Yukon Valley News
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CALENDAR
MAY
8 M T W T F 8
1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 5) 10 11 12
13 14 15 16 17 18 10
20 21 22 23 24 25 26
27*28 29 30 31
Moon’s Phases.—
First quarter, 1st;
full moou, sth;
lust (iiiurter, 14th;
new moon, 22(1.
first uuarter. 30th.
JUNE
S M T W T F S
1 2
3 4 5 6 7 8 9
10 11 12 13 14 15 16
17 18 10 20 21 22 23
24 25 26 27 28 20 30
Moon’s Phases.—
FiiII moon, 6th;
last quarter, 18th;
new moon, 21st.
first quarter, 29th
Wednesday, Jink 13, 1906.
It is said by men who are personally
acquainted with him that Thomas (.'ale,
the Tanana miners’ candidate for dele
gate to congress, has a decided predilec
tion for socialistic ideas. If the allega
tion is true it is not necessarily discred
itable to Mr. (’ale. Socialistic ideas,
many of them, are believed to be good
and wholesome by some of the wisest
men in the world today. Socialism
without ideas is the thing to be feared.
So far as they have been revealed to
this paper, the ideals of ex-Governor
Swineford and of Thomas Calc are more
admirable than those of the other men
who have been spoken of in connection
with the delegateship from Alaska. The
former stands for the political lights
and the individual liberty of all men,
and the latter for the principle that the
bounties of nature belong to those who
earn them. The sequence is similar. If
to either, the more credit is due to
Swineford, whose mental habits are
perhaps a tritle less circumscribed.
The Yukon Valley News is by no
means partisan. More especially is it
not partisan from a republican }m >i nt of
view. However, it can conscientiously
congratulate the people on the action
taken by the leading Rampart republi
cans today. In the history of the camp
there has never been a political meeting
in which half a dozen republicans
partici}>uted; and yet it has liecn ac
counted one of the cogs in the machine
that has ground out the (s'ople's des
tiny. Corruptionists in the dominant
I .arty have been in a |swition to use the
community's prestige for whatever ends
they chose. If the citizens will take the
local affairs of the party into their own
hands they will promote their self
respect and deserve the consideration of
those who have the rust.sty of their
welfare and their lllwrtv No party ran
t»- very tael that fairly reflerlM the sen
timent* of the }«-op!e, and none very
gissl that is not guided by the |*op|e's
w Ishes.
CUSTOMS REGULATIONS.
Considerable delay and confusion have
been caused in the past by shippers not
j understanding the requirements of the
i United States and Dominion customs
departments. The following informa
tion is given for the guidance of ship
pers, and the instructions herein con
tained must be strictly adhered to.
Shipments of goods from United
1 States ports via Skagway, destined to
Kagle City and other lower Yukon river
iwints in transit through British Colum
! bia and Yukon Territory, must Ik*
! accompanied by 4 certified copies of
I invoices and 2 copies of bills of lading.
All of these papers are necessary for
customs purposes at Skagway.
Goods shipped from United States
ports, destined to points in Alaska via
I Skagway and Yukon river, are bonded
! through Canadian territory duty free.
Charges for preparing customs papers
by the customs agent of the White l’ass
and Yukon route will be as follows: For
preparing shipper's manifest, 50 cents;
transportation and exportation entries
will be charged for on basis of actual
cost to the White Pass and Yukon route.
Tiie customs agent will notify the
agent of the White Pass and Yukon
route at Skagway station of the amounts
to lie assessed on above account, and the
same will tie placed against each ship
ment as a back charge.
Dilhculties <>t u peculiar nature are
euperienced by the placer miners of in
terior Alaska owing to the configuration
of the international boundary between
the Territory of Alaska and the British
possessions. The town of Dawson, be
ing the largest settlement of the interior,
is naturally the point where mining
supplies are the most easily and quickly
obtained by the placer miners of the
neiglilioring American camps of Birch
Creek and Fortymile, the Rampart dis
trict, and others of the Yukon and
Tanana. During the season of 1 !H)4 the
rapid and to a certain extent justifiable
development of the town of Fairbanks,
on the Taming river, gave promise that
this settlement would eventually liecome
as well equipped to supply the needs of
the Tanena miners as is Dawson. The
American Yukon camps must, however,
for a considerable number of years be
loeallyjdepeudent on Dawson as a source
of supplies.
Theoretically the miners are sup]M>scd
to buy their mining supplies and ma
chinery either at |«>ints in the l'nited
States or at towns on the Yukon in
American territory. Such supplies, of
course, if ship|*sl down the Yukon,
come through the Canadian territory in
tiotwl free of duty. Ill practice, however,
owing to the necessity of obtaining sup
plies quickly, purchases are made in
Dawson, and unless the supplies can lie
proved to t»* returned Ameriean gissls
the American miner must |siy duties to
the l'nited States custom house at
Fagle. Krispiently duties must lie paid
even on supplies made in the l'nited
Stales and returned, siner there is no
THE MINERS STORE
is now taking orders on commission from
the miners for supplies for next season.
Orders will be accepted until July 1st.
The terms are liberal and quality of goods guaranteed; can refer to all who
placed their orders with them last season.
For further information please comrau- ^PUI? MTMCDO C^TADU
nicate direct with.1 lllji llllFiJjIlk) ulUilD
J. W. YOUNG
Just Received
Fresh Butter
1906 Pack.
Also EGGS only two
weeks from Seattle.
I will have a full
assortment of
FRESH FRUITS
the next steamer.
J. W. YOUNG
JULIUS RAHMSTORF,
General Merchandise
FULL LINE
TIN, GRANITE AND CROCKERYWARE
manufacturer's mark by which the cus
toms ins[)cctor can identify them. This
especially applies to such important
mining supplies as small parts of boil
ers, tubes, pipe, pipe fittings, elbows,
T’s, unions, grate bars, sledges, drill
steel, picks, shovels, pump plungers,
buckets, valves, small car wheels, strap
iron rails, bar and rod iron, and small
castings. Even larger pieces, such as
parts of hydraulic giants, are frequently
unstamped. These supplies, kept for
sale by the machinery firms of Dawson,
frequently pay customs duties both to
Canada and the United States before
reaching the Alaska camps. Dawson is
frequently sought by the American
miners in the midst of the short season
for the purpose of repairs to various
machinery, it lieing the only place ac
cessible on the Yukon where machine
shops exist. It may la* easily U- seen
low burdensome on the miner is the
ini|">siug of a duty on his machinery
which he brings back into American
territory after rc|wirs, and on which he
must i«ty a duty because it has Wen
improved or changed in foreign terri
tory. . . .
The regulation in regard to Isnits
coming down the Yukon into United
states territory must Also In- taken into
consideration. So I mat or seuw, not a
r -gular carrier, can, for example, make
the jotmiei from Iktw -on to Cirele, car
rying over live ton* <>f freight. This ia
eapeeialty burdensome on settlers who
J. LINDLEY GREEN,
Lawyer.
Office nt the Courthouse. _
OFFICE OF
Commissioner and Recorder.
Rooms 1 and 2, Courthouse
°
The Florence Hotel
Bar Supplied with the Best
of Liquors and Cigars
Billiard and Pool Parlors °
Unexcelled
BOB SCHABER
JACK RADIGAN
i Managers
(jULOJLSlJLQJLJL8^
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Miners Rest Saloon
(Formerly The Mirror)
CALIFORNIA KITCHEN BLD.
BEST OF
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NEW RESTAURANT
.Just opened in the Miss Parke Building:,
Front Street.
Short Orders. Regular Meals. Home Cooking
Service at All Hours.
MRS. BURNS. SWEETIE BECKWITH
H^odern Dentistry
In all Its Branches
CHARLES D. CARTER. D. D. S..
Will remain in Kuiuinirt a month, nr lonicer
if bti.ltie*. w arrant..
Prior, rra.onahlr. Work irimrnntml.
OPKIC’E Just above thr if. |Mi.toltiir.
wi.h to outfit at Ihtw.ou anil float their
aootla (low it the Yukon. The situation,
owing to the condition., U maloti btetlly
a hiinlen of extra expense on tlw miner,
twit i* ttnavoiitable, ami muiit lie reck
oneil with in any e.timate of expense,
attending the prawcntlon of |>laeer
minitia in the Ala.ka interior.—I'rotu
"Methods anrt Coat* of tiravei ami
I’laeer Minina in Ala.ha," hv t'hr.ter
Well. Puringtnn, of the Inited State,
tieol.igieal Snrve.