ALASKA FISHERY AND FUR-SEAL INDUSTRIES, 1920, 19 
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 was 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 Ketchikan 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 yards was applicable in this instance. 
At the September, 1919, term of the district court held at Juneau, 
Tony Flagas was indicted for fishing in Berners Bay during the 
close season on September 15, 1919. Counsel for the defendant de- 
murred to the indictment for the reason that it did not state that 
Flagas was fishing for salmon. The demurrer was sustained, and 
the violation is therefore in the status of having been unreported. 
On Sunday, May 23, Paul Rappas was found fishing with a gill 
net in Shoemaker Bay. On May 24 a complaint was filed against 
Rappas before the United 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 counts for (a) fishing in Petersburg Creek with a gill 
net covering more than one-third the width of the stream and 
(6) 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 was made. It was 
denied on November 13, 1920, and a fine of $250 and costs was im- 
posed. Notice of an appeal was then given but was not completed, 
and the fine and costs of $56.65 were 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 within 500 yards of the mouth of a salmon stream, was 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 was used by salmon. 
In September two indictments were returned against the Hidden 
Inlet Canning Co. The first covered two counts and accused the 
company of not closing the tunnels of two 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 when the 
case was called for trial in October, and a fine of $50 for each offense 
