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Show Strange Journey of a Squaw. Many articles have been written to prove that the original inhabitants inhabit-ants of America were Asiatics, who found their way to this continent by way of Behnng Strait. Under the circumstances it is somewhat singular that so many of ethnologists ethnolog-ists who have discussed this subject sub-ject have neglected Father Huk's trlory of the Chinook Indian woman, wo-man, whom the famous traveler found wandering far in the interior inter-ior of Asia. It was in the last century. The woman claimed that she had traveled northward until fche reached Behring Strait, where she was driven across in a boat during a stor.u. Her companions being all lost, and having 110 inclination in-clination to return the squaw set about visiting the differnt parts of the land which she had reached by accident. "When Father Huk met hor she was in central Asia, and still intent on going farther. Chicago Chi-cago Chronicle. |