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No. t
VoL 7. Weekly: Rampart, Alaska, Saturday, July 9, 1904.
FOURTH OF JULY
Celebrated in Becoming Style-Long
Program of Field Sports—Exercises
In Courthouse—Grand Ball Night
Independence day was fittingly
celebrated last Tuesday by field
sports in front of the courthouse,
followed by an oration by Dr. Gib
bou and the singing of “The Star
Spangled Banner” by Mrs. Smith.
Ben Mayo and Walter Sundberg
earried off the honors of the day in
the various athletic contests. The
program was lengthy and all events
were hotly contested.
Pole Vault—Won by Ben Mayo.
ioo-Yard Dash—Sundberg i, B.
Mayo 2.
Hop, Step and Jump—Suudberg
i, C. Mayo 2;
Running Broad Jump—Sundberg
1, B. Mayo 2.
500-Yard Dash-—Sundberg 1, B.
Mayo 2.
Three-Legged Race—Sundberg
and B. Mayo t, Stadileman and
Boucher 2 s Falkenberg and Miller
also ran.
Obstacle Race— Ben Mapo i, W.
Sippany 2.
There were also other events—
potato race, egg race, standing
j ump, etc.—and the day passed into
local history as one ot the best cel
ebrated at Rampart. Great credit
.is due Billy Nelson for the success
ful handling of arrangements. The
celebration was gotten up in 24
hours and $150 raised to defray ex
penses in as many minutes.
- The day closed with a grand
ball in the evening at A. B hall.
Hoglund & Olson will work
Fisher’s Thanksgiving creek claim
next winter. McHugh, the freight
er, hauled their outfit from Doric
creek to the claim last week.
MINERS ORGANIZE
Miners Protective Association Starts
The Miners Protective Associa
tion was formally organized last
evening. The following officers
were elected for the year: M. W.
Sinclair, president; W. B. Ballou,
secretary; S. A. Cutting, treasurer.
A special meeting is called tonight
at 8 o’clock. Every miner in the
district will be invited to join, and
from the energy and interest dis
played last evening the association
will become a power in the camp.
GRAND JURY INVESTIGATES
J. Lrndley Green, commissioner
at Rampart, is again being ipvesti
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gated by the grand jury-at Fair
banks, according to L. A. Jones.
Mr. Jones stated that the investiga
tion was along the same lines as
last yeor, but that some additional
matter had been added. A.rumor
! around town has it that this inves
tigation is due to the German gov
ernment and is the outcome of the
Schmidt-Rieger dog case of two
winters ago.
ANICICH OFF FOR FAIRBANKS
Joe Anicich took passage to
Tanana on the Louise. He will
proceed to Fairbanks to attend to
some business there. He was plain
tiff in the Porter street-jumping
suit of last court session, when the
Reception saloon building was de
clared a nuisance, it being erected
on a public street. The building
is still there and Anicich will in
quire as to what disposition of the
suit will be made this session, Por
ter having failed to perfect an ap-:
peal.
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MINERS MASS MEETING
Greatest Gathering of Miners Ever in
Rampart—Resolutions Condemning
Reduction of Golddust Adopted—
One of the largest gatherings of
miners in the history of Rampart
was the result of a call for a miners’
mass meeting Thursday night to*"
protest against the action of the
mercantile companies in reducing
the price of golddust.
The. miners expressed
the unanimous h.icuuoj to oppose
the policy of the trading companies
and agreed to organize themselves
into the Miners Protective Associa
I tton of Rampart^ and pledge the
members, of the association*, to pat
j ronize the independent merchants
of the camp.
The following resolutions were
j drawn up by a committee and
adopted as the sense of the meet
ing:
Resolved, That we condemn the action
of the two commercial companies of this
camp in depreciating the price of gold
dust from $16 per ounce to $15.50.
That the change from the former
credit system to the present cash basis is
antagonistic to the best interests of the
miner, who is compelled by conditions
of climate to work the winter mining
seasoh and await his spring washup for
funds.
That if this basis be insisted upon by
these commercial companies it will great
ly curtail the gold output of this district,
as the miner must rock his dirt to obtain
money for current expenses at the cost of
a much reduced dump in the spring*
Joseph Alf was convicted of rape
and sentenced to 14 years impris
onment. Two soldiers accused of
a similar crime at Tanana were also
convicted. One received 4 years
sentence and the other 18 months.
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