LONG-DISTANCE
WIRELESS PLAN
The navy department is prepar
ing to erect and equip a long-dis
tance telegraphy station at Farallon
islands. The station is already un
der way of construction and when
it is completed it will be possible to
transmit messages for mare than
i.ooo miles in auv direction. Nat
urally the opportunity to signal and
converse with ships 1,000 miles
distant will be the principal advan
tage of the new station. How much
farther the instruments will trans
mit than the distance named re
mains for experiment to show.
at the Southeast Farallon, about 30
miles from the Goat Island station
and 2,180 miles from Honolulu
The mast for the new station has
been completed and now lies in the
Mare island construction yard
awaiting orders which will send it
to the islands.
The Farallon station will he the
only one of its kind on the Pacific
coast. Heretofore the longest trans
mission of messages by western
stations has been less than 100
miles.—S. F. Examiner.
Little Minook Jr.
C. A. Brown has sold his interest
in 22, 23 and 24 to his partners
Hawkins and Nichols. The latter
have suspended operations on these
claims for the season, and will move
their thawer onto No. 14 and pros
pect that claim.
Bowen & Cooil have their ground
in readiness for next summer’s op
erations. They will shovel in some
before the freezeup
Tom Antonson and Jerry Ford,
011 15, 16, 17 and irt, have their
ditch done from Bowen & Cooil’s
dam at 21. They have the brush
all cleared away from their ground
and are sluicing it off to be ready
to shovel in next summer
Claim owners on the creek have
cleared the ground of brush from
14 to 19 and now have a clear,
straight waterway which will facil
itate greatly the working 01 me
creek. _
Signal Sr>rvir*p Notes.
The government steamer Capt.
Jeff l*avis came t*p from Fort Gib
bon last Friday morning with three
<>r tour tons of supplies tor the local
signal station. Corporal k vttle savs
I'ncle Sam U a good provider.
The line haa been down lie tween
Taulavaua and Senana since Thurs
day, Sept. I.
private Curtain, who was fur
Merle repair man at the Maker Creek
.all »u. t* now operator in charge
tuere. Corporal llrrb, formerly at
Maker Creek haa gone to Ckena »«
M assistant operator there
LOCAL, NOTES
Miss Parke came on the Sarah.
Mr. Chilson. of St. Andrew’s
Mission, arrived on the Sarah.
Jimmy Climie returned on the
Sarah, after a summer at Tanana.
Herman Schweitzer came up on
the Sarah trom Tanana. and will
winter in Rampart.
The first sharp frost of the season
appeared Sunday morning. Sept. 4.
It has been quite winterish since.
George W. Wood is putting the
finishing touches to his new cabin.
I|t will be a neat and comfortable
winter residence.
Mrs. S. E. Heeter arrived from
St. Michael and the outside on the
Sarah last Friday. She was accom
panied from Tanana by Mr. Heeter.
Ross Minard and Johnny Weihl
left yesterday morning on a hunt
ing trip to the Yukon Flats. They
are prepared for all kinds of game
and will be gone some time.
The Prospector and the Robert
Kerr, Canadian boats bound for the
Tanana. passed down Saturday
morning and evening, respectively,
without so much as a how d’e do
whistle.
Ole O. Peterson, convicted of
lunacy at the Fairbanks term of the
district court, passed up in charge
of officers on the Sarah, bound for
the asylum at Portland, Ore. He
is afflicted with melancholia.
I)r. Gibbons will have one of the
most comfortable residences in town
when his cabin is completed. The
heating apparatus will be placed in
the cellar, which will make it easier
to maintain an even temperature in
the living apartments.
Henry Miller came in from Glen
on Monday. He says that the gold
secured by the thief or thieves who
recently looted Stevens & Sinclair's
boxes on No. i amounted to $t,ooo
or $1,500. There is not the slight
est clue to who did the job.
Judge Wickersham, Judge Har
lan, Clerk Heilig, Stenographer
Geogheghan and Kxpert Account
ant P G. Charles spent a couple of
hours in Rampart last Friday after
noon They were passengers on
the Sarah and are bound outside
from Fairbanks after the close of
their ronrt duties at that place.
CLEARY CREEK
LITIGATION
Fairbanks, Aug. 27.—The case
of E. T. Barnette, E. R. Barnette
and Charles T. Sigler against Harry
L. Freeman, J. T. Emmett, W. A.
Robertso.j, W. J. Lieman, A1 Hilty,
Frank J. Cleary anl J. F. Over
gaard came up for hearing upon
motion for a new trial Monday, and
after lengthy arguments the court
granted the new trial.
The plaintiffs brought action to
quiet title to bench claim No. 1
below discovery, right limit, on
Cleary creek, to oust the defend
ants, and for $10,000 alleged by the
plaintiffs to have been extracted i
from the ground by the defendants, i
The defendants denied the rights of1
the plaintiffs to any portion of the I
disputed ground, and alleged a pri- j
ority of location as against the
plaintiffs. The jury, after four
hours deliberation, .rendered a ver
dict in favor of the defendants.
The plaintiffs gave seven reasons
why a new trial should be granted,
all but one being overruled, to wit,
“that the evidence does not support
the verdict as rendered by the jury.”
The retrial will probab y be post
poned to the next term of court.—
Fairbanks News.
Back from Gunnison.
Pete Kaltiing and George Krash
ning came in last Saturday from
Gunnison. They brought over two
outices of gold which they took
from discovery claim. The gold is
of high grade and is worn very
smooth, indicating that it has come
a long distance. The heaviest piece
weighed 62 cents.
Sluiceboxes had been made and
a darn constructed with a view to
shoveling in considerable dirt this
fall; but high water carried away
ihe dam and they concluded to sus
pend operations.
Sid Williams and Pearson, on 4
below, are prospecting and taking
out a little gold, but water has
handicapped them also.
Mrs. May brick.
New York. Aug. 24. Mrs. May
brick. who w as released from prison
in England some weeks ag > has
arrived home after fifteen years ab
sence. She is in good health.
Jusl received. • Auer *im-k ih.tn
ml he tore of
Traeger &
Falkenberg
Clothing & Unis’ Furnishings
Alan larife »»<k *
|; it I »t m* r «ii(| Shor*
large «*«. h An* IH4«Miub *«t Wtbhn
Ptne Wtich K«|M>ring
me.lv l« wetter
Kwll line w| I Tekane end Amofcera' Artwlee
tUlinern - feKleit, Urge end tmell envelop«*. .mg and Aen (ten*, twwetie. etw
MINERS STORE
(In the Postoffice Building)
General Merchandise
Outfitting.
Florence
Restaurant
Home Cooking
Clean Service
Meat, Fish and Game in season
Regular Meals $i. Lunches 25c upward
MISS WIEHL
John the Bear Hunter
Is ready to do any kind of
chore work. Pr,Mnpt rrr.0n"*«iu
List of Letters
Remaining uncalled for at the postoffice
at Rampart, Alaska, Sept. 6, 1904.
Atwell, Ci McNight, Chas
Chilson, L Rushing, Dave
Chunquist, R Still, Clarence
Fields, L Williams, S R
Light, Geo
If the above letters are not called for in
thirty days they will be sent to the dead
letter office. M. P. Fleischman,
Postmaster
Canadian Boats Admitted.
Washington, D. C., Aug. 26.—
Privilege was granted Canadian
vessels to run to Fairbanks to re
lieve the threatened stress. This
was done upon the recommendation
of Senator Foster and Representa
tive Cushman, of the State of Wash
ington.
Advocates Subsidy.
Dawson, Aug. 26.—In an ad
dress before the Alaska Club in
Seattle, General Greely, chief of
the United States signal corps in
Alaska, urged that the government
should subsidize railroads for Alas
ka as a means of aiding develop*
ment in the north. He declared
that his faith in the future of Alaska
was becoming unshakable.
Church Services.
Mr. Geo. W. Chilson, who was
iu Rampart for a couple of months
last tail awaiting the arrival ol'
Bishop Rowe, arrived on the Sarah
and has been placed in charge of
the Kpisco|>al mission at this place
He will kohl services on Sunday
morning* lor the native* and on
neat Sunday evening wilt hold *er
vice* for the white people at the
church on the hill Neat week he
wdl make »>u»e arrangement lor
holding a Sunday evening serene
in some bu«*dtug tu First avenue
and will eontiuue the servne*
throughout the winter