ALASKA KORUM
THE FORUM PUBLISHING CO.
W. R. Edwards, Editor. J . si. Wingate Manager.
VO LI'ME I. No. 12
THURSDAY. DEC KM HR 13. fpOO.
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iditobia 1..
J E‘j>uty .viarsnal Gmehle’s
surprise at finding no commissioner
at Rampart upon his arrival -de
fines the feeling and position of the
court in the matter, as the marshal
is the last man from Eagle—in Ram
part. Indeed Judge Wiekersham
had written parties here fbat, not
having 1 eard from original appoint
ee by Oct. i, he supposed him here
<>r so far on the way, he was unable
to communicate with Eagle and he
mus'thear of him before another could
be appointed - in justice to both
parties. It looks like that part was
settled—now let's see what will
happen.
is estimated that not one
in a hundred of the 1,500 men in
Rampart in ’98 -sunk a hole on lo
cation in every portion of this sec
tion—but sat in their cabins,
contracted scurvy and floated down
to Nome with the excitement the
next spring. As a consequence the
Troublesome country - -on this side
the Allen and Calif <rnia countrv.on
the other side of the divide--will
see a grand rush of relocators after
Jan 1.
jg'^'*(/en. Johu M. Palmer, who
hea led the gold-democratic ticket j
in '96, died suddenly at his home in I
Springfield, 111., Sept. 25. The
general was an anti-slavery -demo i
years ago and scouted the question
“Dj you want your daughter to I
marry a nigger?” then, as lie did!
the one this fall: Is this to be a re
public or an empire? He had an
nounced he would vote for McKin
ley this fall
IMP'The attorneys are now look
ing for a Deputy Clerk of Court —
_ *
that cases may he entered for trial
j —without sending the papers to
Eagle.
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Lindeboom and Knott, working
a lay on 22 l.m. jr..are taking out
big wages every day from tlie bed
rock on tlie deep mud channel. Both
men arc old timers and believe they
have a good thing. Lindeboom has
some ideas of his own about the
goid belt in this vicinity,based upon
solid j rospeeting and will continue
his researches next summer.
With each issue of the Forum
there is a material increase in sub
scriptions—assuring interest taken
in tiie publication. The boys on
the cieeks never fail to call for their
copies and seem to appreciate the
news culled from every portion of
the district, condensed for busy men
— wniie they are hard at work.
'
Tliumm and Booth by, working
on the divide north of i.tu., have a
hole down 35 feet The ground is
bine clay and broken phorphory.
and from 6 to :o inches a day is the ,
best a thawer can do with it. It
possesses the peculiar j roper tv of
hardening on exposure to the air.
Indian Geoige was playfully'
drunk Thursday evening and enter
tained Miss Parke at the Restaurant
with a war dance until Attv. Thom
son happened in and sent the Indi-!
an home George was not reserved
about telling where he got the li- .
<;uor either.
f
Several of the boys on 9 l.m.,dis-;
gusted by the water tilling in holes
sunk near the creek, dug an r 8 foot;
hole last week on the side hill and j
the next morning bad to chop thro’ j
8 feet of ice to reach the bottom of!
it—colors being found in every pan.;
Mrs. Duncan and Miss Parke have '
dissolved partnership and the latter i
continues in charge of the Rampart j
Restaurant- -where the best viands \
are served to order as heretofore, i
1
Tommy and Frank McGraw,\\ ho
have equal lays on 8 Little Minook,
the well known Carr and McGiaw
claim, are finding no end of g( id
again this year. They have a pay
streak 30 feet wide and not reached
the end. A 6 foot tunnel is er< s.s
eutting from about the center
of the pay streak and Sati r
d iv tour pans taken from points 20
teet apait gave up $10 in aare
gold, the largest pan being about $3 '
i consisting of 7 pieces rai ging fiom
i 25c to 60c. The pay streak devel
op ed on this claim last year was 50 r
feet wide, exceeding anything on t
the creek. Over $57,000 w as taken I
out last year, $8,500 being in nug
gets ranging trom $5 to $195. '1 i e
boys are good workers and believe <
in living well w hile taking outgecd
p«y--Tommy doing theecokii g.
Private Tuttle of the H< spilt. 1 -
Corps, cut his left tore linger wi h
an ax Tin r day, while chcj pii g
kindling. He was given etier
while Dr. Tweedie and Stew aid
Hicks dressed the wound and : a vs
the effects ol the drug was wire
than the cut. The fiug> 1 w ill 1 e
saved.
To the Alaska Forum Editor,Sii:
Will you please decide the foiiii g
bet: A bets B there is no cl ii e
man in this camp if there is wheie
is he and who brought him in. t li t
DuMire, 22 b.m. A. Yes. Col.
Wiggin brouglit him in as a co k.
The next mail should reveal
who's president.
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