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| The following Is from a report of n
Z Ice ure by Professor Kincaid, of the
. University of Washington, published
in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
The fur seal it seems. Is not a true
seal. Me is kin to the bear family.
The true seal has no ears, but the
fur seal and his big cousin, the sen
lion, have ears like a benr or a pig.
He is the lineal descendant of a bear
w.hich has learned to swim
The fur seal spends his winters In
aristocratic ease around Honolulu, en
joying the warm waters of the south
ern oceans. In the spring the call of
I the North gets Into his blood and n
law, mysterious as that which makes
the tide to flow nnd the salmon to
turn their noses toward the rivers
of their birth, stnrts t,he fur seal
i i n ne,l < n tlin _t Ai .
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mandor Islands, which lie, fog enscons
cd, in the Bering Sea.
First come the bulls, kings of the
herd.
These battie-Rcarred leaders pick out
a home amongst the rocks, and hav
ing established themselves In cozy
nnartments by right of conquest, set
tle down to await the coming of their
consorts.
The females arrive nex The year
that Professor Kincaid spent on the
l’rihilof islands, ns assistant commis
- oner of the fur seal commission
headed by Dr. David Stnrr Jordan,
'here were 10,000 hulls and 130,000
females.
The seal is a polygamous brute, and
tie gathers from ten to forty wives
about him, according io his strength
In battle and the chances of fortune;
On the outskirts of this community
gather the bachelors, young bucks
who have not yet essayed to break ln
•o the seal society, and the females
too young to undertake family enres.
The first duty of each mature fe
male on reaching the land is to bring
into Die world a pup.
'I his seal pup, barring human ha
Hu*. Is ju t about the prettiest, ]|v
liest, fattest, most playful little brat
of all the animals tlint Ood put upon
tlie earth.
lie weighs about ten pounds at birth
His coat is a rich soft black, like the
finest black velvet. His great brown
eyes are human in their beauty.
The pups gather In groups, huddling
together like dog pups nad playing
like kittens, yapping and leaping and
shaking their fat little sides with seal
Inughtcr.
When the pup is hungry he seeks his
own mother, never another mother,
and takes his refresrment as God de
signed babies to do.
The pup never feeds at any breast
than his own mother's.
Keep thnt fact In mind.
A treat many years ago women be
an to crave sealskin coats. Women’s
ity drove the Russian explorers
BtuuuuH, ana in
his way the Pribilofs were discovered
0,1 • t’d the mist curtains which hung
over Bering Sea.
A Russian company first exploited
the seal Islands. Two American com
s "anil s succeeded, and now the Islands
' !|ro dosed to sealing.
" ’’Ho **u> killing of seals was con
tiued to the land, l’rofessor Kincaid
believes, the harm done to the herds
'as slight. But the commercial con
ditions. the lease of tho privilege to
oao company, led to the deep sea, or
pelagic sealing.
Once a week the mother seal swims
| out to sea for food.
OIT shore, some fine morning, lies
" BChooner surrounded by small boats,
i 1 ml in each small boat are several
i'-kill' d gunners or harpooners.
I bo glossy head of the mother seal,
I Spears a moment above the surface.
There is a crack, crack of rifles and
u swish of harpoons.
\ stain of red spreads over the
iter and the mother sinkH. Perhaps
the boats reach her in time to gain
a pelt: perhaps they don’t.
But back On the beach there frol
1 H 11 roly-poly little pup, yapping for
1 s breakfast.
in course of time the inevitable hap
pens. The pup yap Its last.
One of Professor Kincaid’s lantern
slides showed a group of seal pups
at play.
The other was a grew some scene
\L,ura ri.unnn _i, i:n*.
-a beach block with dark little bodies,
each the price of a pelt that went to
make a ladles’ coat.
Since Japan has joined In the in
ternatlonal sealing treaty pelagic seal
ing is becoming a thing of the past \
The government still takes a few pelts 1
on the I’rlbiiofs, kiiitng the mules
from 3 to 6 years old.
The slaughter makes little differ
ence In the herd. For. by the scheme
of things, n certain number of super
fluous males nre fated to lay down
their lives in battle.
The announcement of this news wns
the most cheerful part, of Professor
Kincaid's lecture.
I wonder If the yapping little ghosts
of the orphans whose lives hnve been
sacrificed to make up many a seal
skin coat ever pursue the proud wear
er of it.
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HOMESTEADS IN
THE TUNA
VALLEY
According to tho records nnd fig
ure!- of the Fairbanks United States
Innd oflice, which embraces in its
district the whole Interior of Alaska,
an estimated area of 300.000 sptmre
milcF, there are on this date only
55 homestead entries. They con
ain an aggregate of 15,344.44 acres.
Tills oflice is comparatively new so
far as homesteading is concerned, as
the government surveys were not ap
proved and filed formally until this
year. The first homestead entry was
made February 12, 1914, by Alphonse
Zehnder, and the last entry embraced
is that of J. F. McOrath, November
2fi, 1914. Local officials estimate
that 85 per cent of these homestead
ers have been living on their land
the last two years nnd over. Some
of them have been squatters, how
ever, for four and five years, and have
inely cultivated ranches. Under
the laws all they have had to do is
to prove three years’ residence and
bona fide cultivation of the land to ob
tain patents to 320 acres, or the
amount filed upon.
The general homestead laws apply
to the taking of land in Alaska as In
the States, no special requirements or
offers being made in the matter of
proof. So far the government sur
veys have been very limited, but with
the coming of railways larger appro
priations for this purpose are bound
to be made and the area extended
greatly. It is not possible to state
offhand how innny acres of agricul
tural land there nre in the Tatiana
valley alone, but it will climb up in
to the hundreds of thousands. The -
government maintains a large exper
tnent farm or station near Fairbanks,
full reports of which for several years .
back are available by writing the de- 1
part meat of agriculture at Washing- <
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Ed. Hearing says the town of Chit
ina Is very quiet, but everyoue is
on the alert waiting for the purchase
of the Copper River & Northwest ,\i
railway by the government.
The liveliest young men in Chlti
nn is young Gregory Rockefellow, who
is tlie five-year old son of the man
ager of tlie N. C. stage station there.
Young Gregory knows (he name of
eveiy horse running into Chitina, and
personally sees that the Ei a. m. stage
leaves on time, and that the drivers
take care of their horses.
Fred Schoup has a sheet metal
works and hardware store there. Mi
ami Mrs. Chiis. Hull, who formerly
had a restaurant in the location oc
cupied by the Little Grill here, is
now conducting a large grocery
store and rectus to be doing well—
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Groceries are always the lowest. Call
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