Largest Catch Ever Known

Port Townsend, Wash.. Sept. 14. - An official report has been filed at the customs house here by Inspector Webber, ■who has been detailed at Point Roberts for the past three months, show that the catch of the fishing season just closed is the largest ever known in the northwest. The Alaska Packing company at Point Roberts alone put up 95,000 cases, using 65,000 salmón. Altogether 2,500,000 fish, of the sook-eye variety were caught near the mouth of the Fraser river during the season and nearly as many hump-backed salmón were taken from the traps and left on the mud flats to die and decay. As a result of the unprecedented large run this season fishermen predict a light run for the next four years.