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Show COLLIES TO HERD REINDEER Uncle 8am Hires Blue Blooded Scions to Teach the Plebeian Canl- 1 . of Alaska. - Seattle, Wash Loss and Major, blue-blooded collies, eho date their ancestry back to the coming of some Collie William the Conquerer to Hon-nle Hon-nle Scotland, have been hired by Uncle Sam to educate the dogs of Alaska. Their particular field of activity activ-ity will be Instructing collies, shepherds shep-herds and huskies of the wild north In the herding of government reindeer. rein-deer. When the steamship fit. Helens aalla from this port Lass and Major as well as four other collies of less aristocratic aristo-cratic strain will be passensers. They will be In charge of A. N. Evtihs, su-pcrlntendent su-pcrlntendent of the northwest district for tho department of education. Among the places they will visit will f bo St. Michael, Teller and St. Lawrence Law-rence Island. At the last local bench show Lass and Major took blue ribbons end special spe-cial prizes against the field. They were purchased from Mrs. A. Stlnson of this city recently, and Major made the transfer memorablo by falling Into the hands of the pound master. lie was rescued from prison by W. T. Lopp, chief of the Alnsktin division, department of education, very mueb soiled and worn out with his adventures adven-tures about the city. At herding collies col-lies excel every breed of dog known to man, and Lass and Major, being almost Intelligent enough to spealc Kngllsh, are' expected to accomplish wonders with the native dugs of the north. Some doubt I expressed whether wheth-er cr not they will readily learn Ihe Ksklmo and Indian dialects of northern north-ern dogdom, but Mr. Lopp and Mr. L'vans think that a short acquaintance tn Alaska will make them proficient la tongues. |
