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that occurs from letting the water run to avoid
freezing the pipes. Where we find this con
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HAS THRILLING
EXPERIENCE IN
ARCTIC REGION
Prisoned in a wilderness of ice and
midnight darkness, eut off by massive
glaciers, ignorant even that Ids coun
try had been plunged into the Kuro
pean war. Tony Shannon lias come
back to civilization, the first of the
StefanSBon party, that set out three
>ears ago. to arrive in safety from
the tearful and perilous expedition to
the Victoria islands, says a San Fran
cisco dispatch The imagination fails
before the flaming picture of tragedy
of solution, of hardship, sketched by
the prospector
Loneliness that drove some to mad
ness and others to suicide stalked this
waste of snow, where the only com
panions for the small group of white
men were a primitive and unknown
tribe of Hskimos For months the
light gleamed for blit two hours a
day. Shannon saw humanity in the
raw on that ice desert in the Arctic,
thousands of miles north of Point Har
row. the farthermost point in Alaska
owned by the I'nited States
With the prospector came little
Kriszenia Tuktook. an Kskimo child
of 1". adopted by Shannon Behind
that peculiar transaction is a story
that throws a tender light on the bleak
| !*fo of the North.
Kriszenia was one of the few ohil
| dron taken on that trail through the
j snow. Her father. Charles Pe-psuk.
n Kskimo trapper, took the little girl
with him wherever he went From
I the moment she first met th* white
haired. gentle eyed American she
call'd him "grandpa " All over the
camp she followed him One day Peep
•uk came to Shannon. Between the
native and the prospector a Prong
friendship had grown.
"Something is going to happen to
me Will you take care of tin little
I one?"
It was the rivalry of other tribes
that Peepsuk feared. It was the men
ace of the Arctic that overtf^k jjini.
Not a month after Shannon had gi\%n
IPs promise the trapper was out in
his kyak. near the Barter islands. Th<.
skiff overturned. He was swallowed
without even a struggle in the whirl
pool. The first thing that Shannon
did when he reached Point Barrow
! wa to take out legal papers giving
him the guardianship of the little
cirl
The next tiling was to buy up all
I tin papers and read the war news
We had not even heard of the <ink
j ing of the Lusitania. But we know the
Fulled States could not keep out of
the struggle. We heard of America’s
part just a month before the arm is
tice was signed
Stcfansson’s “Blond Eskimos”
Since 1900 Shannon has been pros
pecting in Alaska. Nevrr befeire had
he* struck as far north as Victoria
Lend, where the new tribe, called by
Stefansson tin- “blond Eskimos," is lo
cated.
“Victoria Land if. l.ooo miles north
east of the Harter islands, and about
2,000 miles north of Nome. It Is in
latitude T.'i, and is under tin* jurisdic- '
t'on of the Canadian government."!
s; id Shannon.
"It is a primitive, untaught but in
telligent people, whft live on this bar
ren island, where for more than six
months of tin- year it is perpetual
night Never Indore had they seen
white people; but they were neither
afraid nor hostile. They wore no
clothes Ixif skins and ate no food hut
fish, bear meat, seal and deer.
“They seem a strange mixture of
Mongolian and Indian. They have
all the honesty of the Chinese and
the resourcefulness of the highest
type of Indian. They have been called
the ‘blond Eskimo,’ but l never saw
any light haired or fair-skinned na
tive's among them. Their coloring is
no different from that of other Alas
kans."
With these* people, unspedb'el by civ
ilizatiem. the- white- men walled in by
the* ice* lived for two years. The Koc
meilaks. as their tribe is called, taught
tin* visitors new ways of trapping and
fishing. They gave them food, but
they would cat m> modern f ire* in ex
change Shannon continued;
“They wander about from one- ice
floe to another They have- no boats,
but they are* like1 \rabs in their r<*si
lessness. The* om* great diversion is
their assembly in tip* fall as soon as
the* ice hardens. Then the men.
women and children of tin tribe*
gather for an annual celebration and
feasting. They dance-, sing and reve l
for days They part tor tin* winter
seal hunting
“Money th»*v do not know The-re
is no upper class among tin- Kocnio
lt.ks. The y ne e d no government. Such
a thing as a gun is unknown to them.*
Their organization is communistic. If
one man has meat and his neighbor’s
hut is hare*, they sit down toge-the-r
and oat.
“A man has m> exclusive property
rights. He can not even keep his wife
if another man is strong enough to
take her from him. At any time a
husband is in danger of losing his
spouse, for there are not enough
women to go around.
Primitive Love-Making
"If a native sees a woman to his
liking he goes to tin- hut where sin
lives. grabs her and arries her to his
igloo. Should tin* rightful husband
protest a tug of war with tin- pros
pective bride as a human rope ensues, j
“Many a time have I seen women |
carried off without the slightest eon- | '
( ern for their w ishes. Hut often the 1
girl has a preference, and when sin
struggles against one of the suitors
he is almost sure to lose. Once she I
is carried into the hut she is acknow l
edged the lawful wife of the victor.
Many of the children are left to die j
at birth, hut those that are raist d arei
tenderly cared for "
Shannon was silent when the bitter
struggles of the white men that ended '
often in death were mentioned.
"We had enough to eat. We had
plenty of work to hunt the meat we
needed. Hut the monotony and tin
loneliness struck some of the men
era/.' There was no escape for them.
Sonn-times thev turned on ea h other
and sometimes on themselves.”
The t ace that won instant trust
from the Kskimo trapper the eyes j
that little Kris,.enia looks to with |
laugh; -r. show the marks of their j
pi i -u Tony Shannon has know n the | J
tragedies of the North, but he can not !
resist its lure. * I
HAS BUT ONE DAY TO
HAVE BILLS INTRODUCED
DKNVKlt. Deo. 30. Operation of a;
(institutional amendment adopted at
tin1 recent general election, and the
fact that New Year's of 10111 falls on
Wednesday will combine to give O.ov
ernor-eleet Oliver 11. Shoup but one
day during the session of the twenty
second general assembly on which he
can officially seek the introduction of
any bills the passage of which may
be desired by him
The state constitution provides that
the legislature shall assemble on the
lirst Wednesday of every other year,
while tlie governor takes office on the
second Tuesday of the year The new
amendment limits the period for the
introduction of bills in the assembly
fifteen days. Consequently Mr, Shoup
faces a calendar which calls for the
opening of the assembly on Wednes
day, January 1. the earliest possible
date; his inauguration on Tuesday.
January 14, the latest possible date;
and the expiration of the time limit
for the introduction of bills the dnv
allowing, Wednesday, January lf>.
WILLOW CREEK,
ALASKA
will soon become a second
Cripple Creek
$100 Invested Today in the
Little Gem Mine
will make you several thousand dollars within
a year or two.
I am authorized to place a limited amount
of shares at
TEN CENTS A SHARE
and will accept Liberty Bonds at par value.
Will be at Smith’s Llotel for one week
only.
R. DAVID REESE
Mining Engineer
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