The Alaska daily empire., 1919-09-23
ALL OF SEWARD HONORS DEAD--
 ISAAC EVANS
People of the City Pay Their Last Respects to the Murdered Officer
 and Pioneer

h0 lui4Cl di Ol ISddC ENdDS, the murdered United States Deputy Mar. shal at Seward, was attended by prac- tically every person in Seward. Mar shal Brenneman and the court off cials attended in body
 Many Anchorage people attended the funeral and the floral tributes were numerous and beautiful.
 Isaac Evans was born in Pitts burgh, Pa, on the 11th of July, 1861, his father Samuel Evans, being a farmer
 Mir. Evans first came to Alaska in the latter part of February in 1895. entering the customs service in March of the same year at Wrangell. He was detailed to act as convoy from Wrangell to the international boundary in the gold rush to Cassiar, in care of foreign goods In June, 1898, he was appointed customs inspector and was stationed at the international boundary on the Stikeen. remaining there until April, 1899, when he was transferred to Fortymile river, a tributary of the Yukon Was at lake Bennett on July 6, 1899, when the golden spike was driven by M ] Honey commemorat- ing the completion of the White Pase & Yukon Rou'e Railroad which the extended from Shagway to Lake Re- nett.
 Arriving at D9wr9n Nn .Tulv 10. N~ Fvnns sncnt 2 faw dav- in the town before proceeding to Fortymile river sam Patchs place was the selected loca ton of the customs's officer but as he did not like the position r. signed from the custom service ani returned to Dawson. MT Evans worked on A below on Hunker as miner until the latter part of August when he was made foreman over Al 43 and 3S on Hunker in which capic ity he remained until September, 1900 Then resigning as foreman. winter and left Seattle for Nome on June l, 1901. Upon his arrival al Nome, Mir Evans was appointed b, United States Marshal Frank R Richards and stationed at Teller. Mir Evans had considerable opportunity to prospect and was one of the first men to locate tin in Alaska The tin deposit was found on Ear mountain about 20 miles from Schismaroff h. let on the Arctic ocean.
 Tn, 1QOe M,. E'uanc wac dptai1p1 r., go to Point Barrow on the revenue cutter Thetis to investigate the many rumors of violation of the law. MT Evans made fourteen arrests and the same amount of convictions foi lowed He also adjusted many griv ances and placed the coast iron Point Barrow to Teller under polio regulations.
 In August while at anchor at Point Barrow MT Evans had the pleasure of seeing the Gjoa coming around the point after successfully makin~ the Northwest passage, Capt. Ronald Amundsen in charge of the craft. [ in 1907 Mr Evans was transferre' from Teller to Candle. In September 19O8 Mir. Evans resigned his posi- tion as Deputy U. S. Marshal on ac' count of i'll health and left fro"' Nome for the States on October 2 1908
 Mr. Evans returned to Alaska a' irving this time at Seward on No yember 23, 1911 and entered upon the duties as United States Deput~ Marshal the following day and in which position he remained until the day of his death.
 Mir. Evans was married in Tacoma on October II, 1900.
 When at an early age, MT. Evana parents moved from Pennsylvania f" Tennessee where his father engaged in coal mining.
 Mir Evans came west to Tacoma when that city was but a village. H? was in the sheriff's office and for years was a detective on the Tacoma police force.
 MT Evans was a member of the Flks lodge, of Tacoma; secretary of the Pioneers at Seward: Senior War den of the Masonic lodge at Seward being 32 degree Scottish Rite and a member of the Alaskan Consistorv No. 1. of Juneau Alaska. Besides a wife. MT. Evans leave one brother. Aaron Evans. now re sident of Bcllingham. Washington