Yukon Valley News
VOL. III.
RAMPART, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 1!X)7
No. 39
START CHANDLAR POST
N. C. Man Leaves on the Koyukuk to Open
New Trading Station.
C. P. Wood, for a long time connected
with the Northern Commercial Com
pany at Circle, went up on the steamer
Koyukuk yesterday to establish a trad
ing post for his company on the Chand
lar river.
The triin little craft departed with
between sixty and seventy tons.
Mr. Wood had dropped down to
Rampart on the Lavelle Young and
remained here since last Thursday.
The site of the new post will be de
termined by the conditions encountered
by the Koyukuk on the Chandlar. Mr.
Wood holies the boat will be able to
navigate the river at least as far as Caro,
although he knows this is doubtful.
He has a handsome map and much in- j
formation aliout the different creeks of
the new district, compiled from data :
gathered by Howard Turner while in
the Chandlar in March. Mr. Turner I
said it is doubtful if boats will l>e able
to get as far as Caro, but that they will
probably reach the mouth of the Kast
Fork.
Temporary quarters ami warehouses
of canvas will be erected, and perma
nent buildings for the post constructed
later.
Mr. Wood ventured no opinion as to
the size of the Chandlar cleanup this
season. When told, however, that the
Dawson News had quoted Mr. Turner as j
placing the estimate as high as 1150,000,
he said that with a production far under 1
that figure the showing of the camp |
might still tie considered very good.
At Dawson Mr. Turner said : “Prices j
in the Chandlar after we establish our ]
summer service should be no higher!
than on the Koyukuk, which means '
ubout 10 [>er cent, higher than at Fort j
Yukon or other Yukon river stations.” j
CAUSTEN v.
BARNETTE
According to special dispatches in the ,
Fairbanks Times, Causten, who claims
to have grubstaked Captain Barnette,
gained a victory in tlie court at Seattle.
The court finds that Causten is enti
tled to a third interest in all property,
real and mineral, acquired by Barnette
from the time of the original venture in
1901 to the date of the final accounting,
which has not yet been made. Caus
ten’s attorneys were applying for a final
accounting from Barnette. It is under
stood the order sought will probably j
include all of Barnette's real and per
sonal property and mining interests.
The result of the application will be to
show, on the part of Causten, that all
the claims staked by Barnette by virtue
of powers of attorney do not ladislg to
those in whose names they were staked,
but really lieloug to Barnette.
Kansas City, April ;!0—The receivers
ap|siinted by the court in the cases
against the brewers fur violation of the
prohibition law have seised all brewery
pro|ierty in the state and atsnita million
gallons of liecr which it it is said they
have on liand will Iw destroyed. It is
understissl the brewers wilt not contest
the case*
Berlin is to have a world'* fair in t**|:l.
We get notice in plenty of time so that
we ran la gin saving <air money.
CIRCLE DISTRICT
IS GOING AHEAD
Cecil Woods, the Northern Commer
cial man now on his way to open a post
in the Chandlar, while in Ham]>art a
few days ago said he left Circle with the .
prospects looking brighter than for a
number of years.
The winter work on Mastodon creek,
especially, has been unprecedented. So
far as he had heard, every one of the
big dumps on the creek showed values
that were satisfactory to their owners.
Kddy la-win, with interests on Harri
son creek, has lately arrived from out
side. Hilly Leak is in, looking after his
interests on Mammoth. Two tiuggen
heim representatives have also arrived.
Sam Sanderson, who formerly repre
sented the Berry's on Kagle creek, has
taken an option on Put Lynch’s Harri
son creek property.
Washington, May 11. — President
Kooevvclt says he will keep up the tight
until Komker is driven from the I'nitcd
States senate. Integrity is more ini|s>r
lant than dignity, and it is more impor
tant that the |irople of the I'nitcd States
shall detect |iolitica! chicanery aial mis
representation than that tin- nation s
chief executive should |iern«it Iw
smirchiug in unruttled calm, t'oraker'a
attitude, he says, is one of unremitting
to the subordination of government to
the will of tlw people, ami of unwearied
support of the privileges of wealth and
giant rorp>*rati<>mt.
INAUGURATE WIRELESS
New System to Supersede the Old Between
Nome and Seattle.
FAIRBANKS, May 16.—Through Ser
geant Erickson, of the local signal corps,
the government has made it known that
it wants ground in Fairbanks upon
which to construct a tower and build
ings for a wireless service. In the event
that satisfactory arrangements can not
be made for a site and the necessary
buildings here, the station will be loca
ted at Chena.
A meeting of the chamber of com
merce has been called for tomorrow to
take action in the matter.
A plat of ground' 1,000 feet square is
required.
The plan to establish a wireless sta
tion at Fairbanks is in line with the
government’s policy for a wireless from
Nome to Seattle. A station has been
ordered to be placed at Fort Gibbon,
and other stations will be built at nec
essary intervals for carrying on commu
nication.
THE BIG DOME CREEK CASES
Prominent Men Arrested Charged With Making and
Uttering a Forged Deed.
From the reports of the proceedings
in tiie case received here, it is difficult
to extract an authentic and connected
story of the mining suit which recently
called V. O. Green to Fairbanks.
However, valuable Dome creek inter
ests are involved, and Edward It. Cong
don, L. B. Anderson and James Osborne
have been indicted charged with making
a false deed purporting to have fieen ex
ecuted by Green, and with having ut
tered this false deed as true.
The namerof the witnesses examined
by the grand jury are James Osborne,
V. O. Green, H. L. Colin and Harry T.
Ray.
The value of the property involved
and the prominence of the men indicted
promise to make the case one of unusual
interest.
At last accounts the attorneys for the
plaintiffs in the case of Henry Cook et
al. vs. John Klonas et al., in which a
nonsuit had been declared, had moved
for a reopening of the case, but the court
had not yet made a ruling. This is the
case in which Captain Karnette cuts
such a prominent figure.
SENSATIONAL DECLARATION
MADE BY GENERAL GREELY
Chicago, May 11.—(Unite* l Suite*
cablegram in the Yukon World, lh»w
ann.)—tieneral (ire*-!)-, commander of
the northern army of the United Staten,
wan Unlay npeaking of the judiciary of
Alanka, anil the fact that notwithntand
ing the reprenentationn matle the name
judge* were sent there.
The general han matle neveral tri|>n
through Alanka ami he matle the nennu
tional tleelaralion Unlay:
“It in a womler to me that the Alanka
people have not rinen. It in a womler
that mohe there have not hanged the
judge* lung ago.”
A reptnrt that the hig Clatanika
• liteh entcrprtne in in trim hie wan em
phatically tlemetl at I'nl’lank*
TO TRY TO COMMUNICATE
WITH INHABITANTS OF MARS
Chicago, May 8.—A party of noted
astronomers and scientists are en route
to South America, where they will
ascend one of the kiij/ch (leaks of the
Andes, proUihly Mount f lumlioraxo,
for the pur|s>*c of taking observations
ami phntognigh* of the planet Mura.
Muring the summer that planet will be
diver to the earth than at any time
within Hfty yearn past or to come.
Tlvey h»i* to dine over the cause for
* hat ap|irar to he ronals, observed on
the surface of Mars, ami will also make
an attempt to communicate by signals
with any Intelligent taring* that may in
habit that planet
Already (l,.UI,IWI has been pledged
to tlie A -Y -I* I (position