Deseret Evening News | 1897-01-23 | Page 8 | Squaw Men Caused the Trouble

Squalor Us C 111 Trouble NEW YORK Jan 23A dispatch I to file juattald I fioai Washington may The itport of complaints oa the part of members 01 Ibo nUlOlon ollod obtucb III Alaska all aoool1nl 0 nllniud lUim M uy nimn 11 the Commercial oum any will not IIIeII lead lo nay diplomatic oglIallollti I ctw < ii file United Ht IU and Hi tobld Mr Koutsbu Ibo Itutilaii nlulltr said that as hn understood the moiler tire rirtoos alle o d to have l b > cu 116141 i treated are not lluisluu citizen but citizens file United Btater 1hough eDlbero or f the Russian church No1 eflk who returned velol IDonlh ago Intel Alashau waterti And who ore now In this city say felt It li pofrlblo that some uf fee iquaw men in Alaska were responsible fur the ole turbaned but they were Inclined < to doubt that the agents of file Commercial Com-mercial company bad atticked < flat tons ot Rosined birth It Is i said that many of the employee of the company were Iluislana wbo had lakeu out naturalization papers fault < have beojuig l United < Btates dill gets and they Stu list as loyal to Hit dig of government as any rltlzsn residing Within the thirteen orlglnul slates Troy tUKKCSted that It would be very strange tbat any or 1 the companies com-panies agents should attack men with whom fully were constantly nisicl ntol and the only theory they could evolve was that file trouble was due < to Ibe acts of tile squaw men If the ull turbaned occulted on CuOlmalloor Islands < the U U I would ba In no wise concerned an those Islands belong l to the ezna Jurisdiction The stale and treasury Uupartmeuts are still without In urination regard to the reported trouble