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To-day I am keeping the Lapps in the car clown at the yard. I myself have to hide 

 somewhere to write this and other letters. At the top of the page yon will see where 

 I am hiding. 



Will try to send you word from some station farther on. 

 Respectfully, yours, 



W. A. Kjellmann. 

 Mr. William Hamilton, 



Bureau of Education, Washington, B.C. 



Horse Plains, Mont., Ma;/ 29, 1S94. 

 Dear Sir: As stated in my last letter from St. Paul, we left there on the 22d and 

 all went well until Kalispel, Mont., where we we r e delayed by a washout which 

 kept us there for thirty-six hours. On the 26th we were returned to Havre, and from 

 Havre we were sent to Helena, where we arrived at 6 p. m. on the 26th. There we 

 remained until yesterday. Then we were transferred from the special car, that should 

 have taken us through to Seattle, to the Northern Pacitic Railway. Now we are 

 delayed here by a washout on this road too, and no one can tell when we will get 

 through. The steamer we were to have taken from Seattle has gone, and if we get to 

 Seattle we shall have to wait until Monday, June 4. 



I am nearly out of money. We lost one more of the dogs going through North 

 Dakota, and a third one was very sick, but is better now. I use ice for them every 

 day, but still it is too hot for them. The Lapps are all well. The minister also. If 

 anything happens I shall telegraph you. 

 Very respectfully, yours, 



W. A. Kjellmann. 

 Mr. William Hamilton, 



Bureau of Education, Washington, D. C. 



U. S. Revenue Cutter Bear, July 27, 1S94. 



Sir: In the introduction of reindeer into Alaska, the United States Bureau of Edu- 

 cation greatly desires the cooperation and assistance of the missionaries of all the 

 churches in Alaska. The missionaries being the most intelligent and disinterested 

 friends of the natives, the Government naturally looks to them as the best agents 

 through whom to reach the native population. 



From their position and work, having learned the character and needs of the 

 people, they are able to most wisely plan and carry out methods for transferring the 

 ownership of the deer from the Government to the natives in such a manner as will 

 best facilitate the reindeer industry. The Government further realizes the fact 

 that the men who most completely come under mission influence, civilization, and 

 education are the coming men of affairs among their own people, and therefore are 

 the best men to lead in a new movement. 



As the wide and general distribution of the reindeer will both save from extinc- 

 tion the people, among whom the missionaries work, and place them upon a plane of 

 independent self-support, they have a direct and personal interest with the Govern- 

 ment in this work. 



To secure this cooperation of the missionaries, the United States Bureau of Edu- 

 cation proposes from time to time to furnish herds of reindeer to all the mission 

 stations of north western and central Alaska, that through them more natives may 

 be trained to care for the deer, and when so trained, receive the loan of a sufficient 

 number to commence a private herd. 



As a beginning in this direction, it affords me much pleasure to turn over to you, 

 as the representative of the American Missionary Association Mission at Cape Prince 

 of Wales, Alaska, 100 head of reindeer, with the single condition that upon the 1st 



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