Yukon Valiev News
vol. iir.
RAMPAHT, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21. 1I*0G
No. 1 3
LOT JUMPING
AT FAIRBANKS
Business lots are being jumped in
Fairbanks. Today, said the Northern
Light of Nov. 3, J. (’. Nollette posted a
location notice on the vacant lot next to
Peoples’s store, on Second street, and
other business lots were jumped on
Cushman and First avenue.
The lot next to Peoples is owned by
Dussenburv, of the Fairbanks Banking
Company, and Sherman Dewey. The
locator, as soon as he posted his notice,
hauled a small shack and is now living
there. The location notice is witnessed
by Youngquist. If the jumpers can
make their claims good it means that
every vacant lot in the city is open to
entry. The lot alongside of Peoples
was improved, but the recent fire swept
away the improvements, and nothing
has been done since then. There are
many business lots at the present time
without improvements.
Harry Badger, trustee for the credi
tors of the Fairbanks Trading and Man
ufacturing Company, jumped the Waech
ter lot, formerly covered by the River
side hotel. He acted in order to pro
tect the creditors.
The jumpers, it seems, are deluding
on squatters’ rights to make their titles
good. The law holds that a lot must lie
improved, but in the case of business
property the law may la- subject to a
different interpretation.
PAYSTREAK MAY BE
LONGEST ONE KNOWN
Where is the jiaystreuk on I he Chata
nika to end? asks the Fairbanks Times.
It will lie fully 100 miles l«»n»e if the
^ assurance of some of the miners who are
seeking its sinuous path ilown stream is
accepted as an indication of its extent.
From the mouth of Cleary creek there
is for a distance of fifteen miles a string
of association claims and every one of
them has a few men on it sinking holes.
Nor does it end w ith the last group some
four miles below Vault, for recently
there were a number of such claims
stake< 1 below McLeod creek.
With the finding of a paystreak on
the left limit below Cleary creek, a
theory has been advanced that the run
of gold follows out on tfiat stream from
every creek entering on tfiat limit.
This has eatised the great amount of
prospecting that is now going on.
Should such a |s»ystreak fa* developed
it would prove to lie the longest ptacrr
pwystreak in the world
Society women of Logansport, Ind ,
fought for llie privilege >4 shaking hands
with Hn. Xieh«4a* l.o«g*orlh, the |irea
^i'lent a •laughter
DAMAGE BY FLOOD
IN WASHINGTON STATE
SEATTLE, Nov. 10.—Two hundred square miles of
tin* White River valley between Tacoma and Seattle are
under water. In some places it is up to the second
story of houses. There is very little loss of life, but the
property damage is great. Railroad tracks are washed
out and telegraph lines are down.
Rivers all over the state are over their banks and
flooding the country.
FISH CREEK
STORY A FAKE
From the liest information to be had
it appears there was considerable fake
alamt the alleged stampede to Fish
creek of the Tanana.
A story was heard today to the effect
that Special Mail Carrier J. S. Hunne
well, who told of the stampede on his
arrival from Tanana a week ago, re
turned to that town with quite a lot to
say about the way jieople were stam
jieding from Rampart.
It seems to l>c a fact that a few have
gone from the other side of the divide
to Patterson creek in the Fish creek
section. There seems to lie nothing to
get excited aland, however.
JULES MARION TO GO
TO THE CHANDLAR
Word came down with the mail Sat
urday afternoon that Mail Superintend
rnt Jule* Marion will make a trip to the
t'handlar digging*. Norman Marion,
who came with the mail from Kaglc to
White Eye’a, told Carrier Paul Schnltat
that Julea will go.
Sui<erintendent Marion ei|m’ti> to
accompany the laat mail leaving Eagle
thia month to I'ort Yukon. He will
tlien run up and are what tlie new dia
trict look* like, after which he will com*
on down to Itamtiart
If the program i« carried out Mr.
Marion will have to inuah pretty livelv
in order to connect with hie t'hriatma*
turkey lie re
All epidemic of la grippe la prevalent
in ltie Taiutna. Nearly every one haa
received a touch of the maladv. arcord
ing to the Northern Eight.
JOHN WILSON
SENT TO GIBBON
John Wilson, an old Rampart resident,
has been sent to Tanana to receive treat
ment at the |s>st hospital at Fort (rib
bon. His ailment is of a dropsical na
ture and lie is thought to lie seriously
ill. He was similarly afflicted a year
ago, and was successfully treated by the
jiost doctor.
Charley Pitka started down with the
sick man Sunday morning. At McCor
mick's camp, twelve miles from Ram
part, Wilson refused to proceed and
Charley returned to town. Monday
morning, however, he was sent out
again, and probably took the sufferer
through that time.
$86 NUGGET FOUND
ON LITTLE MINOOK
W. W. Crockett waa in town laat
Saturday allowing hi* friend* an $Sti
nugget (oiiml on No. 10 Little Mi nook
tl»- ilay la-fore. It i* a hundxome lump,
(rev from <|iiarti. Other ciwnr gold
(oiinil in the tUy'i work run the pickup*
up flO'.'
Me**r* Crockett and Seyler have twro
aliaftadown 100 feet a|«irt—l»-th in fine
pay. The (mv dirt ia t» feet thiek ami
careful panlong* lead them to ladieve
it will go HO rent* to the Inicket. With
plenty of tliat kind of ground in aight to
keep like in running at leaat all winfar,
they naturally anti«'i|>«tr a aatiefaetory
cleanup neat apring.
Aa ia aaid t>> lie the raae on No. a alao,
\|eaara t >•» kctt and Seyler have IouimI
that a c« limit ter a Ide .teplh of pay a a*
left in Iwlnct on ground formerly gone
over on 0 ami 10
OUTSIDE MAIL
BEHIND TIME
The mail leaving Eagle Oct. 20 ar
rived here Saturday afternoon. The
latest papers in it were the Dawson
News of Oct. 12 and the Skagway Alas
kan of Oct. 6.,
Although it was ten days overdue, it
caused no particular uneasiness. Nor
man Marion brought it to FortYukon and
lost several days waiting for the river to
close. He left Fort Yukon Nov. 2 and
turned it over to Schultz and Biederman
at White Eyes.
Marion told Schultz and Biederman
that all the men waiting at Fort Yukon
had gone on into Chandlar. He also
said that a man named Nelson brought
considerable dust to Fort Yukon from
Big Squaw areek. That was all the
word, so far as known, that came about
Chandlar. Another mail was expected
down today, but it did not come. It is
believed there are letters in it with news
of the diggings.
Mail arrives regularly from Tanana
each Wednesday and departs up river
next day.
EQUINE SNOWSHOES
FOR UNPACKED TRAILS
To a good many people the proposi
tion to put snow-shoes onto horses in
order that the animals may be worked
on unpacked winter trails may appear a
little odd. To persons who never heard
of the like mention of Buch a proceed
ing sounds like a joke. But that is just
what is going to lie done; and men who
have lieen around a bit say it is no new
racket, either.
William Midgelv, who will start for
the t'handlar with a horse sleigh in two
or three days, will go provided with
horse snowshoes, and Mike Kngels de
clares that if he receives a call tor
freighting over unpacked trails lie will
put snowshoes on his “rabbits" ami
deliver the gissls.
The horse snowshoes are made by
Isdting two pieces of M-inch-sr|iiare
board together for each shoe. The
tioarda are laid so that the grain of one
crosses that of the other, thus insuring
greater strength. The calks of the
horse's iron *h«a* are set into holes
made for the purpose in the snowehor;
the — oeikm is fastened securely to the
horse's f«sit by means of an iron band
and a threaded bolt, ami the trick is
dons.
N B —It is the horse editor's opinion
that if pacing horses could he hml the
Moraegtan snnwshnss nsnslinsss called
•hssa—would he a dsrhlvd improvement
over the sort above described