St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-02-01
Smuggler Snow Quarrels
With a Shipmate and
Shoots Him Dead.
The ,Sloop Adventurer, Kod-
rak to Seattle, Supposed
to Have Been Wrecked.
An English Mariner Steals
Opium and With 1t Com
mits Suicide.
SPECIAL to the Globe.

81
PORT TOWNSEND. W. T., Jan. 81
The steamship Ancon arrived from Ju-
neau and Sitka. Alaska. to-day with adj
vices to the 24th inst. Gov. Swineford
received notice from the depart.
ment that il he could not reach
Washington before Feb. / to
testify before the committee of inyesti-
CATION in Alaska relative to the abuse Of
privileges awarded to the Alaska Com
mercial company, and the treatment of
Indian women, that he need not come.
at all. The citizens of Juneau and
Sitka unitedly support him in his
fight against the Alaskan monopo-
lists. The Juneau Free Press says
concerning the outrages alleged to be
perpetrated on Alaska Indians, that the
Indians will sell their daughters and
brothers their sisters to white men for.
immoral purposes. They bring
from SIS to $50, and are forced
on the whites by the Indians.
The SUPPORT of entry at Tongas Mar
rows has been abolished by the treasury
department., the putty collector, Col.
Crittenuen. an old California forty
miner, being appointed temporary in
spectOr ati0at, vice Edward Haley,
relieved. Two smugglers. while
taking schooner loaded with
whisky into Tongas Narrows,
from Fort Simpson, British Columbia
quarreled, when the Oldest man, named
Snow, over sixty years old, fatally shot
the other. Snow was taken in charge
by Indians and sent to Sitka, where he
awaits trial for smuggling and MUIR
parade grounds in Sitka, are being
jumped an taken up by landgrabbers,
occasionIng considerable animoSity, and
will poss bly, result inbloodshed. Judge
L. S. Williams came down, deputized by
the citizens of Juneau, which has a
population of 1000 inhabitants, EN-
route to Washington to try and
have land laws :. extended to
Alaska. and have Juneau incorporated
as city. He said that many thousand
people held possession of lands in
Alaska and were
UNABLE TO GET PROPER TITLES
thereto. BOh Juneau ana Sitka are
rapidly settling up, the fisheries and
mines supporting the places. and
he thought that each should
have municipal privileges; The In
dian chief who caused the trouble
Gu i uAOii pun Goe,So tehSo J SelS VoiAS 1iAS
miners were going to the Yukon river
mines, and afterwards defied the officers
of the law, came to Juneau and gave
himself up. He said if the white men
hang or confine him in prison his tribe
will murder every party of miners en-
tering the Kukon country. His tribe
is very powerful and treacherous.
the steam schooner Leo, which was
wrecked in Port Houghton bay on
Nov. 25, has been successfully raised.
She can be readily repaired and will
come down in few weeks.
Charles Jewett, of Minnesota, has
been appointed United States
commissioner at juneau, vice
John e. Brady, term expired.
Lieutenant Commander G. NJ. Book has
relieved Capt. Newell in command of
the man-of-war Pinta. The Gloucester
fishing schooners Oscar and Hattie
arrived at Sitka sixteen days
from here, to engage in halibut
fishing. Most of the mines have
closed for the winter and great prepara-
tions are being made by the salmon
canneries for an active season. There
are nineteen prisoners in the Alaska
penitentiary Mrs. Swineford, wife of
Gov. Swinefofd. is passenger for the
East. The sloop Adventurer sailed
fr m Kodiak, Alafka, for Seattle. on
Sept. IA, since which time no tidingS of
her has been re 1eiVed.