HUDSON BAY EMPLOYEES
REACH FAIRBANKS AFTER
LONG MUSH FROM ARCTIC
i six years that the tvvn Hudson liny
ompain men have been away
ieir territory. They are both
iners of the north, having bee
ie Hitwsim and Nome camps in
i !y days, a.rul t was from th* 1:
ace that tli \ journeyed into the
c and < ante into their present etni
isiness is increasing
cl’herson by a larger
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that station. They then struck
Mouse. Fraan Kampurt Mouse they
the mail trail at t’ircle which they f..'
Io\ve<l into Fa:i hanks. Tliey claim tJi
hardest part of the trip to l.x» til.'
rt. ns of four doffs each were used,
l ut tth n a broken trail was struck
three of the dogs were disposed of to
a prospector headed for the Chandal.u
what luck they are meeting: with. Hot -
sehel island is the headquarters of the
eonupany. and the base of supplies fat
al! of the posts, on thej stand th.s
winter are: Inspector Woods and l»
Doyta of the i*>lice. both have their
wives with them, and Mrs. Woods and
Mrs. Doyle, who are the only white
satisfied: the Iteverand Mr. Dodd -s
of tile church^of Knffland. who is in
fliffirilfl tililtf
missions r;
Beyle is regularly station
Mcl'herson. 1 n11 owing to
s called to ll.-rschel Island
r. H«‘ will mak. • a patrol
House early in the spring
lay lie remembered is the
•ported the murder of the
i. Street and Radford, in
912. by Eskimos. The two natives
were picked up by the mounted police
and taken outside for trial. They are
now back to Herschel Island; Aklawik
at Shangle and cannot be persuaded
to return to their former mode of life.
Mr. Hall has lived among the Huskies
for over twenty years and speaks their
language fluently.
The Hudson Bay posts are Herschel
Island: Aklawik. at Shangle Point:
Kitt.ga.zuit: Bailey Island. Fort Mason;
Tree River and Kent’s Peninsula. The
three last posts are on Coronation
Gulf, the home of Stefansson's “blond
Eskimos.” who have been found to he
a thrifty people and easy to trade with
•At Tree River the mounted police es
tablished a station two years ago, and
have three men on duty there at the
present time.
The natives along'this portion of
the Arctic coast, including the “blond
Eskimos” of Coronation Gulf lead a
nomadic life. They will build a snow
city and. as fancy hits them, wander
off and probably not return before the
.summer sun has destroyed their work.
They subsist on meat alone, and are in
good health. Their sleds usually con
sist of a bear skin, with no frsime\\«ork,
and many of the tribes do not yet pos
sess firearms, although the traders are
endeavoring to supply them.
Contrary to general opinion, compe
tition aonong the traders is very keen,
although the Hudson Bay Co., is work
ing on the largest scale. There is
only one other company <L*lebee) that
maintain* poets .the majority of the
trader* being cash buyers, coming in
durlnf aoa*ner eeaeon. U*be«
n.is om> ooat, i ne nenaer tiros., in it
makes the trip around Point Harrow
evtpry season :ind discharges the sup- !
plies at the points where needed. {
The gas boat Fort McPherson usual- j
ly starts out front llersehel Island dur- |
,ng the hist days of July and stops [
for the season during the last of Sep
tember or Oetimber. There are times
when It become* necessary to wait for |
days for an off-shore wind in order!
to get a passageway. Some seasons,
the boat can only make a short run. j
so It is therefore •necessary to main
tain two years' provisions at each post. |
The traders are nearly all married to j
natives, and in most cases can survlvel
under conditions which will take tolls ,
of the Eskimo.
Wadn, the Jap who first brought j
the news to Dawson of a discovery in j
the Fairbanks district, was prospect- j
ins on the Arctic last year. He left
for the states on one of the last boats, i
but had nothing to say concerning what j
he found in his mining. He had work- j
ed under difficulties owing to lack of >
wood, and had to thaw the holes down !
with dry willows. He employed a 1
j gang of natives in gathering the brush j
l.iil found it a slow process.
.Mr. Henricksen and .Mr. Johnson j
Fairbanks, and it is their intention to |
leave for the coast immediately. In !
the meantime they are busily engaged ;
in hearing what has happened during
tha six years that they have spent,
! way from iuviliz.ition
THIS AND THAT
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I The get to-gethcr spirit is sns.fpt!
j ble of misconstruction. it is possibi*
The nmn who said there is no ron
nooti-on between poverty and crime
must lie right. There are many times
more bankers in jail than newspaper
» This hero worship makes us tired
mostly because we never expect t*> be
| Why should a red-blooded Ameri
can girl lower herself by marrying one
| of the bloody blue-blooded f« ►.n igiiers.
I When a woman meets the postman
! with a smile and doesn't get a letter^*
j she thinks he is extremely unappro
It is no wonder that there seems to j
J be so little interest in good roads !
‘ terest in the way we are going
_
Someone has suggested that we buy |
Mexico. We are willing to let those !
limit trouble who wish to but we re- )
fuse to buy any for ourselves.
The eaisist way to swindle a man Is
to tell him he is capable of certain
great things when he knows it is a
doggone lie.
Many men get a good deal of eredi*
trying to do something they ••n't ac
complish. which, rf course, disgusts
those who are too ornery or ;.to laxy
The person who can hear his name
mentioned by two persons talking in
low tones and still have no curi is'ty
as to what the conversation is about,
is too everlastingly complacent to bo
worth a whoop.
When night after night, week after
week and month after month, the wife
who has been married a dozen years
tries to be neat and attractive for
hubby, when he comes home, you m iy
put it down as a real love match.
The girl graduate who feels quali
fied to nun the earth may a few years
later find herself pretty busy keeping
from being run too much by one man.
There are just as nnany< witches now
as there were in the old days, and just
as many of us imen fall under, their
spell, but we lead them to the-altar
instead of to the stake.
Most of us are willing to do most
any kind of an accommodation if we
can accommodate ourselves as to the
time wo will do it. •
FOREIGN EXCHANGE
The Postmaster has received on the
last mall notice of a further change
in the rates of converting money of
the United States into that of cer
tain European Countries in the issue
of International Money Orders.
The new rates are as follows.
Great Brfitnin.1 pound |4.00
Netherlands.1 florin 35
Sweden.1 krona 24
Denmark.1 krona 20
Norway.1 krona 20
France.IS franca 1.00
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