The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-01-06
NEWS FROM ALASKA.
A Murder by an Indian Is
Promptly Avenged.
AN OLD sQUAW THE AvENGER
Citizens Petition for Swineford as GOV
ernor-SmalIpox at sitka-Chn-
cat Cannery Burned.

The steamer City of Topeka brought
quite budget of interesting news from
Alaska yesterday, which was related by
passengers or in letters from correspond
ents in the territory.
On December "a the Cape Fox Indians
at Cape Fox had q pow-wow to try to settle
iong-standing feud between two factions
or families in the tribe, but, not being able
to come to an agreement, they filled up on
whisky and got into general fight, using
knives. dirks or anything that was handy.
Several were badly cut and one man killed.
That night the family and friends of the
murdered man met in council, and, as
their law demands an "eye for an
eye" or blood for blood, they Sc
the murder and gave her double-barreed
shotgun. Next day, as the murderer was
leaning against tree, she quietly crept up
behind him, shot him in the back and ran
to her hut, but, fearing that she had not
Killed him, she loaded both barrels again
and sent her boy out to finish the job.
The man was killed. The Indians claim
that the whisky was bought from two men
who live on Mary island. /, is feared that
this is not the end of the trouble.
A case of smallpox discreet varioIa) was
discovered III the Jail al Sitka on December
Is, but as immediate steps were taken to
isolate the patient. who was taken to
Japousky island, and all the other inmates
taken from the Jail and Guarantined on
board the S. G. Lee out in the channel,
there is no danger of an epidemic. The
JAN was fumigated and the Indian ranch
thoroughly examined daily. There have
been no other cases, and the man was
nearly we'll when the steamer left.
William Hamilton, assistant agent of
education for Alaska, was passenger on
the Topeka. He has spent about two
months visiting the schools in Southeast
Alaska, calling at Wrange! and Killisnoo,
and spending about two weeks at Juneau
and Douglass island, and about the same
time at Sitka. He declines to be inter-
viewed as TO the condition and efficiency
OF the schools as he saw them. as he is re-
CURED TO make report to the bureau of
education with such recommendations as
hemay have to give. He expresses himself
however as very much pleased with the
people of Alaska, and says he has enjoyed
the trip very much.
Z. w. Young, q contractor and builder
OF Juneau, who has lived in Alaska for the
past eight years, is at the Occidental. He
said:
Business is dull in our country at present.
Formerly. when the steamers only ran once q
month, great many more miners and pros
pectors than now used to spend the winter at
Juneau. Now, however, they come down hero
sin the isii. There were not great many pros
pectors In the country last summer, anyhow.
The season in which they can work 10 very
short, aud ii Is 8 hard, rough country to pros
pect in. still there is plenty of gold there, and,
while 1t is hard to get at that country will some
day see a great mineral development. On &C.
count OF the prevalent dizziness in business, but
very little building was done last year. / put
up a frame courthouse for the government
which cost 5000 This was the principal build.
ing erected.
Petitions are being circulated at all the
important points in Alaska asking Presi-
dent Cleveland to appoint A. p. Swine
ford to the office of governor. Swineford
was governor OF that territory during Mr.
Cieveland's first administration. He has
large mining interests IN Alaska and is in
terested in the building of whaleback YES
sells at Everett. Mr.. Swineford's residence
is in Michigan and he is said to have good
political backing from Eastern Democrats
of prominence.
Among the passengers were Miss Knapp,
daughter of Gov. Knapp, and Miss Miller,
of San Francisco, who has been visiting
Miss Knapp. They are stopping at the