FORUM
(OFFICIAL PAPER)
FORUM~PUBUSHINgTcOMPANY
James B. Wingate, Editor and Manager
Subscriptions: The Alaska Forum delivered
One year, $10; six months, $5.00, in advance,
one month, $1
Advertising1 rates on application. Address all
communications to the Alaska Forum, Rampart.
Correspondents are requested to sign their name
to all communications, not necessarily for publica
tion, but as evidence of good faith. No attention
paid to anonymous communications.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, 1906.
EXEUNT WICKERSHAM
The appointment of a senatorial sub
committee to investigate the Wicker
sham scandal is entirely within the line
of proceeding usual in such cases. The
truth, which his henchmen allege they
so earnestly desire, will now come out.
Now that the entire matter has been
taken in hand in the manner so long
fought for, and vigorously advocated
by this paper. The Forum is content to
leave the decision in the hands of the
committee in which it is now placed,
and, for the time being at least, let
Wickersham and his sins of omissionI
and commission rest there.
LEGREE SENDS “WARNINGS”
And so our trails are to be improved,
and some of the superfluos humps and
bumps of ice and snow to be shaved off
by the “road overseer. ” The miners
can be dragged in to perform their tax
in labor from all portions of the pre
cinct, to work on the trails the august
• ‘overseer’ ’ may see fit to designate.
There is a question as to whether or
not the Burnham road tax act has not
been repealed by the passage of the
Nelson act which organized the Alaska
road commission. Should the Burnham
act still be in effecf, it would seom an
act of conrtesy dne Major Richardson
that he designate the trail where worK
be concentrated, so that the promised
local trail improvements by. his board
be assisted. The Hooligan habit of
“butting in” might precipitate a clash
whereby trail improvement in the dis
trict might suffer.
In the meantime Old Sol will attend
•to present trail obstructions, and any
heavy freigting contemplated, not be
greatly hindered.
V
Alaskan News Items
Governor Brady’s annual report is in
the hands of the printer.
W. M. Sauers has been appointed as
deputy inspector of customs at Seward.
It has been decided to hold the Alas
ka-Yukon-Seattle Exposition from June
1st to Dec. 1st, 1907.
A strike running $1 to the pan is re
ported on the Chatanek a river at the
mouth of Cleary creek.
The Thanksgiving proclamation of
Governor Brady reached Rampart on
January 6.
The customs receipts of Alaska for
1905 were over double those of the pre
vious year.
The secretary of the interior has is
sued orders forbidding the filing of en
tries for any purpose on islands under
forty acres in extent.
The comptroller of the treasury has
decided to allow more teachers and a
larger school fund for Alaska this year
than last.
The first government hatchery to be
established in Alaska out of the $50,000
appropriation made for that purpose, is
the McDonald hatchery, at McDonald
lake on Yes bay. When completed the
hatchery will have a capacity of 50,
000,000 eggs.
D. A. McKenzie, manager of the Al
aska Railroad Company, has returned
to Seattle from New York with in
structions to commence work at the
earliest possible date in the spring on
the road from Cordova bay to Eagle
City, on the Yukon, a distance of 600
miles.
T..J. Nestor, a former resident of
!
Rampart, constructed an underground
subway between his store and warm
storage warehouse at Nome recently.
The subway was formally opened with
music and refreshments, on December
12 th.
At Ketchikan a new winter industry
is just being established, which provid
es a means of support for the residents
of that section during the winter. The
new industry is fishing for king salmon
with trawls. The fish taken are ship
ped to Seattle on ice. Last winter was
the first time this class of fishing was
engaged in, and during this winter it
will be more extensive than before.
Florence
Hotel and Bar.
«•
Wines, Liquors & Cigars
BILLIARDS POOL
Tom Mahoney—Jack Radigan
Managers.
J
«44M4«44««4»««m
Alaska Forum
Established 1900.
$1.00 The
per Miners’
month. Paper
McHugh & Smith are hauling lagging
and timbers from the Hootlinana for
Hebb & Gaetz’ Skookum creek ir g
operations. It is stated on the bes* ol
authority thit the SKookum ground be
ing worked by Hebb & Gaetz will rival
any ground ever worked in the north
for richness. Pans running from $100
to $200 are not uncommon and the dirt
is fairly flecked with gold.