| Show CENSUS TAKERS FIND APPALLING D N Dutch Harbor Alaska Cor New York Yorke e Sun The census takers who have counted cou ted the native Uve inhabitants of Northern Alas Aias Jas ka Ita and the American islands ot of o Berin Bering Berhl sea have had h d remarkable experiences x and seen more objEct abject misery and amid suder I I In i than can be lound re else in the worM worra It Jt happened napp ed Ute the census ws was tak S in a year whop when Unprecedented sickness ss and anI were afflicting all the th native ce flom L ka to Eagle and from Valdez la tD Cape Prince of Wales The enumerator in the re iv gion eon began his work nearly a vear Yr ago awl and it was not no completed until the he recant tall fail 11 In all the months he spent in Ute the region he saw only two or three white white men and these were miners 11 going ever aver the trail for some ome ot or the time river r TW settle meats ments m to Nome or Golovin bay tie JIe tray trav sled with dog teams and he took k long lo S chances of starvation and freezing f ng In nfl all the tha long lon winter he b saw sw s only enly two fires The Che natives natIe were the themo mo t ab miserable rable people he had bad ever seen for tor they are far removed from thc th coast sl Whre the tha Eskimos live on oi fish and wa rus and seal and anti their sole at some ome times in the year are he ine birds which they are art able to catch with their native nathA slings and snares The Ku im he declares is the rhe most region he eve ever saw aw I or read of and he is no novice in Alaska Alaka T To Tn starve tarve l to death slowly is bad E but the country is almost totally and in many mosey parts part of the ua territory there is not wood wr enough e for lor a dt in inai ai Eskimo laloo Even Eyen native Uv is sometimes cold Next to Pie he census taker tak t of the Kits X the Ch enumerator assigned to Bar Ber Bartna Ing sea Islands had bad the most meet Interesting ba 9 pet pei Her Here was less leas destitution but out at two or points the natives were ill II and many of them had died At K lg island a mere mer dot on the map con consisting Mating of ofa a steep rock less leas than a mile In ia circumference rising drw r up out of or the sea sa a few tew of b strait the reve rove revenue revenue nue size cutter Bear with the census cpu enu enumerator 1 on board called early in July T The work was not completed at that time tim arid and the vessel called again in Au At that time not a living soul was to be found on the island The dogs d s belonging to the little Eski Eskimo mo iso settlement on the e side aide of the cliff clift were there and so 80 were more than twenty twenty ty t bodies of Eskimos lying about fr r 1 the rae doors of dwellings and in way ay places up the precipitous hillside The tHug bad had all aU gone cone to the mainland to trade When the vessel ve made a third call the inhabitants had bad re iv returned returned turned and the enumeration was made Id IdI It Ii I was found that about souls ou Used lived on this little Island In a state of miserable rable poverty Overt The enumerator In this case e was the surgeon of f the Bear It was found that most moat of the sickness was 10 measles wad and aDdIn andIn in many cases ces this malady combined i with the condition of poor nourishment nourt found f nd at t almost alt alf of these settlements was waa severe enough to tu cause death i t It Js a curious fact tact that among IDO the names of ot those on the census rolls this year for tor St Lawrence Lawren King Kin and aDd the theother theother a Islands were fer far eor or other Bering sea ea Cor Correspond respond re pond with the names reported from it horn m the same places place by the census taker ket t In mal Dr Hawi y this titis years enumerator explained that this might be because of the tree t and easy east method white n men ell i have of spelling Eskimo E names name but he doubted is yer ver many of the natives will who were on these islands ten years ye ago Tire re rethem there them now new Thy They are not n nomadic but ut there is naturally some moving out bout front from place to 10 place and it is a r sad Jact that a considerable drable percentage of 0 kimo population Wee dies off ore every y year Of his age the Eskimo knoWS knowd n a absolUtely tely nothing H He has bbs no of ao bern bers be above five or six and the only oRly way wa 1 he the number even of cpr crete crUe is to group them and Si pr pre present r sent t tIu 1 by some ome familiar group of on oh ISe se might suppose that they wl be able indicate their age by specifyIng yIn yIna a certain ret eel tat taht number of summers or winters winter but this is not th thare the ease a although they are far from trOmP being bel an in Ignorant considering their limited cont contact t Willi civilized men menAt menAt At Lit Little lie Diomed an island tand islands i about the thestE s stE e of king ing midway IK tw en nC Cape ape of Wales and East Kast Ka t Cape SIberia Sib ri In Ining Bar Baring r ring ing strait a II few tew natives were found e Eskimos E are constantly fow P going a back k kand and th the and forth between their i islands mainland wh where re they with the natives under the tutelage of Mr Lapp Lopp the lye at Prince of Wales They also go Cape to Bid Diomed imm y west over geographically within the d dominion and their making of Ute the ear czar of Russia Rusia fn In ind and In summer met and elL ott th the leo ica In winter r |
