OUTSIDE MAID DUE
Mail is due here from the outside
and Eagle on the Susie.
Jim O’Day and Louie Siler are
expected to return from Ray river
iri a few days. .O’Day has taken a
contract to remove the engines and
boiler from the wreck of the Dwyer j
at that place and land them at
Rampart. _
TOWING OID BARGES
The big N. C. towboat Louise
passed upriver Thursday with two
four-tank barges full of crude oil.
The Louise filled the Tauana sup
ply tanks and dropped one barge
there. The other barge will be
taken to Circle to fill the tanks:
there. The extra barge represents
the fuef consumed by the boat her
self during the trip.
MINING NOTES
Tom Evans is drifting on 25
Little Minook Jr. and will work
there clear through the summer
season and next winter.
John Malue came in from Eureka
creek a few days ago with a well
I
filled poke—his share of the pro- i
ceeds on his Eureka creek lay..
From a space drifted out 100x25
feet . the cleanup reache \ nearly
$7,000.
John Palm sunk a shaft to bed
rock on 17a Little Minook Jr. He
found a 15c piece and gravel carry
ing prospects for three feet above
bedrock. Further prospecting is
postponed until fall, owing to the
danger of working in shafts at this
season of the year unless cribbed.
Hebb& Gaetz have located them
selves at the head of Toolavana for
a summer’s prospecting. If they
find good prospects they will re
main there next winter. Anton
son, Ford & Palm are.planning a
trip to the same section after com
pleting their prospecting on New
York creek.
HKRK AND THERE
Miss M. Donnelly, who spent
last winter here and left for Fair
banks early this spring, has taken
a position at the Fairbanks tele
phone exchange.
John W. Duncan expects to ac
company his wife to the states on
a vacation Mr. Duncan has been
:
local manager for the N. C. Co. for
several years and feels he has a
leave ol absence coming.
An arrival from upriver by small
boat reports a deadly diphtheria
epidemic at Ft. Yukon. When he
left six children were dead and a
number of others dying. So far
the disease had been confined only
to the Indians As there is no
physician there the disease is apt
to depopulate the town.
Jules Marion, N. C. mail agent,
arrived from Tanana on the Louise.
Mr. Marion expects to proceed to
Kagle on the Lavelle Young. He
reports that the N. C. Co. has se
! cured a mail contract during the
! present summer for eight round
j trips between* Tanana and Fair
banks.
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• EIGHTH TO LEAVE 800N
Capt. Gerhardt ani the Eighth
Infantry will leace Ft. Gibbon in
time to reach St. Michael by July
22. The company will board the
transport Crook for Seattle. Fif
teen men will be left at the post
until the arrival of the two compa
nies of the Third, when they will
proceed to join the company at
Vancouver barrack.
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S. E. HEETER’S
PACK TRAIN
The Pioneer Packer and
Freighter of the Camp.
Dry or Green Wood delivered
Personal Supervision thus
Insuring Care & Despatch.
If
If you want a good Cigar,
If you want a good Drink,
If you want a good Bed.
If—if you want to get Robbed,
Go
To FLORENCE HOTEL,
AI. MAYO, PROP
NOTICE
All persons knowing themseives indebted to
me are requested to call and settle. All persons
indebted to me and not know ing it, are request
ed to call and find it out. All those knowing
themselves indebted to me and not wishing to
call, are requested to stay in one place long
enough for me to catch them. All those not in
debted are requested to call and become in
debted. J. H. HUBG1N, M. D.—
NOTICE
All accounts due Mayo’s Saloon under
the management oi L. M. Williams have
been transfeared to Dr. J. H. Kudgin for
collection. All parties knowing them
selves to be indebted to that firm will
please settle. L. M. Williams.
Rampart, June 5, 1904.
Location Notices.—Blank loca
tion forms—ready to fill out and
record—$2 doz. Forum Office.
The Susie left Eagle at 7 o’clock
last Tuesday morning. She car
ried about 300 tons of freight for
Fairbanks to be transshipped at
Tanana.
TRAEGER & FALKENBERG
We carry a full and complete line of Summer Goods
Hats
Shirts
Overshirts
So x
Shoes
Boots
Gloves
Slippers
Fine Clothing
Corduroy Suits
Overalls
Underwear
Cigars & Tobacco
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