Yukon Valley News
Vol. I.
RAMPART, ALASKA, MAY 17. 1905.
No. 41.
A. B. MEETING
HELD LAST NIGHT
New Menil) rs Initiated and
Officers Installed —To
Oive a Dance.
The meeting of the A. B. lodge
last night was the most largely at
tended of any held during the past
year, showing thas the interest of
the members is being maintained.
Out of eighty-five members ini
tiated into the lodge since its incep
tion in March, 1903, there are today
thirty-eight active members. Tak
ing into consideration the number
of members that have left Rampart
and that the eighty-five mentioned
above includes the senatorial party
of ten members which passed
through Rampart two years ago,
this showing is a good one.
Two new members were initiated
list night, E. T. Hall and Michael
I. aboski both of whom made the
trip over the trail and to and from
the summit in a most satisfactory
manner.
The retiring arctic chief, Kristian
tian Falkenberg, in a neat little
speech called the at'ention of the
lodge to the many services rendered
to it and the high esteem in which
it is held by a respected citizen,
Sam J. Callahan, and suggested
that the lodge elect Mr. Callahan an
honorary member. The motion was
most heartily made and seconded,
and adopted unanimously.
The newly elected arctic chief,
J. Lindley Green, selected the fol
lowing appointive officers:
Arctic Trail Guide—W. W. Crockett.
Arctic Trail Blazer—S. A. Cutting.
Arctic Camp Cook—J. C Nelson.
Keeper Inner Toll Gate—C. A. Oavid
son.
Keeper Outer Toll Gate—B. \V. Slick
ney.
Tbe ceremony of the installation
ot dll otluers elected and apfiointed
was then taken up. Past Arctic
Chief John W. Duncan, as install
ing officer, conducted the ceremony,
which was thoroughly enjoyed, es
pecially by those memliers.of which
several were present, who had never
witnessed an installation.
To Olrbnil** I lie- Hr**Mkii|».
A social dance will lie given by
tbe A B s at their hall Friday
evening. May i«*
The dance is intended to cele
brate the open river season, which
is about to commence
A MINER’S VIEWS
ON A LIVE SUBJECT
Editor Yukon Valiev News.
Your paper of May io, with
the article headed “The Endless
Trouble,” is read with much inter
est, and reads to me like sound
common-sense judgment on the
subject; only it seems that the title
should have been “The Ended
Trouble,” for the people can now
go about their life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness so long as thty
do not interfere in a like right of
their fellow beings, without the fear
of an ax hanging over their heads.
I aEo have articles of different
dates from another source on the
same subject, and a more unfair or
worse juggling of truth pertaining
to the acts of public officials, as well
as the subject, would be impossible.
I also have articles from the same
source i-landering the public offi
cials in this district in the vilest
language known to the tongue. I
also have articles from the same
source commending the same offi
cial ywho is the same today as he
was then, except for about one
year added to his age) for all the
honest and honorable terms as a
public official known to the tongue,
even asserting that no one could
be found in Alaska more suitable
for a delegate to congress.
Now, fellow miners, what con
clusions do you come to ? Was
that public official what was said of
him less than a year ago? and has
he changed to what that same
authority says of him now ? or is
this another juggling of the truth ?
Are we expected to support and
abet an institution of truth jug
gling and slander to show how
mean some people in Alaska can
be people who have never mined,
nor I venture to say never will
mine, an ounce of gold in the coun
try ? Have you heard a c ommon -
sense public utterance from those
people in the past six mouths?
Have you ever known any of I hose
people to show any breadth of
thought on any su'ject on every
thing, as well as common law ?
Think of these things, fellow
miners. Give your judgment as
you have, or would, as honorable
citizen jurors. Let us pledge our
selves to good fellowship to each
other, to the support with our
strong arm of the president of the
United States, Judge Wickersham,
Judge Green, Marshal Perry and
Deputy Dreibelbis. There will be
no one’s life, liberty or the pursuit
of happiness interfered with.
Let us also apply common sense
to the native. Let us not think of
a people who live in log houses
made by their own hands, with
stoves and furnishings made by the
white man, with clothing of the
white race on their bodies—yes, and
with the blood of a Kuropean race
in their veins—let us not uses the
terms commonly applied to savages,
“bucks” and “squaws’; let us
speak of them in the more dignified
terms, justly due them, as men and
women. In a word, let us with all
our might assist the work of eman
cipation of a race of people so nobly
begun by our honorable judge in a
learned opinion on a fellow miner’s
application for citizen’s papers—a
native of Alaska with the white
man’s blood in his veins, John
Minook. Let us try to make men
and women of them, and not chil
dren or savages. Compare them to
the savages of South Africa, which
we saw fit to free four millions of,
or compare them to our own race
and you will see that they are just
as capable of exercising all the
rights of citizen rueu and women as
many people coming to us from
I foreign lands. Let the law dis
1 criminate against you or any other
nationality, color or creed, and that
liody of men and women will f>e up
in arms against that law, trying to
defeat it, and they will appeal to
their more favored brothers and
sisters to help them.
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A M I N V M
Mike I.jhtKiki. in from Little
Mim»k to «ee the ice go oul. «yi
t*tf«hwW ii vilhlidl with the way
the titimpn are w**bi»g on tb.it
creek. Tbete kui been two clean
up* on No. A before Mr. Ubteki
left
Clarence Still ha* washed up his
small dump on Glen ami come into
town lie will prospect in thu
section through the summer ami
la 11 He sues the cleanup >•»» Glen
» Winn delayed somewhat bv a
starcily of water.
THE ICE MOVED
YESTERDAY AT 12
Soon Stopped and Still Holds
Together—But Two Ear
lier Seasons.
The ice moved in the river in
front of Rampart yesterday at 12
o’clock.
The sheet in the channel which
had gradually been growing nar
rower under the action of the floods
from Big Minook on one side and
Squaw creek on the other, gave
way, and its weight forced the
mass in front of town a few hun
dred feet down stream, where it
remained intact until this forenoon,
and then moved three or four rods
more and stopped again.
It is only a question of a few
hours when the ice will be running
in earnest.
The extreme low water at the
freezeup and at the present time
indicates that the ice will glide out
tranquilly again this year, as it did
last, without cutting any fantastic
didoes lor the amusement of an
expectant public.
Notwithstanding the break is a
week later than some had predicted
early in the season, only two years
| are recorded in which it occurred
1 on earlier dates.
Following are the dates on which
; the ice moved as far back as the
record extends: 1898, May 22;
1899, May 19; 1900, May 15; 1901,
May 24; 1902, May 21; 1903, May
19; 1904, May 11; 1905, May 16.
The ice started last year on May
11 and stopped just six months later
on Nov. 11. That is about the way
it averges between the starting and
stopping (or each year.
Sf. Andrew's .Mission.
Sunday Services.
Morning prayer autl sermon at 11.
Evening prayer and sermon S:oo.
Friday Service.
Litany at 4 p ai
l*re*b»trrU» I horrh.
Service* at the courthouse Sun
day evenings at 7 jo
M. E. K ounce, Mission*
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