Weekly: Rampart, Alaska, Saturday, March 14, 1994.
Vol. 1.
No. 11.
BOUNDARY QUESTION
To Re Settled By Mixed Tribunal—The
Anglo-Russian Treaty Of 1835 To
Be Interpreted-Articles Signed—
[Special to Dawson News]
Washington. Jan. 24.—Secret
ary Hay and Sir Michael Herbert,
the British ambassador, today sign
ed a treaty for the settlement of the
Alaskan boundary question. Ef
forts in this direction have been put
forth for a long time, the pressure
coming from both sides, the Can
adian miners being anxions to get
through the Klondike to the sea
without passing through American
territory and the Americans insist
ing upon their right to the coast
line and the control of the ports.
The treaty signed today provides
for the reference of all the buudary
questions to a mixed tribunal of
jurists, three on each side, to de
termine the interpretation to be
placed on the treaty of 1825 between
Great Britain aud Russia, which
d'iiues the boundary between Brit
ish America and Alaska. This pro
position is virtually the same as
that brought forward by the Am
erican members of the high joint
..commission, which met in Wash
iugton three years ago, but which
- then was rejected by the British and
Canadian lepresentatives. It has
taken three years to obtain the con
sent of the British and Canadian
governments to adjust the boundary
dispute on this basis.
i.—Word comes
Skagway, Jan.3
from .Washington that J. J. Bryce,
of Oakland , Cal , has beeu chosen
district attorney in place of the late
JVNKAU'S MORAL WAVE
Juneau, Jan. 31—Frank Ras
mussen, proprietor of the Peerless
saloon, well known in Dawson,
was yesterday sentenced at Juneau
to one year imprisonment for con
ducting a house of ill fame.
A great stir was created as it was
thought Judge Brown wr u^d make
the sentence a fine.
Guis and Penglaze of Douglas
will both get six months for the
same crime. There is a general
manifestation of surprise.
An order has been issued that
women occupying rooms over
saloons must move away from those
places by Saturday. Most of the
women will undoubtedly move away
from Juneau
There is no telling where the
moral wave will stop.
Juneau, Jan. 21.—Judge Brown
this morning fined each of the
gamblers $100 and the dealers $50.
He announced that hereafter these
cases were to be prosecuted in the
commissioner’s court, and warned
i
: the gamblers against reopening the
business. He declared that no
liquor licenses would be granted to
any gambler. Record-Miner.
Seattle, Jan. 16.—The grand
jury has returned its first indict
ment. It is against Michael Bart
lett, who is accused of killing his
wife May Bartlett, in the alley be
tween Sixth and Seventh avenues
and Pike and Uni«*n streets, on the
evening of October 27, 1902.
The two American cities in which
the number of colored inhabitants
S is increasing most largely are tVash
ington and Philadelphia.
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IVEY HELD THE STA KES
Dawson Court Gives Judgment Against
Forme* Collector For HjilOtOOO-Dis
— Official Record Said To Be Bad—
Washington, Jan. 16.— A. copy
of a judgment for $10,000 and costs
rendered by the court at Dawson
against J. W. Ivey has been re
ceived in Washington, and is about
to be executed by a local attorney.
With the record of the court are
sworn statements declaring that the
collector of customs in Alaska iu
1898 took from an officer of the
mounted police $15,500 in gold
dust, while the officer was return
ing to Dawson with a prisoner who
was charged with having stole the
dust from Alexander McDonald.
Ivey insisted that the prisoner and
the dust should given over to him,
and the court found that Ivey never
retnrned the gold.
Certain members of congress and
several prominent persons more or
less identified with Alaska affairs
called on the president today to com
| plain that Ivey, who says he repre
sents Alaska and her people in
Washington, is not acceptable to
them in that capacity. The pre
sident was reminded that Ivey left
| the treasury department in official
disgrace, and the president’s atten
tion was called to the judgment
rendered by the court in. Dawson.
„ Deputy Clerk For Taldei
Olympia, Jan. 16.—Ed A.. Hend
erson, correspondent of the Tacoma.
| News, has received notification of
| his appointment as deputy clerk of
United States court at Valdez, Al
aska. The appointment is made by
Judge Wickersham.