Yukon Valley News
VOL. III.
RAMPART, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY,^NOVEMBER 14, litOB
No. 12
EAGLE MAIL
A WEEK LATE
Not Heard From Up to 2
o’clock Today.
Up to 2 o’clock today no news lias
been received from the mail due to ar
rive from Ragle a week ago. The delay
is attributed to overflowed sloughs and
had conditions of trail inseperahle from
the river-closing period.
J. S. Hunnewell, special careier, got
in from Tanana ahead of time last night.
He was not due till today. The first
mail to be received here over the Valdez
overland route was brought by him.
Carrier Hunnewell continued up river
this morning. He was instructed to go
till he meets Ed Biedernian, who left
here a week ago. Biedernian will then
turn hack and meet Paul Schultz, who
left here two weeks ago.
Charley Harper left with Hunnewell
this morning. He goes as special car
rier for through mail from Ragle.
Novel Contest
by Mining Men
of the Tanana
Fairbanks, Nov. 13.—The long-cor.
tinued absence of cold weather led to a
rivalry between the operators of the
camp as to who would continue sluicing
tell longest in the Tanana. Three out
fits are still at it, the others having
dropped out of the contest, and it is
dei-la red that the race will lie kept un
until Christmas unless some genuine
winter weather comes this way.
The thermometer is around In above
today. It went to 15 lielow for a short
time last week.
DISEASE IS FATAL
DOWN IN TEXAS
San Kranrimn, th-t. 25.—thiuf OIRiff
MrUni, of the tran»|«>rt l.<an>». haa
been ilimiMMl by ortlur uf Srrrvtarv
Ta(l. Ilu in atTiiiml of hating kolol
tlir nUIrr'Hiiiii1 of |Uiwni(rni on tin
iranaport •luring tin- tut trip lark front
Manila. Ilia irlhiw othi-vr* aay tiny
lalirtr him nlHirtol with kleptomania
Ki««r t-havrl at Thu U.i|nl» two iUyt
earlier than at ka in part.
News Summary by Telegraph
In the election yesterday Hughes de
feated Hearst for governor of New York
j by 50,000 plurality. Hughes was the
j only republican elected. Montana, Ne
braska and Washington are republican.
General Shatter died yesterday.
Yesterday the twelfth anarchist at
tempt was made to assassinate the
i King of Spain by wrecking his auto.
The grand encampment of the Arctic
Brotherhood at Vancouver elected Mayor
Bard, of Nome, grand arctic chief: J. H.
Rogers, vice grand arctic chief, anil
; Godfrey Chealander, secretary. Tacoma
was chosen as the next place of meeting.
The brotherhood will build a magnifi
cent structure at the Seattle fair, which
will remain a permanent home for the
order.
Lord t'urzon will succeed Durand as
British ambassador to the United States.
The Boers are becoming rebelious.
Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock
will resign 4th of next Mareli.
Attorney General Missly will imme
diately succeed Justice Brown of the
United States supreme court.
Monday forty-seven Russian immi
grants were burned to death in a wreck
on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad in
Indiana.
Nov. 8.—Ganz and Nelson are having
a tilt and it is believed there will be
another fight.
President Roosevelt sailed Nov. 8 on
the battleship Louisiana for Panama to
inspeet the eanal.
Nov. 7 New York democrats roasted
President Roosevelt for sending Secre
taay Root into New York and Taft into
Idaho to help republican candidates,
saying the people should resent federal
interference with the local electorate.
In Frisco Nov. 1 Kaufman gave Berger
a walloping for the heavyweight cham
pionship. Me had him helpless in the
tenth round, and his second threw up
the sponge.
The L'te and Cheyenne Indians, who
were on the warpath last, week, are
back on their reservations. The trouble
did not amount to much. Two regi
ments of cavalry subdned them.
Captain Amundsen, the explorer and
navigator who made the northwest
passage, sailed from San Francisco for
his home in Norway in the sloop Gjoa
Nov. 8.
ROTTEN GANG
OF FRISCO
ON THE RUN
Sail Francisco, Nov. 1.—The reign of
corruption in thin city is apparently at
an end. Heney, the attorney who
brought to light the land frauds in Ore
gon, has l>ecn employed to assist the
district attorney in prosecuting the
guilty city officials and their compan
ions in crime.
Mayor Schmitz is a fugitive in Paris,
but unless he voluntarily returns he will
lie extradited and com)ie)led to answer
for his crimes.
thiss Ketif, who engineered the steals,
succeeded in having Ih strict Attorney
latngdon and his assistants removed
from office, hut the court issued an in
junction against their retirement ami
they will remain.
After it I Semitic known that the funds
coiilriluitrd for relief of the carthtpiake
sufferers had Iwcn grafted, indignation
ran so high that Keuf advised Nr limits to
ties , Kent himself travels with a body
guard
Politics have grown very warm over
the affair
PEARY CAME
IN 200 MILES
OF THE POLE
Fairbanks, Nov. 3.—Captain Peary at
last has lieen heard from. On the sail
ing of the expedition it was understood
that he should dispatch a message to
his friends and backers in New York, to
arrive not later than Oct. 1. Continued
alisence of news had a rousts! grave fears
for the safety of the expedition.
Me was heard from in Labrador, re
turning home. The message only
reached the United States today, and
the details received here are meager;
but the Roosevelt reached the furthest
recorded northern latitude—H7 degrees
and fi minutes,—which is within UO
miles of the Jade.
Asks Better Pay far Signal Men.
Seattle, tlvt. £'>. — l.ieute nan* Colonel
tdassford, in his annual report upon the
telegraph and cable service in Alaska,
makes strong recommendation that the
signal men h# a ward.-. I higher (sty than
they now receive
STAMPEDING
NEARED HOME
Fish Creek of the Tanana
Starts the Run.
J. S. Hunnewell, the sjiecial carrier
who arrived with the mail from Tanana
last night, brought word of a stampede
to Fish creek, flowing into the Tanana
river below Baker creek.
Tiie news of the stampede had just
become current when Mr. Hunnewell
left Tanana Sunday morning, and he
could not learn particulars of the strike;
but nine dog teams and four horse
teams had already gone. Others were
only prevented from starting by the fact
that dogs are not to be had. Mr. Hun
newell was prevailed upon to part with
two of his dogs.
It has long been predicted that the
Glen-Thanksgiving pay would eventu
ally be found to continue through the
section toward which the stampede is
directed.
Prisoners
Used Conning
to Escape
In copies of the Fairbanks (tapers re
ceived through the mail last night were
the first definite accounts of the escape
and recapture of Hendrickson and
Thornton.
Hendrickson before leaving Fairltanks
had concealed a short piece of file in his
pi|>e. Out of a hollow curtain rod he
fashioned a back saw, and with a coat
h«s>k he (sired 24 holes in the roof.
With the saw he cut from hole to hole
an<l in four hours he bad an opening
through which they could escape. Their
shackles were unlis-ked with a key made
from the curtain rod.
They were glad to tie retaken. Fold
ami hunger lia<l played them out, and
it was only a question of hours w hen
they would have to give up.
Private information from Tananu
town is to the effect that a good many
people will leave that place fort 'handlar
as sis>n as winter travel heroines some
what dr|iendahlr More would go hot
for the impossibility of obtaining 'bigs.
Our informant dhl not stale what
rmite the Tananan* would take for the
northern diggings