Arizona weekly citizen., 1889-07-27

| s1ers Side by Side.
 Alaska is country of paradoxesp' That is what Mr. Cola F. Fowler, of | the Alaska Fur and Commercial com | pany, said in answer to the question of
 a reporter respecting his late field of operations.
 During all that time, up to two months ago. when resigned and started
 for home." said MT. Fowler, ''l have had
 my headquarters at KOdiac, which is the most northern station occupied by agents | of our company. We have our head ! quarters in San Francisco, and trading ' stations all over Secretary Stewards pur- i chase. As vet Alaska is almost terra
 incognita- The country immediately sur
 rounding some of the principal rivers | ike the Yukon, Snake and Stickeer has
 been explored, and a few miles inland 1 from the coast line, but the great in- | JeriOr is almost unknown. What we | have learned of it is a surprise, and was
 the foundation of my answer to your
 question.
 Alaska is certainly country of par | INAO-ACos LOu W AlNC AlC1C HI LAAC SlGJCc
 look upon it as land of perpetual ice
 and snow, and yet you would be aston
 ished if told you that grew in my
 garden at Kodiac abundant crops of rad ishes, lettuce, carrots. onions, caulifow-
 CTS, cabbage, peas, turnips, potatoes,
 beets, parnips and celery. Within five
 miles of this garden was one of the larg- | ~,locfl,,.- AlocI-0 hoA, | %l-
 fertile coast slip and the Interior is reared
 along the entire sea boundary contin-
 uous mountain of perpetual ice and ! snow.
 During your twelve years residenc, | in Alaska what was the most wonderful
 thing you ever saw or heard there?" ! Mir. Fowler smiled at this question, | and. after a moments hesitation, said:
 Two years ago last summer left Ko- | diac for a 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
 to him was well recommended. He
 received me hospitably, and I at once
 began negotiations for the purchase of a
 big lot of fossil ivory which his tribe had cached near the village. The lot
 weighed several thousand pounds, and was composed of the principal and infe- l rior tuskS of the mammoth, the remains of thousands of which gigantic animals
 are to be found in the beds of interior | Alaskan water courses. I subjected the | ivory to rigid inspection, and upon two | of the largest tusks discovered fresh | blood traces and the remains of partly decomposed flesh.
 ''I questioned To-lee-ti-ma, and he as- sured me that less than three months before party of his young men had en- countered a 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, young and intelligent h. dian, and questioned him closely about | his adventure among a race of animals
 that the scientific people claim are ex- tinct. He told a straightforward story, | and 1 have no reason to doubt its truth. KILLING A MONSTER.
 "He and his band were searching along
 dry water course for ivory, and had | found a considerable quantity. One of
 the bucks, who was in advance, rushed il upon the main body one morning with the startling intelligence that at a spring of water about mile above where they then were he had discovered the sign of several of the big teeth They had come down to the spring to drink
 from lofty plateau farther inland, and had evidently fed in the vicinity of the
 water for some time. The chief imme
 diately called about him his warriors. and the party, under the leadership of the scout, approached the stream.
 ''They had nearly reached it when theil ears were suddenly saluted by chorus of loud, shrill, trumpet like calls, and an enormous creature came crashing toward them through the thicket, the ground fairly trembling beneath its ponderouS footballs. With wild cries of terror and dismay the Indians fled, all but thechief and the scout who had first discovered the trail of the monsters. They were armed with large caliber muskets and stood their ground, opening fire on the mammoth. A bullet must have pene trated the creatures brain, for it stag gered forward and fell dead, and subse- quently, on their way back to their camp ground, they overhauIed and killed a COW big teeth, which was evidently the mate of the first one killed.
 ''I asked the hunter to describe the monster, and, taking a sharp stick, he
 lrew Inc picture of the male animal iH the soft clay. According to his de scription it was at least twenty feet in height and thirty feet in length. In general shape 1t was not unlike an ele- phant, but its ears were smaller, its eyes bigger and its trunk longer and more slender. Its tuSks were yellowish white in color and six in number. Four of these tuslzs were placed like those of boar, one on either side in each jaw; they were about four feet long and came to sharp point. The other two tusks he brought away.
 ''I measured them and they were over fifteen feet in length and weighed up wards of 250 pounds each. They gradu- ally tapPred to sharp point and curved inward. The monsters body was GOV cred with long. coarse hair of reddish dun color. took copy of the rude sketch made by the Indian.
 By the way, our late governor. the Hon. Alfred P. Swineford, has pretty carefully investigated the matter. and he $ certain from a thorough sitting of na- tive testimony that large herds of these monsters are to be found on tho high p!ateaus in interior Alaska about the headwaters of the Snake river. ."--Phila I.elrnia Press