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I suppose the board bill of the men who worked here all summer we will settle 

 next year when we settle about the supplies. 



I have consulted Cav>t. M. A. Healy iu regard to the most important steps I have 

 taken this summer. I have purchased some arms, ammunition, and supplies of Mrs. 

 Thornton; also from the American Missionary Association. 



We have found that cement, lime, and clay make very good mortar for log houses 

 We have just completed one for Charley (12 by 15). We hope to build several 

 more. We want to make some seines and nets next year. So we hope you will 

 have an opportunity to investigate and send us the proper kind of twine. I think 

 it would be well to send up more lumber for storehouses, flooring, and lining of log 

 houses. As for building a new dwelling house next year, I don't think it necessary 

 unless you can afford to put more people here. 



I have furnished the Bear's surgeon with a copy of our drug bill, and he says if 

 you will write to him he will tell you what drugs will be needed for next year. 

 Part of our mail this last year was lost on the Jennie, so we would like if the Bear 

 would bring most of it. If you would write me per steam whalers in February and 

 March, I might be able to hear from you a few days before the Bear arrives. 



Grubin is doing very well. 



Very truly, yours, 



W. T. Lopp. 

 Dr. Sheldon Jackson, 



U. S. General Agent of Education in Alaska. . 



P. S. — If you can get lumber shipped up here as reasonably as you did last, I think 

 it would be well to send up about t'lie same amount of lumber which you sent last 

 year, with the exception of the 1 by 4 stuff, and instead of 4-inch flooring send 6- 

 inch, 



I have bought some clothing of Mrs. Thornton for Mr. Grubin and have given her 

 an order on you. 



Teller Reindeer Station, 

 Port Clarence, Alaska, August 31, 1893. 



Dear Sir : Now that Mr. Thornton has been murdered at the instigation of a bad 

 boy — hoodlum — and pilfering thief, it seems evident that we need, too, a rude native 

 police force organized by the U. S. revenue-marine cutter at all these Eskimo settle- 

 ments. These police should be liberally paid and be appointed by and responsible 

 to the cutter. Hoodlum characters like Ti talk should be punished by these police 

 or held prisoner until the cutter arrives. And the cutter should have authority dele- 

 gated to try and punish all offenders. I hope you can influence the Interior Depart- 

 ment to ask the Treasury Department to confer such power and authority on its 

 cutter in these waters. If Capt. Healy were instructed accordingly I am sure he 

 would take pleasure in providing and organizing such a police force, as he has had 

 so much experience with these natives that with the help of the teachers he would 

 make a success of it. 



I hope you will do everything in your power to bring about such a state of affairs. 



Nan oo gok, the man who was put in irons and was shipped on the Silver Wave, is 

 here, and is reported to have made threats against the station. The natires have 

 promised to send him to King's Island. 



If the native police had been employed, as they were the year previous, I think 

 Mr. Thornton would not have been murdered by the pilferers. 



We have appointed four police here. 



I write you hastily. 

 Very truly, yours, 



W. T. Lopp. 



Dr. Sheldon Jackson, 



U. S. General Agent of Education in Alaska. 



