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28 Funston Has Peace Mission In Alaska i' SEATTLE, July thej government of the United- tender any assistance to the native Esquimos and Indians of Alaska which will enable them to become self-supporting, and which will check the present marked tendency towards their early extinction by starvation and disease?" This is war department has referred Brig. Gen. Frederick Funston for investigation and report. Gen. Funston jls now in 'Alaska and will spend the greater portion of the summer season in studying the habits of the natives, and in making inquiries of the white residents regarding The problem is one which appeals "strongly to the humanitarian side of the American character.

The. national and international events of the past few years have tended to cause. the average citizen of the United States to look more and more strongly upon his government as a national charity society, the purpose of which is to give aid, comfort and assistance to any people in Gradually, steadily, surely, even idly some of the native tribes of Alaska are decreasing in numbers, and the fear is expressed in many quarters that they ore in great danger of becoming extinct In a few years unless some action is taken to counteract the tendency. There is seldom a winter during which there are not reports from some region of Alaska of severe hardship and suffering among the natives, and these reports frequently include accounts. of the ravages of deadly, diseases, the inadequacy of food supplies, and a heavy percentage of mortality.

Seldom a winter passes during which the military commanders at the principal military stations do not distribute, gratis, among the natives, quantities of food supplies for the purpose of preventing actual starvation. Many Die Near Nome. Last winter there was a heavy mortality among the natives in the vicinity of Nome and Pilgrim'river on account of disease and the lack of sufficient food. Three years ago there was such a heavy mortality among- certain of the tribes living along the Western coast that in some of the villages there were not enough persons left living to carry away the dead and the bodies were left to rot the huts. Ever since the invasion of the northern portion of Alaska by Americans starvation has been rife among the native villages during the long winter seasons and whole villages have been wiped out in a single winter.

About twenty years ago the entire population of St. Lawrence island, numbering; upwards of 1,400 people, starved to death in a single winter, the dead bodies being found 1 lying in the i squalid huts by the officers and men of the revenue "cutter Corwin the following spring. Gen. Funston is peculiarly suited to the task which has assigned him. Ten years ago he spent nearly three years in the wilds of Alaska, living chiefly among the natives, at a time when there was less than one white man to every 10,000 square miles of territory, at a time when there was not a single mining camp in the whole valley of the Yukon west of the Canadian boundary.

At that time he made an exhaustive study of the traits and habits of the natives of the district, and based upon his knowledge of them during that period he rendered to the war department, prior to going north, a preliminary report on the subject. Employ Agents. In that report Gen. Funston recommended that officers or agents of the government be placed in full control of the Esquimos, given magisterial powers over them, and instructed to require them all to provide during the prodigal summers a sufficient quantity Why Not Take a Cheap Trip to California? Only $50.00 for the round' trip. -Special- tourist sleeping car parties will leave-; St.

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When the run of sainvirk comes on, these agents should see to it that all able-bodied natives; exert their energies to laying- in sup-; plies of fish, and those whe neglect, or: refuse to so should be severely punished. These recommendations do not meet- s6me of the girls are pretty Esquimo Belles at Point Blossom Who Have No Objection to the Camera the approval of Secretary Hitchcock, of the interior department, who has stated, tha.t he believes that such assistance would but tend to make the natives even more dependent upon the assistance of others. To all appearances the impression Dreyails very strongly the natives -sinned against than sinning. At the national capital it is believed that the principal causes of the distress among' tne natives have ii THE VILLAGERS POSE Group of Natives on the Kewalik River arisen from the presence among them of white men, who, in addition to killing off the game 'and' impoverishing the streams fishj. have introduced among them improvident habits and fatal vices.

Gen. Funston very radically differs from these views. Prior to his departure for Alaska he discussed the subject quite fully, giving his reasons foj the position he has taken. Always Were Hungry. "During the years I spent in Alaska, 1892, 1893 and 1894," said he.

was not a single mining cafnp in the whole valley of the Yukon west of the Canadian boundary, and never had been. The same could be said of the western coast of the territory, and the most southern coast. In all that vast region the greatest number of white men at any one place, outside of the few scattered missions, was the half dozen employes of the Alaska Commercial company at about an equal pumber on St. Paul's island, THE ST PAUL G1.083 SUNDAY, 26, 1903. and four on St.

Micnaei isiana. let, in those days, starvation was- rife among the Esquinios. as it is Jiow. Even then it was no uncommon thing whole villages to perish in a single winter by disease and starvation. "To my certain knowledge, in the moose and caribou in the entire lower valley of the Yukon and on the west coast had been practically exterminated.

The natives had obtained breech-loading rifles from the whalers some twenty years before, and slaughtered the great herds of game with the most reckless prodigality. The animals were given no rest at auy season, and were all but exterminated." There are still, or at least were in 1894, great droves of caribou on the Porcupine river, in Northeastern Alaska, and between that river and the Arctic ocean I have seen as many 2,000 in a single herd and 6,000 in a single day. "It is true that the walrus has been limctically exterminated in Bering sea and adjoining waters, but that was done, not by the white men, but by natives, and in the same improvident fashion that they exterminated the moose and caribou of the Yukon. "In fact the Esquimo owes his con- Esquimos Drilling Ivory and Making Mukluks at Port Clarence dition solely to own prodigality and disregard for the future. The only part the white men played in the business is that they have purchased the furs, walrus ivory, whalebone, ottered them by ike natives.

The trifling disposition of these people and their utter disregard for the future is the cause of their present distress. Rivers Swarm With Fish. "The rivers swarm with fish, there having no diminution of the supply, as-also do the waters of the entire coast. The hair seal, which furnishes boots and summer clothing to the Esquimo, and'the flesh of which is eaten, has been by no means exterminated. All that the Esquimo has to do to provide his family with food for the entire year is to bestir himself during the fishing season and lay in; a supply for the ensuing winter, instead of loafing about the trading stations, mining camps and army posts during the summer and depending upon ity after it is too late to fish or hunt.

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will continue to be a vagabond and a loafer. "The presence of such mining camps as Nome and others, with their great numbers of dogs used for transportation purposes, creates an almost limitless demand for dried salmon to be used as dog food. An Indian can, during the run of salmon, catch and dry enough fish to furnish himself and family with food for the entire year, and can sell enough to purchase Siberian reindeer skins for clothing. Nearly every native has a sled for dogs and during eight months of the year can earn more wages than a skilled mechanic in the United States by haul- Ing, supplies for miners. If he is willing -to work in the summer he can make from $8 "to $10 a day.

"The splendid work now being done under the direction of the commissioner of education in introducing the Siberian reindeer and instructing the in their care and use, bids fair, in tne course of a few years, to eliminate danger of distress among those people. At the time of my visit the missionaries were doing great work in improving the condition of the natives, encouraging industrious habits and exercising a generally good influence over them. "From time to time the commanding officers of the various posts in Alaska have issued limited quantities of rar tions to absolutely destitute natives where it was necessary to prevent starvation, and are still doing so as occasion arises. In my visit to Alaska I shall take every opportunity to confer on this subject with army officers, traders, missionaries and others and report the result of my investigations to the war department. In the meantime cases of absolute destitution will continue to be relieved as heretofore." Another Prediction.

"Yes," sighed the youth in purple suspenders, "the old gentleman caught me hugging his daughter and there was a storm." "You should have sent a report to the weather department," chuckled his friend in duck trousers. "What should I have sent?" "The storm was caused by heavy local pressure." CHOP SUEY FAD GROWS IN POPULARITY Chicago Appetite Is Becoming Cultivated to Chinese Dish of Mystery. If the signs of the times are not misleading, Chicago's appetite, like the nation itself, is expanding far towards the East. Just now, down on Clark street, there is being fitted up a Chinese restaurant that will occupy three' floors of a corner while on either. side.

of. the. new Chinese eating house are other restaurants which have irtade smatt dunes for the Mongolians who are operating them. But not alone Clark are the Chinese catering to the-appetites of Chi- cago's citizens. On Randolph street there is a well patronized, Chinese restaurant, and North Clark street and other "thoroughfares have their qutita of places where the mysterious chop auey is served.

And applied to chop suey and the other Chinese fishes is about the only word that will fit the case The chop suey merchant is "not unlike the Chinese physician in some respects. It was not long ago that a young woman acting on the advice of some whimsical friend, called on a Chinese doctor who has an office on the' south side. 'She was suffering from an Irritating cough. "Little med'cine, ten dollars," said the Chinaman after he had made a great show of diagnosing the case. "But I don't "want a little medicine; I to be cured," protested the girl.

"Ah. me see," responded the doctor from across the Pacific. "Much medicine, $20." And so It is with chop suey and with JSI fampujr name anioiilr whiskey Urn k3 Kb BH CM Mm vn BsSL 19 mb lsb I vgkzAl PICKWICK SB SA a 0 £31 WJBk hotels and liTn ffl tin. fflr I IHB ST. PAUL ANO IWH MINNEAPOLIS.

DISTILLERIES AT EMINENCE. KY. BALTIMORE. MD. the dozen or more other dishes that the Chinese restaurants have to offer.

They have a chop suey to every purse, fuia he who does not care to eat Of the more popular mystery can find plenty of other things on the ill of fare that will excite his curiosity. Here, for instance, the bill of fare as spread on the tables or one Chinese restaurant: Chop suey and rioe 2. to 40c Chicken chop suey and rice sfn- to Mc Mo Gu chop suey and rice 30c Foo Young dove and rice 30c Chicken rice soup Chow man to fl.oo Boiled chicken 25c Roast pork IBc 260 Fried chlckf-n 76c to Chow mar man 30c Yet Gor man IBc Canned Chinese nuts 30c Steak and green peppers and ric 30c Wu Luiig tea 16c Sung Su tea 16c At least everyone knows what the chicken means. ALL DAY. All day, all day the shuttles fly Across the noisy loom; All day, all day the maidens sigh Adown the busy room.

All day. all day the And belted pulleys play; All day, all day the same old scenes All day, all day. All day, day the foreman's eyes Sweep o'er the hundrum place, AH day a grim expression lies I Tpon hi.s changing face. All day. all day a thousand feet Tread through the weary way; All day.

all day to labor's beat, All day, all day. All day. all day the bent souls yearn For freedom from the toil; AH day. all day the pulleys turn, with dust and oil. All day, all day the toilers' fate 'Tis drudge or never pay; All day.

all day the endless gait, All day. all day. Cone In New York Sun. miT-i iiiininn-r- i- .11 imr mi 1. 1 win.