Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-06-22
Sudden Death.
WASHINGTON TERRITORY.
News from the Far North.

PoRT TOWNSEND, June 21st.-The steamer
California arrived here from Alaska at 3
o'clock this morning. She reports having ar
rived at Sitka on the 10th.
James Hollywood, who sailed from Sitka
last fall on trading expedition, had just re-
turned. He reports that his schooner had
been wrecked in Yakitah Bay. He and the
Maloney and friend were killed, and Holly
wood and his Indian wife were then taken to
Chilcat as slaves. The Chilcats took them to
Honoat, and that tribe took them from the
Chilcats and brought them to Sitka.
Captain Glass arrested Nicholas Dern and
81. Impoff for firing two shots into S. Meig's
house. They will be kept in confinement
until an opinion is rendered by the Attorney
General. Taylor is also IN confinement for
threatening to kill a man at Harrisburg.
Captain Glass. in conjunction with the
Presbyterian Board of Missions has coz
verted the old Government Hospital into
Mission Home for the Indians. The schools
are numerously attended.
A petition has b EN- forwarded to President
Garfield, signed by nearly all the citizens of
southeastern Alaska, asking that Colonel w.
D. Ball be retained as Collector Of Customs,
and that his removal be reconsidered.
A statement numerously signed has also
been forwarded to the President emphati-
cslly denying the recent absurd reports rela-
tive to Captain Glass having instituted mar
tial law in the Territory, or that he had in
any manner Interfered with the rights of the
citizens
The snow has entirely disappeared at the
discovered, and the placer claims are being
vigorously worked. The Ready Bullion
Company have shipped eighty ounces of
bullion, as the result Of three weeks run.
The Harris claim has shipped forty ounces
and the jamestown thirty. The California
has on board 200 ounces of bullion to be sent
to the Mint for coinage. The placer claims
are paying well, and the quartz show better
than ever.
The Montome party, who went up into the
Chilicat country upon prospecting expedi-
ton, were not allowed by the Indians to
ascend the river, as the upper and lower
pectors. Eleven Indians had been killed up
TO that time.
The California has two tons of rich ore en-
route to San Francisco to be worked.
Half of the Pilz mine has been sold to San
Francisco capitalists. who intend organizing
d stock company.
Among the passengers who arrived on the
California are Joe June, the original d;scov
erer. J. Treadwell, a prominent expert from
California. and w. Murray, who has very
rich specimens and ore samples. Supervising
Inspector c. c. Beinis and his two daughters
are aboard, having made the round trip to
Sitka. The California sailed at S A. NJ. for
San Juan Island. thence to Victoria.
Most of the miners at Harrisburg seem to
have unlimited faith in the richness of the
new gold lodges and town lots are increasing
in value every week, and are being rapidly
cleared. The whisky and beer saloons are
doing fourishing business. A party from
the United States steamer jamestown made
a raid on the saloons recently. but, as usual,
no whisky could be found. The Indians are
fockiug into the mines from all parts, and
are found useful in transporting provisions
into the mountains. The military camp sta
toned by Captain Glass on the hill overlook
ing the town of Harrisburg has a most
wholesome influence in keeping the peace
from being broken. Seventy-two to twenty
eight ounces per week has been about the av
erage yield from the Ready Bullion placer
mine, four miles from Harrisburg. The
quartz lodges are in statu quo, waiting pur-
chasers