Iditarod pioneer., 1916-11-25
TELLS SENSATlONAl. STORY OF DOUBLE MURDER DONE
 ON LOWER INFlOKO RIVER

i A somewhat sensational account of the disappearance of two men who were jour revng on the lower Innoko in rowboat appears in tke Nome Nugget of September 22. received in last Saturdays mail. The school teacher who related the story, 1t
 would appear to the ordinary reader, should not haze allowed "a year OF so' to eIapSe
 without reporting the matter to the authori- ! ties, and it might appear to be worthy ot little credence were the circumstances not given so minutely.
 : So far as known ID one in this vicinity Gas any knowledge cf the suspected crime l The marshals office in tbls city never has been notified of such an occurrence and | Siegrrd Wig, who | akeS frequent lonr- i neys to the localities described, says he has never heard anything of the strange story reatfd But he does say that there
 ne some "bad' natives in that section, and it would not be surprising if there were some truth in the story. The school teacher referred to may be Roy Fuller, now uni,ed States commissioner at Fortuna Ledge who some years ago was the government teacher at Shagalk, and later filed a similar post ti.n at Russian MissiHn
 Tie Nugget article is as fellows
 "A recent arrived ircm the Iui,on srates
 hat the Sim,I2 sHd guieIesS Indian, in spite f missionaries urd government schools, has at last learned the canital crime cf the white man. namely, killing for rIun,er, He SAYS;
 "'Ihe Yukon Indians have learned many things If the whites, some good some bad.
 They have learned to speak English, with many swear words thrown in; to plant a garden, hGt not t2 care fer it. to work on ste,.nboat&, and squanler their money on Isll,s> gee-g:,,,s; to cut wool induStIiously end then loaf until their last bit of flour
 is gene; to charge all the traffic wiii bear fer their t,} and their ct.,iS slnd 10 he ,3by, They have learned 10 drink snG
 :,rile il tss taken t59ae I"s them t2 '.,,in aii lhesr things, and nnw d las; rhyT
 ave searl2C4 To murder white men for 1Aeir .uf.:is sMd money, .4et CHG n2on w,so wanted ia so trapping CD tGe ur:>er i[Q>Eo vim this winter, but he int golne. be ta(rye Ee says he ls airaid ttr la'llz>s waul Ill him, as they have so n,any other white
 3en ln the psst few years He says that '
 : well known in that section that jhH ID
 !ians lave been Killing pToSpect"cs &cG tr&ppels. kGt ,hat ii ia very had to prove it. However, a schoCl tC&ches n the lower Yukon tcld me of a ca.e on ShayeluE >iouGh where the murder scenlS pretty vel! eS;;tb- [: he'd. IL happened year CT 50 age. Two men coming down the lnnoko in a row!eoat with over S3,0OO in their possession were I,nown to have passed in turn Dement, Hcl;l,achek and Snagsluk They were bound fol Holy Gross to take a steamboat and they did not reach that place. Their boat js now at Anvlk CT w31 when fle chocl teacher related the story to ne, an3 the Indian rosSessor ct 1t >ays tha. !e found it in the slough New cn,ans !he evidence Of crime. 4 Sh2geluk la1la1 rho was worthless who never had had $20 2t one time, returned to >hagelu}l from rip and lasted three days and n,ghrs His at was respected by tie other natives Hho knew that it nsaant that ha had k:lle omsbady The following faii thls c.itus native gave big potlatch at lower v;ll2ga
 nj to provide the stuff fer his feast ha paid the trader at that village the sum ci
 l,7G9. Considering tie fact that tais ral- tlCClar savage never caught dozen f%Is in ne season, never chopped mUre than two Y three cords Ct wool at Cne time. and Taver Was known to have any money, is not his sudden acquisition of SLIGO. aiJn, with his thrae-d;y fast, conclusive evidence
 hat he was one of the parties. at least. to the murder of the two white mrerS The school teacher thought so, and so do l. and f seems to he that Indians should rot be allcwcd to go any farther along this read ! don't know whose &uty it is to investi- 2ate this matter. but aS 1t is in the Fourth vision, l preslrc t would be some off -'al up there. Ar. fer my part I don't know why the government school teacher yho was there and i:row Fl the facts Gii lot start the wheels Gf the law. It seems 0 ne more Important to teach the Indians Q be gool people lhan il is to teach them 70 spell, A to that though, that section ID there + tie i@ni of thc sacred Swash
 nd the primer Io seems to ne to be all
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