Yukon Valley News
VOL. II.
RAMPART, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY lOOfi.
No. ID
MINERS ASSOCIATION
Meeting Last Thursday Evening at
What Cheer Bar.
Resolutions Opposing Proposed $26
License Tax-Other Important
Matters That Received
Consideration.
Among tlie matters considered at the ,
meeting of the Miners Association held
at What Cheer Bar last Thursday even
ing was that of settling disputes
over mining claims outside of the courts.
It is believed a satisfactory scheme of
arbitration will be devised and that
needless and costly litigation will at
least he greatly reduced.
Another thing that received the atten
tion of the meeting is the matter of the
annual assessment work. It is probable
that a more uniform ami just system of
representing claims will be devised, and
that all claims will have to lie properly
represented in future or go back into
the public domain.
The miners are practically a unit in
opposition to the proposed amendment
to the mining laws substituting a fjo
tax for the ifltX) worth of assessment
work required on each claim. They con
tend that the Seattle convention did not
s]>eak for the miners when it made the
recommendation : very few of the miners
ever heard of the projmsition until after
the convention acted itjMm it. The fol
lowing resolutions were drawn np and
adopted, and to ex|>edite matters a sim
ilar set has been sent into Rampart for
signature of the miners on the Rampart
slope. A telegram has also been sent to
the Fairbanks Miners Association asking
their co-operation in opposing the pro
posed change:
"To the Alaskan ( ouninttee «>f the Sen
ate of the I’nited State-*.
“t nut If men:
“Whereas*, Having leanieil that a con
vention of Alaskan delcgates'wliich met
at Seattle, Washington, Noveinlier 15,
1U05, pawed a resolution favoring a
twenty-tive-dollar annual license fee in
lieu of the one hiuulre<l dollar asse-s
■nent work required by present law;
“Therefore, We, the miners of this
section, protest that said resolution is
directly against the last interests of the
miners and pro*q>rvtors of Alaska, inas
much as it Would arrest development,
curtail production and tie up claims in
the interest of s|seutalors.'*
An executive committee was appoint- 1
ed, as follows W. t\ Ho well,. llonuM
Me Lean, M S loll and I*. W Wr-ut
Korty-tive new memlsr* la*v« joined
tire awe* lotion atuir tlx- No\, mler
meeting, and it is predicted that he the
first of next July all the miner* in the
district will tai enrolled.
Ps-rgraM Kyttlr Iras Io n a melon for
the |*wt several ■!»)* of a severe rase ot
t,s-t ha*' hr
The Situation in Russia.
MOSCOW, Jan. *2.—After several (lavs’ fighting the
rebels have been repulsed. Many places are suffering
great loss, their dead remaining unburied.
At St. Petersburg' notices have been served on the
(‘ossacks that they will be treated as mad dogs unless
they join the revolt.
Many of the rebels’ cannon have been seized.
Germany and France.
PARIS, Jan. 2.—The relations of Germany and
Prance are strained over the Morocco affair.
Both nations are busy getting their navies in light
ing shape.
Ex-Governor of Idaho Killed.
BOISE, IDAHO, Jan. 2.—Ex-Governor Steunberg
was murdered at his home in Caldwell with dynamite.
The erime is believed to have been committed out of
revenge over the Coer d’Alene laber riots.
To Hunt for the Pole in an Airship.
CHICAGO, Jan. 1.—Walter Wellman, a noted
newspaper correspondent, hacked by the Record-Herald,
will hunt for the north pole in an airship.
Change in Alaskan Troops.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.—The Tenth infantry will
be sent to Alaska to relieve the Third. [ It is thcugnt
the change will be made next August.
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RETURNED TO JAIL
Missing Prisoner Inveigled Into a
Trap By John Palm.
Joe Miquel’s Six Days of Airing
Caused a Lot of Trouble and
Cost Deputy Drake Over
a Hundred Dollars.
Joe Miquel was returneil to the Ram
part Jail last Friday evening, after six
days of airing and exercise along the
frozen shores of the Yukon.
Immediately after Miquel’s escape
Deputy Marshal Drake sent telegrams
to have the lower river watched and also
sent men up the river and to Glen to
keep a look out; but it fell to the lot of
Mail Carrier John Palm to he the in
strument of the man's recapture. The
runaway stopped at the Fish Creek mail
cabin while Mr. Palm was there on his
down trip Chris'mas Eve night. Mr.
Palm pretended not to know him and
engaged him to help with the mail and
to do some suppositious trail work at a
point somewhere lower down. On leav
ing Fish Creek Miquel got “turned
around" and thought the mail carrier
was steering him back up the river. He
was very suspicious, but stuck to his
job. At Scbieffelin Creek be was placed
under guard and held till called for by
Bob Sclmber.
At Tanana Mr. Palm telegraphed to
Deputy Drake the fugitive’s where
abouts.
Miquel had evidently been planning
bis escape for some time. By assuming
an air of perfect contentment and do
cility, be caused the guards to relax
their vigilance. It is not improbable
that he is a hardened criminal.
Besides the annoyance and inconve
nience, the cost of searching for and
recapturing Miquel amounts to over
$100. Deputy Marshal Drake has to
foot the bill himself, there being no ap
propriation for such contingencies.
Change of Guards.
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as ^Mianls at tin* fi«ltral jail,
mid tin ir jilairn filhil l»v florae? Itoueher
ami .Iwftfi r. II. Knn|i|i.
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Telegraph Line Completed.
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