ALASKA FORUM
THE FORUM PUBLISHING CO.
J.B. Wingate Editor and Manager.
VOLUME I.‘No. 42.
THURSDAY, JULY II, I901
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EDITORIAL.
An arrival by small boat reports
that Nome has been wiped out by
fire, with $1,500,000 loss. The
news, it is said, was brought to
Seattle by a small schooner, which
landed its freight and passengers
on the ice near Nome on May 24
last. While a tire in Nome is
strictly within the piobability of
events, still the rumor is hardly
authentic.
The war in the Philippines is
nearly over. The rebels are sur
rendering daily in large numbers;
and taking the oath of allegiance to
the United States. This is the
latest report to hand from the out
side. The islands will now advance
and assume an importance that un
der Spanish rule could never have
existed.
Some men can fill an inferior po
sition with dignity; some inferior
men a dignified position; but an
inferior man trying to fill an inferi- i
or position (which he imagines is
important) is an amusing fiasco.
We have heard of men breaking
jail: but for men to pay to get in is
a novel innovation.
Ice cream is a most welcome ad
dition to Rampart’s cuisine these
hot days. i
The Array and Navy Journal is
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quoted as “wondering where the
Seventh infantry get their pull to
hold their soft snap in Alaska.’’j
We imagine the ; r y officers in
Alaska who have read the above |
quotation will look at it in the light
of a joke.
The principals, witnesses, legal j
lights and officials waiting here for ,
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transportation to Kagle will tax
the accommodations of a fair-sized
steamboat.
No mail has been taken up river
since May i last. The absence of
steamers going up river places the
residents at a disadvantage in mail
facilities.
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MINES AND MINERS.
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Drake, Hatch and Baldry are
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hard at work ground sluicing on ,
Slate creek.
Frank Stevens is working five
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miners on 47 Big Minook. A
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large surface has been stripped and
shoveling in is now on.
Mr. K. Brainerd has made sever
al trips to Idaho bar. It is not yet
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announced just what will be done ;
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there next fall and winter. !
Mr. Roden, of 3 below Eureka,!
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is in town. He reports that the!
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dumping and hoisting plant put in j
by Mr. Wright is a great success.
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The dirt is hoisted, dumped into i
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the sluice boxes and the empty i
bucket returned to the shaft auto- j
matically. The man on the sur
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face who attends to the boiler can
thus do five men’s work.
Movements of River Craft.
May 30--Str. Alice. .Dali River-Tanana
May 30—Str. Gold Star.Dawson-Koyukuk
May 31—Str. Rock Island.Dawson-Koyukuk
June 1—Str. Alice.Tanana Circle
June 3—Str. Aurum.Rampart-St. Michael
June 3—Str. Alice.Rampart-St. Michael
June 6—U. S. S. Nunivak.. I)all River-Ramparc
June 8—Str. Argo.Tanana-Rampart
jnne 8—Str. Louise.Dawson-St. Michael
June 9—Str. Monarch.Dawson-St. Michael
June 9—Str. Argo.Rampart-Tanana
June 9—U, S. S. Nunivak. .Rampart-St. Mic.un '
June 13—Str. Lton.Dawson-1't. Michael
June 14—Str. Arctic Boy.Circle-St. Michael
Jnne 14-Str. Rebecca.Rampart-Tanana
June 15—Str. Robert Kerr.. .Dawson-St. Michael
June 15—Str, Tyrrell.Dawson-Jt Michael
June 18—Str. Hamilton.Dawson-St. Michael
June 19—Str. Lightning.... Dawson-St. Michael
June 22—Str.j. 1*. Light.... Dawson-St. Michael
June 2^—Str. Argo.Tanana-Rampart
June 27—Str. Argo.Ranipari-ia.;,;. a
June 27—Str. Susie.Dawson-St. Michael
Personal Mention.
J. Hanley left for Tatiana last
Monday with a scow load of whis
key.
Joe Bush will take charge of Dr.
Hudgin’s store during the latter>;
absence at Eagle this summer
Antonio Pdaoro and Edgar
Crompton have declared their in
tention to become citizens of ti e
United States.
Bootliby, Chase, Crawford and
Wingate took a fly-fishing trip up
Big Minook last week for greyliug.
The catch was nearly fifteen pounds
distributed among the quartette.
Sam Heeter is rafting a select
jot of logs on Big Minook. Eac.i
log is fully twenty four inches at
the small end and are the largest
and finest logs ever cut in this dis
trict, or in fact on any part of the
Yukon.
Yukon Order Of Pioneers meets.every
first Saturday in each month.
Miners Mutual Protective Association
meets every alternate Wednesday night.
The Masonic Association of Rampart
meets every 2nd. and 4th. Saturday.
J. BINDLEY GREEN.
Attorney at Law.
Office At Residence.
Rampart, Aka.