ALASKA FORUM
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SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1906.
MINERS SHOULD ENDORSE
TOM CALE FOR DELEGATE
7H3 Rampart Miners’ Association will
undoubtedly endorse the candidacy of j
Thomas Cale for congressional delegate
from Alaska. Under the present sys
tem of government party lines should
not be drawn, and Cale seems to be the
only logical candidate for the miners
of Alaska to center upon The fact of
J. W. Young or F. D. Wells being or
not being republican committeeman at
Rampart has as much bearing on i his
matter of the delegateship as the rain
we didn't get last month. In the lan
guage of a well known miner: “Young
or any other merchant can sell us our
beans—maybe: but they can’tvote us.”
The long dry spell seems to have at
last been broken and the miners who
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have been patiently awaiting a suffic
ient supply of the necessary fluid to re
sume mining operations are nearly all
at work. The scarcity of water has al
so produced a local scarcity of gold and
the wails of the local vendors of tan
glefoot and squirrel brand of hootch are
pitiful. The seductive blackjack game
has languished, and the gamblers have
been forced to “skin” one another. In
' j one instance recently one made a big
loosing to another on ‘ ’finger’ ’ and then
committed the great gambling offence
known as “welshing.”
Yes, Senator Nelson is not a quitter.
The republicans of his state, Minnesota,
have endorsed him for another term,
and as he comes of a stock noted for
its staying qualities, it is a safe predic
tion that Senator Nelson will wear the
toga long after Wickersham has left
the wool sack.
Innocent Man Ironed
And Jailed Monday
Editor Alaska Forum:
After a journey of many hundreds of
miles in my search for the bodies of the
ill-fated Sullivan-Sinclair party, mis
fortune brought me to the vicinity of
Rampart. Last Sunday night I landed
at the summer residence of Pitka Min
ook, cooked my supper and accepted
the invitation of Pitka to share his tent
for the evening.
In the early hours of Monday morn
ing I was rudely awakened by a strang
er who held a rifle to my head, and com
manded me to throw up my hands 4 ‘and
be damned quick about it.” Another
man then put handcuffs. I demanded
to know the meaning of the outrage; if
an officer I wanted to see his authority
or a warrant, but he flatly refused to
make any explanation. I told him in
the tent that if an officer he was mak
ing a grave mistake by treating me in
such a way and that I would go with
him to Rampart without those degrad
ing irons on me, but Marshal Drake, as
I afterwards found him to be, positivly
refused and insisted on me wearing his
jewels to Rampart. I therefore made
the trip with two cheechaco boatmen in
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shackled, powerless to save myself in
case of accident.
Upon arrival at Rampart a certain
gentleman carefull scanned my featnres
and who told the deputy that I was not
the man wanted; thereupon he sent one
the faithful for the Hon. J. L. Green
to come immediately and identify the
captured man, and then I saw the in
side of your notorious jail. Green soon
came and he and the deputy had quite
a chat before he bid me good morning.
Finally he entered and began to pester
me all sorts of questions, such as:
‘ Where are you from? What is your
name? How long have you been com
ing? How long are you going to re
main here?” etc. etc. After I showed
his lordship an open letter from the
Dawson agent of the N. A. T. & T. Co.
he seemed awe-stricked and said to me
in very polite language something like,
‘ ‘Mr. Bense, you will pardon us, this is
a bad mistake—you are not the man we
are looking for. You are released from
the meshes of the law; you may go in
osperity go with you."
wned on this lynx-eyed
deputy that he could not collect any
board on my account. What awaits me
at Tanana remains to be seen.
F. W. Bense.
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Judge H. A. Day His Resigns
Position To Locate Rampart
Judge H. A. Day, for sometime as
sistant United States district attorney
at Juneau, will resign July 1st and will
leave for the interior. He expects to
locate at Rampart. The change will
be made because of the fact that Judge
Day has been advised to get away from
the coast dampness to the drier climate
of the interior.
Judge Day was a Skagway pioneer
and practiced law here for several years
before going to Nome. He located at
Juneau too.—Daily Alaskan.