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THE OOLOGIST 



ARCH-DEACON A. R. HOARE MUR- 

 DERED. 



The "Chicago Tribune" of May 12th 

 contained the following: 

 ''Starts With Slayer Son on 150 Mile 

 Trip Over Ice to Jail. 



"Seattle, Wash., May 10.— The Rev. 

 A. R. Hoare an Episcopal missionary 

 in Alaska for twenty years, was shot 

 and killed at Point Hope April 27 by 

 James McGuire, Jr., 18 years old, son 

 of the superintendent of education at 

 Kotbegue, Alaska, according to a wire- 

 less despatch received here today. 



The boy was taken into custody by 

 his father and is now a prisoner on 

 a dog sled crossing the snow and ice 

 to the nearest United States marshal 

 at Candle, 150 miles distant. It is 

 believed he is demented. 



It was said that the Rev. Mr. Hoare 

 met the boy on a trip "outside" last 

 summer and induced him to go into 

 the north with him as his assistant 

 last fall." 



As many of our readers know Rev. 

 Hoare, has for a number of years been 

 a close personal friend of the Editor, 

 and has collected for us in that cold 

 bleak place some of the rarest and 

 finest Oological and Ornithological 

 specimens, now in any collection. By 

 his death we lose not only a good and 

 true friend but also a valued assist- 

 ant. 



He went into Alaska with the rush 

 of gold hunters many years ago, be- 

 ing one of a party of four young En- 

 glishman who tried their luck. Not 

 making a strike the party gradually 

 disentegrated and most of them re- 

 turned to their English homes. But 

 the observations and experiences of 

 young Hoare convinced him of the 

 great need of religion instruction and 

 training among the natives of Alaska. 

 His deep seatedi religious nature, be- 

 ing a son of a clergyman, soon as- 

 g^rted itself and he entered the mis- 



sionary field. He was stationed in a 

 number of places in Alaska, and final- 

 ly was selected for the important 

 post at Point Hope, where he remain- 

 ed for a number of years. He was 

 a man of somewhat under average 

 height, sturdily built, splendidly edu- 

 cated and by nature well equipped to 

 withstand the Arctic winters. He was 

 a man of few words, but of strong 

 and original ideas, and the very per- 

 sonification of energy itself. One il- 

 lustration of this was his building the 

 missions buildings there himself with 

 only Esquimo aid, and they are sub- 

 stantial, commodious, well built struc- 

 tures that will last for years. He orig- 

 inated the idea of lighting them with 

 electricity to be generated by the 

 power of a wind mill. The entire plant 

 was designed by him, shipped up 

 there and installed. All worked well 

 until the winter snows came on when 

 the wheel, which was in a tower 16 

 feet from the ground, became stalled 

 by the drifting around it and engulf- 

 ing both tower and wheel. 



In the year 1918 Rev. Hoare made 

 us a visit at our Lacon home, when on 

 his way to visit his aged mother at 

 his home on the Isle of Man. He was 

 a man of unusually good descriptive 

 power, and his unusually wide oppor- 

 tunity for observation and travel 

 made him a most desirable guest. He 

 brought with him about four hundred 

 kodak views of Alaskan life and scen- 

 ery. A most wonderful lot of pictures 

 indeed. He told us of many very in- 

 teresting experiences in the frozen 

 north a couple of which will be illus- 

 trative of his life there. 



One morning early — as that term is 

 there used — at a time when there was 

 only about two hours of sunlight a 

 day, he heard a commotion outside the 

 mission house caused by his sled dogs, 

 the "Huskies," making a great racket. 

 Stepping to the door be peeked out 



