Gouvernleng
Unalakleet, Alaska, >iarch i^i7
Number 34
THE FAIR
Neither time nor space will allow
a lengthy report of the Fair.
The warm spell made the out door
sports as a whole.fall below what we
had hoped for. The great crowds, as
compared with the first Fair was flat
tering a-id speaks well for the effort
pat forth bv Sap:.Johnson.
i'lie Lipps eit therein full force.
This added much to the interest.
The we'l trained deer of the Lapps
was an object lesson to all, and still
there is room for improvement.
Mr. Klemetsen’s big deer, Ex
change and K1e.net Bahr’s big deer,
White Nose.each, pulled a load of
3 $55 lbs. The load was started from
a dead standstill with no help;ptilled
some 50 feet and up a perceptable
grade.The trail could not have been
better, however, for the pull
The eveningbutanes* meetingsare
really of m*rdi practical value to
the reindeer industry.In them the
perplexing little tilings of the
ye ar are adjusted. Ideas of different
reindeer owners and herders clash
good naturedly .at times,but always
resulting in acquired knowledge val
uable for future work.
A goodlv number of distinguished
visitors from St Micheal were in at
tendance.
Dr T/inv'of >» »l:ito ••• :s ‘.Iso tr.ere
accompanied bv Sergeant .Munson
who astonished the natives hv some
extraordinary stunts with the laso.
We predirt that ’ere another Fair is
called that a goodly number of men
with “k’s ”iu their name will have
lea-ied todoso ue of the lassostunts.
To avoid the roujested condition
in the Shnktoolik homes,next year,
all the tents should he pitched in the
nearby sp-tir grove,to be turned
o-'er to the visitors and every team
Iviug u tent. This would relieve the
needless burden upon the village,and
at the same time add real life to the
Fair.
L1FS OX THE I00X
H.A.HOWE
’* Enough has been said to show that
there is ro such animal and veg
etable life o!i the moon as on the
earth. It is a land of death. The sky
is a pail ol black, studded with stars
b> day as well as by night. The ris
ing sun, unheralded by the beautiful
sky tints which accompany the dawn
on earth, darts his garish beams
athwart the desolate landscape,caus
ing the lofty peaks to cast longshad
o.vs which vie with the sky in
blackness. No bird song greets him;
there is no rustle of a breeze,or plash
of a brook.or murmur of an ocean.
Should “lips quiver and tongues es
say to speak, ’no sound from them
would break the eternal silence.Dark
pitsi l ime: able yawn on every hand.
The silv ery rims of mighty craters
encircle abysses of darkness. As the
sun slowly rises in thesky, the fierce
chill of the departing night is slowly
mitigated;bui no manlike being wel
c * !es retw tng warmth.
forgets to shine;the weird
gio: \ of the solar corona and the fan
tastic- forms of the protuberances can
be seen in all their beauty by screen
ing off the direct light of the sun.
The Milky Way girdles the sky, be
jewelled with thousands of glittering
orbs. The eye is enchanted by the'
glories above.tho the mind shrinks
from contemplation of the long deso
lation all about. ”