Show ALASKAN AFFAIRS Serious Apprehension Fell for the Safety of White People PORT TOWNSEND Wash Feb 9 According to advices received from Alaska tonight on the steamer Willapa serious apprehension is felt for the safety of four white men and one oman o-man who are believed to have been murdered by Hannegah Indians of I Kake island One of the same tribe was recently convicted of the murder of a white miner and was to have been hanged last week at Sitka but sentence sen-tence was commuted to > life imprisonment imprison-ment > Under date of Howkan November 26 the Mining Record of Juneau publishes pub-lishes the following letter from I r Ramter to George Stukey ff heard indirectly that your sister and her husband started for Prince of Wales island and they are now missing miss-ing Last summer while in camp with some Indians I heard one of them bragging of how many whites had been murdered by Hannegah Indians In-dians and he added that there were four white men and one woman lately late-ly l added to the lst The same Indian said his tribe would kill every white man they chanced to meet No additional particulars relating to the identity of the missing people have been received here I |