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AN INDIAN
SUlis a Sqtiaw at Mouth Point— Soldiurs i
Klin ft Him to Rampart I'or Trial,
Judge Bill lift (iivrs Him One Year.
Privates Schwartz and Svmonds
arrived from Ft. G'ibbon last Thur
sday with an Indian named Char
ley Newman under arrest. New
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man stabbed a squaw named Big
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Susie at Mouth Point, an Indian
villiage above Kokrines, early last
month. The squaw was stabbed j
in the vroin and calf of the ley- but ’
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it now able to be around. Lieut.
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Grimm made the arrest and sent the
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Indian to Ft. Gibbon under guard. :
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At this place he was turned over to !
the men who brought him to Ram-1
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part for trial. At Bear creek he
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attempted to escape, but a few
shots tired in his direction caused
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his surrender. At his trial b.foie
Judge Balliet he admitted the stab
bing, and the judge sentenced him
to one years impri.'-onment.
Private Symonds reports the tel
egraph li.ne between the post and
this place completed some time ago
but that no communication can be
had until the break can be located.
He thinks the break is between
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Tanana and Schieffelin creek,
above Tanana. Private Beard was
met 12 miles this side of Bear last
Wednesday. A large detachment
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is out on the Tanana end trying to
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find the break and it is only a mat
ter of a few days before the line is
working. The line between St.
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Michael andTanana has been in
operation since Nov. 12th.
Frank Mitchell arrived from Ta
nana last Thursday. He was the
cook and steward of the Tanana
House at that place.
L)oc Webb is making some pho
nograph records that will be eager
ly sought after.
A. A. Selden, missionary at Ta
nana arrived last Thursday. Mr.
Selden will visit with K. J. Knapp
during his stay in Rampart.
Joe Anieich returned from over
the divide last Wednesday night.
Joe reports things looking bright
on Glen.
The aceomodations of the Ram
part jail are being taxed to their
utmost. We prophesy that the
present quarters will be inadequate
to hold the crop of our energetic
marshal this winter.
Wednesday night’s snow-fall
was the heaviest so far this season.
The thermometer registered 30 de.
above zero all day yesterday with
indications of more snow. This
will in all likelihood stop further j
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search for Frank White McDonnell.
Carl M. Johannson has been ap
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pointed U. S. Commissioner at Ea- i
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gle in place of Judge Sawyer, who i
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resigned last fall.
IN FOR SIX MONTHS.
I or Giving Liquor to Indians — Gels Ni.x
Months in »Iail--IMg ('ontrad li< l
For lit) proving Manila Harbor.
A1 Lester was arrested last Wed
nesday night by Marshal Dril el
bus, on a charge of giving liquor to
Indians. The case was tried be
fore Judge Balliet the following
morning withbut a jury. Lester
pleaded not guilty, but admitted on
the stand that he had given Ellen,
his wife, a bottle of whisky to put
under his pillow. The hard hear -
eel judge, who can sleep without
sopoferic aforementioned under his
pillow, found Lester guilty and
turned him over to the marshal for
sixmonths.
Sofia, Bulgaria, Oct. 16. Dur
ing the night another letter from
Miss Ellen M. Stone’s companion
Madame Tsilka, was found on her
parents’ door, announcing that
Madame Tsilka had given birth to
a child, and that both the infant
and the mother were doing well.
San Francisco, Oct. 15.- The
immense government contract for
the dredging of Manila harbor and
the construction of a bulkhead
therein has gone to a Seattle firm.
The successful bidder is the Puget
Sound Bridge and Dredging Co.
President Fowler yesterday receiv
ed news of the award, approximat
ing1 $2,000,000 in value, from the
company’s New York repre. entu
tive.