Vol. 9.
No. 22
Weekly: Rampart, Alaska, Saturday, November 25, 1905.
Railroad Projected.
For Port Clarence
NOME, October 4.—One of the larg- i
est, if not the very largest, enterprises :
yet undertaken on Seward peninsula
wiil be in full swing early next spring.
This is nothing less than the building of
a railroad from Port Clarence into the
great Kougarok country, and the build
ing of a town on the north shore of
Port Clarence bay.
Behind the big enterprise are Major
L. H. French and the veteran mining
man, Chas. D. Lane. For several years
past Major French has been quietly ex
amining the Kougarok as a field for
mining operations. During this time
he has had 'three surveys made for a
railroad, has acquired several claims on
Dahl and other creeks, and 20 miles of
the bed of the Kougarok river. Here
xt season will be operated three big
. edges. It is a known fact that men
standing almost waist deep in the Kou- j
garok riyer have been able to shovel i
out gold from the bottom of the stream, j
The Kougaaok as a dredging proposition1
is considered unexcelled in all Alaska.
Gasoline Market at Tanana
Now Said to Be Cornered
Local consumers of gasoline—for il
luminating purposes—are beginning to
burnish their discarded kerosene lamps.
The local market has been exhausted
of gasoline since the closing of naviga
tion, and the consumers have been de
pending on Tanana to supply their
needs.
t is now asserted that consumers are
_.iiy able to secure a case at time from
the Tanana merchants. One Rampart
er has paid as high as $20 a case. This
of course is with freight added. The
precariousness of the present supply
will probably resultfin all hands using
kerosene instead of gasoline.
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Congressman John F. Lacey
May Succeed Secty. Hitchcock
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 1.-That Iowa
will continue to have two cabinet mem
bers even after the retirement of Shaw
in Febrnary, is the newest report con
cerning the cabinet reorganization. It
is rumored that Secretary of the Inter
ior Hitchcock will retire about the
same time as Shaw, and that the presi
dent is considering Congressman John
F. Lacey.
Lacey is chairman of the house com
mittee on public lands and one of the
best informed men in the country on
the interstate business of the interior
department. It would be impossible
for him to be named while Iowa already
has two cabinet members, but Shaw’s
retirement would make it possible.
Bankers and leading eastern senators
are raising a serious objection to Cor
telyou succeeding Shaw as the treas
ury’s head, because he is not a banker
and never had business experience.
The senators most friendly to the pres
ident have initiated a movement to in
duce the president to give up the ap
pointment.
Big Omega Nugget
In Camp for First Time
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The big quartz nugget valued at $120
found this fall on Omega creek by the
laymen on R. H. Wright’s ground came
into town for the first time Thursday
in the possession of Mr. Wright who
secured it from the laymen:
The nugget is one of the handsomest
specimens ever shown in the camp. It
is a lump of quartz half the size of a
fist and is seamed and studded with the
precious metal. It is estimated that
the actual gold value of the nugget is
about $100.
Fred Harper was arrested just as we
are going to press. A missionary and
a squaw are mixed up in the mess.
Telegraphic
News Briefs
From the Nome Nugsret.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4.-Governor
General Wright of the Philippines re
ports to the navy department that 27
men perished on the coast guard cutter
Leyte, lost in a typhoon last week, only
nine being saved.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.—SenatorW.
B. Heyburh, of Idaho, was stricked by
apoplexy yesterday, while on a train
coming from New York to this city.
EL PASO, Oct. 4.—John Alexander
Dowie, the prophet of Zion, was strick
en with paralysis on a train near here
today. The alleged divine healer issued
a statement saying that his illness was
brought on by overwork, and that he
will not offend God again.
COLON, Oct. 3.—Six hundred labor
ers brought from Martinique brought
to work on the canal, refused to leave
the ship because they had to submit to
vaccination, and they claimed conditions
had been misrepresented. This morn
ing all but 150 landed, being clubbed
and forcibly ejected from the ship and
sent along the line of the canal. Many
were seriously injured.
Big Cariboo Hunt Passes
Killed Number Over 150
John Minook returned today from'the
caribou hunt. He reports that the In
dians killed over ninety caribou. Ow
ing to the general nature of the slaugh
ter, the slain were divided among those
present, each head of a family receiv
ing five head. According to Minook
the remnants of the herd are now- out
of the district. The total number killed
by both whites and Indians will reach
one hundred and fifty head.