ALASKA FISHERY AND FUR-SEAL INDUSTRIES, 1920. 95 
On November 23 complaint was filed in the United States commis- 
sioner’s court at Ketchikan accusing the Fresh Fish Co. of fishing 
during the weekly close season on Nugust 1 with a trap located on 
the eastern shore of Prince of Wales Island, 34 miles north of Cape 
Chacon. The company pleaded guilty and paid a fine of $50 and 
costs of $5.50. 
The Starr-Collinson Packing Co. was indicted at the November 
term of court in Ketchikan for not opening the heart walls of its 
trap No, 748, Prince of Wales Island, during the weekly close season 
on August 1. The case has not been tried. 
On July 21 a complaint was filed before the United States com- 
missioner at Latouche accusing the Copper River Packing Co. and 
Kentuck Graves and Edward Hammer, two of its fishermen, of 
setting a gill net in Eshamy Lagoon on July 15 a distance of 192 
feet from a net of the Kenai ee Co. Upon trial, pleas of guilty 
were entered and a fine of $25 and cost was imposed. 
A second complaint was filed on July 21 in the same court, charg- 
ing the Copper River Packing Co., Kentuck Graves, and Edward 
Hammer with setting another gill net a distance of 182 feet from the 
net of the Kenai Packing Co. Graves assumed responsibility and 
pleaded guilty when the case was called for trial. He was fined $25 
and costs. 
On July 1 a complaint was filed before the United States com- 
missioner at Valdez, charging the Copper River Packing Co. with 
having set a trap within 500 yards of the mouth of a salmon stream 
on Chenega Island. The trial of the case began August 10 and con- 
tinued until noon August 12. The defendant company was acquitted, 
the court holding that the mouth of the stream was above the 
lagoon, a distance of more than 500 yards, and, further, that the 
stream was not one in which salmon could spawn or would be chosen 
by salmon for spawning. 
On July 21 a complaint was filed before the United States com- 
missioner at Latouche, accusing the Copper River Packing Co., Ken- 
tuck Graves, and Edward Hammer of setting a net on July 15 within 
500 yards of the mouth of a red salmon stream emptying into 
‘shamy Lagoon. When the case came up for trial, July 24, the 
defendants produced as witness a surveyor who disputed the measure- 
ments made by a witness for the Government. The case was finally 
dropped on condition that the company vacate the site, which it did. 
On July 21 complaint was filed before the United States commis- 
sioner at Latouche charging that A. Gustofson and J. S. Groll had 
fished with two traps at the entrance of Eshamy Lagoon on Sunday, 
July 18. Gustofson assumed responsibility, pleaded guilty, and was 
fined $1 and costs for each offense. 
On July 21 the King Salmon Fisheries Co. was accused in a com- 
laint filed before the commissioner at Latouche of having set on 
flaky 14 two nets within 500 yards of the mouth of Miners River, a 
red salmon stream tributary to Unakwik Inlet, Prince William 
Sound. J. S. Groll, superintendent for the company, H. L. Neilson 
and W. St. Clair, fishermen, appeared as defendants in the case. 
Pleas of guilty were entered, and a fine of $25 and costs was imposed 
in each case. 
During the weekly close season on Saturday, July 10, a trap at 
Knowles Head belonging to the Moore Packing Co. was found to 
