing Co. was tried before the 
United States commissioner at Valdez for failure to close two of its 
traps in Fidalgo Bay on Sunday, July 28. The case was prosecuted 
before a jury which returned a verdict of guilty, whereupon a fine of 
$400 for both traps was imposed. The complaint also named the 
trap watchmen as codefendants, but prosecutions were not made. 
nm September 3 three complaints were filed before the United 
States commissioner at Kodiak against the Alitak Packing Co., 
charging it with (1) wanton waste of salmon, (2) canning salmon that 
had been killed more than 48 hours, and (3) constructing and oper- 
ating a trap in Moser Bay within 600 yards laterally of another trap. 
On the same day warrants were served on F. A. Davidson, superin- 
tendent of the Alitak Packing Co.’s cannery at Lazy Bay, who upon 
