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Show Reindeer In North Alaska. It is now nearly twenty years since Dr. S eldon Jackson? of the United States Bureau of Education, obtained from congress nn appropriation to Import Im-port reindeer from Siberia across the Boring strait. During tho first year sixteen deer wero brought over by Dr. Jackson personally. During succosslvo years others wero Imported until nearly near-ly a thousand had come altogether. Thoro aro to-day no fewer than 16,000 domestic reindeor.dlstrllmted in herds along thq North Alaskan coast. |