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Facts of Recent
Mail Controversy
Load Of Freight Causes Delay
Fort Yukon, March 6, 1905.
Editor Forum: Carrier Marion land
ed here at 8 p. m., Oct. 20th last, with
1195 pounds of mail, some of it, notably
that for Fairbanks, was literally soak
ed and saturated with water. It took
four days and nights hard work saving
the Fairbanks mail from total oblitera
tion. The cause of this, we believe,
was the bringing down in the mail boat
of a lot of new canvas tarpaulins de
stined to cover up the freight left on
the beach about ten miles below here
by the str. Oil City, last fall.
At the lime this ma 1 arrived here, no
ice was running in the river. A little
ice was forming on the shore, but not
enough to prevent the boat from land
ing in the dark in front of this office.
On the following morning a little slush
ice was running, but two men with the
mail—and nothing else—could have been
ahead of this in a few hours. Carrier
Marion left here Nov. 5th at 9:30 a. m.
with 398 pounds of mail and returned
the next day, the 6 th, at 3:30p. m. with
two pouches, having met the Rampart
carrier a few hours after leaving here.
There has been too much freight haul
ing in connection with the mail in the
past, by Carrier Marion, from Circle
down. Last April the mail could have
gone through to Rampart, only for the
fact that Carrier Marion was hauling
several hundred pounds of freight in
connection with the mail. This freight
was for a concern here whose agent
here was also postmaster; so the car
rier was shielded, and reports made to
fit the occasion. This can be proved.
To insure a quick service on this route
the freight hauling, whiskey carrying,
and the drunken orgies and debauchery
that has been carried on here in con
nection with the mail service, for the
past four years—to its detriment—must
be stopped.
Mabel P. Beaumont,
Postmaster, Ft. Yukon.
Regular monthly meeting of the M
sonic Association will not he held' i
night owing to the absence of Dr. He
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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.
Rampart, Alaska, March 22,1905.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
In the matter of the estate of (
Labs Svendsen, Deceased (
Notice is hereby given to the creditors of the
estate of the said Lars Svendsen to file their claims
with the undersigned, with the proper vouchers
and affidavits attached, at my office in the North
ern Commercial Co/s store in Rampart, in the ter
ritory of Alaska, within six months from the date
above writteif. G. H. Wand,
Administrator of said estate.
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R. H. Wright, on Thanksgiving, is
hoisting great quantities of pay dirt.
He already has a dump of mammoth
proportions above ground.
WE FREIGHT
Regular Trips to Glen and
Surrounding Creeks Twice
a Week
teaming & jobbing
One Team Always in Town
Cord Wood Sold and De
livered in Any Quantity
Jim McHogh Frank Smith
C H. GIBBONS. M. D.
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
OfficeHoun: 1 lo 3 p. m. and when not otherwise encaged
Office and Residence, Second Avenue
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James B. Wingate
NOTARY PUBLIC
Forum Office Rampart
GEORGE A. SALISBURY
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Attorney at Law
Rampart Alaska
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