Show polceORWGI NORWEGIAN REOTDEER Alger Selects a Cheap Market For I Klondike Supple Washington Dec 24When the Lu cania starts for Europe on Saturday among its passengers will be Dr Sheldon I Shel-don Jackson of Atlanta who is bound for Norway in quest of reindeer for the Klondike miners These reindeer Ayill be broight to the United States and shipped from New York to Dyea instead in-stead of being imported tiom oiuciia as in the past This course is necessary on account of the conditions existing m Aia ka and vicinity at this season of the year for while there are fully 1200 reindeer in the frozen territory of the United States not half that number is avail able at present In the country he will visit there are nearly half a million such the reindeer They are s a drug on market that thousands of them are I j Slaughtered by the Norwegians for their tongues alone which are articles t of export I is hoped that a large amount of food supplies can be gotten safely through White Pass and placed m a t camp to be established there which will afterwards be used as the starting place for the reindeer tralits IL ths I calculation proves to be well founded the reindeer will find a comfortable corral ready for them when tiie arrive ar-rive in Alaska and so can be used to great advantage There is a disposition just now on the part of the officials who are arranging ar-ranging the plans of the expedition to abandon the Dalton trail route and instead to take the Lake Linderman route This would involve the use of the frozen river ion a large part of the way but this is believed to be feasible |