RAMPART SCHOOL
CLOSES THIS WEEK
Appropriation for Schooling
Natives—The Governor
Gets Rattled.
The school at Rampart will close
this week. The attendance lately
has been limited and consisted
principally of very small native
children.
Practically all the older native
children are out at the fish camps
with their people.
Some of them are exceedingly
bright boys and girls. Miss Parke,
the teacher, has become greatly at
tached to them, and has for some
time past been endeavoring to make
arrangements to have some of the
girls sent to the Indian school at
Carlisle, Pa. Miss Parke considers
it impossible lor the girls to be
come decent women if left to grow
np under the evil influences to
which they are subjected, and says i
as a matter of simple justice they j
are entitled to whatever chances
changed surroundings may afford
them to lead lives of respectability
and usefulness. The girls’ parents
have generally favored the plan.
However, it is learned that no
native children will be sent away
from Alaska to ! educated. The
last congress made an appropriation
for education of Alaska natives and
the work will be carried on in the
territory.
Governor Got Kattled.
Miss Parke has been endeavoring
to ascertain whether the money
would be used in establishing one
or more general schools to which
children from all over Alaska would |
be sent, or in the maintenance of]
separate schools at the different
Indian settlements. With this ob
ject in view she wrote to Governor
Brady some time ago, hoping to
receive an answer over the ice.
Uncertain mail communication de
layed the reply till after opening of
navigation, when an acknowledg
ment of the inquiry came from the
governor, in which it was stated
that the desired information had
been duly forwarded. The same
mail brought elaborate rules for
organizing and maintaining com
panies ol United Slate* mi’itis '
The governor had evidently sent
the lady the wrong document
A H Wood & Son's first clean
up on ty Hoosier was made alter »
hours' run and went $130.75. One
nugget wretched $31. They will
finish the dump this week U water
holds out.
THREE NOTED MEN
DIE DURING APRIL
ORVILLE H. PLATT, leader of the
senate, credited with great ability, op
posed to political rights of Alaska. His
influence defeated the delegate bill.
PITZHUGH LEE, major general in the
Confederate army, consul general at
Havana previous to the war with Spain,
major general of volunteers during that
war, retired as brigadier general.
JOSEPH JEFFERSON, famous actor
who immortalized Washington Irving’s
story of “Rip Van Winkle.”
Orville H. Platt.
Washington, April 22.-—Orville
II. l’latt, senior senator from Con
necticut in the United States con
gress. died at this place at 8:53
o’clock last night, aged 78 years.
Death was unexpected.
Fitzhugli Lee.
Washington, April 29.— Gen.
Fitzhugh Lee died at this place last
night, the result of a stroke of apo
plexy, sustained yesterday morning.
The death has shocked the entire
country.
Joseph Jefferson.
West Palm Beach, Kla., April 23.
—Jostpli Jefferson, the eminent
actor, died at his home, ‘‘The
Reefs," at Palm Beach at 6:15 this
evening. The end came altera day
of unconsciousness and after a he
roic struggle of day's which had
exhausted his vitality.
St. Andrew’s Mission.
Sunday Services.
Morning prayer and sermon at 11.
Evening prayer and sermon 8:00. j
Friday Service.
Litany at 4 p. m.
Ascension Day.
Tomorrow will he Ascension
Day. Services will be held morn
ing and evening at the usual hours.
Presbyterian Church.
Services at the courthouse Sun
day evenings at 7.30.
M..E. Koonce, Missionary.
Uncle Sum, You
Minerly Wretch!
Douglas Island News: Wanted—
Young lady to take a position as
clerk in the Douglas postoffice.
Salary $25 per month. Bond of
$5,000 will be required. Inquire ol
the postmaster.
I
RECEPTION
SALOON
S. K. HKKTKK
W. W. CROCKETT
WINES,
LIQUORS
AND GOOD
CIGARS
St. Louis
ABO
BEERS
The Highest Priced but
the Beet Quality.
BILLIARD
AND
POOL
ROOMS
12-year-old Crow Whiskey—The Only Stock.
Something New — Try Our Apricot Cocktail
Leaves for Glen Every
Five Days.
Freighting and Packing
To anil From All
Good Teams.
Good Service
THE
HEETER
TANANA, ALASKA
S. E. HEETER, ED FERGUSON,
PROPRIETOR MANAGER
FIKST-CLASS
Wines, Liquors and Cigars
Suicide of Leonard
the Balloonist
John Leonard, an aeronaut, com
mitted suicide by shooting himself
through the head with a revolver
in Point Defiance park, Tacoma,
April 20.
Leonard was well known in the
north, having made many balloon
ascensions at Dawson and other
places. It was reported some time
ago that he contemplated a trip to
the Tanana.
He had had several narrow es
capes from fatal accident, and was
laid up several months at one time
by injuries received from slipping
from a metal roof on which he de
scended in Dawson.
Leonard was a man of splendid
physique, being over 6 feet high,
with broad shoulders, well rounded
limbs and a striking appearance.
In his pocke* was found a love
letter written by a woman in Se
attle. The writer speaks of a “mis
understanding'’ she and Leonard
had had, and endeavors in an affec
tionate and modest manner to heal
over the breach.
A. CUTTING.
ASSAY EH.
Assoyinii of Ore tincl Hull ion.
Milling, Concentration, Amalgamation and Cyanide Tests Made.
Tanana System
of “Wireless”
It is proposed to establish a wire
less telegraph system from Fort
Gibbon to a point on the Tanana
river near Chena. This is a por
tion of the land line which it has
been difficult to keep up. Capt
Wildman, who has had charge of
the work between Nome and St.
Michael, will take charge of the
work if deemed practicable.
Capt. Wildman is ambitious to
extend the wireless system. The
success of the system in operation
between St. Michael and Safety,
near Nome, is due largely to de
vices invented by Capt. Wildman,
and is the longest system in suc
cessful commercial operation, it is
said, anywhere in the world. The
proposed ne.v line, however, would
be more than half as long again as
the St. Michael system.
Brophy is now the only man -re
maining in prison for robbing the
Dominion saloon in Dawson in No
vember, 1901. lie is serving a life
sentence. Harris, who laid the
plans and directed the robbery and
was sentenced for twenty years, has
just been pardoned l>ecause he did
not actively partici|>ate in the hold
up. Totnmerlin, who was with
Hrophy in the robbery, was allowed
to go tree because he informed ott
his pills at the first ap|>carancc of
danger. To many it will appear
that Hrophv is the least culpable of
the three