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tion is less than 100. My own observation proves to me that this rule 

 is the cause of a great deal of wrong and immorality. 

 Very respectfully, 



A. P. Loud, 

 Assistant Treasury Agent. 

 Hon. CHARLES J. GOFF, 



Treasury Ayent, 8t, Paul Island, Alaska. 



Inclosure tvith Goff's Annual Report for 1889; Report of Assistant Agent Manchester. 



Office of Special Agent Treasury Department, 



St. Paul Island, June 1, 18S0. 



Sir: I have the honor to submit for your information the following 

 report of affairs on this island since the departure of the steamer St. 

 Paul, August 15, 1888. I anticipated a very severe winter, and re- 

 quested the adult males all to go out along the shore of the island and 

 gather driftwood for winter fuel. After asking them several diHerent 

 times and they not going, I selected seven natives and ordered them to 

 go October 12, 1888. They refused. I then called them to the Govern- 

 ment house and explained to them the necessity of their having fuel; 

 that there was but little on the island to sell and no doubt a hard win- 

 ter ahead, and that they must obey the Government ofticers. They 

 still refused. I tined them as follows: Martine Xederazoff, $15; 

 Stepan Nederazoff, $15; Kerrick Tarakanoff, $20; Peter Tetoff, $20; 

 Metrofan Shutyagiu, $15. I then ordered them to go, and they obeyed, 

 and have always since then been willing and ready to obey. 



The above amount of fines {%So) was de])osited with the Alaska Com- 

 mercial Company and credited to the general fund. After this all the 

 male adults gathered a large amount of wood, and it was a great help 

 to them. As it came to pass it was the most severe winter in twenty 

 years. The winter set in early and continued until the middle of May. 

 February 8 the thermometer was 13° below zero. The island was sur- 

 rounded by ice from the north from January 4 until May 10. October 

 29 we had a hard gale from the west and southwest that carried away 

 the Alaska Commercial Company's wharf and, on account of the heavy 

 seas, destroyed a great number of pup seals, which is always the case, 

 more or less, before the seals make their final departure in the fall. 



School was taught during the months of September, October, aSTovem- 

 ber, December, January, February, March, and April, less the usual 

 holidays. The last of October and November the natives, old and 

 young, all had the measles, which, of course, interfered with the school. 

 The average daily attendance was 51.98; the per cent of attendance 

 was 95.90 ; the number of scholars on the roll, 56. School was taught 

 by Mr. C. C. Mead, and I consider him a good teacher. There were no 

 deaths on account of the measles, as they were carefully treated by the 

 company's physician, Dr. W. S. Hereford. The general health of the 

 natives since January 1, 1889, compared with the same time last year, 

 has been better up to date, August i, 1S89. Tiie morning of October 

 23 I was notified that Pemen Kuznitzotf, a native, aged 36 years, was 

 found dead in the house occupied by him. I requested the company's 

 physician. Dr. W. S. Hereford, to go with me. We found him lying on 

 the floor in a pool of blood, with a large Pemington pistol, six-loader, 

 containing five loaded shells and one empty, by his side, also a common- 

 sized pocket knife, open, on the floor near him. The doctor at once made 



