Yukon Valley News
Vol. I. RAMPART, ALASKA, JULY 12, 1905. No. 49.
RUSSIAN SITUATION
PERILOUS AT HOME
Revolution Threatened and
Mutiny Follows Riotous
Disorder.
Up to June 26 the number of
killed in the rioting at Lodz, Po
land was estimated at 2,000. The
disorder spread to Warsaw and
amounted to insurrection.
June 28 rioting was reported all
over Poland prisousall full, rough
estimate placed the slain at 10,000,
and insurrection was openly talked.
June 29, revolution was spread
ing all over Russia. Odessa sacked
and harbor gutted with fire. Two
crews murder their officers and join
the revolutionists with their arms.
Two regiments pass over to the
revolutionists. A million rounds
of government ammunition seized.
St. Petersburg advised to prepare
for the worst. Fears for the Black
Sea fleet. Russian admiralty hard
ly dares send more ships to the
rescue. Report of a plot that the
entire fleet Ire seized by revolution
ists. Even the favored Russian
guards declare they will never fire
upon the people again. Bloodshed
again all over Poland, and the red
flag waving throughout Poland
now.
July 4.— 1 wo Kussian waisnips
passed 25 miles from Odessa in full
flight, followed by a flotilla of Rus
sian torpedo boats, manned by
volunteer crews, trying to overt ike
and destroy the Kussian ships,
which had mutied The damage
to docks and wharves by the fire
started by mutineers at Odessa is
$5,000,000.
Such is a miniature picture of
Russia's condition at the time the
last accounts were receiver!.
NORWAY AN1) SWEDEN
MAY YET HAVE WAR
Stockholm. July 4.- Au order
has hceii issued for the mu bill ration
of the Swedish army. The mobili
sation U intended to give added
force to any proposal for a settle
ment between Sweden and Norway
which the committee appointed by
the riksdag may make to the Not
wcgiau storthing.
Farewell Sermon
Sunday Evening
Layman George W. Cbilson, in
charge of St. Andrew’s Mission
since last September, will preach
his farewell sermon at the Church
on the Hill next Sunday.
He will hold services at 11 o’clock
for natives and in the evening for
whites.
Rev. J. E. Huhn will relieve Mr.
Chilson, and the latter, on the rec
ommendation of Bishop Rowe, will
go to New York and finish his
theological and musical education.
Mr. Chilson expects to pay a
| short visit to Tanana, and will then
1 proceed to Sitka and therce to the
outside, where he will give some
1 time to the Portland Exposition
and other objects of interest prior
| to settling down to his studies.
Mr. Chilson is recognized as a
bright young man. and has many
| friends who will wish him abun
dant success wherever he may be.
Capt. Collinette and F. C Henry
will iook after Mr. Chilson’s farm,
1 and Charles Mayo will attend to
any business in connection with
; Mr. Chilson’s interests in Rampart.
VALDEZ-TANANA
MAIL CONTRACT
I
The postoffice department has let
a contract to the Valdez Transpor
tation Company for carrying the
mail twice a month between Valdez
' and Tanana, by way of Fairbanks,
Chena and Tolovatia, from Nov. i
next to April 30, 1906. This ser
vice will alternate with the semi
monthly service on another route,
so that the places concerned will
have weekly mails throughout the
winter.
1,000 DEAD
IN GREAT FLOOD
Mexico City. July 4 Advices
from C.uanajate place the loss ol
life in the IKmmI at that place be
tween 500 and 1,000, and the prop
erty loss at $1,000,000. Relief u
pouring in trow all directions.
There is a pounlnlity that Lieut.
Huthtauy will bring the Fort Gib
bon Comedy Company to Rampart
this turnmer
Jeff C. Davis
En Route to Dawson
The Jeff C. Davis passed lip river I
en route to Dawsou at noon today,
for the purpose of meeting Gen.
Williams, who is on the usual tour
of inspection along the Yukon.
The general will visit Forts Egbert,
Gibbon, St. Michael and Davis.
General Greely, chief signal offi
j cer of the army, is also expected;
! but whether or not he will have
i reached Dawson in time for the
Davis is problematical.
Captain Wildman, who has the,
distinction of completing and put- j
ting in operation the first wireless
j telegraph that could be used com
1 mercially—that between St Michael
and Nome—was on board en route
to Benicia, Cal.
Lieut. Bathiany was in charge
and brought up supplies and other
things which were appreciated by
Sergt. Kyttle and his companions.
The lieutenant says there are two
officers and thirty men on the line
between Fort Gibbon and Chena,
j and the work is about half finished.
IEYCLUS10N LAW
TO BE LESS RIGID
Washington, June29 —President
Roosevelt has instructed immigra
tion officials everywhere to he more
liberal in their interpretation of the ,
Chinese exclusion law.
The anti-Chinese population of
i the Pacific Coast states view with
: alarm the evident determination of
| the United States executive to listen
| to the threats of Chinese merchants
: to boycott American goods.
Organization is taking place to
; combat the evident intention of the
executive to allow himself to l>e co
erced against the sentiment of the
j United States.
Lieut. Fitzi>atrick, chief of the
signal corps at Fort Gibbon, went
up on the Susie bound lor New
Mexico, where he will lie treated
for tuberculosis.
Reports have it that George A
Salisbury and Magistrate Bathurst
almost rustic to blows during the
OT>ay-M>ers trial at Tanuna It
is also said .Mr. Salisbury found the
Tanana twill pen short of blankets
Kiu Falkenberg is in Fairbanks,
where be will remain two months
SULLIVAN-O'BRIEN
FIGHT A DRAW
Middle weights Staid Twenty
Hounds and the Honors
Were Even.
Dawson, July 5.—Jack Twin
Sullivan and Philadelphia Jack
O’Brien last night fought twenty
rounds for the middleweight cham
pionship of the world. The fight
was a great one from start to finish
and was a draw, with no decided
advantage to either during the en
tire twenty rounds. The fight was
on the square and was the cleverest
hit of boxing ever seen here.
DEEP DRILLING
UNDER DAWSON
The Dawson News gives an in
teresting account of an artesian well
being sunk by the Cascade laundry
300 feet from the Yukon in Dawson.
The well is down 180 feet, and for
the last 120 feet has gone through
solid rock. At 104 feet the drill
struck a mineral formation of the
nature of white iron and sulphurets.
At 165 leet similar stratum was en
countered. The various strata so
far encountered are as follows:
1. Nine feet frozen muck.
2. Fifty-one feet frozen gravel,
with colors of gold until several
feet above bedrock; no gold on or
immediately above bedrock.
3. Forty-four feet frozen mica
schist.
4. Four feet frozen quartz forma
tion.
5. Fifty-seven feet frozen mica
schist.
6. Three feet frozen quartz vein.
7. Seventy-two feet frozen mica
schist, with drill still at woik and
no indication of immediate change.
The average distance drilled in
mica schist is four feet daily.
Some four \ears ago a shaft was
sunk to a depth of 223 feet on 3a
H Ido r ado, w hen water gushed out
in great volume and in midwinter
flooded the creek ami the near by
mines, and cost the Canadian gov
ernment $50,000 to bring it umter
control. Thts may indicate that a
flow of water will result in Dawson
when the bottom of the solid rock
it reached.