The record-union., 1899-04-28

PORT TOWNSEND (Wash.), April 81
REPORTS brought down by the steamer
Farralon indicate that Juneau, Alaska
Is IN fever of excitement over the
blowing up of mining machinery by
unknown parties. On the night of
April 18th a fiftyhorse power boiler
was destroyed by dynamite at the Bos-
ton group of mines. After the explo-
sion the Juneau Chamber of Commerce
issued a call for mass meeting of cit
lzens. An immense crowd thronged the
opera house, and resolutions We're
passed denouncing the outrage and
pledging themselves to- use every means
or bringing the guilty parties to JUS
tice
line remains of some unfortunate
prospector We're found last Saturday in
the mountains back of Juneau The
pody was under the snow, and was
clothed with a fur cap, a black silk
oVershlrt, heavy fur overcoat and gold
trimmed glasses. One dollar and seven
ly-hve cents was found in the, cloth
ing. Nothing was found by which the
ioentllcation could be made. The body
mas been in the snow about a year.
AMERICANS RETALIATE ON CANA
DAMS
ShAGUAY (Alaska), April LIST, via Sc
attic, April 2l.-There are no new de-
velopments in the boundary dispute.
Snowsiides are now of frequent &C.
currence on the White Pass and Yu-
hoh River, the last one occurring yes
terday, and covered the track UP for
distance of some 400 feet between Gla-
cier Station and the tunnel.
Mrs. j. w. Power, a passenger on
the 1prs To
rived, jumped overheard and was
drowned in Union Pass, between Dix
on Entrance and Queen Charlotte
Sound, at II o'clock Monday night.
April 18th. The night Waterman saw
her run out of her stateroom. She
was in her night clothes with a sheet
wrapped around her When she
reached the guard she cried OUT
There you are again; 1 see you" and
throwing off the sheet she leaped over
board. Her body was not recovered.
Her husband is said to live in Portland.
Oregon.
Reports from the Porcupine district
give an instance of American retalja-
ton on Canadians. Several members
OF the mounted police located claims
and took the full twenty acres. The
Miners Union cut each of their claims
down to 100 feet square, the amount
allowed by the Canadian law.
CIRCLE CITY ADVICES.
SEATTLE, April 27.-Advices from
Circle City, Alaska, dated March 18th.
We're received to-day. There has been
series of fires at this camp. In adj
dition to the warehouse of the Alaska
Commercial Company, previously re-
ported, the United States Custom House
and building used by the Federal
troops as an arsenal have been burned.
Several cases of scurvy and freezing
are reported.
Early in March a man named Price
of San Francisco accidentally shot him.
self in the shoulder.
United States Mail Contractor Rich
ardson caused notices to be printed
March 18th that no more mail would
be sent out this winter, because there
were no locks for the mail bags But
one United States mail has reached Cir
Gle City this year and that contained
last years letters.
During the last two weeks of March
there was a stampede of miners to
Wade Creek in the Forty Mile District
The stampede was caused by reports
that prospects gave from $15O to Sc
per pan, and that nuggets We're picked
up weighing from So to $3.S2
Alaska has the martial fever The
towns of the southeast portion of the
territory are organizing militia com
panies. Skaguay has one company and
is organizing another. Juneau, Wran-
gle and Sitka will each have one Gov
ernor Brady will then form a regiment
The following staff appointments are
announced: Adjutant General Colonel
F. d. Kelsey of Juneau; Assistant Adiu-
tant General Major w. H McNair of
Sitka.
The Canadian sloop Dorothy has been
seized at Skaguay for violation of the
customs regulations.