ALASKA INDUSTRIES. 79 



Uualaska, to take the i>lace of the oue who now retiirus to San Fran- 

 cisco. 



By this vessel I am in receipt of the report of William J. Mclutyre, 

 assistant Treasury agent, who has had charge of St. George Islaud 

 during the absence of Assistant Agent Samuel Falconer, a duplicate 

 copy of which is herewith inclosed. It will be seen by this report that 

 he has, without authority, incurred a bill for labor and material for paint- 

 ing and refitting the Treasury agent's house and the fence around it of 

 over $107. The vouchers for this bill, together with the pay roll, have 

 been forwarded for my approval. 1 have examined these and find the 

 prices reasonable and just, and have approved them, and they will be 

 presented to the collector of customs at San Francisco, and I have to 

 request that their payment be authorized. 



As this bill is nearly double my estimates for this purpose, as asked 

 for in my report dated August 7, 1874, 1 can but think more has been 

 done and greater expeuse incurred than the exigency of the circum- 

 stances demanded. It will be seen, also, that he asks lor authority to 

 put down a new floor and purchase a new stove and carpet and double 

 bed. As both houses were built at the same time and furnished alike, 

 with the exception of the bed (the officer then in charge preferring a 

 spring bed to a mattress), and these articles here in this house scarcely 

 half worn, I must consider that the necessity is not so great for their 

 renewal as to justify my giving authority to purchase new ones without 

 waiting the pleasure of the Department, though it requires a year to 

 do so. 



I shall visit St. George as soon as the newly appointed assistant 

 arrives. To do so now, and leave this place for a month without an 

 officer, would be detrimental to the Government interests. 



From the general tenor of the report it would appear that the affairs 

 of the island had been very ably administered, but I regret to have to 

 state that I have information from other sources going to show that 

 Assistant Agent Mclntyre has been guilty of unwarranted harshness 

 in his treatment of the natives. 



Gregore Kolichieff", the second chief of St. George Island, is here in 

 charge of the working party of 11 men. 



Last evening said Kolichiefit", accompanied by Keprian Makoolielf, 

 I»licholi Ostigofit', Zecar Oustigott', and Berese Gallanim, came before me 

 and made the following charges : It would appear that Keprian Makoo- 

 iieff has a son named Esau, a boy about 8 years old, and that instead 

 of sending him to the English school kept by Mr. Mclutyre himself for 

 the Ahiska Commercial Company, his father sent him to study with 

 aforementioned Kolichiefl' to learn Eussian, In November, when the 

 boy's father was away from home, Mr. Mclntyre went to said Kolichieff's 

 house and forbade his teaching the boy Eussian, and ordered him to send 

 the boy to the school kept by himself. Kolichiefl" said he had no right 

 to send the boy, as lie was not the boy's father, whereupon Mr. Mcln- 

 tyre took the boy to the schoolhouse and locked liim in to keep him in 

 all night, as a punishment for not coming to school. The boy, not being 

 used to such treatment, escaped through the window in the night and 

 fled to Zapadnie, a place on the opposite side of the island, distant 5 

 miles, where the father was gathering driftwood. In the morning Mr. 

 Mclntyre sent Zahar Oustigoff to-order the father to bring the boy 

 home; and immediately on their arrival he (Mr. Mclntyre) attempted 

 to seize the boy, but the father would not let him. Mr. Mclntyre 

 returned to his own house, got a pistol and pair of handcuffs, and again 

 returned to the native's house for the purpose of punishing both father 



