MUSKOXEN
70BEDRIVEN
FROM ARCTIC
Jack Underwood, who is now an
attache of the Washington bureau of
the Seattle Times, writes as follows
to his paper from the national cap
ital:
“For the purpose of adding to the
food resources of the United States,
half a dozen “cattle punchers” will
be sent to the most northern confines
of the American continent next sum
mer to lasso a number of musk oxen,
which will be transported to their for
mer habitat on Seward peninsula
and on the vast stretch of country
that lies between the Yukon and Kus
kokwim rivers and the Arctic ocean.
Plans for the expedition are now
being arranged jointly by the depart
ment of the interior and the depart
ment of agriculture. It is believed
that the musk oxen can be domesti
cated just as has been the reindeer,
and that, like the American reindeer,
the musk ox will in a few years be
come a factor in the affairs of the
meat-packing companies.
“The matter was brought to the at
tention of the departments by Gov
ernor RiggB of Alaska and Jafet Lin
deberg of the Pioneer Mining Com
pany, who owns a large reindeer herd
on Seward peninsula. Governor Riggs
states that there are more than 300,
000 musk oxen on Melville island and
many other large herds in the region
lying along the shores of the Arctic
ocean. Congress will be asked to
make a small appropriation to outfit
the expedition.
Stefansson Says It's Good
‘‘The musk oxen, according to Vil
hjalmur Stefansson and other explor
ers, furnishes considerable meat. The
animal dresses at 600 pounds, and as
:it iB slow-moving, its muscles do not
become hardened, and it makes a bet
ter quality of meat than most of the
beef sold in the United States. It
furnishes about three times as much
wool as an ordinary sheep, and the
•wool is of a better grade and without
■grease. It is not aggressive, but de
fends itself vigorously against preda
tory animals.
“For this reason it is believed the
mesk oxen will give greater protec
tion to the reindeer of Seward penin
sula against wolves. In the far North
the caribou and musk oxen herd to
gether for mutual protection against
predatory animals. There is no con
flict of interests between them, as the
reindeer or caribou eats moss and
the bovine lives on grass. When Be
ring, Cook, Vancouver and other navi
gators first visited the shores of
Alaska, enormous herds of musk oxen
grazed as far south as the Kusko
kwim river, but the whalers and fur
traders who visited the territory fur
nished the natives with rifles, and
these herds met the same fate as the
buffalo of the American plains.
“By 1860 they were completely j
wiped out, only those which grazed j
in the regions beyond the ice barrier
remaining, and it is these .herds which
will be drawn upon to start the new
Alaska cattle ranches. There are two
methors of taking the musk oxen
alive. The first is the lasso and the
second to shoot the mother and drag
the skin to the camp. The calves will
follow the trail and are easily cap
tured.
WOMEN WORKERS EHEER
HELD MARSHAL HAIG
LONDON, Jan. 2 (Correspondence
of the Associated Press).—Indepen
dence won by women during the war
is not going to be relinquished in a
hurry, say the newspapers in com
menting on the manner in which thou
sands of London women, lining the
streets during the reception to Field
Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, com
mander of the British armies in
France, cheered him to the echo.
“They were vitally changed from
the women who used to be carefully
escorted to pre-war pageants in the
London streets,” obsorves one paper.
“It was evident that these women had
earned the right to cheer. Genteel
| flutterings of scrappy handkerchiefs is
so longer good enough for the women
who have worked and waited through
the gray days of sorrow, when war
heroes come home.”
The crowds needed no urging to
make way for women in uniform. They
soon found line places, and were
among the most insistent in calling
for Field Marshal Haig while the of
ficial party was lunching in Bucking
ham palace with the king. High and
shrill rang their voices, "We want
Haig! We want Haig!” and when
that failed to bring the commander
of the British armies in France to
the balcony, the led the refrain, “Haig,
Ha'g, Haig!”
As this did not get the desired re
sult, they finally gave it up and led
the great crowd in singing “Rule,
Britannia.” They were here, there and
everywhere, and were as much the
spirit of the occasion as were the sol
diers, of whom great numbers turned
out to welcome their chief.
MEXICANS TAKE UP
CAUSE OF TOM MOONEY
MEXICO CITY, Jan. 5 (by mail).—
After the death sentence against
Thomas Mooney in the San Francisco
bomb outrage case had been com
muted by the governor of California,
protests were formulated and one
strike was undertaken in Mexico to
protest against the decision of the
court in the Mooney case. The Re
gional Labor*Union of the capital and
similar bodies in Tamaulipas sent
protests to the California court, and
in Tampico several thousand mem
bers of the workers’ organizations
that are similar to the I. W. W. went
out on a strike for twelve hours as a
protest.
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NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To L. T. Gray, heir and devisee of
Robert D. Gray, deceased, to all other
heirs of the said Robert D. Gray, de
ceased, to James Smith, executor of
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mining claims hereinafter described,,
and to all whom it may in any manner
concern:
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fied that I have expended during the
year 1918 one hundred dollars ($100)
in labor and improvements upon and
for the benefit of each of those three
certain mineral c#l mining claims, all
situated at the head of Mirror Slough,
in the Kayak recording precinct, ter
ritory of Alaska, and known as and
called:
The Brown Bear Association Min
eral Oil Claim,
The Bald Eagle Association Min
eral Oil Claim, and
The Gray Wolf Association Min
eral Oil Claim,
the location notices or certificates of
which may be found of record in Book
6, at pages 148 and 149, of the records
of Mining Locations and Declaratory
Statements, in the office of the United
States comtnissioner and ex officio
recorder in and for the said Kayak
recording precinct, at Katalla, Alaska,
that is to say, I have so expended in
such labor and improvements upon
and tor the benefit of all of said
claims during the said year 1918 the
sum of three hundred dollars ($300),
in order to hold said claims under
tnf mWS. 0f the Unite(1 States and
Die Territory of Alaska relating to
the annual labor upon mining claims,
being the amount required to hold
said mining claims and each of them
for the period ending on the 31st day
of December, 1918.
And if within ninety days after the
publication of this notice, to wit '
within ninety days after the 8th day
of May, 1919, you fail or refuse to
contribute to me, the subscriber, one
Of the owners in common of said min
ing claims and each of them, your 1
proportion of such expenditures, I
which amounts to the sum of tifty 1
dollars (850) for each of said claims, |
or a total of one hundred fifty dollars s
(8150) for all of said claims, your 1
Interests in each claim for which you |
so fail or refuse to contribute will I
become the property of the said sub- i
scriber under the provisions of Sec. I
2324 of the Revised Statutes of the m
United States.
„ .. A. T. COTTON. 1
Residence and postofflce address, 1
Katalla, Alaska. §g
First publication, Feb. 6, 1919.
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