voi; ii.
Weekly: Rampart, Alaska, Saturday, July 21, 1906.
No. 3
Portion Stolen Gold
Recovered
The stolen box alleged to have con
tained $78,000 when shipped on the Ida
May from Fairbanks has been found
intact by Agent Rodman in the swamp
near the post. The box was properly
sealed but when opened contained only
a sack of shot and two gold bricks val
ued at $9,000. The bullion was just
$69,000 short.
The impression prevails that the box
as shipped never contained any thing
else than what was found in it when
opened at Tanana, and that the stealing
of the box at Tanana was to prevent a
discovery of this fact.
The N. C. Co. had a diver employed
exploring the river bottom at the spot
where the Ida May was berthed when
the box of shot was removed.
Bishop Rowe Arrives
From Circle City
Right Rev. P. T. Rowe, bishop of
Alaska, arrived yesterday morning in a
small boat from Ft. Yukon and Circle.
The bishop is accompanied by Archdea
con Stuck and Rev. Mr. Rice. He will
conducl/services at the courthouse at 8
o’clock tomorrow evening.
What Cheer Owners in Camp
Jim Dalton, Dave Scott; A. H. Lane
Ed Hopkins and Jim Green, who com
prise the What Cheer company, are all
in camp to conclude the transfer of
their holdings. Ben Baker is said to
represent Mr. Manley in the transac
tion and arrived this afternoon.
The steamer Sarah will probably not
arrive until tomorrow.
What Cheer Bar Co
I
Sells Out
The What Cheer Bar Company
has disposed of its holdings on
What Cheer bar, together with
their water rights and the ditch
on Pioneer and the leases on
Boothby creek.
Frank Manley, the Fairbanks
mining operator is the purchrser,
and while the price paid is not a
public matter, it is generally un
derstood across the divide that it
is something like $80, (K»0.
This is the largest sum ever
paid for a piece of mining ground
in this camp by many thousands.
Miners from the other side claim
S this sale to be the forerunner of
♦ a number of like investments by
% moneyed Fairbanks mining men.
Baker Creek Station
Heavily Stocked
The steamer Dusty Diamond on her
last trip down the Tanana landed a load
; ed barge with supplies at the Baker
! hot springs post. It is reported by re
cent arrivals from over the divide that
150 tons of supplies will be placed in
the now post this fall. Work is being
pushed on the trail from the post to
Glen and Eureka.
Louie Iverson came up from Tanana
Tuesday on the Seattle, returning that
evening by small boat. On his arrival
at Tanana he takes charge of the stew
ard’s department on the steamer Ida
May. Iverson states that the sunken
Rock Island is badly injured and all at
tempts to rsise her have failed.
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How New Zealand
Handles Trusts
NEW YORK, July 6. —Sir Joseph G.
Ward, the new premier of New Zea
land, now in New York on his way
home, was asked what action his extra
ordinary government would be likely to
take if an ice trust increased the price
of this commodity to consumers to more
than a reasonable profit. He said:
•‘Our solution of that problem would
be very simple. If any man or com
pany should buy up all the ice plants to
control the supply of ice on hand, and
then should push up the price of ice,
New Zealand would immediately build
other ice plants and give the people all
the ice they wanted at a small price
and a fair profit. •
“We had some such similar condition
arise at home in the coal industry, and
we put it down most effectively and
quickly.”
Concerning the operation of the rail
roads in New Zealand the premier said:
“We of New Zealand have the larg
est per capita wealth in the world; the
United States or England not excepted,
and proportionately the very lowest
rate of taxation. We have the cheap
est public utilities and probably the
most efficient.
“Our government railroads haul the
people cheaper than any railroads in
the world, and nowhere are railroads
operated more economically. Now,
whenever we find any public utility
earning more than 3 1-2 per cent, we
immediately reduce the charges to the
public. In fact, we pride ourselves on
being really a government of the peo
ple for their own express benefit, and
no one else’s.
“We find that with each public utlli
ty we have taken over, public honesty
has at snce become a more assured fact
for the sources of corruption are dry
ing up.”