Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-11-08
SURE ESKIM0S
 ARE BLONDE IS
 HIS STATEMENT
Man Who Devotes Time to Life In Northland De-
 scribes Way of the Arctic Folk.

Seattle, Nov. 6.--"Sure they're 'blond Eskimos. They are aboriglnes living up in the white Arctic on Vic toria Land in their primeval statt absolutely untouched by the outside worlds civilization. They are com pletely out of contact with everything and, consequently, have none of our improvements and also none of our evils."
 w. J. Bower, known along the Arctic coast as "Levi" Bower, one of the very few men who have gone from the outside into the far northern al most fabled land of the 'blond Eski- mos' thus described them when he was here recently.
 And l don't think it was Stafans- son who first found them" Bower asserted. Vilhjalmer Sttfansson, re- turned Canadian Arctic explorer, who has been credited with discovering the strang tribe, agrees with Bower that he did not find them first. Ht does, however, claim that he made the first study of the tribe and brought back to the outside world the first report of it's existence.
 According to Stefansson and Bower, a Captain klinkerberg. master of the whaling schooner Olga in 1905 push ed northwest to Victoria Land where he found the blond tribe. On his rt- turn to the whaling base at Herschel Island, an Arctic Ocean point, he told of his findings. Stefansson then at Herschel heard Klinkenberg's story and. immediately went to Victoria where he made a study of the natives.
 Bower claimed the "blond Eski- ! mos' are really blond. Stefansson does not go that far but says they have light gray, almost blue eyts and a few have light hair and eyebrows. Bowers pointed out that the ''blond" ] natives have round full eyes while the oter Eskimos of the far north have the slant eyes of Asiatics.
 "It looks as if the blond Eskimos' ] come from early Greenlanders or Scandinavian stock of some kind'' Bower said. q know they are not half white and half Eskimo because the half breed Eskimos have black eyes 1 and black hair. These white ones have light eyes and light eyes and light 1 skin and hair The old men of the tribe have the same white features as i tie young.
 "Bows and arrows are used by them, they know nothing about to- bacco and liquor, they make their fires with sort of flint, they dress in skins, they spear their reindeer and rub their fishl, they won't eat ] outsiders food and they speak lan- guage similar to that of the Eskimo. 'They are hospitable, fritndly and square, too square, think. If you give them anything they are not sat isfied until they give you something in return. gave one woman an empty baking powder tin and sht immediate ly brought me big skin.
 "We left gun with them. Instead of using it to kill meat, the men seem- ed to think it was a plaything for when left they were shooting their bullets away at targets and wildly into the air. When they ran out of ammunition they probably turned the gun around and got some real use out of it as a club.''
 Bower sa.1 he thought there were over 250 "blond Eskimos' on Victor ia Land, It is not very probable that they will ever be molested much by the outside world for Victoria Land is far off the usual run of traders and whalers go into the Arctic no longer.
 Bower has servtd on whaling ves- vessl in many parts of the north, and until the recent return to the States, had not been out of the Arctic for five years. On Stefanssons last trip he was stewardNon tht schooner Polar Bear which Stefansson used for time. Stefansson took Bower into the l'b'ond Eskimo" country.
 Before retiring at night and before breakfast. take a tablespoon of Brun- Snn'S Tonic: ii will greatly henefit