“Investigator * Wm. A. Day
Resigns Federal Service
William A. Day, first assistant attor
ney general, will quit official life Sep
tember 1. He will become controller
of the Equitable Life Assurance Asso
ciation.—Exchange.
■ Judge Day will be best remembered
by Yukoners and Alaskans generally as
the “special investigator” and “per
sonal representative” of the president
and who took a junketing trip through
Alaska last snmmer and religiously
avoided performing the duties entrust
ed to him. At Rampart he positively
refused to come ashore and investigate
certain matters, when requested. His
actions in the entire investigation have
been strongly condemned, and the fact
that charges have been preferred and
that his record prior to his appointment
to official position, looked up and plac
ed in the president’s hands, no doubt
played some part in his resignation.
The Equitable is to be congratulated
t upon the acquisition of such an able
V circumlocutionist, and judging from his
+ official career he will be a first-class
l * 'controller. ’ ’ With Ex-president Gro
ver Cleveland, of bond issue fame, Ex
secretary Morton, of the freight rebate
scandals, and now Ex-assistant Attor
ney General Day, the investigator of
Alaskan crooks, the Equitable society
has an array of officials that should in
spire confidence on the part of its pol
icy holders.
Steamer Ella Reaches Head
Navigation on The Tanan
Telegraphic information was receiv
ed this afternoon from Eagle, says the
Dawson News of July 28, that the str.
Ella, owned and operated by Henry
Bratnober, the mining expert, has as
cended the Tanana river to a point .300
miles above where the United States
government telegraph line crosses the
Tanana at what is known as Tanana
Crossing.
v The Ella also went about 20 miles up
'Tebesna river and is about 600 miles
„oove Fairbanks.
The Ella is one of the lightest draft
carriers ever in Yukon waters. She
was built at Whitehorse this spring,
and came through to Dawson soon af
ter the ice broke this spring.
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DENTIST
DR. C. H. WHARTON wUI remain
in Rampart until August 25.
Office at the Ballou cabin.
James B. Wingate
NOTARY PUBLIC
Forum Office Rampart
GEORGE A. SALISBURY
Attorney at Law
Rampart Alaska
Masonic Association of Rampart
Meets on the last Saturday evening of each
month. All Masons invited to attend.
J. H. Hudgin, M. D. Pres. J. B. Wingate, Sec.
BIG OCHRE DEPOSIT
A great deposit of ochre has been
discovered at Sitka and will be worked.
The ochre has been tested by experts
and is pronounced first-class. It is
claimed that there is sufficient quantity
m sight to furnish the demand of the
entire United States for many years.
It is worth $18 per ton.
The Forum is The Miners* Paper
United states land office
Juneau* Alaska. May 26.1904.
Notice is hereby given, that in pursuance of and
under the provisions of the general homestead laws
and the special Act of Congress approved May 14.
1898. extending: the same tc the District of Alaska,
authorizing: the acquisition of title through the ex*
ercise of Soldier’s Additional Homestead rights.
James E. Snevely,' whose address is 4112 l?th
street. San Francisco, C&L, as assignee of Anna
Snevely, widow of John Snevely, has made appli
cation for patent to the following described tract
of land, to wit;
Beginning at a point identical with Corner No. 6
of the original Eagle City Townsite Survey where
Is set a large Mica Schi3t Stone scribed Sur. No.
851, Cor. No. 1, whence U. S. I. M. Eagle No. 2 bear
N. 23 deg. 10 min. W. 13.44 chs. the N. A. T. & T.
Co's. Store bears N. 39 deg. 00 min. E. 20.50 chains
thence S. 23 deg. 10 mhn. E. along a line identical
with the east line of the Pomeroy Homestead 31.04
chs to Cor. No. 2. where is seta large stone scribed
Sur. 351, Cor. No. 2, thence N. 66 deg. 47 min. E.
36.33 chs. to Cor. No. 3 about 4 chs. nearly due
south from the left bank of the Yukon river where
is set a large stone scribed Sur. 351. Cor. No. 3,
thence N. 60 deg. 04 min. W, 44.06 chs. to Cor. No.
4 at the intersection of the south line of Adams St.
where is set alarge stone scribed Sur. No. 351.
Cor. No. 4, whence the southeast corner of the
original Eagle City Townsite [situated on the brink
of the left bank of the Yukon river, near the N. A.
T. A T. Co. store], bears north N. 40 deg. 41 min.
B. 10 chs., thence S. 40 deg. 41 min. W. along the
south line of Adams St. 10.60 chs. to Cor. No.l, the
point of beginning, containing 79.65 acres situated
near the town of Eagle, A laska and known as U.
S. Survey No. 351 of the Soldier's Additional home*
stead of James E. Snevely.
Any and all persons claiming adversely to 7he
above described tract of land, as surveyed, platted
and applied for, are hereby notified that unless
their adverse claims are duly filed, according to
law and the regulations thereunder, within the
time prescribed by law, with the Register of the
U. S. Land Office at Juneau in the District of Al
aska, they will be barred by virtue of the provis
ions of said laws. John W. Dudley,
Register,
It is hereby ordered that the foregoing notice be
published for the statutory period in the Alaska
Fofum, a weekly newspaper published at Ram
part, Alaska. John W. Dudley,
Register.
Date of first publication. May 27.1905,