Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-07-10
AANN0THS IN ALASKA.
VALUABLE DISCOVERY MADE ey TAs
ALASKA FUR COMPANY.

munster Creatures Twenty Feet High and
i"'f'' rect in Length Tusks WEIGHING
$50 Pouhds-Gareien Sass - and a.,
eiers side by side.
p. Alaaaa Is country Of paradoxesr'
That Is What SIR. Cola r Fowler -
the Alaska Fur and Commercial c6ro
pany said in answer to the question Of
a reporter respecting his late field Of
operations
curing all that time, up to two
months ago, when resigned and started
ioF nome, said Mr.. Fowler. 81 have had
my headquarters at Zodiac. which il the
most northern station occupied by agent,
Oh our company, We have our head
quarters IN San Francisco, and trading
STATIONS all over Secretary Stewards oar.
chase. As yet Alaska is almost a terra
lncos,iita The country Immediately sur
rounding some Of the principal rivers
iiRe the Yukon, Snake and Stickeer has
.'eeii explored, and few miles inland
rom the coast line, but the great in
terror Is almost unknown. What we
nave learned Of it is a surprise. and WIS
the foundation Of nay answer to your
question.
Alaska is certainly country of par
adoxes. You who live here in the states
iook upon it us land Of perpetual ice
and snow, and yet you would be aston.
ished if told you that | grew in mv
garden at Zodiac abundant crops of rad
lshes, lettuce, carrots. onions. cauli6ow-
ers, cabbage, peas turnips. potatoes
oeets' parnips and celery. Within five
miles OF this garden was one Of the Iara-
est glaciers in Alaska. and between the
fertile coast slip and the interior is reared
along the entire sea boundary a contin.
uous mountain Of perpetual ice and
snow.
'Durlng your twelve years residence
IN Alaska what was the most wonderful
thing you ever saw or heard there
Mr.. Fowler smiled at this question.
and. after moments hesitation. said;
Two years ago last summer | left Ko-
diac 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 lnnuits was named To-lee-t TINA, and
to him | was well recommended. He
received me Hospitality, and / 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-
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. | subjected the
ivory to a rigid inspection, and upon two
of the largest tusks | discovered fresh
blood traces and the remains of partly
decomposcd flesh
Il questioned To-lee-ti-ma, and he as
sured me that less than three months
before 4 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 a COW. At NV re-
quest lie sent for the leader e the hunt
ing parts, Young and intelligent IN
dian and l questioned him closely about
his adventure among race Of animals
that the scientific people claim are ex-
tinct. He told straightforward story.
and have no reason to doubt lis truth.
KILLING A MONSTER.
He and bis band were searching along
dry water course for ivory, and had
found a considerable quantity. One Of
the bucks. who was in advance. rushed
in upon the plain 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 a 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 their
ears were suddenly saluted by 4 chorus
of loud, shril, trumpet Ike calls, and an
enormous creature came crashing toward
them through the thieket, the ground
fairly trembling beneath its ponderous
footballs. With wild cries of terror and
dismay the indians fed. all but thechief
and the scout who had first discovered
the trail of the monsters. They were
armed with large caiber m}lske,s and
stood their ground. opening fire on the
mammoth 4 bullet must have peue-
trated the creatures brain, for it stag
gered forward and fell dead, and sut.e-
ouently, on their way back to their camp
ground they overhauiel and killed a COW
big teeth. which was evidently the mate
of the first enc killed.
Il asked the hunter to describe the
monster. and. taking a sharp stick. he
drew me a picture Of the male animal
in 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-
miami. but its ears were smaller, its eyes
bigger and its trunk longer and more
slender. Its ulsks were yellowish white
in color ana six in number, -Four Of
these tusks were placed like those of a
boar. enc on either side in each jaw;
they were about four feet long and came
TO a 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 259 pounds each. They gradu-
ally tapered to a sharp point and curved
Inward The monsters body was COW