U.S.A.'S "WILD NORTH"

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 12 June 1929, Page 2

U.S.A.'S "WILD NORTH"

When the United States bought Alaska it, seemed a. wild and savage land, says a, writer in a New York paper. Since the purchase, and particularly since so many Americans visited the country, after the gold strike in 1893 enough Jhas been learned of Alaska to make the continental public realise that : it is in a high state of civilisation. We have discovered that its summers are verv warm; that there are mosquitoes just ,as there are in New York city: that its winters are not too cold to be endured, requiring no more provision for warmth than does Manitoba. Among the most peaceful objects on the Alaskan landscape have been the Chi-

nook, Siwash and other tribes of Indians so that it, is a shock to learn ot the savagery of Klu Tok, on whose bead the Government has nut a price. He has killed four white men and twenty Indians since ho went on the rampage some, years ago. He blamed a white man for his wife's death, and straightway became an outlaw, on.ee he was caught by trappers, but ho killed one man and escaped. Now the AJaskan Legislature is :to offer a reward for him, dead or a'.ive. The rovelalion that there are""frontiers in this Union so wild as to shelter securely a man with the record of Klu Tok comes strangely to this protected city, which has been told so often that with the passing of the "Wild West," oil lawless regions were reclaimed.