Canadian Policeman
Sees Life
Among the Huskies
The Winnipeg Free I’ress News
Bulletin gives the following inter
esting account of Northwest Mount
ed Police Constable Gilpin’s trip to
the Arctic ocean and the conditions
p:evailing there:
Constable Gilpin had a remarkable
trip. Leaving Eduiouton in May a year
ago with Superintendent Constantine, he
paddled from Athabasca Landing down
the river to Fort MeMurrav. a distance of
about 250 miles. From Fort MeMurrav
they were taken in charge by the Hud
son's Bay company, and traveled by
steamer to Fort McPherson at the mouth
of the Peel river, the most northerly Hud
son's Bay post. From McPherson they
traveled to Hersehell island in the early
winter by dogs.
The police found the reports that the
American traders were selling intoxicants
and lebauching the natives to be incor
rect. Constable Gilpin is especially en
thusiastic regarding the Huskies. He
found them an industrious and intelli
gent class. The Huskies hunt the whole
vear round capturing summer and w inter
fur. They do the large part of their
trading with the American whalers, from
whom they get guns anil ammunition
and tobacco. They take no trinkets and
disdain the paltry ornaments that the
Indians admire. Nearly all the trading
with companies that operate throughout
the northern districts is pelt for pelt.
There are no wolverine skins on the Arctic
coast, and the Huskie feels that there is
a certain element of his manhood miss
ing if he is not equipped with first-class
wolverine skins. He wears no store
clothes, as all northern Indians do. The
trade carried on with the Amcricen
w halers is profitable to the Huskie. He
gets a good price for Ills furs, as the
whalers bring the goods into the Arctic
from San Francisco by water. This is
very different to the condition in which
the Hudson's Bay find themselves. For
instance, the whalers, after paying the
duty imposed by Canada, can sell flour
at Herschell island for #1.75 ]*r hundred
weight, while it costs the Hudson's Bay
company f.23 to freight this amount from
Edmonton. 'Ihe whalers come in fully
equipped for trading, and carry on a large
business with the Huskies. No beavers
or wolverines are taken on the northern
coast, but white loses, bear and lynx
abound. The natives secure steel from
the traders, ami are expert mechanics in
their own wav. They make splendid
lack knives and tohucro knives out of
rough pieces of steel, anil this by the
moot primitive methods. In this they
show unlimited patience.
The Huskies are perfectly free from
•he savage traits that werr so character
istic of the Indians They are very
viable and wish to live on the best of
term* withftlie tra<h r fhev surpass the
Indian in hat reverence tor medicine
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met four tribes of Esquimaux or Huskies
'l'he Kogmoliks have their headquarters
at Herschell island; the Neumataimics
around the mouth of the Coppermine
the Point Harrows in the district sur
rounding Barrow Point, from which they
get their name, and the Mazinpers, on
the Siberian coast.
The Huskie is an adept in the art oi
tattooing. Each tribe have their own
peculiar tattoo, with which they are
branded on the chin, or cheek or fore
head, as the case may be. They also, as
- is better known, have their lips pierced
and fish bones inserted in them. Of the
four tribes mentioned, the Neumataimics
are the least educated, being scarcely
able to understand a word of English,
while the other tribes have a smattering
knowledge of it.
They are usually supplied with guns
and ammunition bv the northern whalers
and they hunt and capture a great num
ber of splendid moose, deer, mountain
j goat and cariboo on the spur of the Reck
ies that runs parallel with the Asiatic
coast line. In this way the w halers have
a good supply of fresh meat and there is
no danger of scurvy. Although the
Huskie has adoptad lhaguns and ammu
nition of the w hite man, he clings to the
ancient flint instead of using matchies
which the traders would be willing to
supply them with.
The natives live during winter in snow
houses, and in summer camp right on the
bare beach in tents supplied them by the
whalers. The fact that they can secure
a much more comfortable camping place
back a few rods means nothing to them.
In the Far North winter is of nine
months duration and the summers three.
During six w eeks of this three months the
sun never goes down. It shines contin
uously from May 30 to July 12. Icebergs
can be seen at the coast all the year
round. During the winter very lad
blizzards occur without the slightest
warning of their approach. In summer
also the weather is unreliable and great
wind storms come up.
A little driftwood is the only wood
procurable 011 the Arctic coast.
RUITOX HAS HOPES
REGARDING BOUNDARY
Seattle. Oct. 4 “We may try it
again and win,” said Hon. L. J
Tweedie, premier of the province
of New Brunswick, in the course of
a few remarks anent the recent
settling of the Alaskan boundary
dispute. "We have, however, ac
cepted the decision gracefully and
have no complaint to make.”
Mr. Tweedie. accompanied by
Mrs. Tweedie, spent Sunday in
Seattle on the way to their home in
Chatham. N H . after a visit to
their son. who is manager ot the
Princess Royal mine, about 150
miles from Vancouver, B C.
Mitkinu' riiiiur* Pit.
A good tombstone inscription is
given in a recent book It is said
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tan* the esp4ain*lio« His mu*
was Vk mate's'k. hut that would not
come ut the rhyme *
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SOLE AGENTS
THE LATE ATTEMPT
ON PRESIDENT’S LIFE
Mail Brings Particulars of
the Outrage.
On (>ct. 5 the Yukon Valley News published a J
dispatch from Dnwson with the bare statement j
that a crazy man had attempted to assassinate
I the president. A dispatch in the Fairbanks;
News contains particulars as follows
Oyster Bay, N. J., Sept. 30.—
When President Roosevelt was re
turning home from a walk with
| friends today a man suddenly ap
j pea red and clumsily drew a revolver
land tried to shoot the president.
His intentions were instantly di*
| vined, however, and several sprang
'forward to seize him. He was
quickly overpowered and turned
! over to the police.
The man who attempted the
murder was J. E. Reeves. He is
practically unknown here, and as
yet the secret service agents have
been aide to find out but little of
his past career. The only expla
nation the authorities can offer for
the rash attempt is lunacy. Reeves
talks drivel when interviewed in
his celt amt carries on wildly aliout
national government ami the two
big political parties.
By a recent taw. a 1 attempt to
take the presittent's life was made
punishable by death. Reevescotues
under 'his ruling ami the case will
he the Hut »»l its hind The au
Iholmes have institutes! a searching
investigation under the theory that
it hi pwu a Reeves may be feign
mg dememt* tu escape the penally
he earned
MIDAS CREEK MEN
MUST FACE VICTIMS
Duncan and Griggs Arrested
in Oregon.
Nome. Oct. 26.—(From the Gold
Digger).—Close upon the grand
jury’s secret indintments returned
against the notorious Midas creek
swindlerr, Duncan and Griggs,
comes the news of their arrest and
detention at Portland, Ore.
Last Friday Capt. J. T. Watson
received a telegram from K. M.
Word, sheriff of Multonomah coun
ty, Oregon, announcing that the
two much-wanted financiers were
in Portland, and asking for instruc
tions as to their disposition from
the authorities here. United States
Marshal Frank H. Richards lost no
time in putting the following tele
gram on the wire:
K M. Word, Cortland, Ore.,
Sherirt Multonomah Countv:
Hold Ixmctin and Griggs. Deputy
marshal on wav with warrants for their
arrest. Frank H Richards,
Cnited States Marshal.
Complaints were filed against
them t»> United States District At
torney Hoyt and warrants were
placed tn the bands of l»cput\ Mar
shal At Cody, who took passage on
the steamer St Paul.
Now that these misguided opera
tors have been ap| rehended and
must lace their legion of vwtiotts
and accusers, the chances indicate
that they will spend the neat pe
r**i of their lives whet* they can
do the least harm to society.