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true bill was returned. ‘These three cases were tried on November 
1,3, and 4, and an acquittal secured in each one. 
On August 16 Ben Fox and Bert Dennis, natives, were charged in a 
complaint filed before the United States commissioner at Haines 
with having on that day fished with a gill net in Chilkoot River. 
They pleaded guilty and were each fined $5. 
On August 31 C. H. Gallagher was accused in a complaint filed 
before the United States commissioner at Juneau with not closing 
on Sundays, August 15 and 22, the tunnel of his trap located on 
the northern end of Chichagof Island between Hoonah Island and 
Flynn Cove. The case was called for trial September 7. Gallagher 
pleaded guilty and was fined $25 and costs amounting to $41.85. 
On August 23 the Beegle Packing Co. was accused in a complaint 
filed before the United States commissioner at Ketchikan of fishing 
with a floating trap on the southern shore of Revillagigedo Island 
west of Coho Cove during the weekly close season of August 22. The 
company pleaded guilty when the case was called for trial and paid 
a fine of $100. 
On August 27 the Alaska Sanitary Packing Co. was charged in a 
complaint filed before the United States commissioner at Wrangell 
with having failed to open during the close season on August 7 the 
heart walls of two traps located on Prince of Wales Island 4 miles 
north of Point Baker. The company claimed extenuating circum- 
stances in defense, but pleaded guilty and paid a fine of $25 for each 
trap and total costs of $9.20. 
Charles Norberg was accused in a complaint filed before the United 
States commissioner at Petersburg on August 30 of fishing with a 
purse seine within the prohibited distance of the mouth of Blind 
River, Mitkof Island, on August 3. He pleaded guilty and was 
fined $30 and costs. 
By a complaint filed before the United States commissioner at 
Petersburg on August 30 Jack Hollingstad was also accused of fish- 
ing with a purse seine within the closed area at the mouth of Blind 
River on August 7. Upon arraignment he pleaded guilty and paid a 
fine of $40 and costs. 
In September Chester Worthington, a native of Wrangell, was ac- 
cused by the grand jury at Juneau of illegal fishing August 24 in a 
salmon stream of Port Houghton. The case was tried at Juneau, 
October 15, and resulted in a conviction. On October 19 Worthing- 
ton was sentenced to serve one month in the Federal jail at Juneau. 
The Pacific American Fisheries was indicted in September for not 
closing on August 14 the tunnel of one of its pile traps located on 
the southern shore of Pleasant Island. The case was called at Juneau 
on October 22, and the trial ended in a conviction of the company. 
Motion for a new trial being made and denied, the company, on 
November 13, was fined $300 and costs of $42. Notice of an appeal 
was entered, but upon the expiration of the period in which a bill of 
exception might be filed the company paid the fine, thus closing the 
case. 
On August 7 Jack David and Patty Gonate, natives, were caught 
fishing with gill nets in Chilkoot Lake. They were so accused in 
a complaint filed that day before the United States commissioner at 
Haines. Both men pleaded guilty, and each paid a fine of $20 and 
costs of $16. 
