Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1916-11-05 | Page 36 | Man Leaves Alaska Once in 34 Years

I MAN IVIAN L LEAVES S ALASKA ONCE rONCE r I IN 34 YEARS Trapper on Last Trip Irh South to Seattle Long und uj Vo o Voyage Voy- Voy age In lit n a Canoe Port Townsend Nov O 1 Celebrating i.-Celebrating- his sixty first birthday an anniversary and ini his 5 first visit to Puget PU et Sound In t four thirty ur years Peter Muller Alaska Pioneer trapper and hunter arrived here on his way to cattle Seattle a as first Si mate ot of the trading schooner Harold k Muller has lived In ln since 1881 With the exception of ot one visit To S o i and nod another to San Francisco he lie has never ne er left that I pai part alt t of Alaska since he first I settled there In he came south Houth to Seattle making tho the Ion long Ions voyage from rom tho thu remote southwestern south south- western Alaska community In a l skin canoe Ganoe with two Indians as companions The voyage oage represented ono one of or the greatest marathon feats In iii tho the history ot of f northern navigation Muller and antl the thc two Indians Indians' crept alon along the rocks roel southwestern Alaska o. coast In spite of or gal gales OH and anil storms until until un un- til they gained tho the Inside passage i After r that they the made steady progress Muller remained d in Seattle the tiro following followIng follow follow- ing working In a sawmill and then grew tired of effete cl civilization and went hack back to Kodiak During his first years ears In ht the north l earned big big- mone money hunting biotin sea Ien I otter which were then lien plentiful in Kodiak Islands waters waters Later ater when the scat otter practically ally became became extinct ex ox- m et he ho turned to fishing and amI trapping trap trap- I I ping n the tho j Harold Blekum was read ready to sail south south RoutH from Kodiak a few tew weeks weeks weaks a ago o Muller ho he would like me another an another nn- nn I other glimpse of or civilization so 50 ho ire signed on as first mate When hen ho last entered Seattle harbor that community I It ity was In the frontier village c class Muller got hl his first look of ut tho the town I 1 from the bow of ot his walrus hide canoe