Show MURDERED BY INDIANS Senator Voorliccs Say SlaiiicN Goose is Cooked VicroniA B C June Information has been received here that the sloop SeaBird Sea-Bird which left Port Townsend for Alaska May 18 188G never reached its port but the crew were murdered by Indians at Knights Inlet The crew consisted of Captain Wells Henry Moore pilot Henry Bolt and a German name unknown Moore had a family fam-ily in Victoria Bolt left a family in Seattle Seat-tle Tom an Indian whose brother was hanged at Nanxam last year is supposed to have committed the deed in revenge Senator Voorhees of Indiana arrived here Saturday He goes to Alaska on the Olympia Olym-pia tonight In an interview he said that it was a mistaken idea that the American Government would close Behring Sea to foreign vessels In fact he did not see how to legally accomplish it While trouble was engendered by the Alaska Commercial Company Com-pany and President Cleveland was aware of this fact a commission would be appointed to inquire into the fisheries question Voor hees thought the question would form an issue in the next Presidential campaign and that Blames action in the Eastern fisheries dispute might cost him the nomination Without doubt Blaine would be a Presidential Presiden-tial candidate at the next election and he thought he might be nominated He thought Cleveland if nominated would have the election The only thing to lose the election for Cleveland was the formation of a third party Voorhees was alarmed at the strength of Henry George in New York and also Dr McGlyun who controlled the Catholic Cath-olic vote but there was a probability at the last moment of throwing all this strength with the Democratjc party |