The Alaska daily empire., 1917-10-19
Father KaShevaroff Touch- es on Interesting Inci- dents of Early
 Life.
THE FIRST EXPEDITIONS
Prominent Men Made Ex- cursions to Alaska; Bent on Knowledge
 and Riches.

rather kaSneVarOft Tn his Alas ka Day address at the Arctic Broth erhood entertainment brought out interesting data of Alaska Russian history, from which the following is taken:
 Bering's expedition was in TAI under the direction of scientists of the Russian Academy. They made the trip across Siberia The expe dition was ordered in 1732 and start ed June 4th, 1S41. The St. Paul was under charge of Tchrikof. Der ing landed July 1Sth in lat. 5S0 28 and Boring Sea was named after him. The St. Peter landed farther south, Lat. 56' and sent a boat ashore. It failed to return. A sec ond boat with carpenters and fight ing men was sent ashore and failed to return and neither was ever heard from afterwards. Shortly af ter that a war canoe of natives was seen coming around the point, but 1t sight of the ship retired. As he St. Peter crew had been re luced from 70 to 49 he did not dare 70 send any more boats ashore. He reached Siberia Oct. 9, 1841.
 Boring was wrecked while return ing and his death occurred on an island, Dec. 8, 1S41. The discoveries were verified by Cook in 177S.
 Four other Russian expeditions we're sent to Alaska to confirm the Russian title. One of these was )y the Order of Katherine under Bill ings in 1785, which was instructed 0 take possession of such islands md coasts as were found The sec ,nd expedition in 1903 was in the interests of the Russian-American Company and outfitted two ships lnder Lisiansky and Krusenstern The third expedition was by the celebrated minister, Count Roman rof in charge of Captain Kotzebue
 The fourth expedition was under
  )f the Russian navy during it's sec )nd trip around the world. The German naturalist KittlitZ had done much to illustrate natural history of Alaska
 Many other expeditions were sent 70 Alaska under very able naviga ors and scientists, for instance, un Ter Cook in 177S: Captain Portlock English, in 17S6-S; La Perouse, French, 17S7; Bodega, Spanish, 1775
 Captain Belcher, 1887, was at Sitka at the time Baranoff Castle was finished and danced at the in ,uguration ball; Sir Geo. Simpson governor general of the Hudson Bay Company in 1S41.
 Pioneer hunters in Alaska were Gmelian BasOff in 1743; Nevochikoi n 1915; Trapcznikoff in 1749; Glo tof in 1759.
 Fur companies were formed and Gregory Shelikof in 1776 sent the first expedition under John Coli koff. In 17S3 Shelikof with his wife and 200 hunters accompanied him Landing on Kodiak Island. This was the beginning of the settlement of Alaska. In 1791 Alexander Bar anoff came to Alaska for the Shelf kof Company. Baronoff, the genius, the builder, and by his disinterested devotion, built up the country and had the devotion of the administra. tion. He managed the affairs of Alaska for over quarter of century and died poor. His energy, indomitable will, superhuman strength, strength of character and ardor which noth- ing could cool. neither the elements or the savages, the loss of his ships, of his stores, or sickness from lack of food treachery and mutiny of his emplayes-these and other ad. versailles seemed only to bring out his strength of character. His ad ministration, however, was pronounc ed harsh and despotic.
 Other administrators of Alaska followed, among them Hagermeister Yanofsky, Kupreanoff, Wrangell. Flu rujelm, Etholin, Koskul and Maks outof
 Under Russian rule Russian sub jects enjoyed no protection of lives property or security. There was nc appeal from oppression. The admin istration and it's agents decided ev erything arbitrarily, and everything was done in the name of the Car without giving any account to the home government. There were nc laws or courts. everyone had to obey the iron rule of the agent oi the company. The condition among the natives was exceedingly bad
 Later conditions at Sitka improved Trade expansion called into being shipyards, foundries. brick yards mills. schools and churches. Due to scientific expeditions a magnetic station was established at Japonsky Island, and geologists and geodetit surveyors located at Cook Inlet
 That was the condition of tho