Val. 9.
Weekly: Rampart, Alaska, Saturday, September 9, 1905.
No. II
Japan Concedes:
War Is Over
After Weeks of Negotiations Japan
Concedes Disputed Points To Rus
sia—Comes As Great Surprise.
PORTSMOUTH, Aug. 29.-It was
announced by the conference this morn
ing that Japan had withdrawn her de
mands which the Russian representa
tives would not agree to, thus allowing
peace to be declared. Russia pays no
indemnity and retains all interned war
vessels.
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Placer Gold Strike
Near Haines Mission
From the Skagway Alaskan.
“* SKAGWAY, Aug. 28.—The news was
'received from Haines today that a rich
strike of placer gold has been made on
the Katchein river near Chilcat. Little
is known of the strike beyond the fact
that locations from about 46 persons
have been received at the office of the
* United States commissioner at this
place.
The Katchien runs into the Chilcat
from the west and has been little ex
plored in the past.
It is said that the strike was made by
Thomas Ultican.
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Bowen & Cooil have finished summer
work on Little Minook jr.
~~ Thomas Lindsay, late of Hoosier, will
not go outside this winter. He will
leave shortly for Fairbanks and will
look into the mining situation there
with a view to investment.
* L. M. Davis, who is endeavoring to
float a company in Los Angeles, Cai.,
for installing an hydraulic plant on the
. upper portion of Hunter creek, will re
turn to the States on the Sarah.
1 OUTSIDE CAPITAL
IN HOOSIER CREEK
G. H. Wand, acting for outside capi
tal, has purchased the interests of T.
Lindsay in the hydraulic plants and the
leases on upper and lower Hoosier creek.
Mr. Wand announces that the present
plant will be greatly increased and that
future mining operations on the creek
will be conducted in a business-like
manner.
The past season has demonstrated
that the present outfit of Monroe &
Lindsay is inadequate to work the creek
successfully; that in order to make the
ground yield a' profit, over double the
present pressure will be\equired. This
will necessitate the installation of a
pipe line two miles or more in length.
The present ditch will be abandoned,
and a fall of over 200 feet obtained:
the present fall being but 80 feet.
Big Passenger List
Awaits Steamer Sarah
The following Ramparters are billed
to leave for the States on the Sarah,
which is due tomorrow. If the Cudahy
arrives first she will get some of the
Sarah’s passengers.
Rev. M. Koonce, Mrs. J. W. Duncan
and little Marguerite Stanley, Mr. and
Mrs. Shequin, Mrs. Thos. Lindsay and
family. J. R. Greene, Jas. Dalton, W.
J. Oslin, Walter Sundborg, H. Papin,
Jack Welsh, Ed Ferguson, Sourdough
Mike, John Jack, Jas. Climie, Henry
Young, Mrs. Lundquist and daughter,
Miss E. B, Parke, Angus Hebb.
Jack Belseaand W. P. Beardsley will
go via St. Michaels. They are taking
out a large amount in dust and as the
Canadian have harassed and hampered
all those who go through their territory
with foreign. dust, by an obnoxious sys
tem of customs regulations, they ad
vise the lower route—from personal
experience.
Fairbanks Police
Chief Decamps
Chief of Police Parker of Fairbanks
Has Decamped To Avoid Official
Investigation And Prosecution.
FAIRBANKS, Aug. 28.—Tom Par
ker, chief of police of this place, has
decamped to avoid an investigation of
his official doings. He is accused of
taking money from fallen women.
James Hagan has been appointed to
be his successor.
Prints Getting Ready
For A Colossal Strike
From Dawson Weekly News
CHICAGO, Aug. 26.—Chicago today
became the center of the struggle of
the employing printers throughout the
country against the International Ty
pographical Union, todefertthe latter’s
attempt to secure an eight-hour day.
Open shop notices were today posted
in four of the largest printing estab
lishments in the city.
The union officials say that the first
non-union man to appear in any of the
Typothetae establishments will be the
signal for a general walkout.
The umiikt men regard the actions of
the employers as a move in the direct
ion of precipitating partial strikes im
mediately, and prevented concerted ac
tion of the printers all over the United
States and Canada on the coming Jan
uary 1. By that time the printers will
have on hand a fund of $1,000,000 cash.
The plan is to demand every-where the
eight-hour day.
YOKOHAMA, Aug. 28.—The Japan
ese have captured the American steam
ship Montara, in Bering sea, en route
to Petropavlovski.