| Show I STARVATION KILLS ESKIMOS How to Save Trlbec In Ungava Is Problem for Canada St Johns N FA problem of annually an-nually Increasing Borlousnesst for Canada Is that of maintaining the Eskimo wards alive In her territory of Ungava A peculiarly appalling Instance of this has Just been reported by Rev S M Stewart an Anglican missionary from tho diocese of Newfoundland who has been laboring among the heathen natives of Ungava bay for the past four years His report Is that last winter owing to scarcity of deer severo weather and poor hunting otherwise many of tho natives In tho territory perished of starvation and In some Instances tho survivors had to maintain life by feeding on the corpses of the dead Their contact with the white man In the shape of whaling crows has inoculated in-oculated them with all the white mans vices Prof A P Low of the Canadian exploring expedition of 19034 In the steamer Neptune describes de-scribes the extinction of a trlbo of Eskimos on Southampton Island at the mouth of Hudson bay In a single winter They numbered 100 souls and mado shift to live with fair success without employing civilized Implements Imple-ments of war or chase as they wero isolated from any neighbors But in 1900 n Scotch whaling firm established estab-lished a station there and manned it with a party of Eskimos from one of Its other posts who could use a modern mod-ern repeating rlflo successfully These recklessly slaughtered the musk oxen and the deer of tho region for the sake of tho hide which they sold to whaling employers and as a result the whole of tho original tribe perIshed per-Ished of starvation during the second winter while the others who were morally responsible for their death If not legally punishable survived through the aid of provisions fur nlshed thorn by their employers Two years later the whaling station was abandoned again and now this large Island Is absolutely unpeopled The same story Is told of other whaling stations OLD HISTORY OF CORTEZ Mexican Government Wanta Rare Vol ume Owned by Americans Denver ColOne of the most an clent records of American history is a book In Spanish printed at Brussels In 1081 and entitled A History of the Conquest of Mexico Rise and Progress Prog-ress of North America Known by the Name of Now Spain In 1884 a prleat gavo tho volumo to Carl Wunston a Colorado mining en glneer and Wunston sold It to Dr M O Murphy a Kansas man who has II I at the Savoy hotel here pending Its acquisition by the Mexican government govern-ment with which ho Is in communlca tlonThe The book Is one of the only 12 copies which were printed the rest being be-Ing In the hands of royalty in varlou parts of Europe One Manuel Lola compiled the contents from notes and a diary of tho explorer Cortez making it not only the history of tho conquest > con-quest but also a sketch of events In America 150 years after Its discovery The printing is on vellum tho binding bind-ing in pigskin The book measures 14x12 inches has 400 pages and contains con-tains a number of ancient pictures some of which are excellent specimens of oldtime engraving |
