AUSPICIOUS
CIRCUMSTANCES
Regarding Man in Search of the
Bodies of Drowned Men.
Some three weeks ago natives in
formed Deputy Marshal Drake that Paul
llurkal, an escaped prisoner, was on the
Yukon a short distance above Rampart.
The deputy marshal at once went out
and arrested the man designated, but
when he was brought in he was found
to be the wrong man and was turned
loose.
He gave his name as William llense,
and said he had been sent out from
Dawson to search for the bmlies of a
number of men who lost their lives by
the wrecking of a scow last fall near
Coal creek. Before he left town Mr.
Bense was initiated into the Rampart
Camp of the Crooked Companions, and
an interesting production of his j>en is
said to have appeared in the following
number of the official paper.
Hastening on down the river, in his
search for corpses on a projecting snag
he found hanging a net with fish in it.
On ids arrival at Tanana an Indian
overtook him and caused his arrest on a
charge of stealing the net. He explained
and was set at liberty.
Later a telegram was received front
Kugle stating that Mr. Bense was wanted
there on three different charges—one of
robbing a cabin and another of stealing
a dog, one of the cases including the
theft of a watch. When he was arrested
at Rampart, he evidently thought at
first he was the right man and ex
plained the dog ease by saying he went
to sleep and drifted past Eagle with the
dog in the boat, and then made up his
mind to just send the dog back by a
steamer.
Bense was rearrested and is being held
at Tanana. At Eagle other explanations
will be in order.
Of course there is a i>ossibility that a
combination of circumstances has
placed Mr. Bense in a false light, but
his case is a very suspicious one, to say
the least.
COMMON SENSE MINING COMPANY
The Council News tells of the organi
zation in its town of a most praiseworthy
company, to l>e known as the Common
Sense Mining Company.
The intention of the organizers is to
provide for a permanent method of pros
|>ecting, with a view not only to |icrsonnl
advantage, hut to endeavor to prospect
systematically the neglected region in
the vicinity of Council.
Capital Stock is to lie divided
into lOU.UU) shares of $1 each. The in
tention is to limit hoth the nnnilier of
shareholders and the amount of each
sulwcriptinn so as to provide a filial
sufficient merely for actual expenses,
the shares xuliecrilasl for lieing |«ivnhU*
in III |«er cent, monthly instalments.
Captain I'eary, the noted Arctic ex
plorer who left more than a year ago in
the ship ItisMcvelt with an ex|s*dition
to search for the north pole, may Is*
list The Koosevell ha« not h«*eli re*
pstol since leaving the cislst of Itrevn
land I’eary was to liave rejsirted six
or seven mouths ago.
Local and General Notes
Dr. Carter, the dentist, is home from
Tanana.
M. Brace, an old-time prospector, is
here for a brief visit from Baker fcreek.
Mrs. Geo. W. Woods was an arrival
from the outside on the Seattle No. 3
last evening.
Louis Seyler and W. W. Crockett are
in engineer Bernard’s survey party on
the creeks road. .
The past few nights have been chilly
in town and are said to have been frosty
out toward the divide.
Indians brought down fifteen fat live
young wild geese and some fresh moose
meat from Mike Hess last Saturday.
J. W. Duncan, local manager for the
N. C. Co., left on the Seattle No. 3 yes
terday on a short visit to Fairbanks.
It is reported from Tanana that a man
was arrested suspected of being the one
who carried off the mysterious gold box.
Billy Ramsay, Elliott Gaetz and Pete
Olson may leave for the outside on the
Power, which is expected up this eve
ning.
Eugene Swanson, in a few days ago
from Chapman creek, said he had shov
eled in thirty days and averaged $1K
a day.
The raspberry crop is in its prime.
Berries of all kinds are exceedingly
plentiful this year: raspberries, blue
berries, red and black currants and
cranberries, the hitter not being quite
rii** yet.
•In coining into town Sunday Janies
Langford saw a big black bear at the
month of Little Minook. Bear are said
to lie more plentiful in Rampart district
than at any time since the early days of
the camp.
J. T. Emmett, a prisoner who escajied
from the Eagle jail last spring along
with Paul Burkal and was recaptured
here, was released this marning, his
sentence being completed. lie was con
victed of theft.
James Langford, of Little Minook, has
gone over to do the assessment work on
his quartz claim in the Troublesome
country. Nome parties have hail assays
of rock from this claim made and con
sider it a very favorable proposition.
Mr. and Mrs. Kelly, of Rampart, are
to go to Hoosier, where Mr. Kelly will
take a ]M>sition with the hydraulic com
pany and Mrs. Kelly will conduct the
mess house. Mrs." Nichols and Mrs.
Strickland will move in from Hoosier
and Messrs. Nichols and Strickland will
prospect across the divide.'
RELIGIOUS SERVICES
AGAIN NEXT SUNDAY
There will Ik- ilivine aerviitu ut St.
AiMlri'w'ti .Mitwion at II a. in. ami at the
enurtlmiwe at H ji. in. next Sumlay.
Kev. Mr. Tcitlv will eomiuct the *er\iee*
lauit Sumlay Mr. T<>tty preweheil in a
large congregation at the etmrthno**,
ami he ia .leclareil !<• he an carueat ami
Inalruetive prearhwr. Next Sumlay will
|>ro)iwh!y la> the last time he will tar
(leant here tie hare returning In hi*
charge at MioelikW, Hear linason.
K.xtHinniinr Swine|onl, *hort*trriu
< amlnlute hr itetcgute. will lie ill year*
• •1*1 on eleeti.ui .lay
GENERAL
MERCHANDISE.
OUTFITTING _
MINERS STORE
(In the Postoffice Building)
1 me assortment of CANDIES a specialty.
A THRILLING TALE
OF NORTHERN SEAS
Nome Gold Digger.
The ruffianly sea bandit, Captain
Newth of the whaler Jeannette, whose
many misdeeds w ere brought before the
notice of the authorities by the Gold
Digger last summer, is to pay the pen
alty of his misdeeds.
Owing to the exposure made by this
paper, the war department took up the
matter, and early this spring issued
orders to Captain Hamlet of the revenue
Cutter Thetis to proceed at once to the
Arctic and arrest Captain Newth and
bring him to Nome for trial.
The unshakable crimes perpetrated
by Captain Newth were brought to light
last summer, when, emboldened by suc
cess, he came to Nome and seized a
young native girl, carried her aboard
his ship and debauched her- The cap
tain and his crew—who generally are
recruited trom tne lowest class oi crimi
nals, which accounts lor the number of
Portuguese half breeds in the northern
section of Alaska—for a number of years
past have been carrying on these awful
crimes against the natives. Their mode
of operation was to call at a native
camp, trade off a few bottles of alcohol
for valuable furs, and, while the Eskimo
were engaged in a wild, drunken orgie,
seize the liest looking young girls in the
village and carry them aboard the ves
sel, releasing them after they had lieen
shamelessly debauched.
On the matter being brought liefore
the authorities by the Gold Digger last
summer, Captain llamlet was appointed
a United States commissioner by Judge
Moore, lie was given a roving commis
sion, and accompanied by District At
torney laniders pursued the whalers to
the Arctic ocean. A Held of ice had
closed in liehitul the whalers, and the
revenue cutter was comjielled to return.
Captain N'owtli and his crew, la-ingcut
| off by the ice fields, went into winter
quarters at Herschell island, from which
place they were rejiorteil by the cele
brated explorer, Koald Amundsen, who
came over the ice to Eagle City last win
ter. Should Captain Hamlet lie success
ful in catching the hand of des|>crnte
criminals, there is little doubt that they
will s|s‘iid a long time in the peniten
tiary. _
WORK ON THE GOVERNMENT ROAD
KngilH'cr lU-rnaril ami |>iirty (hr first
of Ihr »<a-k vounm-urcd surveying Urn
government road. They arc to la- met
at Knreku l>y a partv working thin way
fr«>m t'hena.
Order* an- Irvin Major Kieh
»nl.«>n to commenee tin- work of eon
atnM'tinn the road: hut until lie la heard
from nothing ilrttiiilr will lie known
al»*rt the matter
The man who found the aloha Kohl
*««»•< Tatiana got *le.i—uu |»>und»of it.
Judge tauunioon will o|vn nwH at
Valdei Ana H
A. B. NOTICE.
Regular meetings of the Arctic Brother
hood Lodge are held at their hall on the
second and fourth Fridays of each month at
8 o’clock i>. m.
C. A. DAVIDSON,
JULIUS RAHMSTORF, Arctic Chief.
Arctic Recorder.
Mike Engels
(Sourdough Mike)
ORDER AND NOTICE
Pursuant to an art of congress, enti
tled “An Act providing for the election
of a Delegate to the House of Repre
sentatives from the Territory of Alaska,”
I, J. Lindley Green, commissioner for
Rampart recording district, in the Third
division of the territory of Alaska, by
virtue of the authority in me vested by
said act, have and hereby do divide said
Rampart recording district into three
voting precincts: That the names of the
said three voting precincts shall be
Rampart, Eureka, and Tanana;
That Rampart voting precinct shall
comprise all of that part of Rampart
recording district lying north and east of
the watershed tie tween Moreloek creek
and Bear creek and the southwest water
shed of the Kish creek which is a tribu
tary of the Yukon river, and the coun
try lying north and west of the divide
between the Yukon river and the Tanana
river.
Eureka voting precinct shall comprise
all of that part of Rampart recording
district lying north and east of the
southwest watershed of the Fish creek
that flows into the Tanana river and
south and east of the main divide lie
tween the Yukon and Tanana rivers.
The Tanana voting precinct shall
comprise all of that part of Ramimrt
recording district not included in the
Rampart and Eureka voting precincts.
The pilling place of Raui|>art voting
precinct shall lie at Rampart.
Tlir |H>llmt; place ol Knreka voting
precinct i*(mil In- in tin- vicinity of
>piccr’* ronilhnum- on K.nrrka rm-k.
Tin- poll inti place of Tanana voting
precinct shall la- at Tanana.
Notice i* also licwliv given tiiat there
will la- an election In-lit fur tin- purpose
nf electing two ilch-gate* t<> tin- Inmae of
representative* from the Territory of
Alaska on tin- Mil) ilay of August. |ta»i,
amt tiiat each of the above nan us I (sill
ing place* will la- kept «m for tin
reception of vote* from a oYlta-k a. m.
to tin* hi air of 7 o’cha-k p. m. of *anl
•lav.
This Miter ma»le ami enterval tin* nth
•lav of July, IttM.
J. I.INI'I I Y tiKKK.V
t'omniia*toner for ltani|*trt
ttwofiltng ln*tru t