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VOLUME 21, NUMBER 133
SEWARD,
ALASKA, SATURDAY, JUNE 12, M26.
PRICE TEN CENTS
EXPEDITION PLANS
STUDY PRIMITIVE
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION IS FI
NANCING SURVEY IN THE
TERRITORY
MUCH SIGNIFICANCE
ATTACHED TO WORK
Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, Anthopologist, Ar
rives Here En Route to Nenana.
To seek further light on the route
by which primitive man found his
way to the American continent, Dr.
Ales Hrdlicka, anthropologist of the
National museum, arrived in Seward
this morning from Seattle to make
the first direct scientific survey of its
, kind ever undertaken. The bureau of
t
ethnology of the Smithsonian institu
tion is financing the expedition.
Since the origin of man in Ameri
ca has been the subject of much sci
entific controversy, the expedition is
O
described as having great poter
t
* significance.
The mass of sound evidence, offi
cials of the institution believe, points
to the ancestor of the Indian as hav
ing crossed over from Asia by way of
Siberia, the Diomeue Islands and Sew
ard peninsula and then to have grad
ually worked southward down the
coastal plains and the Yukon.
To Collect Relics.
Dr. Hrdlicka’s chief purpose will
be to follow up clews of pottery frag
ments, stone implements and bones,
} and bits of worked ivory which have
been found from time to time by pros
pectors and Eskimos and indicating,
in his opinion, an earlier people more
cultured than the Eskimo.
Sailing from Seattle May 22 on a
biological survey boat, Dr. Hrdlicka
went to Juneau where he has been
^ carrying on investigations. From Se
ward he goes to Nenana, where he
will begin his travels on the river. At
Nulato, where it is believed the first
immigrants to America probably first
came in touch with this continent un
told centuries ago, he will take a
small boat and Eskimo crew and work
his way down the river from station
to station to the mission at Holy
Cross.
En route, he will investigate some
of the old sites, make excavations
where necessary, and take physical
measurements and photographs of
the present inhabitants.
To Seek Battleground
He then either will cut across coun
try or go by boat to St. Michael and
thence to Nome, where he will seek
^ the battleground of the great legen
dary conflict fought between the in
habitants of Seward Peninsula and the
invaders from Asia. Old sites will be
sought in the neighborhood of what
is known as Salt Lake, and the Port
Clarence, Kotzebue and Norton
Sounds.
Dr. Hrdlicka believes that no sin
gle invasion of America of any great,
magnitude by primitive man ever took
place, but that small groups dribbled
across the ice fields thru periods of
perhaps thousands of years. This, !n
his opinion, would account for the dif
ferentiation of the American Indian in
CAPT. WILKINS AND MISS GENEVIEVE PARKER AT THE CHRISTi-N
OF THE HUGE FOKKER PLANE. DETROITER.
WILKINS EXPEDITION
WILL ARRIVE TONIGHT
FAIRBANKS, June 12. (jP)—Captain
George Wilkins, Major Lamphier, Lt.
Wiseley, Correspondent Earp and San-'
^mith, took the train today for.
Lieut. Ben Eielson remains for a
week to superintend the storage of the
equipment of the Detroit Arctic Ex
pedition. Wilkins intimated he might
return in August with new engines
and repair parts for the two machines,
the Detroiter and Alaskan.
ISO RESERVATIONS
—
SEATTLE. June 12. (Jp)—'The S.S.
Northwestern sailed for the north at
nine o’clock this morning carrying 100
passengers. Those listed for Seward
are:
Doctor Curtis Welch and wife, Mrs.
S. S. Beckett, L. E. Beckett, W. E. Er
win, -H. E. Sogn, J. G. Farley, Jumor
Smith, Mrs. S S Smith, Bernice Erick
* son, Mrs. I. Reader, Dr. A. R. Roberts,
Mrs. Mae Mead, E. E. Porter and
wife, Doris Lawson, Viola Sheldon,
Patsy Ray, Charles McGrath, Mrs. D.
M. Woodard, Col. L. E. Beebe, Mrs.
Rhoda Watkins, Perne L. Watkins,
Reynold Watkins, Elwin Watkins,
Mabel LaRoy, Oscar Erickson, E. J.
Tolinson and three steerage.
OH, LET’S NOT PLAY!
A young Hungarian society wom
an recently challenged to a duel a
young man of her class who had men
tioned her name lightly while intoxi
cated. When they met to fight with
swords, he demanded that she strip
to the waist, in accordance with the
code. She refused; he laughed and
walked away. More insulted than ever,
the lady wept.
Weekly Gateway—$3 per year.
the two Americas. He further believes
that no ancient sites of magnitude are
to be found in the northernmost parts
of the continent, but that there must
be some small ones with material ex
tremely precious to science.
He departs for Nenana at noon to
day.
WHUT’S THIS! WHUT’S THIS:
INGLEWOOD. Calif.. June 12
(AP).—Two men reported to the
police that they had accepted a
ride in an automobile in which
two girls were riding. They were
driven out of town and made to
get out and walk home. They
will not give reasons why the
girls ousted them from the car.
mm scene is
PRESENTED. NILE PH
A real pastoral scene is b :ne pre
sented to visitors in Seward •"'day. -e
ferring to Nile Park. Yesterday the
lone: grass was mowed d:wn with
scythes and stacked in ord rows
The ewes and lamb nibblinc from 'he
stacks and rambling about :h< hay
piles is a picture seldom witnessed
anywhere in Alaska and on> 'hat A
askans and visitors should :.>■&;>> re
member when speaking of the alleg
ed “hard and cruel North country."
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