FRIDAY
Friday was spent in adjusting rein
deer business. Settling old claims and
clearing away clouds from deer
transactions of all kinds
During the day the room and even
the spruce forest all about the camp
s nelled appeti/.ingly of new baked
bread. The ladies Bread Baking Test
was coming off. At night scores of
tempting loaves smiled thru their
shining golden crust to the observers
a id to tlie judges in particular and
defied them, the judges, and brother
Power was ore of them.totell which
was the best. ICach of the six judges
with a loaf of choice under his arm
filed to the kitchen and there sliced
and tasted and talked and tasted
again and again until we were full,
too full to judge for it all tasted,as the
Dutchman said, “Ore loaf as good r.s
another and a little better.”
SLED LASHING CONTEST
At night the sled l.tslii g contest
proved a very i ite; estiug and long to
be remembered exent.Tl e lota, coi s
isted of a stove,sleeping hag,sack of
clothes, gun, s: ow-shoes. grub.I ox
and ax.The snow-shoes and a gun to
be lashed on the out side of the load.
After lashing the sled was rolled
from side to side, and at last turned
up side down and shaken. If it stood
the test astotieing and no part of
the inner load showed it was called
o. k. There were 34 entries. Nine of the
wrappings were disqualified in one
way or another, isiiah won first pri. e
in 56 sec. Oliver second in 59 sec. At
the close of this contest a jolly even
ing was spent by all.
Had we the space and time, and
dared we to trespass further on your
patience much could he added that is
equally as iute esti: g and helpful.
Sufficeth it to sav, that all who were
there were quite unanimous in
declaring the Fair a Grand Success,
of course, not that the events and
tests surpassed or equaled some of the
events in the other fairs held this
winter, dut we do unhesitatingly
declareth.it asa unifier the Fairsare
the great events in the deerman's life.
Thinks to Mr. Iv/ais who proposed
this fair, and to Snot Joh. son who
seemed to k .ow j st what to do and
when to do it in o der that success
might he written at the end.
E E l \in AV.'.r
Unalakleet, Alaska, Feb 25. ‘ib.
To the reindeer people of the
Western District:
It lias been brought to my atte it ion
that certain reindeer men have beer,
in the habit of kiili g male deer,
wit ho ;t permission, be o: gi: g to
persons who were absent at the time
of killing. When the owner ol the
deer found it out, then the man who
hil kille 1 the deer w o u 1 d
promise to tnctk one to replice it.
'l'his practice must not continue, for
if the person who broke the law,
should he taken before the authorities
it would cause him a great deal of
trouble and prol t.bl\ land him ir
prison.The same law applies in re
marking deer that belong to others.
I take this method of notify ing the
reindeer men that all violatersof the
1 iw will be p taishe l.This especially
applies to those who re-mark or kill
deer belonging to others. Even tho
you pro nise to mark deer to replace
those marked or killed, you w ill Le
subject to the action of the law.