COMPLAINT
BY WELLS
About Minook Road Construction.
Short Character Sketch of a
Local Celebrity.
A private letter from Seattle, dated i
April 19, informed the Yukon Valley
News that Frank 11. Wells has been
making adverse reports on the ltig
Minook road, S. E. fleeter, the super
intendent of its construction, and every
body connected with the same.
“It is remarkable,” says the letter,
“how much trouble a character like
Wells can make, away from home,
where his standing is unknown. Of
course if they had realized, as tin- Ram
part public do, that he is cultus, his
letters would have been thrown into the
waste-paper basket, where they belong.”
Major Richardson talked in Seattle
with men thoroughly familiar with af
fairs at Rampart, lie expressed him
self as pleased with the work on the i
Big Minook road last year. The writer
of the letter above quoted said Major
.Richardson would probably ask the
representative people of Rampart to
repudiate Wells so the department will
know his complaints are groundless and
not worth consideration.
Mr. Wells.
It is obvious that a man in Major
Richardson’s position must he keenly
sensitive to the situation when he is
called upon to defend himself and the
men under his direction against the ac
cusations of an individual like Wells.
During a residence of more than four
years here Wells has not been engaged
in business or work of any kind, but has
lived the life of a vagrant. In HHMi he
refused to pay his road tax or do the
two days’ labor required by law. It
was deemed cheajier to pass the matter
over than to put the government to the
expense of supporting him fi.ir a term in
jail; so he was not proceeded against
He has existed in such a state of pro
found spiritual and physical coma that
neither the vices nor virtues common to
the ordinary run of humanity have re
lieved the tedium of his daily empti
ness. He is said to be accredited by
some simple folk with being the author
ized agent of some high-minded jteople
somewhere who are endeavoring to
purify the judicial atmosphere in the
Thiril district i>f Alaska. Ax Ix-arinn
nut this idea, it ix asserted with proba
ble truth that h«* occasionally receive*
xmall remittances of money. Whi n at
interval* he develop* siitlicienf i nerity
tn carry him tu a aeat in a public
place of buxine**, mi bin departure the
proprietor nl the place often feel* called
upon to aj*>lo)fi*e to hix patroiix for Mr.
Wells’* visit.
Such ix the kind of man whom the
Alaska lbx»d t"mmixxioii ha* twilefctid
itself against, amt by whom, it ix pre
sumed, the court otlicialx and other
public anti private |x'rxoiix in the coun
try have la-ell censored for the past
several year*.
In this connection the A ukon \ alley
\r*a auxlicx to *a> that in dealing with
\lr Well* thu* it i* performing the
luoel *lixtasteful duly that has yet pre
sented itself. The paper would much
prefer not to Bpeak of him at all; but it
is done with a belief that the good of
the community will be advanced there
by. Wherever inside or outside Alaska
the publication here made may lead to
honest inquiry, the statements will be
found substantially correct and the dis
turber in this country’s affairs will
stand discredited and incapable of fur
ther barm.
[ Since the above was in type it is said
Wells denies having made the reports
ascribed to him. He is entitled to such
vindication as his denial affords.]
BALL PLAYERS
THAWED OUT
Swarmed in the Park First Time
This Year—They Are Ready
For Contests.
After showing unmistakable signs of
restlessness for more than a week, the
base ball fans got together for a game at
the park Sunday afternoon. Following
is the lineup and the score:
KAPKiANS
Donaldson, K
Radi trait, Jack
Squires, Henry
Atkinson, Charles
Anderson, A. O
Must in. Sergeant
Boucher, Horace
0 0 0 1 0—1
11110-4
1111 0— 4
1 1 0 0 0-2
10 0 - 1
0 0 0 0 — 0
0 0 0 0 — 0
Total
Mayo, Hen
Sehal»er, Hob
Woods, Cecil
Hal ton. W. B
Mayo, Charley
Wiehl, John
Mann, William
SCHABERS
1
1
Total
Umpire, Jack Welch.
12
1 0 0 1—3
0 0 d - 2
0 0 0 0 0—0
0 0 0 0 0-0
0 0 0 0 0—0
0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
The weather was perfect and a good
many ladies witnessed the game.
The grounds were not at all in had
condition; but it is proposed to have
them plowed and smoothed at once.
Eighty dollars is in the treasury from
last year, and whatever is left over from
improving the grounds will lie spent for
balls, bats, etc.
Rampart players want it known that
they are ready to contest for honors
with any comers, especially from across
the divide or Tatiana.
FIERCE FIGHT
BY WOLVES
dim Chisholm and the party of men
who arrived from the llosiaua last week
related an occurrence that is typical of
the northern w iIds.
The men had left some meat out and
a pack of wolves found it. The brutes
fought over the meat and left plenty of
evidence that the conflict was a san
inn ml iv one. I lie hiiow waa |>imkitl
<lonn in a eoinii<leri»l>le urea ami no lean
tliaii live Wolvea were ki Ileal ami rent in
I'iii*"* in tlie blocaly (ray. The larxeat
piece I>( whole akin left of the ileail
nieinliera of the pick waa aearcely over
a fi»>t >i | mi re. It waa hrotixht in by the
men
They fetehl'tl the ehoieewt lot of fur of
the aeaaon. One •>( the wolf p ita waa
eiiornioua in »i*e. a« thin aa a wafer ami
eire|itinually well ftirreil. There were
alao a nomUr of tine marten, wolverine
ami other akina.
Krom Ihia lot ami from other aoiireea
the N. I', t o. (u| U'twren two ami three
humlreil akin* within a few ilaya.
S. E. HEETER,
Freighter and Packer
Good Equipments and
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Nothem News and Notes
Yearly dog tax at Dawson is $3 for
males and $5 for females.
H. M. II. Bolander is to try eattle
raising in the Kuskokwiin. A start is
to he made with 100 head.
Horses in the Yukon territory have
been stricken by Glanders and many
were destroyed to stop the spread of the
disease.
The breaking of the river at Dawson
May 5 this year was two days earlier
than in any other year of which there
; is a record.
Miller B. Thostesen has l>ought John
Bechtel's interest in discovery bench.
Dome creek, Fairbanks, for $30,000, and
the interest of Peter Varelio for $33,000.
On the Kika association claim, com
mencing at 15 below, Smallwood creek,
Tanana district, a lx sly of tine pay was
found at a depth of 273 feet. This is
the deepest placer shaft in the north.
Charley Bircliler, well-known purser
of the steamer Hannah, narrowly es
caped drowning by breaking through
the ice while crossing the Yukon with a
sack of money to pay off some men at
Dawson May 1. He saved the money.
At Juneau Editor John Frame of the
Transcript in a fight with President
Lazinski of the Treadwell miners’ union
bit the latter's finger off and then ridi
culed him in the paper because he hol
lered. The (alitor was arrested for I
mayhem.
secret service agents in t>an rrancisco :
have full ml the city flooded with spuri
iius $.") gold pieces, a number of which
had been carried down from Alaska by
innocent parties. It is believed the j
counterfeits have been put into circula
tion throughout the territory. The '
countereits could easily deceive any hut
the most wary, even the bunks being
victimized readily till their attention I
was directed to the matter.
J. M. Ruffner, owner of large mining
interests at Atlin, 1!. t'., arrived there
from the outside May 14 with forty Japs
to work in his mines. A mass meeting
was held that night and attended by
practically every laxly in camp, including
miners and mine owners. Resolutions
were adopted condemning Ruffner for
introducing the Japs and a committee
was appointed to take steps to export
them. The sentiment is strong against
allowing them to stay and they have
lieen threatened with violence in case
they refuse to leave.
F. M. A. L.
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