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THE ; OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL PORTLAND. SUNDAY. MORNING, JANUARY 21, 1912.
Orchards Thrive in Deep Volcanic Ash
582
Schoolmaster of Esquimaux
1 Gives Brief Story of Adven
tures in Wilds Importation
; of Reindeer Helpful.
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(Cnltd Pnat Lnm Wire.)
Washington, Jan. 20. A few day ago
a short, stocky man with a quiet man
ner, a skin browned by much outdoor
life,' and the steady eya of on , used
to looking across great distances, came
to Washington with such small fuss that
it was more than a week before the re
porters were awara of his -presence" at
SlL ' He ifl XC. P ' Tinn lmA .1--
covernmant'a aohnni . . i I Hermlston. Or,. Jan. i0. The aceom
tnaux. and a man who has spent most 0f jPan'r'n j?,c!.ure ?J?0Wi 7ear-old
his life, sine 1890 In Alaska, aeldon . the Umatilla govern-
ViVY
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''"'"T'IEsssssssssssS
-coming out," as he calls
to the states. :
Lopp was a Hoosler schoolmaster in
IndiatukJuJwy Just out of college, when
the government sent him and another
young man up to" Cap Prince of Wales
on Behrlng strait to start an Esquimaux
school. h expected to remain but two
years. ' .y y,,,s-.t r m-f . ;r.
W into - Wild Xagloa.
When, he went up he and his partner I
were me only white men living In all
or northern Alaska. They ' went alone
""" oismet where the natives were
so dreaded that whalers would not put I
in iu porc even lor naven In a storm.
nines mat time Lopo has seen the
vegetaUon growing between the rows of
Is
trees In the sand. As this project
li 'Kt very young there are very' few
bearing orchards at present. Mr. Dlshon
will ' have peaches and apples growing
on his .10 acres this summer.
KING GEORGE'S TRIP TO INDIA
DEEMED COURT'S' WORST BLUNDER
By Ed L. Keen.
(United Ptom Letwd Wire.)
London, Jan. 20. The , king's Durbar
trip was a failure. Not only this, but
In .tha opinion of thoughtful English-
gold rushes go past him fhe him.eif t men t was the most colossal blunder
suiq irver oniy once); he has trav- .v..,. m..i - ...
tied up and down and crlscrosa Alaska ministration.
on foot, mushing with dogs, or driving Drin the" weeks' visit In India,
reindeer, from p Barrow nnrhram. the king and queen, new en routa home.
pinnacle of the continent mw t .. covered thousands of miles of territory
Alaskan peninsula in the warm .tt.. nd exhibited themselves to millions of
stream, and- eastward to -the -Canadian
boundary. ...,,,.
; TaTxe tittle ef Advent'nrea.
; Before white men came he haa known
what It 1s to be driving exhausted dogs
In the bitter cold of Interior Alaska,
with the food dwindling; he haa been
In an Esquimaux hunting boat scuttled
by the tuska of an infuriated walrus;
he has fearlessly carried law Into rough,
lawless winter whaling stations In the
Arctic ocean; he has faced death in a
score of forma But ef all these he will
-ay nothing. He prefers to talk about
the government's Alaskan reindeer herd,
of which he was the creator, and Is the
, preaenl adnnJtratlv.hBU,,,i,,a,
"We got the idea of Importing rein-
4)eev-from.Siberia.that first year, we
were at Cape Prince of Wales," he said.
'The country then had a bad reputation.
But after we had learned a little more
or the Esquimaux language we discov
ered that most of the trouble between
Esquimaux and the whites resulted from
their dusky subjects; but ' Instead of
"tightening the bonds of Empire and
consolidating British rule M India," as
the advance notice proclaimed, the trip
stirred up more trouble than all the
seditious activities of native agitators
in the past five, years.
The wanton extravagance of the Dur
bar ceremony at, a time when money
was so badly needed In- India for the
relief of human suffering, created an
unfavorable Impression from the start,
and practically . every stage of their
majesties' theatrical progress through
the empire was marked by "regrettable
incidents," a the official explanations
put It. ...
Bombay reel' Slirtoteav -v-
Bombay, one of the most loyal cities
of the country, was bitterly offended,
when; after It bad been combed by the
secret police, it was announced that the
king and queen would have their head
quarters on board the Medina during
their visit there. Instead of residing on
ill treatment of the natives. We found shore. The king-emperor, while making
them kindly, good natured people, with speeches praising the loyalty of his
more native Intelligence than Indians Indian subjects, did not trust them after
have, and eager to learn the white man's all. Except for the time when he was
waysv-r Their chief faults .were drunk- engaged in the ceremonies on land, he
. enness and a tendency to steal whatever I was under the guard of. his own war-
they could.
; Troubled Only at First.
"We had some trouble with them at
first, but we insisted on having our way.
When they saw we were absolutely Just
ana fair with them, their attitude
ships, instead of relying upon the fi
delity of his native troops.
A far better Impression also would
have been made If the king and queen,
when they reached Delhi, had taken up
their residence In the old royal palace.
changed. We taught them that stealing instead of surrounding themselves by
and drinking were wrong and they lis- 60,000 trcops in a temporary camp. The
tenea to us. Today it would be-hard to o" explanation was mat me pai
find a more honest people than the Es
quimaux living . from Cape Prince of
Wales northward, and drunkenness is
almost-unknown. Also they are the
most advanced Of the Esquimaux in
carrying out our teachings of cleanli
ness and hygiene. ,
' "That first winter we learned that
-the- Esquimaux -wanted- to- own-reindeer.
but that the revenue officers would not
ace was too old and unsanitary for
their occupation; b'lt it might easily
have been overhauled, and at much less
coat than the construction .of the camp.
Innumerable squabbles over prece
dence. Inseparable from such a gather
ing of haughty princes of various races
and religions, marked the whole pro
ceedings at Delhi.- But the most ser
ious .mistake was the snub or insult
i permit the Importation. 1 Some of the to the gaekwar of Baroda, the second
natives even owned reindeer in the Sibe
rian herds across the straits. And It
teemed a shame that they were for-
most powerful chieftain in India. The
gaekwar had rendered homage in
cavalier manner, we are told, but the
bidden to bring their property across apology wrung from him, to soothe the
from Asia, so near that the Siberian
heights-could be seen over the water
on clear days.
' Selndeer Are Shipped In. ;
-i "We appealed to Washington for per-
mission to Import reindeer. But ether
government agents had preceded us in
thia request. Before we had a reply
. from 'our letter that summer a revenue
cutter put into port with a shipment
of reindeer ' on board. We were over-
- Joyed to know- that the prohibition of
the law had been removed and set about
- getting more.
- "In 1892 came the first large lmpor
' tatlon. We brought in 1200 that year,
: and' from these grew the present herd,
, scattered throughout Alaska and num
' bering over 85,000. .
"The reindeer policy was gradually
evolved. We Impress upon the Lapps
and Esquimaux that the reindeer are
exclusively their property and care. For
. instance, they are not allowed to sell
,v female reindeer to white men, so that
offended dignity of the king-emperor,
was far more a publlo insult than the
actual 'offense. The whole story will
probably never be told, but although it
is now stated eeml-officlally that the
gaekwar's behavior had been - very un
satisfactory for some time past, it is
tolerably certain that his present dis
grace is primarily due to his having
been mixed up In an English divorce
case. Two days before the Durbar
ceremony an application was made in
the London courts to cite the Mahratta
chieftain as a co-respondent in the
Statham divorce suit The Judge, doubt
less acting under instructions from the
India office, deferred Judgment until
after the Durbar, on the question of
whether the gaekwar was an Independ
ent ruling prince and as such outside
the Jurisdiction of the English courts.
Later he decided that the Indian poten
tate was property etempt
British court etiquette places persona
who have been involved in divorce cases
the brood animals are to be perpetually out8,d0 th Pa,e and w,th uch a rl&
fi the custody and ownership of the na- moralist as Queen Mary on the throne.
Uvea, i it Is possible that the gaekwar received
Vatives Own Anm's. an intimation that he make himself In-
' "We usually establish a reindeer hjrd conspicuous after the formal Durbar
wherever we have a native school. The ceremony, even If he was not told to ab-
chool superintendent nas supervision ent himself altogether. s
over the herd, though the animals are Evil Example Peered.
vwnea oy me natives, wnen a new herd The Indifferent manner In which he
is to be started, young, ambitious na- rendered homage and the sneering ex-
.tives are selected as apprentice herders pression with which he turned .his back
9rj.jwr year Urn. For We first 0n the king-emperor after bowing could
year services, In addition to his living not be overlooked, for fear it mlSht en.
tne apprentice receives six retndeeri ,.. t,
' : . r-- " i think thnt thn PlrlH.ti Vina. kaiiM Ka
10, and the fourth year 10. So that
. whatyou . may. term a Journeyman
herder owns S 4 reindeer. They are then
treated with disdain. The humble apol
ogy, and the very thin excuse of "nerv-
free to breed their animals and sell thelr fness," published by the viceroy "with
culvea or atonic of anv nn n, ikt h uuununi, ana m crusn
other natives..
- ."Reindeer are food, clothmg and trans
portation to the natives. As food, rein
deer is delicious, resembling both mut
ton ana beet, but more palatable than
lng official Intimation that his "attend
ance" was "dispensed with", for the rest
of the. ceremonies may have -had a sal
utory effect. on some of the princes, but
it published to the whole world . the
either. Along In October, when the deer story of the geakwar's offense and pun-
are fat' from a summer's feeding on ishment.,
grasses and foliage, they are beet for The gaekwar's subjects number nearly
eating. The natives take reindeer tal- S.000,000, but there are many more.mil-
Jow and mix red1 moss berries into it, lions of Mahrattaa in the neighboring
waking a dish that looks like Ice cream states, and the. same race supplies a
and which Is fine to eat number of th mot tmi.t.A ri.im.ni.
, JlB J0?' ",0" of "e Indian army. - How these people
-' JW HIIUUKU 1MB I will Islr. ,. k..ll.U- B -1 i , .
pal Mahratta chieftain is Impossible to
the ways. He can
now when tethered out and find moss
to eat. He is strong, so the driver can
Tide. - And the reindeer can travel 40
miles a day and keep it up for a week
at a time." -
' Church Damaged by Fire.
(SpnHal to The Jotu-nil,)
Junction City, Or.. Jan. 20. The res
idents ef Junction were startled by the
fire alarm when It was discovered that
the Methodist Episcopal church bad
taught fire from an overheated furnace.
Trompt action by the bucket brigade
extinguished . the blaze. Had the dis
covery of the fire been IS minutes later
the entire church would have been destroyed.
Liquid air. loaded in thick prosphor
bronse cartridges, Is being successfully
ued for bleating In tome English coal
mints. . j
foresee.
Then again, the hunting trip Into Ne
pal was a blunder, for the other great
princes, terribly Jealous of their privi
leges, resent the favorite! sm , shown
to" the maharaja of .Nepal of en
tertaining the king-emperor in his
own palace and his own v state a
privilege which was denied to all others.
From the point of view of the people of
Nepal; any personal satisfaction they
may have derived from this token of
esteem was nullified by the , sudden
death of their ruler, a week be
fore the hunt commenced. The mah ra
ja's death and the king's visit would not
connect themselves in the mind of a Eu.
ropean, but that the British authorities
realised the effect on the native imagi
nation Is proved by the fact that the
people were not allowed to hear of their
Ruler's death for nearly a week after
the event Then the news was accom
panied by the official assurance that
the mahraja's dying wish was that the
king-emperor should go on with his
bunting. .
I The theatrical announcement at 'the
durbar of tha change of the capital
from Calcutta to Delhi and the ad
ministrative . reorganisation In Bengal
also provoked . much unfavorable com
ment. From an administrative point
of view, the change has much to, rec
ommend it, although it will be a terri
bly expensive business costing some
120,000.000 and In addition to pleasing
the natives of the northwest and north
ern provinces, It provided King George
with an opportunity of showing his
kingly power by making a totally un
expected and Important announcement.
apparently without having consulted his
ministers. ' :.v ).:::;
But the Bengalis, who number, over
TO.0QO.000, object to losing the capital,
ana tne ever recurring problem of gov
ernlng the-great masses of Hindus and
Mohammedans in Bengal has been fur
ther aggrlvated ' by the administrative
reforms.' Lord Curson caused . sedition
and bloodshed by hl well meant but
misguided separation of the Hindu and
Mohammedan administrations, but the
latest, plan which apparently reunited
the province, although really splitting It
up a bit more, pleases neither side. It
haa raised trouble for the king and
the , Liberal: administration In Eng
land, because for the first time the
king has been mde the mouthpiece of a
party planning new end totally unex
pected ' legislation,' and the very fact
that the announcement was made by
the king himself prevents anything In
the way of parliamentary criticism and
amendment. In effect the government
in- announcing such changes through the
mouth of the 'sovereign has made laws
without . consulting parliament
Above all, in attempting to emphasise
the doctrine of -"personal government"
King George and his advisers over
looked his majesty' physical disad
vantages. . Physical strength and an
Nmposing appearance must .always ap
peal to the natives of India and kindred
countries, out me signi or tne under
slsed, and almost Insignificant looking
British monarch came ass a shock to
the fiery warriors who have been taught
to regard the kalser-l-ltlnd a's something
in tha nature of deity. From this point
of view alone. King George would Bet
ter have taken the advice of those who 1
sought to dissuade him from the Indian
trip. ' ,
s Granary Plant Destroyed. v
,v'- (Vetted Frets LesseeT Wre. .
' Winnipeg, Man.. Jan, 20. The Winni
peg Steel Granary A Culvert company
are loser by 150,000 today as the re
sult of a , fire last night ' which, was
most spectacular. Although the plant
Is' four , miles out : of town and. the
weather was over'sO below sero, a large
crowd went out to watch the flreftght
re;j';:?.7vp . . - - -'
'Journal Want 'Ads bring results.'";
( listen by Ilia Son.
" ( (united Pma Lesua Wire.),'
; San Francisco, Jan. 20. Robert Curry
wanted Judge Bturtevant, to set aside
the alimony , in-his wife's divorce suit;
When he left the court room he was met
by his son' and a left Jab on the noee,
"I'm with maw," said Curry Junior, v .
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