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Weekly: Rampart, Alaska, Saturday, July 22, 1905,
No. 4
SAHKALIN ISLAND IN
POSSESSION OF JAPS
Little Brown Men Take Big Island North of Their Empire and
Wili Push Conquest Before Peace Terms Are Discussed
From the Skagway Alaskan.
ST. PETERSBURG, July 10.-The
Japanese landed troops Saturday and
raised the Japanese flag over the island
of Sahkalin, in the sea of Okhotsk.
The conquest of the island will pro
ceed rapidly.
ST. PETERSBURG, July 10.-In the
last few weeks 24 Russian officers have
been shot here for refusing to obey or
ders to go to Manchuria.
KUSTENJI, Roumania, July 8.—The
Kniaz Potemkine and an accompanying
torpedo boat surrendered to the Rou
manian anthorities today at noon. The.
crews of both ships are ashore. They
are regarded as deserters by the Rou
manian government which has promis
jd to give them passports permitting
them to leave the country or go where
they please. The government will not
extradite them to Russia.
MINING ENGINEERS
1 REACH SKAGWAY
SKAGWAY, July 10.—The members
of the American Institute of Mining
Engineers with their families to the
number of 97 arrived on the Princess
May and left for Whitehorse on the
train. They were met at Skagway by
the Committee from Whitehorse who
invited them to a banquet that has been
arranged for tonight at that place.
The engineers will take steamers for
Dawson at Whitehorse this evening.
They will visit the mining industries of
the Klondike and return to Skagway,
in about eight days.
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Seward is being mentioned as the
coining city of the southeastern coast.
A company has been organized and
capitalized for the purpose of develop
ing the tin deposits of the Cape York
country. It is said ample funds are in
the hands of the managers to make the
properties producers.
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SENATOR MITCHELL
IS FOUND GUILTY
PORTLAND, July 5.-United States
Senator John H. Mitchell was found
guilty by a jury of his peers Monday
night at 11 o’clock. The venerable
senator and his friends are much de
pressed by the verdict. They say the
case will be appealed to the circuit
court and if there is not a reversal it
will go to the supreme court of the
United States.
The crime of which Senator Mitchell
has been convicted is that of accepting
money for practicing before the execu
tive departments of the government. ■
The people of the District of Colum
bia and those of the district of Alasks
are the only people on -this continent
who are denied the right of local self
government; the former under a direct
provision of the constitution; the latter
because congress has neglected to make
provision for Alaskan self government.
Brady’s Partner
Will Not Talk
S. C. Reynolds of Governor Brady’s
Alaska Development Company On
His Way To Washington, D. C.
SEATTLE, July 8.—S. C. Reynolds
arrived at Seattle yesterday en route to
Washington. Mr. Reynolds refused to
discuss the Gov. Brady case or the
Reynolds-Alaska Development Com
pany.
Standard Oil Wins Out
TOPEKA, Kan., July 8.-The Kan
sas supreme ■ court today decided the
state cannot erect a refinery with which
to fight the Standard Oil trust.
$20,000,000 Fire Loss
GOLDFIELDS, Nev„ July 10.-Fire
almost completely destroyed this city
Saturday night and S-nday. The loss
will aggregate $20, (XX), 000.
Former Alaskan Official Dead
DENVER, July 10.—Dr. Charles D.
Rogers, formerly clerk of the United
States district court in Alaska, during
the second Cleveland administration,
died at this place Saturday afternoon
of alcoholism.
Joseph MacDonald, formerly super
intendent of the Treadwell mines, was
drowned recently in a cloud burst in
Mexico.
The Seattle Times and many leading
members of the Seattle chamber of
commerce strongly support the propo
sition for an Alaska fair at Seattle in
1907 to commemorate the 40th anniver
sary of the acquisition of Alaska and
the tenth anniversary of the big rush.