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Vol.
Weekly: Rampart, Alaska, Saturday, December 10, 1904.
No. 24
.Alaska Gains Attention—Government
For Railroads From Coast to Yukon
Judges and Clerks to Loose Power
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TVTASHINGTQN, December 9.-The
«*t v President’s message to Congress
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makes no reference to tariff or recipro
city. The various headings are: trials
*of continued reciprocity; country rela
tions: capital and labor; prevention of
railroad accidents; rebates by common
carriers; national quarantine laws; pro
tection purity of ballot; delays in crim
- Inal prosecution; foreign policy; arbit
ration treaties; Hague conference; the
army and navy. Under the head Alas
ka, the president recommends that the
judges and their clerks should be divest
ed of administrative executive func
tions. Alaska should have a delegate
in congress, favors construction of wag
on roads where needed, and that ad
ditional light houses be provided. He
“ recommends governmental aid in con
structing a line of railways connecting
the Gulf of Alaska with the Yukon
river. *
Nome Man’s Pipe Dream
* A Nome miner, one Joseph Kriek,
penetrated the Koyukuk country across
the divide from Norton bay, on a search
—for Midas creek. While he failed to
locate the mythical stream the sands of
which is gold-dust, Kriek claims that
„ 3-fter a journey of 160 miles inland on
horseback, he met natives who had
found gold, and who were covered with
jewelry and finger rings of their own
“ crude manufacture. Kriek is going
Duncan and Griggs one better.
Brief Mention
Kris Falkenberg accompanied Carrier
Schaber to Tanana on his last trip.
The first winter mail left Nome on
Nov. 1, and arrived in Rampart today.
R. H. Wright is hoisting good pay on
Thanksgiving creek.
A. Black of Tanana was in town the
past week. He came up to buy a horse,
George Wood is cutting wood on Big
Minook.
December 17 bas been set as the date
for the parliamentary election In Yukon
territory.
Cy Noble arrived from Tanana last
Saturday. Noble leaves for Fairbanks
tomorrow with a load of nails.
JBids will be called for shortly by the.
quartermaster at Ft. Gibbon, for a lot
of saw-logs, and 1500 cords of wood.
President Roosevelt has not yet sub
mitted to the senate any appointments
for Alaska.
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It was expected that the new tele
phoue line connecting Nome with the
Kougaroc country. |
The Anvil Masonic Club has ceased to
exist. The club has merged into the
Anvil Lodge, under charter from the
State of Washington-.
Business men of Nome have agree
to keep their places of business ci aeu
all day on Sundays, and after 6 o’clock
on week days, until May 1, 1905. i
Menthei, who was arrested on charge
of perjury, and confined in the fed; rai
jail for some time past, has beer, dir-1
charged on the motion of the district!
attorney.—Nome Nugget.
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An exchange states that Portland i
capitalists will organize a company to !
invade Alaska. The new company y, ill-!
go into the general mercantile business
and will put on their own ocean steam
ers. Portland merchan ts have guarao-1
teed sufficient backing to make that
city the headquarters instead of Seattle.
METER HILL
WON AT LAST
Russian Ineffectually Try to Regain
Captured Stronghold-Japanese
Rave Russian Warships Doomed—
OKIO, December9.—Russians night
ly attacking Meter hill. An ef
fective bombardment of Russian battle
ships in harbor at Port Arthur began
yesterday. This is one of the results
of the capture of Meter hill by the Jap
anese. Up to that time the Russian
ships were able to seek shelter.
(SPECIAL TO FORUM)
Cashier Gees Wrong
DES MOINES, December 9.-W.B.
Colton, cashier. State Savings Bank,
pleaded guilty of the larceny of twenty
five thousand dollars, funds under his
charge. He was sentenced to two
years and six months imprisonment in
the penetentiary
Fleet Progressing Slowly
JIB UTIL, December 9.—Russian
fleet of thirteen warships and nine
transports anchored outside of harbor
coaling*.
Still Out of Business
The ocean cable between Valdez and
Seattle is still out of commission, being
broken now for nearly a month. The
cable ship Burnsides, which recently
left Seattle to locate and ^repair the
break, struck a rock and was compelled
to return to Seattle with a large hole
punched in her bottom.
An immense body of high grade ore
has been struck in the Kensington and
Eureka mines at Berners bay, on Lynn
canal. The strike was made at the
1000 foot level, and experts say that the
ore body is greatest and richest ever
found in that section of Alaska.