Seward daily gateway., 1924-02-02
Literary Digest Falls
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killed enough game on it's head-hunt- ing trip to feed village a year, and lest no guilty one escape, even shot nanny goats on Skolai glacier, allow ing them to drop in the crevasses and remain there. Other scientific parties have been equally as guilty.
 The Alaskan hunter ana prospector Is one of the most enthusiastic con- servationisJs on earth. He kills only what he wants to eat, and eats what he kills. Of course he feeds his dogs on the poorer parts of the carcass. Dogs are as important in this country as a horse to the man outside, and dogs cannot eat grass, uness all flesh is grass. They must be supported and to support them they must be fed meat. An Alaskan could do without his dog team about as easily as your Eastern farmer can do without his team of horses. The natives must eat meat and fish. The fish are corralled by the outside capitalist, and there lore poor Lo turns to moosemeat, and occasionally dogmeat, if the game has been run out or the district by the cannery sport with his .22 high-power and uncouuh ignorance of the rights of others.
 kenai has about 300 population and 45O moose a year would be over a moose to the person. This is about oOO pounds of meat per head per an- mum. No wonder the natives are dis eased and lazy. Up to date the hunt CTS of Seward have brought in six moose. These animals are found from the town limits to a distance of 30 miles away; if the hunters were as bloodthirsty and guilty of game law attractions as the Digest would have us believe there would have been at least a thousand killed, as Seward is three times as large as kenai. But five moose to 1000 inhabitants does not show much intent in law viola tions.
 If rabbits are as numerous as the writers claims the dogs could be fed rabbits, unless these animals become 50 active from snatching their feed from under the noses of the clumsy moose that they climb a tree. The rabbits do take considerable moose 4eed by eating the young willows and browse moose feed on, but who knows out hat the moose may yet be forced to eat the rabbits. If fifty per cent If the calves perished from starvation there must have been some moose calves born, as the crop is unusually arge this year, owing to fine weather conditions and light snows.
 The tameness of these animals is evidence of their numbers. This win ter one hunter left Seward and went to the flats, where within three hours after leaving camp he had bagged his limit. Like shooting COW in herd.
 Alaska has had the misfortune to have her business and her game laws administered by every one else but Alaskans. It has been but a few weeks since Eastern papers banned resi- dents of the Territory for killing the bald eagle. The same papers came out and advocated sportsmen shooting the crow at every opportunity. The crow compares to the eagle in vi ciousness and as destroyer at about the same ratio a porch-climber com pares with some of our government grafters. If Alaskans, who have no crows, advocated law protecting crows for Fasteners, imagine the howl that would go up. And yet our citizens know far more about crows than do Fasteners about moose or eagles. Now that the Digest has symphonized the Moose Blues, and the echoes of the requiem have hard ly died away, we ask the boy to page Dr. Hornaday. He can tell lem the facts, despite his few weeks residence in the Territory as a head-hunter.
 An Alaskan" may have written the alleged article to the Digest. We have lem here in 57 varieties of in telligence and sanity. But the pro- test about the dogs being fed the best in the land does not sound much like an Alaskan.