THE APRIL FOOL BALL
Large Gathering Eetertained by Pioneers
Monday Evening.
Shindig in the country
•(» t your p'uees it 111 ”
Nothin’ been a-doin’
Since \v y last fall.
Children « n the stairway,
Fiddler on tin* box,
Ci.her in the middle.
Yelping: like a fox :
“Shanghai, it jour Banty
Lordy, hut you're tall
Sw ing ’em to their places,
An’ balance all!
“Bluebird in the center ’n’
Seven lmn’s ’round;
S\\ ing ’em to their places’n’
Everybody pound!
Balance to your Honey -
Alanmn, I say—
Run an* git your Gtiinny,
An’ ail chaw hay!
Come alieud, my Lady
That *s the proper thing
On to the next! balance!
All cheat or swing!”
Notwithstanding tin* absence of a
good many members of the Yukon Or
der of Pioneers w ho are in the ('lumdlar
and other distant places, the April-fool
ball Monday night was fully up to the
Pioneer standard and possessed all the
Pioneer eharacteristies.
About ninety people were present and i
they all enjoyed themselves fully.
The hard-times feature was carried
through in every regard save one—it
was blotted out of the program at sup
per time.
The ladies dressed the hard-times
part loyally, and the gentlemen did
likewise; and, considering the dull
season, everything seemed so appropri
ate that even the Pioneers must have
been surprised at the excess of merri
ment and fun that prevailed.
CONCERNING
THE CHANDLAR
The latent won l that has reached
Kampart from Chandlar is contained in
a letter from M. \V. Sinclair t«* Judge
C. II. Knapp, dated Fort Yukon, March
16, and one from Louis Sevier to \\ . \\ .
Crockett, dated at the -ame place the
day Indore. The writers were on their
wav from Rampart t<* the Chandlar and
ex|**cted to pr«H-trd w ithin a day or two.
Mr. Sinclair's letter -aid :
“Mike Lah--ki ami A1 Allen are hen*
after a load of grtih, and are going hack
in a dav or two. We will leave about
the same time. Nothing much new
alnait the diggings, although the opinion
of all seems to he that it will he a camp.
Jimmy Ftmcheoii got his hole down on
Luncheon creek at 116 feet and got
muck on lwdr»*V lie is drifting now
t<» efo-M iit the cm * k. That is the on|\
11.v|t* d**wii in the deep ground. There
will lie uln.iit a do/cn claims working
this slimmer at the head of the different
creeks where it is shallow gr and
Mr vvlcf’ii letter contained nothing
of additional interest except that at tin*
head of lag creek the gr'*t|ti«| |j* g*-.*!
4ihI tin * are getting pin* that run from
At) vents t«* f Ji*.
“Tell th***e tintype and ftrvwble mush*
rr* that I got that hig l*-ad tip be e all
right —t*.s» p-iiihU with hair d**g*,“ *ai«l
\lr Svkv, boastfully, in the letter.
THE KEEPINC
OF HENS
It lias heen note*'! in the* pa {tern of the
two big places that a chicken ranch at
Nome was this winter offered for sale
by the lHited States marshal without
any bidders upiieuring, and that a man
at I airbank-. undismayed, i* preparing
to launch a great hennery and demon
strate that the business can he made to
pay.
And so it goes. There is no civilized
place oji the face of the earth where
soinelMxiy has not gone broke raising,
chickens and where somebody else has
not figured out that there is big money
in it. Kadi individual thinks he or she !
knows all about it and there is no use
to argue the .pies’ion. Ihit here .ire a
few facts:
Mr and Mrs llecter g»*t some Ions
early last summer and h.»v had all the
fresh eggs thev colli.I use ever since. It
has often happened that they had a
surplus which they had no trouble in
di«|»o*i!ig nf at a smart advance over
III.* price for outside eggs.
They started in the winter with III
In n* and have got eggs every day since.
The average pr««lu« lion for the winter
has Ui II U lwirii o|ie*third and one*
fourth of an egg |x r day per hen. bat
>|oit«lav the »l hens broke the tu'itril
and V lelded ^1 eggs
Niii evening counting their Ut time
S. E. HEETER,
Freighter and Packer
< lood Equipments and
Service Unexcelled
oooooooooooooooooocooooooo
Kampart miners
Association.
THE next regular meeting «»f the 11AM
1 PART MINERS’ ASSOCIATION will he
held at J. C. HALL (Rampart), Sunday, April
7. at 2 p. m., and at GILL’S (Glen), Sunday,
April 14. at 2 p. in.
All miners and prospectors who art* not
members are cordially invited to attend, or
send in written application for membership.
A full attendance is requested, as there is
business of importance to lie sulunitti <1.
P. J. KALNING. Secretary,
and the cost for feed and for fu S to keep
the hen house warm, Mr. and Mrs.
Ileeter consider that their hens have
paid. Acting on their experience they
have ordered 75 Brown Leghorns and 25
Plymouth Rocks, which they expect on
one of the first boats, and they expect
to have a great many chickens and eggs
at their place on the hill next summer.
WEATHER CONDITLNo
I)ato Max. Min. Date Max. Min.
Marcli 26 14 — !l March 30 5 —10
March 27 2 —10 March 31 12—IS
March 28 7 —10 April 1 10 —13
March 20 1 —11
Number of days: Clear, 3: partly
cloudy, 0; cloudy, 4,
Snowfall, none.
Monthly Summary.—March.
1000 1007
Mean max. temp., 20.4 —15.4
Mean min. temp., — 0.3 — 8.3
Mean temperature, 14.0 3.58
Highest temperature, 51 38
Lowest temperature, —31 —12
Total precipitation, ins., .17 1.17
Total snowfall, inches, 1.75 12.75
Number of days—
With .01 inch or more
precipitation, 5 0
Clear, 0 0
Partly cloudy, 11 3
Cloudy, ’ 14 li>
Frederick E. Hauer,
Voluntary <Ihserver.
The very successful winter season of
social entertainment w ill be brought to
a close Kriday evening, April 12, by a
public installation of A. It. officers, fol
lowed by a grand ball ami banquet.
Tlw A. It.'s are preparing to make
this the biggest event in their later
history.
jj JULIUS RAHMSTORF,3
:: GENERAL
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