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ANNUAL REPOIIT OF EATON REINDEER STATION. 

 By Carl O. Lind, M. D., General Superintendent Central Division. 



Unalakleet, Alaska, June 30, 1904. 



Sir: I have the honor to submit to your consideration my annual 

 report of the work which has devolved upon me as suj)ervisor of the 

 reindeer herds and apprentices in Alaska for the )^ear wliich termi- 

 nated June 30, 1904. 



Early m the morning of July 25 the pleasure was granted us to 

 welcome ^li'. Hamilton, the assistant agent of education for Alaska. 

 His stay with us was brief, but the time was well spent. As the 

 mission at Unalakleet had previously had the promise of a herd of 

 deer, tliis promise was acted upon. ^Ir. Bals, sr., was appointed 

 chief herder for one of the herds at Unalakleet, wliile Ole O. Bahr 

 still was to hold that position over the other herd. As yet there 

 was but one herd, but on Mr. A. E. Karlson's suggestion it was 

 decided that it be divided into two and kept separately. It was 

 also decided that Mr. Bals, jr., should go to Nulato to fill the place 

 to be left by Isaac Bango. As I had previously received an offer 

 of appointment from Dr. Sheldon Jackson to the position which I 

 now hold, Mr. Hamilton confirmed the same. 



Bals, jr., was willing to go to Nulato at once, and as soon as the 

 necessary preparations were made he left Unalakleet to go from 

 St. Michael with the fii'st boat of August. Upon Bals's arrival at 

 Nulato, Bango returned and came to Unalakleet. The instructions 

 in regard' to his being sent to Port Clarence arrived after he had 

 reached Unalakleet. He not being willing then to lay out the money 

 for his journey, I having no more to expend, he was delayed at 

 Unalakleet until September 21, when he decided to go on his own 

 risk. During Bango's stay at Unalakleet we received a letter from 

 the local superintendent at Port Clarence to the effect that no 

 Lapp was wanted at that place. But after all, when having had 

 repeated instructions from headquarters as to his sending, and 

 Bango at last being willing to lay out the money for his fare, I let 

 him go in the evening of September 21. On September 23 I received 

 a telegram from the Commissioner of Education to dismiss Bango 

 for the year. I acted upon the instructions immediately, but that 

 letter must not have reached Bango until the local superintendent 

 Brevig and Bango had formed an acquaintance and liked each other 

 quite well. So Mr. Brevig wrote Doctor Jackson about his satis- 

 faction with the Bango family, and a second telegram was received 

 from Doctor Jackson on November 9, the sa^me day I had left for 

 the Kuskokwim, that Bango coidd continue in service. I having 

 already gone, Mr. K. J. Hendrickson, the missionary in charge, wrote 

 IVIr. Brevis and Bango to that effect. 



