SCOTTY ALLAN
AT WINNIPEG
The following article from the New
York World, gives an Interesting view
of our famous trail hero while ea
route to the Atlantic with the Alaska
dogs purchased by Lieutenant liases—a
Journey which was extended to far off
France before bis services were ended.
The quaint whimsicalities of "Scotty'
ure caught by the reporter and pictur
ed with amusing fidelity.
WINNIPEG, Man., Oct. 26.—A slight
little man, with a small, lean frame,
lean features and Iron gray hair,
stood at the door of a box car at the
Canadian Pacific stock yards. He wore
yellow overalls and a coat to match
Little feet, encased in square toed,
custom made shoes, protruded from
beneath his trousers. In fact, ha
looked like a stock yard attendant
and yet he Is renowned throughout
America, for this was A. A. ("Scotty”)
Allan, the worlds greatest dog driver
With Lieut. Haas of the French
army, he was passing through Win
nipeg with 400 malamutes from Nome
Alaska, to be used In France this win
ter for dispatch service and the trans
portation of supplies and ammunition
to the bring line. A stop was made
nere to rest the dogs, and they ware
unloaded into the stock yards with a
guard from the seventy-ninth (Cam
eron) Highlanders to watch over
them.
Thrice out of eight times Scotty
Allan has won the All Alaska Sweep
stakes, the greatest long distlnce dog
race In the world—406 miles from
Nome to Candle and return. In three
instances he was second and twice he
was third.
"I have been In every race yet held,”
he said, “and I have not run out of
ttie money yet."
In the first race which he won the
stake was *11,000, but last year the
stake had dwindled, because of the
pinch from the war, to *6,760. "Scot
ty's" best time in the event has bean
76 hours, while the record of 74 hours
was made over better trails.
Gsnial Little Scotchman.
Geniality and sociability seemed
bred in this vlrogous little Scotchman,
and he is as active as a boy despite
his forty-eight years. The kilties on
guard had not been on the ground an
hour untl they were fast friends, and
they pressed upon him an Invitation
to the dance at the armories.
"Ye c’n dance the Hlelan’ fling an’
hoot for all ye’re worth," said one red
faced youth with the thick burr of
the Highlands In his voice, "for ye ken
we have the pipes and ye’U hae a
braw time."
“I hae nae doot o’ It," said Scot
piy, and he gave his solemn promise to
-e on hand. He said be loved the
.a nee
Three cars are used to transport the
togs, and each car Is divided into a
-cries of compartments so that each
annul Is separated from his neigh
bors. There has not been a dog lost
-nice they started. In one car Is kept
ne supplies, consisting of threa and
-half tons ol' sun dried salmon
.uught at Kotzebue on the Arctic
bceun. Here too were stored eight of
.he long sleds, some of them of the
.aboggan type which have been made
.amous by many authors In the tales
j{ the north. There were also 160
-els of harness, together with several
-smuio "purKus, ” or reindeer and
-uuirrel skin coats with a hood that
,us snugly over the head In stormy
■leather. In audition mere were sev
eral pairs of "mukluks,” or high wa
.or proof hoots made of sealskin tops
•vith the hair exposed, and soles made
-rum tough sea Uon hides.
Pr'ce from $30 to $60.
' Scotty ” said that he had with him
several or the dogs that took part In
me Ail Alaska stakes, lie had refused
«zu0 tor two of these Just before he
.eft Nome. Many of the malamutes
were purchased, be said, for as high as
and 660, but on an average the
price paid was about 630. The ani
mals, he said, wsre coming tnrough In
hue shape. At first they had been fed
on one Usli a day, hut as they were
„euiug too fat, this bad been reduced
,o naif a tish daily.
Kvery dug was tied by a chain to
the fence of the stock pens and widely
separate from his neighbors. They
were a miscellaneous lot. Allan ex
plained that they were mostly
breeds,” but for the most part they
were of one type—big wolfiike fellows,
with narrow eyes, ears crooked and
pointed, and a long protruding snout,
biirne of them weighed as much as
a0 or 30 pounds. A remarkable fact
was that several of them were of a
very marked seller straiu, and the
great dog driver said there was no bet
.or dug in the north country than a
setter crossed with a malamute—"that
is,” he added, “If he gets the malamute
feet.”
Reliable Old “Irish."
“Ah, Irish, old boy!" he called to one
nandsome animal, and the dog with
the red touches of the Irish setter
strain looked up at him with big, soft
•yes and wagged Us tall in affectionate
greeting When this dog stood up his
egs were seen to be long and straight
jand powerful, and he had large pad
ded feet._
I "1 drove this dog in the last sweep
stake,” said 'Knotty,' "and he Just put
uia head into the coliar and stayed
with ine all the way He’d rather die
than quit. The setter strain," he ad
ded, "has got more intelligence and
.•nduranee and ambition than any
jther breed.’’
Koine of the dogs were pure white,
oome were of a brownish color, with
round, fat faces and squatty looking
ooUies, and there was one pup, a pure
Siberian, three mouths old, that was
oelng taken along as a mascot. From
•line to sixteen ot these dogs are used
to a sleigh .and the highly prized lead
-togs are in a class by themselvea
“Scotty’s’’ Career.
Morayshire, in Scotland, was the
nome of "Kcotty" Allan. He came to
North Dakota with a consignment of
thoroughbred horses in 1KK7. He re
called that his first experience in dog
driving was in the Turtle Mountains
of Mantioba, when be drove a mail
route. Subsequently he wandered ovei
the western stales, engaged princi
pally in railway building. He help
ed built the Ureal Northern railway,
and in the spring ot lSST he went to
tiie Klondike in the gold rush, going
over the Skagway trail, which he
aeiped to buiid. He is now a member
of ihe hardware firm of Darting &
Dean at Nome, and Mrs- .Darling,
wife of one Of his partners, is In
terested financially wltn him in rac
ing dogs. They have sold ku of these
-logs to the French government and
nave it left.
Allan and his assistants are going
only as far as Quebec with the dogs
and on his return he will spend the
winter in California—the first winter
in almost ewenty years that he has
spent outside the Arctic Circle. He
n.ts one daughter, a girl of eighteen,
attending the university at Berkeley.
There is another daughter, aged
seventeen and a boy of nine.
He says that gold mining at Nome
is not being conducted on the same
| scale as formerly. Most of the work
| is being done by big syndicates work
ing with dredges. The war has hit the
country hard and there is not much
ready cash in sight.
Bleut. Haas, who will take the dogs
to France, spent eight years In the
Klondike, and he was eleven months
in the tranches before he was sent on
his mission to America. The explosion
| of a shell rendered him deaf in one
ear.
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are required to salute “the hag” when
they are on regular duty, stand at “at
tention" during the singing of the na
tional anthem, to acknowledge the
presence of one of higher rank by a
salute, but It is not generally known
that there are other things which Brit
ish soldiers in certain parts of the
world are required to honor thus.
In India, for Instance, a British
guard of honor presents arms to a
stone tiger every day. The tiger lb
regarded by the natives as a go4
who drives away all danger and cal
amity, and once some coidlers. In a
spirit of mischief, overthrew the Im
age from its resting place, and sent
It rolling Into the valley below.
So shocked and scandalised were
the natives that a revolt seemed im
minent, and Lord Combermere quieted
the outraged natives by restoring the
Image to its pedestal and ordering the
regiment to salute It In full view of
all. Since that time a British troop
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Another Indian Idol which Is watch
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name Is Ktak Klak, equivalent to
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be asleep for 6,000 years, and whose
awakening will be the end of all
things.
Hence the natives Of the city of
f-egu, In Burma, are terribly afraid
.uat some one will arouse the god;
jO the British government, to avert
.rouble, stationed a sentry there to
prevent this catastrophe.
Once a year a strange custom Is
jbserved In Cairo. A piece of carpet
on which .according to tradition, Sia
aomet once sat, and which is the most
.amous sacred relic of Islam, Is car*
,ed through the streets, and the khe
,lve and bis troops all review It In
evlew order and salute it as they
pass.
Tho relic Is guarded most careful
y at ordinary times, and tho officer
n cliarge of It each morning must
.alute It with sword raised, while the
..ugler blows three blasts before It.
Another object which la honored
vlth a salute is the sacred coffin of
he prophet, which rests at Medina,
he sacred town, and which once in
ils life, at least, every Turkish ot
.Icer must salute.
He Is expected to throw himself flat
jefore the coffin, clad In his full regi
mentals, and is said to receive bu
comlsslslon In this manner straight
.rom the prophet himself,
In Russia, at Vladimir, there is an
image of the Virgin with clothes of
pure gold and which must be saluted
by every soldier whenever it Is seen.
Tho honor paid to this Ikon Is said to
be due to the fact that It was pres
ent with the troops when they gained
a wondrous victory over a large Tar
tar army.
The Russian authorities evidently
sympthlzo with this art of ceremony,
for they actually raised this Ikon to
; the rank of major general in the army,
| so that it is saluted by all Russian
soldiers as an officer today.;—Kansas
City Journal.
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