Vol. H.
Weekly: Rampart, Alaska, Saturday, July 14, 1906..
No. 2
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Gov. Hoggatt
Passes Eagle
Hon. W. B. Hoggatt, Governor of
Alaska, and party passed Eagle on the
steamer Lavelle Young at 1 o’clock
yesterday morning. Major Richardson
of the Alaska road commission is also
aboard. The Lavelle Young is expect
ed to arrive at Rampart tonight.
Judge Wickersham is reported to be a
passenger on the Young, but this is
doubted. Three different telegrams re
garding his present whereabouts are
said to have been received in camp and
one contradicts the other. One states
. he Is on the Young; another that he ar
rives in Dawson tomorrow, and still
another that he received his recess ap
pointment last Tuesday and left Seattle
for Alaska the day following.
Company K Must Cut Trail
From Fairbanks to Valdez
Company K shortly to be relieved at
Ft. Gibbon will cut its way out of the
country. Orders have been received at
Ft. Gibbon that the company will pro
ceed to Fairbanks and work on the
trail between that place and Valdez,
boarding the transports at Valdez.
There is a possibility that the reliev
ing company repeat the performance
from Valdez in. Advices from Tanana
state that the men bitterly resent the
innovation. Heretofore the trip down
river and the sea trip from St. Michael
has rounded off Alaskan service.
Mr., and Mrs. Peter Strandey arrived
a few days ago in a small from White
horse and the outside. Mrs. Strandey
is a sister of Herman Rosburg and sis
ter-in-law of C. I. Jordan. The Stran
dey’s will leave for Seattle jr. bar with
Jim McHugh.
$5,000 Reward For
Recovery Bullion
Passengers on the steamer Sarah,
which passed upriver Thursday, state
that absolutely no clew whatever has
unearthed regarding the disappearance
of gold bullion consignment from the
steamer Ida May while at Tanana last
W ednesday.
The stolen bullion was in bricks and
was valued at $78,000, and simply van
ished from the boat while the latter was
lying tied up to the river bank in front
of the N. C. Co’s, post at Tanana.
The Northern Commercial Company
has offered a reward of $5,000 for the
recovery of the missing gold. It is ru
mored at Tanana that several of the
crew of the Ida May are under suspic
ion as being implicated in the theft, as
it is thought improbable that such a
heavy package could be removed from
the steamer without connivance with
some one of the crew.
The prevailing opinion around Tanana
is that the heavy box containing the
bullion was lowered over the vessel’s
side into a small boat and the latter
then quietly dropped down stream.
Skagway’s Candidate Seeks
Interior Miners’ Support
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Former Governor SwineforjJ tile non
partisan candidate for congressional
delegate, passed thru on tie Monarch
yesterday on his way to Fairbanks and
Nome in the interests of his campaign.
Gov. Swineford was appointed gov
ernor of Alaska by Glover Cleveland,
and this is his first visit to the interior.
He has quite a constituency In the vi
cinity of Skagway, but the people of
the coast are beginj^g to realize that
the interior is forging, to the front and
its voters mast h*. conciliated—hence
Gov. Swineford’s trip to the true Alas
ka.
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Creator Territory
Commits Suicide
NOME, June 23.—Joseph R. Binns,
formerly a lieutenant in the United
States army, and for some time engag
ed in the transfer business in Nome and
who left here June 11, jumped over
board from the Ohio June 14, and was
drowned.
Lieut. Binns was a man of consider
able intelligence. He had the spirit of
the true reformer, and abuses of cer
tain kinds went against his grain. He
brought an action against the United
States authorities here to detremine
the question of the validity of the lic
ense law in Alaska. This case he took
to the supreme court of the United
States. It is still quoted as one of the
most celebrated cases on record. The
supreme court, in order to hold that
the license law was valid, had to hold
that Alaska was a territory.
Governor Heggatt Passes
On Way To FairbanJ*
As we are going to press the J^ve]je
Young has arrived and depart&j q0
Hoggatt and his party, and M&or
P. Richardson and a party of’road sur*
rv^vors tretk~ hoard—Deputy oima*
Dreibelbis was also a passenger for
Fairbanks. During the short stay of
the boat hi re the guvernur met many
residents and has created a most favor
able impression.
Major Richardson and his corps of
surveyors continued on down river. As
this party was intended for the work on
the survey on Big Minook, it is proba
ble that some change has been made in
the original program.
Hewitt, the magician, passed up the
camp and took his show on to Tanana.
He could not secure reasonable hall rent.