Vol. I.
Weekly: Rampart, Alaska,
Thursday, July 11, 1901.
No. 42
A LIBERAL BUYER.
Uncle Sam Spendr $5200,000 In Sup
plying Transports.—Seattle’s Il^cli
Harvest.
Expenditures aggregating ap
proximately $200,000 have been
contracted for by the quartermas
ter’s office in this city during the
past three weeks, solely for outfit
ting the several army transports
loading here and for furnishing
cargoes of haj' and grain for ship
ment to Alaska and the Philip
pines.
While the May business of the
quartermaster will not be a record
breaker this year, an enormous
amount of money has been han
dled. It is difficult for persons uu
acduainted with the amount of
work done by Maj. Ruhlen to real
ize how rapidly the government’s
business has grown here. Orders
for the purchase of every kind of
supplies save groceries, which are
furnished by the commissary de
partment of the arm3\ are received
daily by Maj. Ruhlen. The mer
« chants of this city have done a very
gsatifying business with the gov
ernment.
Segregating the expenditures
either made or contracted for so far
during May, it can be stated that
practically $100,000 will be spent
for hay, grain and feed. This will
be shipped to Alaska for the sup
ply of the signal service corps and
for Capt. Abercrombie’s expedi
tion, in which many horses and
cattle are employed, or else for
warded to the army in the Philip
pines for use in the cavalry and in
the quartermaster’s department,
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I The balance will be spent for gen
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eral supplies and for repairs to the
, transports.
The following transports are be
ing supplied here: Egbert, Rose
crans, Warren, Seward and Samoa.
The first four are to carry govern
ment stores to the Alaskan forts
along the coast and the lower
Yukon river. The Samoa is now
loading at the Arlington dock and
will take 6000 tons of hay, grain
and feed from Seattle to Manila.
She will sail next week. The
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! Alaska transports will sail early in
June.
May is the busiest month of the
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year with the quartermaster. The
office force has all the work it can.
well handle, and at times the men
work nights. Naturally Maj.
Ruhlen is himself a busy man, a
constant stream of visitors being
seen any day at his office.—Seattle
Post-Intelligencer.
MORE CHARGES FILED.
A New List Is Filed Against Judge
Noyes.—Farkhiirst In Force In
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Vancouver.
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Washington, June i —A new
list of serious cnarges has been pre
ferred against Judge No5Tes. Oth
ers will be cited.
Vancouver, June 4.—The police
department is to be Parkhursted.
The new chief reorganizes on mod
i
ern lines.
! San Francisco, June 4.—A com
; bination is in process of formation
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to control redwood interests on the
Pacific coast. f
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A KANSAS ZEPHYR.
A Cyclone Causes LOss of Life amt
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Property.—Kockefeller Loosens
His Purse Strings.
Wichita, June 8.—A tornado
near Billings wrecked several
buildings and destroyed several
lives.
Cleveland, June 3.—Millionaire
| Rockefeller has imitated Carnegie
1 by giving one million dollars to
found an institute of medical re
search.
London, June 4.—The report
that Mrs. Maybrick was released
! from prison and had star ted for
! America has been denied. She is
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still in prison.
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Stratford, Out., June 4.—Ben
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1 Sillifant, a young man of this town,
knocked down a man while out bi
cycle riding. The man was so se
| verely injured that he died within
j a few hours and Sillifant was held
for murder.
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Victoria, June 2.—Eeightner,
the absconding agent of the North
je;n Pacific Co., has requested his
; father to make good the shortage.
The Guaranty Company will not
allow this, but will prosecute to
full extent of the law.
Vancouver, June 4.—W. Mc
Naughton, late of the Bank of Brit
ish North America, and C. E. Ad
ams, of the Rossland Water Co.,
sever their respective connections
with above institutions and are
leaving for Daw’son on a mining
venture.