Yukon Valley News
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 5, I905.
THE WINTER MAIL.
MAIL AGITATION IN WRONG WAY.
Great agitation is going the rounds
regarding a better winter mail service.
It is quite possible to secure a quicker
delivery, but as a matter of fact the ser
vice of last winter, with the exception of
one mail grossly delayed by Carrier Kid
Marion at. Ft. Yukon, was all that could
lie desired.
That portion of the mail service calling
for attention is the summer service. So
far this season Rampart has received but
one mail from Nome and that left the
latter point on the ice. It is also a fact
that the up-river mails are far from regu
lar. It can thus lie seen that the peculiar
paradox exists whereby a more regular
and better service is given the Yukon in
winter than in summer.—Alaska Forum,
July i.
The "great agitation’’ of which
the Foiutn speaks is confined to
that paper’s imagination. Citizens
believe better winter mail service
can be secured for themselves with
out inconvenience to others, and
have gone to work in a business
like way to accomplish a legitimate
and salutary purpose.
They lielieve they will succeed.
They are confident the postoffice
department is anxious to maintain
an efficient and adequate service;
and by projier representations they
hope to induce some slight changes
for the better. That is all.
A "peculiar paradox’’ assuredly
exists if, as the Forum asserts, "it
is quite possible to secure a quicker
delivery, but as a matter ot fact the
service of last winter . . . was all
that could lie desired."
From the Fairbanks News it is
learned that a ten-day weekly ser
vice will lie maintained between
Valdez and Fairbanks. The change
sought would give us quicker ser
vice to and trom Fairbanks, aud
con?' quently to and from the out
side It would discommode no one
and it is not the “wrong way.”
The summer service is quite an
other story; but the arrivals so far
this season are printed for the in
formation of the public. They
were is follows:
From Eagle
May 23 (two)
May 25
June 3
June 6
June 9
June 15
1 June 17
June 19
June 23
July 2
From Tanaua
May 22
May 29
Mav 31
June 2
June 11
June 12
June 18
June 26
July 2
The Fairbanks News of June 28
said the operators on Cleary creek
were praying for rain. Fairbanks
people were praying for postage
stamps a long while last winter and
learned in the spring that the
stamps had been started but failed
to reach their destination. Perhaps
it is so with the rain—Rampart got
more than her requisition called for
the last two weeks.
Passengers on the Seattle No. 3
pic'ured conditions at Fairbanks in
somber hues. Many men without
means and without work, scores al
most begging for a chance to work
their way out on the steamers, busi
ness depressed—all the phazes of
the pathetic story of disappointed
hope was manifest. And yet every
valid evidence is at hand that the
mines of the Tanana countr}’ are
fully as good as reasonable men
a year ago thought they would be.
They have really exceeded the ex
pectations of men who expected no
little It is the same old story in
which opportunity, capacity, means
and luck each have a part.
8t. Andrew’8 Mission.
Sunday Services.
Morning prayer and sermon at 11.
Evening prayer and sermon 8:00.
Friday Service.
Litany at 4 p. m.
Presbyterian Church.
Services at the courthouse Sun-1
day evenings at 7.30.
M. E. Koonre, Missionary. '
N. V. HENDRICKS
ESTABLISHED 1904
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FAIRBANKS ITEMS
Following items are made up
from the Fairbanks Weekly News
of June 23:
“Nigger Jim” Daugherty has ar
rived from Dawson.
Geo. G. Belt, the pioneer, is a
recent arrival from the outside.
New strikes are reported on Fish,
Dome, No 9 Fairbanks, and Bon
nifield creeks.
C. Plauman, alias “Billy the
Horse,” has arrived from the Koy
ukuk and gives the district a good
name.
J. A. Willard, of Circle, and E.
D. Howe, of Fairbanks cretk, were
robbed on the summit by a high
wayman. Willard lost $50 in dust.
Isaac L. Marks, of San Francisco,
has commenced suit against W. C.
Gates for one-fifth interest in prop
erty and money amounting to$995,
000
Dutch Witte lost a poke contain
ing 250 pounds of golddust which
was being transported on a horse.
He found it two miles back on the
trail.
A nugget worth $326 was found
on Cleary. The News is mistaken
in believing it to be the largest ever
taken out in the interior of Alaska;
Koyukuk still holds first place.
Freighter Porter filled a poke
with black sand and when he was
held up he threw out the poke.
The highwayman then searched the
freighter and secured $110 in cur
rency.
The legal firm of Claypool, Kel
lum, Cowles & Stevens has brought
suit tor $25,000 for attorney fees
against Matt Mehan and Tom I.ar
son. The firm claims to have as
sisted in recovering $500,000 worth
of placer ground and $50,000 of
gold in the dump from Tom I<arson.
S. A. CUTTING,
ASSAYEH.
Asianying of Ore and I Uillion.
Milling, Concentration, Amalgamation and Cyanide Tests Made.
QKOKGK A. SALISBURY,
Attorney and Counsellor,
Rampart. Alaska
J. L1NDLKY GREEK,
Lawyer.
Office at the Courthouse.
OFFICE OF
Commissioner and Recorder
Rooms i and 2, Courthouse
THE MIRROR
Wines,
Liquors,
Cigars.
JERRY FORD,
M. R. DOWNING.
HOOLIGANS
WERE HERE
Simons & Blake, with their party
| of vaudeville performers and dance
hall women, tied up at Rampart at
| 7 o’clock Saturday morning. The/
gave a variety show at night, danced
afterward, and drew in the gang
plank and departed for Tanana at
3 o’clock Sunday morning.
They were given a cordial recep
tion, considering the busy season
on the creeks.
There are nearly fifty people in
the outfit, approximately half of
whom are women.
It has been stated here that the
expedition struck Rampart about
$22,000 to the bad.
Committaioner
for Circle Precinct
L. I,. Votaw has been appointed
! commissioner of the Circle precinct
by Judge Wickersham. and will
leave on the next boat, accompanied
by his family. — Fairbanks News.
The Nome Improvement Com
pany is to bridge Snake river and
m authorized to charge tolls