Yukon Valley News
VOL. II.
RAMPART, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1906.
No. 51
ALL ONE WAY
IN THE INTERIOR
No Returns from Nome or Southeastern
Alaska.
So far as this camp is con
cerned, the election for dele
gate was very tame. A good
many men on the creeks did
not come in and vote, and
nothing sensational occurred
at the polls.
There was no electioneer
ing except for Cale and W’as
key, and that was not brisk.
The vote was as follows at
Rampart.
Short Term—Cale 1, Whis
key 66, Murane <S, Swineford
12, John Minook 1; total, 88.
Long Term—Chile 77, Mu
rane 10, Mellon 1; total, 88.
Glen.
(’ale 94, Waskey 72; total
vote, 98.
Tanana.
(’ale 02, Waskey 41, Mu
rane 11, Swineford 19, Mellon
2; total 75.
Fairbanks.
Total vote of the city and
creeks: ('ale 2,0-io, Waskey
2.017, Murane 114, Mellon
5:1, Swineford 10.
Returns from other places
have not been received. I he
majority for (’ale will proba
bly he augmented by more
than a thousand by returns
from other interior places.
It he has no more than
broken even at Nome it ap
j»curs that he has won, for
his vote on the coast was ex
pectod to Is* large.
Mellen's Man Bounced.
Fairbanks, Aug. 14.—The I
feature of the voting in this
. . I
city was the forcible ejection ;
of A. J. Hellentluil, the lieu-1
tenant for Mellon at the!
polls. He began to chal
lenge every voter, many of
them pioneers, and trouble;
was brewing, when he was'
seized and thrown out.
Cale is confident he and
Waskey have won the fight
Ante-Election Reports.
Fairbanks, Aug. 13.---It is
reported here that Murane
and Mellon have combined,
Murane to take the short
term. McViear, the Cale
Waskey local manager, states
that his candidate will get a
l)ijr vote at .Juneau, Skagwav,
and Douglas in southeastern
Alaska, and carry Valdez,
secure To per cent, in Nome
and carry the interior by 95
per cent. It is stated that a
thou-and Indians employed
in fisheries will vote for .Mu
rane.
Twin Sullivan in Dawson.
Ikiw«>n, AukukI S.—J;u-k .Twin Sul
livan, tin1 (amno* Imxvr wlm m.'t I'liila
>li'l|>liia Jack O'Brim in tin- livtKnl tr<>
hit w»D ban1, ri »iirn. .| vi»ii r.|.n frnai
tin* •nit.-iiU1. Hi1 will In* In-ri- (nr IN inn*
tint*1, ultvr winch In- will |iriinn| to
l.nrUinli.. Ilr ia in lint1 viiinlitinn amt
ia lnuiiiii a Ha|>|>y time mrrtin* ••M
It icii.la.—Xcw *.
BOUND FOR COURT
Prisoners and Witnesses
Go to Fairbanks.
Deputy Marshal J. C. Dillow was on
board the Seattle Xo. 3, which arrived
from up river this forenoon, with pris
oners from Circle for Fairbanks.
At Rampart he took in charge Mary
Sulligent, charged with arson, and doe
Kelly, charged with illegal cohabitation.
\V. \V. Crockett, Walter Sundborg and
Commissioner Green boarded the boat
as witnesses. Ed McCormack, another
witness, was to be picked up at his
camp down the river. Luev Baggage,
still another, was accidentally left in
Rampart.
The only inmate of the local jail now
is Lucy Carolan, serving a sentence for
furnishing liquor to a native woman.
JACK LONDON’S NEW STORY
Founded on Sensational Occurrence
In Alaska.
Seattle, July 31.—Jack Londonfs sen
sational new story, “The Unexpected,”
has for a plot the hanging of Michael
Dennis by Mrs. Nelson* at Lityu Bay,
Alaska, in 1000.
McClure’s Magazine says it is a real
story, but many Alaskans here say it
never happened.
Many old-timers in the Klondike will
remember the incident. The adminis
tration of law in that section being en
tirely in the hands of the settlers them
selves, a man and his wife took a
murderer red-handed and undertook to
hold him a prisoner until some ship
should arrive on which to send him to
the lower country for trial. The man
had to Ik- watched night and day, per
mitting no other work. Always one was
on guard. If our memory serves us
right the husband finally sickened.
There was nothing else left to do than
to turn the murderer loose or hang him,
and he was hung in proper fashion and
the ease afterward re|»>rted to late ar
riving authorities. The woman was
afterward acquitted. The disputing
Alaskans are probably cheecacos, or
from the interior, where the thing was
never heart). The tiles of the coast pu
(K-rs have only to l>e searched, or even
tin* tiles of the ihtwson pa|ter* • >1 those
•lays, t<> verify the incident which has
Ikci) taken hy launtoii for the basis of
Ids new novel.— I km son News.
Harry Itaker, of Sun Francisco, ami
the amateur featherweight champion
Frankie Neil fought 31 rounds in last
Angeles Aug. 7. Itaker was awarded
the decision, but Neil loudly protested
against it.
A QUIET WEDDING
Charles Fehring and Mrs.
Beckwith.
Yesterday evening at 8:30 o’clock Mr.
Charles Feliring and Mrs. Sweetie Beck
with were quietly married at the resi
dence of Commissioner Green.
Mr. Fehring is a prosperous young
mining man from across the divide, and
his bride is known and liked by nearly
every one in the district. She formerly
conducted 72 Roadhouse, and this sum
mer has been in the restaurant business
here.
In a few days the happy couple will
take up their residence on Chicago
creek.
ALASKA FORUM SUSPENDED
Its Press Was Today SHipped to
Tanana.
The press on which the Alaska Foruni
was formerly printed went down the
river on the Seattle No. 3 today. Re
port says it is to replace the one on
which the Yukon Press has been printed
at Tanana, which was recently taken in
charge by Rev. J. L. Prevost, its owner.
It is inferred from a recent number of
the Press that Rev. Mr. Prevost took
charge of the printing material because
he disapproved of that paper’s course
with regard to its criticism of the Tan
ana commissioner and deputy marshal.
The Forum suspended publication
without announcement of its intentions,
and therefore it cannot be stated wheth
er publication will be resumed or not.
SUICIDE OF ELI A. GAGE.
Formerly Well Known in Alaska
and Yukon.
Seattle, Aug. 4.—Eli A. Gage com
mitted suicide at the Tourane hotel, lie
was the .»on of Lyuian Gage, former
secretary of the treasury, anil was for
merly connected with the Northern
Commercial Company in Alaska and
Yukon territory.
He had lieen on a protracted drunk,
lie came here from his home in Chicago
al»ait two weeks ago, was drinking
when became, and maintained tlte pace
here.
Some one advised his wife in the east
of her husband's fall, and she arrived
here last Monday. In his shame tie
had protected the family name by reg
istering under the name of te.rst. Ife
tear ms I he was living inquired for hy
his wife ami shot himself in a tit of
remorse.