TWO ST. LOUISANS
GET HUGE BEARS IN
ALEUTIAN ISLANDS
Dr. Stanley S. Burns Gives
Interesting Account of
Strenuous Expedition
The following account of a hunt
ing trip to the Aleutian Islands by
Missourians was published recntly in
the St. Louis Globe-Democrat:
The pelts of two huge Kodiak
bears, 10 and 11 feet long—head to
tail measurement — will soon be
stretched across the floors in the
home of Dr. Stanley S. Burns. 4603
Pershing avenue, as reminders of the
big game hunting trip to the Aleutian
Islands, from which Dr. Burns re
turned yesterday.
In the company of Val A. Fynn,
well known as a local consulting en
gineer, with expert mountain climb
ing and big game hunting abilities.
Dr. Burns left the city on April 22, en
route to Bellingham, Wash., where
they caught a fishing schooner bound
for Alaska. After eleven days they
landed at King Cove. From there
the wilderness of the Aleutian Is
lands was their happy hunting
grounds for two months.
A 32-foot boat took them and their
six aids from King Cove into the
shallow and treacherous waters of
Cold Bay and Leonard’s Harbor, where
the supplies were packed upon their
backs and trekked across the barren
land of the scrubby alder and snow
fed lagoons. Their future homes
were to be the abandoned barabaras
of the Aleuts, shacks made on a frame
work of the alder tree and heaped
high above and all sides with the
scrubby sod of the land.
A Hunters’ Paradise
“The hunters’ paradise,” was Dr.
Burns’ term for the country, but fol
lowing close upon the heels of this
comment was a description of the
continuous fog and the slushy rains
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which fell as snow upon the mour
tains and filled the valleys and plain
with ankle deep slush.
To the north of the Aleutian Island
are the ice floes of the Bering Sea
and to the south the narrow chaii
of islands reaching like stepping
stones toward Eastern Russia, tin
conflicting warmth of the Japanes<
current throws an almost continuous
fog across the islands.
The scrubby alder tree not reaching
a height of more than ten feet covers
the land in ample patches and forms
one of the finest hiding places whict
nature ever fashioned for wild ani
mals and which, according to Dr
Burns is equally successful in frus
trating the hunter's attempt in finding
anything therein.
Such is Dr. Burns’ description oi
the haunts of great herds of caribou,
the Kodiak bear—the bear which he
avows can scent a human being at two
miles distance—the largest of the
bear species, and the snowshoe rab
bit, snowwhite in winter and a dull
brown in summer; the haunts of in
numerable species of birds, among
them the mallard duck, the teal, the
snipe, many varieties of geese, the
sandhill crane, the trumpeter swan,
and the bald eagle, the largest of the
bird inhabitants of the islands.
Besides the bird life on the islands
Dr. Burns reports of the fish are sim
ilar to those brought back to England
by the early voyagers, who described
the cod banks off the coast of New
England so thick that the ships could
hardly navigate through them.
Bears Go Fishing.
“In several weeks the fish will lay
their spawn,” the doctor declared,
“and then the bears will have only to
reach into the streams and flip out
all they want with their paws. It’s no
trick to get trout there. They will
jump at anything.”
Further inland the party encoun
tered the tundras, which Dr. Burns
described as resembling a land which
had been “plowed over by a huge
plow in the hands of a drunken far
mer.” It was here that the party
was able to pick fresh cranberries,
which grew in profusion among the
spring violets.
“But with all this profusion of that
which makes the land a hunters’ par
adisee,” the doctor added, “one must
have the hunting bug in the advanced
stage to stand the rigors of the land
and climate.
“The natives are a mixture of Eski
mo and Russian, with possibly some
Japanese, living in the winter on the
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- season’s trapping, and moving, whole
3 colonies—in the summer, to the sal
mon canning factories along the coast.
3 “They have some inkling of what
. America is, and I believe they know
1 who is President of the United States
' but further than that their American
> ization is doubtful.
i Priest Has Many Posts
> “Law and order there is the priest
of the Greek Catholic church—the
' Russian church—who is priest, post
1 master, game warden, bank and gen
! eral ruler over the colonies of Alaska.
‘ “The canneries are dependent upon
the goodwill of the priest if they are
to have the services of his flock dur
ing the canning season,, for without
his sanction they will not migrate.
“Their church services are also
highly provincial church there are no
seats, and the congregations, children
from 4 years up and aged men and
women stand up for five hours in a
stretch to hear the services on Sat
urday. That day is their Sabbath.
Throughout the entire trip every
thing had to be. carried cross country,
even fuel, for the scant trees of the
land burn very poorly and there is
no driftwood along the beaches.
The trip was rather uneventful in
the sense of the spectacular, save for
the extreme cunning which had to be
employed in getting within rifle
range of the bears. Dr. Burns got his
two and a cub, which was later sent j
to an Eastern zoo, while Flynn got
three bears, somewhat smaller.
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