Yukon Valley News
VOL. III.
RAMPART, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12. 1907
No. 42
BALL PLAYERS
After Honors at Home or
Abroad.
Following a practice game Saturday
evening, the Radigans and the Schabers
played the hottest game of ball of the
season at Athletic park Sunday after
noon. The Schabers won by a score of
19 to 14.
The lineup was as follows:
SCHABERS
Anderson
Sundborg
Smith.
Harper. A
Atkinson
Collins.
Nlhoon .
Schtber .
Mayo, B
lb
2b
3b
If
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RADIGANS
Radigan
Welch
. Squires
Droulett
Wiehl
Mayo, L
Donaldson
Jack Radigan is manager of the club
and Half Donaldson captain. Louis
Sevier and Ilob Schaber have been made
team captains. Sevier has mustered
under his banner Henry Squires, K.
Donaldson, A. O. Anderson, Radigan,
Ben Mayo, Sipary, Hash, and (’barley
Mayo. With this aggregation be chal
lenges any bunch that Schaber can get
together, or any creeks team or mixed
team that can be .scared up in the dis
trict.
Talk lias been rife that an effort will
lie made for a chance to cross hats with
the Gibbon team, but there lias been no
correspondence to that end yet. There
has also been some discussion as to
the practicability of challenging the
Fairhankers to meet the Ramparters at
Hot Springs. There are so many im
provements under way at the springs
just now that there is some question as
to whether suitable grounds can be had
there. In speaking of Fairbanks and
Gibbon, it will undoubtedly create a stir
here to learn that the crew of the trans
port Jeff Davis last week defeated Fair
banks 14 to ll>. Sergeant Mustin, of the
Rampart signal station, says the signal
corps has some strong players, and if a
game is had with Gibbon it is not be
lieved the sergeant would place much
money on Rampart.
However, many of the boys declare
that Captain Donaldson can line up a
nine that will surprise the natives if
opportunity offers, and they will have
to lie show n before they weaken.
WORKINGMEN
FOR THE TANANA
.SattU*, Jun* t*.— When tin* IM|>liin
»ail«-«l Un*t (‘Veiling nlw ha*l on 1 • tt t
working mm alio haw bo n to
aork in tin* mint** of flu* Katrlxtnk*
iik11>inu 'lUtrift. TImm' ntii hnvr Urn
working on r.ulr- a*!'* ati'l in coal ruiuci,
him) it in #ai«l tiny *«rr irWrtat! l»y an
4giiit of tin1 miniti|| o|« rator* of tin*
TtMII
INDICTMENTS ALL DISMISSED
But G. H. Henry Held to Appear Before the
Next Grand Jury.
FAIRBANKS, June 10.—
All five of the indictments
against G. H. Henry were
dismissed today. He is un
der bond to appear before the
next grand jury. The indict
ments were dismissed on the
grounds that while they al
leged unlawful publication of
a libel, they failed to charge!
that such publication was
wilfully made, or was false
and scandalous, or was made
with intent to defame Com
missioner Bathurst, the per
son aggrieved.
The matter of the injunc
tion against the union miners
was again postponed to next
Monday.
BAR DIGGINGS
IN THE INNOKO
Future Depends on Finding Deeper
Ground—All Staked.
Nulato, June 5.—Social to the Fair
banks Times.—The Florence S. has just
completed her trip to the head of the
Innoko, a distance of 450 miles. Max
Siniel, the trailer, has established a post
100 miles from the diggings.
Nothing has been found so far other
than Inir diggings. Some good pans
have been taken out and the general
appearance of the country is good from
a prospector’s standpoint. The actual
diggings are well into the mountains
where rimrock shows and where it is
from 7 to 12 feet to bedrock.
Nuggets have lieen taken out weighing
as high as $160, but the average pan
nings do not show anything better than
a little better than wages. The whole
country is staked from hell to breakfast.
Crowds of p-opU- have rushed here from
surrounding camp* and from Nome. It
w ill never Is- a |iermancnt camp unless
diggings are found lower down where
the ground is deeper.
Still Stampeding.
Jim I .arson, lately come across from
the Tanaua, loaded a piling boat and
started for the Innoko Monday fore
noon.
Stamp-ding has U-eome a habit with
Jim; like eating and tweuthing.
Rev. Mr. Koonce Coming.
A private letter to the Yukon Valley
News dated 1‘ittshnri,, Pi., May 111, said
Rev. M K. Kisince would leave lor
Rampart n*.n.
MIGHT SETTLE
MINERS’STRIKE
Spirit of Compromise Gives Rise
to a Little Hope.
The Fairbanks News of June 3 con
tained the first hopeful words of a set
tlement of the Tanana miners’ strike.
“With the announcement made by
General Secretary Phelan that the work
ers were willing to confer with the op
erators at any time, comes the good
news that the beginning of the end of
the strike draws near,” said the News.
“Today the Goldstream ojierators
meet and confer with the workers. At
Vault there is to be a consultation of
workers and operators this afternoon or
evening. It is said that on other creeks
some of the laymen will talk it over
with the men, regardless of the opera
tors’ association.”
hater Fairbanks papers have not given
the progress, if any, of the negotiations
for settlement, and it may lie that the
effort has come to nought. It is en
couraging, however, to know that there
are men on each side w ho are thinking
of comgrnmise.
Fairbanks News: It's hard to say
which is the greatest scourge of the
camp just now, the iuos<|uito pest, the
Innoko fever or the deadly strike germ
Between the three, the creeks look like
a camp which has seen its In st days.
G s«l lin-k to that Ontario man who is
suing for hrcach of contract a dentist
who engaged to r*tract his tooth with
out pain.
LeBARGE open
Schwatka With Mail and
Passengers.
The steamer Schwatka arrived down
at 12:30 yesterday morning with 1,800
pounds of mail for Rampart, the first to
come through after the opening of Lake
LeBarge. Passengers said the White
horse was the first boat to get through
LeBarge, June 5, and was followed by
the Dawson next day.
The Schwatka had 100 passengers,
a number of whom were booked for
Tanana and the balance for Fairbanks.
Passengers through from the outside
said the first two boats down from
Whitehorse, the Whitehorse and the
Dawson, were crowded to the limit, and
that probably 500 or 800 were at White
horse and Skagway, anxious to get
through. It was said the breaking of
LeBarge was prematurely announced in
Seattle, thus causing travel to start
northward and congest beyond the lake.
The opinion was expressed that the
influx of people will be large.
It. K. Stoddard and Joe Walton, for
Tanana, and I.. A. Jones, formerly with
the Eagle Mining Company, for Fair
banks, were passengers on the Schwatka
well known in Rampart.
Dome Creek Case.
Fairbanks Weekly Times, June.8: The
entire day of the district court yesterday
was taken up by the arguments of At
torneys lleilig and Cousby in the case
of the intervention of Miller and De
Journal of the Dome creek cases. The
arguments of both gentlemen were quite
lengthy. At the conclusion of them
Judge Gunnison took the subject under
advisement and in doing so asked all
the attorneys to take the books from
which citations were made to his cham
bers in order that he might be able to
read the authorities cited.
WRECKED AT
RINK RAPIDS
Men alxjanl the .Sdiwatka, which ar
rived at Kaiu|>nrt from upriver at 12:30
a. in. yesterday, tell of the wrecking of
the steamer Bonanza King at the lower
end of Rink Rapids May 20.
The King, with n harge, was hound
from Tantalus for lhiwson, coal laden.
At the lower end of the rapids she
grounded on rocky Uittoni and was
hudly stove in.
The boat was one of the most jsiwer*
till of the White I'ass licet and was vat*
ued at M'.OUO, When the steamer I*aw *
son passed down last Thursday a wreck
ing crew was at work, with |>nrt of the
cargo lying on the l<uhk; hut it was not
learned what the chances were lor sav
ing the steamer.