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Weekly: Rampart, Alaska, Saturday, Feb. 28, 1908.
So. 9.
CHENOA: NO GOLD
A Townslte Boom—Every Indication of
Fake—No Gold But Plenty of Earth
Output: “Bess Than i30M~Colotsv
John Palm aud Jerry Ford, two
well known mining men, returned
from the Chenoa, last Saturday af
ternoon. Both men spent consider
able time ou the creeks in the new
distiict and after a careful and con
servative estimate, as to the extent
and value of the psacer deposits,
pronounce it a cleverly iaked up
stain peae. In the course of their
investigations they were on every
creek where wane was going on,
and the aggregate amount of the
gold taey saw amounted to $14 ,$5
at tliis being at tue store of Beit &
HeudricKS at Chenoa. The follow
ing is their report: Pedro has shown
up nothing, Smallwood and O'Con
nor, who own 6b have sunk ten
holes to bedrock and have found a
few colors. They have quit work.
Tne gross output ot this claim in
panning is $1. Pedro, the owner
of discovery let his claim out on
lays, but nearly all the lay men have
quit. Tney*found colors. Costa,
the owner of 3a. has never let any
one pan on his claim. He claims
8c pans clear thro. He showed 24c
in prospects. This claim is the one
in which the boomers placed a 300
feet pay screak, 10 feet thick, going
25c to the pan. Jack Coleman an
old Ramparter, is working for Costa
at $1 per hour on bedrock, Jack ad -
— vised a friend who contemplated
sending over a thawer, to, “put the
thawer out on the hills back of
Rampart anywhere* It is better
than this.” Red Rogers has a frac
tion on the upper end of 3a. Tie
sunk three holes, found a few colors
and quit. He is now gone prospect
ing. This is the extent of the gold
found on Pedro creek.
The best pan seen by them on
! Gold stream was ic and plenty of
“skunks.” Hiues, owner of iob,
has quit workiug. Nothing fonnd.
Pay is claimed on 5, 6, 7, and 8,
but neither Palm or Ford saw any
of it, nor any one else that they
knew'of. Tue b.tunei claim is sud
t / i>e 5 owned by McCarthy. The
holes are t ill of snow and no work
is going on. McCarthy has panned
and rocked siuce last December
and exhibited hardly a half ounce
of gold.
Ciarev creek is all staked out noth
ing found. Jesse .Nobie one of the
claim owners and a friend of Fords,
stated that nothing had been found
by any one on the creek. The $14
in dust seen by Ford was $8 at Mc
Carthy,s, $1 at Smallwoods and $5
at Beit & Hendricks store. Mr.
Ford does not dispute that there
I may be gold at Chenoa, but—it has
! yet to be found. The only property
. that is worth anything aud that is
i'depreciating daiiy, is town lots. A
number of boomers are holding lots
j in the expectation- to unloed on tue
i unsophisticated innocent expected
j next spring, l nere is absolutely
j no money or dust in circulation
‘‘$20 will cover the entire output
of gold in Chenoa the past winter.
It is the poorest excuse for a found
ation to base a stampede on I ever
i saw.”
Certificates of marriage between
S. O. Breedtnan and Ellen Down-,
ing and W. Yantes and Eucy were
recorded. Ceremony by Judge J.E
Green.
HANGED AT DAWSON
I*a Bull* and Fournier Pay The Penalty
Fournier Leaves Confession-Both
Men Game—Execution A Success—
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[Special to Dawson News]
Dawson, Jan. 16.—Admitting
that they deserved their fate,
Victor Fournier and Edouard
La Belie were hanged this morn
ing tor the uinruer ot Leon
iJuutmiiellc, (juy Beaudoin ana Al
phonse Constantine. Fournier died
game to toe last, tie was seit-ie
iatit and observant, L,a Belie was
resigned but nervous. W uen
on the scaiiolu ins k.,eea Sugnt.y
weakened once, but he quickly re
covered himself.
Kouruier-stood erect as a statue.
He held his head high and met the
cnrious gaze of the spectators with
out the least sign of flinching
When asked it he had anything to
say he replied in an emphatic tone
| was heard throughout the chamber
of death.
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| “No, sir,” he answered, looking
the sheriff straight in the eyes.
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| A constable who was arranging
the black flag on the roof of the scaf
fold, in walking across ihe boards
; made considerable noise. The offi
cials at the hanging called to him
: to keep quiet.
1 ne noise continued and Fournier
f
'sung out to the man ou the roof.
“Stop it!”
When the executioner fixed the
rope around Fournier’s neck the
! murderer gave a shake of his head
i so that the rope might settle into
I place. -
WhileFournier showed no change
in his demeanor, L,a Belle was
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