The daily progressive-miner., 1919-02-28
REV. j.. H. C0NDIT
 RETURNS TODAY
 FROM WEST COAST

Rev, Jgnse Il. cendit, 2, O, head ef the Presbyterian rnlssieus h Alaska. arrived on the malt boat from the west coast where he has been making tour of inspection to his mlsslcns there.
 REV. HOWE RETURNING Mr. cendit reported tnaths had been informed that Rev. ]. L. Howe and his fannily. who left Hydahura sometime ago to make . visit h Plttsburg, Pa. are planning to return to Hydaburo h the spring. to take up their duties with the mission again.
 mr. condit returned to Craig on the same boat which brought the body of the late Deputy marshal Calhoun to ketehikan. The natives of Kiawoek he says. are all deeply shocked over the Jackson murder affair and feel the dIs- grace it has brought both on their town and tribe.
 LAST MURDER $ YEARS AGO
 The last time any native of kia- yoek murdered another man was ossr forty-five years ago and then It was another native who was the victim. The people of the native village took the ancient custom of taking the law in their own haads told the rnuFdersr he must die for his crime and he a- greed to be srot it permitted to die in his fuli tribal regalia. Accordingly he decked himself out, as if for wed. ding ce great event. putting on all his tribal robes, headdress and charms and stood up as target. The natives then all lined up on the beach and at sign, fired.
 DIED BY OWN HAND Mr. condis emphaticalIy denied the , report of the Juneau Dispatch which stated that Peter Jackson had been shot by Prof. C. E. Hibbs. This he said was utterly false. as there was not a shot fired at the murderer un.
 til he ended his own life in the woodshed hack of the house where he had been refused assistance.
 SHELTER HOUSE NEEDED The traif over the Portage between Suizer and the Portage is fairly good, Mir. condtt reports, but the ice in the head of the bay is frozen and the mail boats have some difficulty in making a landing. Last week, after "mush- ing" across the Portage and arriving
 at the small tumbledown shelter with
 party of other passengers for ketchi- ! kan, among them a woman, the mail l boat, unable to break her way thru i the ice, turned around and came over ! 10 town without taking the party who
 were obliged 10 return over the Port | age until this week. "If there is to ! be s25,oco spent on the trair between 1 Portage and sulzer this year. | reeom- [ nent that part Of it be spent to build
 a comfortable shelter house. so that I passengers arriving at the Portage. having to wait for the mail boat may | have comfortable place to seek shet. | ter during the severe weather of the
 winter season.
 GETTING READY FOR FAIR The natives of Hydaburo, kiawoek, ! ,Suizer, metlakatla are all preparing ' for their anual fair which is to be held . at Kiawoek this year, according to Mir | condit. Judge Robert w. Jennigs of the district court, and Superintendent Henderson, of the Alaskan schools ,. have been invited to open the fair. kia.
 woek boasts an unique band of sixteen pieces. made up entirely of boys under fourteen years of age. The natural musical ability of the natives, has been brosht out in these young boys
 to surprising extent, and only the best Of music is studied. Mir. condii declares.
 l MOVIE SHOW FOR CRAIG The small town of Craig will be the first On the west coast to boast of . moving picture house. which will bs opened sometime this summer by Prof ! Hibbs Of Kiawock, who contemplates | starting in business in Craig. Prof Hibbs does not intend to teach any
 longer after the close of the present semester, in May.