The Cordova daily times., 1920-05-28
REINDEER MARY
 SAYS 'KIDDLESS' ARE BEST BET

estimated in the hundreds of thous- aEds of dollars, has caught the spend ing fever and is now getting rid of much of her money. She is becoming s extravagant, as are her white sisters in the states.
 How is she squandering her money? Diamonds?
 v No, not diamonds.
 Fine gowns, expensive furs, Orient al rugs?
 Nothing in that line at all
 Then she must be buying automo- biles or maybe she has become a dog fancier?
 Not at all Just children! All her reindeers and her growing cash &C., count mean but one thing to Rein deer" Mary-children, more children, all of them adopted children!
 MARRIED REINDEER HERDER
 When but a young Indian maiden, and extremely pretty Mary married 8 reindeer herder whose name was Charles Autisarlock. He had been given herd by the government, be- cause government officials realized the value of the reindeer as beast of burden. It has been only in re- cent years that the government recog- nized the value of the reindeer as a source of food supply. The great Western plains are gradually being cut LID into small ranches and, 1t Is said the beef supply of America will grow less each year.
 Alaskan reindeer meat, according to government officials, will soon find it's way to the tables of thousands of American homes. Reindeer meat is similar both to venison and beef. It has the wild flavor of venisOn, how ever. The reindeer ranges in Alaska are virtually unlimited and the rein deer herds are yearly growing larger, a say the government officials.
 Autisarlock proved faithful to his trust. His original reindeer herd grew phenOmenally, and shortly before his death the Indian was called the Reindeer King of the North. To Mary following her husbands death, came the responsibility of the herd. Under her management it continued to grow until now it is the greatest in the world and Mary is the Queen of the sReindeer industry.
 Wealth and health were hers, but Mary was not happy. She longed for children.
 She adopted her first baby many years ago and then found happiness. Mary heard of tiny Indian papoose whose father and mother were both dead
 "Tll be it's father and mother both, :" she said Bring it to me-"
 TAKES ORPHAN BABIES
 And so the first baby came into the home of Mary. Since that time, to this day, when Mary hears of an orphan Indian baby, she lays first claim to it.
 Bring them to me; I have plenty, ; she is reported to have said. And so they have been bringing the orphans to Mary for years. No one seems to know definitely just how many chil- dren Mary now has. All of them are md will +1oo profits of the greatest reindeer herd in the world.
 Mary is supremely happy. She's spending her wealth on clothes for homeless babes, upon the education of her many adopted children and for all their clamoring wants.
 News has been received recently at the Seattle office of the U. s. Bureau of Education, Medical and Reindeer Service, that Mary's home was de- stroyed by fire The house represent ed considerable money, but the money less didn't bother the reindeer queen.
 SORROWS FOR PHOTOGRAPH
 "Her chief sorroy was the loss of photograph, the only one she had of an adopted baby boy who had died" said J. C. He1wig of the Seattle office. Undoubtedly she would have given twice the value of the house to save the picture If there ever was natural born mother in the world it is Mary"
 There are now 150,000 reindeer in Alaska Of these, Mary owns big percentage. "Thousands and thous- ands of them" is the way government officials speak of her holdings.
 Each fall the shipment of reindeer meat to Seattle grows in volume. Next fall the greatest shipment ever