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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, I905.
While oilier precincts in Alaska
are actively exerting themselves to
secure some ot the advantages ol
the new road law, the fact is given
forceful prominence that no organ
ized body exists whose duty it is
to present Rampart district’s needs
and deserts to Major Richardson
and the other members of the board
who will direct the work authorized
by the measure. What is every
iKxly's business is nobody’s busi
ness; and it will be a strange thing
if the money collected in this pre
cinct does not go to improve other
places whose town governments
and boards of trade are energetic
and enterprising enough to work
for home interests. In the absence
of a town government, a business
men's organization with the good
of the district at heart is an abso
line essential to the welfare of the
community; and the illogical dis
cord ind profitless "knocking’' of
the past ought to he forgot and
such an organization effected All
the past winter great inconvenience
and delay has been experienced in
getting mail from the court bead
quarters and the most important
center in the interior, simply tie
cause there was no representative
body to call attention to the fact
that Rampart was on the shortest,
-afest and most practical route from
l-airhanks to Tatiana. The camp,
in no particular, is up to the stan
dard its mines and its favored loca
tion on the great Yukon river
demand of it. It is hoped the
situation will receive the earnest
consideration ol the business men
What will become of the jury
system in Alaska if the final polic>
of *he United States settles down t<
the level seemingly set for it br
j Senator Platt and his colleagues i
I the senate? It is scarcely think,
i ble that men can permanently be
relied upon to enforce laws in the
making of which they have no part
and in the wisdom and justice of
which they have no confidence.
The argument that the best way to
get rid of a bad law is to enforce it,
would scarcely apply with the law
making power permanently located
six thousand miles from where the
law is operative. In a case arising
I iu the Philippenes, the supreme
court decided, in effect, that it is
discretionary with congress whether
J or not trial by jury shall be vouch
safed outlying possessions of the
United States.
With the passing of George S.
Boutwell, whose death occurred at
Groton, Mass.. Feb. 27, the United
States loses another statesman of
the old school, whose notable ca
reer was interwoven with the cause
of human liberty. He was gover
nor of Massachusetts before the
civil war, a member of congress
from 1863 to 1869, secretary of the
treasury under Grant, and served a
term in the United States senate in
the 70's. Like his colleague the
late Senator Hoar, he disapproved
his country's policy in the Philip
pines. _
Most of the favors Alaska has
to thank congress for are things
i Alaska didn’t get; but they are
i favors none the less.
United States District Judge
Svvavne was found not guilty on
every count in the impeachment
proceedings recently concluded in
Washington..
A good many papers are inti
mating a belief that Roosevelt and
Bryan will l>e found supporting the
same ticket in 1908. There is an
unsuspected compliment for each of
the gentlemen in the intimation.
i If you strike a child take care
i that you strike it in anger, even at
the risk of maiming it for life A
blow in cold blood neither can nor
should be forgiven. From ('.corge
Bernard Shaw’s "Man and Su|*r
man.”
Somehow thete is little sympathy
abroad for Russian nobles cutting
wood on the Yukon, waiting on
the table in New York's Bowery
restaurants, or acting in any other
capacities commensurate with their
limited abilities. It is only when
they are unexpectedly elevated by
the force of a bomb that we arc
horrified I»»wson News
N. V. HENDRICKS
ESTABLISHED 1904
Alaska Commission Buying Agency
SEATTLE, WASH.
We Buy and Ship for you. Only on Commission
Call on our Agent or write to us
FRANK BROWN,
Freighter
and Packer
Orders for Wood Solicited
All orders left at the Miners Store will
receive attention.
J. L. Bates, formerly of Dawson
and later proprietor of the Dawson
saloon in Nome, who last fall was
sent to the penitentiary at McNeill’s
Island for jury bribing and receiv
ing stolen goods, died in the peni
tentiary on Dec. 30 of hemorrhage
of the brain.
Judge Wickershatn has been four
times reappointed since his terra of
office expired last year. The comp
troller of the currency has decided
that he may continue to draw his
salary, and it looks like the next
freezeup will see him doing busi
ness at the same old stand.
A spiritualistic medium in New
York was dragged from her cabinet
and when light was turned on she
was gasping in the center of the
room clad in a mass of gauze coated
in phosphorus. The medium pro
tested loudly that the expose proved
nothing, since it was necessary for
the spirits to use the material taken
from the form of the medium Less
than one-third of those present were
convinced the medium was a fraud.
The mystery surrounding the
death of Mrs. Leland Stanford is
encouraging the most extravagant
of stories, one being heard now
that fears of death ftom poison have
l>een chronic with her for some
years, showing a coming unbalance.
It is also alleged she would turn
even the roost sprightly conversa
tion into morbid channels, asking
the particulars and symptoms of
death by the various known poi
sorts. A contest seems brewing
tat ween those who may ta consid
ered the heirs at law and the bene
ficiaries under her will. The inter
est of the heirs at law Is in a
presumption of insanity and sui
tide, while this will ta contested
strongly by the beneficiaries
C. H. GIBBONS, M. D.
Physician and Surgeon.
Office Hours: i to 3 p. m. and when not othei
wise engaged.
Office and Residence. Second avenue.
GEORGE A. SALISBURY,
Attorney and Counsellor,
Rampart. Alaska
J. LINDLKY ORKKN,
Lawyer.
Office at the Courthouse.
OFFICE OF
Commissioner and Recorder
Rooms i and 2. Courthouse
THE
HEETER
TANANA, ALASKA
S. E. HEETER, ED FERGUSON,
PROPRIETOR MANAGER
FIRST-CLASS
Wines, Liquors and Cigars
Heeter’s PackTrain
Leaves for Glen Every
Five Days.
Freighting and Packing
To and From All
the Creeks.
Good Teams. Good Service
Rampart. Alaska. March 21. 190
Notiii: to < itfr:i>iToi:*.
hi thr matter of the Kstate \
of [
I.ARs SVhNMON. Deceased >
NOTICK in hfrrby uixrn to the crerliUif* of I hr
estate of thr Mkf I.a»s Svendsnn to file thnr
claims with I hr nndrrsigned. with the proper
\ouchrrs ami nAiiartl* attached. at my oIRcr im
the Northern Commercial Co t Merr in Ram
part in Ihe territory of Ataaka. within m
months of the date of the Aral publication of
1 his notice said Arst publication being March
ij »un? G. H WANt>
Administrator of said b>Utr
! The rush to the Big and Little
I>elta continues. Billy Nelson, who
has just arrived in town. reports
wild excitement in that part of the
country. Many are outfitting and
leaving Cheua dally. Times