Yukon V
Vol. I.
RAMPART, ALASK\
1TBRARY AND MUSEUM
ley N e ws
No. s
GUST 17, 1904.
SHORT
Food Supply Getting Low
in Fairbanks
Miners Organize Co-operative As
sociation to Get Supplies
Jack Belsea, L Jones and VV.
H. Porter arrived from Fairbanks
on the Susie. Mr. Porter !e t on
his return on the Sarah. Mr. Joins
also departed on the Sarah for St.
Michael, where he goes to secure
15 or 20 tons of provisions to bring
back t) F; i; banks.
‘ There is not provisions enough
in Fairbanks to last a week,” said
Mr. Belsea. “Boats are bringing
in boilers, thawers and all kinds
of machinery, building material
and ail sorts of stuff, but they are
bringing nothing to eat."
There is growing fear that there
will be a serious sl.otage i.i the
i imp the coming winter. The
miners have formed a cc-operative
ssociatiou and have a representa
l ve on the outside, who is to pro
c .re 300 tons of provisions and
: ave them at St. Michael in time
t > conntct w i h the Mom rch, w hich
w 11 leave Dawson shortly on 1 e
down trip, and with which ar
1 ingemeiits have leen made to
I ring up the freight.
Mr. Jones expects the Monarch
to also bring up his supplies.
The rumor that the N. C. Co.
will refuse further offers of freight
adds to the anxiety. With the
h.rge numbers of pet pie arriv ng
« n every boat, Mr. Belsea thinks it
1 rtain that Rampart will be full of
I eople who will l>e ft.reed here to
lor snbsistencr.
Mr. Belsea was in the Fairbanks
■ strict in the interest of the Kagie
joining Co. He is very favorably
impressed with the outlook. "I
unit pretty near knowing good
i(i t when I see it.” said he. * ami
, tell you the camp » all right *'
The town of Fairbanks is going
ii^ht ahead. The tug bank build
i> g is shout completed ami the
i ults ate brine installed
Louis 1C Frau, one of the attor
it yam attendance at the term of
c-urt held at Kaaspart a vear >f
it in camp just irom Oklahoma
i«<iewiug hfc- a*uuaiuianca with the
I ofite of the Yukon Mr Frail
n .1 go tw Fairbanks in a tew da vs
si.d nltbluh a Mar «Ar« there
Russian Fleet Out
of Fort Arthui
Tokio, Aug. ii.—Driven to ses
by Japanese land batteries, tb<
Russian fleet emerged from Pori
Arthur yrsterday morning Ad
miral Thgo immediately closed up
and opened a severe engagement
which las el until nightfall.
Afterwards the Japanese destroy
ers and torpedo fleet delivered a
series of attacks. A guardship ofi
the harbor reported it saw at dawr
today the Russian battleships Ret
vizan and Pobleta steaming towarc
the barber. Admiral Togo has nol
reported the result of the engage
mt nt.
I .
Rampart’s Printing Plani
i Since the little outfit owned by
i the Haven estate was sold to Client
i people last spring Kampart l a
j contained but one printing plant
St. Andrtw's Mission owns it anc
' for s< me years—up till some thn t
weeks ago—J. B. Wingate printec
the Alaska Forum on it.
Then the Mission j eople got i
writ of replevin to gain possession
; Mr. Wingate proposed to retail
possession by filing a release bond
claiming a verbal lease till July i
1905. The right for the bond was
• denied by Commissioner Green or
technical grounds. The Missior
got possession and let the plant tc
Mr. Heeter, who formed a partner
ship with Mr. Callahan, and th«
first number of the Yukon V 1 ey
I News was issued Aug. 3 Mr.
Wingate, it is said, went liefi r<
Dis'.rkt Judge Wickersham and se
cured a writ ol mandamus ordeiing
the outfit resto ed to Wingate on
thegr>und that the value ?et on
the plant put it out of the commis
sioners iurisdiition. But befor*
the writ was served the case came
before the commi'siouer for trial
and was throwu nut of court on
Aug. 6 Then suhstantil ly the
whole proceeding was gone over
again till Mr Wingate offered his
release fond. The Ci«nmi-.sk>« ei
deemed the surety iiistifh. i nt and
last Saturday be plant was again
put in possession of the Miw on.
represented f.y Mr lluhn
The case waa tried on Tuesday,
and decided in favor nt Mr Huhn
Mr Wingate gave not ice of appeal
W ben tbe plant was • turned
over * Saturday it went n t.. t
ditch and Mr. fleeter had to j a
the press iw splints, whnh acvaaatt
toe tbe Mews being behind time.
No Hard Fighting
Near Mukden
Liao Yang, Aug. it.—The Jap
anese were active yesterday on the
eastern flank of the Russian army.
' It is evident the Japanese do not
intend to carry Liao Yang by a
frontal attack, but hope to succeed
by flanking.
It is officially stated that no im
portant fighting has vet occurred
in the vicinity of Mukden. Only
skirmishes have occurred at the
outposts 40 miles away.
Mrs Stoel received a letter last
week stating that a wealthy rela
tive in Illinois had died and left her
$50,000.
Big Stampede to Beaver
For a week past it has been
known in Rampart that a stampede
is on from the Fairbanks country
to Beaver creek. Comers from
Fairbanks say a man took to that
camp several ounces of gold from
the scene of the new strike. Pas
sengers just from Fairbanks who
arrived here on the Susie on Mon
day say the strike is about too
miles up the creek from the Yukon,
and it is probably but little more
than 60 miles across country from
Rampart.
Pay is said to have been found
on eight cieeks, and the richness
reported of the pannings earned big
excitement in Fairbanks district.
Probably 300 people have got e
from there.
( Herman Tufty and Jack ? pence
were in Fairbanks and pulled out
for the strike. They intend to de
scend the creek and thence down
the Yukon to Rampart.
Several will go Irom Rampart
to Beaver.
IIOOSIER HYDRAULIC CO.
J W. Lindsey, of the Hoosier
Hcdiauhc Co . acci njj.anied by hi#
wile and tour children, arrived from
the i ut-ide on hoard the Sarah.
*1 be ront)>any ha# had considera
hie trouble with it# ditch, on ac
count of gtarter*, hut ibe diffic ulties
are «awl to have l>een Surmounted
and the htt » working admirably.
C L Way land. United State#
poatc ffice ia«f ecu r. was au arrival
I lorn 1* air hank* on the Su*ie He
•did boam***" with f* at matter
Fkwhman In m n>ue It.l noon at d
ItM.ka thing# eaav till the coming o4
the Surah
J W. Duncan u| the X C Cu .
la reported <>w the nth tel
$2,000
Lost by Men Striking a
Jam of Logs
The Hard Luck That Befel a Party
in the Koyukuk
C. G. Nash, James Schofield and
Denny Dewire went into the Koy
ukuk country by way of Dali river
the last of June.
In descending the South Fork of
the Koyukuk the party turned a
i bend in the stream and suddenly
came onto an immense log jam
which it was impossible to avoid
and a disastrous wreck followed.
| The party lost their entire outfit
i and at least $2,000 in dust.
They tried to recover the dust,
but after four days they abandoned
| it and went to Cold foot. There Mr.
Nash fell in with the Piper party of
government surveyors and was em
ployed to accompany the party and
blaze the new trail from Coldfoot
to the Yu':on.
i The surveyors completed their
| work last Friday, arriving at the
^ Yukon in the vicinity of Dali river
2i days from Coldfoot. The dis
tance is 133 miles. It is not known
whether the new trail will be used
as the mail route next winter or not.
At present the mail tor Coldfoot
goes up the Chandelar from Fort
Yukon. The service is twice a
month. Jack Carr is the contrac
tor and is said to get $20,000 a
year. Carr has a store at Fort
VuV on.
Mr. Nash, who gives the above
facta, was formerly at Dawson.
Heeler’s pack train landed about
thirty hundred of potatoes, cab
bages, turnips and beets on Glen
fr« to the Krasbner Hot Springs:
also ten nice pike which Mr. Heeter
caught in th- slough in front of the
springs. He brought a few bead of
cabbage into town.
Johnson amt Jordan have good
pay on Seattle Bar claim Their
cleanup averaged $u 30 to the
shovel and they get as high aa fs
'* the pan The / pick up quite a
nuaaber of nuggets
T‘ e Wbat Cheer Mar boya are
about ready to have a cleanup, ard
are leaking tor a good awe by
the a ay the dirt pane