The Daily Morning Alaskan

THOSE INDIANS.
In one of the letters to the editor, referred to yesterday, occurs the phrase: "It seems very evident to the writer that anyone who makes any claim to breadth of view and tolerance could not attack the comprehensive and liberal views taken by the Daily Alaskan in regard to the Horton murderers." The same day this compliment was received was printed an account of the Indian gathering at Haines at which the murders were to be discussed from an Indian standpoint. It came not as mere gossip but as authoritative and reliable news, so much so that a duty to the public necessitated its publication.
None the less, however, is it a pleasure to publish the letter in another column from W. W. Warne, Presbyterian missionary at Haines, which to some extent discredits this report. He emphatically states that the gathering referred to was for another purpose; that no reference was made by the Indians present to the Horton murderers, and that the Indians of Haines and Chilkat harbor have no desire for revenge for whatever may be the judgment of the court upon the prisoners now held here. Mr. Warne is deserving of warm thanks for the good news contained in his letter, and the statement he makes is borne out by the information Marshal Tanner has of the feeling of the Indians in the Haines district.