Show ALASKA AFFAIRS A GRAFT OF NEWS FROM OUR ARCTIC POSSESSION Political Excitement Over Delegates to Rcimlilienu Convention Trouble Trou-ble Over the Landing of Whisky Disastrous SnowSlide SEATTLE Wash Jan l6The steamer Topeka arrived today with the following news Judge W A Kelley United States commissioner at Wrangel came down on the Topeka from Wrangel to Met lakatla to try several civil suits among the Indians His term expires in May but he mentioned during the voyage that he would resign in March This announcement will startup start-up applicants for the position from all over the country There is considerable con-siderable political excitement in Juneau and Alaska generally in regard to the election of delegates to be sent to the Republican convention Although so far ahead two men are making vigorous vigor-ous canvasses and will probably secure the appointments They are C S Johnson exUnited States district attorney at-torney of Alaska and Judge W A I Kelly the present United States commissioner I com-missioner who a few days ago announced an-nounced his probable resignation of I that office in March It is believed that his resignation is in view of his probable election as delegate I The steamship Wallapa from Seattle tn Ala clra rm Tioi In cf trirv nn r a winrl u u U J l a special consignment of one hundred and fifty gallons of whisky in tengal lon kegs At Juneau she as usual tied up to the Peonies wharf while within fifty yards away at the old wharf the revenue cutter Wolcott was tied up The Wolcobt is stationed at Juneau for the special purpose of preventing the landing of spiritous liauors the sale of wihich in Alaska in specially interdicted inter-dicted The night after the Wallapa arrived an attempt was made to land the whisky mentioned The kegs were put off the steamer on to a small skiff It was a bitterlY cold night and the wind was very high The boat had gone but a short distance when she was turned over One of the two men in her < was a sailor and managed to swim ashore The other was Casey Moran unknown in this city He clung to the boat for an hour before he was rescued He was so completely exhausted that > his life was at onetime one-time despaired of but prompt measures meas-ures brought him to His hands however how-ever were so badly frozen that he is scarcely able to use them The next day more than the usual number of drunken Indians were to be seen about the streets of Juneau and it was found that they had captured some of the kegs from the overturned boat The saloonkeepers and others made a rush for the surf line and eight out of the ten kegs were rolled in by the tide and confiscated by those who were lucky enough to catch them A bit slide of snow came down from the mountains into Silver Bow Basin Tanuary 7 sweeping away the Ebner Quartz mill and killing John T Pearl of Seattle a watchman The avalanche piled the snow to such a depth over the site of the mill that It will be impossible to recover Pearls body before he general thaw in the spring The damage is estimated es-timated at S50000 A delegation of Killisnoo Indians called on Governor Shakely and demanded the immediate execution of Carpenter Mills who is now in jail at Sitka charged with murdering one of the tribe on Christmas eve in a drunken row Two marines from the revenue cutter Wolcott are in jail accused of being accessories to the crime Three Fingered Charley the Kake Island murderer an Indian has been senterced to be hanged February 3 Some uneasiness is manifested among the whites lest the members of his tribe seek reparation as they threaten if the hanging takes place Many miners pass Kake Island every spring and it is feared the Indians will murder them in cold blood This fear has gained such widespread currency that a lengthy petition pe-tition has been forwarded to President Cleveland by the miners asking that the sentence be commuted Marshal Williams with seven Indian prisoners came down on the Topeka en route to San Quentin penitentiary In a mysterious manner a young Japanese Jap-anese workman at Douglass was assassinated assass-inated at midnight while asleep in his cabin by being shot through the back bY a Winchester rifle Several men are under arrest The Japanese had won the affections of a white woman of ill repute re-pute This engendered much jealousy |