The Connecticut labor news., 1921-11-04

i tlltIc IS noJlllflS put the pole and It 1s inccssant, requiring strength and dex- 1 terity and ii operations are suspended ] for a moment so much ground is lost as to make it a heartbreaking business | Moreover 1t requires skill and if a per son attempt it without some previous training he will lose his outfit and per haps his life
 Ascending the stream for a hundred miles in the aforesaid manner brought our party within the foothills of the Alaskan range which rim the Gougon Valley on the South and here 1t was de- l Cided the winter cabin should be built for the foothills can always be selected as feeding ground for bands of noun tain sheep Accordingly the two men set to work to fell timber and build d cabin while mein frau busted herself i'll fishing for grayling in the river and learning to prepare q meal pioneer fash ion at camp fire receiving necessary instructions from the guide In due time the log cabin was completed and the stores of food and clothing cached within and when a quantity of dry wood had been gathered for the winter fuel the cabin was locked, the party dcccndcd the river again and in due time reached Fairbanks The passage down stream is 'iuiAhlN lllctNS dlNl HIS llc LII Cast Ol llldD with a savage pleasure when he rcmem- bers the fatiguing toll of the upstream journey.
 Another outfit was now secured con- sisting of tent and stove, rifles. shOtguns and ammunition. also team of dogs and sled and another start was made for the Nenana as before, This time a halt was made about thirty miles below the cabin where the valley is broader and more open and where the guide decided good moose and caribou hunting might be had until real winter should set in when they had but to go up river on the ice to the winter cabin
 By this time Sept. lst was at hand with the open season for hunting. also frost and snow were making their first appearance. The tent was pitched and made as comfortable as might be and some days were spent in hunting with pleasing results. The guide saw at once that the count" needed little instruction in this pursuit, the man could shoot. so when he had received some instruction in driving and feeding the dogs the ser vices of the guide were dispensed with and he returned to Fairbanks.
 About this time a couple of miners making their way up the valley of the N NCIldIld III OlU lUcl to get llIlouSIl lIo DdSN to the valley of the Sustna on the south side of the range whence small strike had been reported stopped at the camp of Maurer to say good luck" They found him and wife in excellent spirits. and expecting to enjoy the whole winter The miners told him he might expect a visit from Nagita, called bad Indian, whose camp was somewhere in the upper reaches and who claimed the entire val ley as his hunting ground and who had a certain following or tribe. An eX- planation of what the term hunting grounds" means to the Indian may prove interesting.
 Before the advent of the white man and especially in a mountainous country. tribe or branch of tribe of Indians. inhabiting a river valley claimed the entire watershed for themselves and no Indian of another tribe dare take or kill game or fur within. The divides were the boundaries and there was no tres passing as punishment was direct. This appears to have been one of the most important of their tribal laws.
 With the great influx of white men into the north during 1897-8 the natives sought to maintain their rights and killing occurred on the upper IOukOn. llcdl l-dht LdDelSt. Just at lliS liiiS the first federal Canadian Judge was on his way to the klonclike during the win ter of 1897-S. A halt was made and court was held in a tent with all hands dressed in the habiime1tts of the trail mossasins. parka and furs. The result was the conviction and execution of two natives and a white man. Also in the older camp at AirCle a miner was killed by the Indians for trcSpaSslng and there being no representatives of the U. 5. government in interior Alaska. at this carly date, the miners followed the slay CT across the river and into the fastnesses north of the Yukon, where they took their man from the midst of his own people and promptly hanged him. Here as always in the development of our country the natives were but defending what they considered their inalienable rights but what will you? Such is the law of races.
 The Indian of our narrative had not benefited by those lessons and had threatened such few prospectors as had come into the valley to see if it contained d paystrcak. Our two friends told the "COunt' that for the good of the COun- try he should not allow the Indian to bluff him. He said he would not and h>NihlANi lllNN SNiN h1llSIltNN NIll tiiNIl experience so far and the miners went on their way.
 It was but few days before the ln- dian Nagita made his appearance. He had but few words of English and tried to convey his meaning in the usual way but the count" assumed a lofty attitude and waved him waved him grandly away. This time the Indian was unarmed but returned a week later with rifle and found the woman alone. She did not understand a word but from his antics and his handling of the rifle she was not left in any doubt as to his threatened intentions.
 The river had now frozen over: I should rather write, closed. for no tenn perature out of doors would freeze those rivers over in the sense that the reader understands the term. or account of the speed of the current. The temperature of the water in the small streams of feeders becomes below freezing. The snow falls in chunks from the spruce boughs or rolls in from the banks These do not melt but increase in size with every roll and soon the whole river sur face is white moving mass which has a very pretty appearance. Somewhere below there IS a narrOWS or islands OC- cur and jam forms. The mass is quick lv bound together by the low temperature ,,I ;.,o ;c