Show appalling APP ALLING immorality sickening and beastly practices of white wate men in alaska new york nov 12 mrs voorhees a well known lady of this city has recently returned from an extended tour through the threat great North northwest wet to a reporter she related some of the experiences perien ces of her travels 1 I have journeyed over miles by land and water she said but bat the incidents of the trip trl have ave been I 1 dare say much like t those ose of oth other er tourists who followed the same route what has impressed me most profoundly and filled me with a horror which grows with the recollection of it is the awful condition of the indian women in alaska travelers hint vaguely at this evil official reports allude briefly and apologetically to it but the great world is ignorant of its existence if people realized that in the wilds of its alaskan territory this civilized refined advanced nineteenth century united states holds a perfect inferno of crime and torture where helpless elble 9 women and mere children are b abeln sacrificed and gradually exterminated mi mina ted ed surely some remedy might be found in all that country there is no law there can be no restraint and the lowest animal passions of the he rough miners trappers hunters soldiers idl arsand and sailors rage unchecked the e indian women wo is lawful spoil of the these semen men they steal them if they can if not they buy them tr from om their pa parents rents tor for a unite knife a jug jag of rum or a string of beads if these considerations do not weigh then they the y make the old people drunk and carr carry off tile the girl A miner will come ana and dicker for a child of fourteen and bear her off shrieking with terror she becomes the SLAVS OF THE WHOLE CAMP hotl d s finally sent back to her people iff hie aie A lady with whom I 1 talked of the ehe horrors of sitka told me of a case which had come unger under her own observation as she could coald vouch for its truth in every revolting particular this lady by the way is the first white woman who ever went to alaska of 01 course there have been some russian women there before but I 1 mean the first woman from our country or england well she knew of a little girl having been carried off forcibly bisone by some soldiers and one day a few months after an indian woman came to her exhibiting signs of great grief and begged the white mother as she called trusi theio lady to go and look at her daughter who was dying the lady went to the place where the girl lay on the ground a mass of rags filth and corruption she had bad been returned to her people by her captors to whom she was no further useful such horror is felt bv the theIn indians at the sight of anyone afflicted as she was that they avoid the victim as though she was plague stricken in the case of this poor child who was only fifteen years of age they had bad built a stockade about the place where she lay completely inclosing her A small aperture had been left lef t on the side close to the ground through which food and water were thrust to her the white mother crawled through this hole to reach the sufferer and did what was wab in her power tor for the wretched young creature one ear was entirely gone and the girls face horribly disfigured because she had been KIDNAPPED BY SOLDIERS the brave white lady sent word to io the garrison that they must give especial aid A physician came through whose efforts the childs life was saved this girl now keeps vigilant watch over the young indian children in her vicinity she i id a pupil in the school when I 1 arrived at tacoma I 1 called on mrs mcfarlane McF ariane the lady in charge of the missionary school I 1 spent saturday and sun sunday y with her and I 1 learned some seme very ve startling f acts regarding the difeo life of the people I 1 in n that beig neighborhood I 1 knew something t about the Ind indiana lanar before but w what hat I 1 learned from her was a anew new revelation mrs mcfarlane McF ariane is a virginian she went out as a missionary years ago and has been working ever since she has started three schools for indian chit children dren and is regarded with the greatest rea test esteem by all classes lc I 1 cald ai d not repeat the details of the d armful r a tory story she told me of the barbarous condition of life in that neighborhood bo it is really unspeakable the story I 1 have just repeated is a mild instance of the brutality which seem the birthright of these poor little squaws squads some of the criminal practices prevailing came within my own observation we were at juneau on oa the fourth of july and a celebration eb ration was arranged it was intended as a patriotic demonstration on the part of the whites and there was an indian dance now it is unlawful to sell liquor to an indian there but bat as I 1 have already said law does not prevail so the first move was to ply the indians with ith rum until th they e y were stupidly drunk then the white wh ite men carried them outside like lo 10 logs 8 flung them on the ground in their sodden sleep and returned to the there ensued a SCENE BEYOND description no beastly orvie orgle ever conceived could surpass it you ou print the story alaskan horrors are more dreadful dreada al than the plue pine wood atrocities they are worie than anything known of in modern times do none of the indians exhibit a 16 desire to protect their hopmen women men mrs voorhees bees asked seldom and it they A did id what would it avail soldiers are kept there at the expense of the government to prevent their rising what do they do they work in the mines hunt and flan fish that ischen they dont drink themselves to death there was a case not net long ago of a whole tribe perishing in one winter from rum they had sold all the f urs and skins they had in their possession for liquor and when those who had survived the immediate effects of their potations rotations ions had to meet the bitter weather without clothing they froze to death it is a common law among the indians that they must not dispose of a daughter without the con sent of the mother squaw anti and as the mother usually has an instinct at least which prompts her to protect her offspring from the white manthe only way to deal with her is by drink the squaws squads are as given eiven to liquor liquor as the males so the white whiteman man seeking a little maiden brings enough drink for father and mother when both have succumbed to ts its influence there is nettling bodifo say to the destroyer of the child poor shrinking shrieking lit tt 1 victims are dragged off to their fate aed ana there is no power to succor guem mrs mcfarlane laae told of one woman who brought her last remaining mailing girl to the school and prayed that hat she he might be taken in she told a i heart heartrending tale of how her other daughters had id been torn from her by brutal whites whiles and carried to ruin and death and she said she was powerless to protect this last little one yhomas even then thre threatened atene with a 11 like late fate so she besought them tem to receive the child ill give you the very words ot of this indian mother they were 1 I want to keep child with me I 1 dars nt white man will take her away fad several pretty squaw when they about four teen they are stolen by white men he only sent them home to die pioneer press |