Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1889 — ALASKA MATTERS. [ARTICLE]

ALASKA MATTERS.

The steamer Ancon arrived at Port Townsend, W. T., on the 2d, with news from Alaska: The Juneau Free Press reiterates the stories of outrages on Indian women, and says that the Indians will sell their daughters and sisters to white men for from $5 to $5 >. "The Tougas custom house, a sub-port of entiy, has been abolished by the government, and the deputy collector of customs, Col. Crittenden, is temporarily appointed inspector afloat, vice Edward Haley retired. Only a few days after the port was abandoned a sloop load of whisky from Fort Simpson, fourteen miles away, was smuggled in. The smugglers became involved in a quart.*], and a man named Snow was murdered J>y a man named “Jack.” The lodiansrturned the murderer over to the authorities at Sitka for trial. The Indian who caused all the trouble at the Upper Yukon placer mines Ja-t year, when the miners were trying to get established there, has given himself up to the authorities. He says his people will never allow the miners to go into the Yukon if he is punished, bat that they will murder the first party that appears.