Vol 10.
Weekly: Rampart, Alaska, Saturday, June 30, 1906.
No. 26
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Coast Sailors Strike
Stops Traffic
From the Skagway Alaskan.
SEATTLE, June 21.—On account of
the •sailors’ strike the steam schooners
that have been engaged in the coast
passenger and carrier trade have aban
doned operations. One thousand more
sailors have been thrown out of em
ployment on account of the move.
The Pacific C >ast Steamship Cor an
nounces that it dll pay time and a half
to employees on all of its boats during
the cototintnftfce of the strike. - It hopes
thereby to get all its old men to come
baft to work. It absolutely refuses to
^refpgu&te the union. The company has
mp# a fanee around its wharf for
m purpose of keeping the trouble
makinganionists ont of the way.
$he ■Cfity of Seattle sailed for Skag
way last night with a non-union crew.
She had a full list of passengers. . The
poUee were thick on the dock when the
beat pulled out. There were many
union men present and small fights
were numerous.
President Roosevelt Allowed
$25,000 Travelling Expenses
WASHINGTON, June 21,—Senate
and house yesterday passed the bill ap
propriating $25,000 to defray the trav
eling expensas of the president. The
provision was defeated last week in
the house under the leadership of Rep
resentative Williams.
It was urged as a reason for the pas
sage of the bill, that the president has
become a leader of public opinion and
that it is necessary for him to keep in
touch with the people. To do thi«, it
is claimed, he needs travel.
The Lave lie Young, the first boat to
leave St. Michael for Dawson, is re
ported badly broke down near Kutlik.
Heeter Celebrates
Last evening S. E. Heeter posted a
telegram on the blackboard of his sa
loon which contained the alleged in
formation that President Roosevelt had
announced that he would give another
recess appointment to Judge Wicker
sham, and that he further declared
that as long as he was president of the
United States, Judge Wtckersham will
sit on the bench in this division! Later
another alleged “Heeter" telegram
Was poshed on the saitie blackboard,
which conveyed the startling and won
derful ihtelligeficethat Attorney Gen
eral Moody was of the bpinibn that the
“16artied jurist” is the smartest and
brainiest man in the service of the Uni
ted States!
Another
HeetCrthen proceeded to the Heeter
barn: Sam Callahan, manager of S. E.
Heeter’a ne'wspaper, acting as aid, and
mounted the representatives of the
Wickersham adherents in the camp on
ten of the Heeter skates, whom by the
way could not pack their skates as well
as the four-footed article. The proces
sion then left the barn, S. E. Heeter,
wrapped in an American flag, lead the
bunch. Then followed Louie Seyler,
lustily blowing a bugle; then came
Messrs. Jordan and Crockett carrying
a muslin strip sign, suitably inscribed:
“Wickersham.” Privates Cavanaugh
and Squires composed the drum corps.
The cavalcade was completed with the
following bringing up the rear: Messrs.
Peck, Wield, Ramsay and Callahan.
After the parade the party adjourned
to Heeter’s saloon, and Commissioner
J. Lindley Green delivered an address
in which he chanted the praises of the
star recess office holder; glorified the
president and anathemized the senate
and Judge Wickersham’s opponents.
The celebration kept up all night and
Wickersham shouts came from throats
that were kept well lubricated with
foaming bumpers.
Cause of Damage
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From Dawson Weekly News-r
SAN FRANCISCO, June ^.-“Dis
honest mortas, a corrupt conglomera
tion of seawater and sand, together
with rotten timber, was responsible for
nearly all the earthquake damage at
San Francisco," says Dr. T. Nakamu
ra, the professor of architecture of the
Imperial University of Tokio.
The professor is one of the most dis
tinguished members of the committee
which has been dispatched by the Jap
anese government to investigate the ef
fects of the great trembler and the
greater fire.
The commissioners have about com
pleted their examinations on the ground
and the chairman does not hesitate to
declare that had building contracts in
San Francisco been honestly lived up to
there would have been so few buildings
collapse there would have been little
danger from the subsequent fire, while
if the specifications for sewers, water
lines and conduits had been followed,
there would have been very little if any
shortage of water for fighting what
fires occurred.
A. H. Monroe Returns
Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Monroe and M.
Stewart Jr. were Rampart arrivals on
the Sarah. Mr. Monroe left Rampart
last fall, travelled some 18,000 miles
during his absence and returns a bene
dict. Mrs. Monroe is greatly pleased
with Alaska and is a welcome addition
to the social circles of the camp. Mr.
Stewart has come to mine. The party
left for Rhode Island creek where Mr.
Monroe will install a small hydraulic.
He intends spending the coming winter
in California.
The Hoosier company have shut down
owing to insufficient water to operate.