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Trustiiit,^ tlnit God luav l>U'ss his work liorc this wititcr. T remain, 



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Francis II. (tambem.. 



Dr. SlIEI.DOX flACKSON, 



Geni raJ A<i<'nt of K<1<ici(ti(>it In Ahishi, Was/ilixjfoi)^ I>. (' 



PETITION FOR INTRODUCTlOX OF RKLNDKEK INTO KOTZEBUE S(^ITNI) 



REGION. 



Wo, the iindci'sio-nod, having- spent the winter (1S98-*);)) \\\ Alaska in 

 the Kotzebue Sound region, respectf ull}' petition the honorable officials 

 of the Department of the Interior, Alaska division, to speedily intro- 

 duce domestic reindeer into this region, believing that if rightly man- 

 aged they will relieve to a great extent the winter suti'crings of the 

 destitute natives of this region. 



I. Thompson, F. J. McCan, D. K. Jones, Jno. Wyiiler, Cy. 

 Mulkey, Wm. Hunt, L. A. Calderwood, Louis M. Prindle, 

 E. R. Jordan, J. E. Edwards, W. S. McKaig, G. H. Rab- 

 ders, John Bauer, L. Bernstein, F. W. Clark, F. Janncr, 

 M. Storm, Eddie Koebler, Alex Campbell, J. B. Brown, 

 J. P. Ellsworth, James Williamson, Chris. Slumm, James 

 A. Steele, James H. Kilner, C. A. F. Swete, Milton L. 

 Attin, P. H. Watt, M. Premo, F. B. Porter, E. S. Ingraham, 

 Ralph J. Sheaf e, C. H. Loomis, C..F. Francis, J. B. Niel- 

 sen, E. F. Graham, Jos. A. Jury, W. H. Sturtcvant, E. C. 

 Messenger. W. B. Buckley, A. J. Casey, Mrs. M. E. 

 Smith, Mrs. S. A. Pepper, Mrs. J. A. Brown, Homer S. 

 De Long, J. Fred Gordon, S. A. Pepper, J. L. Evans, 

 Chas. F. Wel)b. A. Weston, Wm. McCartv, E. J. Jaquith, 

 Geo. W. J^erry, P. C Thein, Paul Pierson, Herbert F. 

 Bailev, Geo. W. CUos(\ 



APPLICATIONS FOR REINDEER. 



Nome, Alaska, AnyuM ^, 1H9D. 



Dear Sir: Is ther(^ any show for a private person to go over to 

 Siberia to purchase reindeer, or will the mission be permitted to invest 

 its money or gold dust in reindeer? I myself have a few thousand, 

 and those with me, in all fifteen thousand, which we wish to invest in 

 deer for the benefit of the mission and schools among the natives of 

 Alaska. ,^ 



I should like very much to go over this fall if we could procure 

 trading goods for the same. Michael would go with me if you thought 

 advisable. If vou call, and the steamer B('ar remains long enoup-h. 



