Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-09-26

l4l2, and VINO when trade with Green
land was resumed. in the Seventeenth
century, had disappeared. Steffansson,
who was accompanied by DR.. r. NJ.
Anderson of Forest City, Ia. secured
q valuable chronological collection,
which will spread much light IN the
little known career Of the Eskimo
race. They left for the Arctic In 1908
by way of Winnipeg. Edmonton and
down the Mackenzie river to Its
mouth. Steffansson spending the first
whit" at the mouth OF Colville river,
the .scCnd at Cape Parry and the
third on Coronation gulf and the last
at Parry bay again. On leaving the
Arctic ~Steffansson made a l~eisurely
Journey alone with a dog team from
Cape Parry to Point Barrow, 1000
miles, visiting all the Eskimo settle
ments along the coast. OF the so
called Eskimos Of Coronation gulf
Steffanson said: They are taller
than the Greenland Eskimos, but not
SO tall as the Alaska Eskimos. They
spoke Eskimo, though thought | de-
tected many Morse words, and they
lived in the typical Eskimo way. /
visited thirteen groups of these peo-
pie, who number probably 1000. Ten
Of these groups or tribes had never
come into contact with whites and had
not even a tradition of them. An old
man In one tribe had seen Richardson
in 1S48 and an old man In another
tribe had been visited by whalers.
Between the country of the blonde
Eskimos and the Mackenzie Is a bar
rem strip 800 miles wide which never
was crossed by the Eskimos. The
Eskimos west of the strip have no
knowledge of the Eskimos to the east,
and those to the east know there are
western Eskimos, but believe them to
be savage cannibals. A great many
Of the men have sandy or red boards.
They have no tradition Of their an
cestry. On Victoria Land are a num-
Der of stone houses, but the blonde
Eskimos shun them, saying they were
built by spirits who inhabited the
country before men came. | was I'm.
able to gather statistics Of blue eyes,
for when blue-eyed persons found l
was seeking them they avoided me,
not understanding what / wished.
However, | took cephalic measure
ments Of a large number Of males and
/ found that the facial index was the
same as that Of the Eskimo-Scandi-
navian halfbloods of Greenland and
not typically Eskimo"
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The Sixty-frst storthing has con-
Guided its labors, says a dispatch from
Christiania. Forty new laws have
been added to the statutes during the
present session, while during it's
whole term of three years the stor-
thing has accomplished a large
amount of important legislation. The
most important bill passed this year
was probably the one providing for
the enlargement of the navy. The
consideration Of legislation for the
conservation of waterfalls has occu-
pied a large share of the time during
the three years. The language ques-
ton has also been a bone of conten-
ton and brought about the fall of the
Konow ministry this spring and the
succession Of the Bratlie ministry.
The fall campaign for the election of
members to the storthing has already
opened and is Oh in full blast. The
opening guns were fired by Prime Min
lister Bratlie for the present Right
administration in a speech at Jesseim
and by Johan Castberg, the leader of
the opposition, for the Left party in a
speech in reply at Tretten. The So
cialists are waging an active campaign
but are divided among themselves. In
the strongest Socialist district in
Christiania two of the leaders of the
party, Magnus Nilsson, general secre-
tary of the party, and DR.. Alfred
Eriksen, the eloquent and influential
Socialist clergyman, are pitted against
each other.
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Captain Roald Amundsen, the dis
coverer of the South pole, lectured in
Christiania on the evening of Sept. 10
before the Geographical society. His
audience included the king and queen,
Prince Roland Bonaparte. the mem
bers of the cabinet and the diplomatic
corps. The crew of the famous Fran
were also present. Captain Amundsen
read a letter from Professor Alex
ander, an authority on polar explora-
tons, who has examined his observa-
lions, stating that Amundsen probably
passed within a few meters of the
pole.
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The University of Norway celebrat-
ed its Tooth anniversary in 1911. Eff
forts were then put forth to secure a
large fund for the institution and
many of the sons of Norway living in
the United States contributed freely.
The amount secured is about 500, 900
crowns.
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An English-D Danish Diesel Motor
company has been organized in Copen-
hagen and it is reported that Bur
meister e. Vain are the heaviest