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WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, I905.
THE RAMPART BOARD OF
TRADE.
That every community needs an
organization of some kind through
which concerted action may be had
on matters affecting the public
welfare, is so self-evident that it
goes without saying. In this com
munity the need is made more im
perative by the fact that the United
States congress is the only organ
ized body on earth that has power
to heed the wishes of individuals
who make up the population of the
precinct.
The Rampart Board of Trade has
been organized with the intention
of making and keeping it a repre
sentative body of representative
men—miners, merchants, and all
who enter into the industrial life
ot the camp. The men who insti
tuted the organization did so in the
most practical manner possible and
made conditions of memliership so
lil>eral that nothing short of gross
negligence on the part of the people
can keep it front standing fairly for
the community at large.
Two ol the board’s greatest l>en
efits will doubtless lie in keeping
alive the power for concentrated
effort, which is so sure to diminish
when not exercised, and the pro
motion of food will of one to an
other, wbkh a common interest
tends to impart.
The board starts out well, and it
ought to live as tong as the camp
lives.
SOUTHEAST ALASKA AND
WA SHING TON S TA TE.
1 he article printed elsewhere
relative to a sentiment in South
eastern Alaska favoring annexation
ol that section to the State of Wash
ington is simply given for what it
is worth. If there is any serious
movement of that nature afoot in
Southeastern Alaska it is not gen
erally known and discussed in the
interior ol the territory.
Looking at the proposition on its
merits alone, it does not show its
advocates, few or many, in a very
favorable light. Granting that the
claim is true that statehood for
Alaska seems remote; and granting,
also, that Southeastern Alaska is on
leans of more intimacy with Puget
Sound than with the various sec
tions of our own tenitory, could not
a similar claim be made for any
other portion of Alaska? Is not
Nome in business and social inter
course more closely connecied with
cities in Washington than it is with
Skagway, for instance? If so, that
fact certainly carries with it no
right for Nome to segregate the
prestige of its riches and population
from other portions of the territory.
At the very inception of a move
ment for better things it would be
inexcmable to start a clamor ol
“Every fellow for himself and the!
devil take the hindmost.’’
If the future should bring it
about that the whole of Alaska is
joined to the State of Washington
it is hard to name any harm that
would come of it. Alaska would
have just representation in the state |
legislature and the national con
gress. The interests of each sec
tion would be practically identical
in both bodies. State regulations
amply provide for all matters of a
strictly local nature to be conducted
under strictly local management.
If a necessity ever existecl for
small and compact states, it is not
plain that it exists any longer.
The fact stands out in in deniable
prominence that the largest state in
the Union has always administered
its affairs satisfactorily to every
part ot its territory, and has never
exjiericnced serious internal disor
der or governmental scandal. Up
to 1872 a portion of the State of
Texas greater in extent than South
eastern Alaska was held by hostile
Indians and nearly half the terri
tory of the state was as little known
as the remoter sections of Alaska
are known todav: but the condition
was met and every toot of ground
has tieen subdued.
The improbability of a union of
Alaska with Washington is so great
that there is little incentive to even
think 011 the subject, yet we trust
such a thing is more liable to come
than that any portion of the terri
N. V. HENDRICKS
ESTABLISHED 1904
Alaska Commission Buying Agency
SEATTLE, WASH.
We Buy and Ship for you. Only on Commission
Call on our Agent or write to us
THE MIRROR
To Reopen Tomorrow.
May 18.
JERRY FORD,
M. R. DOWNING.
tory will be pruned away and
grafted onto the state, thus adding
injustice to ignominy, and leaving
the remainder in a more hopeless
condi ion than it now is.
THE EXHIBIT A T THE
FAIR.
It is hoped that none of the ear
Her enthusiasm manifested over the
project for a Rampart exhibit at
the Lewis and Clark exposition
will He allowed to die out. After
the mails commence to run again
Special Commissioner Chealander,
now in Fairbanks, will doubtless be
heard from at more length than
heretofore, and perhaps he will
visit Rampart and lend his influ
ence to the work here.
Let Rampart acquit herself cred
itably in this matter, and show vis
itors to Portland what the little
Yukon mining camp has to inspire
its self-confidence.
Steamer Wnllfi Walla
Pionkkk Ckkek, May 5, 1905
I-'ditor Yukon Valley News.
Dear Sir: I write to you for in
formation in regard to the steamer
Walla Walla. When was she sunk ?
I think it was off the Oregon coast.
One of the boys says the vessel was
coming to Seattle and another says
she was going to San Francisco
when she was sunk. Which one is
right* II yon can give some in
formation ahout it I wish yon would.
I have nothing to do with the ar
gument, but I wish to know which
one is going to come out ahead.
Yours truly, H. P.
[There are no recorded fact* ac
eessible to tis relating to the Walla
Walla disaster However, the fol
GEORGE A. SALISBURY
Attorney and Counsellor,
Rampart, Alaska
J. LINULEY GREEN,
Lawyer,
Office at the Courthouse.
OFFICE OF
Commissioner and Recorder
Rooms i and 2. Courthouse
lowing is said to be approximately
correct: One day in the winter
of 1901-02 (exact date not known)
the steamer left San Francisco for
Seattle at 11 o’clock a. m., and at
2 o’clock next morning, off the
coast of California, she was almost
cut in two by a French bark, which
did not stop or offer assistance of
any kind. About forty people were
drowned and the balance went
ashore on rafts and in small boats,
and were rescued by a passing
steamer the following day.—Ed.]
Whisky George
Kills a Big Bird
Whisky George last week killed
a white swan and offered it for sale
at 25 cents a pound. It was a
beautiful bird and weighed eighteen
pounds.
“Are swans good to eat?’’ asked
a restaurant man as he joined a
group of admirers of the Indian's
splendid trophy.
“Better ’n either goose or turkey
if you can get a young one,’' vol
unteered an old sourdough.
“How can I tell whether this is
a young one or not? If it's good I
believe I'll buy it,” said the res
taurant man.
“It ain’t got no teeth.” remarked
a fellow as he carefully looked into
the swan's mouth.
“Naturalists say they often live
over two hundred years," someone
observed.
“iHm’t doubt it in the least,"
said another. "I tried to eat one
over at Chena once, and I think it
must have been nearer three hun
dred."
And then George put the swan
on bn shoulder and went on up the
street.