Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1909 — CALLS PEARY GAME BUTCHER [ARTICLE]

CALLS PEARY GAME BUTCHER

Yale Scientist Intimates Musk Oxen Were Slaughtered In Selfishness. New Haven, Oct 29.—Dr. George R. Wleland, instructor in botany at Yale, has the following in the alumni weekly: “The letter of George Borup Is a saddening human document and a wretched one. In It we read of the wanton killing of several scores of musk oxen, while others have gone to much expense In praiseworthy efforts to save these now nearly extinct denisens of the frozen northland. "Where was Peary In view of his thirty-five miles a day schedule? Did he culpably connive at the slaughter of the last herds of musk oxen in order that explorers following In his footsteps should find difficulty in emulating his deeds?"