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SATURDAY, MAY 7, I9O4
The Yukon broke last year on
May 21 at 9:10 o’clock in the morn- j
ing. The present season seems to
be much earlier, leading many to
predict open water by the 15th. If
you are a goo 1 judge of ice and a
• better guesser place your guess in
Cap. Mayo’s pool. I
It is astonishing the amount of'
garbage scattered along our front
street. The merchants and prop
erty owners should clean up in j
front of their property and places
of business. Rampart has one of
the prettiest locations on the river
and will be visited by many tour
ists this summer.
The washup is now fairly on.
Sluicing commenced on Little Mi
nook April 30—for a few hours
only. This is the earliest date ever
known in the district when sluicing
was possible. Sluicing on the Glen
side is also well under way and
many good cleanups are reported.
Take it all in all, there will be more
gold go out of this district this
washup than ever before.
Now that our winter mail service
is a thing of the past and will in a
few weeks be replaced by a regular
steamer service, a few words of
commendation for the good work
done by the carriers the past winter
will not be out of place. The ser
vice was all that could be desired
by any one and reflects great credit
on Superintendents Corbusier and
Marion. If the summer service is
one half as good the citizens of
Rampart should be content.
A LONG JAUNT
Dawson, March 26.—An expedi-,
tion of Northwest Mounted Police
men is en route from Herschel
island, in the Arctic ocean, near
the mouth of the Mackenzie river,
to Dawson. This is the longest
trip ever undertaken through an
absolute wilderness on . the conti
nent in the dead of the northern
winter. The windings of the route
to be followed perhaps will necessi
tate 2,000 miles of travel.
The news of the coming expedi
tion has been received at the Daw
son barracks in a private letter to
a member of the force. The letter
was brought out by private carrier i
this winter. The carrier crossed
the Rockies and descended into:
the Yukon watershed after a long
jaunt.—Dawson News. _
Might have been serious
Louie Shequin, 4a Little Minook,.
nearly lost his cabin by fire the
other morning Louie was awak
ened at 3 a. m. by stifling smoke
which filled the cabin. He located
the fire in the roof near the stove
pipe. He worked until 8 o’clock
before he succeeded in getting the
fire out of the moss. The sparks
dropping into the woodbox set it;
afire and a few more minutes would
have made it a serious matter
Mrs. Shequin and the baby suf
fered no inconvenience.
1
Kokomo is the name of one of
the new creeks in the • Tatiana I
I
country. !
i
Clarence I,. Hobart has been ap
pointed chief deputy collector of
customs for Alaska, succeeding Jas.
H. Causten, who was appointed to !
the collectorship of Puerto Rico.
At least i $50,000 will be spent
•
this year in the Nizina country in
testing and opening up the ground
bonded to eastern capitalists thro*
G\ C Hazelett and H. V. Winchell.
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TANANA CHIEF
Will leave Rampart on her first trip to
Fairbanks and Chenoa
Immediately on Opening of Navigation
For Freight and Passage
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A. W. Williams J. B. Wingate
Tanana. Rampart
Dissolution of Copartnership
The partnership heretofore existing: between
'A. H. Mayo and Toseph Cooper, under the firm
name and style of Mayo & Cooper, is this day
dissolved bv mutual consent. A. H. Mayo will
carry on the business and will pay all accounts
against said firm, and to whom all .bills due are
to be paid. A- H. MAYO.
JOSEPH COOPER.
Rampart, May i, 1904.
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