Yukon Valley News
Vol. I.
RAM PART, ALASKA, MAY 31. 1905.
No. 43.
LONG-EXPECTED NAVAL
Said io Have Been Won
By Japs.
Anivals oil the Rock Island this
morning brought word that a dis
patch bad been received at Fort
Gibbon to the effect that in a recent
naval battle the Japs won a victory
over the Russians.
The Jananese sank six Russian
boats and eight cruisers, and cap
tured Rear Admiral Nebokloff and
three thousand prisoners.
It is not stated in what locality
the engagement took place; but it
is said that less than a third of the
Russian fleet took part in the light
ing and the whereabouts of the
remainder could not be ascertained.
KOVl'Kl’K Oi TF1TS
PASS PALL RIVER
It is reported that two parties
aggregating eighteen men passed
Dali river last Friday bound for the
Koyukuk diggings. Nearly 11 the
men had been in the country before
anil they were going in light.
One party included Glenn the
freighter, with three horses.
Paul Schultze reports that another
party with four horses fur the Koy
ukuk was expected.
\Io>s< ]t i i t< >e>s
Have Come Afcjctin
Pionkkk Cmukk, May 27, ujoy
Kditor Yukon Valley News.
The mosquitoes are coming a
round lit great numbers presenting
their bill. They press it into you
with no regard as to bow deep, and
they take blood lor pay. They are
tine birds, but their songs are not
always charming. Between 1 and
4 o'clock t,i the morning, on the
trail between Pioneer creek and
llootiananu, they stand 011 logs and
Sark, Many of them weigh a
pound. Piomkkm PaoseactoM.
The River.
The Yukon has been steadily
rising for live clays and is now at
the highest stage it has reached for
more than two years. Yesterday
and today tiie quantity of driftwood
has been so great as to make navi
gation slow and difficult. This
afternoon the water seems to be
gaining less rapidly than hereto
fore, and it is predicted by some
that it will begin to recede some
time tomorrow. The big rise is
somewhat of a surprise, as the
snowfall is known to have been
much lighter than usual.
The Independence passed down
Monday on her way to the Tanaua.
If she saw Rampart at all her ac
tions did not betray the fact.
The Rock Island tied up at y
o'clock this morning with forty
passengers for up river from Fair
banks. It is said she carried over
half a million in treasure. It took
the boat from 2:30 yesterday af.er
n ion to push her way ihtough the
driftw od from the mouth of the
Tanaua.
The Oil City left Kagle yesterday
morning at 6 o'clock with down
river mail. The Louise will be
along with the first June mail a few
davs later.
CUPID’S CAPERS
AROUND TANANA
C. R. Corbusier, of Tanaua, is on
the way to Lexington, Ky., where
he will wed Miss Belle DeLong.
The engagement is announced of
Billy Rodman and Miss Mason,
popular residents of Tanaua.
R. R. Stoddard returned to Tan
ana from Arkansas last week, ac
companied by his bride.
A week aj;o I). M. McQuesten,
presumably on hi* way to Fair
banks, was arrested at Tatiana
on a capias by Special Iteputy
Marsltal Walter Sumlborg. The
capias was issued at the instance of
(>. A. Ketterer, who hail obtained
a judgment against MvOiiotcn tor
|>,ijo. At'ter the arrest was made
McOuestrn made a telegraphic ap
(>eal to his write, atul the debt to
gether with the costs, was soon
paid.
CROSSED THE LINE
Dawson Man Skips Out With
Much Gold
Currier, the Dominion creek op
erator who disappeared from Do
mion two weeks ago with $io,ooo
in golddust from the claim, and for
whom the police have been search
ing for some time, has been located
between Eagle and Circle, says the
Dawson News of May 20. Infor
mation to this effect is learned
threugh the Royal Northwest
Mounted Police.
A deputy United States marshal
is covering Currier, and may have
him arrested by this time. If pos
sible, or if the case seems to war
rant it, the Yukon authorities will
have him extradited.
How Currier got to the American
side is not known. The last seen
of him on the Canadian side was at
Grand Forks, in the heart of the
Klondike diggings, where he
bought a horse and disappeared one
evening. A few days later the
horse was found near Dawson.
REV. m\. I'liEYOST
IT FROM TAN ANA
Rev. Jules M. Prevost of the
Episcopal church arrived from
Tanana on the Rock Island this
morning. He will remain in
Rampart several days.
Tomorrow, Ascension Day, Rev.
Mr Prevost will administer the
sacrament of the Holy Communion
at St. Andrew’s Mission, for white
people, at 11 o'clock. A service in
the evening, for the white people,
will be held in the usual place, at
which he will give an address.
Sunday morning the communion
service will be lor the natives, and
and the evening service, as usual,
for the whites.
Anumlierot the natives returned
to the village today, and Mr. Pre
vost has been kept very busy.
lingerie Swanson this week an
noournl that he bad obtained as
high as Si so per pan on Chapman
creek.
The Hik Mitiook h)«lrauln cont
pany has a crew nt sixteen men ami
expects to t<e read) b) Ju!\ i.
FAIRBANKS AND CHENA
TO BE GOOD
Gambling Closed in Both
Tanana Towns
Gambling is prohibited in Fair
banks and Chena and at the smaller
centers on the creeks in the Tanaua
country.
That is what was stated for a fact
this morning by Abe Spring, an
attorney iroin Fairbanks, who was
a passenger for the outside on the
steamer Rock Island.
The closing of gambling in the
towns is i result of retaliatory
measures adopted by people from
the more obscure places in the dis
trict.
Some weeks ago Deputy Marshal
George Dreibelbis gave imj erative
orders that all games must cease
outside of incorporated towns.
Now the men affected by that
order have taken stej s to cause
them to cease altogether.
EXPEDITION GONE
TO KAY RIVER
I)r. Hudgiu and Clement Ander
son left in a poling boat for Ray
river and the hot springs last
Thursday.
Mr. Anderson made a brief trip
to the springs shortly before the
snow disappeared, and so far as
1 known is the only w hite man who
ever saw them. Speculation regard
ing them has excited much interest
lately.
CHANliK IN COMMAND
nh TAN AN A POST
Major Williams, toruicr eom
niatulanl at the military (>ost ol
Fort Gibbon, was a passenger on
the kook Island this motning tor
the outside
C apt Beall is in temporary cum
mind at l ort (iiblou, pending the
arrival ot Major Stamford, who sn
j>efcedes Major \\ tlliauis