The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-06-20
ALASkASTEANERDAY
QUEEN ARRIVES FROM THE NORTH
AND THE AI.-kI SAILS.
An Indian Imitator of slim Bureh
Bites on q Friends Nose and Then
CAuses Nurder-Contempl plated Ina
provements May Double the Size
of the Huge Treadwen Mine
When and Where to send Mail for
the fukon-Appiication for Col
1ectorship.

Alaska had its innings yesterday a.
Ocean dock. a steamship arriving IN the
morning and another departing for The
North in the afternoon. Travel both
ways was rather heavier than usual rhe
summer tourist business beginning 70
make Itself felt. The excursion steam
snip Queen arrived with only three first
class and five second class passengers
for Seattle. seeming almost deserted rs
she drew alongside the dock. The is
tourists who had made the excursion. dis
embarked at Tacoma before the vessel
came here Her passengers for Seattle
were Mr.. and Mrs j. Bait. Mrs. H e
Wolf and five second class
Steamship ALIKE sailed for Alaska yes
terday afternoon at O'Clock. She had
forty head of cattle aboard. TO be land
e9 at Pyramid harbor and driven across
the pass by the interior route 70 the yu-
kon- Following is a list OF the passengers:
c. s. Coleman. Frank Walters. Fl. Wit
tenberg, Mrs. Walls. Mrs. s. j. Heron. A.
Rellingham, r. Hill James Winter Eliza
Shepard, Y B. Reynolds, r. NJ. Baum,
Julia ]. Heron, Dick Fleming. Mrs. F. e
Ballentine, c. w Hooper Mrs. A. S
Lowell, A Z Levitt Miss Anna L. Fan
erly. j. c. Levitt. and twenty-ons sec
ond class.
Mayhem seems 10 be crime a Ia mode
in Alaska. 1t was the mastication OF an
enemy's nose which first brought into
prominence Slim Birch. the most noted
white desperate Yet produced in the Far
North. Slim Burch has an imitator in an
Indian of kake island who removed with
his teeth the nasal appendage of a friend
and then caused the death OF the victim
and the victims sauaw. The crime has
come to light. and report OF the murder
was taken TO Juneau by Aaron Levy a
storekeeper at Kake village. kake island
kake village. on Kake island. near the
north end of kgperanon island is cccu-
pied by very undesirable class of Indi-
ans They are only partly civilized and
are continually in trouble with the whites,
whom they order away from their shores
whenever seen On an island about fifteen
miles from Kake village there lives an
Indian. About eight months ago two
other Indians visited him. and during a
drunken fight he bit off the nose of one
of his visitors. After doing il he became
alarmed. and taking gun he compelled
his other visitor to shoot the MANNED man.
Not satisfied with this. he also compelled
him to kill the mans squaw. To cover
up all traces of their dastardly crime thew
took the bodies, and after mutilating
them so that they would sink, they threw
them into the sea. Then they took the
dead mans canoe. put his effects in IL
and turned 1t adrift.
This story Of crime comes to light
through the sickness of the Indian who
was compelled to do the killing He con-
fessed TO an Indian doctor who was at
tending him. and the doctor made the par
ticulars known.
The friends of the dead man now intend
10 kill the nearest relative OF the one who
melted the killing, as is their custom, and
Aaron Levy was commissioned 10 go to
Juneau and inform the authorities. 1t is
expected that there will be trouble over
the affair. as the Indians have gone to
killisnoo to get their friends 10 help them
carry out their threats of retrihution-
EnlarGinx Treadweil Mine.
Improvements on the great Treadwell
gold mine on Douglas island. Alaska ara
being planned. which will double in siZs
the already extensive plant. For soma
months past there has been In process OF
construction a shaft or uprise, by feet.
This new shaft is 100 feet distant from the
hoist used now. 1t will be widened out to
by u feet. and sunk 1850 feet deep.