Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-11-04
ALASKA.
Pr. Smith, 8 travelling correspond
an, of the Victoria Cotcaist, writes ths'
,s,s, from Alaska a. follows

P. z. Smith. travelling correspond
an, of the Victoria CoSoaist, writes that
uarer FROM Alaska a. follows
On the sd of September. fearful
laudslide occurred IN the basin tnFee
miles above juneau City, IN Shicn fhree
rniners los, their lives, two white men
and one Indian. The names OF toe
White nen we're Mike Powers and Fred
Cashman. A large number OF miners
set TO work TO try 20 re
cover their bodies. After i've dsys
and niahts' work, the bodies OF rovers
and the Indian were recovered. oat TIE
BODY Of Cushnan bad not been recos-
cred Oh to the time We left. he oasin
has been covered with snow. sno tns
miners are preparing TO quit 1t until
spring. great many OF them sie
building cabins in Jsneau, iotenoise 70
spend the winter there, and take an
early start IN q e spring
Sitka, the capital OF Alaska. IS uuen
warmer than juneau, being situated Oh
baranoff Island, Immediately facing
the ocean, its harbor being protected
by q number of small islands from tue
immense pillows of the open ocean. IL
is, perhaps, one of the mosi oeautlfui
situations for a town in Alaska, and al
one time contained over 4Ouo inhaoi-
tants, with several schools and ehorches.
Ever since its occupation by the Uniteo
States 1t has been going TO decay. 1nere
are now not more than 80 white people
and about 500 Indians remaining. The
United States keep about twenty
soldiers and small gunbost there TO
garrison the place.
Governor Sviueford, United States
District Attorney Ball. Judge Dawne
and the Marshal were, upon arrival,
duly installed in office, and are indus
triously engaged in devising ways and
means to put IN operation civil govern
meat and law, which their predecessors
hardly had time to inauEurate. Ibe
new government seems TO be very popu-
lar with the people, ard have set to
work with commendable zeal to obtain
additional mail and other facilities that
Alaska so mush needs.
This part of Alaska is literally cover
ed with game deer, duck, geese and
grouse abound in the greatest abund
ance; berries, such as cranberries,
huckleberries, blneberries and several
other kinds. The Indians gathered this
year over 100 barrels of cranberries OF
the choicest quality, and sold them to
the merchants, who barrelled them for
the market of the lower country.
have seen seven or eight deer brought
to this market of morning, and scores
of ducks and geese.
The Presbyterians have a large mis-
sion school here. capable, when finished,
of accommodating 800 children. They
have a full corps of teachers. The In
dian youth are taught the elementary
branches of a good English education,
and in addition the girls are taught sew
ing, knitting and housekeeping, in
GLIDING cooking, and the boys are
taught mechanical trades under com
petent instructors, the children being
boarded and clothed at the expense of
the mission. This mission was erected
under the superintendent of the Rev.
Sheldon jackson, who deserves great
credit for his untiring energy in over
coming almost insurmountable Difficult
ties in its establishment.
The celebrated Haley mines, situated
about Is miles from Sitka, being long
known as the richest mines ever yet
discovered in Alaska, much of the ore
assaying as much as $500 per ton, has
been purchased since the LIST of October
by j. Fuller and b. X. Cowles, who re-
turn on the first steamer for the pur-
pose of purchasing machinery for a
stamp mill to be erected early in the
spring. They are energetic business
men, and have ample means to erect
the necessary machinery for utilizing
their more than fortunate purchase.
The people of Sitks were greatly re-
joiced over the purchase OF these mines,
as the owner of them was a poor man
and unable to utilize them himself, and
refused to sell them for the last ten
years except at such an exorbitant price
that no one was willing to invest.
Most Rev. Archbishop Seghers, of
Victoria, is here in Alaska, looking after
the interests of his people, and is going
to establish a school and mission in
Sitka. and send q priest and teachers;
also a mission, school and hospital az
Juneau and WranRel, aad send priest
to each place. He returns to Victoria
on the Idaho.
Governor Swineford and Colonel Ball
carried printing press and material
with them to Alaska; a company was at
once formed, and weekly newspaper
will be issued devoted to the interests of
the new Territory. The name of the
paper will he the Alaskan.
John I. Hughes and Frank Duns-
more, who went to the Yukon on a
prospecting tour, returned on the 18th
ultimo. covering a tract of the Yukon
country over 1000 miles. High up on
Stewart river, a brsnoh of the Yukon.
tsey found bar digginRs that paid from
$40 TO x25 per day per man. Most of
the prospeciors that went over last
spring from juneau will winter on the
Yukon in order 90 take an early start in
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