St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-07-26
AN ALASKA EXPLORER
Entertains and Enlightens a
Host of Interested
Hearers.
Slavery Still Exists Among
the Tribes Of the Ter
ritory.
How Savages Detect the Pres
ence and Capture Splen-
did Salmon.
Glaciers Which Surpass- in
Grandeur and Extent the
MattephoPn.

Music and prayers, pleasure and
profit were so distributed that none
could fail to be entertained at NAH
tomedi yesterday. The interest in the
assembly is being well maintained,
and the attendance at the various lee
lures and classes is considerably ahead
of previous assemblies. New features
and new faces were introduced yeSter-
day, and the gathering is certain to
prove the most successful held at NAH
tomedi. Prof. G. G. Cases classes in
voice culture and harmony are quite
novelty, especially to the young ladies
instruction, and the piping of do, re
me- reverberates throughout the grove,
in unison with the ripping laughter of
couples who combined something else
with intellectual instruction. Mrs. V.
X. Hayward has created the livelieSt
interest in her method Of calculating
the mysteries of the kindergarten, and
great success is attending her efforts.
But the interest of the assembly is con-
centrated i'll the lectures delivered
IN THE AMPHITHEATER.
There were two diScOurseS yesterday,
each by lecturers high in their indi-
vidual calling.
Rollo Kirk Bryan was first to take the
platform, and he delighted every one
with his charming ''Chalk Talk" 1t
was decidedly clever address, cpl
grammatic, forcible and entertaining.
Mr.. Bryan is an expert caricaturiSt, re-
producing upon canvas all manner of
illustrations with remarkable fidelity
and rapidity. Facile in speech, his
words have double effect upon his
hearers by the apt pictures he places
before them. and time after time they
burst into rapturous applause.
Lieut.. Frederick Schwatka was under
lined to follow the ''Chalk Talk" but
an interlude was made to Introduce
Herr Hugo Tuepe to the company.
Hugo Tuepe is twenty-five years old,
and is reported to be 1.-The leading
cornet virtuosO of Germany" His per-
Torrance displayed marvellous technique
coupled with rare musical taste, and
he received and responded to merited
encore. Though small in stature, he
possesses a signally pleasing presence,
and in his behalf it is also claimed that
he has "placed the cornet OH an even
plane with the VIOLIN" His repertoire
embraces Concertos, by Beriot, and
other compositions rarely attempted
BY CORNET PLAYERS.
Il6uG. fIeueTlck DcuWdCkd, U. .. A.,
was received with Chautauqua salute,
which consists in waving the handker-
chief aloft, but the simple process is an
exhilarating sight from the variety, hue
and condition of the articles used. The
subject of Lieut.. Schwatka's address
was the United States great colony of
Alaska. which" he said, sis almost
equal in extent to that portion of the
country lying east of the Mississippi
river" The lieutenant has explored
Alaska Oh two occasions. The first was
to survey the mighty Yukon river from
source to estuary, fourth portion of
which was unexplored. Though sur
rounded with almost insuperable diff
cultieS. Schwatka entered upon the task,
first taking the source of the river and
proceeding to the mouth. Three-fourthS
of the journey was navigated on raft.
Schwatka'S proposal to explore the
river by a raft was laughed at before
the journey was completed. "White
men laughed at it. and even Indians
looked upon it as the acme of igno-
rance" said the lieutenant. The seen
cry along the river is picturesque in the
extreme, the stream at times losing it
self in long chains of lakes. A thousand
miles from the estuary it is seven miles
wide, and opens to fifteen and twenty
miles. Five lakes through which the
stream traverSeS ARE $50 miles in
| length" The lecturer gave some pleas
ing descriptions of the events of his
journey, and the various tribes of
PEOPLE HE ENCOUNTERED.
ssThe T'linkits, who abound near the
| tribe of Indians. There is trace of
slavery existing among them, and
among their old barbaric customs is that
of putting slave into a leathern sack
| to be stamped to death by several fell
| lows. Another method was to faSten a
slave to boulder at the water
| edge when the tide was out, allowing
him to slowly drown as the water re-
| turned, the victims cries being drowned
| by the shouts and hideous laughter of
| the crowds on the land. The KOtuSk
| range of mountains had to be crossed in
making for the source of the river, and
| the party were compelled to climb up
| passes almost perpendicular, sometimes
| upon hands and knees. Natives used
| their teeth to secure a hold upon pro-
! jecting stones, juniper and brush. A
| slip and any one of the party would
| have been hurled 600 or 800 feet be-
| low!
When building the raft the men had
to stand in water icy cold, while in
| strange contrast with this annoyance
| Quitoes about the head.
The Taha 'Heesh Indians have reg
ular mode of fishing for salmon. They
station a SQuaw or child OH the bank
| of the river, who can see salmon COM
| ing up the stream from quarter to
half mile away. The man then runs
| for his canoe and net, and with such
dexterity does he manipulate them that
out of seven attempts witnessed, five
! cfn1 oil
were detected coming up the river in
the manner they were, the water being
black with dirt and fifteen to twenty feet
deep, he could not say. The inter-
! prefer said as the salmon came along the
bottom of the river, motion of it was
communicated at the top. Lieut..
Schwatka's second visit was made in
1856. explore
THE ALASKA GLACIER RANGE.
''There are glaciers" he said, "cover-
ing thousand square miles of territory.
The three described were named
AgassiZ, Guyot and Tindall. One of
his companions in this journey was a
member of the London Alpineclub, who
had assembled over 200 Alpine glaciers,
and said that the Matterhorn itself
sunk into insignificance when COM
pared with the great Alaska range.
ALASKA, in its fisheries, has grand
| future; the Yukon alone contains
salmon hundred fold more than the
Columbia; and when the great seal
monopoly has given up its lease of the
Seal islands it will have made 1000
per cent Oh the capital invested. The
lease expires next year. The banks of
the Yukon gave evidence of rich min
eral deposits. and there is in the south
east plentiful supply of timber"
A MISSING MAN,
| Whom the Police and His Family