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Weekly: Rampart, Alaska, Saturday, Feb. 7, 1903.
No. 0.
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DOINGS AT CHENOA
What Soma Rain part era Are Doing
Men Working On Bsdrock—Martin
Says Figures Cannot Eetimate Gold
Tom Gardner and W. Jones ar- j
rived from Chenoa last Monday
night, with letters to various resid
ents in Rampart. Jones is quite
enthusiastic over the new district
but reports that the Rampart peo
ple at Chenoa hav* curraued ah t \e
town properly and have paid no at
tctiti >.i to mining. All say,, '‘Its all
rigut. ” Pedro creek seems to have
one good claim, 2A, from ail ac
counts and other creeks are said to
^ goo.1, but nothing is kn nvn of
\ne pay. Gus Conradt. Jim Duke,
Bob Martin and Jimmy Robinson
and a number of others are building
oil their lots. Martin writes of re
fusing $1500 for his lot when vac
ant. He has put up a building 18
by 24. Sam Biroer is also a future
millionaire in Chenoa town proper
ty. Freight is being shipped in
from Gircle for 30c per pouud. The
provisions at Belt & Hendrick’s
store is being rapidly diminished
and goods are sold for cash only
What few men are working on the
creeks are working on bedrock pay.
Barrett of the lower statiou has
claims staked aggregating over
1000 acres and is adding more
acreage every day. The Circle
miners have staked for their famil
’and distant relatives for ten gen
at ions back. The real conditions
of the diggings as to their extent
and value can not be demonstrated
until next summer. Both Gardner
and Jones returned the latter part
ot the week.
Chenoa Minors Organize
The Forum is in receipt of news
from a reliable source, that the mi
ners in the Chenoa district have or
ganized a vigilance committee.
This action was forced by Duke
driving Scott, the Circle freighter,
off his own property* a town lot
staked by the latter. Scott left the
lot long enough to cut some logs.
When Scott arrived on the scene
vvub Lila ouii-nu^ .uaie.ial, he iouud
Duke in pjssessu.i and a 30 40 rif
le primed at ms head. Duke has
since sold tile lot to Gus Couraat
Scott has gone to Circle for a war
rant for the arrest of Dnke.
Tile committee emphatically de
clare, says oui informant, that all
jumping must cea.^e, and they will
preserve order until tue arrival of
the proper auiuorities at any cost.
It is even hinted that Scott will
include a quantity of “windless”
rope in the next shipment of goods
| from Circle City.
I Sam Barber m a recent letter
; from Chenoa states that “it- will
never be a second Dawson;’’ but
Bob Martin is very sanguine "2A
Pedro is so rich tuat it is not in the
power oi figures to estimate the
vast amount oi gold in this claim.’ ’
Skagway, Jan. 1—A special just
received from Juneau says that
1
General Robert A. Friedrich died
at n:35 this morning. The' cause
was heart complications, induced
! by ptomaine poisoning in the S3rs
| tem, which developed in the cases
! of ^-Governor Flower and ex
: -,x
Speaker Reed. He took sick on
Christmas eve. He was attorney
| general for the district. The conrt
BIG DAWSON BLAZE
Causes £50,000 Damages—Items From
Dawson Kews—Murder At Valdez—
—Spiked Cider Gets Squaws Drunk
Dawson, Jan. 2—A $50,000 fire
occurred here last nigh t. It started
in the Goodwin Hotel building on
5econd street. Six buildings were
totally destroyed The heroic work
ot the bre department, police, and
citizens gained speedy control T e
temperature at the time was 45 ug.
below zero. Dawson News.
Guv Morrison
Valdez, Nov. 27—
was suot and killed Monday ni >ht.
Isaac Banta was tne o.ny person in
the room when the deed was com
mitted. Banta has been arrested
for the murder but claims the dead
man committed suicide. Marshal
Dribelbis fouud the revolve; on the
floor, some distance from Morrison
cocked. Julge Harlau acted for
the government before the coron
er’s jury. The jury rendered a ver
diet charging Banta with murder.
|
The ©Id order passes, giving
way to the new. Formerly it was
the custohi to take the squaws to a
saloou and then dance—now the
squaws drop in at the white dance
jin time for refreshments and lind a
; perambulating saloon there. It is
| openly chai ged that the cider pass
ed around at the Hard Times ball,
last Thursday night, was doped
| with whiskey by some scoundrel.
| This paper knows absolutely that
| a number of squaws got beastly
drunk on “cider’’ given them at the
above dance.
adjourned, out of respect for the
deceased’s memory.