Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 311, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1910 — PROGRESS OF THE ESKIMOS [ARTICLE]

PROGRESS OF THE ESKIMOS

Becoming So Worldly Wise That ' Traders. Cannot Longer Cheat Them With Cheap Trinkets. _____ Seattle, Wash.—Katak, a Point Barrow Eskimo, has sent to Seattle by ship 100 fox skins to be sold for 11,000, and the money to be used to purchase goods. He wishes flour, tea, a cooking range and a ccore of articles that he has never seen, but pictures of which in the advertising (sections of the magazines and newspapers have attracted him. I The missionaries have stopped the Raffle in whisky between the whalers and the arctic Eskimo, who are now |n improved health and becoming so |wlse that traders cannot longer exchange worthless, trinket t for furs and Ivory. ; I Oapt. John Backlund, master of an arctic trading schooner, says that chewfng gum is of more value than in dealing with the arctic (natives. V “What appeals to the natives," said taaptain Backlund,. “is that while a igumdrop is consumed in a few moments, a stick of chewing gum lasts Umost indefinitely and can be used K™ a ,? d tUrn a s° ut by th 6 "hole mm y.