The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-06-16
SHOT FOR 4 SEALSkN.
killing of Indian Brown at
OZette Reservation.
DESPERATE FIGHT IN A CABIN.
Anderson Stands or kIootchnan and
Two Warriors, One Armed
With Big Knife.

The shooting AMI killing Of Indian Phil
I ip Brown az the Ozette reservation in ClaI-
lam county last month has landed Henry
Anderson. q white man OF > years. IN the
I King county all TO await the action OF The
/ United States court Anderson was
brought 10 this city night before last by
I Deputy United States Marshal George W
Curtis. and Il IS probable his case viii
come before Judge Hanford some time the
coming week.
The story as given by Mr. Curtis. is that
Anderson and the Indian had been sealing
together In a canoe and had speared four
seals. valued al about So. Brown had
cabin on the reservation. and took charge
OF the seals 10 skin them and prepare the
pelts for curing; but the next day when
Anderson called for his share il is said
the Indian refused 10 recognize that he
/ had any claim at all. At any rate. the
men fell 10 Quarreling, and Anderson took
hold OF one Of the seals TO carry il away.
! There were several Indians standing
about. and all became more or less involv-
ed IN the controversy. Anderson had taken
his rife with him. and all at once the
strife was ended by the gun being dis
charged and Brown falling 10 the ground
fatally wounded by bullet through the
left lsng.
Anderson. who has always borne repu-
tation OF being quiet and peaceable. tells
Early on the morning OF May 3. the
Indian. Philip Brown, and myself left
Ozette in a canoe seal hunting and went
to the westward about forty-five miles
We stayed out all that day and night and
got back to Ozette about noon on Nav "a
We got four skins on the trip. When we
landed on the beach near the Indians hut
we took the skins and what we had in the
boat 10 the hut. After staying there few
minutes / got UP TO go and asked for my
two skins. Brown refused and said he only
intended giving me one. OF course I
wouldn't stand anything like that and
told him the skin was worth as much TO
me as TO him. and was going to have it,
AZ this an old Indian who was in the hut
jumped up and came toward me with
dagger In his hand. ! cooked my rife and
commanded him to sit down. which he
did.
After this occurrence Brown told me to
take the skin and 20. picked up the two
skins in my left hand and with my rifle
In the right hand started out the door
My back was no sooner turned when they
came for me. The squaw grabbed hold of
my left arm and Brown took hold OF my
rifle. II was still cooked and | told him
so. but he wouldn't let go. We wrestled
for It. and in the scuffle il went off, the
bullet striking him somewhere in the
breast. He fell and the klootchman came
at me like a maniac with a knife. Well
l hit her in the face and knocked her
down. she got UP and made for the cabin,
and / stood my ground.
II picked up my skins and rifle and
went home 10 my little ranch | changed
my clothes and went TO Ozette for the
purpose OF giving myself UP. There was
no constable there. so ! started for Clal-
lam. ! take sick ON the way and
stopped over night with ranCher friend
Of mine. The next morning / went to Clal-
10, a,sI I'll.
TO PORT Angeles. where l was kept in Jail
until Friday night, when the marshal
came and brought me here. I hope I viii
nave my trial without delay. because /
don't like to be kept locked up here with
out fresh air. Last year ] was a member
of the sealing schooner Allie I. Agar and
have always lived out in the open air"
Anderson. who is a German by birth, is
a tall. fair-compleXioned man and is the
picture of health. lie is a resolute-look-
ing fellow and is pleasant to engage in
conversation.
The Indians who were present and who
were the only eye witnesses Of the ira
gcdy. declare that Anderson came pre-
pared 10 make trouble and that The shoot
ing was deliberate
Anderson's arrest has raised an inter
esting question to jurisdiction. which
viii he brought before the court here
when the case Is called The shooting oc-
CURED within the limits Of the Ozette
reservation. a tract about mile square
SET aside by the general government in
1913. with the object of reserving the In
dian village which from time immemorial
has been located at that point. Anderson
was arrested by the sheriff of Clallam
county, but on being taken before the SUI
perior court was turned over 10 the Unit
ed States authorities by Judge James G.
McClntoE. because the shooting had
taken place within the reservation. Ac-
CordinEly Anderson was delivered TO the
Federal authorities and has been bound
over by the United States commissioner.
But the question Of jurisdiction, ii is
understood, VIII again he raised. The
prisoner is reDrese1'e1 by Benton Embree.
who il Is said will contend that ;he reser-
vation not having been set aside until
after Washington became state. has
not legally been taken into the iurisdic-
/ ti0n Of the Univ a States, that the state
/ having once acquired jurisdiction Of the
restoration has never been properly d.
| vested Of that right ard therefore still re-
| talns IT, on the foregoing ground an at
| tempt will he made 70 secure the prison
| er's release through a writ OF habeas
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