The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-05-09
Those Twelve Indians Held
 By Marshal Tanner.
CLANET IS A PREACHER
There is Much Bible Reading and Hymn Singing, but the Marshal Has Provided Recreation in the Shape of Street Improvements.

Owing to the fact that so many Indians have called at the city jail at nearly all hours of the day 70 visit the twelve na- tives held there for complic.tv in the Hor- ton mnrder case, Mar ;hal Tanner has issued an order that visitors will be re- ceived and allowed to converse with the prisoners only between the hours of II and I2 a. m. and 5 and p. m.
 At first there were not many visitors at the jail, but gradually the relatives of the prisoners began to come in from the four winds, and there was scarcely an hour of the day that there was not some squaw or buck or little Indian peering through the bars of the jail conversing In the unknown tongue with the alleged murderers and their accompices.
 The twelve Indians held for the murder of the Hortons for a long time spent the time without recreation other than they could find in their narrow confines behind the bars. but now thev are occasionally taken out and given employment in mak ing public improvements on the streets. The men have nearly all gained flesh dur ing their confinement, and their experience of the government goods that are provided bv Uncle Sam through the attention of Marshal Tanner is demonstration that the white mans food is not injurious to the red man.
 One of the chief indoor pastimes of the Indians is the playing of checkers. The crack player of the party is Johnny Kish. who is merely boy, probably not more than I4 years old. Johnny is by no means a striking character in appearance. He looks as though he were anything but intellectual, and has not nearly as much admirable expression in his face as some of his fellow prisoners, but somehow he knows how to fight a checker battle to successful issue against those twice and perhaps thrice his age.
 Singing and preaching is another of the features in the routine life of these men behind the DarS TOT murder. Twice day they sing Early in the morning they join in choruses and in the evening they all sing together again. Nearly always their songs are of religious nature. all the men, with the exception of one or two, being converts to the Salvation Army. Besides the song service they also carry out the other features of Salvation Army meeting, including speaking and preach ing. Mark Clanet is the preacher and the man who reads from the bible,
 To the uninitiated visitor who may happen in the jail lobby at the time the song service begins it is a surprise to hear the rough, deep throated voices all sud- denly peal forth at once in chorus of which the words. or the greater number at least, are unknown to his ear. Sometimes it is an old familiar hymn and sometimes one strangely new. In some of the songs English and Indian words are both em- ployed, thus making the exercise all the more peculiar to the stranger. At the time for meeting the Indians begin to sing and hold their regular services regardless of who may be in the jail lobby. How ever, it is seldom there are ever any strang- CTS in the lobby. and they are not often the entertainers to the idlers of freedom with out the prison bars.
 When the trial of the Indians is to be held IS only problematical, as it Is ve: un- certain when Alaska will have another dis trict judge on the bench and another term of court.