Show PRACTICE CANNIBALISM pi THE ARCTIC REGIONS Some Horrible Stories Which Come From ChUkchls a Remote Portion Por-tion of Russia In Asia St Petersburg Horrible accounts are reaching St Petersburg of cannibalism canni-balism and starvation among tribes inhabiting In-habiting the Arctic plain of Chukchia peninsula at the extremity of Asia I Most of the reindeer died of starvation during the winter of 190405 leaving I the Inhabitants without means of communication com-munication or food During tho last winter whole tribes have died and members of the Omolons and Ololya tribes when facing starvation assembled assem-bled In council and decided that nothing noth-ing remained but death I They agreed that each head of a I family should kill his wife and children I chil-dren and then commit suicide The tribesmen gathered on a plateau covered cov-ered with snow and Ice and In Ule darkness oftho Arctic winter tho Spartan Spar-tan decision was executed not a single sin-gle member of the two tribes surviving surviv-ing More revolting still Is the story ot what occurred in a family of the Yu Kahlr tribe A mother and nine of her children having died of hunger the rather a surviving daughter and a nephew lived upon the remains and when they were consumed the father nurdorod the nephew A Russian tamed Dolganoff who went to the ro tlon to buy furs reported the situation tt Yakutsk Siberia He entered a now hut of a Yukahlr family while ho latter were eating the head of a murdered relative |