Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 144, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1913 — ESQUIMAU GOES FOR BRIDE [ARTICLE]

ESQUIMAU GOES FOR BRIDE

Gets Schooling, Lack of Which Once Caused His Rejection by Giri. Seattle, Wash.—Paul Patkotak, an eighteen-year-old Esquimau, has sailed for Point Barrow, the arctic extremity of Alaska, on the schooner Transit to claim the hand of Miss Alice Ahlook. native teacher in the Point Barrow government school, who refused to marry him three years ago because of his lack of education. When he was rejected by Miss Ahlook the youth trapped enough arctic foxes to pay for a year's tutelage and worked his passage to Seattle. Here he was permitted to enter one of tho grammar schools because of the knowledge he had gained at the Point Barrow school. His summer vacations were spent with a fishing fleet During the last year he has learned shorthand, typewriting and bookkeeping in addition to his other studies. Patkotak came south clad In furs. He will return dressed In 'American clothing.