Yukon Valley News
Vol. I
RAMPART, ALASKA, AUGUST 31, 1904.
No. 4
CANADIAN PREJUDICE
AGAINST AMERICANS
OX THE INCREASE
State Department is Com
municated With.
Washington, Aug. 12.—(Special
to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.)—
It is hardly abelievcd at the state
department that the Canadian gov
ernment will lend itself to the prej
udice which is now trying to force
American residents out of the Do
minion. The expulsion of an en
gineer a few days ago from an
Ontario town simply because he
was an American has not become
the subject of any diplomatic cor
respondence so far as can be learned,
although the incident caused some
sharp comment.
was introduced in the Canadian
parliament proposing virtually to
drive the American Tobacco com
pany out of Canada the state de
partment received a report from
Consul Holloway at Halifax in re
gard to the growing feeling against
Americans in the Dominion. Mr.
Holloway says the Canadian Amal
gamated Association of Engineers
has presented a petition to the Do
minion government asking for the
dismissal of certain high officials of
the Canadian Pacific rail way engin
eering department on the ground
that they are Americans. The pe
tition is the outgrow th of similar
complaints made against the Grand
Trunk Pacific. Among the officials
whose deportation is asked is W'm
F. Tyre, chief engineer of the road
and one of the most uufiorlatit otfi
cials of the system.
The understanding is, Mr. Hol
loway says, that tnc Canadian Pa
cific company will oppose the peti
tion. and that every eilort will tie
made to retain the officials in qnes
turn.
Dawson, Aug 17. It i* cult
mated tons of freight has left
Dawson for the Tatiana country
tins season The quantity leaving
here for the entire *eason will be
increased to near 5,000 tons and
may run more
If as much freight ta being take 1
ta by the lower river route aa by
wav of Dawson, the Tanana wilt
receive 10.000 tens ot freight by
tbe close of aavigaum
DEPUTY MARSHAL
DREIBELBIS HERE
Charles Dreibelbis, accompanied '
by Mrs. Dreibelbis, arrived down
on the Susie at an early hour yes
terday morning, and in future will
be the deputy United States mar-1
shal with headquarters at Rampart. ,
He comes from Valdez, where he \
has acted in a similar capacity for
two years.
George Dreibelbis, former deputy
at this place and a brother of the
new incumbent, departed on the
Susie for Fairbanks, and it is un-'
derstood he will take charge of the
office there, although he declined to
say as much before leaving Ram-!
part.
Both are courteous gentlemen
and neither is an entire stranger at
his new post.
LOCAL NOTES
Rev. J. E. Huhn left for Fair
banks on the Susie.
The Monarch is due to arrive,
bound for St. Michael.
The Dawson News of Aug. 18 is
the latest paper received in Ram
part from up river.
Heeter’s pack train is paying
Krashner’s ranch, at the hot
springs, another visit this week.
The l’rosj>ector, a small Cana
dian steamer formerly plying on the
upper river, is said to be on her
way down, bound to Fairbanks.
Mrs. S. K. Heeter telegraphed
from St. Michael that she would
leave that place Aug. 26 for Ram- I
patt. Mrs. Lewellyu accompanies
her.
Mr. Robert R. Wright came into
town this morning. He came in
from 3 above Thanksgiving, but
staid on floosier Saturday night.
Mr. Wright says Monroe & Lind
sey's ditch is holding all right and
they are getting along nicely
with then work.
Cot. I'Uto Mount joy, of the de
partment oi justice. was a passenger
on the Susie yesterday morning,
I*mud tor Fairbanks. He had been
waiting tor a boat for more than a
week and was getting somewbat
impatient. Meanwhile those who
burned in* acquaintance here found
btm a cuapamunahh gentleman
with a great store general in
tor mat km.
ONE RAFT PASSES
ANOTHER STUCK
A. J. Stoel arrived down Sunday
morning with a iaft of about 50,000
feet of logs for the post at Fort j
Gibbon. He also brought a quan
tity of hay.
McQueston got stuck about 40
miles up river with another raft
containing five sections. Anderson
irrived down Monday and stated
that when he left McQuesten had
four sections released and tied up
it a safe place. Nothing further
tias been heard from him.
Mr. Stoel proceeded to Fort Gib
oon yesterday morning.
Andree Letter a Hoax.
Tromsoe, Norway, Aug. 17.—
Hie report circulated that a Nor
wegian whaler had found north of,
Bpitzbergen a bottle containing a
etter from Prof. Andree dated 1898
is a hoax. This is made apparent
is a result of a government expe
lition sent at once to take posses
sion of the letter as property of the
state. The dispatch wired around 1
:be world comes from the trick of a 1
irunken sailor who wrote the letter,
inclosed it ir a bottle and then de
clared he had picked it up when
:>ut with companions in a small
>oat. The letter is misspelled and
written in comparative ignorance of
vho and what Andree was, and the
nan has confessed. He will serve
1 term for wilfully misleading and
leceiving.
Sled Route from Valdez.
According to a roast paper ar
rangements are now being made
by Captain Geiger to establish a
sled route between Valdez and
Fairbanks. The distance will l>e
less than 400 miles and the only
troub!es< me feature will be the
crossing of the summit at Thomp
son pass. To overcome the diffi
culty at that point it is proposed to
put in a steam hoist or tramway,
with a stationary engine located in
t ic valley and cars large enough to
like up teams, freight and passen
gers.
Relay stations will be placed at
points along the route about twelve
miles apart. The route intended
will be practically that adopted by
the tu.nl earners last winter, when
they mad? the trip in less than i*>
day*.
REPORTED ROBBERY
ON NO. I GLEN GULCH
SATURDAY NIGHT
Stevens & Sinclair’s Boxes
Were Looted.
A message was received in Ram
part stating that Stevens & Sin
clair’s sluiceboxes were robbed on
Saturday night.
It is said in town that Deputy
Marshal George Dreibelbis was
requested to go to the scene of the
robbery. It is also reported that a
later message said he need net go.
He evidently did not go.
Messrs. Stevens & Sinclair, on
No. i Glen, where the alleged rob
bery is said to have occurred, when
requested, declined to furnish us
with particulars.
Under American Flag.
The steamer Wilbur Crimmin
passed down bound for Tanana last
week. She went to Dawson from
the lower Yukon three years ago
and has been plying under the
Hritish flag on the upper river ever
since. She has now surrendered
her British register and returned to
the American flag. The steamer
was allowed to come under the
American flag free of charge, be
cause she comes as returned Amer
ican material. She had in charge
four scows carrying 150 tons of
freight.
Sergeant (ileckinau lioea.
Sergeant Oleekman, of the signal
corps, who has been operator in
charge of the local telegraph sta
tion for a month past, has l>«en re
lieved by Corporal Kyttle. The
sergeant will take the first boat for
Fort Gibbon, ami will soon proceed
to Connecticut via St. Michael. He
expects to marry and settle in the
east when the term of bis enlist
ment expires next February. Ser
geant t .levIt m.m has become noted
during bis short residence in Rem -
I st it lor his thorough business
methods
Rev M K it ounce spent last
Thursday night on Doric creek
with Mr Lane and w«at to Glen,
where he will spend a few days
visiting Irtead*.