18 ALASKA FISHERIES AND FUR INDUSTRIES IN 1918. 
being arraigned pleaded guilty to the first two complaints, while a 
plea of not guilty was entered in respect to the third complaint. 
Two cases were disposed of at this time by the imposition of a fine of 
$200 for each and the costs, which amounted to $57. The third case 
was Called for trial on September 20 at Alitak, and resulted in a con- 
viction of the company, which was fined $1,000 and assessed the costs 
of the prosecution, amounting to more than $500. The case was 
appealed to the district court. 
On September 21 a complaint was filed before the United States 
commissioner at Alitak against the Alaska Packers Association for 
the construction of a fish trap in Moser Bay within the prohibited 
distance of another trap. The case was tried immediately and 
resulted in a conviction. <A fine of $1,000 and costs was imposed. 
An appeal was taken. f 
In February, 1918, the grand jury at Juneau returned a true bill 
against R. EK. Voeth for fishing the latter part of August, 1917, with 
nets covering more than one-third the width of the principal stream 
entering Anita Bay, EtolinIsland. The grand jury also returned a true 
bill against Sergis Williams, Charles Daniels, Nicholas Keene, John 
Cameron, and John Williams, all natives, for the wanton waste of 
herring at Sitka in April, 1917. An instructed verdict of not guilty 
was returned in the case against Cameron and Williams, while a 
similar verdict was found after due trial for the other defendants. 
On July 9, 1918, Peter Iverson, Ole Skaaner, J. Hesnes, Olaf 
Olson, and John Mjiord were discovered in the act of laying a purse 
seine in the waters of the Anan Reservation. Complaints were filed 
against them before the United States commissioner at Wrangell on 
September 22, and within two weeks all were apprehended. They 
pleaded guilty and each was fined $25. 
On August 1 nine gill nets were found fishing in Chilkoot Inlet 
within less than 100 yards of each other. Action was brought against 
16 natives for these offenses in the commissioner’s court at Haines. 
Four of them, Harry Williams, Charlie Williams, Archie Watson, and 
Ben Watson, were operating for the Haines Packing Co. They 
pleaded guilty and were each fined $5 and costs. The remaining 12 
men were fishing for the Alaska Pacific Fisheries. The cases against 
four of these men were dismissed. Five of them, George Jackson, 
Sam Andrews, David Perrin, Charley James, and Jim Willard, pleaded 
guilty and each paid a fine of $5 and costs. The other three, Patsy 
Davis, Ben Fox, and Fritz Willard, pleaded not guilty and their 
cases were continued until the district court convened at Juneau in 
September. At that time the matter was presented to the grand 
jury and true bills were returned against Fox and Davis. These men 
were arraigned on September 28 and pleaded guilty, whereupon each 
was fined $10 and costs. Fritz Willard was not indicted. 
On Sunday, August 4, four traps, three in Tebenkoff Bay and one 
in Gedney Harbor, belonging to the Alaska Herring & Sardine Co., 
were found fishing. Complaint was entered before the United States 
commissioner at Juneau on August 7. The company pleaded guilty 
and was fined $500. 
On August 8 complaint was filed against the Juneau Cold Storage 
Co. and Louis Carsten for fishing with a trap in Lynn Canal on Sun- 
day, July 21. The company, upon pleading guilty, was fined $100, 
and the trap watchman was fined $50. 
