Yukon Valiev News
VOL. HI.
RAMPART, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1906
No. 3
FOR OUTSIDE
Louise and Sarah Are
Off With Runaway
Alaskans.
The Sarah, with about 150 passengers,
arrived at 3 o’clock this morning and
departed at 5:15 for Dawson. The fol
lowing [K'rsons stopped at Rampart:
Eeitty Marshal and Mas. JOHN F.
DRAKE.
Commissioner J. I.IND1.KV GREEN.
\V. \V. CROC KETT.
WALTER SUNDBORG.
MIKE LAROSKI.
ED McCORMICK.
MOOSE MARY and LUCY BAG
GAGE, native women.
The following persons departed from
Rampart for the outside:
Mrs. J. B. WINGATE and two chil
dren.
Mrs. SWANSON.
Mrs. BERN'S.
JAMES LAWRENCE.
JAMES McHCGll.
FRANK STEVENS.
ROBT. H. WRIGHT.
M. S. GILL.
OTTO KREl'llLK.
The following well-known jieople were
also aboard, bound outside:
Major RICHARDSON, of the Alaska
Road Commission.
Mr. and Mrs. R. R. STODDARD, of
Tatiana.
J.. \. JONES and partner McQl AR
RY, Fairbanks mining men.
The Louise.
The Louiae, with two big barges, dis
ehargeil much freight Monday anil pro
ceeded to t'irele, where she will transfer
jatssengers and freight to the Mu May
ami return to St. Miehael (or another
ronml trip. She will lie the lant Imat to
Co to St. Miehael anil return thin season.
The following persons left on the I.oiiisc
Uni ml outside:
IT. AKKSt'K K. STILL.
>ll> I’KAKSON.
ItKN. t\ IIOUTtlllY.
Key. M. K. KOONVK.
V. V. St IIMIT/.
W. KIT*.
t llAltLKY JOHStHJX.
It in elaiIni'll that the lute .'enator
Mitchell’* true name Hippie, and that
he him a fir»t c"ii»in to trank llipple,
(kuln ritlly wrecked 11.. I'hiladelphia
Ileal Knlale Trust t'ompuny ami (Ken
eoll.lrOtteil .IIM l.le.
GRAND JURY
Wastes No Time on
Green—A Kick at
Dreibelbis.
We have investigated certain charges
made against Commissioner Green, of
of Rampart, and find them unwar
ranted and unworthy the notice of this
grand jury.—Grand Jury’s rejiort, Fair
banks, Sept. 8.
That is the Grief story of the outcome
of the flurry of agitation that thrilled
a certain coterie of residents when it
was announced a feto weeks ago that
charges had been preferred against the
commissioner, and that C. B. Allen, a
leader in the matter, would leave the
district if Judge Green remained in
office.
If Mr. Allen is in earnest in the re
solve he was said to have taken, “Good
bye, My Honey, Goodbye.”
From the Alaska Weekly Bulletin, Fuir
hanks. Sept. 8.
l’robably no man in the country has
more friends than Judge .1. Lindlev
Green, the commissioner at Rampart.
A lot of “ward heelers,” Messrs. Win
gate, Allen, Wells, Hudson and others,
who could not use him, preferred
charges of corruptness in office and a lot
of other charges, which the grand jury,
in its report this morning, said were
“wholly without foundation and unwor
thy of consideration.”
It is too bad there is no way of pun
ishing irresponsible jieople who make
charges through spite.
Dreibelbis Censured.
\V. H. Holme?, chairman of a com
mittee appointed hy the grand jury to
investigate the Fairbanks jail ami depu
ty marshal’s office, presented a minority
rc|M»rt censuring iVputy Marshal (ieorge
Hreibelbis. Tl»is minority rejM*rt said
there were many complaints from those
confined in the jail of severe treatment
at PreiNdbis's hands. Further on Mr.
Holmes said: “It has l**cn proven to
my satisfaction that requests have l*een
made by prisoner* f**r medical aid and
me«rtcines, and that the said requests
were often denied and ignored for days
at a time, if granted at all. It seems to
me that tivorge HreiUdhis ap|*ars to
diagnose the east* and act accordingly,
instead of calling a competent physieian
or at least one who has intelligence on
the subject. Ate! I respectfully invite
your honor's attention to this out* phase
of the matter and r*«piest, in the name
of humanity, that it la* corrected,M Tire
report was ottered tiled.
GOLD STRIKE
Made on Chandlar.
Nothing Definite
About It.
For some weeks a rumor has been ;
going around that a strike has been |
made on the Chandlar. Nothing defi
nite could be learned about it; hut
when the mail launch Relief arrived !
from up river last night it was ascer
tained that a good many people are!
going in from this side and that Cold
foot has wtami>eded across the Koyukuk-;
Chandlar divide.
Engineer F. Decker, of the launch, i
said apparently all that was known at
Fort Yukon was contained in a letter .
sent out by a Coldfoot man, which did !
not give many particulars.
There is a gold-bearing belt crossing
the Chandlar, the Hosiana, the Dali
ami extending on in a southwesterly
direction which has been looked on
with favor for some time.
At least seven men have Itecn in the !
Hosiana this summer. Men on the
launch say Ed Greenough and his part- j
ner have just come out from there with
a little coarse gold. They appear to
have come from the rightlmnd branch
of the extreme lefthanil fork, where
prospects have been found before. Of
course they had not heard of what was
going on on the Chandlar side of the
divide.
GOLD ROBBERY
CASE ENDING
Fairliankx, Sept. it.—With Miller sen
tenced to two years on McNeil's island,
and most of the gold bullion stolen from
the Tatiana again in jiossession of its
rightful owners, it is nearly a ease of
“III” with Alaska's celebrated dust
robbery.
That Ka)>hael will la- indicted is not
considered likely, lie having earned im
munity through putting the officer* of
the law in touch with the facts which at
last led to the recovery of the gold and
the conviction of the culprit.
Kr<-«1 Met’arron, also arrested in con
I ma lioii with the case, will ul*'> prolsibly
go free.—-Uaily Times.
Tlwislore Kisnevelt, Jr., accidentally
•hot himself through the hand while
hunting in the vicinity of tdenwisal
spring*, ltd., recently.
ROAD SURVEY
McPherson Party Off
For the Outside.
Other Work.
Frank Rogers, a member of McPher
son’s survey party, working westward
from The Rapids on tiie Fairbanks
Council route, came up on the Louise
and re]>orts the work on that section of
the route suspended for the season.
The preliminary work was finished to a
point beyond the old telegraph station
on the Koyukuk. It was found that
there was no hope of connecting with
the east-bound party. McPherson and
his men are bound outside by way of
St. Michael. Daniel Jones and purtv,
working this way, were forty-five miles
from Council Aug.
Surveyor John Bernard started for
Kureka Monday to meet Lieutenant
Pillsbury, of the Alaska Road Commis
sion, who is coming from Fairbanks.
They are expected in Rampart t<xlay.
The Big Minook wagon road is com
plete for three miles and a half, ami is
11 fine roadway for that distance.
WINTER MAIL
PREPARATIONS
The mail launch lielief, Engineer F.
Decker and Pilot \V. \V. Kolicrts, ar
rived yesterday evening with X. C. Co.
Mail Superintendent aboard. Mr. Ma
rion was ]iicke<l up at Charley Creek,
eighty miles below Eagle. He goes on
down river on the launch today, lie
will take the mail dogs from their sum
mer resort at McCormick’s and distrib
use at the various stations along the
river on arrival of the Hannah, now on
her way from St. Michael.
On the close of navigation mail will
!>»■ dispatched weekly from F.agle and
Tanana and a weekly schedule main
tained all the time except during the
|ieri<«l of unavoidable delay just after
the close".
Mr. Marion believes at least one more
mail will come in by open water this
season than last. The second consign
ment in October, it is thought, will l»>
als'Ut the laat to come the wdmie dis
tance by Isiat.
W. II. Callham is an addition to the
force at the Florence restaurant.