Weekly; Rampart. Alaska. Sat.imlav.. Jau, 11. 1 iM 12.
C. Five-Stock Sau*d — Huntington OIT
For Val(les--l>etitiou to Five Jack
Taggart - Lieut. Oriimn Arrives,
Lieutsv Grimm and Erickson ar
rived from Ft. Gibbon last Monday
afternoon. They report that the
N. C. store was burned down the
night of Jan. 3rd. The only loss is
the building, the contents being
ail saved. The fire started in the
kitchen, that portion of the building
was totally destroyed, the other
part was saved Lieut. Grimm is
mi his way to Eagle, and was cm
polled to cache a large portion of
his outfit below Bear creek.
W. J. Ha mill and J. Helt arriv
ed fiorn Tatiana last Thursday. Mr.
Hamill repoits that tne store
building of the N C. Co. was sa
ved in tlie late lire, but tne ware
house and ageut's quarters were
totally destroyed. 1 he entire stock
was saved, and beyond a little dam
age sustained by rough handling,
it is uninjured.
Hamill had a hard trip down
during the last cold snap. His
team broke through at the glacier
four miles above Jackson creek,
and one of the horses fell down be:
neath the pole. Hamill, iu trying
to extricate the animal, also went
through and got wet to the waist.
He cut the team loose and made 14
miles before he was able to get shel
ter aud thaw himself out.
Jim Hunting.or called ou four
businessmen at Tm'uia, previous1
to his de partii re kor Va kies, and
stated that HsmiU did not assist in j
his escape. He offered to pay the
expense of sending witnesses to
Rampart in Hamill’s defense, and
to reimburse Hanullfor all expense
inctfrred. Huntington left with
over $2000 in his possession.
A petition is being circulated at
Tan ana for the release of Ed Tag
gart, now serving a sentence of one
year, in the Rampart jail, for break
ing into a mail station and taking a
bottle of whisky*** The petition has
over 200 signatures and claim? that
Taggart has been unjustly dealt
with; that the punishment inflicted
was too severe for the offense com
mitted The petition will be for
warded to President Roosevelt.
Geo. M. Rove has entirely recov
ered, and is out of fhe hospital at
tending to business again. Accept
our congratulations frater.
The freight war is now over.
Sam Heeter has notified the N. C.
that he will charge an Sc rate here
after. The consumer pays the dif
ference between the old 4c rate and
the new.
Dave Scott is sick at Tanana so
Billy Halley brought up the mail
thst arrived yesterday. Jim Dod
son left this morning with upriver
mail in place of Jim Oldfield who is
on the sick list.
Mon.' Batif oslii j»s Ami ('iulst*rs-N
gua Banal to he Buill-Kinjr Kd\v;i c!
of Caiieer-Cy.olgfosz’ Burin..
A hill will be.introduced in Con
gress for the building of four new
1 ;*at t loll i ps, fo u r a r mo red e r u i se rs,
and thirty gunboats.
The Boers are gaining on th i
British whom they defeated in a 4
recent battle with great loss. Iin
land calls for more troojs.
Work will begin shortly on the
; Nicaragua, canal. It will be open
to all nations in timt of peace, but
Uncle Sam holds control and will
fortify it if he so derires.
Czolgosz was buried in quick
lime with all his belongings and a
carboy 01 sulphuric acid poured
into his coffin. It is estimated
tnat the body would be entirely
disintegrated in 12 hours.
King Edward is suffering from a
cancer in his throat, which it is
said will result in nis death in a
very short time. Should this oc
cur England will suffer a great loss
and there is no telling what imme
diate effect it will have on the Brit
ish empire.
W. J. Hamill left for the coal
mine this morning. He will be
back in a few days. Hamill has
purchased one of Noble’s bed hor- x
ses paying a fanc}r price in or dr o
get the animal.