Yukon Valley News
VOL. III.
KAMPAKT, ALASKA, WKDNKSIUY, NOVEMBER 28. 1000
No. 14
COLO WEATHER
HERE AT LAST
Mild Season Followed by a Turn
That Sends the Mercury to
50 Below Today.
After an* exceptionally mild season ;i
oold snap is upon ns, with the thermom
eter at 50 below this morning.
Headers are indebted to l ied K.
Kader, of the agricultural experiment
station for the following statist^..
Temperature for October, 1905.
Hate Max. Min
Oct. 1 10 25
Oct. 2 27 30
Oct. 3 37 30
Oct. 4 35 28
Oct. 5 40 30
Oct. 0 41 28
Oct. 7 37 28
Oat. 8 33 21
Oct. 9 42 21
Oct. 10 54 21
Oct. 11 45 27
Oct. 12 42 21
Oct. 13 30 32
Oct. 14 35 25
Oct. 15 36 24
Oct. 10 38 22
Date Max. Min.
Oct. 17 28 20
Oct. 18 25 8
Oct. 19 25 9
Oct. 20 20 — 2
Oct. 21 30 13
Oct. 22 33 17
Oct. 23 35 13
Oct. 24 33 <
Oct. 25 24 3
Oct. 20 23 8
Oct. 27 21 13
Oct. 28 22 13
Oct. 29 25 17
Oct. 30 23 20
Oct. 31 28 20
Compared With October, 1905.
1905
ltKMi
Average maximum temp.
Average minimum temp.
Mean temperature,
Highest temperature,
Lowest temperature,
Total precipitation, inches,
Total snow fall, inches,
Number clear days,
Partly cloudy days,
('lnudv davs.
11.8
19.7
49
— 8
1.2
9
5
6
17
19
tit;
54
.til
Temperature, November, 1906.
Date
Nov.
Nov. 2
Nov. ::
Nov. 4
NoV. t»
Nov. 7
Nov. 8
Nov. 9
Nov. 10
Nov. 11
Nov. 1-'
Nov. Ill
Nov. 14
Nov. 15
Min.
1 26
26
Max.
Hi
14
16
o
Date Min. Max.
lit
10
1
11 —15
4 —15
1 —10
10 — 5
14 5
18 14
15 O
Nov. Hi
Nov. 17
Nov. 18
Nov. 19
Nov. 20
Nov. 21
Nov. 22
Nov. 211
Nov
Nov
Nov
0 - 5
2 —12
2 —11
8 — 6
:i —28
8 — it
23 17 — 9
24 — 8 —42
25 — 4 —43
26 — — :so
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Great Showing
Made by Fairbanks
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HORRIBLE GRIME
LAID TO HARPER
Last Friday Deputy Marshal John F.
Drake went up the Yukon with a war
rant charging Charley Harper with rape
on the wife of Yaska, an Indian.
The crime is alleged to have been
committed on the night of Nov. ld. As
special mail carrier Harper departed on
Ids duties next morning, and the deputy
marshal's intention is to meet and arrest
him on his return trip.
The story of the affair, as it has come
to the officials, is as follows:
Nov. 13 Yaska went hunting and his
wife came from the village across the
river and remained with Lucy Baggage,
another native woman, sewing all day.
At night Lucy was to accomyanv Mrs.
Yaska home, and they started; hut
Lucy stopped in a cabin, and Mrs.
Ya-ka, getting tired of waiting outside,
started on alone.
Next day Lucy went to the Yaska
cabin at tlie village and found Mrs.
Yaska rolled in the bedclothes, in great
agony. Her body had been frozen from
the waist down in a horrible manner.
Mrs. Yaska said that shortly after she
reached the river bar on her way home
the night before she was overtaken by
young Harper, who wanted to accom
pany her. She refused permission.
Then Harper seized her and a struggle
ensued in which her clothing was torn
off and the lower part of her laxly left
naked. In the scuttle a bottle of whisky
was broken, but her assailant had an
THE OLD PIONEERS
To Have Grand Annual Festival on
New Year’s Eve.
At a un i ting of 11Yukon Order of
l‘ioi:» « r- Lift Sutunlay tv*nil>vr tin* tii>t
»U*|«* wt*rr tak»n tottunl m*v tiring tin*
f*n» » *•-> of tin* okIit'm annual r«-union,
Hall, f**a*t un*l * nti-rtattin.* nt of tli«*
I'uMir «*»» NVw Y»■ar’f Tin* n*m
mittti* wf urrang'in*nt* i** * oin|»o*« tl of
A II. Mayo, rhairtiiaii; John W.
(hut*an, To»»» La port** an*l M. W.
Sint* lair.
Thr l’ioi»« * r l»all i*» al\tn\« 1*-■ k««I f«»r
a.ml ti» *• tl»** i-rooming » \**m <»f ih.
lit»li«la> ■HtiW'H, ami tin* o>iiniiitte«' will
m-«* l«» il that I Imp fovtln oiniiiif drva»in$i
*• lit no |*arti« ular In* hrilliant than
th*—* of |oriii**r tiiiirK,
MEN FROM DAWSON
A Few Who have Outfitted and
Gone to Chandlar.
Antony thorn* who have outfitted and
left here within tin* last few •lay?* for
Chundlnr, say* flu* Dawson News of i Vt.
17, an* ar«- Parks, Miller brothers this
Murphy. Hansen, Mel.ou^hlin ami Si
cotte. IImi*en and McLaughlin are
0tc*tliiihoat men. Sicotte fias l*en in
the Porcupine district, mil far from tin*
thandlar, in jmst seasons.
t Hr ley Monro sent down an outfit on
• »ne of the la«t steamers to leave Haw son
for the lower river, t'urlev landed hi*
outfit at Port Yukon. He will go there
in the wtntet and #ef it, and inindt over
the ice and snow to flu* new diiftfiiitfs.
>« i d tin* Valiev News to votir friend*
other bottle and forced her to drink
from it. After that her memory was
not clear, but she crawled borne, more
than a <)uarter of a mile. At home she
could not find the matches and went to
bed in the cold cabin.
The temperature was 14 below zero,
and there is no telling how long, in her
nakedness, the woman was exposed to
the open air. She may die.
It is said some of her clothing was
found in the snow near the place indi
cated.
That is the development in the case
on which the authorities have acted.
It is by no means impossible that when
all the facts are known the affair may
appear in an altogether different light.
The Yaska woman is known to have
been drunk and indulged in crazy antics
on different occasions. Something more
than a year ago she was suspected of
murdering her infant. An autopsy re
vealed clotted blood on thechild’s brain,
hut it was hard to get evidence and she
was let go. Natives believe she killed it.
Harper is an educated young man of
mixed blood. As young men's charac
ters go in this country, his has not been
bad.
Kor one reason or another the affair
was kept as <|uiet as possible for a time.
Now that it is fullv before the authori
ties and the public,Jot no one keep back
anything that will help bring out the
whole truth.
THANKSGIVING
ENTERTAINMENT
Mirth and Festivity to Prevail at
A. B. Hall Tomorrow
Night.
Local talent will give a vaudeville
entertainment at A. 15. hall tomorrow
(Thanksgiving) night.
There are some very clever amateur
specialists in town this winter, and it is
conceded that the audience will he
treated to the highest-class exhibition of
the kind yet seen in Rampart. Among
the principal attractions will he:
Billy Withrow, the great hlack-faee
comedian and monologue artist, in origi
nal songs and recitations.
Jack McKwan, in his own peculiar
parodies, songs, etc., including “Xo
liody,” “I (lot Mine,” “What You Gwine
to Do When the Rent Comes On?” etc.
“Prof. Brown” in buck and wing
dancing ami high kicking.
Thomas Scully and Mike Kngels (Sour
dough Mike), dub-swinging artists.
Herman Rossberg, baritone, in the
latest songs of the day.
To conclude with a laughable sketch
hv McKwan and Withrow, assisted by
the company.
Reserved seats, $1.50; general admis
sion, 11.
Dance and Supper.
After the close of t lie show, at ‘,1:80,
there will he dancing under the auspices
of the Arctic brotherhood. A splendid
supper will he spread for 12o’clock,after
which there will he more dancing.
The A. B.’s assure their friends that
the dance and Clipper will !>e fully up to
the high standard established for such
functions hv the order.
Mike Laboski Coming
From the Chandlar
News eame down by the carrier;* who
arriveil with tiie mail last M* mi lay that
Mike l.ahoski i** on his way t<> Kampait
from Chatullar. Ilia arrival is ex|H-etv*|
any time now .
Mr. Lalioski went up on one of the
last I •oat* in company with Al Allen of
Tatiana. Mr. Allen is not returning
with him.
1'articular* are not given, hut it in
aui<l Mr. Lahonki pronounce* the new
ili«trict all right.
The t huiullar is not fur from ltam|mrt
House, on the t'ainnliau line. It had
Urn U lirvwl hy a nutuler of late that
liain|iort House protsihlv will la* the
miter of a new strike on the Canadian
sete U fore long. The upper Porcupine,
which is t,n the fanadtun siile, long has
ls*«*n l*s >k*‘*I on hy some as a promising
tiehl for tlie gold seeker ltis«>n \rtts