The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-25
N COMING HERE.
FIVE HUNDRED HEAD NOW ON THE
OCEAN.

They were BouEht In Herwny By the Unitea
states Goversnent. ana Are Destined t.
no the Buik or the work In the Klon-
dixie Relief n-stcnmer Overdue.
Lieut.. Daniel B. Devore, u. 8. A., aide to the
Secretary Of War, In at the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
impatlently awaiting the arrival Of the Allan
limo steamship Manitoban. now twenty days out
from Alien, Norway, with 300 reindeer for the
Klondike relief expedition. The Manitoban is
two days overdue. Lieut.. Devore is not appre-
hensive for her ultimate safety, but he fears
that the rough passage, indicated by her slow
trip, has been disastrous to the reindeer.
The Lieutenant left New York with the Rev. DR..
Sheldon Jackson on Christmas Day. They went
to London. Lieut.. Devore stayed there to hire q
steamship, and DR.. Jackson, who has had much
experience with ~Laplanders and reindeer. went
on to Norway to look out for the collection of
the herd. Ono skjellmann. q Norwegian, had
left Washington in advance of Lieut.. Devoro
and DIR. Jackson as o preliminary skirmisher.
A man named Max Hansen was also ahead Of
them. though without equal authority from the
War Department. Hansen had cabled the War
Department that he could furnish all the rein.
deer needed. The department referred him TO
Lieut.. Devore, who met him in London. He
found, so he says, that Hansen had considered
the answer to his offer as something like an APP
pOlntmenU 10 ACT as advance agent. II was lm-
possible to charter q steamship except through
Hansen. who had an option on every boat that
was Immediately available. On the representa-.
ton Of the President of the Allan line that tho
Manitoban could make New York from Alien in
fourteen days, she was hired.
Hansen then assured Lieut.. Devore that Skjell-
mann and DIR. Jackson could not possibly get
any reindeer in Norway, for there was none to
be had except, those that Hansen himself con-
ing great difficulty in getting q quota of animals.
Lieut.. Devore then made a contract with Han
sen; " as many 70 pei ISks ir as w nSns needed as S1 to in a
crease to 500 the herd collected by Skjellmann
and Jackson. Hansen hurried on to Trondhjem.
When the Lieutenant reached -Trondhjem
with the Manitoban he found that Hansen had
collected 900 reindeer. The Lioutenant refused
from .Skjellmann and Jackson. I'm the first
place" said Hansen, aoeoEding to Lieut. lieut..
deer; in the second place, il they had
bought any. They could bring them down
without any loss Of the money invested. The
Lieutenant replied that II reindeer meat was 80
easily, and proftably disposed Of, it would
doubtless be an easy matter for Hansen to get
rid of as many as were left on his hands after
those needed for the expedition had been bought
for him.
Hansen expressed great dissatisfaction with
this arrangement. He asked Lieut.. Devore to
moss TO feed the animals. The Lieutenant de-
clined. He would have sent. Hansen packing.
he says now. were IL not that ne was AFRAID that
the Norwegian was correct. in saying that no
reindeer could be obtained except through him
self, 1t seemed possible that he could influence the
Laplanders to refuse to sell reindeer. Just when
their relations were strained to the point OF a
break DR.; Jackson sent word from Alien that he
and Skjellman had over 500 picked and trained
Dev9re was not going TO buy Hanson's animals
the Laplandcr who had sold them to the middle
man. who in turn had sold them to Hansen.
came down. Lieut.. Devore says. on the mid
dleman for his money. The middleman
Qatn he cnnln not nav until HnnRan
paid: The Laplander caused tho middle
mans arrest and the middleman took the same
He is now in jail in Christiania. The
charge against him, Lieut.. Devore says, is
that OF obtaining property under the pretence
| that he was an agent of the United States, duly
! authorized by Lieut.. Devore. The Lieutenant
was detained as a witness.
The Klondikc relief expedition required that
he should not delay II he could help 1t, and he
deposited collateral to insure his presence later.
He went with the Manitoban to Alien, and she
sailed from that port on Feb. A.. He came back
us rapidly as possible by way Of England. Han
sens 600 reindeer are still at Trondhjem. SO far
as he knows.