The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-25

or two weeks at st. Mchaels before the
St Pauls arrival, and while doing so be-
guiled the tediur of the rather monoto-
nously passing time in exchanging expert
ences wthsthe various employees of the fur
company, and studying Esquimau life as
| saw it at st. Michaels.
Several days before the sailing of the
ST. Paul there came into the fort from the
Upper Yukon by barge or canoe a deIega-
ton of Jesuit priests, accompanied by two
or three nuns, one OF the latter of whom
we had for a shipmate when we sailed for
San Francisco, and who proved to be In
telligent and cheerful company during the
voyage.
Father Barnums, s. j., who had mis-
sion far up on the Yukon, was of the par
ty and came down to st. Michaels for sup
pics for his mission folk, and much to
our regret we had TO part with him when
we sailed though we had many a good
story and tale from him, full of fun and
pathos, so long as we were together.
rather Tosi, an old man, at that time
" years OF age, and who had the January
OF the year before--frall and old as he look
ed-crossed on foot from Circle City to
Juneau, was one OF our voyagers on the
81. Paul and as the good father and my
self had served some years before togeth-
ef IN Montana-he as a priest and / as a
sodier-it can be well imagined that We
had much that was pleasant to talk over
in calling up "reminiscences OF life In wild
Montana and of the wilder Northwestern
Alaska.
while discussing the resources. climatic
and other conditions Of Northern and
Northwestern Alaska, while In port az
unalaska, the father asked US If we HAD
suffered much with the extreme cold and
lengthy winters of 1912 where / had
been operating and, having had the m
formation desired from me- he remarked
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on the Upper Yukon not only unusually
long. but extremely severe, and that his
three Jersey cows had almost starved TO
death before spring opened.
was surprised to hear him talk of
keeping Jersey cows one thousand eight
hundred miles or more in the interior or
Northern Alaska, and inquired how he
had taken them there and had pulled them
through the long winter. He said:
Some of my good friends In San Fran
CISCO three years ago. made me a present
OF three fine highbred Jersey cows and the
officers of the Alaska Commercial Com.
pany always kind to the missionaries. re-
CARELESS of denomination, Transported
them for me from San Francisco to the
mission, and there / have kept them IN
I'll now. But last winter / thought
should lose the whole of them The usual
FOOD supply for my cattle sent up to me
did not half take them through The long
winter, as the summer season of the wear
before, as you well know, was very short
and the quick growth OF Arctic grass was
almost failure. What little did get the
cows ate up long before Christmas, and
after that the mill feed did not last long.
u was not long after il had been exhaust
ed before my poor little sukies ran about
the reservation looking so thin that YOU
eould almost read newspaper through
their attenuated frames, and I thought
hL44yV nee a0naA mi.
good. not only to those creatures mada
after his own image but even to the poor-
est of the dumb brutes, and he was good
TO my little cows, and cared for them for
me, and In most remarkable manner. "a
shall relate.
The tribes on the Yukon with us are
IKE those with you at the Boring strait.
and, as you know, live principallv ON
dried salmon and seal oil During tbe
summers they catch. hang up and dry
thousandS of salmon for the winter
Wen, our folks had their usual gupnlv
OF salmon thousands of them) hanging
over their seal skin lines to be taken bv
villagers at any time they were required
Tor use, either in the village or 10 ha
taken on their sledge journeys with them.
and few hundred or even thousand dis
posed OF in any manner would cut no
figure with them
% one very cold morning was stand
Ing at the door of the little hut used for
school house for the Indian children,
when one Of my cows passed me, and I
saw her so 10 one Of the sealskin lines
and try, by extending her neck and
tongue 40 reach one Of the drier fish.
| went over to where she was, and, reach
Ing up to the line took off one OF the
frozen fish. broke IL in two, and handed
her the half Of IT. Much to my surprise,
as well as joy. she ate it with relish
| gave her directly the remaining half.
and she ate that also. after which fed
her three more good large salmon, and,
calling the other two cows / fed them
the same number each. and so kept on
feeding them twice each day for the win
ter. BY George, ! had lots Of good milk
and cream all winter, and long before
spring SET in had three nice, fat little Jer-
sey cows
~ wish to state for the benefit Of the
reader" said Capt. Brown. that / have
sinced learned that in Labrador and In
parts of Lapland cows are habit
ua.ly fed on dried fish, so Abe story.
coming from the very truthful source
consider it has and bearing in mind chat
cattle are fed with fish in The other cours-
tries mentioned can hardly be considered
very 'fishy'