THE ESKIMO BULLETIN,
" THE ONLY YEARLY IN THE WORLD.
Y(>lTiIl CAPE PRINCE OF WALEST ALASKA, JULY, 1897!
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BRYAN
ELECTED.
Special Dog-sled Dispatch.
(H) BOVIN BAY, Mar. 25.—Bryan
i-< President, and U. S. ia at war
wit!i Spain. This news comes
from the Yukon.
LAPPS TO
COLONIZE
ALASKA.
NORTON SOUND WILL BE
SETTLED FIRST.
Twenty Pack-deer Gone to
the Yukon Gold-fields.
Looking forward to the establish
ment, in the near future, of a Lapp j
C'iIimv, Dr. Sheldon Jackson, last:
- r m„ instructed Supt. Ivjellmann,
(•i tin> U. S. Teller Reindeer Sta
tion. v. ith two Lapps, to make an
vplming trip on deer-sled to the:
Yukon and Kuskokwim valleys- j
Dn I )• <-., 15, 1800, Mr. Kjellinanu J
nin! Lapps started on their long !
join m v and returned to the Rein-,
th*t-r Station April 25, 1897, hav- i
ing travelled, the Lapps estimate,,
bout 1500 miles. While in the j
Yukon valley, they v.ere five (lavs j
without moss and five of their'
deer died of starvation. Unahik- j
!e>-t. on Norton Sd., was selected!
; s tin* most suitable place for the i
lust colony. The Lapps’ three j
v. rs '-outract with the U. S. ex
1'ires this Summer. Most of them
will return to Norway. Per Past,
tie* wealthiest mid most influential |
ot th'-m, accompanied Mr. Kjell
I'.mun ou his trip of exploration,
Mi l it is thought he will be able to
persuade many of Ills countrymen
to colonize “Uncle Sam’s” big un
uscil deer-pasture, incase the Pul
i' :ui of Education offers satisfactory
inducements.
Dr. Jackson has just sent twenty
reindeer to the Yukon gold-fields,
where their utility and adaptability
ns pack-animals will be tested.
Distilling a "Horne
Industry”
400 Gallons of Molasses
Made Into
Rum.
The oldest inhabitants sav
that, in the history of the Keng
ik-meets, the Winter of ’90—’9?
has never been paralleled for
drunkenness, disorder, and blood
shed. Liquor has been distilled
in almost every house. Some have
manufactured it for trade and oth
ers i«>r “family use.” Those who
had no outfits, borrowed tlieir
neighbors’. Protracted drunken
brawls often prevented many from
taking advantage of favorable:
conditions of ice and wind for seal*
and bear hunting. At times, many't
were ou the verge of starvation. '
It was a common occurrence, ;
for the teacher, when returning
home from Night school, to meet;
ten or fifteen drunken men and
women. Ou two occasions, iutoxi-;
eated men staggered into Sunday
Soli! ol. A five gallon oil can at- j
ached, at the top, to the end of j
an old gun-barrel which passes j
almost horizontally through a barrel!
filled with snow or ice-water, ecu- j
stitutes-. the still. A fermented |
mixture of molasses or sugar and i
flour, when placed in the oil can
and heated sufficiently to cause
the alcohol to pass off through j
the gun-barrel worm, produces a j
kind of rum, which, judging from ■
the effects, seems to have all j
the desired properties of the
imported article. A bottle full of
the “Moonshine,” “Aurora Bore
alis,” 01 “Midnight-sun” brand, j
can be readily exchanged for a;
red fox skin. More than four
hundred gallons of cheap black
molasses and a quantity of sugar
and flour have been used for
this purpose. This same
proceess of distilling is known and
used in all the large settlement
from St. Michaels to Pt. Barrow.
CHIEF
KOKITUK’S
DEATH. '
SHQT~AND~STAB
BED BY TWO
BROTHERS. r
His Brother is His
Avenger.
On the night of Jan.
2, '97, the people were a
roused from their slumb
ers by the startling news
that the young chief,
^Kokituk had been shot
-and stabbed to cleaih bv •
Setartuk and his brother,
Eraheruk,and that Setar
tuk was mortally wound
ed. It was difficult to
(Continued on page 3.)
MR. THORNTON’S MONUMENT
's Last Sum
* mer. friends
1 of the late
| H. R, Thorn
: ton, sent a
j monument to
mark his
grave. This is
the most
, western, if
npt the most
! northern mar
ble grave
l stone on this
j continent.
J This cut, by
| our Eskimo
engraver, Isa
true repre
'-*** • 'seniaxion <*»
tt stands on the htl!-slde facing
the Strait. On one side is in
scribe d
“HARRISON R. THORNTON.
Born Jan. 25, 1858. Died Aug. 19,
1893. A good soldier of Christ
Jesus.” On another side,
“ERECTED BY FRIENDS IN
SCUTHPQwT, CONN,’*