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Entered as sercno-Ciass matter Au
gust 29th, J 92.1, .at 'the ipoatoftise at
Tokotns. Alaska, under the Aet of
■March 3, 1870
Xahotna, Alaska, August 51, 192K.
UiOVEkNXJEXT MAKING IN
VESTIGATION IN ALASKA
TO TRACE INDIAN RACES
(Anchorage Times.)
Convinced tliat the Italians of North
land South America cune originally
from Asia, the United States Govern
ment, through the Smithsonian Jnsti
.tution, is conducting a saarch for ovi
.deuce of the early migration -through
-Alaska. The deduotion of the invests
;gator .sis that .the narrow stretch of
■water lying ’*etween ..Alaska and -Si
iberia offered the only opportunity' fei
ithe Asiatic Indians to .come over tr
ithe new land and that they traversed
ipartly along the .coast and partly
.through the Yukon valley in then
: slow hut steady .progress toward tht
isouth.
The manna- in tehidh this ccniclusiot
iwas reached and many other enlight
»ening phases of the .study of Indiar
life which is being conducted by thf
iSmithsonian Institution, was ably tele
iby Dr. Alex Urdlicks, curator of thr
i livision of physical -anthropology oJ
ithe United States National Jlaseum
.in a lecture delivered -at Elks dial
^yesterday afternoon. This emirwnl
.investigator, who Tws conducted re
-•searches in au parts at the asurkt, .ar
rived in the city aSturdsy a-fterooor
.from and will spend the
;summe^r**oie Yukon river and ir
.the Seward Peninsula, with .possihly
;a visit to the Diomede Islands. in -an
teffort to trace s*mf -at -least of the
-material -evidence of the old migra
tions. The iecture -was (arranged by
.the -management of the -Alaska Rail
jroad, and Dr. Hrdlicks was intro
•duced fey General Manager -Noel W-,
iSmitfa, with a few remarks -explana
itory of the .mission on which the Doe
itor came to -Alaska.
The curator explained that exhaus
itive .studies have enabled anthropolo
gists to leaxn virtually all that there
iis to know -aheutl he origin .and deri
wation of Indians of North .and South
-America. -Many years have been de
woted to the work, but the Indians oi
A la ska hare fcwa neglected because
«of their isolation, until .the present
ttime, and it is realized that there if
(danger of losing much *f the evidence
<of early -Alaska life fhranth a scatter
ing of such relics as j*aj- be found by
accident by whites in their travels
tover the Northland.. Jit is the nr for*
urged that any discoveries of that
character that are made from time to
time, be reported to the Smithsonian
Institution and the relics, especially
the human skull and bones, be sent to
Washington for study and preserva
tion.
Dr. Hrdlicks said that •while the In
dians of the New World differ in
many respects, in stature, dialects,
i-habits .and color, it is believed all of
dhern, five present-day tribes and those
'who preceded them, came from the
| same source, that they are the de-1
j scendants of the old -Asiatic yellow-'
j brown trace, -having come over North
| eastern Asia, crossing Bering strait,
and found their way gradually all
| over the continent, to the extreme
southern extremities of South Amer-;
i ica. The route of travel must have i
been through Alaska, and it is expect
ed that here eventually will he found
i irrefutable proofs of the migration in
the form of long-buried relics and the
skeletal remains of the travelers who
'died along the way, centuries -and
even .thousands of years -ago. There
is evidence .that .Indians lived in the
Americas-several thousands of .years.:
, the earliest .arrivals may have come
! as early-as 5,000 or 6.000..years ago.
It was -believed.hy the Spaniards,
when Columbus returned with some of
the Indians he had found in America,
that .a ne wrace of people had been
. discovered, but, upon consulting the
Scriptures .and finding no .mention of
j such, it was r rufluded that they could
not he fully hurrmits, and for many
; y.ears. as a result,-they were subjected
to slavery -and treated cruelly. This
' continued until one of the .popes inter
ceded, explaining that the Indians .un
doubtedly were men if not directly re
ferred to in the Bible,.and urged that
they he treated as a .part of the
I human family.
Long .years afterward a search was
started ho trace the origin of the
American Indians,-and many interest-j
ing discoveries were made, -same of j
them seeming to show that Indians;
lived in the days of the ancient mas- j
-todons and other .prehistoric ainimals,
millions of years -ago; hut careful in
vestigation has -failed to prove that
there was any human habitation ear
lier than a few -thousand years, in
( eithpr North or -South America.
1 i.u iL _J n
t-f l . 1 UUVIVO -VVIU VJ K11V. '1 !•« U1IU
of .the Aatecs, of the Yucatan sacri
fices .and tHl part they played in .re
cording the history of the tribe, of
the mound builders .and of the Inca
empire, all different types but mem
bers -.of the-same race, descended .from
the early comers from -across Alaska.
The .crossing of Alaska was ex
plained by the fact that the New
World could not have been reached in
any other way. In the days when
Alaska was first invaded there were
no long-distance navigators, no com
passes and .no way .in W hich adven
turers could sustain -themselves on
such a voyage-as would ha ve-been re
quired to -reach the Americas from
the Old World except by way of Si
beria ami .firring .Strait. That they
did cross from -Siberia is indicated by
the fact that living aemnartts of the
same type have been found in many
parts of -Asia. They jtre to .this day, in
color, features and all other main
characteristic-., .psactiaally the coun
terpart of the American Indian.
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300 NATIVES SUCCUMB TO
STARVATION AT EAST POINT.
SIBERKIA; A TERRIBLE/TALE
Nome.—Concarnin gcqnditiuns. along
alon gthe Siberian coast during the
past winter, Inao Rank, wetl known
trader, who recently returned here
from a Siberian trip, said that a Rus
sian school teacher from Whalen
crossed the ice from East Cape, Si
beria, to Little Diomede island in
search of medicine for Russian offi
cials who were lying sick at that
place. Thp teacher told the people of
the island that recently reached East
Cape and Whalen that about 300 na
tives had died of starvation at Indian
Point, Siberia, which lies about, forty
miles south of St. Lawrence island,
the nearest point of civilzatiom being
the mainland.
The Russian said the natives on the
coast must depend upon . ammunition
and guns .to provide themselves with
the necessities of life, but that, these
had been taken-away from the natives
by officials who feared an uprising.
As a consequence of.these orders, the
Indians were unprepared to ...go
through a long, cold winter^nd since
starvation came upon them they .died
like rats. The natives were in-a-ter
rible state, and were finally' compelled
to kill their dogs and eat them. But,
this food soon gave out and the re
maining natives began .to eat their
dead comrades,.and in some instances
their own flesh andddood.
Many of the natives faced 'death
calmly, taking to the dagger to end
the misery and torture of themselves
and .loved ones. .The -knives Mere
thrust into the hearts of' women, and
children and afterward driven, in to the
hearts of men. They died . bravely.
Conditions along the Siberian coast
were pitiable, ihe said.
The soviets 'will not .allawn .-.anyone
to trade or bring ammunition or game
into the country. -The traders are
broke, and the people need food aiid
medicine. Charley Carpendale, trader
at Whalen for /20 years, was fined
$200 recently, which was 50 per cent
of the money he earned while working
for the Hudson’s Bay Company. .An
other trader, mimed Wall, .;at Cape
Serge, was fined $200 for m minor of
fense,-and was later assessed another
$2,000. Wall discovered a -large whale
frozen in the ice and was endeavoring
to blow it up with dynamite when the
explosive accidentally went off -and
blew both his hands off at the wrist.
I’ARTS OF RADIO SETS TRAVEL
AS FAR.AS WAVES THEY REACH
Boston.—The radio reaches nearly
as far for its constituent elements as
the waves flow which it transmutes
into melody or speech, William C.
Redfield, former Secretary of Com
merce, points out in his new book.
“Ingredients comprising a radio se
have among them all traveled 250,000
miles hetween their places of origin
and the factory where they are finally
combined,” says the book, published
by Houghton & Mifflin. “In one
standard ^receiving set are two thou
sand different parts, omitting the
tubes. Each of the seven tubes has
thirty-two parts.
“The list of materials entering into
these is a lesson in physical geog
raphy, for the continents are there,
the shores, the plains, the' hills and
Machine, Btack
smifij ianfl
Sheet Metall&cifk
AH Kinds ofRqpaiEs
Stoves Built ;
| and Repaired ;
! Robt. E. Lowrie j
| Tokotna, Alaska |
islandamppear, as well as the animal,
vegetable and mineral kingdoms.
Some of these materials are domestic,
many are foreign. No nation, no con
tinent, supplies them -all.”
“ZEBRA. MULES” FOUND
GOOD STOCK FDR WORK
. New Orleans.—-The zebra is. claim
ing a place in the sun. ifr both Louisi
ana and Mississippi.
At Jefferson race track here a pair'
of “zebra mules” will assist in keep- j
ing the track in shape. . They are a.;
cross-bred stock, having stripes on j
their bodies and legs, and- are very (
strong. One weighs 1,610 pounds, and
the other 30 pounds less.
The Jackson. Miss., zoo offersa an'
18-months-old zebra prodigy.! It has
been taught, to count to ten, pick out
colors.and numbers, and dance.
‘‘When we first started training the
animal it required five tor six men>to
catch it,” said L. P. Goodwin, zoo
keeper. .“Now when I drop my hand- \
kerchief, the zebra picks it. Up, shakes
off the dust and hands, it ;to-me.”
“I- am afraid, doctor,” said a woman
to the pi?5 sieL-.nlslie.had' cornered at
a reception, “that Wijh husband has
.‘somr-i THentsl a affliction. - I
somatimos.tidtt 'T.o hina foh'+icnirs and
then discover.he 1 iter-jjllpahasri'teheard
a word Laaiifl
“That isn’t: am aMcJtunj.'.anadaih,” ;
was.“the vim!ary reply.' “Tibet’* a dif !
vine gift.” \
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