Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1897 — REINDEER WANTED AT ONCE. [ARTICLE]

REINDEER WANTED AT ONCE.

Six Hundred Are to Be Used to Carry Food Supplies to Dawson City. Secretary Alger has cabled to William Akellmann, the chief Government reindeer herder, who is now in Alton, Norway, to inform the War Department immediately how soon GOO reindeer can bo shipped to this country. They are wanted for use as draft animals in getting supplies to the miners in the Klondike region. It is expected that they must be transferred at New York to the railroads, and in that manner carried across the continent nnd again by sea from the Pacific coast up-to Dyen or such other point as may be selected ns the base of operations by the relief expeditions. Secretary Alger has determined, after advising with the medical officers of the .War Department nnd persons who have had much experience in arctic regions, to make large use of condensed food preparations. Not only will the meats taken be in the most concentrated form, but particular efforts are making to secure condensed preparations of vegetables, such ns potatoes and onions. The State Department has already asked the British Government to request of the Canadian Government permission to pass these stores through Canadian terrb' tory free of duty. It is not anticipated thnt any objection will be made to granting the request nor to the accompanying request thnt will be made for permission for otir soldiers to pass over Canadian territory ns guards for the expeditions, although an order of the privy council will be required for the suspension of duties. There nre fourteen- salmon canneries on Puget Sound, the total output for 1897 being 5,500,000 fish, 467,000 cases, bringing in $1,634,500. Seventy-two traps and a large number of giil-netters supply them. Miss Maggie Kirkpatrick of Philadelphia, who was a guest at a cottage at Atlantic City, N. J., has been reported missing. She is said to have about $30,000 in Government bonds on her person, which she persisted in carrying around with her because she does not trust banks. Judge Springer of the Indian territory Supreme Court has ruled that a white man who bad married a Cherokee woman, thereby becoming a citizen of the nation, forfeited his Cherokee rights when, after the death of bis Indian wife, he married • white woman.