Yukon Valley News
Issued every Wednesday.
S. E. Hester.Proprietor
Sam J. Callahan Manager
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CALENDAR
APRIL
S M T W T F S
12 2 4 5 (> 7
S 0 10 11 12 12 14
12 Hi 17 IS 10 20 21
22 22 24 27) 20 27 28
20 20
Moon’s Phases.—
First quarter,1st;
f nil moon, 8th ;
last quarter. 15th;
new moon, 23d.
MAY
5 M T W T F 8
1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 \> 10 11 12
12 14 i:> 10 17 is io
20 21 22 28 24 2o 20
27 28 20 80 21
Moon’s Phases.
First quart or. 1st;
full moon. Sth;
last quarter. 14th;
new moon, 22d.
first quarter. '.10th.
DECLARATION OF WAR.
War can only be excused as a means for
securing the blessings of peace, liberty and
justice.
Now this is a declaration of war. The
rigor ami mercilessness of a devil will mark
this line of the battle. No quarter will he
asked. A few non-combatants are bound to
get hurt. It is too bad ; but it is always so
For a long time in this community strife,
intimidation and intrigue have been at the
heels of every individual who failed to sur
render his (or her) very soul into the keep
ing of a certain clique with a certain head,
well known to all residents.
The Indians, even, were not exempt.
The native prostitute who failed to “get
right” with the gang was speedily made to
feel the heavy hand of its displeasure: w it
ness the strictures on "Big Lucy” in the
Alaska Forum the past winter. The one w ho
bestowed her favors on an approved "man”
was upheld : witness the defense of "Moose
Mary” in the same paper, which secured the
services of John Miuook to applaud the
white man’s benevolence in keeping her
No business venture, great or small; no
affair of private life, which people were
loth to have dragged l>efore the public; no
calumny on the living or dishonor to the
dead, has been passed up when it could la*
made to serve some mean purpose.
Jurors in the local courts have taken their
seats with a consciousness that duty well
performed would subject them to a lashing
from many tongues, every one set to w agging
by the pulling of a single string
By every cunning art of Hattery and prom
ised favor, base insinuation and hints at
dark and intangible wrong, the minds of
men have been poisoned till the innocent are
apprehensive and the guilty or the weak
submissive to their master.
By thetimr tl»i* Hiclit i* ttnUhed there will
I# t%ti im|irovpvuPiit in condition*. The prec
edent of i#r<H>nul joiirnnli*|u w >i* Ionic '»u*»
p^tuliliohnl by the Forum. It* editor ran
not con*i*fentl> tompUin if hl« own hntter
ic* nre turned onto In* %tronirlioid. He i*
the orffaniaer of thee%*l forrei. und <*t him
the awmilti will he directed. He may win
the Hicht: hut if he doe* hi* «tiH*k of mod
will lie «o * * baaated the men in«l women of
the eommanity will l*e *nre ».f 4 tonic
re«pite.
Meantime If wny putroo* of the Y tihon
V.*Ile» V*««le»ire to withdraw their fatnt*
•neb wet ion a ill Hot otfend the p«tper In
Ipfintf to weeotnpluh the end* of the wnr
none alii he aantonlv *wer»heed whether
patron* or Mil.
WINGATE’S HAND IN THE HOOSIER
CONCERN.
It is hard to suppress a feeling: of pity for
J. B. Wingate. His character is so palpably
defective that it seems mere wuiitonness to
bring: it into publicity.
The man, in some respects, is an enigma.
For instance: The Yukon Valley News made
the statement that Mr. Robins, it is said, was
left as caretaker, only, of the Rampart City
company’s property, and was unauthorized
to make the agreement he did for the re
moval of the property to Hoosier. If it is
true that Mr. Robins hud no authority, then
Messrs. Tracker, Wand am! Duncan, with
whom Robins agreed, are the ones who
stood to lose heavily by Robins's unauthor
ized acts. The Forum itself <1 wells on this
self-evident point. Therefore it looks like
the Forum is trying to plead insanity when
it says the Valley News’s statement regard
ing Mr. Robins implied collusion on the part
of Trueger, Wand and Duncan. Would they
conspire to ruin themselves, or place them
selves in jeopardy? It is too ridiculous to
dwell upon.
Here is a more plausible statement of the
case: Last fall Robins fell in with Wingate,
Monroe, et al. They induced him to join the
Monroe Mining and Matrimonial association
which Monroe was to work outside last win
ter. Then Mr. Wingate persuuded Mr. Rob
ins to assume full authority over the Ram
part City Company’s affairs. Wingate,
acting as a kind of confidential adviser to
e\erybody concerned, engineered the deal
between Robins and the Hoosier association,
just as he had the one previously entered
into between Monroe and that association,
greatly to the advantage of Mr. Monroe.
Having progressed so far. Wingate planned
to wreck the enterprise and inveigled Don
ald McLean, against the dictates of his own
conscience and the claims of friendship and
the most sacred obligations, to assist in the
destruction. This I believe to be the truth.
It is impossible that 1 should know it to be
absolutely correct in every particular. If
Donald McLean, without consultation with
Mr. Wingate, will come and tell me that so
far as he is concerned my conclusions are
false; that he had not been advised or per
suaded or induced by Mr. Wingate to cross
the interests of the Hoosier hydraulic coali
tion, then in these columns I will tell the
public that I huve probably done Mr. Mc
Lean great injustice; and Mr. Wingate will
also be welcome to such vindication as the
admission may imply.
SAM J. CALLAHAN.
Manager Yukon Valley News.
THAT CLIPPING.
The Yukon Valley News never said it "has
had in its possession for months past" a
clipping which it referred to in its Inst
issue. It did not say the alleged mining
company w as "about to be organized.'* It
said nothing untrue or misleading. What
if tliil *a> «ii» in rather inrloirunt language.
I'rrhaim that the Hipping " hud heen «h<»\\ #m|
to the paper in nuitiilencf," etr.
J. II. Wingate ho» known all along thut the
flipping he profemiew ignorance of i* not in
the pmufialoii of the Yukon Valley New**.
Me knew at Iriwt the uilntmir* of it* ritu*
tent*. Me knew a *win<tlewu* being *»er j»e
truteil or utternpte«l amt that bin name wim
ronneetetl with it. Me ilnl not print the
fnrft in the Forum. The Yukon Valiev New*
•I»«l not print them hec«n«e to «lo *«» woiiUI
have ma<le it a traitor. In time every uw#r*
tion nuwle hi the Y uk n Valiev New* will l«
proven true Several men in Kimpirt are
fully ruHver**Ml with the fart*. ami the
whole pr- reeding n *o well un«ier*9«» «l that
Hr W i agate’* i recent attitiele unit «inh«
him lower in the e«timwtion •>( ha fellow
THE MINERS STORE
is now taking orders on commission from
tiie miners for supplies for next season.
Orders will be accepted until July 1st.
The terms are liberal and quality of goods guaranteed; can refer to all who
placed their orders with them last season.
For further information please commu
nicate direct with.
THE MINERS STORE
JULIUS RAHMSTORF,
General Merchandise
FULL LINE
TIN, GRANITE AND CROCKERYWARE
J. W. YOUNG
GENERAL
MERCHANDISE
When you want
a good smoke
try an
“OPTIMO,”
a clear Havana
Cigar.
It could not have been shame that prompt
ed the editor of the Forum not to leave
the Yukon Valley News a copy of his paper
last Saturday. Nature in her contrariest
mood never begot a creature like that and
then put a sense of shame into it.
The government maintains no official
newspapers in Alaska. The words “Official
Paper” kept standing in the Forum are
meant to deceive. The sheet is so little and
empty and insignificant that it attempts to
explain its existence by calling itself an
official institution.
As time wears on it is unite likely that
this paper w ill say a good many things of a
derogatory nature about the Alaska Forum
and its distinguished editor. The severest
criticism of that pai er and its methods that
will probably ever appear in the Yukon
Valley News, however, is printed today. It
may l»e found on the fourth page, duly
credited.
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J. LINDLEY GREEN,
Lawyer.
Office nt the Courthouse.
OFFICE OF *
Commissioner and Recorder.
Rooms 1 and 2, Courthouse
The Florence Hotel
Bar Supplied with the Best
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Managers
Notice to Creditors of the Estate
of John E. Huhn.
Notice is hereby given that the under
sigtinl, J. H. Hud grin. has Ih'pii appointed
Administrator of the estate of John K. Huhn.
and ail ereditors of said estate are hereby
notified to present their claims with the
pro|>er vouchers attaclie<l to me within six
months from the date of this notice.
Said claims to I** presented at my resi
dence, in Rampart. Rampart Precinct. Third
Division of the Territory of Alaska.
Dated this 11th day of April. U**».
J. H. HI’DGTN.
Administrator of the estate of John K. Huhn.
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margin
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ON THE SICK LIST.
For several days John Wilson has been
lying seriously ill at Joe Tsong's eahiu. He
* as resting easy yesterday, and his friends
hope he will rotne around all riffht. His
trouble seems to be of the nature of dro|»*>.
and it is said Dr. Hiulgiu thinks it w ill j i» ld
to treatment.
John D. Seribner. w ho has ln»rn routined
to his bed by rheumatism, w as able to be out
of doors yesterday.
Ruth to Canadian Northwest.
Winnipeg, April Y—During the last
ten days ..f M irrti tin I in.tdi.it iVn irio
railway brought into tin- Canadian
northwest Tlrt ears of settlers* rffn-tt.
The nis|» remain* unprecedented, and
the arrangements the railroad UAiit^
hi a doubling of the traffic proved wiw.