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CALENDAR
OCTOBER
S M T W T F 8
1 2 3 4 5 8
7 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
28 29 30 31 _
Moon’s Phases.—
Full moon, 2d;
lust quarter, 10th;
new moon, 17th;
first quarter, 24th;
full moon. 31st.
NOVEMBER
8 M T W T F S
1 2 3
4 5 6 7 8 9 10
11 1213 14 15 16 17
18 19 20 21 22 23 24
25 26 27 28 29 30
Moon’s Phases.—
Last quarter, 9th;
new moon, 15th;
first (iiinrter, 22d;
full moon, 30th.
Wednesday, October 3, 1906.
The law as laid down by
Judge Wickersham in the
case of Cale and others
against Hansen and others,
recently tried at Fairbanks,
places an association claim,
which may be eight times as
big as an ordinary mining
claim, on exactly the same
footing as an old-time 20
acre mining claim. There is
not much doubt that Judge
Wickersham’s view of the
matter is based on decisions
by higher courts and will be
sustained as the law govern
ing such cases. Then why
should a prospector be con
tent with 20 acres when be
can just as easily stake 160?
Estimating that 150 pros
pectors crossed over from
the Koyukuk to the waters
of the Chandlar, with one
such claim each they have
already acquired 24,000 acres
of the new ground. But it
is quite likely, say, that they
have staked several claims
each and that the amount of
ground taken up by them
will total more than 100.060
acres. < O’ course they may
have been more modest; but
if tbev were not overlooking
any bets men who go in later
will stand a mighty poor
show.
Mkanwhii.k, tli»»-c who iv
iiutin himI |>fih‘|n,i,t m-an-r
hoim- will In- taking « «-|o«»-r
uliot at tin* y*-llow <-nlf.
If appearances may be re
lied upon, a strong effort will
be made to have numerous
and radical changes made in
the mining laws when con
gress meets. It is the firm
conviction of the Valley News
that the United States min
ing laws are mainly good. A
chain of court decisions may
have sfl far defeated the pur
poses of the laws that an act
of congress will he required
to set the matter right; hut
if this is so, the condition
applies to Alaska with no
more force than it does to
other sections of the United
States. There is no change
that would he good for Alas
ka and had for other Ameri
can mining territories and
states. This territory needs j
no special mining law.
A look at the map will
show that if Samuel J. Marsh
adhered to tin* route he said
he intended to take, in a
letter quoted by a Fairbanks
paper and reprinted today, it
has led him so far to the
eastward that he has proba
bly not even heard of the
strikes on the Chandlar. He
doubtless expects much of
the country into which lie-is
going, hut prospectors will
neither have cause to curse
or bless him for what is
taking place on the Chandlar
just now.
At Columbus, Ohio, Sept.
14 a throng of people assem
bled to witness the unveiling
of a monument to the late
President McKinley. At the
hour the ceremony was to
begin Mrs. Ijongworth, Presi
dent Roosevelt’s daughter,
who was to unveil the statue,
was driven in a rinsed carri
age to the scene, accompa
nied by her husband. When
it became noised among the
thousands of js ople that Mrs.
Ismgworth was in the carri
age a wild scene followed, in
Chas. A. Traeger, j
Hats, Clothing \
and Furnishings, j
Just Received:
New Ladies' Goods,
Flannels, Blankets,
Gents’ Furnishings.
SMITH
(Successor to
Smith & McHugh)
Freighter
and Packer
Rampart, Alaska
rirrsTrrowrBirroTroTrrsTnnr
FRANK STEVENS’S
GLEN ROADHOUSE
REOPENED BY
DAD FOSTER.
ACCOMMODATIONS for HORSES
&LflJULfiJUJ
which men and women
crowded around the carriage
and loudly cheered the lady.
Women who could get no
nearer went downs on their
hands and knees and at
tempted to crawl to the car
riage. At last the crush be-j
came so great that women j
began to faint and a great
many were trampled upon
and so severely injured that
they had to be sent to the
hospital. The unveiling was
postponed to an ther day.
Thk Rampart public will
not fail to appreciate kind
ness of Sergeant Mustin in
posting bulletins of the river
and weather news. It is hard
to overestimate the worth of
this service, especially at this
season of the year.
Si'KAKKK Cannon recently
said that stranger things
have hap|M iicd than that Mr.
Room*velt will be president
for another term. Still Mr.
Roosevelt's and several mil
lion other |»*np|e s consent
will have to In* gained lirst.
J. LINDLEY GREEN,
Lawyer.
Office at the Courthouse.
OFFICE OF
Commissioner and Recorder.
Rooms 1 and 2, Courthouse
A. B. NOTICE.
Regular meetings of the Arctic Brother
hood Lodge are held at their hall on the
second and fourth Fridays of each month at
i o’clock p. m.
C. A. DAVIDSON.
JULIUS RAHMSTORF, Arctic Chief.
Arctic Recorder.
Modern Dentistry
In all Its Branches
CHARLES D. CARTER, D. D. S.,
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