Yukon Valley News
Vol. II.
RAMPART, ALASKA, AUGUST 16. 1905.
No. 2.
WICKERSHAM
SPEAKS OF BRADY
Sa)s the Governor Resented
the Non-appointment of
Reynolds.
Washington, Aug. 4.—The sec
retary of the interior has received a
letter from Judge James Wicker
sham, of the Third judicial division
of Alaska, arraigning Gov. John G
Brady, of Alaska, for his criticism
of himself in the governor’s annual
report. The Alaskan jurist says
the governor attacked him because
he refused to appoint H. D. Rey
nolds to a court commissionersbip.
Reynolds is the head of the mining
and development company which
Governor Brady has endorsed in
his official capacity.—Special tele
gram in Skagway Alaskan.
Farewell Party
For Mrs. Duncan
The Arctic Brotherhood lodge
will tender a farewell dance on
Friday evening, Aug. 18, to Mrs.
J. W. Duncan, which every one is
cordially invited to attend.
The lodge committee on arrange
ments has secured the assistance of
a committee of ladies, which will
insure that all arrangements for a
successful party will be made.
Mrs. Duncan will be greatly
missed, especially at the dances, to
which she has always given her
most willing assistance.
She expects to take passage to
the outside on the arrival of the
steamer Sarah from Dawson. Her
many friends here hope that after a
winter’s visit on the outside she
will again make Rampart her home.
Messrs. W. H. Callham and Billy
I,eClaire have assumed charge of
the California Kitchen and will wel
come all the old customers of the
place, as well as all uew ones who
may call on them for a first class
meal.
Two big nuggets were found Iasi
week one on No. *> i)mega. weigh
ing % 1*3, and one on What Cheer
bur. weighing I74.
I Rod Morrison Lost
On the Koyukuk
The Fairbanks News of Aug. 5
prints an account of the finding of
Rod Morrison, a lost man, at an
Indian village a few miles below
Betties. The Morrison case is pe
culiar, and may be a different ver
sion of the case recently reported
here by J. Beaudoin, in which a
man had disappeared with a number
of mules.
Joe Matthews reported In Fair
banks that Morrison in company
| with James Mangau and Tommy
Mclutyre were ascending John
river w'ith a boat towed by a horse.
! Sixty miles up the river the horse
strayed and Mangan and McIntyre
volunteered to hunt it while Morri
son kept camp. They were gone
several days and when they returned
Morrison could not be found. His
gun and personal effects were there,
but a long search, in which many
natives were enlisted, failed to lo
cate the missing man.
A man named O’Neil later ar
rived in Fairbanks and reported
Morrison had turned up in a de
mented conditiou at the Indian
village below Betties. Good care
restored the man’s wasted strength
and his reason returned; but he
was unable to recall leaving the
camp on John river or any of the
incidents of his terrible wanderings.
HOLD-UP MEN
BREAK JAIL
Fairbanks, Aug. 16.—The hold
up men broke jail by sawing out
two logs with a saw made of barrel
hoops. They got away and are
still at large.
STANLEY DREDGE
WAS ON THE ISOM
—
The steamer Isom brought the
dredging outfit for John Stanley as
far as Tanana. It will be trans
ferred there ami will arrive in Kam
part this week.
Everything is in readiness for
transporting the material to No. S
Big Mtnook immediately alter it is
landed here.
Sensational Story
From Unalaska
St. Louis, Aug. 2.—The Globe
Democrat made public today a letter
written by W. A. Davis, superin
tendent of schools at Unalaska, in
which be says that the sale of
young native girls into slavery is a
common practice among the natives
and white settlers of that region.
He says he released two girls from
their condition of bondage duriug
the past year, and cites the cases of
six others in which he tried but
was not successful in securing their
freedom. He says that the men
who have control of the young
women in these cases declare they
hove the consent of the parents and
that they are not required to give
them up at any other person’s be
hest. He says he has represented
these facts fully to the proper offi
cials. but they pay no attention to
his appeals for intervention.
HUDSON CHARGED
WITH TRESPASS
Walter Suudburg was appointed
special officer to arrest S. R. Hudson
on a warrant secured by O. A. Diver
charging him with criminal trespass
on certain mining property on
Pioneer. Mr. Sundborg left for
the creek Monday and may return
tonight.
ASSAULT CASE
AT FAIRBANKS
Fairbanks, Aug. 16.—Captain ,
Leach has been arrested for crimi-1
nal assault on 12-year-old Edith*
Broekmiller.
F. L. Jewett, formerly N. A. T
& T. agent at Circle, is in Rampart j
preparing for the shipment of the
odds and ends of the company's
stock. Lumber constitutes the tna
jor part of the company's merchan
dise remaining at this place G. A.
Kettercr will remain in charge of
the property and accounts here.
Mr. and Mrs. James Langford
came to today from Little Mtnook,
and Mrs. Langford will remain for
wme time the guest of Mrs. Hester
DEATH PENALTY
NAMED BY JURY
Perovich Found Guilty and
To Be Executed at
Fairbanks.
The Fairbanks News of Aug. 5
says the jury found Vuko Perovich
guilty of murder in the first degree
and included the death penalty in
the verdict.
Perovich was convicted of mur
deriug and robbing Jacob Jaconi
and burning his body near Fair
banks last October.
The execution will take place at
Fairbanks unless the case goes to
the higher court.
Federal Authorities
To Cope With Fever
New Orleans, Aug. 5.—The fed
eral government at the request of
the state authorities has taken
taken charge of the fight against
yellow fever. The United States
marine hospital service has control
of the state this afternoon.
The situation continues to grow
worse. Up to last night there had
been 449 cases and 86 deaths.
A scow arriving today reported
Hammond, Biedelman and Rushing
making hay just above Hamlin.
J. VV. Boothby has bought the
Allen thawer recently employed
in the work of excavating the N. C.
cellar, and will take it across the
divide for prospecting work.
Sergeant B. C. Roddey, in charge
of the Fairbanks telegraph station,
recently absconded, leaving a short
age of $i,2oo. Arrivals from the
Tatiana say there is a woman in
the case.
Mike La bosk i and Jack Ostrom
last week departed for a winter's
prospecting on the Novikakit. The
Novikakit joins the Yukon 70
miles below Tanana. The pros
pectors will ascend the stream to
near the bead and may drop over
onto the Kuskokwim waters also.
Mr. Lahoski has been in the coun
try be tore and thinka well of it.