Arizona weekly citizen., 1889-09-28

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 'Alaska is a country of para;loxes."
 That Is what Mir. Cola F. Fowler, of she Alaska Fur and Commercial com paEy. said in answer to the question of & reporter respecting his late field of operations.
 During all that time, up to two GOnths ago, when resigned and started tof home. said MT. Flow Ter. 'I have had my headquarters at Kodiac. which is ths most northern station occupied by agentA Of our cO:apany. We have cur head quarters in San Francisco. and trading stations all over Secretary Stewards pur chase. As yet Alaska is almost a terr2 .rcOgnita. The country immediately sur sounding some of the principal rivers nke the Yukon, Snake and Stickeer has oeen explored. and a few miles inland from the coast line. Gut the great in terror Is almost unknown. What we nave learned of it is surprise. and was she foundation of my answer to yorI question.
 ''AlaSka is certainly a country of par adOxes. You who live here in the state1 look 1pon it as a land of perpetual ics and snow, and yet you would bc aston ished if told you that grew ,:,y garden at Kodiac abundant crops ,s r;d. ishes, lettuce, carrots, onions, caul.:.0yy- ers, cabbage, peas, turpips. potatoes. heats, parnips and celery. Within five miles of this garden was one of the larg. est glaciers in Alaska, ard between the fertile coast slip and the interior is reared along the entire sea boundary a contin- uous mountain of perpetual ice and snow.
 During yous twelve years residence in Alaska what was the most wonderful thing you ever saw or heard there:"
 Mir. Fowler smiled at this question, and, after moments hesitation, said: Two years ago last summer left Ko- 3iac 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 10 him l was we'll recommended. He received me hospitably, and I at once began negotiations for the purchase of g 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- rior tusks of the mammoth, the remains of thousands of which gigantic animals gre to be found in the beds of interior Alaskan water courses. subjected the ivory to a rigid inspection, and upon two of tho largest tusks discovered fresh blood traces and the remains of partly decomposed flesh.
 II questioned To-lee-ti-ma, and he es sured me that less than three month. before a party of his young men had en countered a drove of monsters about fifty miles above where he was then ene camped, and had succeeded in killing two, an old bull and COW. At my re quest he sent for the leader of tie hunt ing party, young and intelligent h. lian, and questioned him closely about bis adventure among race of animals that the scientific people claim are ex. tinct He told a straightforward story, and have no reason to doubt its truth.
 KILLING A MONSTER.
 'ne and his band were searching along \ dry water course for ivory, and had found a considerable quantity. One oi the bucks, who WIS in advance, rushed fn upon the main body one morning with the startling intelligence that at 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 h:s warriors and the party, under the leadership oi the scout, approached the stream.
 They had nearly reached it when theiI ears were suddenly saluted by chorm of loud, shrill, trumpet like calls, and au enormous creature came crashing toward them through the tlicket, the ground fairly trembling beneath it's ponderous footballs. With wild cries of terror and dismav the Indians fled, all but thechiei and the scout who had first discovered the trail Of the monsters. They were armed with large caliber muskets ana 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 Gubse quently, on their way back to their camp ground, they Overhauled and killed 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, hs irew ;lre a picture of the male animal il the soft clay. According to his de scription it was at least twenty feet in height and thirty feet in length. In general shape it 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 tuslls were placed like those of Q boar. oHe on either side ip each jaw, they were about four feet long and came to sharp point. The other two tusks Le brought away.
 Il measured them and they were oven fifteen feet in length and weighed up wards of 250 pounds each. They gradu. ally tapfTed to sharp point and curved inward. The monsters body was GOV cred with long. coarse hair of a reddish d'm color. took a copy of the rude sketch made by the Indian.
 By the way, our late governor, the Hon. Alfred r. Swineford, has pretty | carefully investigated the matter, and hs is certain from thorough sitting of na- tive testimony that large herds of these monsters are :o be found on the higt FiateaUs iii interior Alaska about til5 | Ieadwaters of the Snake rivsT. ."-Pt:l: ielphis Press
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