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F. G. MANLEY, PROPRIETOR
WAS THIS A VOLCANO?
Big Column Appeared That Looked Like
a Black Mountain Peak.
Yesterday afternoon for several hours
what appeared to be a eolumn of black
smoke rose high in the air in a north
westerly direction from Rampart.
It looked to be fifty miles or more
away and at first glance created an im
pression that a new mountain peak had
been reared beyond the low gap that
separates the rough mountain spur, to
the northward, from the big rounded
hill, to the westward, of Rampart.
What was it? A volcano?
A strange thing in connection with
the phenomenon is that although it was
still visible this morning, the column
had become broader at the base, was
much less tall, and instead of present
ing the outlines of a sharp, barren
mountain peak, looked almost identical
with the snow-covered rounded hills in
the region beyond. Closer observation
showed that it was a body of fleecy
vapor.
Later in the day, when the wind rose,
the mass of whatever it was disappear!.
Some people will doubtless believe
the phenomenon was the result of some
volcanic action. Perhaps a more plaus
ible theory is that it was only vapor
from certain hot springs known to exist
on the Melozi river in that direction.
Still it is hard to explain how vapor
from a hot spring would be'black like
smoke from a coal-burning furnace.
The Melozi springs are not well known
even to the Indians. They wet seen
the first time by white men two years
ago. They are many in number, scat
tered over several acres, and it has been
suggested that they may he geysers.
An exchange prints a lung article on
“How England (tot the Gout.'’ There
was no need to take up so much space
with the matter. England got the gout
like she got a great many other things;
she simply took it.
An active agitation has been begun
in Mexico against hull fights. The
matter will lie laid before the president.
THE MAHER OF THE MAIL
FROM FAIRBANKS TO TANANA
Ta mum Citizen, March 27 : Three feet
u( snmv fell on Monday at Toulavana,
and the mail has been de[aved. Boh
llerrold has taken a team of horses up
to meet Mr. Stockman and briny the
mail in. It is not expected before inid
niyht today at the earliest. We may
rest assured that “Hot Air Hob'' will
briny the mail in in the shortest possi
ble time. The N C. Co. has enyayed
speeinl extra teams ami men to make a
niyht run as s«s>n as the mail yets here
ami catch up with the regular mail car
rier at t told Mountain.
Those of us who were here last year
cannot help noticiny the differs net'
tween the way the N, Co. handles
the mail and the way it was handled
last year, when we missed nearly as
many of the mails as we did issues of
the newspaper we had last year in
Tanami. __________
It is our aim to make the Valley New s
interestmy to friends to whom you may
send it on the outside
HOMEGOMERS
ON THE WAY
Party Left Seattle March 2 and
Some of Them Reached Fair
banks March 15.
A letter from G. A. Ketterer from
Fairbanks to a Rampart friend gives
news of home comers as follows:
Mr. Ketterer, G. A. Tiffany, Frank
Stevens, Jim Lawrence, Jim McHugh,
C. M. Jackie, Otto Kroehle, Frank
Diver, John Henderson and a young
traveling companion of the latter all
left Seattle in the same boat March 2
and arrived at Valdez March ti. The
passage was rough and they all contrib
uted, according to their means, to the
ocean.
Messrs. Ketterer and Tiffany left Val
dez by stage March 7 and reached Fair
1 banks March 15.
Mr. Stevens had two horses which he
had bought in Seattle, and he and all
the others except Messrs. Kroehle and
Diver expected to complete the journey
in company.
Messrs. Kroehle and Diver ex pi i ted
to buy two horses in Valdez and come
in in their own conveyance.
Mr. Ketterer wrote that it would per
haps take the independent travelers 15
to *18 days to reach Fairbanks from
Valdez.
F.verybodv mentioned except Mr.
Diver went out last fall; he has been
away since ld04.
JAS. B. WINGATE
SERIOUSLY ILL
Jann-n li. Winimtr, who wan hroiitfht
in from l.ittli- Minin.k notin' two wt-t-kn
•Hi" ittifferin« from rlu-umatinni or noun*
kimlrt-tl rom|>lnint, linn grown ntmnlily
worm* ami lit-* i-omlition in now ni-riotm.
The Imiiii'M in liin fret have n|>}kir»-ntty
InriiDM) afh-rti-il ami it in thought it may
In- foil ml iiwt»*ury to m-ml him to I ort
ttiliU.il tinlt-n* hit t-omlition noon ini*
|irov**n. _
fin- Trnimxaal got* I avi-rugc in half an
nutn-r to the ton.
Local and General Notes
Mrs. Chadwick, of 72, attended the
Pioneer ball.
P. C. and F. C. Raining are in camp
from Ehanksgiving.
Messrs. Mann and McDonald came in
from Hunter for the ball.
No paper mail was received from
Nome or Fairbanks this week.
lleeter went out this morning loaded
with goods for Rahmstorf’s store at
Eureka.
John McKenzie and F. C. Raining
represented Thanksgiving at the April
fool ball.
smith & Burruss s teams took over
furniture and goods for the Thanksgiv
ing saloon yesterday.
Witnesses in the Rampart criminal
cases have been summoned to he at
court in Fairbanks April 22.
Crockett and Rushing took out 1 ,(>00
buckets on 8 Little Minook and returned
to finish up the season on 10.
Mike Engels has succeeded in pulling
in the last of his hay from up the Yu
kon. The trail was bad for horses.
The lone mustier for whom uneasiness
was felt is all right. He had taken ref
uge in a woodchoyjier’s cabin between
here and Tanana.
Mr. and Mrs. James Langford, Ernest
Floyd, W. W. Crockett and Louie An
derson, of Little Minook, were at the
April-fool ball.
Joe Kaminski came in from Omega
for the Pioneer ball. He will stay in
town and attend the A. B. dance and
banquet April 12.
Heine, Kilias A Dietrich, laymen on
7 Little Minook, have finished the block
of ground they were working on and are
elrsed down for the season.
An account was not long ago printed
in the Dawson News of a one-armed
man called “Windy” being on the tril
from Fairbanks to Chandlar mushing a
very sled. If it was our own “Windy
Arm” he is just the boy that can do it.
It is said the road commission will
expend $80,000 in bettering the mail
trail between Tanana and Fairbanks,
and that the N. C. mail horses will be
used in packing for the trail workers.
In fact it has been stated that W. C
Corbusier, the N. C. Co.’s agent at
Tanana, will have direction of the work,
but that may lie only an impression
that got out because the company’s
horses are to lie used.
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