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Q. Except a stovo. Did .vou ever make any requisition ou the Gov- 

 eriiuieut for a stove? — A. ^o, sir. 



Q. Did you apply to auy Government officer for a stove ? — A. No, sir. 



Q. You went to the company "! — xl. How could I api)ly to the Govern- 

 ment when there was no Government officer ou the island ? 



Q. Where was your sui)erior officer? — A. In the States; back here. 



Q. Were you required to uuike an official report ? — A. Yes; to Mr. 

 Tingle. 



Q Did you make it? — A. Yes, sir. 



Q. Did you set forth these matters ? — A. Yes, sir. 



Q. When was that report made to Mr. Tingle ? — A. It was verbally 

 reported to him. I can tell you by looking. 



Q. Well, about when ? — A, When he came there between June and 

 August, 1888. 



Q. So far as concerns this prostitution you speak of, do you know ot 

 any instance in which there was force used by auy white man ou St. 

 (iecrge to outrage a native woman ? — A. That would come under the 

 head of rape; no sir. 



Q. It was simply a criminal communication between bad men and 

 bad women, that might happen in any community? — A. Yes, but only 

 in a degree 1 could not approve of. 



Q. You do not approve of it here? — A. I did not approve of the ad- 

 vantage they had to secure these things. 



Q. Were there any outrages committed by white men on Aleute 

 women ou St. George that you have knowledge of? What I mean by 

 that is, was there any evil connection between men and women without 

 the consent of the women ? — A. 1 do not see how anything of that kind 

 could be without its being rape. 1 know of no rape being committed 

 ou the seal islands. 



TESTIMONY OF GEORGE WARDMAN. 



George Waedman sworn and examined. 

 By the Ghairman : 



Q. During what period of time were you on St. George Island, and 

 in what capacity ? — A. I was stationed upon the island of St. George 

 from the latter part of May, 1881, until I was relieved in the spring of 

 1885, when Captain Loud and Mr. Ryan came there. I was present 

 two winters upon the island. The alternating winters I was in Cali- 

 fornia and the East, i was tliere four years. 



Q. I have summoned you again, Mr. Wardman, to reexamine you, 

 or, rather, examine you in regard to statements recently i)ublished in 

 New York papers, which you have doubtless read. — A. I can not say 

 that 1 have. 



Q Well, it goes to the question of the moral conduct of the agents 

 of the Alaska Commercial Company there and the outrage of narive 

 women and a had state of affairs in general. Will you just state now 

 what your observations were during the period you were there in that 

 respect? — A. 1 never knew a woman or girl to be outraged upon the 

 island while 1 was there, nor a man or boy to be abused by an agent 

 or any one else. 



Q. Either Government agent or company agent ? — A. No, sir ; I never 

 knew of a native woman living in the Government or company house 

 wliile 1 was upon the island, nor did I ever know of an agent " main- 

 taining " a woman in that sense of the word, anywhere. There was free 



