NORTHERN LIGHT
P t'dished monthly by the Unalakleet
4^ ESKIMO SCHOOL
Unalakleet Alaska
Twi* degrees below the circle
(>:» Bering s rugged shore
Where the in'inmirof the river
Meets the hillo v’s ceaseless ro.ir.
K. K Vein Ness Iv’itor
Twenty Five Cents per \ ear
^, 5 RDITOKIAI. AND COMMENT -4*
DOGS REINDEER
There isco tsiderable goodnattned
tivelrv amongdog-men and deer-men
;:s to flops' and deer Due to much ar
£ unent sometimes the air becomes
di trge 1 with a something that af
te In tiie bystanders; ai.d occasioally
a iace may be seen to !e: gtlien \er
tieally, and another into a horizontal
spread.
.\o\v we own neither deer nor dogs
therefore we are not hi ised by a pet
deer that e its o it of o t- hand,drives
gee and haw, and lies (’own when he
thinks that he ought to with out
hei .g told to do so; nor by a (log that
sleeps snoreless ! > our bed side.Nor
bv a herd o 1 the mountains nor bv a
p iek of dogs in the bat k yard singing
The dog mi ile r have come to town.
Have come to tow n.
Have come to town,
The 'logon deer have come to town,
bet’s
Cho - — All howl-i—n—g'!
So what we have to say shall be
as unbiased as the rulings of the Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court who
has a party less lifelong job at good
pay. In the first place the more dogs
most folks have the worse off they
are, and the more deer any one has
the letter off they are. Now that
looks like settling the question for
ever,hut if every dog in Alaska
should suddenly drop dead it would
l>e a hard blow to our land- mail tied
up.travelers shivering in the told,
pitioas y ga/iug upon a string of dogs
dead-in harness A sad sight; a blow.
Not wholly unlike many a man
w’aose v due is not re di/ed until dead
l'he deer men cry out let our deer
cirrv the mail and convey your pas
se igers That sounds gtKvl and no
doubt much of it will de done some
d ty, i#ut the road houses are not
eq upped for such just now.
St.ililes must be built, moss provi
ded lor winter use, and relay deer
stationed along the run. So in the
mean time lift yo ir hat to the dog
now and then for the good work he
is doing,in carrying your letters,rein
deer reports and furs.
In a former issue of theN.L. it was
s li 1‘ i'oo many natives own too many
dogs. "vVe still believe it lint some of
tne natives need te tins, for they must
travel ''ousiderablv, and there is the
i md woo l p op isition and. now
an 1 the i so ue freighting to he done.
You may say let them own and use
dee; ,hut suppose Mr IIil Kiekinklk
h s ■i few deer,that me ms they are
off with the herd on the grazing
grounds, and he wishes to hike off
some twenty miles to his traps,or he
m ist have s > ue ice or woo 1,the sim
plest solution is to goout in back yard
where you see six or seven Mont
gn uery Ward’s dry goods boxes and
get his dogs and beat it. You may say
If lie is a deer man he should be out
in the herd and cut out the trapping