Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1878 — Alaska Thieves. [ARTICLE]

Alaska Thieves.

Alaska is a wonderful place for thieves. A correspondent of the San Francisco Chronicle says one merchant in Sitka hires Indians to steal for him, and recently shipped away a ton of copper that they had taken from the flooring and walls of a Government building for storing furs. The candlesticks and other silver articles were long ago stolen from the chuych, and even metal crosses have been taken from graves in the cemetery. There is not a constable nor a Justice in the Territory, and there is no attempt to enforce any law,