Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-04-02

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10 A. to cover more uneA piOrud country
than usual. u came about BY discus
sing new ard uuexplorud route
FROM juneau with cltiScns u that
lively lur dstimA
Vito largest city in the largest
territory In the largest republic In tho
world" IN they used 10 periodically
put H. II was 10 70 over what was
called the Tahlu trail that led to
large lake in tho interior, and by its
draining river gain the Yukon, where
Joined my old trail Of 1881, and could
then carry out the program as pre-
NloHhly ned. II wa .lleved an
Hyallab' Numerical might DO
open way, that ", ucau rs y
b1sis, could DO made 10 supply tho
Yukon valley even TO nehring sea,
better than BY any known route, while
1t would bs no small feather In the cap
OF the New York Ledger expedition, 70
DO able 10 do this preliminary pioneer
ing. This belief was founded ON In
formation obtained from tho interior
indiana when bringing out their furs,
and from prospectors who had searched
this general line for precious minerals,
IL might DO, also, that the present
future might, aud II was well 10 DO
prepared with the information. Tho
many other rcasons for or against this
trail enn DO made clearer az we travel
over Il lntsr. When we arrived In jun
eau u corresponding interest was soon
worked up by those ON the steamer, the
citizens pledglng everything they could
10 make the enterprise u success, and
no We dlsembarlsed here.
The first point we touched In Alaska
was Tongay. After Tonghss, we
meet nothing but salmon can.
nories for few days, reaching
juneau on the Nth Of May,
where our freight Is diGcmbarl,od aud
we continue on, FOR this metropolis IA Of
enough importance 10 DO touched by
the returning steamer thus making a
short round trip.
We wake up next day In Glacier Bay.
on the frat VESSEL Of the season 10
esany II, as II Is only Visited In the in
forest ~ the summer tourists
At Sitha we were crowded with pas
sengers OF the spring court term at
Juneau There were ten prisoners,
only six OF them being murderer,
mostly confined To half.breeds aud In.
dams The naturally resulting con-
Nertation disclosed statement That
there he'd never been simon-puro
lynching, nor legal execution, In
Alaska. AZ Wrangell, In early days, u
murderous gambler WAS made chairman
OF vigilance committee, the chair was
pulled out from under him and he
broke this peaceful iocord-also hia
mock; but any one familiar with from
tier justice knows there 10 wide
chasm existing between thiannd lynch
ing Ina somewhat 5iruilar action, IA
Indian murderer performed traction ON
rope TO the satisfaction Of the vigil
lance faction and the greater dis6ntis-
faction N the lesser faction. klllisuoo
10 very agreeable 20 the eye ~ some.
what aboinlnablc N tho nose,
due to tlourishing herring fishery
and nttendcnt i'uano factory.
The United States Marshal attempted
20 arrest u native hero for trying 10
drown squaw guilty OF witchcnit.
have never yet seen anything bewiteh-
Ing about an Alaskan Indian woman,
bur suppose tastus vary. This Alas
kan, Cotton Mathcr had some hiding
OF tho proceedings, 80 he setYctod HIM
self in the Alaskan woods, where the
proverbiul needle In haystanlS would
ho as conspicuous Va "A circus poster by
comparison. There were not eleven
pnsoners from Killisnoo 10 Juneau.
Juneap rrlehGd. preparations weTe