No. zb
" Vol. t>. Weekly: Rampart, Alaska, Saturday, June 18, 1904.
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ANARCHY REIGNS
III Cripple Creek District—Bloodsheds
And Violence Rampant—Strikers
Destroy Victor’s Newspaper Office
Victor, Col., June 9.—Eight un
,known men, armed with shotguns,
rifles, pistols and sledge hammers,
entered the office ot the Victor
Record last night and ordered the
men there to throw up their hands.!
*Tliey broke the machinery, wrecked !
the two linotype machines, several;
..job presses and all the equipment!
of the office, including the tele- *
phone and typewriters. When the
ruin was completed they marched
the employes onto the sidewalk and
told them to get out of town. The
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Record yesterday editorially ad-,
vised the miners to declare the!
strike off. «
" Denver, Col., June7.—While the
early reports from Victor and Crip- j
pie Creek, where yesterday’s strife!
and bloodshed ruled, would indi-1
cate now a semi-peaceful condition I
prevails, the fears of another out-1
break at any moment are general. ;
Throughout the night squads of:
citizens reinforced the details of:
militia which traveled the district I
making arrests until now the bull-1
peu is filled with 200 or more pris-1
oners. The marshals of Goldfield, i
Anaconda and Independent coun-I
' ties are among the prisoners to
.getber with the city marshal of
Victor and the sheriff of Teller!
county, making a total of five offi-1
.cials of gold camp towns deposed
sipce the troubles of yesterday. !
No one was killed in the attack
last night on Miners’ hall, but four
'were injured. All were shot in1
the legs. Fifteen persons were1
killed at the gold-camp troubles |
‘yesterday, thirteen by an infernal!
machine near Cripple Creek and
two in a riot at Victor.
EXPERTS AT MORELOCK
Another Big Company For District
Three mining experts arrived,
from Dawson and the states on the j
Sarah. They are hire in the inter-!
ests of a company whose object is 1
to work Morelock creek on a large
scale—either 'hydraulic or dredge. :
Jack Miles, who prospected More
lock for John Stanley, the promoter
of the new company, accompanied
the experts to the creek.
When these experts see the creek
and the prospects that can be had
along the rim for over ten milts,
there is no doubt but another creek
in the Rampart district will he
added to the increasing number to
be handled by big companies. The
method to he used to work More
lock creek will depend on the re-'
port of the experts. :
SURVEYOR8 ON ROADS !
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Skagway, Juue 6.—C A. Piper, ■
A. Wold and E. J. Hunt, each at
the head of a government survey-;
ing party, arrived on the Hum
boldt and will leave in a few davs
for the interior. Mr. Piper will!
survey the proposed road from Ft. j
Yukon to Coldfoot in the Koyukuk, j
and the other two parties will be-!
gin at the Eagle end of the Valdez- '
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Eagle road. One party will begin
at Eagle and the other about ioo
miles from Eagle. They will meet
the parties that begin surveying
from the Valdoz end, of which
there are three in charge of J: M. |
Clapp, engineer in charge of the 1
work, and the others in charge pf j
A. B. Lewis and W. L- Goodwin J
both formerly of Skagway, respect-!
ively. !
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HEAVY BOMBARDMENT
Javanese Batter Port Arthur Fortifica
tions and Helpless Russian Fleet
Continously—Japs Lose 3,500 Men
Tokio, June 9.—A Chinese ref
ugee from Port Arthur, picked up
by Togo’s bombarding fleet, de
clares the remains of the Russian
fleet is being injured by the persis
tent bombardment faster than the
snips can be repaired. Were the '
harbor entrance cleared of obstruc
tions and the besieging fleet re
moved, there is little fleet left to
seek escape in flight. He had on
his person a stolen Russian order to
the commanders of the Russian
vessels iifim which it is deducicT
the orders are to be prepared at any
moment to land their men and sink
the ships wirh petards already at
tached to the sides of the vessels
inside.
St. Petersburg, June 9.—Dis
patches from Liao Yang report that
Chinese bring news that the Japa
nese on June 2 attacked Port Ar
thur by land and sea, but were
repulsed with a loss of 3,500 men
and four vessels. Judging by the
descriptions given by the Chinese
it was torpedo boats destroyed.
Other dispatches give rumors of
a great naval battle between the
two fleets in the Gulf of Pechili,
and a definite report of a bombard
ment in Liao Tung gulf, near Kai
Ping, which may foreshadow a
Japanese landing there for the pur
pose of cutting the railroad back
of the Russian troops operating
around Wafandian. It is consid
ered strange here that this move
ment Ms been deferred so long, as
until now New Chwang and the
eastern division of Kuropatkin’s
army have been with railroad Com
munication with all of China.