The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-07-15
GOSSIP FROM ALASKA.
Part OF Uncle Sans Domain
Where Times Are Good.
MINING INTERESTS INCREASING.
merchants Wei; Disposed Toward Sc
attie-rhe Governors Trouble
With Indians.

T. b. Burweli returned home last Mon
cav from five weeks trip TO Alaska,
which be declared yesterday had been
both profitable and pleasant
hard times do not seem TO affect
Alaska, said Mr.. Burwell TO a reporter OF
TIE FcsT-lETELLIGEsCER The gold in
.eresis Of that country are increasing all
the time, old mines are being worked sue
cessluiiy and nes ones located and opened
continually. In fact | can see great
future Tor Alaska. The large mills on
douglas Island. owned by the Treadwell
company. are being worked day and
night They have two plants. making
oo0 stamps dropping every day. They have
also sunk a shaft 10 depth of $50 feet and
found better ore than ever was exposed be-
fore. the ore they are milling now run
ming as high as 81 ton. In the Silver
Bow basin four mills are now being
operated. all doing nice business with
high grade of ore.
Merchants up there all seem prosper
Gus. money being plenty and their credit
Is good. / found every one fayorably dis
posed toward Seattle. and can see no rea-
son why. IL we continue to be progressive,
We should not hold the bulk of the brsi-
ness.
Yes. there Is considerable building
going on. and good. capable workmen
seem able to find work as fast as they get
there, although the season is very short
and the call for labor this year will soon
be over. The season up there has been the
same as ours here. very backward. the
snow laying on the ground until the mid
die of May, which is about six weeks later
than usual. There are two new wharves
building at Juneau. which, with other
building improvements, gives that city
busy appearance.
During part of June there were elk
men-of-war at Sitka, four Americans and
two British. They came in from
Boring sea fo- supplies and
their trade gave considerable of
an impetus TO the business of the town
while they remained. On July ! the
yorktown was there with Paymaster Web
ster and William Kane. two well-known
Seattle men.
The governor of Alaska and his officers
are just now busy. with unruly Indians,
with whom they have been having trouble
to the westward. Twenty-three of them
were recently lodged in Jail for mutiny,
having taken forcible possession of the
British schooner s. c. Rand The men,
after seizing the schooner, were cleverly
overpowered by a stratagem on the part OF
the captain. who got them to 60 down
hatchwav and there secured them until he
reached Sitka. where he turned them over
to the United States authorities pending
action on the part Of the British govern
ment
"Ths Indian. Talk, who murdered the
white smuggler Shekan, was taken to
Sitka on the Topeka's last trip and was
lodged in Jail there. The governor was
to have left with officers on the Pinta
about July z or s in search of other In
dians who were engaged in that same
murder.
Fired sheakly, of sitka, the governors
son; Fred NOVEL; and Attorney Maioney,
of juneau, have been appointed a commits
sion TO represent Alaska at the Interstate
fair at Tacoma The governors son will
come TO Tacoma early in August to take
charge OF the Alaska exhibits, which will
contain all those sent 10 the Midwinter
fair, including additional collections OF
ferns, minerals and fish.
What Alaska needs today" continued
Mr.. Burwell. lis capital with which TO
open new and operate old mines.
"Lee J. Pitner, of Seattle, is now at
Juneau looking over the situation with q
view TO interesting himself in some of the
mines.
"Mr. Fred Wartz, of the Washington
National Building and Loan Company,
has just organized q branch at Juneau.
IL. w. Getchell, who is interested in
real estate and mines near Seattle. is
superintendent of the Burner Bay Min
ing and Milling Company. Mr.. Getchell
came down on the last Queen and returned
on the Topeka
'Gov. Sheakiy Is very popular through
out Alaska and well regarded by almost
all the inhabitants. He is especially &C
commodating and attentive TO strangers
and travellers 90 Alaska.
''Just now tourist travel in Alaska is
very light. though understand that the
next Queen is fully chartered.