Show 0 NAUTICAL NOVELTIES furnished by the fu S nay nav recruiting station salt lake city this weeks flight ot of 44 naval laval planes largest mass tight in history from rom california to alaska draws our attention to the increasing importance ot of this little known land ot of the par far north as a vital talk ink in our chain of national pat ional de tense this chain theoretically extends from the tip of 0 the aleutian islands to the hawaiian islands and thence down to the panama capal in central america throughout thos large azea area the navy must always stand guard as a sentinel bentin il protecting the homes property ana liberty ot of the american americ people most ImPo important ot of the aleutian island chain is which stretches tar far out into the pacific train ram the mainland it has a ae length OL 61 about 75 miles and Is about 10 to 25 miles in breadth being ot of volcanic origin the highest point Is mt aft makuski which rises feet feat above sea level the largest settlement ot of the island is dutch harbor which has a copulation ot of its trade Is steadily Inor easling because of the alaskan gold fields and because it is a port of 0 call for all vessels navigating the bering sea A few russians 91 ins and Amer americans leans engaged in seal beal live there the year around but a large part of ill the e populace Is ig comprised of aleuts aleuns capan cook landed at auten dalbor just two years after we declared our lude independence indence the aleu leans fians had previously been discovered by vitus bering in 1741 hut but cook ccok was the first to do much exploratory work he found the na ila aives gentle and inoffensive and described them as jeluk short plump and well formed the women wore garments of seal skin ana some rome had cloaks of bird feathers worn lworn with the feathers fethers next to the skin skill the men had holes in their lips in wiloh they wore buttons of bone their houses were holes in the earth covered with a I 1 framework frame ot 01 driftwood abid whalebone at dutch harbor and on oil some of the other the people are now low 1 arving ing in frame houses erected by the whites but on oll mally islets their homes hanics are still underground living much the same as they were when visited by captan calta n ccok they are very poor ioor jud and gait gain their livelihood the sea this latter fact led the government to exempt the eskimos kimos and indians from the giovi of the string stringent elit game laws which have turned the island group tuto fato 1 a I refuge tor for wild life save at certain seasons of 0 the year the winder weather ot of the islands lis ite milder ithan that ot of te tennesee and at UnaI aska the average january Is about 30 |