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Humphries, appearing for all defendants, pleaded guilty and paid a 

 fine of SI 00 and costs. 



On September 13 William Strong was also indicted as an alien, 

 it being alleged that he was a Canadian who had not declared his 

 intention of becoming a citizen. This case is still pending. 



On September 16 the grand jury indicted the George T. Myers Co. 

 for fishing with a trap near Pinta Cove on Sunday, July 20. On 

 September 17 the company pleaded guilty and was fined $250 

 and costs. 



On September 15 the same grand jury indicted the Sanborn- 

 Cutting Co. for fishing on Sunday, August 10, with a floatingtrap 

 north of Mole Harbor on the west shore of Seymour Canal. When 

 the case was called for trial on September 22 the company was con- 

 victed and fined $150 and costs. 



Three traps belonging to P. E. Harris & Co. on the west shore of 

 Admiralty Island were found in fishing order on Sunday, July 20. 

 One of the same traps was also fishing during the close period on 

 Monday, August 18. A complaint, covering four offenses, was filed 

 against the company in the United States commissioner's court at 

 Juneau. A plea of guilty was entered and a fine of $800 and costs 

 was paid. 



In June, 1919, Jacob HoUingstad, John Saarikoski, Kusti Joki, 

 and Peter Peterson were accused as aliens of a violation of the act of 

 June 14, 1906. HoUingstad, Saarikoski, and Peterson had taken 

 out their first naturalization papers more than seven years before, 

 but had made no subsequent attempt to attain full citizenship. 

 Saarikoski and Joki were each fined $100 and costs, amounting to 

 $6.20. HoUingstad, having claimed exemption from military duty 

 as an alien, was fined $150 and costs of $9.20; Peterson pleaded 

 guilty and was fined $100. Another alien named Dahl was also 

 apprehended for fishing after the expiration of his first papers. Upon 

 entering a plea of guilty at Ketchikan he was fined $5 and sentenced 

 to purchase thrift stamps to the value of $100 before September 1. 



Nels Peterson was found fishing with a gill net in Chilkat Inlet 

 during the weekly close season on September 1. His boat and net 

 were seized and turned over to the United States marshal. On Sep- 

 tember 10 a complaint was filed before the United States commis- 

 sioner at Juneau, to which Peterson pleaded guilty; he was there- 

 upon fined $200 and costs, which being paid, his boat and net were 

 returned to him. 



On September 10 a complaint was executed before the United 

 States commissioner at Juneau, charging the Pacific American 

 Fisheries with failure to close one of its traps on Chichagoff Island 

 on July 20 and August 17, failure to close two traps on the east shore 

 of Excursion Inlet on August 17, and further, for having constructed 

 a trap on the east shore of Excursion Inlet within 500 yards of the 

 mouth of a salmon stream. The company pleaded guilty to all five 

 counts and paid a fine of $750 and costs. 



On September 15 the Northwestern Fisheries Co. was fined $200 

 and costs for the faulty closing of a trap on the south shore of Icy 

 Strait west of Point Augusta on Sunday, August 17. 



The Astoria & Puget Sound Canning Co. was charged on September 

 15 in the United States commissioner's court at Juneau with not 



