Weekiv: Rampart. Alaska. Thursday. Kebrairv I I, U)01.
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COURT TO CONVENE HIRE IN MARSH.
OSCAR WILDE DEAD.
CUPPINGS.
Judge Balliet receive l bv yester
day’s mail, an order of the court
at Eagle, dated Dec. 28th. setting
Juarch 4th. as the date for holding
a special session of court at Ram
] ait. The court will leave Eagle,
1 eb. 10, and will be here in ample
time to open court on the above
date. Judge Wiekersham will be
accompanied by Cleric Heilig, and
p .ssihly Mais’ial Perry, Pros.Attv.
Trench and Stenographer Jeffries,
will be in the party.
Osoir Wilde, died i:i I* iris on
Dec. i. in an obscure corner of the
Latin y inner, from meningitis.
1 Le was received into the Catholic
faith on his death bid. Wilde lias
been living there for several months
under the name of Maumoutii.
Lately, it is reported lie had been
almost destitute.
Jack Ortega, an ex prize fighter,
was sentenced to life imprisonment
at San Jose recently, by Judge Lor
igau. His offence was a most re
volting assault on a young girl,
whose mother die 1 within a few
hoars, after hearing of it. Ortega
is 23 years old,and has a bad record,
all his family have done time either
in prison or a reformatory.
General McArthur has confirm
ed sentences of h inging passed on
four natives, recently convicted of
murder at Ling a yen. They will be
hanged Dec.i, says the S.F.Chron
ical.
According to the N.Y Sun, John
L,. Sullivan, after being sick for 2
months is around again. During
his illness he lost 30 pounds in
weight, but at present tips the beam
at 280 pounds. Sullivan says he
he has not touched a drop of in tox
icants in months and never intends
to again.
LOCAL TEM PIRATU 3 E .
The weather report for the week
ending Feb. 14 as submitted by Met
eorological Observer Liebes:
Minimum.... I'eb. // . -,/j
Maximum./-'eb. - • ■ • //
Mean. -16
Washington, Nov.25. The Pres
ident today at a cabinet meeting
announced clearly and forcefully,
to the members, his desire that they
should ail remain with him during
the four year years of his coming
administration. The probabilities
are that all wi 1 remain except Atty.
Gen. Griggs, who holds his present
position at a great financial sacrifice.
Vancouver, Dec. 5. Capt. Irving
has made a proposition to the board
of trade to put on four boats be
tween here and Skagway next year.
The boats refered to in the plan are
the Amur, Islander,Princess Louise
and a lie .v boat being built, costing
a quarter of a million.
The coroners jury will fix the
blame in the recent accident at the
Pacific Glass Works, says the S. P\
Chronicle Twenty deaths have
occurred so far and almost as many
are in a critical condition. It is said
the crowd paid money, for the priv
i ege of witnessing the foot ball
game from the roof of the glass
works.
To the merchants of Rampart:
After this date I will not be respon
sible for bills contracted for the U.
S. Land Office by others than my
self. W. R. Edwards, Receiver &
Feb. 14, 1901. Spl. Dis. Agt.
Another dog ran amuck Saturday
last, and after biting a number of
dogs and chewing up some pups,
he met his Waterloo, in the shape
of a rifle ball.
STAMPS AT LAST.
The postoffice has at last receiv
ed some stamps, where they have
been all winter is a mystery, as
they came hum down liver.
n
k Contest (In
OVER THE ESTATE OF P- Me DONALD.
UNCLE SAM'S NAVY
NEW BOATS.
Dawson, Dec. 7. A contest is 0.1
for letters of administration in the
estate of Pete McDonald, says t. e
! Dawson News. This mornii g
Prank Bateau, a partner of the b.
ceased and who claims to be a cred
itor ol the estate, filed an applica
tion as administrator. He alleyas
the property and personal effects . f
the deceased operator to be wort 1
$15,000, and has tendered a bol d
of $30,000. Colin McDonald, a
brother-in-law of the deceased, also
filed an application for letters. He
claims to represent the heirs at law
who reside in San Francisco and al
leges the estate to be worth $2,000
and has filed a bond for $4,000.
Washi:gt< n, Dec. 7. The Vir
ginia and Rhode Island, two of the
! battleships, bids lor which wereop
■ ened today, will be provided with
lour 12 inch guns, on the line of
i the keel in turrets, fore and aft.
Eight 8 inch guns in four turrets.
In addition to this, each will carry
i twelve 6 inch, twelve 14 pounders,
. twelve 3 pounders, four 1 pounders
I automatic,four r pound single shots,
two 5 inch field guns, two Catlings
j and two 3 caliber automatic macli
| ine guns. Each vessel will be sup
i plied with two submerged torpedo
1 tubes, with a total displacement of
: 16,500 tons. They will be required
to make 19 knots with a coal carry
ing capacity of 2,000tons.
San Francisco’ Dec.i. I he total
receipts of the Thanksgiving foot
ball match, between the University
of California and Stanford College,
won by tne latter, were $26,000.
With a net profit to each college of
$10,250.
The Government has issued,says
the S. F. Examiner, a partial list of
the names of the 347 enlisted men,
who have gone insane in the Phil
lippincs.