Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-10-26
Mistaken for a Deer and Killed.
wAsHINGT ron TERRITORY.


PoRT TOWNSEND, October 18th. The
steamer Idaho arrived yesterday morning,
bringing news from Sitka up to the 14th.
The revenue cutter Corwin arrived at Sitka
October 18th from an extended cruise in
northern waters. All on board were well,
During the cruise the Corwin called at Bel
kaps Bay, and found much sickness had pre-.
vailed among the natives during the sum.
mer.
The fur companies report successful sea.
son. the sea otter catch being large.
The example made by Captain Heaiy on
bis late cruise has had healthy effect, and
the brewing of grass has become much less.
ened.
The Corwin will 20 to Juneau and return
to Sitka before going to sea.
The following Is from the Ccrwin's log on
her rortherly cruise: LEFT Ounalaaka july
30th stopped at st. Paul and st. George
Islands; found sealing season over, usual
catch being had went under sail to st.
Matthews Island, famous for polar bears
from there steamed to st. Lawrence Island.
On August 81 boat was sent ashore to the
village OF Kallegok, and found about one
hundred bodies in an advanced state of de-
| composition. Ga August 5sh anchored at
Northwest Cape, the only village where any
OF the natives are left alive. They state
that the deaths were caused hy starvation.
the annual supply of walrus having failed.
On August 9th spoke schooner Leo in Ployer
Bay with rellsf party on board. Next dsy
| arrived at North Head, and were informed
that on May 20sh the ice pack that had been
settling towards the Siberian coast had drifted
back. A party of natives went sealing on
the ice. and came across the body of Putnam
on foe. The body was very much swollen
and decomposed, and lying near by was his
| revolver, the skeleton Of dog and broken
| sled. The natives left everything undis-
| turbed, they being too superstitious to touch
q dead body. On August 10th spoke the
whaling barks George and Susan, Francis
Palmer, Abraham, Seabreeza.s and brig
Hidslgo, ell nearly empty. Anchored for
the night off the United States Signal
Station at Cape Smyth, about ten
| miles south of Point Barrow. Leuten-
| ant Kay and a party of eight men
| ara well and comfortably located The Lieu
| tenant has made two sledge JOURNEYS curing
the winter-one fifty miles into the interior
and one 100 miles along the coast. On the
latter, ,owards the Mackenzie. large and
hitherto unknown river was discovered that
appeared to be as large 80 the Missouri It
was shsliow, but owing to the ice Lieutenant
Kay could not ascertain whether il was
| navigable. The Indians in the nsighbortood
Of the station have shown signs Of discontent
and the Lieutenant has built stockade and
mounted a Gatling gun on a tower for pro.
peating rifles, and are able to look out for
themselves. The Corwin went as far north
as II, 46' higher than che ever had been, On
August 18th spoke whaling bsrks, The Cone,
The Coral, j. III. Holland, Helen Mar, Bound.
ing Billow and Fieetwing. All had met with
very poor success. Next day reached longi-
tude 149' 80 west, within few miles of Re-
turn Reef, the point where the schooner John
Franklin and party turned back in 1896 The
ice becoming thick and heavy the Corwin
turned to the westward homeward bound.
CoEled ship at the coal mine on Cape Sis-
lume, and found the coal of good quality.
Bishop Nestar's body has been ernhalmed,
and will be forwarded to San Francisco dur.
ing the summer
The Corwin cruised IS 600 miles. The sea.
son has been an open one and very mild. The
work done reflects great credit on Captain
Healy and the officers and mer, and proves
the increasing efficiency of the revenue ma
rine service.
The Adams has moored in Sitka harbor,
which she viii make her headquarters. Her
commander eviacss much interest. in the vel.
fare of Alaska.
Business ia coed and the merchants are
doing well. The receipts from the district
during the month of September reached
S11, $40.
The Northwest Trading Compauy are
shipping large quantities of cranberriss and
numerous bales of deerskins.
The oil works at Killsnoo are running on
full time. Whales are getting plentiful
there. One was caught on Angus. 30.h that
will yield sixty barrels CT oil
New placer diggiDgs ora being discovered
at Douglass Island of great richness. One
dollar the psa ia said to have been realized.
Assistant Surgeon II. w. Yeomans, of the
Marine Hospital Service, has arrived st
Sitka and assumed his duties. He is the
first officer of the service ever stationed
there.
The new missionary building is up and will
be shingled in few days,
The Idaho brought down large number Of
passengers, who are afraid to face the severe
winter. They will go back in the spring.
party ef prosp ctors, who have just re-
turned to Juneau from tie Tokon, report
RIGA diggisgs and q mild climate in that re.
gion.
A miner named Mcclure fell of the idaho
aud was drowned. His body was recovered
en- buried.
The steamer Rose ran on rock rea- Sitka
ard stove a hole in her bottom.
Arrested for Murder.
WALLA WALLA wv. IT,, October 25sh.-
CANOPY Owenbv was arrested yesterday for
the murder of L. A. Cummip, the Oregon
Railway and Navigation Company's agent, at
New YORK Bar, in July last