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No. 44.
Vol. I.
RAMPART, ALASKA, JUNE 7. 1905.
THE RIVER.
The Yukon, after a steady rise
for ten days in which it reached the
highest stage for three years, liegan
to recede Saturday night and is still
fal i:tg.
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The great aim u: t of driftwood
w lich ;a s:d do.vn during the 1 i ,h
water is said to have come from the
Porcupine. That stream discharged ,
such masses of debris that small
eratt passing Fort Yukon had diffi
culty in making way through it.
Great bulks of foam tnrown out by
the Porcupine floated past Rampart
while t ie water was> rising.
The Oil City, which had been ex- j
pec ted for seveial days, finally tied
up is front of the N C. store Sat
urday morning. She had been
hung up on a bar below Circle tor
48 hours and was having trouble
with her oil pumps—besides being
delayed in raising a sunken barge
Tbs Eouise passed down yester
day with a good many passengers
aboard and a lot of Tanana Mines
railway material, including locomo- ;
tive and cars. The locomotive did
not look very formidable. Kev.
Mr. Prevost and Kris Falkenberg
t iok passage on the auer for
Tanana.
E. R. Peoples arrived this morn
ing with his new gasoline boat the
Tana and two scows loaded with
merchandise for Fairbanks. He
had six horses aboard, out'of which
S- E. Heeter bought a fine team.
W. C. Baker, formerly of Rampart,
had a large amount of merchandise
on board He also had a team of
horses which he will take to Fair
banks.
The Susie is expected down Fri
day. She ought to have mail.
Walter Buckley
Hurt On Glen
A telephone message was re
ceived this morning summoning
l»r. Gibbons to the ui 1 ol Walter
Buckley, who had just been injured
in an accident on Glen
Buckley was working tor Frank
Stevens, and his kg was broken by
a bank caving in
I»r. Gibbons, who had arrived
ir m the creeks hut late last night,
left on horseback for the scene oi
Ihr accident.
TOO MUCH MARION
Details of a lot' of dirty work,
the beginning of which dates back
of the freezeup last fall, are finding
their way down from that part of
the river extending from Fort Yu
kon to Circle.
To get at the true inwardness of
more recent developments, it is
necessary to go back to the begin
ning of last winter, when one
“Kid” Marion, a nephew to Mail
Superintendent Juies Marion of the
Northern Commercial Company,
came in for a small part of the just
censure due for the gross neglect of
his duties as mail carrier. It was
printed at the time how Mail Car
rier Kid Marion had reached Fort
Yukon Oct. 20 and laid there till
Nov. 5, and how two men nearly
lost their lives in going up river in
search ot him. The current rumor.
however, that this same mail carrier
habitually carried more whisky than
mail was not printed, liecause it was
hard to verify, and enough fac.s
were given to justi.y the carrier's
discharge, without resorting to
heal say.
When Mail Superintendent Jules
Marion finally came down the river
i’ll his official capacity, instead of
inquiring1 into"the facts he used
violent,. language and apparently
tfjed to intimidate those who were
inclined fo tell what they knew.
And Kid Marion remained a mail
carrier. * '*
Some time after Archdeacon Stuck
toured the Yukon whether or not
his trip has any liearing on the case
can not tie stated this same Kid
Marion pleaded guilty in the cont
ra ssioner's court at kitcle and was
fri ed $joo and costs lor peddling
whisky to Indians.
Now comes the dirtiest jiart of
this dirty Marion racket the part
which makes the assertion welcome
that M.niwn junior and Marion
Narmw Kncupe
Last Monday a Peterborough
capsued in the Yukon in front of
town and twuiueu narrowly escaped
drowning
t'.eorge A Salisbury and "Shm"
Kehn were in the r»i;u«, amt wlieu
it upset Helm tried to swim ashore.
senior, of the United States mail
service, lay' ml claim to United
S'ates citizenship.
Kid Marion swore out a com
plaint against Mabel P. Beaumont,
a’young woman postmaster at Fort
Yukon, charging her with libel;
she was arrested, placed on a dog
sled, hauled away eighty-five miles
to Circle and fined, the fine and
costs reaching a,bout $265. The
young woman was unable to get a
lawyer—there was none in Circle;
and she pleaded guilty to a charge
that never should have been sus
tained, as the easiest way out of
an embarrassing situation. The
alleged libel consisted of a letter
published in the Alaska Forum of
March 25— said to have been in an
swer to an inquiry from that paper
about Marion and the mail, and not
intended by the writer for publica
tion at all. 8. J. Powell, now in
Rampart on his way outside for
the first time in seven years, was
the special deputy who arrested
Miss Beaumont and took her to
Circle. He spared her all hard
ships lie could; but Marion’s wit
nesses crowded into the mail cabins
ahead of the officer and his charge
and rendered the woman's situa
tion deplorable.
Things were going well from the
Marion viewpoint; and so Miss
Beaumont's lather was arrested,
charged with giving whisky to In
dians. The charge was so palpably
lalse and outrageous that a young
man who had never looked into a
law Inxik, but who had been to
school, defended the accused before
a jury, and he was acquitted.
The Marions had several abet
tors in their schemes for vengeance
who should lie ashamed of them
selves, and among them is Jack
Carr, who ought to know better.
The foregoing statements are t>e
lreved to lie sulistantiallv correct.
I If thev err in any pirticular the
! responsibility will not lie hard to
place.
b*mui I irowniiig.
, A mm shove I off a row boat and
gave assistance as mkhi as possible,
but Helm had gone under lor the
third lime aud the reseller caught
an uplifted hand just in the m« k of
lime Salisbury dung to the canoe
till pulled out.
The tuen were diui k.
THE WAR.
The report of the great naval
battle of May 28, as outlined a
week ago, was substantially csrrect.
The part of the Russian fleet not
destroyed or captured went to Vlad
ivostok.
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TANANA ESP1RES
TO PRODUCE GOLD
Arrivals from Tanana town say
improvements are steadily going on
there and the great development in
the Fairbanks district makes the
junction of the Tanana and Yukon
rivers quite an important point,
especially during the season of open
navigation.
Tanana also aspires to be a gold
mining center itself. Mission hill,
running back from the Yukon at
the upper end of town, is a qiass of
hard conglomerate, and where this
has crumbled away panning has re
vealed colors of gold. In contact
with the conglomerate on Mission
hill is a reef of mineralized yellow
rock, samples of which, as well as
the conglomerate, have been sent
away to be assayed. Eight claims
hive been staked on the hill by
persons willing to take a long shot
at a fortune.
Hack from Tanana some fiiftv
miles, on the headwaters of the
Malosikakat, prospectors have been
hunting for placers since last fall,
and have got good prospects. The
location of pay in that section would
make Tanana a live camp.
Insurance On Gold
for the Exposition
The follo.ving telegram, received
by the committee having in charge
the Rampart exhibit for the Lewis
and Clark exposition, is self ex
planatory:
St. Michael, June 6, 1905.
John Duncan. N. C. Co.. Rampart:
1 surance on golddust ten dollars
j>er thousand against theft and lorty
dollars agaidst tire for five mouths.
S tid gold to Ladds bank, l’< ((land,
cate Alaska commission lust met
commission to insure against thelt ;
tire not necessary, in tny opinion;
I >r government will lake eveiv pro
autiotl. ti. ChIAUXUII.
Hen the Water Man has lately
put a horse into service for his
water delivery, lie takes six lull
cans at a turn and does it with
lar greater ease then wbcti he wore
tire yoke.