The Alaska daily empire., 1914-08-25
WORLD ON WRANGELL
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 MILWAUKEE. Aug. S.-Joseph B. Ulhleln and pr. Harry A, Sifton have gone for q shooting trip in the wilds uf Alaska, during which they will hunt big game miles away from civ ilization. and probably will encounter all the hardships known to the North country before they return.
 They expect to spend three or four weeks in search of game after they arrive at the hunting grounds they have selected. but Q journey of al month or more will be taken to reach the game country.
 MT. Uihleln and Dr. Slfton will goI to Vancouver, B. C.. first, which will be their starting point for the wilds of Alaska. From Vancouver they will go to wrangell, where guides and al hunting crew engaged months ago will be waiting. From there they will go up the Stikine River about 200 miles to Telegraph Creek, where they will reach the north end of the Rocky Mountain district in which they ex- pect to hunt a month.
 Grizzly bears, black bears, brown bears, caribou, moose. elk, mountain sheep and mountain goats are among the big game which they hope to bag, and many other small fur-bearing animals may be secured. They ex- pect to return to Milwaukee the last of September.
 The trip has long been contem- plated and will be in the same coun' try trayersed by Robert Uihlein and Dr. Sifton two years ago, when much big game was secured.
 wrangen, which will be the starting point into the hunting grounds, has been known during the different pe- riods of early Alaskan history as Fort St. Dionysus, Fort Stikine and Fort wrangell. Founded in 1863. Wrangell is now dilapidated and torpid vil- lage of some interest in the history of Alaska. The village was of temporary importance from 1874 to 1877 as the gateway to the Cassiar mines In Brit ish Columbia.
 A party of four or five trained guides and trappers will accompany the Milwaukeeans when they leave Wrangell. all armed and each carry ing 15O rounds of ammunition. Be cause of the length of the possible hardships and accidents of the trip a complete outfit of medical supplies and surgical instruments will be car ried, in addition to cooking utensils and other supplies which will be need ed. The arrangements for guides and trappers were made months ago with squawman who is said to know every foot of the country which will be visited.
 The trip from wrangell to Tele- graph Creek will be made in gaso- line launch. At Wrangell the party will leave civilization behind and the entire route will be in the widest kind of country. Stikine River, which will be the route covered, crosses the mountains in deep cut canyons and everywhere evidences of glacial action abound The river banks are perpendicular walls and there are no landing places for dis tance of 200 miles.
 The trip up the StilIine River will be unusually hard because of the strong current which flows toward the sea. It is expected that the journey between Wrangell and Telegraph Creek will consume eight days or more, as the launch must be propelled against the current. The strength of this current is shown by the fact that the return trip can be made in two days or less.
 When the party leaves Wrangell with their guides and trappers, they will enter a country populated almost entirely by the Thlinget Indians and it is probable that they will meet no white men until they return month later.-New York World.