The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-04-17
An INDIANS SUICIDE.
He Strangles Himself to Escape
From Prison.
A BUDGET or ALASKA NEWS.
Fatal Fall of Hunter From a Cliff
How YukonerS Punish Thieves
The Boom at Juneau.
A BUDGET or ALASKA NEW.

The steamer Ai-ki arrived from Alaska
yesterday with a budget OF news from
that territory. The papers It brought tell
OF an imprisoned Indian chiefs suicide.
the death Of hunter by failing over a
cliff. rough and ready justice on the
Yukon. and the building boom at Juneau.
The kyak Indian chief who recently
shot Harry Moss. mate OF the Francis
Cutting, was found dead in his cell in
the juneau jail on the morning of March
81. He had committed suicide by hang
ing himself TO the upper cell bunk, using
a cloth handage that was bound around
his iacerated throat He tied one end Of
it 10 the bunk. and. twisting the strip
OF cloth UP like a rope. formed run
ming moose al the other end which he
placed around his neck. and. leaning out
ward. By his own weight strangled him
self 10 death. A short time previous he
had asked an Indian. fellow prisoner.
10 lend him knife. saying he wanted to
trim his finger nails. but was refused
and it is the supposriou that he wanted
the knife 10 either attack his jaiier or
70 finish up the job OF cutting his own
throat. which he had only half accom-
pliShed when arrested.
The Juneau News of April has these
notes OF the building boom: Archie
Campbell has started a force of men
under 4. Murray TO build u two-story
house, back OF his present residence,
S0x37 in dimensions. The first floor has
"A parlor. 1s.axl6: dining room. I412xi9:
kitchen, I2xl5. and a hallway fsxI6 feet
On the top floor there viii be four bed
rooms averaging ifxI2is. and a hall l3xIs.
The two sides and front will be surmount-
ed by a cornice. and the walls double
boarded and tar papered. The two houses
will be connected, the present house TO
be occupied as an office ~ the company.
Col Winn's four-room cottage on Third
street is receiving Its finishing touches
and has been rented by J. J. Ruttledge
The plasterEng has been about completed
at o. H. Adsit's building and so far
sticks nobly to the laths. This Is d new
departure In house building here. The
building OF +. Young and J. r. Mallory
Is inclosed. 1t has a square front and
will be hard finished.
Louis Haven and Thomas Grub ar
rived at Juneau April from Lituya bay
bringing news of the death of Hans Jen-
sen. of Sitka, who fell of a clin in the
hills back of Capt. Coles beach sand
diggings. on March Il. They buried his
reIlains in a rough coffin the next day
along ting beach above high tide water
mark. Jensen was out hunting wild sheep
aid lost his balance. He was aged 40
siigle. and a native OF Norway.
Paul Kegstad. inspector afloatA and
William Watt have arrived at Juneau on
the Corwin from Dyea with four twelve
gallon kegs OF whisky and twelve eases
of assorted liquors dug up in a snow
cache at the store house. They report
the lukoners at Sheep camp running
out three men for stealing a satchel con-
tanning watch and valuables worth $780,
The MIXERS held a trial and gave the cul-
prit three hours 10 yamoose. and with
three companions he returned to the
beach. The property was recovered from
their tent