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WEDNESDAY, OCT. 5, 1904..
There are seven presidential
tickets in tlie field, as follows:
Roosevelt and Fairbanks, repub
lican; Parker and Davis, democrat
ic: Swallow aud Carroll, prohibi
tion; Watson and Tibbies, popu ist;
Corrigan and Cox, socialist-labor;
Debbs and Hanford, socialist; Scott
and Payne, negro liberty.
It would seem Judge Wicker
sham’s theory that summers are
‘ half a mouth longer at each end”
in the Tanana valley than on the
Yukon did not hold good this time.
The Rock Island found it necessary
to chop the ice from her wheel in
the Tanana and reported all side
streams frozen up while Rampart
was experiencing a warm aud long
continued rain. The fact of the
business is, probably, that condi
tions in the two localities will vary
somewhat in different years, with
an average about even in each—the
advantage, if any, lying along the
Yukon, which is the larger stream.
The destructive fire which did
£>00,000 worth of damage in
Dawson on the night of Sept. 23
gives emphasis to a word of caution
to people of Rampart. Under pres
ent conditions there is more at stake
than the mere money value of the
property which might be obliterated
in the town: every pound of sup
plies is needed, and the loss of any
considerable portion would be a
disaster to the entire district.
Therefore in installing the winter
heaters let everyone see to it that
the flues are properly safeguarded
and every precaution takeu. liar
rels of water kept in easy reach
might be the means of avoiding a
serious calamity. The season of
greatest danger is at band; but all
through the winter months the feel
ing of insecurity will I* intensified
by redhot stoves and the aloence of
adequate means to cope with a tire
once it gains headway.
Whvtkvkh the influence that
hu» been brought to bear against
the reappointment ot' Judge lames
Wicker sham as judge >f this dis
trict. it is evident that it has more
power be bunt it than was at first
supposed. What the final outcome
will be the common run ul people
lit the district have no means «t
| knowing. There are some things
the people do know, however; and
| one of them is that in all his public
utterances Judge Wickersham has
unilormlv stood for American rights
for the people of Alaska. While
other officials advocated a congres
sional delegate, “either elective or
appointive,’’ Judge Wickersham
said Alaska ought to have a dele
gate and the delegate ought to be
elected. In his capacity as judge
Judge Wickersham has done his
part well; but in his capacity as an
interested American citizen he has
shown at his best.
CALL AN ELECTION.
Under the above caption the
first number of the Alaska Tran
script, launched at Juneau Sept. 9,
with John W. Frame at the helm,
prints the article reproduced below
The Transcript fails to state in what
case the decision referred to was'
rendered.
“Just a word to our friends that
have been bellowing for territorial
government. Now that the su-1
preme court of the United States j
has decided that we already have!
an organized territory, do they
favor the election of a delegate to 1
congress? Wiil Governor Brady [
call the election ? If he will not, j
then the U rritorialists and all others
will have some cause for opposing
his reappointment. The supreme
court of the United States, within
the last three months, has decided
that Alaska is an organized terri
tory differing fiom Oklahoma and
New Mexico only in the fact that it
has an executive and judicial de
partment of government only. That
court declares that because the peo
ple are accustomed to a territorial j
government with a legislative de- j
partment they are prone to believe |
that a plan of territorial govern- |
ment without a legislature is not an
organized territorial government. !
Hie court says further that if Alas- J
ka were not an organized territory
of the government that the license
taxes collected here would be un-'
constitutional. This puts to sleep
the idea of all those curbstone
jurists who have held that ‘the
constitution d'.ies not follow the
flag' to Alaska.
"Another thing declared in this
late decision of the ' ighest court in
America is that if it can l»e shown
that the federal government ts col
lecting by excess taxes a larger
amount than is necessary to defray
the exjenses of the territory that it
would lie a violation of the clause
in the constitu*i< n requiring such
taxes to It (.inform, fur the reason
that such excess would not be a
local tax to defray the expense* of
the organized territory of Alaska,
hut to defray the expenses of the
federal government This decision
of the court sends glimmering the
last hope of the Alaska politician
who aspires to a seat in the territo
rial legislature of Alaska, for, like
the little boy’s apple core, there
isn’t going to be any territorial
legislature in Alaska. She will go
from what she now is directly to
statehood.”
The brief telegram announcing
the attempt to assassinate President
Roosevelt will cause a feeling of
universal alarm. Such outrages are
too common in the world now to
cause a feeling of surprise. It does
not matter that the author of the
crime is said to be crazy—there are
other crazy people at large who are
likely *o develop similar symptoms.
In view of the fact that all other
measures have proved ineffectual to
abate this particular kind of mad
ness, would it not be worth while
for the prtsident to try shooting
the next person who wantonly as
sails him ? Is it probable that he
would ever be molested again if he
should exercise his right as au
American and with his own hand
slay any one evho sneaks up like a
coward and attempts to murder
him? Would the people honor him
less if he did? It is worth trying.
TRANSCONTINENTAL
CANADIAN RAILWAY
Will Cause a New Town in
Southeastern Alaska.
Vancouver, B. C., Sept, io.—
Private advices from Port Simpson,
B. C., state that the Grand Trunk
Pacific party, comprising Charles
M. Hays, F. VV. Morse, William
Wainwright and three engineers,
inspected the harbor to determine
its utility for terminal purposes.
They announced that their choice
would be either Port Simpson or
Tucks Inlet, which latter place
they are now visiting.
It is very evident that the selec
tion of Port Simpson or any point
near as the terminus of the new
Canadian transcontinental railway
will l>e the means ot bringing to
life a new city in southeastern
Alaska.
Already some enterprising Amer
icans have their plans perfected to
locate a new town across the chan
nel from Port Simpson, it the ter
nrtiral goes there or to Big Bay, ten
miles below that place. The dis
tame from Port Srm|>*oii to the
Alaskan shore is about eighteen
mites
Those who know of these plans
say that the I'nited States custom
house will have to lie moved to a
point more convenient to Canadian
territory on account of the building
of this new line through northern
British Columbia, and that it will
have to go to the new town.
OKOBOK A. SALISBURY,
Attorney and Counsellor,
Rampart, Alaska
LOUIS K. PRATT,
Attorney at Law,
Fairbanks, Alaska
J. lisdi.it okbkn,
Lawyer.
Office at the Courthouse.
OFFICE OF
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' THE
HEETER
TANANA, ALASKA
S. E. HEETER, ED FERGUSON,
PROPRIETOR MANAGER
FIRST-CLASS
Wines, Liquors and Cigars
Heeter’s Pack Train
Leaves for Glen Every
Five Days.
Freighting and Packing
To and From All
the Creeks.
Good Teams. Good Service
RICH BODY OF ORE
STARTS STAMPADE
Nevada Rush May Be Greatest
in Years.
Outside papers say Goldfield,
Nev., is experiencing the begin
ning of a rush such as no mining
camp in the States has seen in
recent years. Already a stampede
has begun from all parts of Nevada,
and the fever is likely to spread to
the surrounding states until the
best days of Virginia City will be
discounted. The strike that has
caused all the excitement was made
in the Sandstorm claim, in the
north edge of Goldfield. The ore
runs $6,000 in free gold in an
enormous Mind lode torly leet wide.
This value ot $6,000, it is claimed,
has never been equalled, and the
extent of the ore body has intoxi
cated every man within reach of
the news with the idea of fabulous
fortune.
Rear Admiral Schley will shortly
publish bis autobiography under the
title “Fiuty five Years t’nder the
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