Tilt? Hpary Snow Fall Of The Past Win
ter Will Now Do Service In
Sluice lloxes!
No doubt our brother 2000 miles south
of us, who has enjoyed a delightful tem
perature of So degrees for two months or
more, and so long since donned his
spring suit and straw hat that they be
gin to look old to him, and has particr
paled in so many fishing and shooting
festivities during the season that it
seems to him that the year is made up of
soring and summer and tl at he has lived,
at least, the first six months of it already,
read with some sympathy for the writer
a letter from Rampart bearing the date
of this paper, announcing with delight,
1 ’Springhas come!*’
Tile thermometer refuses to longer go
below the vicinity of the freezing po ut
at night. The snow, which amounted
to approximately a fall of three feet dur
ing the winter, has settled to a compact
mass of two feet in thickness throughout
the locality in general, while an occa
sional hfii can be seen to peep its bare
head through its white mantle. The
sidewalks are again free from ice and
snow and our ladies brighten the street
throngs with their spring costumes. The
Rampart citizen has abandoned Ids fur
cap and moccasins and substituted there
for hat and rubber boots, and is “taking
a few* days off,” waiting for sufficient wa
ter in the creeks for sluicing, and inci
dentally speculating as to the exact time
of the breaking of the ice in the Yukon,
which is various! v estimated as likely to
occur between Tnay 18 and June 2.
“How unfortunate,“ he would say, “to
be snow and frost bound for eight long
months!” But our brother’s sympathy
•» A. *
is wasted. Just what lie may be lament
ing as our hardship is our greatest de
light, for with long winters, plenty of
freezing weather, the ground frozen deep
and solid, the deep-ground miner has a
long, profitable season, digging out nug
gets and gold-bearing gravel, and, with
plenty of suo/V transformed into water
by a sudden burst of spring, to enable
him to wash up his dumps, he is experi
encing an ideal climate for furthering the
enterprise that makes our climate-boast
ing friends turn green with jealousy when
they compare our season’s returns with
those of the more plodding industries of
older and rnor, crovded civilization.
Curley Judd Is Alive-Txvo Former lles
icU'iits OfKampnrt Crippled
For Lif« !>y Freezing.
.Ifout St. Michael, Aka.,
March 12, 1901.
Em 1 or Forum: There is bare
ly any news from this place. A
large detachment has left to work
o
011 the telegraph line. Major
Greene, of the signal corps, leaves
here tomoirow for Gibbon to in
spect the .i .e al ng the route.
Tlnec men were brought in ftoni
Andreofsky in a half frozen condi
tion. Their names are James Me
Neal, John Callahan and Frank
Madden. The former two have
each lest both hands, while Mad
den has had both feet amputated.
They ate all doing very nicely in
the hospital here. Curl) Judd had
three toes amputated and is now all
right. William Dolly (colored),
who sawed wood for the govern
ment in Rampart in ’98, was
brought in frozen. I managed to
pull bkn through without his los
i g any members. I am now eu
t r ly well and attending to my du
ties. Sincerely,
H. W. Hatch, U. S. A.
St. Petersburg, March 25.— -The
students implicated in the riots of
the past two weeks have threaten
ed to take the life of the Czar.
London. March 28. Word has
jurt been received at the war office
of a signal victory made by General
Babbington. He has succeeded in
taking the largest number of Boer
guns captured during the war, com
pletelv routing Gen. Dearv.
greatly
reduced!
A Fine Line Of LADIES’:
Boots,
Rubbers,
Silk Wa ists,
Shirt Waists
%
a n d
Underwear.
A FEW PRICES:
Royal Baking Powder, 5s3T’
Moclia and Java Coffee:
Roasted, and in the bean, $0.50$
Best Oolong Tea: 75cts.
Felt Shoes: $4.$
$ig PAID for all LOCAL
$19. GOLD $19.