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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-05

years ago. Gaining a foothold in one.
place. it was quickly carried from vii
lage to Village and from barabarra to
iglOo. Unacquainted with the nature
of the malady and ignorant of any
remedy other than the lamentations
and tricks of the shaman, the fatai-
ties were numbered by the thousands.
VIZ HEN the Indians of Alaska had
wv their country to themselves
they subsisted upon the fish
and game and wild fruits which the
country produced, and, tho never nu-
merous were thrifty and strong in
numbers compared to their present
decadent state. Dried and moked
salmon dipped in rancid seal Oil is
still a delicacy as we'll as a staple, but
to their menu of game and fish and
wild berries they have added flour and
tea and coffee and sugar and bacon.
Their appliances and methods of
cooking seem not to be as we'll adapted
to these articles as to their native diet;
at all events. they do not seem to
nourish them well, either from lack
Of quantity or lack of intelligent
preparation. I do not know just why
it is, but it is the general verdict that
the Boston mems food, to say moth
ing of the Boston mems" drinks
have not been to the natives advan-
tage. When he was the sole occupant
of the country he clothed himself ir
skins and was comfortable in the long
and severe winters, but since the
white man has come in such numbers
he has begun to initiate him in dress
He has discarded his furs and shivers
and contracts pneumonia and con
sumption in the white mans clothing
of which he gets only the poores
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-05

The Aleuts and Eskimo and Tinnehs
of the more northern ATTITUDES are re-
fined and cultivated by comparison
with these savage Tsimsheans when
Father Duncan began his patient and
persistent work among them. I'm
happily, too, he had to contend. not
!! only with the ignorance and super
stition and cannibalism of the In
dams themselves, but with a narrow
ecclesiasticism which finally drove
him and his Indians from old Metlak-
ahtla on the British side to the new
Metlakahtla on the American side, to
which they removed sixteen years ago.
William Duncan was a layman and he
had always conducted his religious
services according to the simplest
forms, thus proving that the spec
tacular in religion is not necessary to
reach the Indian.
A high church priest sent to over
| see his work undertook to INTRODUCE
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-05

forms and ceremonies and the sacra-
ment OF the Lords supper, which
Father Duncan, for sufficient and not
very obscure reasons had thought best
not to inaugurate just yet among these
savages SO shortly reclaimed from
cannibalism. He opposed the inno-
vations Of the new priest and the In
dams, who had come to regard him
with love and veneration, supported
him. The early result was a division
and new church with Father Dun
can at the head and nearly all the
Indians in It.. Out of this finally grew
a controversy about their property
rights in their church and their
homes. When the Indians found. that
they could get no title to either, and
arrangements had been made by
Father Duncan with the United
States government by which they
could have Annette island rs the prop
erty Of their community, they left old
Metlakahtla, where they had built
houses and a church and had estab-
lished several simple industries. They
took with them only their personal
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-05
[DIANS OFALASKAAND WHAT WE OWET7TIEA1

east to west, we have made some pre-
tense Of recognizing the rights Of the
original possessors of the land. we
have purchased lands and made
treaties, and have established reser-
vations and rendered so-called equiva-
ing. The Indian of the states has be-
come a ward of the nation with q
bureau in one of the departments at
washington and agents on the reserva-
lions to see that he gets what we have
conceded he is entitled to.
as I have been able to learn. has ever
been done for the Alaskans. The land
was theirs before the Russians claimed
it in the name of the emperor, but no
rights of possession were ever recog-
rized except in the one Instance where
Baranoff, for policy's sake, offered to
purchase ground enough from the Sit
kans on which to erect his buildings
for a Russian trading post, tho at the
same time assuring the chief that his
master, the emperor Of Russia,
claimed all the country and was well
disposed toward his, subjects, the ma
| tives of Alaska. When Alaska came
Pinto possession Of the United States
nobody thought to consult the wishes
of the natives in the matter. But
surely the assumption Of sovereignty
implied some responsibilities and OBJ
legations to the natives Of the coun-
try. The only evidence that the gov
eminent acknowledges any obligations
to them is the small amount of money
expended for Indian schools. These
schools however, produce little in the
way Of practical results.
| a ND yet it is not fair to- conclude
| "A that the Indians Of Alaska can
not be taught to be useful and
self-supporting. Reference was made
in the first chapter of this story of the
tour. of the senatorial committee to
the unique settlement known as
Ne tlakahtla, on Annette island, one
of the most southerly in the Ameri-
can portion of the southwest archipel-
ago. Here the Indian problem has
been worked out with the most salts
factory results, and the successful ex-
pertinent is valuable as evidence Of
what the Alaska Indian is capable Of
William Duncan came to Por1
Simpson as a lay missionary in 1857
when the port was an important Hud
lson Bay company's fur-trading post
He found there a community of In
dams of the lowest character. The!
were .cannibals on occasion. He be
gan by learning the language of thu
Tsimsheans. Then he commenced tt
teach them not only religion but in
out of which to make civilized, Chris
tanned and practical men ant
women, supporting themselves by thu
arts Of civilized life, could not b.
found on the American continent
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-05

and suffering, but the Indians never
complain and their sufferings some
times end in death because the whites
are ignorant Of their condition. The
people of st. Michael were greatly dis
tressed one winter, to find out almost
by accident that the Indians in the
village near by We're perishing Of cold
and hunger. But all such, relief must
come from private purses; there are
no public funds available, as the gov
eminent of the United States collects
and disburses all the revenues outside
Of the seven or eight incorporated
towns. It is clearly the government
duty to care for the Indians; they are
not charge upon the states or terri
tories Within the United States and
the federal government is morally
bound to take care of them in Alaska
The burden Of this obligation was
clearly set forth in a forciblee speech
by Rev. D. w. Cram before the sena
torial committee at Valdez. He main
tanned that the government owes thu
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-05

tons along the Yukon, on the Seward
peninsula and elsewhere, but I am
sure that nowhere have the results
compared favorably with those accom-
plished at Metlakahtla.
And yet all that has been done at
Metlakahtla ought to be done with
less effort almost anywhere else in
Alaska, because these Tsimsheans
whom Father Duncan has civilized
we're originally the lowest in the hu-
man scale Of all the natives of north
west America. The Alaska Indian, as
a rule-and this applies to all the
different families or groups-is an in
offensive, tractable, lavishly hospita-
BILE, honest, simple-minded fellow, who
suffers from poverty and often from
imposition by the white man, to whom
he is yet ever ready to render kind
ness when called upon to do SO. The
prospector and the scientific explorer
and the mail carrier will testify to his
honesty and the generosity with which
he receives the cold and suffering
traveller into his hut and yields to him
the warmth and shelter and fooc
which has saved many lives.
Judge Mckenzie, who lives up a
Coldfoot on the upper Koyukuk, near.
ly 100 miles beyond the Arctic circle
told me at Rampant of an incident
which illustrates the disposition of the
Alaska Indian. A poor old Kobucl
known as Peter saw cartoon of Un.
Gle Sam hanging in a store at Cold
foot, in which Uncle Sam was repre-
scented as barefooted. He understood
that it was picture of the great white
father at Washington, and after look
ing at it intently for a long time II,
pointed to the naked feet and said
mo moccasins?" mo- said the mer
chant, Uncle Sam hasn't got an
| moccasins.' Peter looked very mucl
| puzzled and distressed, but went ava,
without further words. A few day
later he came in carrying a pair o
moccasins and, holding them up, an
pointing to the cartoon, said: "Moc
casins; you send, Uncle Sam"
THE people of Alaska are not indif
I i ferent to the just claims of tn
| Indians upon the whites. The.
contribute to their ecessities Wheneve
they know of the existence Of wan
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-05

"a MORE striking
kE:sA IN illustration Of
k::SAV the operation of
AEES@A the cruel law
@HEhg of the survival
.S4 kSN.A. of the fittest"
90 is seldom found
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-05

men and capable and faithful servants
Of their government.
AS for the tour Of the members Of
the senatorial committee, I am sure
that it will result in great things for
Alaska. I believe they came back
greatly impressed with the POSSIBLE
ties Of that wonderful country and
realizing fully the peculiar response
bility which rests upon them to ad-
vance it's interests in every way. They
| made serious business of their tour
the information which will enable
| them , shape legislation with respect
to Alaska wisely and for the best in
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-05

quality and not enough of it. The
ravages of pulm Onary diseases have
been heavy, and these disorders are so
prevalent as to prevent white parents
from allowing their children to go to
the same schools with the native chill
schools available.
Industry and forehandedness is a
lesson which they, in common with
other natives Of America, have never
learned, but they are more indolent
and careless Of the future from their
disposition to do as the white man
does. They pitch their tents in sum-
mer near the white mans towns, and
hang around the streets, sometimes
selling a few trinkets and often
cheated out of the trifing sums they
get. for them thru their propensity for
gambling. They see the streets of
the mining towns like Nome full of
idle men and seeing that these men
apparently live without work, seem to
think they can and ought to do So too.
TOR these people the government
II of the United States has done
practically nothing, while legis-
lation conceived in the interest Of
white men has pretty nearly de-
stroyed their most productive source
of revenue. The game laws have
ing trade in furs by making it unlaw-
full to kill some of the most important
fur bearing animals when their pelts
are at their best and prohibiting the
white traders to deal in them or send
them to market. It is charged also
| that these game laws are taken adj
vantage of by some INSCRIPTIONS deal
ers to beat down the prices paid the
| Indians for such as are bought on the
ground that the traffic is dangerous
and that therefore the dealer cannot
! afford to take the risk unless he gets
his goods at very low figures. From
! both standpoints the operation of the
law bears hardest upon the native.
| This is sample of legislation enacted
at Washington by a body of men none
of whom, until this year, have ever
taken the pains to visit the country
needs to make laws intelligently for
/ it's government
! There are four different families or
groups of the Alaska Indian. Ethno-
| logically he is a most interesting study,
! but there is no room here to consider
him from that standpoint The native
Of northern and northwestern Alaska
is an Eskimo, and often exhibits
strong resemblances to the more
southern people Of Asia, the Japs. An
illustration on this page Of a, dance in
the kazhim or village council-house,
on st. Michael island, SHOWS the
prominence Of the Japanese features.
The Inhabitants of the Aleutian
islands are another group, and those
of the far interior are known by the
various names of Innuits or Ttnnehs or
IAthabaskans. On the south coast
and on the islands of the archipelago
are number of small groups known
under the general name of Thlinkets
z Among these are the Chilkats, the
Haidahs and the Tsimsheans. The
more remote the more friendly and
hospitable they appear to be, while
those nearest resemble the Warlike
4 tribes of our western frontier.
While we have not hesitated to drive
back the Indians within the bound
aries OF the United States from on'
Iplace to another as white settlement
has advanced across the continent from
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-05
UNFORTUNATE COMBINATION
New York Times.

New York Times.
An old colored man called on Judge
Rufus B. Cowing the other day and in
asking for advice supplied the court with
a good story.
What Use gwine to inculcate, Jedge, Ii
dis: What mus do to change nah prog
nomen? When I find dat Use weighted
down wifi all prognomen OATS bound to kill
nah trade, what mus do?"
''YoL wish to change your manner" in
uuired Judge Cowing. land why?"
cause nah name is Failure. Yes. sab.
dats nah name. Use all whitewasher,
and dat name ies' queers me-"
VERY we'll, uncle; why not use the first
letter Of your first name?" suggested the
court.
Oats wuss!'' groaned the old man.
Use tried dat. I had all big sign painted
"A. Failure and nah trade left me-"
1.-The initial letter does make an I'M
happy combination agreed the judge.
but I'll tell you what to do. Use your
first name, and then people will not notice
the last name SO much"
Oats der mos Accommodating Of all.
sah It's simply downright scand' louA
Nah first name Is Adam, sah."
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-05
A VOLCANOES EXACT AGE

Bishop Restarick, missionary bishop Of
Honolulu, thus tells of his first sight of
volcano in the Hawaiian islands: "a friend
took me to the foot of an immense noun
tain. and, lifting his hand impressively.
exclaimed, That crater is 40,o13 years old
I didn't mean to doubt him, but naturally
I asked: why the 1872 Oh said my
friend, I've been here that long. 1t was
40 Or0; when came.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-05

THE people of Alaska are not indif-
i ferent to the just claims of the
Indians upon the whites. They
contribute to their cessities whenever
they know of the existence of want
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-05
DETACHME EMIT

Not to be conquered by these headlonS
days,
But to stand free; to keep the mind at
brood
On life's deep meaning, natures altitude
OF loneliness, and times mysterious wayss
At every thought and deed to clear tina
haze
Out of our eyes, considering only this,
What man, what life, what love, what
beauty is
This is to live and win the final praise.
Archibald Lampman.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-05
The Heavy Moral Obligation Resting on the
Government to Better Their Pres
ent Condition.

Northwest North America Rapidly Disappearing
Before the Onward March of the White Mans Civilization
mo Reasonable Account Taken Of His Rights Claims
Worthy Of Help and Capable Of Better
ment, Has Been Proven at Metakaha The Remarkable
William Duncan End of the Senatorial Committee
Tour of Alaska---A Summer Trip of 10000 Miles.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1903-04-16

have filed on is not in Stutsman county
at all and is not the land they thought
it was but is rather rough stony gulley
and hill land in Logan county. The
names of the men who made the filings
are Martin Benson. Olof Benson and
John Van Wyck. One of the quarters
filed OF was the NV. Or. of Sec. 6, town
ship 1877, range 81. The other quar-
tiers taken by Van Wyck and Olof Ben
son are all in the same n~eighborhood
OF young men from Minnesota, oSuth
and not desirable land. An effort will
be made to have the filings changed
to other and more desirable land if
possible. 1t is said that the cooks
locating scheme netted him over $500
and that there are other parties who
were swindled who have not made any
disclosures of the game. The swim
der has skipped and his whereabouts
is unknown or he would be arrested
for swindling. With the land office
fees and expenses of various kinds
the boys are out over $50 EACH
jamestown Alert.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1903-04-16
First Publication March 18th. 1903.

Notice is hereby given that that certain mort.
gage, executed and delivered by Willis M,
Hatch and Mary l.. Hatch, his wife, morteag.
ors' 70 George Stratton. mortgage. dated the
adh gay OF December, 1884, and filed for
record IN the office Of the register Of deeds
In and for Burleigh county. Dakota Terri
tory, now the State Of North Dakota. on
the sth day OF December. 1854, and record
ca In BOOK G at page 100 and assigned
by said mortgage to Percival 8. Dudley.
dated January 26. 1903, and recorded in
the ONCE Of the register Of deeds In and
dor Bnrleigh county. North Dakota on the
Zoth DAY 81 February, 1903, and recorded
sale assignee, Percival s. Dudley, to VALID
emar I. Hanson, dated February ~. 1OO3
ana recorded In the Office OF the register of
deeds In and for Burleigh county North
Dakota, on the 18th day OF February. 1902,
ana recorded In Boo "45'' at page 53S
VIII be foreclosed by a sale Of the prem
isees IN such mortgage and hereinafter de-
scribed at the front door Of the court house
N the county Of Burleigh and State of
North Dakota at the hour of 2 O'clock n
m, on the 10th day of April, 1903. to sat-
isfy the amount due on such mortgage on
the day Of sale. The premises described
In such mortgage and which will be sold IL
SatlsIy the same are described as follows:
Inc south west quarter. Is. w. W. az sec
ton ten 40, In township one hundred and
iorty-one DAD. range eighty (SO, In Bur
leigh county, North Dakota.
There Will be due IN such mortgage MT
the date OF sale the sum OF twelve hun
dred and stxty-One. Oh, 261 .OO) dollars, be-
SIDES the costs and taxes. II any.
WALDEMAR T. HANSON.
Assignee Of Mortgage.
BOUCHER, PHILBRICK & COCHRANE
Attorneys OF Mortgage.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1903-04-16
Robbed the Grave

A startling incident, is narrated by
John Oliver Of Philadelphia, as follows
II was in awful condition. My skin
was almost yellow, eyes sunken, ton.
u coated. pain continually in back
and sides, no appetite, growing weak
err day by day. Three physicians had
given me up. Then l was advised to
use Electric Bitters: to my great Joy
the first bottle made a decided i'm
provement. I continued their use for
three weeks, and am now a well man.
know they robbed the grave Of an.
other victim" No one should fail to
try them. Only so cents, guaranteed
at P. c. Remington's drug store.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1903-04-16
MADE SOME EASY MONEY.

Smooth Land Locator Induces Several
Young Men to File on Worthless
Land and They Pay Him For His
Trouble.
A transaction has just come to light
in which a number of land seekers,
young men not familiar with the u
try were made victims of a clever
swindling game. Last fall, during the
threshing season there was a number
Of young men from Minnesota, South
Dakota, and other states in the city,
and many of them were looking for
claims. They wanted to get home
steads and this spring come to the
county to reside. A crew working
ear Spiritwood in a threshing outfit.
had several of these young men and
the cook of the crew who was working
at the time at the Squire Bros. told
several of these strangers that he
could locate them on good claims not
far from jamestown. He took four of
such intending homesteaders to look at
the lands he said they could file upon,
and drove ear to the farm of Brown
Bros. in the southern part of the u
ty. After examining severa quarters
in that neighborhood that showed ex-
cellent land. the young men all de-
cided to file on the same, and under
the directions of the above threshing
crew cook claim they went to Bis
marck and made filings on certain
lands. the descriptions of which were
given them by their friend from Spirit
wood. Not being familiar with the To-
cation of land by the plat descriptions
they all paid the land office fees and
each n paid the party who showed
the land ten dollars for his trouble.
There We're four of the men who
looked at the lands but three of them
only went to file at Bismarck. They
have since learned that the land they
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1903-04-16
A Great Sensation.

There was a big sensation in Lees.
vile, Ind, when w. H. Brown of that
place, who was expected to die, had
his life saved by DR.. Kings New Dis.
covery for Consumption. He writes:
II endured insufferable agonies from
Asthma, but your New Discovery gave
me immediate relief and soon there.
after effected a complete cure" SINH
lar cures of Consumption, Pneumonia,
Bronchitis and Grip are numerous.
It's the peerless remedy for all throat
and lung troubles. Price SOC. and
LOO. Guaranteed by p. c. Remington
Druggist. Trial bottles free.