01 FOURTH OF
NATIVE CIO SEN
EH SDOLESSEFiSE
STARTLING FIGURES ON MOR
TALITY IN ALASKA BY DOC
TOR FROM INTERIOR
A brief visit with Dr. E. W. White
over the problems of the physical
conditions and the development of
the native of Alaska, is of compell
ing- interest. Dr. White is with the
Bureau of Fducation, located at
Tanana. where rolls the mighty
Yukon.
Dr. White, who is in Seward en
rorte south, is enthusiastic for the
out look for the native and believes
in the policy of helping the native
hen himself believing that times
must and are rapidly changing;
that with the progress bound to
come in the next decade or two, the
principles of conservation for fish
and bur-bearing animals must be
placed in actual practice and fur
farming will be more than now
anticipated and the taking of fur
bearing animals, regardless of con
ditions and the many times taking
the life of an animal in a worthless
condition, will be surplanted by
being able to observe and by wait
ing a few months and taking a val
uable fur wherein by the haphaz
ard method of trapping fur bearers
are being destroyed.
The late President Harding, in a
speech in Seattle after the trip to
Alaska, said fur farming in the
northwest will be as common as
cotton growing of the south. This,
the vision of one of our greatest
men and a friend of Alaska. It is
now estimated that one-half of the
fur on the market is produced by (
fur farming.
Contrary to the taking of fur in
the wild, careful breeding and
mating of the better specimens will
be practiced, resulting in a better
standard of hte progeny and aided
by a scoring system, a careful and i
concise development of fur animals j
will be produced.
Instances are found, the Doctor
continued, of wanton destruction
of fur-bearing animals by poison;
the damage done is beyond estima
tion as the net results are not alone j
the animals finding the poison !
bait but many times the animal j
crawls away and the carcass is eat- j
en in turn by the young of the
same animals or smaller fur-bear
ers.
The hospital at Tanana serves a
large area and cares for a wide va
riety of human ills but that of spe
cial interest is tuberculosis to which
the native is susceptible, and every
pie sees the evidence of tuberculo
sis by the ugly ulcers and scars,
showing the attack more particu
larly in children which later at
tacks and is manifest by pulmon
ary tuberculosis; this most inter- i
esting of diseases dates backward
to a tablet of Babalonian times.
Transcending all diseases and
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! recognized thruout all history of
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jed States, it was the first but now
istands as fifth in killing diseases,
ibut beyond a doubt it is the first
! killing disease in Alaska. It is sur
prising to note, Dr. White said, the
number of native children suc
cumbing to this disease before
; adolescence, varying in different
localities and but one-fourth sur
vive childhood age.
| This type of tuberculosis attack
ling children is very curable as has
:been proven at the Tanana hospi
tal and some of the worst types of
i long standing have yielded to helio
,therapa (or sun treatment. That
the sun light of the far north has
certain powers and accounts for
the rapid growth in the far north,
is the observation of those doing
research in climatology.
ELKS’ NOTICE—IMPORTANT
I A meeting of Seward Elks will
be held in the Arcade Club room
. Thursday evening at 7 p. m. All
members are requested to be pre
1 sent as there are several matters
of importance before the organ
ization.
Chairman
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Don’t forget the big picnic at
Lawing tomorrow. Everybody is
| going and so are you.
This is the time of the year
: in Alaska when one eats blue
t berries and spits ink.
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.MUCH fll IS HAG :
OVER IMYSTEIOUS
The name of Cook is more or
less a historical name for around
It has been woven many pages of
American historv. This also goes
for Noble John Cook of Anchorage,
a member of the delegation from
the Inlet metrnnolis, visitors in
town for a night.
Noble Cook, ever since he dis-;
carded knee pants, not so many
vears ago, has ever been one of
the most popular members of the
! vounger set in his home-town,
j He has always been noted for
j his originality and in this con
| nection the reader arrives at a
j peculiar incident which may have
I been perfectly ligitimate; then;
i again, who can tell?
Without meaning anything per- j
! sonal, what was that strange lit- !
I tie case he carried which so great- i
ly resembled the old-time sample \
medicine case? In those almost j
forgotten good days it was the
custcun of the medicine fakir to j
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A show never to be forgotten tonlte.
carry, in said case, very* myster
ious concoctions of cure-alls. Then
again they contained several
glasses of a cankerous compound
tasting like equal proportions of
sheep dip and coffin varnish, and
they caried a wallop that forgave
a lot of minor sins. Some of the
cocktails, thus concocted, would
make a wooden Indian go on the
warpath; those were the days
when a man liked his liquor
straight and his women wild.
No insinuations are herein con
tained but there were a lot of
sly glances cast at that case about
which his good right hand ever
clasped in fond embrace.
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