“TOUCHING”
CASE AT TANANA
J. P. Simons Thought Excessive
Bail Was Demanded to Hold Him
for a Witness.
There was a ease before the commis
sioner's court at Tanana which attracted
a great deal of local interest last week,
resulting from a claim made by an
Ind ian that he had been touched for
$7t>.
It appears that one l!ig Charley, a
Kovuknk Indian, and .1. Haley, a white
man, occupied the same room at the
Exchange Restaurant. Haley in the
morning called for his bill. Proprietor
.1. P. Simons told him the amount and
was tendered a $10 bill, which he went
out to get changed. When Simons went
out Haley and the Indian went back to
the room; and when Simons returned
the Indian’s loss was reported. Every
thing was shaken up and the money
could not be found. Haley said, “Some
one in the house has got it.” Simons
then told Harry Miller, the cook, not to
leave the house, and he and Haley went
for the marshal. In searching the
premises the marshal found paper ashes
in the cooking range. The cook said
the ashes were from old papers used to
start the tire, and called attention to
the lettering still visible. The ashes
were placed in a bowl to be used as evi
dence. Simons and Miller were held for
a preliminary examination, and Simons
was released with Billie Bybee and
Charles Chunquist as bondsmen.
At the examination Miller was held
in bonds of $1,000 and Simons was dis
charged, with apologies from the court.
Now here is where extreme hardship
comes in. The commissioner gave Si
mons till 12 o’clock Dec. 22 to furnish a
$1,000 bond to appear before the district
court as a witness. The bond was con
sidered excessive. In fact it is ex
tremely hard to lind sureties who can
qualify in such sum in any of the small
camps, owing to the nature of the real
estate holdings.
Mr. Simons was inclined to refuse to
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make tlie bond, and to appear for com
mitment to jail; but a correspondent
at Tanana wires that he came up with
the sureties on time..
G. M. JAGKLE
WILL RETURN
S. K. fleeter received a letter through
the last mail from C. M. Jackie, who
joined the exodus from Rampart last
fall, stating that he muld start for
Alaska Jan. 1 and come in over the
Valdez trail. The letter was dated at
Silver Creek, N'. Y., Oct. 28.
Mr. Jackie had hobnobbed with
Frank Stevens, Jimmy Lawrence and
Otto Kreulde in Buffalo, and in Penn
sylvania had visited numbers of Mr.
Heeter's relatives and friends, among
them Mr. Heeter’s daughter, Miss Nel
lie, at Brockwayville. Miss fleeter is a
reader of the Valley News, and has l>e
j come intensely interested in Alaska and
Alaskan affairs.
WEDDING CARDS
OF D. W. SCOTT
Through this week’s mail Rampart
friends received cards announcing the
wedding of David \V. Scott, formerly of
What Cheer Bar, to Miss Oresta Woods,
of Chester, III. The ceremony was to
have taken place at the residence of the
bride's mother, in Chester, Oct. HI.
Mr. Scott’s many friends will lie glad
to hear "f his good fortune, and will I*
impatient to learn whether or not he
will return with his bride and reside at
Kam|>art. _
ARCHDEACON STUCK
TO HOLD SERVICES
Kt Rev. Hudson Stuck, Archdeacon
of Masks, w In, is at present at Tatiana,
is expected to arrive at Rampart Kridav
He will hold relation* service* at St.
Andrew's Mission Sunday morning at
It o'ctiiek, and at the courthouse Sun
day evening at * nTha-fc
MARION TO GO
TO CHANDLAR
.lules Marion, N. On mail superin
. tendent, came in from Fairbanks Mon
! day evening. He was accompanied by
j Slim Helm, and the trip occupied six
days.
Mr. Marion said the Fairbanks coun
: try is looking exceedingly good. The
Valdez-Tanana mail line is running on
good time with the full-weight limit,
| having reached Fairbanks from the
| coast on'a recent date in a little more
than nine days. There are over 100
horses on the line and passengers are
going and coining on the stages. The
Fairbanks-Tanana end of the trail is
good and the service is on schedule
time.
Mr. Marion will remain in Rampart a
week or longer, and w ill take a run into
the new Ghamllar diggings.
MIKE HESS FRANK
DIES SUDDENLY
Mike Hess Frank, an Indian who lias
been well known along this part of the
Yukon ever since the coining of white
men, died at his home in the village
across the river at t! o'clock last Sunday
morning. He had been sick lmt three
days and his disease was pneumonia, or
la grippe.
Archdeacon Stuck will conduct the
funeral services next Monday.
FRED LEUENBERGER
DEAD OF PNEUMONIA
Fred l.eueiil»rger din I in Seattle, of
pneumonia, shortly after reaching that
place last fall. He «ns Istund to San j
Francisco from ltam|sirt, and was over
taken by his fatal illness.
News to this effn't wa« received ill a
letter from l‘. II. Klirhnrn by .1. It
Wingate through the last mail.
Fred l.cttcnhcrgrr was an old-timer
in this camp, lie was not in robust
health when he left here for the outside
lie owned pro|s-rty on Hunter creek
• plaits crystals, unless large and
witliout ttawa, are of twit little value as
cabinet specimen*.
It Is Well
To Remember
That the regular meeting
of the Rampart Miners As
sociation will he held at
J. hall, Rampart, Jan. 1,
and on the Eureka side
Jan. 0.
The law card of H. J. Roden appears
in this issue of the Valley News. First,
as miner, then as newspaper man and
now as lawyer, Mr. Roden has gained a
large acquaintance with the conditions
as well as the men in interior Alaska,
and his friends predict for him a suc
cessful professional career.
WEATHER CONDITIONS
Date Max. Min.
Dec. 18 8 — 9
Dec. 19 5 —17
Dec. 20 — 1 —28
Dec. 21 -10 —24
Nu in tier of days:
cloudy, 1 ; cloudy, 4.
Snowfall: 1 inch.
Frederick E. Rader,
Voluntary Observer.
Date Max. Min.
Dec. 22 — 29 —30
Dec. 23 — 7 —37
Dec. 24 — 5 —15
Clear, 2: partly
San Francisco is out with an invita
tion to tiie world to participate in a
world’s fair in 1910. The promoters of
the scheme have entered into corre
spondence with the directors of the
Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Kxposition with a
view of co-operation in advertising the
fairs.
The deepest liore hole in the world is
located near Leipsig. Germany. It has
attained the great depth of 5,7'.K) feet.
Mike Engels
(Sourdough Mikei
FREIGHTING
and PACKING
To all the Creeks