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not worth to the people for whose special benefit and enhghtenment 

 our Government has placed these animals here? 



I liighly appreciate and wdsh to express my gratitude for every,- 

 thing done for my comfort and pleasure by the faithful workers 

 at Bethel, Kuskokwim, Kotzebue, and Golofnin. I also wish to 

 express my thanks to Mr. Karl J. Hendrickson, Unalakleet, for the 

 many services rendered during my absence from home. 



A. J. Bruner, attorney at law, Nome, Alaska, has, by his great 

 services in so nobly and freely defending and freeing Mary Antisar- 

 look, deserved not only my thanks but that of all who love liberty, 

 truth, and justice. 



Trusting and hoping for success in the noble work of educating 

 the natives of Alaska, I remain. 

 Your obedient servant, 



Carl O. Lind. 



Dr. Sheldon Jackson, D. D., 



United States General Agent for Education in Alaska. 



ANNUAL REPORTS, CAPE PRINCE OF WALES REINDEER STATION. 

 By Hugh J. Lee, in charge. 



Wales, Alaska, June 30, 1904- 



Sir: The winter of 1903-4 was a good one for the deer. From 

 September 15 to November 15 the temperature was not above freez- 

 ing nor below zero, and during the winter there was no weather 

 warm enough to melt the snow, though the coldest w^as only 25° 

 below zero. The result was that there was no ice on the moss, so 

 that the deer could obtain their food easily. There was very little 

 snow until February and March, so that in the early part of the 

 winter the deer did not have to dig for their food. 



During the summer of 1903 some of the native herders contracted 

 to sell to the Government 168 female deer and to deliver them at 

 the Teller reindeer station sometime during the winter. 



In December the herders began to prepare for the delivery of these 

 deer, and started in by the hobbling method to separate them from 

 the rest of the herd. This is the method often used in transferring 

 them in the summer time. When about 40 of the deer were hobbled, 

 the boys found that the feet on several of them were frozen on account 

 of the stopping of the circulation, and they had to be killed ; so they 

 let the others go and came back and reported to me. 



We had no corral into which to drive them for separating the herd, 

 and I suggested making one with willows, but the boj^s said they 

 had tried that in the past and the deer would break them down so 

 that they could not be used. 



