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Vol. 8.
Weekly: Rampart, Alaska, Saturday, April 29, 1905.
No. 17
McDonald bar
* TO BE TESTED
Welsh & Goslaw and Allen & Calham
Will Bedrock Shaft on McDonald
Bar—Thawer To Facilitate Work
Jack Welsh and Speedy Goslaw have
aP been prospecting the bar between Hoo
sier and Florida, near the head of 16
pup and opposite 17a Hoosier creek. A
shaft is down now nearly fifty feet and
* Welsh has taken out a quantity of
stove pipe to arrange proper ventilation
while they sink to bedrock.
They have interested Allen & Calham
in the project and the latter moved out
their thawer to the ground and if there
is enough steam pipe in town to reach
to bedrock, they will learn whether or
not the “old channel” deposited any of
its riches on the bar.
Should the quest prove unsuccessful,
Allen & Calham will move their plant
to California bar, between Little Min
ook and Junior, and endeavor to find an
extension of the pay located by Bowen
& Cooil the past winter.
Gives Creek Another Name
DicK Hudson is again in camp after
spending the major portion of the past
winter prospecting Spicer creeK. He
renamed the creeK Fortune and went to
worK. He has again rechristened the
creeK—this time “Misfortune." Hud
son, together with Zimmerman & Culp,
done extensive work, sufficient to form
a good opinion of the possibilities of the
creek as a gold producer. WorK has
been done 'covering ten miles, and be
yond a few colors, nothing indicating
pay was found. Hudson will mine this
summer around Rampart.
Joe Anicich, who has been confined
in the hospital at Tanana, is reported
to be improving. Anicich i3 suffering
. - from Kidney complication.
Nome Tin Miaes
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NOME, March 25. —The Bartels Tin
Mining Company, who have been pros
pecting for tin ledges all winter, have
encountered a ledge of tin ore three
feet in width, in place. The foot-wall
is a limestone formation and the hang
ing wall is granite. The trend of the
lead is northwest and southeast. .
This company is operating near Cape
Prince of Wales, in the Ear mountaius,
and have done much exploitation work.
A force of sixteen men are continuous
ly employed and electric drills are used.
The company has a fine equipment and
are in all respects are in all respects
well outfitted and have substantial
backing. Mr. Bartels is personally in
charge of affairs. He is making no
boast of the work, but is vigorously
prosecuting matters, and it now appears
evident that tin ore of commercial val
ue and of an extent which will justify
mining has been uncovered.
Baker Boys Steamboat
The former government river trans
port Van Vliet has been sold. Ben Ba
ker being the purchaser and the price
paid, $800. The old Argo was bought
by Tanana parties for $300.
Baker will use the craft the coming
summer on the run between Tanana
and Chena as anjndependent boat.
Commission Will Begin Work
A dispatch from Washington D. C.
says that a board of road commission
ers has been appointed to meet at SKag
way, AlasKa, on May 15, to locate and
layout, construct and maintain wagan'
roads and pacK trails in the district of j
AlasKa. The detail for the board is as
follows: W. P. Richardson, Ninth in
fantry; Lieut, Geo. B. Pillsbury, eh-j
gineer corps; Lieut. Samuel C. Orch
ard, Third infantry.
medicine man
IS IN TROUBLE
Young Stevens A Wife Beater-Uses
Drastic Squaw Taming Measures
Marshal On His Way To Hamlm
Yonng Stevens, son of the chief of the
Ft. Hamlin Indians, is a bad Indian.
Gordon Betties brought down informa
tion that Stevens had been maltreating
and beating his wife in a ternbb;™*"'
ner. On one recent occasion Stevens
stripped his squaw stark naked and
drove her down the trail for several
miles, warming her up during the trip
with a black snake. The thermometer
stood below aero.
Layman Cbilson swore to a complaint
and a warrant was issued for £>tevens
arrest. De,uty Charles Dreibjbis
left for Ft. Hamlin late Thursday
night, and wi.l bring down Stevens
to explain his squaw taming methods in
uvtaiit
It is reported that Stevens did not
approve of his squaw’s moral conduct
and took c'rastic corrective measures.
Carolan Will Be Pardoned
Dan CaroTan, now serving a life sen
tence at McNeill’3 Island penetentiary
for shooting and killing Joe Muldowney
in the N. A. T. & T. Co. store in Ram
part five years ago, is to be pardoned
this summer, according to private ad
vices received at Fairbanxs. All the
prosecution, from the committing mag
istrate to the judge have joined in the
request that the sentence be commuted
to five years.
The crime was committed in the heat
of passion over the alleged criminal as
sault on Carolan’s wife by Muldowney.
Carolan was a quiet industrious miner
and well thought of in the camp. He
had a host of friends among old-timers
who consider him sufficiently punished,
for carrying out the unwritten law.