ESAU’S WIFE
LED ASTRAY
1Csau anil his wife Annie, well-known
natives, are visiting Rampart from
Tanana. laist Saturday Ksau found Ids
wife in company with Lucy Carolan,
both lying in a ealiin drunk.
Ksau told his troubles to Archdeacon
Stuck, saying that Annie had never
been drunk before and that Lucy had
given her the liquor. The archdeacon
made complaint against Lucy and Mon
day she was tried before Commissioner
Green, found guilty, and sentenced to
six months in jail.
Lucy is John Minook’s daughter. He
has la-en exerting himself in her behalf,
and it is said the case will lie appealed.
Masie Lee Got Off Light.
Masie Li*, a white woman who re
cently went to Tanana from Rampart,
was fetched back and tried before the
commissioner Monday on a charge of
selling liquor without a license.
She pleaded guilty, and the commis
sioner exercised an unusual clemency
and only lined her 110 and costs, lie
was influenced to this course in consid
eration of the big bill of costs.
TREES AND SHRUBS
WITHOUT ADDRESSES
Last winter Prof. Georgeson, agent in
charge of agricultural exjierimeiit sta
tions in Alaska, sent out circular letters
stating that a quantity of fruit trees ami
shrubs would l>e sent to people on re
quest. A good many Rampart people
sent in requisitions. In the mail arriv
ing on the Sarah last Friday there was a
large numl>er of shrubs, the addresses
on which had Wen worn off. The prist
master turned them over to Fred K.
Rader at the government experiment
station.
Those who had ordered shrubs would
do well to make known the fact to Mr.
Rader, so that the matter may lie ad
justed to the best possible advantage of
every one concerned. It is already time
the plants should be set out.
TO PROSPECT
ON THE HOSIANA
Messrs. Swanson and Stickle}*, two
prospectors from the Tanana, passed up
Sunday on the Sarah, on their way to
the llosiana river. They are outfitted
to remain till next spring.
These men have |»m«|iected on the
llosiana before, and know just what
locality they will work in. They will
go to a creek near the head of one of the
lefthand forks.
The llosiana heads in a high divide
Wtwcvn the Yukon river and the fold
font country. It drains a big territory.
All prospectors who have gone into the
region think well of it, and most of
them come ont with a strong desire |o
return and continue their ex|dt*rations.
No pav has so far Wen found; but the
liuiilirr of men who have v isited the
country haJ Iwcn rnmparatively small,
and tl»-y have usually Wen handicapped
by lack of SUtth lent supplies
Local and General Notes
Mrs. J. W. Young is visiting friends
in Dawson.
Tlie river has fallen nearly 15 feet in
eight days.
From all the ereeks come reports of
scarcity of water. *
Considerable prospecting is in prog
ress in the vicinity of Tanana.
Mrs. II. Chadwick went out yesterday
to open up and conduct 72 Roadhouse.
Klliott Gaetz came in from Skookum
yesterday. Sluicing had to he aban
doned for lack of water.
Frank Hammond will in future have
charge of the saloon at Kureka. C. M.
Jackie, formerly in charge, may go to
Fairbanks.
The steamer Hannah was hilled to
leave Dawson yesterday for lower river
points. She will bring the first regis- !
tered mail of the season.
John llathurst’s name no longer ap
pears at the head of the Yukon Press,
the little paper he established at Tanana.
lie is still acting as commissioner.
J. II. St rood and C. II. Ludvigsen, two
well-known miners and prosjnvtors, de
parted for Tanana and Fairbanks, j>er
liaps to remain, the first of the week.
Robert Hyatt, who had contemplated
a summer's prospecting across the di
vide, returned to work for the Hoosier
hydraulic people the first of the week.
George Klapproth, who has had charge
of llehh, Gaetz A Kaulhach’s mess on
Skookum, has come into town, the dry
weather having caused a cessation of
work.
O. A. Diver came in from Pioneer
yesterday. He refiorts that the big
glacier which enveloped Xellany, Lane
A inver's dump is melting away, and
they will soon wash up.
Mosquitoes are more numerous than
in any year in the camp’s history. Old
residents say that even in *t>7 and 'its,
Indore the brush was cleared away, the
l>ests were less bothersome than now.
John Holmgren, an old Ramparter, is
reported to have sold a half interest in a
claim on Dome creek, Fairbanks, for
a neat little sum. He and his partner
got $40,000 for their claim.
Stewart Menzies, auditor, and Howard
Turner, assistant, of the X. C. Co., have
been in Rampart since last Friday. Mr.
Menzies is accompanied by his wife and
little son. The party w ill go to Tanana
on the Hannah, and w ill later go up the
Kovukuk.
Henry Papin is in today from Pioneer.
He w ill soon commence stripping ground
for future washing. The pay is so near
the surface on some of Mr. Papin's
ground that he has to shake the gold
out of the grassroots in order to prevent
waste. In some instances a dollar or
two to the |mn have tieen had just be
neath the turf, and the little, miserly
til>ers sometimes encircle the particles of
gold and release them with reluctance.
J. Harmon Caskey, one of the men
who have made the big Dawson News
the most noted and successful newspa|ier
in the far north, |>a*sod down on the
steamer Power yesterday, Isumd for
Fairlsinks. Mr. Caskey will lie asso
ciated with W F. Thompson and others
in |wihli*biiig the Miner, a new |m|*-r
the big plant for which is now on tin*
war in, and which will le a strictly
uesk-rii publication, with perhaps a
morning ami an evening edition.
GENERAL
MERCHANDISE.
X OUTFITTING _
MINERS STORE
(In the Postofllce Building)
Cigars by the Box a Specialty
MINERS LIVE WELL.
Men working for the Hoosierhydraulic
people speak very highly of the way Mrs.
Nichols and Mrs. Strickland conduct the
mess. They say a mere sight of the
table in the evening banishes all that
tired feeling accumulated during the
day.
Another mess that has lightened the
task of the workers was the one pre
sided over bv George Klapproth for the
Hebb-Gaetz-Kaulbach people on Skoo
kum.
To listen to what the men say of the
fare at these places is to lie convinced
that Rampart miners live well.
SYNOPSIS OF THE ALASKA DELE
GATE LAW
Concluded from third page.
Mr. C’ale came into the Tanana with
the first rush and has spent every day
since in delving into the earth. Fortune
has not yet smiled on him and he is
digging now, in his 150-foot hole on
Vault creek, with the same energy and
determination that characterizes all his
enterprises. He is a man 58 years old ;
well posted, trained and experienced in
many walks of life. A resident of Alaska
long before the rush to the Tanana be
gan, he has had ample opportunity to
acquaint himself with the country and
the conditions that prevail. Intelligent,
far above the average, his fluent and
pleasant manner of addressing an audi
ence insures to him the admiration and
esteem of all who come under its charm.
Though poor financially, he is rich in
the association of wisdom, insight and
experience. He is a credit to the coun
try and we may well lie proud of him;
nor will Alaska ever have an opportu
nity to regret the occasion when her
jieople decided to cast their ballot for
Tom ('ale, the one man in the Tanana
for whom we all will vote when the time
arrives.
Candidacy of Marshal Shoup.
Ketchikan Mining Journal. May 12.
United States Marshal J. M. Slump was
a home-lnmnd passenger on the Cottage
City Monday. . . .
Mr. Slump is of the opinion that hoth
the republican and the democratic par
ties will hold conventions in the near
future to nominate candidates for the
office of delegate to congress.
The marshal, while not an avowed can
didate for congress as many have put it,
will 1h* glad to accept the honor pro
viding a suitable platform is adopted.
Tin* position which lie now holds as
United States marshal for the First
division of Alaska is a more remunera
tive one than that of delegate to con
gress, and from a financial stand|M»int
Marshal Slump is U tter off where lie is;
hut should the nomination go to him
and fie see tit to accept it, the |w*ople of
Alaska a ill have something to l«> thank
ful for. Mis knowledge of affairs in
Alaska, c* mi pled with his intimate at
t|tiaiiitaitce with inemlters of the hnus*
and senate, as well as the head* of the
varbais tlepartment*, will go far toward
set*tiring for Alaska many of the • lest red
reforms both in law and in de|««rti»iental
ruling* It will Is* a In*kv day for
A. B. NOTICE.
Regular meetings of the Arctic Brother
hood Lodge tire held ut their hull on the
second and fourth Fridays of euch month at
8 o’clock p. m.
C. A. DAVIDSON,
JULIUS KAHMSTORF, Arctic Chief.
Arctic Recorder.
RICHT”
((Ml | All mniinr” written
margin
of the Yukon Valley
News and mailed home would
gratify relatives and friends
Postage, sealed, only 2 cents.
A
Alaska when Honorable James M. Slump
goes to Washington as delegate to con
gress.
Non-Partisan Movement.
A meeting of the Alaska territorial
central committee, which was selected
by the Alaska convention at Seattle last
November, was called for Skagway May
26 for the purpose of considering the
advisability of calling a non-partisan
convention to nominate candidates for
delegate.
No ({uorum was present. The Skag
way Alaskan said only the three com
mitteemen of southeastern Alaska were
represented—Charles E. Davidson, of
Juneau, and John \\ . Troy, of Skagway,
in person, and J. K. Lathrop, of Ketch
ikan, by proxy. Charles E. Herron, one
of the committeemen from the Second
division, filed his resignation from the
I committee, saying in his opinion the
lH*st solution of the delegate question is
through the political parties.
The committee did not finally close
the question of a non-partisan conven
tion.
Ex-Governor Swineford.
At Skagway, Ketchikan, Hadley, Oop
permount, Sulzer and other joints in
the southern end of southeastern Alaska
I tet it ions have tieen circulated in the in
terest of the non-partison candidacy of
ex-t lovernor Swineford. The jietitions
have lieen numerously signed and if the
ex-governor runs he will evidently cut a
lag figure in the contest.
, Notes and Opinions.
“Alaskans in Seattle"—that unknown
quantity that steered l>iek ltyan into
Washington last winter and ex|s*cts to
rejieat the o|>crntion—predict a split in
the Tanana over the Wickersham mat
ter and at Nome on account of rivalry
Iictween the miners' union and the long
shoremen's union.
A. K. Wildt, of Skagwav, a machinist
in the employ of the White Pass itollte,
announced his candidacy, hut later
withdrew in favor of Swineford. He is
said to Is* a bright man
The republican central committee* dis
reinctnlw-red the koynkuk.
It is very prolsthle that most voters
will have the same name *m their Iwilhds
for the long and the short term*.