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Show . All About a Woman. A story of horrible brutality comes from . Point Hope, Alaska. A Portuguese, named Manuel, otic of the employes on the steam whaling station at Point Barrow hceaiuc enamoured en-amoured of a squaw, and induced her to live w ith him. To this arrangement her husband naturally objected, and took the woman away by force. Soon after the husband was absent on a deer hunt, and during his absence ab-sence the woman returned to live w ith Mah-uel. Mah-uel. When the husband returned he went with a rifle to Manuel's hut and seized the woman. Manuel and a friend appeared at tliis juncture, and threw the Indiau out of the hut, whereupon the outraged man raised bis rifle aud blew out Manuel's brains. V hen th.; w hite men heard of the shooting they went ia a body to the Indian's hut, dragged him out, tied him up by the thumbs and despite his plea that he had done only what any one of them would do under similar simi-lar provocation, in defense of his l(ome, they deliberately shot him In death. If such things are allowed to go on unpunished, the Alaskan Indians will he soon as hostile as the Mildest Sioux or Comanche. |