Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-01-27

from the new Atlin Lake gold fields. This
territory adjoins Alaska, must be entered
through American ports and was dis
covered and developed by citizens of the
United States, yet now the British Co.
lumbia parliament is on the point of ex-
Guiding all aliens from this most favored
and most promising region.
Two old Bismarckers are now mayors
of their respective towns. L. N. Griffin in
Fairhaven and David Stewart in Che
halls. The latter has served several
terms rs chief executive.
An old Dakota man in Tacoma seems
likely to have fallen in with a peculiar
windfall. The other night a large Brit
ish ship in the harbor was struck by a
squall while without ballast, and cap
sized and sank so rapidly that the cap
tain and seventeen sailors were carried
to the bottom in two hundred feet of
water. She was insured for $4,000. In
eahc maritime county there is elected a
wreckmaster who generally has nothing
to do, but the present one over in Taco
ma is an old Aberdeen man known as
Paulhamus and he has brought to light
a law authorizing him to raise sunken
ships, sell them and pocket half the pro-
ceeds as his perquisites. This vessel can
be raised so Paulhamus is guarding the
spot where she went down and standing
off the agents and insurance men.
A vi. it to the rotunda of the principal
hotel in Olympia yesterday strongly re-
minded the writer of old times in Bis
marck. Among the crowd brought in
by the present senatorial conflict were
johnson Nickeus, mayor of Tacoma, and
e. A. Henderson of the Ledger of that
city; John A. Rea, probably the best
known politician living in the capital
city; James A. Haight, now in the front
rank of the bar of the supreme court;
Judge Frye, formerly of Fargo; F. G
Whitaker, of Seattle and
LORD PLUNKETT.
THE CoNNELLA CASE.
Appended to Lord Plunkett's letter is
a clipping, an Everett special to the
Seattle Post Intelligencer, an extract
from which is as follows,
If John w. Connella comes back to
Everett he will encounter the most ser
ious trouble he probably ever experience
ed in his life. 1t is more than possible
almost probable-that he would be tax
en- by a committee of citizens and hung
to the telegraph pole that happened to
be nearest where he was captured; at
any rate he would at least be tarred and
feathered and driven from the place
where he slew one of the most popular
citizens.
Everett is not in a ferment-there is
nothing here to indicate action of the
sky-rocket order-but there was never in
any town more determined and under
lying incenscd feeling than rules the
sentiment of these people today. 1t be-
gan a week ago., when tho news was first
received that Connella had been. acquit-
ted of the charge of numbering Ole Mel
son, increased until the meeting Of last
night resolved itself, and is now sup
pressed, but more violent than V
Connella has not an active. friend in
Everett--at least, none OF them, if he has
any, dares show his sent m ,nts above his
innermost thoughts. The killing of Mel
son alienated most of his friends, and his
acquittal and the subsequent firm stand
taken by the citizens as Il body destroyed
the rest. It is related that soon after his
incarceration in the Everett Jail, a few
days later than the killing, Connella sent
word to II of his former stanchest
friends that he would like him to call
upon him at the calaboose. The reply to
the message was this: See him? I'd
like to see him hung!"
There are many men here, and promi-
G men, who would hang Connella on
sight, even yet. All they need is a
leader; and if there had been a leader
that night of the tragedy he would have
been strung up then. One man, a $50
FOUNDER, is reported by a well known
citizen to have offered to buy
a rope and haul Connella up with it, if
anybody else would throw the line over
a telegraph pole. The thrower was not
forthcoming, and the incident closed.
But if the ex-editor would come here
now, it is believed there would be a
dozen men to buy the rope and as many
o to throw it over a gallows. It was
rumored here today that Connella in.
tended to return and resume the publ
cation of his paper, the Everett Times:
but if he did-even conservative Everett
might not be able to control herself.
Ross Wells, of Valley City, won a gold
medal at Manila, which was the prize
awarded to the best drilled man. 15O(
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