THE STORY OF
ANTON MARKS
(Continued from Last Week)
We had a good deal of trouble with
the Indians in Juneau. Three of them
killed a white man half way up the
Basin. We captured them and plac
ed them in jail. The next morning
the jailor removed the hand cuffs which
had been placed upon them, and as soon
as this was done they overpowered
him and killed him.
We heard the shooting and one of
them was shot dead by the pioneers
while he was running away. The other
two escaped into the woods. We went
to the chief and told him that we
wanted those Indians, and that unless
he got them for us wre would hang
him. He sent some Indians through
the woods, who finally found them and
brought them to us. Judge Fuller tri
ed them and sentenced them to Be
hung. We Built a scaffold and execut
ed the sentence.
While they were suspended by ropes,
a steamer arrived from Seattle, and
when the passengers came ashore and
saw the Indians, they ran back aboard
the steamer. We were standing
around with rifles in our hands, and I
suppose the situation looked pretty bad
to them, especially as the Indians were
holding a war dance in their village.
We permitted the Indian women to
come up and look at them, but we
would not let the men come near until
we had cut them down. Then we sent
them word that they could come and
get the bodies and bury them, if they
wanted, and that if they did not, wre
would bury them.
We received a message from the In
dians at Sitka, in which they demand
ed a thousand dollars worth of blan
THE HYDABURG TOWN COUNCIL
The Indian town of Hydaburg, which
owes its existence to the revolt of the
young Hydah Indians from Howkan,
Klinquan and Kassan against the tyran
ny of. tfee old chiefs, has incorporated
and elected a town council. Walter
Frank, a prosperous native fisherman,
has been elected mayor. S. G. Davis,
Mason Frank, John Wallace and Edwin
Scott and C. B. Hawkesworth have been
elected members of the town council.
All are Indians except Frank Davis, and
Mr. Hawkesworth, who is the teacher
of the Indian school. Walter Frank ;s
the skipper of his own boat, the Pride,
one o fthe best fishing launches in
Southeastern Alaska. S. G. Davis is
a carpenter who has kept a store; John
Wallace is credited with having $2000
catching salmon this summer. Bdwin
8#>tt was formerly an Indian police
man, and Luke Frank is a boat build
er.
The Hydaburg Trading Company,
with a capital stock of 5000 shares at
$10 a share, was also organized this
week. All the directors are natives
except Mr. Hawkesworth, who was al
so eleeted on this board. A stock of
goods has arrived on the Northland and
a store opened, the money having been
paid in to a temporary organization
and the goods ordered. The Hydaburg
lumber company is also being organ
ized, and will put in a sawmill. All
the money for these enterprises is fur
nished by the Indians themselves, no
white man owning any stock except Mr.
Hawkesworth, who has been allowed to
purchase fifteen shares of stock in each
company.
There are now twenty-five house un
der construction, with a number of peo
ple living in tents. The village now
has a population of 159 people, and
there are thirty-six children enrolled
at the school.
GREEN IS BLUE, RED & WHITE
The story of a practical joke of
which J. Lindley Green, who recently
withdrew from an incipient campaign
for congress, was the victim of a
practical joke perpetrated at Unalas
ka by Deputy Marshal Goshaw and Dr.
Romig, has just reached Juneau.
Judge Cushman was holding court
at Unalaska, and on Saturday night
the . court and Green expressed a eira
kets for the death of the three savages,
and that unless the money was paid or
the blankets delivered, they would
come and make war on us. We sent
word back for them to come as quick
as they could, and we would pay them
in powder and shot, but they never
came, nor made any more demands.
We had trouble with the Indians
once more after that. Some white men
got some Wrangell Indians to bring
them up to Juneau.
The Wrangell Indians were at war
with Juneau Indians and when the Wran
gell Indians came ashore, , they were
taken to the village and made slaves.
We went to them and demanded the
Wrangell Indians. The Juneau Indians
poured out of their houses, armed with
pistols and knives, and looked v-ery
threatening, but after we had knocked
a few of them over with our guns, they
brought out their captives and sur
rendered them to us. We guarded the
Wrangell Indians after that, until we
had an opportunity to send them to
their homes in safety. Wo eared lit
tle for the temper of the Indians, then,
for we had plenty of guns and ammu
nition.
Still, they were killing people right
'along. They killed a man in Douglas,
and threw his body into the water. I
had trouble with them myself in Doug
las. They used to come around at
night, tearing off shingles and break
ing windows and doors. They tried
to get into my house one night. I
heard them coming up, and I was pre
pared, I shot one of them through the
arm and another through the leg. I
was arrested for this, but was cleared.
ilar inclination to take a bath. Deputy
Marshal Goshaw offered his services as
guide, and started the party for the
bath house maintained by the compa
ny. On the way Goshaw stopped at
the company’s store, and surrepti
tiously obtained some of those small
indigo balls which are sold for laun
dry purposes in pretty nearly every
grocery store in the United States.
The Alaska Commercial Company
maintains a bath house at Unalaska,
in which there are three baths, sepa
rated from each other by partitions
•which lack, two or three feet, of reach
ing the ceiling. Goshaw maneuvered
for the middle bath, but finding it im
possible to secure this without arous
ing suspicion, he took one of the out
er baths, Green taking the middle one.
As soon as the splashing had commenc
ed, in the middle tub, Goshaw noisless
ly atained the top of the partition,
and watching his opportunity, dropped
a sufficient number of the balls to pro
duce the desired effect. Goshaw spent
some time watching the sensation the
phenomenon produced on the bather,
and then went out and told his friend,
Dr. Eomig.
The next day, while Dr. Romig and
Green were having a conversation to*
gether, Dr. Romig mentioned in a
casual way that he very much feared
that Westward Alaska was about to
suffer considerably from the Asiatic
plague. %
“I don’t see how we can escape it,”
said the doctor, “ there are already
some cases here.”
“What are the symptoms, Doctor,”
inquired Green.
“Well, one curious thing for which
no one has been able to account, is the
fact that when a man who has been in
oculated with the disease takes a bath,
the water turns blue.”
At that the doctor’s auditor turned
white, but when the joke was explain
ed to him he turned red, but afterward
resumed his normal color.
Capt. G. A. Howe returned to, Ju
neau last evening from his mining
claims at Olivers Inlet, Admiralty Isl
and, where he has been assiduously en
gaged in doing assessment work on his
property for a month. Capt. Howe in
tends to leave for the south shortly
and will spend the winter with his rel
atives in San Francisco.
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At P. E Fox’s
Sweaters
and all kinds of
cold weather wear
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ney during the summer just past and all of them are
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METAL AND MACHINE
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