APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 703 
(A.)—Annual Report, 1890. 
. St. Pau Istanp, ALASKA, July 31, 1890. 
Srr: Pursuant to instructions, I sailed from San Francisco on the 6th May on the 
North American Commercial Company’s steamer ‘‘Arago,” accompanied by Mr. A. W. 
Lavender, Assistant Treasury Agent, who, after his arrival, was stationed upon St. 
George Island to assist Mr. Joseph Murray in the discharge of his duties during the 
killing season, and who will have charge of the island during the coming winter. 
We arrived at Ounalaska on the 18th May, and on the 20th Mr. George R. Tingle, 
Mr. Rudolph Newman, and myself sailed on the Alaska Commercial Company’s 
steamer ‘‘Dora” for the Seal Islands, to take an inventory of the property on St. 
George and St. Paul, belonging to the Alaska Commercial Company, according to an 
Agreement signed by and between the Alaska Commercial Company and the North 
American Commercial Company on the 12th March, 1890. 
The Alaska Commercial Company was represented by Mr. Newman, and the North 
American Commercial Company by Mr. Tingle, and I acted as Unipire, as per your 
instructions, bearing date the 16th April, 1890. We arrived at St. Paul Island on 
the 21st May, and immediately commenced to take stock. After several days’ labour 
the business was well in hand, and we proceeded to St. George Island per steamer 
“‘Dora,” and made a complete inspection and inventory of all the property there 
belonging to the Alaska Commercial Company. After our return to St. Paul there 
was one difference referred to me; and satisfactorily adjusted, then the entire busi- 
ness was settled by the representatives of their respective Companies. 
The following property was transferred to the North American Commercial Com- 
pany: sixty-three native houses on St. Paul and nineteen upon St. George, and upon 
both islands all buildings and other property belonging to the Alaska Commercial 
Company. 
Won St. Paul Island the sum of 9,213 dol. 58 ¢. belonging to the natives and 
deposited with the Alaska Commercial Company was passed to the North American 
Commercial Company with the consent of the natives, and credited to their “ pass 
book” accounts. Also several special individual deposits amounting to 12,117 dol. 
2c., drawing interest at 4 per cent. per annum, leaving in the hands of the Alaska 
Commercial Company 3,404 dol. 99 c. to the credit of Mrs. Alexarfder Milevedoff, who 
did not wish to make a change. On St. George 5,391 dol. 17 ec. was transferred to 
the North American Commercial Company, but from this amount the sum of 1,700 
dollars, belonging to the priest, must be deducted, leaving a balance of 3,691 dol. 87 ¢. 
to the credit of the natives. The transfer was made and dated the 24th May, 1890. 
The past winter was unusually mild, the sanitary condition of the village was 
good, the people were blessed with good health, and they passed the time pleasantly. 
They were under the combined charge of Mr. 8. R. Nettleton, Assistant Treasury 
Agent; Dr. C. A. Lutz, resident physician, and Mr. J. C. Redpath, resident agent 
for the Alaska Commercial Company. 
With the spring came that dreaded disease to this people, pneumonia, which caused 
the death of three sealers; other ailments prevalent among them carried off seven 
others, women and children, making a total of ten deaths since the 1st January, 1890, 
the date of the census, leaving at present a total population of 208. The population 
of St. Paul Island in 1872, as far back as the official records go, was 218. Arrivals 
since then, seventy-six. Had it not been for this influx of immigration the native 
population would have been about extinct. ‘The established rule of thoroughly 
cleaning the village in the spring and fall presents a marked contrast to the condition 
of the place a few years ago. All along the green sward, in front of the dwellings, 
which was then a depository for filth and offal, the children romp and play. Gradu- 
ally, too, the people are becoming more reconciled to cleaner methods in their dwell- 
ings, and many of them take great pride in their personal appearance and 
15 cleanliness. The school on this island was taught by Simeon Milevedoff, a 
native, who was educated in San Francisco. It was opened on the 1st Sep- 
tember, 1889, and closed Ist May, 1890—total number of school days, 172; number 
taught, 120. 
Mr. Milevedoft was energetic and untiring in his efforts to advance the pupils, but 
there is very little interest taken by them in English-speaking schools, so that there 
was but little progress made, 
The North American Commercial Company have commenced repairing the native 
dwelling-houses, and so far have complied with all the requirements of their lease. 
The United States cutter the ‘‘ Bear,” Captain M. A. Healey, anchored off this island 
on the 20th June and left on the same day. Captain Healey reported ‘‘ No pirates in 
Behring’s Sea.” The ‘ Bear” delivered to this island the boat and fixtures complete 
asked for by me from the Department. 
The Rey. Sheldon Jackson was passenger on board the “‘ Bear,” and came ashore 
and inspected the village and school-house; he received a copy of the School Report, 
and was well pleased with the condition in which he found things, 
