Show A LEARNED EXPLORER VISITS SALT LAKE SOMETHING IX IN RELATION TO ALASKA this mornin ir we had the pleasure of meeting dr W E everette a gentleman connected with the smithsonian institute lie ile is on his hid way to san francisco and expects to leave that port in the fall or at the latest next spring tor for alaska he has already ae ac co epli bed one entitle exploration in that region from which he returned last fall and upon which he entered in in the spring of 1884 ile he made a complete of the yukon river and explored the interior of alaska which he be deserf describes bes as absolutely without material facilities principally on account of the continuously frozen conc condition cond lAdon of the ground ile he made a collection of all the flora and fauna tue te specimens accumulated amounting to 2000 pounds in weight hespect he spent the winter of 1884 5 at bearing straits among the Esqui maux and collected specimens of all utensils clothing etc used by that people the doctor surveyed the entire line of a distance of 2 2700 7 JOU miles for the last ten years ears he has made the law languages mages shozen spoken by norta nona american indian tribes a specialty and has more or less familiarity fa y with a complete chain of them from the pacific to the arctic and faund much among the in one instance however lie he lound found that there was a remarkable sameness between the language of two ular tribes one in the interior of alaska and the comanche tubs tilbe ot of this country dr everette Everet tu made 40 40 charts in crayon and colored inks of the alaska interior a series of which is in the hands of the committee on territories of the house of representatives ta tives he also made landscape sketches ile he gained all the information necessary necess arv for a complete ino and made his report to the U 18 government |