Yukon Valley News
RAMPART, ALASKA, MAY 10, 1905.
Vol. I.
No. 40.
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BOARD OF TRADE
IS ORGANIZED
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Representative Citizens Will
Work for the Common
Good.
At a meeting during the past
week of several business men, there
was brought up the real need for a
body of representative citizens to
look after the interests of Rampant.
It was pointed out that Rampart as
a gold producing section should be
better known; also that Rampart’s
needs in the matter of roads and ol
better mail facilities should be |
placed before the proper authori
ties, and that it be strongly urged
that this community receive its just
dues in these matters.
A board of trade was deemed ad-1
visable and a temporary organiza
tion was at once effected. A com
mittee was appointed to draw up
constitution and by-laws for pre
sentation at a meeting which was
arranged to be held a few days later.
Others were asked to attend such 1
meeting and take part in forming a
permanent organization, which they
did with much enthusiasm.
After revising the constitution j
and by-laws to meet the views of I
those partaking in the organiza
tion, there was elected last night a
permanent list of officers for the
ensuing year. The officers are:
President— M. E. Koonce.
Vice President—G. A. Ketterer.
Secretary and Treasurer—P. E. Rader.
Executive Committee—S. E. Heetor,
chairman; Walter Sundborg, Jerry Ford,
Sam J. Callahan, and S. A. Cutting.
After the election ot officers no
time was had for further business,
and the meeting adjourned at a late
hour.
Object# of the Hoard.
The board asks tor the co opera
tion of the community, and espe
cially oi the miners, for if it is able
to accomplish anything in the direc
tion toward which it will bend its
energies, the muter will be the first
to profit thereby.
Without unavoidable delay invi
tations will be issued to the miners
and others to join the organization, ^
for it must have the financial as
well as the moral support of the
community if its ends are to be
accomplished.
The objects of the board of trade
are state 1 in general terms in the
constitution, which reads:
“The objects of this organization
are to assist and co-operate with
the people of Rampart and vicinity,
for the purpose of promoting the I
interests of the community in any
way possible, and to act in con
junction with other similar bodies
in Alaska for the advancement and
development of our great territory. ’ ’
,Probably a Case
of Mistaken Identity
Ben the Water Man the other.
day went far out onto the river ice !
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and cut a water hole, in order to!
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avoid the surface water which is
pouring in from the shore. After
ward when Ben went to the hole j
for water he found a bucket of filth i
had been dumped into it.
It is suggested that some would-1
be suicide committed the act under I
a misapprehension that he was j
drowning himself.
PROGRESS OF THE WAR
Suicide of Capt. Hansen-Sensational Holdup.
News from Fairbanks.
A correspondent, asiceu ior some
news, wires the following interest
ing items:
The War.
Fairbanks, May io.—General
Linevicb, successor ta Kuropatkin
as commander in chief of the Rus
sian army, is sparring with Oyaina
for position near Harbin in Man
churia.
The Russian and Japanese fleets
are maneuvering in the Straits of
Formosa, and a big naval battle is
due.
Rioting and disordei continue
in many large Russian cities. As
sassinations and attempts on the
lives of high officials, including the
czar, occur.
President Roosevelt, now on a
hunting trip in Colorado, is said to
be mediating for peace between
Russia and Japan.
(apt. Hansen Suicides.
Capt. J. K. Hansen, formerly
with the Northern Commercial
Company, suicided May 9 by jump
ing from the deck ot the steamer
Itolnhin mi route to Skavwav.
Kairlwinks and Vicinity.
Sluicing on '.lie creeks commenced
ten days ago. The results are let
ter than expected. The estimate
is now six million dollars from the
dumps. l.ooks like scarcity ol
water.
Chen* river <>|>eiied Sunday
right.
Fairly good reports from Delta
country, but nothing definite as U
the richness of the ground
Court has t>een in session siuei
April to. Petit jury will lie callc.
ior June 15, aDoiu, ana tne ^rana
jury for July 3.
A robber held up Knox and
Hamilton, on Cleary creek, and
took the strong box with $8,000 in
dust; but was closely pursued and
compelled to cache it. Box and
dust found.
The railroad from Chena is being
constructed by a large force of
workmen. It will be operating
trains to Fairbanks by July 4.
Ceis & Herrington have con
structed a fine three-story building
10 Front street, at a cost of $36,000.
Several large and costly structures
are going up.
The town is prosperous and peo
ple hopeful.
C.odfrey Chealander, represent
ing the Lewis and Clark exposition
of Portland, is here arranging for
Alaska exhibits.
It is reported that Tanana river
channel has changed so that it no
r passes Chena, but joins the
town, leaving the latter point with
substantially the same volume of
water as Fairbanks. Would not
vouch for the truth of the report.
nnel eight miles below
'I'litit Mfsxaue
From Vulclez
Following is a copy of the cele
brated telegram sent by a Valdes
mass meeting to President Roose
velt:
"On behalf of sixty thousand
American citizens in Alaska who
are denied the right of rrpresenta
lion in any form, we demand, in
mass meeting assembled, that Alas
ka be annexed to Canada.
"O. Fish, Chairman."
THE CLEANUP
WELL UNDER WAY
Shoveling In Started on Both
Sides of the Divide
Monday.
I)r. C. H. Gibbons arrived from
Thanksgiving last night. He left
there Sunday night, and will stay
till after the ice goes out. He has
never seen the Yukon cast off her
winter fetters, and could not afford
10 miss the spectacle again.
On Thanksgiving R. H. Wright
was to commence shoveling in
Monday. He is still hoisting, and
Robert has so far recovered from
the late accident that he is able to
run the engine.
Olson & Hoagland were to make
the first cleanup fiom their big
TLanksgivitig dump Monday night.
H. F. Tbumm, on Doric creek,
was making his first cleanup Mon
day afternoon. The boxes were
lined with gold, nuggets as big as
ptarmigan eggs showing in the
sand.
Frank Stevens, on Glen, was
opening his ditch Sunday. He,
Sinclair, Oslin & Butler, and in
fact everybody on the gulch, ex
pected to commence shoveling in
last Monday.
Dr. Gibbons says by this time
the washup is under way every
where across the divide, and the
mitieis are all in jolly spirits over
the outcome of their labor.
The doctor said the saw mill on
Kureka is ripping ou* lumber at a
great rate.
On Little Minook.
Shoveling in commenced on all
claims on Little Minook Monday.
Louis Sbequiti is also ground
sluicing on 3 below.
Reduction In Kates
To Fortland Fuir
Tlie Alaska Steamship Associa
lion has agreed to make a reduction
in passenger rates for the Lewis ami
Clark fair. The reduced rate will
proliahly apply to certain stipu
lated dates.
It is also stated that the White
Puss Route has lieen considering
making a reduction to round-trip
lair-bound passengers.
I’pper river is broke for .’oo aides
below Le Burge Ice went out of
Baker cieek and the Tanana broke
for a distance there. Ice scarcely
can hold a week longer at Rampart.