Yukon Valley News
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RAMPART, ALASKA, AUGUST 24, 1904.
No. 3
FEDERAL OFFICIAL
ON HIS ROUNDS
Kepresents Department oi
Justice.
Plato Mountjoy, examiner, de
partment of justice, is in Rampart
in the discharge of the duties of l.is
office. His examination of the af
fairs of the local court officials is
completed and he awaits the arrival
of a down-river ^teamer, when he
will proceed to Fairbanks.
After he has completed his ex
aminations at Fairbanks. Col
Mountjoy will proceed down river
to Nome. The affairs of the First
district received his attention be
fore he came to the Yukon.
Col. Mountjoy’s headquarters is
at Washington, D. C., but he is at
present fresh from Okl homa and
the Indian Territory, and talks en
tertainingly of the country there.
Oklahoma and Indian Territory
combined have a population ex
ceeding a million, Col. Mountjoy
says. Oklahoma has over 6o»>,ooo.
There is a perfect network of rail
roads.
Oklahoma City has a population
of 35,000. There are milts of as
phalt-paved street and tht city is
supplied with electric railways and
all the essentials of modern civili
zation.
Settlement is somewhat retarded
in Indian Territory by the fact that
the Indians are prohibited for a
period of twenty years from selling
their land. Meml>ers of the five
civilized trilies will l>e free to dis
pose of their land as they see fit
after the expiration of the time
mentioned, and it will make them
very wealthy.
I,ouis W.. Pratt and Deputy Mar
shal Dreibelhis will accompany Col.
Mountjoy to Tanaua
NEARLY LOST A HORSE.
Charley Stodeliswn c.iroe near
getting > horn* drowned in (be trail
near Little Minook thi* morning
He hail to come l«ark for help The
borne ua.< a!m«»»t buried in the
mud.
WOOD RAFT LANDED.
Fatal aixl Htcd-*!a» tit have Unite'I
about v> oath of dry wood They
ate veiling •* •*** •* P' *• *h* '»•*.
fit delivered, fit vawed up >«>•
PROSPECTS
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j Prospectors report that the coti
l stant rains have interfered with
their work to a great extent.
George Shirley, on No. io Quail,
i has his cabin ready for the root.
! He intends working there this
j winter.
James Langford has his cabin
about completed on No. 7 Quail.
He intends working there this
coming winter.
Citizen John Minook will go
prospecting on Taulavana about
Sept. 1. He says he is getting
tired of poor ground.
I Mi Leod & Son have their cabir.
| about completed on No. 11 Quail,
j They will work there this winter
and a good cleanup is looked for.
Chapman & Olson have quit
sluicing and aie building a cabin
on No. 12 Quail. They expect to
come iu in a short time to get their
winter outfit.
Michael Don worth is in on a
brief visit from Troublesome. He
and Larson are fixing up several
: cabins and vvill spend the winter
prospecting on five or six creeks.
Sid Williams and Pearson, on
1 No. 4 below on Gunnison, have
had a cleanup. They had aboot $4
to the man per day. Th**y have
just been stripping and much bet
ter results are looked for when they
get to bedrock.
Judge Knapp is back from Ho
sier. The judge had a ten-day
visit oti that creek and reports
everything in good running order.
Monroe & Lindsey’s plant is work
ing fine, but the ditch keeps break
ing and delaying the work. But
there is no question about it—
when they get their ditch an it will
stand they will have a big-paying
proposition.
SCOW COMING.
W. C. Baker will Be here in a
few days with a good outtit of
miners' supplies. The good* arc
for the Miners Store.
MONKOK NOT SO Sl.OW
Jack Welsh spent ahont a week
on Hooaier
He say* in a run of two tlav* the
Hoom«r hydraulic people washed
out a spot ahont /*> h/ forty and I \
ieet deep The lift will handle
i mu cable yard* every 44 hour*.
At that rate they will «oon make a
showing that will surprise the na
LOCAL. NOTES
Mrs. S. E. Heeler and Mrs. A. B.
Lewellyn are expected on the
Roanoke from Seattle.
Trails are almost impassable.
I The constant rainfall has made it
j almost impossible to get over them.
J. W. Duncan, who has been
quite sick for a week, was reported
: to be improving yesterday evening.
The Cudahy is due from St.
Michael. It is reported she is now
at Weare uudergoi ng slight repairs
to her boilers.
J. B. Strode arrived late last
! night from Quail creek. The trail,
be says, is in a fearful condition.
Big Minook creek was so high that
he could not cross the horses, and
he abandoned them and made his
way to the Indian village, where
he was ferried over.
REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE.
Chicago, Aug. 2.—Chairman G
B. Cortelyou of the Republican
national committee today selected
the men who are to serve on the
executive committee during the
campaign. The following are the
members as announced by Mr.
Cortelyou tonight:
Eastern headquarters. New York
—Charles F. Biooker, Connecticut:
N. B. Scott, West Virginia; Frank
lin Murphy, New Jersey; William
L. Ward, Mew York.
Western headquarters, Chicago
Harry S. New, Indiana; Frank O.
Lowden, Illinois; R H. Schneider,
Nebraska; David W. Mulvane,
Kansas.
Director of speakers’ bureau,
western headquarters—Janies A.
Tpwnev, Minnesota.
The chairman, secretary, treas
urer and sergeant at arms ot the
national committee are also the
officers of the executive committee.
PARKER'S MOTHER.
Ksopus, N. Y.. Au?. 10. A
feature of the notification of Judge
Alton B. Parker of his nomination
tor the presidency was the presence
with the son of the aged mother to
whom the attachment is so well
known
After the speeches, which were
rejwvrted m extenso by the report
ers there ror the occasion, the party
was introduced me by one to the
old lady, who hoped that “the
flattery to which he was being sub
jected would leave her buy still
humble in the sight of f«od and
N. C. PEOPLE KNOW
NOTHING ABOUT IT
Shortage Would Be Strange,
However.
| Local representatives of the N.
| C. Co., when asked about the mat
ter, said they had received no noti
fication that the company would
| decline further consignments of up
j river freight, as stated by a Nome
! dispatch of July 13 printed in the
j Dawson Daily News. The com
pany people did not say whether
they credited the report or not, but
the impression was left that they
did not.
Wnen the reported Fairbanks
shortage was broached there was
an incredulous look followed by the
remark tbat a serious shortage
there would be a very strange oc
currence just now.
BURPEE BROUGHT BACK.
Dawson, Aug. u.—Isaac Bur
pee, who was brought from St.
Louis, Mo., on papers of extradi
tion and arrived here yesterday in
charge of Detective W. H. Welsh,
! was before the police court this
] morning to answer the formal
; charge. Burpee pleaded not guilty
■ and his case was remandel until 10
o’clock Tuesday morning.
1 The charge against Burpee is
that he failed to deliver to the Ames
! Mercantile Co. $600 obtained on a
| check entrusted to him by Oscar
Daterneau for the company, and
that Burpee did convert the pro
! ceeds of the check to his own use.
While in St. Louis Burpee was
1 confined in the famous prison of
the Four Courts.
TURNER NOMINATED.
Bellinghntn. Wash., Aug. 2.—
The Slate Democratic convention
here today nominated ex-Senator
I George Turner for governor.
WHAT CHEER 1AR.
Tlie What Cheer Bar boys sent
in 40 our.ces of goUUiust out of
11heir first cleanup. Just what the
whole amount was we hove not
I wen able to learn, but it was
iblubttes* a good one.
The new ditch from Pioneer was
completed on Aug. j, *ud every
thing 1* favorable (or the taking
out ol a lot of money before the
1 ireeaeup.