Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sportsman of the United States to say whether or not Alaska shall pass certain laws? Since when have we elected men to office on their reputation as sportsmen. . . . Why should human lives be endangered to save a handful of the most ferocious mammals living in North America today...
...light but bulky package arrived at the Vatican last week from Alaska, addressed to Pope Pius XI, a surprise gift from hundreds of Catholic Eskimo children. The contents: a large piece of birchbark. Painted on its inner surface was a dog sled carrying nuns and a missionary priest through the main street of Holy Cross Mission, Alaska, towards a primitive rendering of the dome of St. Peter's while a female figure, representing St. Therese, scattered celestial petals from the clouds...
Going the way of the buffaloes are the great bears of America. California, onetime home of the great grizzly, has none left. Neighboring Oregon is said to have one, Washington five. Alaska, last refuge of the grizzly and the even greater Kadiak brown bear may soon be as bearless as California. Reason: next week (July 1) all restrictions on bear killing will be lifted. This piece of territorial legislation was backed by salmon packers who claimed depletion of streams; sheepmen who pointed to deaths in their flocks; farmers who said the bears menace human life...
American sportsmen deplore Alaska's action. Famed Stewart Edward White has categorically denied the charges against the Kadiak bear or ''brownie." Of the death of John Thayer, an assistant in the Forest Service, whose death precipitated the legislative action, Mr. White wrote in the Saturday Evening Post: ''The victim was green to the beasts and turned loose on the first one he saw, wounded it just sufficiently to make it pugnacious. Then when the bear charged, the poor fellow stood stockstill and unresisting, until the bear pounced upon...
Sportsman White denied that bears are responsible for the depletion of Alaska's salmon streams. His reasoning: Bears "must always have eaten as many salmon as they do today. . . . There was no depletion even after we came along, as long as we fished reasonably...