20 ALASKA FISHERIES AND FUR INDUSTRIES IN 1918. 
returned at Juneau against Ike Weathers, Al Weathers, and F. C. 
Wright for robbing the Tee Harbor Packing Co.’s trap on Admiralty 
Island, south of Point Retreat, on the night of July 18,1918. During 
the trial the charge against Wright, who was a trap watchman, was 
dismissed for lack of conclusive evidence connecting him with the 
crime, and he was used as a witness. It could not be clearly estab- 
lished that the men arrested were the persons who had robbed the 
trap, and a verdict of not guilty was returned. The second case was 
that against Herman Brandies and Louis Bolick, who were indicted 
on January 24, 1919, at Ketchikan for participating in the robbery 
of a trap of the J. L. Smiley Co., located at Bostwick Inlet, Gravina 
Island, on August 17, 1918. The charge was for embezzlement and 
fraudulent conversion ‘of property. They were permitted to enter 
pee of guilty of simple larceny and were sentenced to imprisonment 
or six months and one day. 
On May 25 Anton Johanson was charged in a complaint filed before 
the United States commissioner at Franklin with fishing with gill 
nets in Eagle Creek, a stream less than 300 feet in width, between 
the hours of 6 p. m. and 6 a. m. of the following day, and also durin 
the weekly close season. A plea of guilty was entered and a fine o 
$25 was paid. Subsequently the fine was remitted on account of the 
insufficiency of the complaint in stating the offense. 
TERRITORIAL LICENSE TAX. 
The territorial revenue act of May 3, 1917, imposes a tax on salmon 
canneries of 44 cents per case on kings and reds, 24 cents per case on | 
medium reds, and 2 cents per case on all others; salteries, 24 cents 
per 100 pounds on all fish salted or mild-cured, except herring; fish 
traps, fixed or floating, $100 per annum; and on cold-storage plants 
a graduated tax, according to the amount of business transacted. 
The following statement shows the tax collections made by the Ter- 
ritory during the calendar year 1918: 
TERRITORIAL FisHEeRY Lic—ENSE TAXES COLLECTED FOR THE YEAR EnpinG DEc. 31, 
Division Division Division ; 
Schedule. No. 1. No. 2. No. 3. Total. 
Caninerios:.. .fseod occas ohccacen capes tecewent ess $73, 823. 86 $487.23 | $123, 239.45 $197, 550. 54 
BaNTGHIGS een one soe cne amene tae coe oo ee eset eee. 1, 209. 38 - 60 3, 271. 96 4,481. 94 
ISHTL EDS EOF AES Sas See 2 ere blk 2 oe Ee 2 oe 42, 500. 00 100.00 18, 400. 00 61, 000. 00 
Cold=storage mlanists =: wine eetceeteemereracascnc 1,500:'00) |s-ceacenenne 500. 00 2, 050. 00 
Totals 68. soeaese tas ws ae eeeecenen = st = ore 119, 083. 24 587. 83 145, 411. 41 265, 082. 48 
Information was received from the Territorial treasurer that in 
addition to the foregoing amount the sum of $6,730.35 was collected 
under the schedules imposing a tax upon fish-oil works and fertilizer 
and fish-meal plants using herring in whole or in part. This amount 
and $10,298 similarly collected for the year ending December 31, 
1917, are being held on special deposit pending the settlement of 
litigation regarding these schedules. 
