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company at any time. From my knowledge above set forth I make the 

 following statements as to certain employes of said company who, prior 

 or subsequent to their connection with our company, 

 were in any way connected with the United States Names of com- 



r* ". i . -. -, . /,, , pany s n gents who 



Government; and said persons, hereinafter named, are subsequently became 

 all that have been so employed by the Government and SSHSSSSi.*'™* 1 ' 

 by the company, to the best of my recollection and 

 belief. 



Dr. H. H. Mclntyre, special Treasury agent of the United States, 

 some time previous to 1870, when he entered our employ as superin- 

 tendent of the Pribilof Islands and so remained until the expiration of 

 our lease of said islands. 



William Kapus was for about two years (1871-73) our assistant 

 superintendent on said islands, and who, at some time before or after, 

 I believe, became a deputy collector of customs at some port in the 

 United States, but what port I can not recollect. 



John M. Morton was in our employ for several years and subse- 

 quently has held various positions in the Government service. 



Charles T. Wagner has been for several years and is now in the em- 

 ploy of our company, prior to which time he has been deputy collector 

 of customs at Unalaska, but never in anyway connected with the Prib- 

 ilof Islands. 



Fred M. Smith, who has lived at Alaska for twenty-five years, has 

 at various times been and now is in our employ. He was for about four 

 years deputy collector at Unalaska, but at no time has he been in any 

 way connected with the Pribilof Islands. 



Three or four of the physicians we employed as resident physicians 

 on the islands were, before or after such employment by us, physicians 

 on some of the United States revenue cutters. 



There were no doubt some of the employes of the company who were, 

 either before or after such employment, in the United States Army or 

 Navy. 



There were so few competent and experienced men in Alaska who 

 could fill the positions in the company, or in the serv- 

 ice of the United States, that it naturally followed Rea80n therefor - 

 when changes were made by a new administration in the officers of the 

 Territory that they should either draw from the experienced men in the 

 company's employ or that when a Government employe, who had had 

 several years' experience with Alaskan affairs, was removed he should 

 be employed by the Alaska Commercial Company. 



G. Niebaum. 



Subscribed and sworn to before me this 18th clay of November, A. D. 

 1892. 

 [seal.] Clement Bennett, 



Notary Public. 



Deposition of G. W. Prciss, assorter of furs. 



State of California, 



City and County of San Francisco, ss: 

 C. W. Preiss, being duly sworn, deposes and says: 

 I reside in San Francisco, State of California, and am by occupation 

 a fur-skin assorter, and have been so engaged perma- erience 



nently for the last twenty years, during which time I 

 have been constantly handling large quantities of raw fur-seai skins 

 from all the different locations. 



