The Seattle Star’s Local Beat: A Robber’s $20, a Funeral, and the Yellow Peril Panic

SEATTLE INKLINGS.

Charles Nicolai was arrested, convicted, and given thirty days in jail this morning for stealing an overcoat out of a downtown hat store.

Leaves of absence were issued yesterday for Wm. Kramer, President of the Seattle Brewing & Malting Co., and James Gill McCann.

The funeral for E. A. Philips was held from Donnelly & Healy’s chapel this morning at 11 a.m. in the Catholic faith.

The funeral of William H. B. [illegible] was held from Donnelly & Healy’s today at 2 p.m. He was a clerk in the Post Office.

The funeral of John Callahan was held today at 10 a.m. in St. Mary’s Church.

Captain Van Vleck entered police headquarters this morning and claimed he had been cut off from his room 19 of the Lyceum Hotel, and that $20 were lost in the fire. He is now investigating the case.

Charles T. [illegible], Senator Arthur N. Maynard, and H. C. O’Neill have been allowed sixty days leave by Order of President McKinley for one month.

The carloads of machinery for the Port Orchard naval station arrived from the East yesterday. It will be used for building barges. The government will take Port Orchard as the base day’s transport.

The Port Orchard committee will meet in the Circuit Court of King County, at Pan 1 [illegible], to receive applications for the trial.

Judge Hartnett set bail Thursday inasmuch as the assault appeared against the appellant, the appellate court might pass upon all the records at the same time.

Mrs. [illegible], well known in this city, died at Puget Sound Hospital last evening at 6:30 p.m. under treatment of the hospital.

A NEW CANNERY. Steam Schooner Jeanie Will Take the Machinery.

The steam schooner Jeanie, of the Pacific Steam Whaling Company, arrived in Port Orchard from San Francisco. She is on her way to Bristol Bay, in the Bering Sea, and is loaded with a cargo of machinery for a large fish cannery which the company contemplates building at that place. She also has sent 50 men, most of whom are experienced and skilled, who are going to Bristol Bay to build the cannery. The Jeanie will go to the Pacific Steam Whaling Company’s mill at Port Orchard and take on a cargo of lumber to be used in the construction of the cannery.

The Jeanie is a steel vessel of 107 tons and 135 feet long. She was formerly the four-masted bark Jeanie of the Pacific Steam Whaling Company, and operated in the Bering Sea and Arctic Ocean as a trader and supply boat for whalers. She has lately been transformed into a steam vessel having three masts and two boilers.

After landing the men and supplies at Bristol Bay, she will return to Puget Sound by way of Seattle. During the summer she may be sent on a cruise in the Bering Sea and Arctic Ocean with whale oil for the whalers. The Jeanie is commanded by Captain Mason, Mr. Altemar, who was formerly fourth officer of the steamer Tarana, is chief officer of the Jeanie.

WERE LEFT TO STARVE After Being Robbed by Indians. STORY OF A REMARKABLE HUMAN PERPETRATED BY NATIVES NEAR YAKUTAT BAY.

Frank A. Hollerman, one of the passengers who came down on the steamer Lord Derby from Valdez, tells of an outrage perpetrated upon him and his party by Indians in the Alaska Territory.

Hollerman, James Marru, and Andrew Jenkins had spent four months upon the Alsek and had finally been driven by hunger to abandon prospecting there, and down to Cry Bar at the mouth of the stream. Their provisions were exhausted, with the exception of a scanty six days’ supply, and an arrangement was finally made with Indians living near by to guide the party to Yakutat, about fifty miles down the coast. The natives however compelled the white men to leave all of their packs behind, which was promptly appropriated. The hunters then took the party some distance down the coast and told Hollerman that his men should camp, while the Indians went forward to scout. That was soon made clear to them.

Hollerman states that the natives feared that he and his party should perish. They survived, however, several weeks later, to reach a point not far from Yakutat, where they were eventually found in a comatose condition by Rev. Mr. [illegible], a missionary at Yakutat, who picked up Hollerman and his son were lying unconscious in the snow, and Morris and Jenkins were dying.

When the party reached Yakutat the money taken was in benefit of the Indians who had been guilty of the outrage and organized a lynching party, but the outlaws had disappeared, and the pursuit failed.