194 J<'UR-SEAL FISHERIES OF ALASKA. 



OQ account of the enforcing of the legal laws on the island and their 

 habits. 



Q. They objected to any interference on your part with their personal 

 habits? — A. Yes, sir. 



Q. And it was in connection with these things that you had a dis- 

 agreement with them? — A. Yes, sir. 



By Mr. Felton : 



Q. You spoke about a shoulder striker who was sent up there; who 

 sent him? — A. He was£ man implicated in stabbing horses 



Q. How do you know ? — A. By his own confession. 



Q. What did they send him up there for — to intimidate you "? — A. ^' o ; 

 I suppose not. 



Q. They just hired him to go there ? — A. He was just a workman and 

 'an employe of the company. 



Q. When he got there he wanted to use the manly art and threatened 

 to do so i — A. He came pretty near doing it. 



Q. Did you have any arms ? — A. I did not in the Government house 

 until I went and got a gun to protect myself. This thing was going 

 pretty tar and I did not expect to get back alive. I told you that. That 

 is honest, 1 did not. That was a nice wedding trip for me. 



By Mr. Macdonald : 



Q. You stated before I came in, I understand now, but if not I would 

 like to have you briefly state when you first arrived there what you at- 

 tempted to do in the performance of your duties that was iuterfeied 

 with and prevented by the employes of the company? — A. Well, I 

 should say 



Q. Xow please confine yourself to my question as closely as possi- 

 ble. — A. For instance, in the local government 



Q. Just state what you attempted to do that the employes prevented 

 you from doing or interfered with you in any wdy. — A. The govern- 

 ment of the natives; in the discharge of my duties 



Q. What did you wish to do in reference to the government of the 

 natives? — A. I wanted each man to carry up his own coal from the 

 coal house and not to put it on the shoulders of some young boy. Alexa 

 Oastigoli' was drunk on the island ; he was the husband of the notoii- 

 ous woman, Mary Oustigolf. I told the boy that came with the sack to 

 get his coal that he could uot have it unless Alexa Oustigolf came him- 

 self. He did not come the next time after the coal, so 1 refused to give 

 it to this boy, in order to keep Oustigoff from making a slave out of this 

 boy. 



By Mr. Felton : 



Q. Was this his own boy? — A. No, sir. Mr. Webster then, rather 

 than permit Mary Oiistigotf to be subject to the authoi ity of the Govern- 

 ment officer, took and hitched up the bull and sent this very boy, who 

 I told not to carry up the coal, and made him go there — made him i^o 

 down and bring the bull, and made this boy take this coal and carry it 

 over to Oustigoff's house. 



Q. it was carried up by the bull?— A. Until he got to the Govern 

 ment house gate, so as to make it plain he would uot be interfered 

 with by a Government officer. 



Q. I understand you to say that when the bull arrived there with the 

 coal Mr. Webster made this boy carry it into Oustigoff's house ? — A. 

 Yes, sir. 



Q. And you understood that was done for the purpose of showing 



