The Eskimo bulletin. [volume], July 01, 1898, Image 1

About The Eskimo bulletin. [volume] (Cape Prince of Wales [i.e. Wales], Alaska) 1893-1902

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THE ESKIMO BULLETIN.
THE ONLY YEARLY IN THE WORLD.
VOL. IV7 ~CAPE~ PRINCE OF WALES, ALASKA. JULY, liSii.S.
MURDERED
BY AN
ESKIMO.
FRANK BOYD, A MINER ON
KOTZEBUE SD., SHOT BY
OAPE P. OF W. ESKIMO.
TIIE MURDERER STILL UNPUNISHED.
Last Summer, Frank Boyd engaged
three or four natives from the Kotze
bue Sd. and Cape P. of Wales tribes
to help tow his mining outfit and supplies
tip the Noon-a-tok river. After a few days
absence, As-ser-uk the C. P. of Wales
native, assisted by one or two Sd. natives,
returned the boat and supplies to Mr.
Samms, the missionary a£ CApe Blossom,
reporting that Boyd had accidently shot
himse f. By threatening the natives with
him, he forced them to substantiate his
story. But it soon became known that
As-ser-uk had murdered him. Borrowing
Boyd's rifle under pretense of shooting a
spotted seal, he deliberately shot him.
As-ser-uk now cl; ims that the miner had
threatened to kill him on the day previ
ous and that be 6hot him In “self de
fense”. But this flimsy excuse is not
believed even by his own people, among
whom he has always been known as a
“born” liar and thief. They attribute his
crime to Lis inborn depravity, while the
!-d. natives think he wished to avenge the
death cf his father, who was among the
thirteen killed by a whaler In 1877,
It was a great surprise to the natives
l.eie (lid at other settlements along
the coast, that the U. S. Cutter, evident
ly considering it out of its line of duty. \
made no effort to investigate this mur
der or arrest the murderer, when anchor
ed here in Sept, and June.
NEAKLUK RIVER
GOLD FIND.
ONE DOLLAR TO THE PAN.
GOLOVIN BAY, ALASKA, May, 10.
Pay dirt, yielding one dollar to the pan
on the surface, has been discovered along
the Ne-ak-luk River. 1116 few whites
within fifty miles of this river have already
staked claims. Should they prove as rich
• ns the indications promise, there will
undoubtedly be a great rush to the Ne
ak-luk from St. Michael this Summer.
The miners making this discovery, have
utilized the tame reindeer throughout the
Winter. Many sled journeys have enabled
them to examine the country between here
and Port Clarence and locate small gold
bearing streams, which may prove as rich
as any yet discovered in Alaska.
LAPPS AND FINNS
COMING.
118 TO BE LANDED AT THE D. 8.
REINDEER STATION AT
UNALAKLEET.
ST. MICHAEL, July 1. - Seventy-eight
Laplanders,* ten Finns, and twenty-five
Norwegians will, arrive here about July 15,
on the Str. Del Norte. This vessel is char
tered by the Bureau of Education, and aft
. er discharging its cargo, will proceed to
Siberia and carry over what reindeer have
been purchased at St. Lawrence Bay by a
Got. trader during the Winter.
The landing of so many Laplanders to
look after the small Government herd at
Unalakleet, or colonize this part of Alaska
is much ridiculed here. The 500 deer with
which they started from Lapland, .are re
ported to hav e satrved to death in S. E.
Alaska. According to the papers, these
people, on account of their intemperat6
habits, have given the Gov. officer no
little aUnoyanc e.
FLED TO THE
AMERICAN SIDE.
The Eskimos from the Dlomedes Islands
bring tne news that Messis, Kelly and
conn have been compelled to desert the
Keindeer Purchasing fetation at bt. Lawr
ence bay, Siberia, and tlee to Port Clar
ence, Alaska, lor safety.
This station was established there last
Summer by tne L. b. bureau oi Educa
tion, and stocked with a valuable cargo
or barter goods. The Dlomedes natives
say that the Siberian Ko-neel-git (deer
men) have been threatening the traders
so as to drive them away, and avoid
dellverikg ' tne deer tor which they have
already teeelved pay. It is reported uom
another source, tnat only coast natives
living near the station have opposed an<T
menaced the traders, and that Mr. Kelly
has paid lor SOU or bou reindeer and thinks
most or them will be delivered.
FORTY TONS
OF MEAT
DRIVEN
NORTH.
A NOVEL RELIEF
EXPEDITION
COMMANDED BY
LIEUT; JARVIS
THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY
ASSOCIATION AND ESKIMOS
LOAN THEIR REINDEER TO
THE TREAS. DEP’T FOR THE
RELIEF oF THE ICE-BOUND
WHALERS.
The skill and gccd iudgemeut dis
played by Lieut. D. H. Jarvis who
commanded the novel Overland
Relief Expedition to Ft. Barrow,
reflects much credit upon the U. S.
R. <J. Service. Landing Dec. 17, at
Cape Vancouver, south of the
mouth of the Yukon, with Lieut.
Berthch and Dr. Call who accom
panied the Expeditien, he secuitd
dog sleds and pushed cn to Norton
Sd. where he providentially mtt
Mate Triton who tad leen three
mcntlrs coming with deg sleds fron
Pt. harrow.
Me informed Mr. Jarvis that the
crews of the wrecked Stre., Orca and
Freeman, were living ashore, and
the Stra., Belvedere, tearless, New
pert, Jeanie, and Sch. Rosario were
frozen in and their crews living a
hoatd. He also reported that if no
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Herd, and Trains of Supply Sleds Crossing the Divide at Head-waters of
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