THE FORUM PUBLISHING CO.
J. B. Wingate Editor-and Manager.
VOLUME 2. No. I.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, IQOI.
SUBSCRIPTXONS-The Alaska Forum by
mail or in Rampart 25c per week, or $1
a month, in advance; $12 a year. Single
copies, 25c.
Address air communications to the
Alaska Forum, Rampart, Aka.
EDITORIAL*.
The awful news of the assassina
tion and death of President McKin
ley, fell like a thunderbolt on the
community. Universal execration
is expressed > over the foul deed.
The concensus of opinion is that
the officials are open to criticism for
the ‘free rein that .has been" allowed
to the foreign anarchistic element
in the United States. It should
be speedily - stamped -out/ and a
line drawn between liberty : and
license .immediately.
The fact that Glen gulch is but
sparsely covered with timber is go
ing to cause trouble in the future.
. # ,v , * . t |
It is claimed'that parties owning
claims ou the creek, intend cutting
timbei off the bench claims to sat
isfy their needs. It is to be hoped
that this is not the cafe, for it will
lead to actions to recover damages
and for trespass. The timber on a
mining claim is as much a part and
parcel of the claim, as is the gold
contained therein.
It is reported that 9000 people are
waiting at Nome for boats . to take
'
them to the outside. Steamboats
of all descriptions are overcroivded
with passengers. St. Michael 1s
full of people who cannot get a
room ; some were compelled to take
f
quarters in the local hospital ward.
litigation is the bugbear of all
American mining camps. If all
would respect the rights of others,
4
to a small degree, a large percent
age of trouble and litigation'would
be avoided.
• All the gold in.this district was
not contained in Little Mi nooko.
on discovery. Eureka. We venture
the opinion that it is not all on
Glen gulch either.
Some good mining machinery
has been delivered in Rampart the
past summer. We still can utilize
ten times as mucli as can be found
. -f
in the entire district.
|
A number of miners from down
river points have goim to the new
diggings via Baker creek.
*
Hr *
Nome, Alaska, Sept. 19, 1901.
Editor forum: This camp isi
* . • I
quiet; they say it is due to litiga-:
tion. I hear lots of talk of Ram- j
part. A number say that they can
not leave here now, but will go up
over the ice. ‘ G. C. Chambers.
Capt. French, in charge at Ft.
Gibbon has been ordered to report
outside.. It is hinted that the cap
tain will be an important witness
against Judge Noyes. Eieut. Dic
chmann will command the post this
winter.
_
*
Patterson, 17 Omega, has built a
cabin and has three men working
with him.
TO KENT.
Cabins to rent. Apply at the
forum office.
LEGAL NOTICE*
Notice To Creditors,
. NC TICK lSHKREB* G1VKN by the under
signed, Administrator of the estate of Orin I).
Merry man, deceased, to the creditors of, and
all persons having claims against said estate
to present them; with proper vouchers; within
six (6] months after the date of the first publica
tion of this notice, to said administrator, at his
residence at • the Heath Hotel, in the town of
| Kagle, District of Alaska.
John C. Cavender,
V. I„. Bevington, administrator of the estate
Attorney for of Orin D. Merryman,
administrator. deceased.
Date of first publication. August 29, 1901
NOTICK OF MARSHAL'S SALK.
United States ot America,
Third Division
District of Alaska. T
Public notice is hereby given, that tby virtue
of a writ of Fieri Faciasfor execution], dated
September 16,A.D. 1901, issued out of the Distrtct
Court, of the United States for the Third Di i
sion District of Alaska, on a judgment rendered
in- said Court, on the 17th, day of March, A.D.
1900, in favor of Amos B. Uycan and against the
Alaska Mercantile and Transportation Company
I have, on this 25th. day of September, A. D.
1901, levied upon the follow ing described real
estate situated in the District of Alaska, Third
Division, to wit: The Kast one-half of Dot 10 in
block 5 in the townsite of Rampart‘ District of
Alaska, and that certain log building thereon,
and that I will accordingly, offer said real estate
for sale, at public vendue to the highest and
best bidder, for cash, on the 28th. day ofOclobt r
A. D.1901, at 2 o’clock P. M., in front of the U.
S. Commissioner’s office at Rampart, Alaska.
Dated, Rampart, Alaska, September 25th, A.D.
1901. Geo. G. Perry, U. S. Marshal
Thiid Division, District of Alaska
*■ »
By Geo. Dribelbus, Deputy
Oscar Foot, Plaintiffs Attorney.
Yukon Order Of Pioneers meets every
first Saturday in each month.
Miners Mutual Protective Association
meets every alternate Wednesday night.
The Masonic Association of Rampart
meets every 2nd. and 4th. Saturday.
> _.
Sohanson and Jdess,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
EAGLE CITY, ALASKA,
Lane and Olsen, who put a hole
down on 28 1. m. jr., found $21.60
op bed-rock. They bought the
# \
claim of Geo.- Ftench for: a song,
and- from the prospect found are
satisfied that 28 contains a pay
streak. The depth to bed-rock was '
26 feet.