ALASKA FORUM
(OFFICIAL PAPER)
THE FORUM PUBLISHING CO.
J. ii. Wingate, lidiu>r ami Manager.
VO LIT MK 2. No. 15
Saturday, January 11, 1902.
S t : bsc r t px i on s—T h e Alaska F o' rum
delivered in Rampart—50 cents per
month, or $6.00 a year, in advance.
Single copies, 25c. Postage added.
Address all communications to the
Alaska Forum, Rampart, Aka.
EDITORIAL.
B. 8. Downing, who masquera
des as a “mail contractoi” has no i
fied the P.O. DepartmentJthat lie is
simply an employee and not a con
tractor at all. According to press
dispatches, Downihg has “contract
ed” considerably from cold and oth
er causes this winter.
The present mail contract, which
expires next June, is being carried
on by John P. Hartman* a Seattle
attorney, and R. T. Elliot; one for
merly attorney for, and the other
manager of the defunct Canadian
Development Co. Ltd.
Czolgosz, who paid tne'death pen
alty last October, received over
i0oo letters and packages while in
Auburn prison. They were never
delivered to him, and were all from
cranks and anarchists.
A summer and winter trail out!
from Dawson is being agitated at j
tiiat place. It is" claimed that it
will expedite the transmission of
mail, Dawson being without mail j
c mimunication with the outside
for w) we ks prior to the closing
of the river.
From the testimony in the Nome
contempt cases taken before Court
Commissioner Heacock at San Frau
cisco, it is a foregone conclusion;
that Judge Noyes will never occupy j
the Nome bench again. lex-Sen
ator Carter of Mon tail a and ex-Sen
ator Ha 11 sborough, of the South I '
kota “gang” are having a hard
time explai u ing their dealings wltd
the arch grafter McKenzie.
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At the late Indian election pL,ige
the chief for last year, was super
seded by Nicolai, who will assume;
the chieftaincy for 1902.
Register Mullen returned last
Monday night from a days stay on
Glen. Mr. Mullen is greatly im
pressed with the possibilities of the ;
Glen district.
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Indian Yaska is serving a 23 day j
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sentence in the “skookum house.” |
He beat his^quaw unmercifully not j
long ago, and his arrest was defer.
red until the squaw was able to ap- j
pear in court.
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Chas. Borg’*left a few days age j
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with the bar for the new saloon on j
Glen. Billy Nelson is mixologist;
and the opening last Saturday was I
a great success.
H. H. Huey left with Carrier j
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Scott last S-iturda}' morning. He;
will bring up his outfit from Bear j
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creek and go on a prospecting trip j
over the divide.
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Sam Barber says he has $15001
ready to deposit for another bout!
with Dick Parker. Barber claims j
that his hard trip up from Tanana j
was the cause of his late defeat by |
Parker.
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J. McBrieu, the Bear creek road- j
house keeper, denies that he refus
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ed Reynolds shelter; but on the
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Choice Wi nes, Ldqnora
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LEGAL NOTICE.
5>KrAR rMENT OK TUK INTHRTOR,
UNITED STATES LAND OFHCK.
Rampart, Alaska, Dei ember, 2, 1901.
Mineral Application, No. 2.
Notice- For Publication.
Notice is hereby given that E. M. Carr, whose
post cilice address is P. O. box 539, Seattle.King
County, Washington, has this day filed hii ap
plication for a patent to placer mining claim
No. 8 above discovery on Little Mi nook. Creek
in Rampart Mining District, District of Alaska
and known and designated by the field notes *
and official plat on file at this office as Lot no.
421. The exterior boundaries of said Lot No.
42I "being a . follows to wit: Beginning at Cm*.
i. v hence U. S. I,, m. No. 2bears S. 3 deg, 22 m.
W. Yar. 28 deg. 02 min. F.. 46 4 ft. to U. S. L. M. ^
No. 2. 660 ft. to Little Manook creek, course N.
70 deg, W. 871 ft. to Cof*. 2, thence N. 62 deg.
15 min. W Yar. 28deg. 15m. E. 1048.5ft. to Cor.
3, thence N. 3 deg 22 min. K* Yar.‘27 deg. 32111111
L to nittle Manook creek course W. 870.9 ft to
Cor. 4. thence S. 02 deg. 15 min. K. Yar. 28 deg.
30 min. E. 150 ft. to No. 7 pup course S. W. 920
ft. to No. 0 pup course S W. 1047.8 ft. to Cor. 1
the place of beginning*. Containing an area of
19.08 acres.
P. M. Mullen,* Register. ♦ ,
contrary, pressed him to stay. Rey
nolds he says claimed to be an old
tnusher and pushed on, to Rampart,
nearly freezing to death before lie
got here.
R. F. Noble, has laid over in *
camp the past week, building sleds
for hauling wood. Noble is over
crowded with wood orders and
when his bobs are completed will
keep a team in town all the time •
attending to the wood business.
John I. White is helping Noble out
on the iron work. *