The Nome nugget., 1928-04-28
UNAI.AKLHE NEWS BRlWs
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 Especial NuKset Correspondcnce)

! White Mountain and the villages between. holding services. which
 were well attended in all the vil- lages. They also baptized twenty children. They report koyuk growing and prosperous village with school attendance of forty. They report that the school house is too | small but it is expected that this
 Education next summer. as they are contemplating building d larger school.
 The writer recently visited St.
 Michael, arriving there the Satur- day before Easter. expecting to find it in state of somnolence, but was greatly surprised to find it wide awake, and the streets crowded with natives dressed in their holiday attire, with here and there trad CT from the outlying districts, P. ! J. Paulson. engineer of the Trader. ] being of that number. He was in on business and reports all we'll
 on the river. including Andy Ol- ! son.
 i The reason for the crowded streets was the Easter season and both the whites and Natives were l On Easter Sunday the church was | filled to overflowing at both Masses | and all went to Holy Communion. Father Sifton preached to tie con gregation in the Eskimo language ! and all the prayers were in that tongue.
 The Saturday before Easter was enliyened by court proceedings in ! which Shaktoolik Native was tried for killing deer not be longing to him. The United States Commissioner decided that the ev- idence against the accused was in sufficient and discharged the Iris- oncr.
 Captain Olsen. agent for the N. c. Company at St. Michael receiv
 ed message relative to the boat
 under construction for service be- tween there and points on the low CT Yukon river as far as is neces- l sery to connect with the passenger 1 boats coming down the river. The boat has already been described in ! The Nome Nugget. but in addition to that description has radio set, first rate saloon and. the culinary department is So arranged that l first class table service is assured.
 It is hoped that the new service will be such as to make it pleas | ure to travel on the Lower Yukon. The boat will stop at the different trading station along the route to give the passengers chance to ] collect curios.
 The return trip from St. Mich ael to Unalakleet was without in
 cident until Poker creek was reach
 ed. when the leader and swing dogs
 got mixed up with porcupine.
 When the mixup was over the pore,
 was intact barring few hundred
 quills, which the dogs had partly absorbed. and in the absorbing. had
 lost all taste for porcupine. We'll throw the mantle of silence over 1 the language of the driver as he extracted the quills from the howl
 ing malamutes Following the mar TOW trail between Poker creek wa
 heard the loud crunching sound of
 breaking and crunching ice; the
 tide was showing the ice up on the
 beach a few yards from the trail.
 There was not a breath of wind. yet the silent power of the incom- i ing tide showing the sea ice up or
 the beach. and moving the thous-
 ands of tons of ice which had ac- cumulated on the beach during the
 winter as easily as child topples
 over a house of cards. It was an awe inspiring sight.
 Your issue of March 4th. stating
 that Gaffney had introduced reso-
 lution in the meeting of the Grand
 Igloo of the Pioneers relative to
 having a member of the United I States Public Health Service to be
 Dischsrging Officer at Morningside. | was noted here with great interest.