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SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 25, 1917. BIG GAME OF ALASKA -,--.:,,- .. v :.; . . How Undo Sam ViU Protect It From The Railway Invasion. V The Giant Moose of Kcnai and How It Is lion ted Caribou By The Thousand , , ; , . By TMXSX C CAKPIITWR, 1 - " j2W- NOME, Alaska. "WUa ths plBg of the new govern msat railvaj a bord of big gam nan- viii t lluki. Thar will swarm vr tea Kssai paiasala aftar tha giant . . . a ftU tkM naoa J tt groat mvn j ii -l. . .,iiwa mr ta Tanana valley, aad wUl climb tea Alaska rangs tat kill nntiatmlB IMD IM Mwa. -t .ba nrJau ta Mount kle- Einley, ad aoata may g farther north to a tat th JgMy-waro This govramat la already prvpubtg (or tha Invasion. na , goat lawa aa to tha open oaaaoaa f or er ..l. mmd it has l vio the .. M . . a i BIB ,M which is to surround Mount McKinley. As r 1 sow, every aoa-r Alaska la required to pay from U im a.-.. ia th tarntorr. aad wttn fiW w A -AAltlmml MTnMl ha BBBOt .iit .... ...nth of latitude S3. Ha has . ta have a apodal Ueease for moose, aad this eosta aiou. Ibrww, the nnnttr Is limited i as to V- w ..ImaJa h mST kill. BDd area tha resideata eaijnot ahip out the meat of the animals, or their heads as trophies, withoat a Shipping ueens iru ths Governor of Alaska. It will eost him and ha eaa arad four dear, two caribou, two sheep, two goat snd two brown ear for $10. The law forbid huBtiog of game aai mala with dogs, or the use of shotguns larger than taose 01 umuuw Tb opea aaoa rsries la different parte of tha country. North of latitude 62 browa bear may be killed at any time, aad meoae, caribou, sheep and sea Hons from August I to December 10. .ittmA frnm Mav 10 to July I, aad grouse, ptarmigan aad other bird from Beptamoer i u aumw It ta an lawful for aay persoa, in any ... . kill nun than two moose. one walrus or sea lion, throe caribou. three mountain sheep, tore omwi vomr .i-v. Amw mm A aa nnat aot have la i. &aM' , his posstssloa oa any on day mora thsa twenty -are grouse or piarnuau. Oa ths Kenal peninsula ths regloa that the railway will first opcB. it Is now ' aeeesnary to haT 7 licensed guide, and it wUl cost from S3 to $10 a day for ths time he IS employed. The guides may den a, who watch to see that the laws are be either whit men or Indians; they are appointed by the Goveraor, and their names are published. They are subject to tk GoTeraor and to the gam war kept. The penalty for infringemeBt of las naming regulations a -w, or imprisonment for not mor than During by trip across the Kenal pe ninsula I saw a number Oi men 90t the . ... w v ' a . y STla. a, . -B Dig Cities or me unura mim jukmou f. LmiUr Tha Binat nf them were after the giant moose, which is abuadsnt In that region, and they were enthu siastic as to the jpTospeets. On my way . u :i i otst us peaiBsuia i raw unci game; aad at aereral of tha roadhontes I waa serred with what was esJd Alaska beef, bnt which tasted eryike . moos meat. It was, I doubt not, killed contrary to ta law. The atria pent hunting regulations are an naarr to ths oreaervatitn of the am. of Alaska, aad already the govern meat has had to suspend the killing of certain animal ia certain territories ' from time to time. - It is aow prohibited to shoot moose in southeastern Alaska; aad it was only lately that the restric tion oa cariboo ia the Kenai peninsula wa abolishsd. This ia so notwithstand- inn- the cariboo in eertaia parts of : Alaska are almost as numerous as were tha buffalo on our Western plains. It Is estimated that there are still several millions of these animal oa the barren laada of ths far north. They lis there ia ths summer aad go southward in great herds for ths winter. Two or three rears aco a drove of 30,000 cam withir a milt of Dawaoa and fed there oa the hills. Men went out to sea them in automobiles aad great numbers were , killed. The animals did aot seem to be afraid of man, aad even the auto mobile did not crests' a stampede.. About forty Ave mile from Fairbanks is a bill known as Porenpia Dome, where, a tha hunter say, the caribou of that region com together to start south ia companies. They more in drove of thousands aad make their way to the headwaters of ths rivers. They stay south during ths winter, and along la February and March begin to strag gle back ia bands f 100 or so. -Caribou an still Bess, aa far south si the Iraa canal, over a thousand miles from their summer horn in ths far north. Ia 1013 a drove of mor than 10.000 passed south, crossing ths Elon dik valley about twenty-fir miles from Dawson, and MX) were killed for ta winter food supply of that city. The mi war dressed and left out in the air. They fro is within a short time, aad th natural cold-storage condition were such that they wer kept until -assd. ' - u 1 :.' '.. wsun '"j m -talk with Commissioner Black, the gov rraor of the territory, who, lih Nim'- 1 rod, ia a "mighty hunter."' He describ ed a cariboo herd which hs saw oa a re- rent trip up th Sixty Mile river. Hs says that h Barrow valley and high mountains oa either sids swarmed with .the animals. At every hundred yards, lor lore icnv auin muviv aw jj w.i their tracks, thcrs wer trails a root " deep, and ther wer so many hoof ,,,;.t that hs could aot sut his hat on . ta ground without covering som of theas. - ;' . ' ' i ' Th great Uaekeazk watershed, which Is about half th six ef the Called States proper, teems with cari bou, nad ther ara vast number U ths Tukra basin. -Nearly every miner's aabin in Alaska has a pair of caribou. aaUsr over its door, and th' Indians wmatims kill th animals for th mere pleasure of slaughter. They bring the choice cuts of the meat into the markets ' or aal. often allowing th bulk flf the - wareaa t c to wast. A few years afs, ths young wer killed for their . akiaa. aad reindeer coats made ef fswa akin were sold in great quantities. The aatlers of th caribou, ar- beautiful They averaga twenty point aad many ar larger, .'."' Th clief food, of th caribou Is rain- THE NEWS AND OBSERVER 15 t,tnUtMmm dear moss, of a greeniah whit color, which Is scattered rr the hill aad mountain of Alaska. Their favorite feeding grottada ar on th treeless and semi-tree less parts of .th territory, in eluding the tundras along th coast of th 'Arctis ocean," and down to the Pa cifia aid of th Alaska penis tula. They scatter widely in summsr aad collect ta herds ia th fall. Each, herd has 1U leader, and it is said that if ths leader is killed tk rest ef th herd become panic stricken and tnmpl back aad forth until another animal take th lead."'..'-:". -.',.:Vy: Ther 1 on Urg drov f thee deer that collects almost svwry year along th watershed betwi aa th Yukon nad Tanana river. Th hunters from forty I Mil, Eagl aad Cirel and th other mining town of that region rsly npon it for a part of their meat supply. t hare seen a number of moose sines I earns to Alaska. I have watched them swimming in th Yukon 'flat as ws passed through oa the steamboat, and hav picked out several with my Held glasses along th bank of th streams. Th animals mage over th timbered parte of th territory, and they are especially plentiful on th Kenai and Alaska peninsulas. They ar not like th caiibon, In that they feed in the open. Their favorite bom 1 th mined wood of spruce, poplar and birch along th river bottoms nnd on th aide of th hills. Daring th winter they fsed on the willow and young alders, dig ging the bushes out' of th snow. The Kenai giant moo is th largwt of ths deer family. Antler ar offered for sale which measure six, feet from tip to tip, and now and then on finds a pair that is mors than six feet ,1a width. , i Th moos ar at their best during the rutting season, This is at th close of the summer, when they have grown (at On th rich vegetation. They ar moat easily caught when ths mosquitoes are bad. This drive than int th rivers and Inks. In ths winter they ar chased by men upon snowshoe. Ths moose ar ao heavy that they siak in. th snow to their bellies whsn they get out of th sheltered places, aad at such, time they make for a Ink or a river, where they can travel over the ic from which th snow has . bean blown. Many of th aow moo hav their calve with them, and it la not uncommon .to find a baby mooes, or calf, aa a pet in the mining town. Th calve ar born during May aad June, and follow th cows until th follow ing spring. Th most' delicious meat of Alaska is that of th mountain sheep. It brings higher prices than any other gam in th market; but it 1 difficult to get aad th supply ia never abundant. ,A hunter at Fairbank told m that h one saw 800 sheep la on drove. Hs thought him self; luexy in that a killed two before they got out of sight. Thss wild sheep ar different from those of th Bocky pnountains. , Thsy have a coat that is mors like hair than wool There is on kind that is purs white with horns of jet black. This is th Dall sheep, o named after William li. DalL th Alaskan explorer, These sheep ar most numerous In th Kenai peninsula and in th Alaska range. Ther ar some about Mount McKinley, and good hunting grounds will be reached by the railroad. Ther are also large number ia the Endleott mountains, .north of ths Yukon, the ani mals feeding for the' most part on ths wild mountain tops far above the timber line. They mor about over th hills, ana you can see their trails coins thin way and that along the sides of the mountains. Some attemnta ar maw nafnv domesticate the mountain sheep. Ths lambs, are caught and reared ia ' cap tivity. There is a farmer near Copper Center, about 100 miles from Valdet, wno is xrvins' ta iua th. i.v soms that he has imported from Mon- umu. ana nasr eoia tiart nr k. ...... He has been nneeeaafnl Hth anna vi. rams and ban bred from about a half uocen mountain ewes. ; Hs expects to brinr in ahnnt tnnn .1,... ' .VWM, Ml states, and establish a mountain, sheep cross results in a tame, mrge-sisea animal, with a fleec which i a combination nt hair mnA 1 ir.. woor is thick and close to ths hid, th Bar senaing out Myoaa It Th meat ia said to be sunrW th. . ... other than the wild mountain sheep. Bears sra In hm tn-nm .1 -' ...'' , - - - -v.... Mj-int o TTir t- where ia Alaska. No loss than thirteen ainerent varieties ra recognised by th scientists. There ax four general HEAD STUFFED FROM . ; CATARRH OR A COLD i gay Crcaai AppUed ta KoatrOa X t . C Air Pasegea Eight Up, Instant tUf waling. Tour clogged nostril opes right upi th air Ussssgos of yur bead slear and you can breath .freely. No mor hawking, snuf fling, blowing, headache, dryness. No ... .it... KrMth at nlirhti vonr UUIWi - . . V cold r; catarrh disappears. Oct a small Dow or ciys uream Balm from Vr druggist now. Apply a littl of this fragrant,' antiseptic, healing cream in your nostrils. It pene trates through- every air passage of ths head, soothes the inflamed or swollen mucous membransnd relief comes in staatly.'. . " . It's Just fine.-Dont stny stuffed-op with a sold or nasty eatarrh. Adv. 1 Cuticura Hed Uif Is Doy's Scalp Total Cost 70c. Scalp WasAwfuIIySore; Fiery Red and Itched. Could Not Sleep. Head Disfigured and Hair Fell Out., "Every -spring rny three .year-old son's scalp, would 6 inflamed with water blister which turned . to aore eruptions. I tried everything I could get but nothing did any good. His scalp, was awfully aore, and fiery red,. hhi uie crupuun -icnca very ansBiy. He was fretful both night and iW and he could not sleep. ' His head vJidis-" . figured and his hair fell out 1- "Their I wrote for a free sample of Cuttcura Soap and Oinfeneni. It did so much good that I bought a fifty-cent box of Cuticura Ointment and a twenty five-cent cake of Cuticnrs Soap, and now his Scalp is healed." (Signed) A. J. Taylor, R. ti Box .7, Saaie, Ala. If mothers would only use these fra grant super - cresmT etnollients for' .every-dav toilet and nursery purpose how much suffering might be avoided by preventing lit Ue skin and scalp troubles ttecoming serious. ' For Free Sample, by Ret am Mali address post-card: "Cnticara, Dept. H, Boston.' Sold everywhere. types, th brown, the grizzly, th black aad tha . polar bear. The black and brown bears ar th most numerous, and thers ar soms of the brown bears so big that they weigh almost a ton. With th exception of th -polar bear they ar th biggest bears known. The largest of all ar found on Kodiak Is land, in th Alaska peninsula," and about Yakuts not far from Cardova. I havs seen skins of these bears which war mor than ten feet in length and six feet in width, with fur upon them thro iaehea-thiek. I priced one in a tor at Juneau aad it was $65. Hers at Nome all fur are cheap, I havs bought skins of two baby grizzlies for $10 saeh, nad havs sent them home "by parcel post. They weighed just under twenty pounds, nnd It costs me $2.40 to hav them landed in Washington. Polar bsar akin of aodmous size sre old hsr for $40 and $70, only a frac tion ef th pric they would bring in th states. As to. ths common black bear, there ar so many of them about ths mining camps that they often break into the Rhoumafism Mauritania atoms Our Orrca by On Kadls-EsWaaU Ivsry luSsmto annfc Tcr Aotnes. fain at swfaJ sssVrlasT sad mh tswjtt tats Stta, Vtiri K. J art mm of Bjiaii. Ksw Tws, new tsrrlbts sa rawar to hosua ass- Ma la. aa San slvsa htm arsf salkf with SU aaforrsutcs waa sra wltbis IU nsa. Bs wssts srerv ratonuitte victim to knew ben he was Sesd wast bs sarst , eabias when the owners ar away. The cubs are frequently caught and tamed. Fvery camp aad village along th Y koq baa ons or mor which will eat oat of your hand, and go through tricks npon order. Buck aai ma la ar usually kept chained to a post, and not infre quently their horn is a barrel or a hogshead nearby. : Ths polar beau of Alaska ar fonad here ia Bering aea and along the Arctic ocean. Th hunter who wish to kill such game should eome to Norn in the spring snd travel over the icefields northward into ths Areticv The bears, move north aad south with the , ice drift They go a far sooth as th Seal Islands, aad hav been found aa far north as lnt Undo 79. Their food is chiefly seals aad fish. Th great bears lie down near th hole in the ice, where th seals com np to breathe, aad grab them when their nose show on th surface. N Th animals ar perfectly at bom In th water, and thsy hav been seen swimming in the Arctic sixty, miles from land or lee. I am told by the hunters that they usually run oa the approach of a man, but that they will attack obs when they are hungry. There is a story told hsr abeat an Ka kimo at Point Barrow who got la the track of a bear which we-running from a hunting party. Th Eskimo, who was shooting, ducks, seat a charge of shot into ths S-nr. The bear turned back and knocked th Eskimo down with one of his paws. He then 'bit off the top of th man's head and resumed his flight. JjL .j.. Ther ia only en animal la fhla re gion that can successfully light the polar bear. This is ths full grown wal rus. Th bears will attack th ba.iy walrus, but they are afraid of th long harp, ivory tusks ef the grown-ups A full grown walrus has been seen on the body of a dead whale, keeping away a polar bear that waa hungrily swimming around it , There is no closed season en walrus, although the Aaimals should be pro tected. They formerly cam down to the Aleutian Islands nnd ' ths Alaska peninsula, but ths rookeries ther hsvo been destroyed, sndjhey ar now con fined to the Arctic ocean and' Bering sea. They are greatly desifd by the Koklmoe who use .the walrus hides for covering their large boats, paring the skin down for the purpose. They also cat the meat and sell the ivory, tusks, sometime getting $1 a pound. They use the blubber for heating nnd light ing their igkios. The Alaska walrus are enormous. The average one is as big aa an ex, aad it often weighs mors thsn a ton. A wal rus was recently killed by Soms whal ers near Pqtnt Barrow, whoss head weighed- -eTgh y pounds, and whoss skin, including the uippar. 600 pounds. That animal had a girth ef fonrteea feet, aad its weight was ever f 000 posada. Th skin was from one-half an inch tohr inches in thickness, snd the blubber weighed 500 pounds. The tusks of th walrus are a beautiful ivory. They ex tend directly downward from th Upper jaw, and ar sometimes almost two feet ia length. Among striking features of ths gam oT this part of th world i th pro vision that natur bus made for their protection. 6om of the birds 'and atiiraa) change their color la winter, so that thev cannot be seen sgainst th white mow. The ptarmigan, for in stance, which is one of th finest grouse of Alaska, has a summer plumsgn of mottled brown, while It winter oat is snow white. Th sam ia true of th rabbits. They ar gray ia th summer aad change to a snow whit In th win-1 tcr. The rabbit her ar twin sa Urg as those of our eastern Rtates, although not so large as the arctis bars ef ths far north They ar sometimes called snow-rfho rabbits, because their feet take the plac of snowshoe. They ar large aad soft, enabling the rabblta to go over th snow withoat sinking in. Rabbits srs so numerous that they form the food of many wild animals. They, ar eatea by wolves, dogs and bear, and even bv th anink sad lynx. Ths mink sucks ths blood of ths rabbit, leaving its flesh untouched, and hs snny kill a half dozen to get one sqoar meal Th eagles aad ravens prey anon ths rabbits, and Indians hunt them in eum psnies. dririni them to a center and then shooting them. They ar also caught with- snares, or shot, to feed the foxes on th fox farm. I met farmer who has killed twesty-aevea hiind red rabbits this year as food for bis foxes. . Notwithstanding this, ths animals multiply so tepidly that they would overrun the country wer it not for a plague that periodically kills them by thousaads. I have been told that thiSf plague comes every seven years, and that it is usually followed by an in cress in the mooss and other, wild game. When the'-rabblt ar plentiful there are but few moose, aad when rab bit ar scarce the moo ar abundant This may be from th fact that th rab bits injure the pasturage over which ths moose feed. In th same way that sheep will destroy it for other live stock. In the winter the rabbits live on th bark of ths willows, eating it down aa the snow melts. Ia this way they destroy great thirkrta girdling the trees. (Copyrighted, 1917. by Frsnk 0. Car ' penter.) Axe You Awake 1 Xsfi Basra rats tlfc tlshtalag tlssksi avtlag Tsnnjk aty feists," T ths SBrmg f IMS t ws attacks bs ktaaealar aad laaaaunatarr abramsUasa. I saf fra M snly thsss was av It sasw, for mi thras years. 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At all druv . mm. a al vyv guts, 25c, SUC n0 J1.W. it V 1 l Tsa.ka I Lota 1 1 , ?! xrixai' w - u il M, Saria. r aot al. . mfw' . . r- Jmmm'w ar IMIMIMntfrn I LuDOQ DDDMi tiOTICE OF SALE OF VALUABLE CITY PROPERTY By vlrtuA of authority conferred upon us in the will ' of Nora Cole, deceased, we will, on Thursday, March 1, 1917, at 12 o'clock m., offer for sale, at the Court ' House in this City, to the highest bidder, for cash, the following described property, known as the '.'Cole Estate:" Beginning on Person Street, at Robert Clif- ton's line, running north with said street 105 feet, to Franklin Street; thence east with Franklin Street 210 feet, to the Vass property; thence south with the Vass property 105 feet to Clifton's line; thence west with Clifton's line 210 feet to the beginning. , A v - This lot will be subdivided into four lots, two lots facing Person Street and two lots facing Franklin - Street, each lot being 52x105 feet. These lots wil be sold separately and as a whole, subject to a ten per cent raise within 30 days from date of sale. This property is situated in one of the best Residen tial parts of the city, and owing ta the fact that a num ber of improvements are soon to be made near this property, renders this sale of more than usual import nce. One of these lots, as shown by diagram, contains the Cole residence, a two-story building, in good con 5lition, now in use. Any one wishing to buy a residence in which td live or rent, or any one desirous of buying a lot on which to build, would do well to investigate this property before date of sale. DIAGRAM OF PROPERTY nxmun iTKBarr w E i tuft. - UVaft. unit. i - 3 a S S a - IS ft. ,, titl BHA ' I ' I For further inforniation, apply to either of the un dersigned. ' - s. EUGENE C COLE T. C COUNCIL Raleigh, N. C, '. Administrators. January 25, 1917. . BR0M0-SElTZER J (J r C OL,D S VJSn ...BanfaasBssnasMMsktsasmk-BknBk c "-i c 'C:. 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