Arizona weekly citizen., 1889-08-24
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'.Alaska is a country of paraloxes"
 That is what Mir Cola F Fowler, of She Alaska Fur and Commercial conn pany. Said in answer to the question of reporter respecting his late field of
 During all that time, up to twc months ago. when resigned and started for home" said Mir. Fowler, ''I have had my headquarters at Kodiac, whiciIis is the most northern station occupied by agenta of our company. We have our head quarters in San Francisco, and trading stations all over Secretary Stewards pur- chase. As yet Alaska is almost q terra ncognita- The country immediately sur rounding some of the principal rivers like the Yukon, Snake and Stickeer has been explored. and q few miles inland from the coast line 5ut tlIe great nr. serior is almost unknown. What We have learned of it is a surprise, and was the foundation Of my answer to youT question. 1F Eo--s-t-,,
 Alaska is certainly . country of par adoxes. You who live Here il the stas e look apon it as a land or rerpctuaI iee and snow, and yet you woaid le ;tstl n- Shed if told you that rfew i'. ily garden at Kodiac abtnnd dgslt CT,,;;s f;,!- ishes. lettuce, carTatsSsnions,, e.;; fr- CTS, q tabtage peas. fyturpips- potl5tes, beats, pdrnips and GeItrY Within tive miles of this garden .S9s one of the larg. est glaciers in Alaska a,.d between the fertile coast slipand the interior is reared along the entire sea boundary a'cOntin- uous Hountain of perpetual ice and snow. -, s1e6r.ge ---- s, -... -.
 During yous twelve years residence In Alaska what was tho most wonderful shing you ever saw or heard there?' Mir. Fowler smiled at this question. and, after moments hesitation, said: Two years ago last summer Left Ko- iiac for trip to the headwaters of the Snake river. where our travelling agents had established trading station at an indian village. The chief of this family of Innuits was named To-lee-ti-ma, and 70 him I was well recommended. He .eceived me hospitably, and l at once began negotiations for the purchase of Q big lot of fossil ivory which his tribe had cached near the village. The loi xeighed several thousand pounds, and was composed of the principal and infe- rior tusks of the mammoth. the remains of thousands of which gigantic animal. are to be found in the beds of interior | Alaskan water courses. l subjected tht ivory to rigid inspection, and upon two | of the largest tusks 1 discovered fresh blood traces and the remains of partly iecomposed flesh.
 Il questioned To-lee-ti-ma, and he es sured me that less than three month, before party of his young men had en | countered drove of monsters about ! fifty miles above where he was then en | camped, and had succeeded in killing two, an old bull and COW. At my re | quest he sent for the leader of the hunt ing party, a young and intelligent In dian, and questioned him closely abou his adventure among race of animal that the scientific people claim are ex | sinct. He told straightforward story | and have no reason to doubt it's truth | KILLING A MONSTER.
 "Be and his band were searching along 4 dry water course for ivory. and hac found considerable quantity. One o | the bucks, who was in advance, rushed in upon the main body one morning with the startling intelligence that at . | spring of water about amile above wher, they then were Ee had discovered tn, sign of several of the big teeth They had come down to the spring to drinl from lofty plateau farther inland, anC had evidently fed in the vicinity of tn, water for some time. The chief imme | diately called about him his warriors and the party, under the leadership O the scout, approached the stream.
 "They had nearly reached it when thei ears were suddenly saluted by choru of loud. shrill, trumpet like calls, and al enormous creature came crashing towart them through the thicket, the ground | fairly trembling beneath it's ponderou footballs With wild cries of terror ant dismay the Indians fed, all but thechie and the scout who had first discovered the trail of the monsters They wer armed with large caliber muskets an, stood their ground, opening fire on tn mammoth. A bullet must have pene 1 trated the creatures brain, for it stag | gered forward and fell dead, and subse 1 quently, on their way back to their cam] ground, they overhauled and killed GOV | t,f, fI<ar, ,of
 of the first one killed.
 "I asked the hunter to describe tn
 monster, and, taking a sharp stick, h.
 drew mo picture of the male anima n the soft clay. According to his de scription it was at least twenty feet il height and thirty feet in length. II general shape it was not unlike an ele | phant, but its ears were smaller, its eye bigger and it's trunk longer and more slender. Its tusks were yellowish white in color and six in number. Four o these tusks were placed like those of { boar, one on either side in each jaw they were about four feet long and came to a sharp point. The other two tuski he brought away.
 ''I measured them and they were ovel fifteen feet in length and weighed up wards of 250 pounds each. They gradu ally tapered to sharp point and curved inward. The monsters body was GOV cred with long. coarse hair of reddish dun color. I took copy of the rude sketch made by the Indian.
 By the way, our late governor, tho Hon. Alfred P. Swineford, has pretty carefully investigated the matter. and -hs Is certain from thorough sitting of Ia tive testimony that large herds of these monsters are to be found on the higt | plateaus in interior Alaska about ths aeadwaters of the Snake river. ."--Phila
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