The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-07-07

cess OF the project in Alaska, and the
probable similar outcome In Labrador
and also to the certainty that 1t would
overshadow all other measures for
preventing the determination of the
natives through the various causes
which tend to bring about such re-
suit when the white man comes into
contact with the inferior races"
Conditions are almost identical In
Alaska and Labrador. The San Fran
cisco whalers on the Pacific. like their
New Bedford brethren on the Atlantic
have ravaged the seaboard northward
into the very Artic seas. and with their
steam vessels and explosive harpoons
have killed virtually all the whales
and walrus in the. f1ords. driving this
natural food of the natives from It's
haunts. while the caribou, muskoN and
other wild game Of the land have been
depleted through the Introduction of
modern firearms. thus carrying star
walton and death to the ahorigines, SO
that hut for their resort to fishing and
to mental work the Esquimaus would
perish for lack of the necessaries OF
life. as they are today gradually dying
out. despit all efforts in their behalf.
DR.. Sheldon Jackson. when he visited
Alaska fifteen years ago. to establish
schools among the natives. found the
EsQuimaus more in need of fod than
education. and was face dwith the pro-
blem of supplying the one as vel as
the other. The Alaskan Esquimaus
lived under identical conditions as
those of Labrador. using the same saw
age wolf dogs as draft animals and
subject to lige outbreaks of viciOusness
on their part. 1t occurred to him.
therefore. that if they could introduce
and domesticate there the Lapland
reindeer he could at once solve the food
issue and furnish transport animals
for the simple commerce of the natives
with result that it now speaks VOL
umes for what an indomitable man can
accomplish who makes it his mission
in life to carry such heavy task to a
successful outcome.
Starting with sixteen he'd of Siberian
reindeer purchased with $4,000 given by
friends of education. and landed at I'm
alaska in the fall of 1891. he added Ill
more i'll 1892. procured through addi-
tional gifts, landing his herd at Port
Clarence. In 1898 congress gave its
first appropriation for the purpose
$6.000--with which he bought 127 more
and on returning from Siberia with
these. found seventy-nine healthy
fawns born in the herds already es-
tablished. In 1894 he added another
hundred deer and brought over seven
Lapp herders, drawing and caring for
the animals. since the Esquimaus be-
ing race of hunters by sea and land.
could not take to pastoral existence
and the keeping of animals so dissimi-
lar from their dogs. without consider
able teaching. He found. after care
fully considering all aspects of the
question, that. in order to secure the
best results and the greatest perman-
ency to theherds. with the largest sue
cess among the natives the existing
mission stations. maintained by relig-
ious or philanthropic bodies. should be
awaited OF, as furnishing natural CEN
tiers for the native population. At
each mission station there is constantly
going on a process of selecting the
trustworthy Esquimaus-those ambi-
tions to hold and increse property
Small herds of hundred reindeer each
have been loaned to several stations
as government aid in the nature of an
outfit of industrial apparatus, for the
instruction of pupils. These herds
have been loaned on condition that
they be used for the instruction of the
natives in training and managing of
these deer. and that after five years
the government may take back from
the herd number of deer in god con-