JtEAN S. LE ROUGE, FORMER
TAKOTNAN, TELLS OF LONG
! STRIFE BETWEEN NATIVES
An Indian war in the 'Interior yeara
sago, which -resulted in the dea’h oi
thousands of nUiws, is deslribetl in
tthe Sewad Gateway by Jean S. Le
IRouge, Alaskan bo-n and a trader on
^Nelson Island, who is now Outside on j
ia varation. Mr. Le Rouge said:
“Our Northern country to the
: stranger seems to be a peacefhl;
icohntry, still .there have been waged i
ewars by thh natives. To the reader;
iit probably seem simpossible, thohgh i
I got the facts that'I am going to re
llate from some old natives of the
morthern country.
“During my stay at Fort Yukon I
ihad;a talk with one of the oldest na
tives, Charlie Crow, who at , that time
",was about 90 years of age, and he
narrated a tale which he had heard
from his grandfather. Old Charlie
lbelongs to the .Fort Yukon natives
now. His folks originally had lived
.on the!Canadian.side in the Feel river
• country. Probably scarcity of game I
cor .fur caused them to -leave their j
hunting grounds, so they invaded the j
"3fukon river valley and settled down
;at Fort Yukon, on the Porcupine, Old
eCrow, Salmon and Black rivers.
“This country up to now is one of
tthe riehest fur centers. To the north
west of Fort Yukon were located the
eChandlar natives, Kobuks, and on the
inorth slope of the Arctic range we I
ifind the Huskies. To .the ..east and
; southeast, the Athabascans prevailed.
'The Tanana valley basin and the Yu
ikon basins .were densely populated at
ithat time by natives. [
“As the story goes, the Huskies
went over the. range and invaded the
tChandalar and Kobuk regions; they
ihroke into, the native carpps while all
ithe.younger men were away hunting
;and abused and tortured every
woman and girl in. the tribe and final
ly killed them, thus trying to exter
minate the whole tribe. The Chand
ilars and Kobuks on returning and
ifinding all their women killed swore
vvengeance and caught the Huskies by
^surprise and . tortured and killed all
itheir women and girls and drove the
i.men back to the Arctic coast.
“The Northern Eskimos, or . Hus
ikies, ape .found now in yearly disap
pearing numbers and only on the
.Arctic coast. Still the Chandlar na
tives have their language fused with
tthe Huskies. With all their women
skilled, these natives on the southern
: slope of the Arctic range invaded the
Yukon river valley, the Tanana and
jNenana valleys with the intention to
jget wives for themselves. This caused
^another war which, as old Charlie
ttold.mer spread out all over the coun
vtry and killed oe the natives by the
tthousands.
“The war is said to have lasted for
several years and depopulated the
country as the smallpox did among
the Eskimos on west coast. Very lit
tle ' is known by the white people of
this war, and what I am tellling
about are facts .as I got them from
Charlie Crow.
“There will not;he any more wars
in the future, as the.natives are get
ting less in number every year. Since
the white man ; vaded their fur and
game retr ’■ getting harder for
the nativ > :v ske a.living .and in
order to ; ibis they .want .to.be
left in p .0 "
DEATH OF STOOL PIGEON
NATURAL, IS JURY VERDICT
The suspicion that the recent sud
den death of David I. Chess, alias
Tiny Walker, prohibition informer,
might have been _due to foul, play was
resolved by the r eturning by a coro
ner’s Jury of a verdict stating death
was due to natural-causes.
Chess, a young man, died suddenly
after informing federal officers of the
intended shipment of a load of liquor
to Ketchikan, where he made his
headquarters. -Eoul play was sus
pected for a time, as Chess’ life is
said to have been threatened on a
numoer oi occasions.
Despite the .verdict, it was .decided
to send the stomach to Seattle for
chemical .analysis, as there is .a re
mote posibility (Chess might have
been poisoned. Probably the most
important testimony at the inquest
was given Ijy Dr. J. .B. Beeson, who
said:
“My opinion is not based alone on
the fiudings of the.autopsy, but from
the knowledge of his previous trouble
and from a knowledge of the excite
ment and circumstances surrounding
his last attack. His stomach was
overloaded; he was overly fat, and
the excitement and tension he was
under at the time were such as to
bring about such an attack. He had
been .running-on.a loaded stomach.
“By the findings of the .autopsy he
died from an acute attack of heart
trouble; dilation of the heart from
over exertion and excitement at that
particular time. The heart was much
larger than normal. The aorta was
badly diseased and the right heart
diseased.
“There was no odor of poison in
the stomach, but it would he impos
sible to tell about poisoning without
chemical examination of the contents
of the stomach. The fact .that he was
acting normal Just before it happened
and the death agony lasted only
about a minute, with no convulsions,
are good evidence that there was no
poison. Any _poison that would act
slowly would have ended in convul
sions, and quick-acting poisons would
not have .allowed him to wander and
fall , and get up as he did.”
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NEW GERMAN SHIP LOWERS
TIME FOR ATLANTIC TRIP
NEW YORK.—The giant liner
Bremen, symbolizing Germany’s bid
to regain her maritime prestige, came
into port on her maiden voyage yes
terday, beating the .Cunard liner
Mauretania’s record of 5 days 2 hours
and 24 minutes from Cherbourg .to
Ambrose Light in lower New York
bay by 8 hours and $2 minutes.
The new North German Lloyd liner
is of almost.50,000 tons. But Jew ves
sels have attracted such attention on
arrival here.
A mail plane catapulted from the
deck off Fire Island landed mail in
.New York five hours before the Bre
men docked. The boat was received
on arrival with a deafening welcome
from land, sea and sky.
.For .an Alaskan ta die in Seattle or
some other locality on the big Out
. side without having made a will is a
rather costly proceeding, that is if
one wishes to call it a “proceeding.”
Vivian Howard, former Takotnan,
who suffered death by jumping from
a fourth-floor window of the.Swedish
Hospital, Seattle, to the sidewalk be
low, left an estate of f5,575.75, most
or prohably all of this being a bal
ance in a Seattle bank. Recent wind
ing up of the estate disclosed only
one living kin heir, Jacob Peterson, a
brother, of Kuroki, Saskatchewan.
Having died intestate, the legal ma
chinery for carrying out the will of
the law was set in motion. The ad
ministering of the estate, figures in
dicate, cost $2,324.34, the residue the
brother received being $3,251.41, and
out of tl.is latter figure the inherit
ance tax atill remained to be paid. All
of which goes to show it is poor
business .to .die without, will, for most
of the amount spent in carrying out
the provisions of he law could have
Been saved to one’s preferred bene
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To Peter Davey, his heirs and. as
and assigns:
You, and each of you, are hereby
notified that I, the undersigned, yoar
co-owner, have expended in labor and
improvements the sum of not less
than one hundred dollars for the
years 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1926,
1926, 1927, 1928 and 1929 upon placer
mining claim No. 3 Above Discovery
on Esperanto creek, a tributary of
Madison creek, in the Jnnoko Mining
and Recording Precinct, Fourth. divi
sion, Territory of Alaska, in order.to
hold said claim under the provisions
of Section 2324 of the Revised Stat
utes .of the United -Staes and the
amendments thereto concerning an
nual labor upon mining claims, being
the amount, required to hold said min
ing claim for the period June 30,
1930.
And if, within, ninety days after the
publication of this notice,, you fail or
refuse to contribute , your proportion
of said expenditure, as well as the
cost of recording the same, and the
costs of this advertisement, your in
terest in said claim will become the
.property of the undersigned, your co
owner, who has made the required
expenditures under the terms*of said
Section 2324 of the Revised Statutes
of the United States.
JOHN KRIEGER,
Co-Owner.
First pub. July 27; last Oct. 12.
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such ax ffTs. administrators, etc.,
wha protnHy -know not the decedent
and whose interests lie only in what
they oucy cret from some estate.
J- H. Peterson,'roming from Ganes,
was .a Wednesday arrival for a brief
town visit.
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