The Wrangell sentinel., 1928-09-06
Settlements and Tribes in the AleXandrian Archipelago
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mission. It is the home of the Stick inc tribe, and many other tribes have their representatives there. The white population at present is only about fifty, and the native about three hundred and fifty.
 The Presbyterian mission was es- tablished in 1877 by Mrs. A. R, Me Farland. The present force in the mission includes Rev. $. Hall Young, minister in charge, Mrs. Fannie D. Young, principal of the Tlinkit Training Academy, James ". Young, George H. Barnes, Miss Annie Chis- holm, and Miss Susie Young, assist ants in Training School. and Miss Lydia L. MeEYoy, teacher of the gov ernment day school. The training school has an enrolment of 37, and the day school Of more than loo. Fort Wrangel is 16 miles from Sitka and 140 from Juneau.
 South Of Wrangel are three native settlements-the Hydah village of Kasaan on the s. D. shore of Prince of Wales Island, numbering about 125, where is no mission or school; the village of Cape Fox, about 12O miles from Wrangel, numbering some 100 inhabitants, and the fort and town of Tongas, 30 miles far ther, where a very few whites and about 200 natives reside. Here has been a school and mission from the fall of 1881 until the present winter, but they are at present broken up by the sad accident which caused the death of Prof. saXman and Louis Paul. The only teacher now at the mission is Mrs. Tillie Paul. The na- tiYes of Tongas, Cape Fox and Ka- saan propose to unite in building a new town at Port Chester, and mis- sionary will probably locate there ill the spring.
 On the western shore of Prince of Wales island, and it's outlying is lands, are several large settlements. The first village is a small group of houses, built by natives of the Kou- you and Haneyah tribes, around a saWmiIl at Chilean, so miles from Wrangel. There are a few whites there who find employment at the mill-no teachers.
 Thirty miles beyond Chilean is the Haneyah village of Tuksekan, hav- imp about 300 inhabitants. Here Rev. L. ". Gurrie was located last fall, and with his wife is teaching large government SCuOOls
 Thirty miles farther south is the village of Klawack, where a salmon cannery furnishes employment every summer to large numbers of the Fly dahs and Haneyahs. Here MT. Curry will teach during the fishing season.
 Fifty miles south of KlaWack is Howkan, where Rev. J. L. Gould presides over another Presbyterian r11,. ic and is gathering to itself the people from the adjacent towns of Kiln duan, Suhkwan and Koianglas. These people are Hydahs, and togeth- CT number about 1000. Besides MT. Gould and his wife, the workers at HoWkan are Mrs. A. R. Mcfarland, in charge of the Home for girls, Miss Clara A. Gould, teacher of the gov ernment day school, and w. D. Me Leod, who has charge of sawmill belonging to the Board of Home Mis- sions. The mission was founded in 1881.
 There are, besides the settlements mentioned, salmon fisheries at Pyra- mid Harbor, Tacoo Bay, Red Bay, Salmon Bay, Karta Bay, Loring and Tongas Bay, and also small mining camps, and branches of tribes at diff ferent places in the archipelago; but have indicated all the principal and permanent settlements. The esti- mates of the number of people at each place are not all correct, for want of sufficient data, but 1 have used all the information at hand.
 The inhabitants of Fort Wrangel mourn the departure of the herring from our harbor. From 1879 to 1884 Etholine Harbor was literally packed with the shining beauties; and after them came great numbers of cod, mackerel, salmon, halibut, sharks, and dog fish; and even whales spout ed their columns of spray almost at our very doors. The herring, and consequently their devourers, stayed from September to April each year, and a small canoe could be filled with the delicious fish in a little while, by simply raking long stick, with a row of sharp nails on the edge, through the water, and bring ing it, with it's captures, back into the canoe. The larger fish were easily caught by hooks. But during the winter of 1885-1886, there were few herring in the harbor and this winter there are none. or course the codfish, etc., are absent also. A few halibut can be secured, and founders and hake in warm weather. The natives say the herring will come back in a year or two May the time be shortened, as our living is a great deal better and cheaper when they are here.
 The canning company have al- ready made times much livelier in Wrangel than heretofore. The com pany has purchased MT. Taylor's two new scows, has ordered over hun dred thousand feet of lumber from the Chilean mill, and has given work to a number of the Wrangel natives. Probably sixty or seventy native men