The Alaska daily empire., 1914-12-21
BnI.IEVE INDIANS
 MURDERED IsAeiN

in the interior ol Aaslia haa been renewed by the mafahap9 ollce as0 Farbanss, according to seiesfaiA rsceirad Saturday by The Empire, and published in part,
 Eagin was last seen on September I2, 19IS He had been trapping and hunting on the upper tributaries of Inc Kuskohwim, aud intended to spend the chrismaa holidays at pakolna. Hls nonatriyal there caused appre- hension for his safety and efforts wore mad0 to learn his late- 4 man named Steve Foster told in Fairbanks last summer of having seen Lasin a short time previously, but this b bel ieved to have been mistake. Alet' ter from Dr. Green of gakona to Deputy Marshal Percy c. Charles oil Idlarod, suggests that Login may hayo been victim of she Indians. The letter ia in part as follows
 eJesse Roder is as trustworthy and honorable q young man as you could wish to meet anywhere, and has been working on Candle creek all summer. I had talk with him recently and learned Che following
 ''e and Bob Killed two moose thirty. i've miles up the North forss and alter dressing them Bob left him to go about eighty miles up, or iorty.nyo miles iarther where he was going to trap, Bob took the canoe, leaving his polling boat for Jesse to take the moose down river Bob instructed him to leave his moose at Arthur Berry's at Big river, 30 be would have it when be returned about Christmas time. Jesse did this, and Berry had 10 feed 1t to his dogs this spring, as Bob failed to show up.
 "C. Frank cowan, it is reported told them that Bob Lagin came there and tho last he saw of him he was going over the divide to tho NoYi When Cowan came down river this spring he brought Bobs canoe, which he Hound where Bob told him. and left 1t at Berry's.
 Believed Indians Killed Hllm.
 "Jesse Yoder left Bob on September ll2, 1913, or rather Bob left Yoder on that date-Yoder staying where they ! killed the moose to dry 1t out to keep lit from spelling. On September IS the Mckinley Fork Indians tried to run him on and to take his meat away from him. He punched several oi them pretty we'll l guess, and then they threatened to shoot him. He told them to get busy, as he would not leave untn his meat was ft to move, All of the Indians know he Is a crack and quick shot but nevertheless they spent several days and nights shoot Ing around his camp, always from cover. several shots hitting the trees where he was camped and had hil meat. When Bob left him he had four and half gallons of whiskey and plenty Of grub to take him through
 the winter with what meat be would get He also had plenty of ammunt
 tion.
 Tt is Yoder's opinion that Bob wal i Killed by these same Indians. as they ] have run on every white man who has gone into their district. A maI !. by the name of John Sigurson wen
 into their country last year and hai not boon or heard from since, thu . making two who have disappeared uI
 there.
 Natlveo q Bad Lot
 A later communication from pr {. Green gives an interesting insight in { to conditions In the little known re , gions in the upper Kuskokwim coun
 try. He says:
 CT have just had talk with Pau I Minnick, a German who was on th ] Fuskokwim some time since, hunt
 ing moose. and be reports the follow } ing:
 "While coming down the North forl 1. he stopped with his motor boat an' his moose at tho mouth of the Mc H1inley fork, in cabin belonging t another German named Frederick ], Here he found Chief Soo Suey, wh'
 stayed all night with him. He aske' him if he had seen Bob Lagln and hN said: Yes; he die all same two In {, dians same day. One Indian he dil
 my cabin Mckinley fork Gle live lup the Mckinley fork.
 "Then Minnick asked him if h' 2 knew Jesse Yoder. and he answered Yes; he kill five my doge. Three dog no good, me kin lem pretty soon Two dogs hiu skooSum dogs Me dl :. him sometime. Minnick says as hl
 does not understand the Indians o English any too well, he may have lmisunderstood him. Alter they hat gone to bed. Minnick says, he coul' , not sleep thinking Of what Soo Sue. , had said. and knowing what the othe Indians say about his (Soo suey's being 8 smooth, foxy Indian. While
 awake, and pretending to sleep So' j lSuey got up very carefully took th' 'bug' and went out of the cabin, an' ] be got up to see what he did. soi Suey, after getting out of the cabin 2 lighted the bug and went down t' his boat and searched it all. over re - turning to the cabin and putting ou
 his bug before he came in. Min
 nick got back into bed and the in } dian came yer. carefully crawling Il
 his end of the bunk. and was sooi