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First M. E. Church
Sunday Church service 11 a. m. and
7:30 p. m.
Wednesday Prayer Meeting 7:30.
Friday choir meets 8 o’clock.
First and third Wednesday after
•eons at 2:30 Ladies Aid Society.
H. W. MICHENEB, Pastor.
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CATHOLIC CHURCH
Sunday Mass at 8 a. m. and
10 a.m.
Sunday School at 2:30 p. in.
Sunday Vespers at 7 p. m.
Week Day Mass at 8 a. m.
John Francis Hayes, S. j.
Pastor.
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Saint John’s Church
Rev. Bobert Ewell Boe, priest in
eharge.
Sunday 8 a. m. Holy Communion.
h:45, Native Sunday School.
11:00, Matins (1st. Sunday, Holy
Communion) and sermon.
12:15 White Sunday school.
3 p. m. Native service.
7 p. in. Evensong and sermon
Wednesday 7:30 p. ia., Native ser
vice
Saturday 2:00 p. m. J. .* S. 5:30
p. m. choir practice.
Meeting of Vestry first Monday
night in month; Womeh’s Guild, si
ternmte Thursdays, 2:30.
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Christian Science Society
Tront street, Ketchikan,
Hegular Services Sunday it am
“Christian Science”
SUNDAY, DEC. 28.
Wednesday evetnng reading
and Song Service at 7 :30 P. M.
All Are Welcome
INDEPENDENT
DRAY1NG COMPANY
General
miauling:
and work of all kinds
McBAIN & EGGAN, Props.
Launches
Rough Rider and Teddy
MONDAY, 8 a m—Chomley
(Sunny Point), connecting
with mail carrier for Sulzer
and all points on West Coast
Prince of Wales Island.
! TUESDAY, 8 a m—Metlakaht
la, Dolomi
i WEDNESDAY, 8 am—Loring,
Yes Bay, (Cannery-Hatch
ery) .Bell Isl’d Hot Springs
I THURSDAY, 8 a m—Same as
Monday.
1 FRIDAY, 8 a m—Metlakahtla.
SATURDAY,Kassan, It Camp.
Rush & Brown, andllollis.
Carries Passengers and
Freight
Williams & Hubbard
Masters
Agents for
WADHAMS OIL CO.
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^ Ketchikan Wharf Co.
COAL
COAL
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DOMESTIC
Lump Coal
Ketchikan Wharf Co.
C. M. Tavlor
Phone 64 Agent
FOR CHARTER
“SEARCHLIGHT”
Equipped with
electric Lights, Steap) Heat,
Spring Bunks
Special rates for Ion? trip
F. w. TEMPLE. PHONE
Master. M 5 R
For Your
Hardware, Clothing, Shoes, Underwear,
Fishing Outfits.
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N. F. ZIMMERMAN
Ketchikan, - - Alaska
THE MINER
DAILY: Published every week day. Subscription $1.00 per month
WEEKLY; Published every Friday.$3.00 Per Year in A Ivance
Entered as second class matter March SSih. 1910 at the postofflee in Ketchikan. Alaska, under
the act of MRrch 3. 1379.
MINER PUBLISHING COMPANY. Pcbusbers,
RICHARD BUSHELL. JR.. Editor. M. H. BUSHELL. Associate Editor
EDITORIAL PAGE
REVERSING THE ENGINE.
Something That l« Never Done Aftei
Applying the Brakes.
There are some popular technical
fallacies so strongly intrenched in
public belief that they survive in
spite of reiterated contradiction.
Among these is the belief that the
first thing a locomotive engineer
does, or one of the first, when he
sees that a collision is inevitable, is
to apply the brakes and reverse his
engine.
As a matter of fact, we doubt if
one in 10,000 of the locomotive
engineers of this country would be
guilty of the absurdity of reversing
his engine and applying his brakes
at the same tiipe. There was a day
in the earlier history of railroading
when an engineer would have been
considered remiss in his duties if he
did not in an emergency reverse his
engine, but with the growth of j
technical knowjedge it has come to j
be understood that to reverse the j
engine after applying the brakes is !
to defeat the very object for which i
the train brakes were applied.
In justice to the early locomotive I
engineers, however, it should be re- J
membered that only the tender of j
the locomotive carried the brakes, j
not the engine itself, and under
those conditions the reversing of >
the engine applied an additional, !
though comparatively small, retard- j
ing effect, supplemental to that af-,
forded by the tender brakes.
The folly of reversing when there |
are brakes on the engine and these
brakes are set is evident if we re- j
member that when the engine is i
running with the brakes applied the I
retarding effect is due to the large i
aggregate area of contact between
tlie brake shoes and the tread of the ‘
wheels, whereas when the engine is
reversed the frictional area of the
brake shoes is replaced by the very
small area of the sliding surfaces in |
contact between the tread of the
wheels and the rails, with the result
that there is an immediate large re
duction of the retarding effect of
the engine on the train behind it I
A PRIZED RECORD.
Original Muster Roll of “Captain A.
Lincoln’s Company."
None of the records of the treas
ury department is more highly 1
prized than the original muster roll
of “Captain A. Lincoln's company’’
in the handwriting of that famous
man himself. It was a voluntary
company organized by Lincoln in
1832 to serve in the Black Hawk
war. Lincoln as an army ollicer
was the same painstaking, careful
and orderly man that he was later
as president. He kept the muster
rolls of his company himself, and
nowhere can a neater and more
complete account be found.
Although more than eighty years
old now, the roll is wonderfully
well preserved. The paper is of
poor quality, but the handwriting
is still legible and distinct, not a
single error having been made in
the copy. The record has been
bound together along the edges,
and where it has been folded con
stant handling has done consider
able damage to it.
The interesting document is
headed: “Muster Roll of Captain
A. Lincoln’s Company of the
Fourth Regiment of Mounted Vol
unteers, Commanded by Brigadier
General Samuel Whitesides. Mus
tered out of service of the United
States at the mouth of Fox river
May the 27th, 1832.”
The roll shows that Abraham
Lincoln was the captain and that
he was enrolled with the rest of the
command on April 21 at Richland,
Sangamon country, 111. At the foot
is Lincoln's certificate as to the
correctness of the muster roll at the
time of muster out. The only other
handwriting on the document is
that of Nathaniel Buckmaster, in
spector and muster officer, certify
ing to the accuracy of the roll of
Lincoln’s company.
10 II. P. Gray Motor... Guar
anteed to be in good condition,
for $00.00. II. R. THOMPSON.
SHOUT THE GLAD TIDINGS
that at last there is a laundry
where you can have your shirts
collars, etc, done up so they are
fit towear Christmas or any
other time. For that is what
this laundry does, and does It
promptly too. Shall we send
for your washables this week?
Better say “yes.”
KETCHIKAN STEAM LAUNDRY
FOSS BROS. & CO
Receives orders for Complete House Bills and
all kinds of DRESSED and ROUGH LUMBER.
HADLEY - - ALASKA
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%\)t fetoefcoatu
M. E. MARTIN. Proprietor
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The Best o Wines Liquors and Cigars Fine arsortmem ol
High Grade Bottle Goods
Water Front, Corner Front ar.o Ccc Streets
Ketchikan, * - Alaska
RADENBAUGH SHIP YARDS
T. W. COLLINS, Manager
FIRST CLASS
Boat Builder
Ship Caulker
and Repairer |
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED [
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A MARVEL OF STEALTH.
THi* Herd of Elephant* Ware Appar
ently Shod With Silence.
Innocently meandering through
»n African forest, Mr. E. II. Bron
son and his hunting companion,
neither of whom had seen wild
elephants, much less hunted them,
found themselves in the middle of
a feeding herd, but hidden from the
unwieldly animals by the under
brush. ‘Tn Closed Territory” the
author describes the experience:
It proved to be our day to learn
a lot about the elephant’s whims
and what he can do when he
likes. Of course the creek lay be
tween us, which might seem a pro
tection, but it was not. They all
whirled and thundered away from
us. But scarcely had we gone a
hundred feet before the whole herd
came plunging back upon their
tracks at the same mad pace.
They stopped stock still ten
yards from us, as we afterward
proved, but they were hidden from
us as before. This time they were
bunched in a half circle about us.
For probably ten minutes there
was utter silence; then they started
feeding and amusing themselves as
before. This continued for per
haps fifteen minutes, when all
sound ceased again, and the wood
was as still as if they had all drop
ped dead.
And there we sat for the larger
part of an hour, wondering how
long an afternoon siesta well regu
lated elephant families usually take.
We were in constant expectation
of renewed movement by some of
the herd. We could have sworn
that they were still within the toss
of a biscuit.
But when presently a slight stir .
among the leaves directly before
Outran) made us throw up our rifles
out stepped Akuna, who had raced
out of our sight at the first stam
pede. He brought the incredible
intelligence that the elephants were
gone out of the bush and were dis
appearing off toward the north.
Magic! No prestidigitator could
touch this vanishing act of tons and
tons of ambulant weight done under
our very noses in a country where
we pygmies could hardly stir with
out causing a racket. And yet it
proved to be true. They were all
gone, by what miracle of stealth 1
doubt if the oldest elephant hunter
could tell.
Soap and a King.
Soap used to provide King James i
l. with a comfortable addition to !
his income. That canny monarch
granted the company of soapmakers
of Westminster the monopoly for
the making of soap in England in
return for the payment of $30 a
ton on all soap produced. The im
portation of soap was forbidden, and
officers were appointed to deal with
illicit soap boiling, its manufacture |
even in private houses for domestic
purposes being punishable by heavy |
penalties. Moreover, a proclama- '
tion was issued that “the soap made
by the company is good, sweet and
serviceable for our people.” The
annua! revenue derived by the king
from this source amounted to about
$150,000.
FOR SALE
Organ—Kimball six Octave
1 1 stops knee swell and ftdl
organ. Black, walnut case in
good condition. Inquire at
Thompson’s Store
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TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
i
This is a notice to the public \
that Harry Rathbone, having '
bought an interest in the tail
oring business at Ketchikan
from Joe Murphy, on this dale !
all outstanding bills up to De
cember 15, 1013, will be col
lected by and all outstanding i
obligations will be paid by said |
Joe Murphy .
JOE MURPHY '
HARRY RATHBONE. |
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Ketchikan PUBLIC LIBRARY 1
and
FREE READING ROOM
Open from
10 A. M. to 10 P. M.
MRS. J. B. THOMPSON
Librarian j
Ketchikan
DrayingCompany
CHARLES FINZEL, Prop.
Draying
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aid carefully executed.
Contracts Take i For Anv Work ]
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Ketchikan Meat Companj'
Carstens Packing Company, Owners.
FRESH MEATS
and
PROVISIONS
All Meats Government Inspecteo.
RED MEN’S BLOCK
Phone 120 Ketchikan, Alaska
i NORTHERN MACHINE WORKS j
B
| Agents g
; Standard Gas Engines I
! Gas Engines Supplies f
$15. Fare to Seattle - $10.
NORTHLAND STEAMSHIP CO
STEAMER “ALKI” SAILS FROM SEATTLE
Nov. 24th, and Dec. 5th, 9 p. m
Steamer “NORTHLAND” Sails rorri Seattle northbound
Dec. 5th. 9 p. m.
Phone No. fiO
D. W. HUNT.Local Agent
\ We Manufacture and Keep in Stock all kinds of |
\ 8
Spruce and Cedar Lumber £
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Can fill any order eiffcer stock §
\ or cut to specifications ... |
\ Steamer Vigilant and Barge Blanche ^
I for charter ror freight purposes jj
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j Ketchikan Power Company |
Canadian Pacific Railway Co.
' THE PRINCESS LINE
OPERATING THE
PRINCESS SOPHIA
Northbound Dec. 8th and 22nd,
Southbound Dec. 12th and 26th
Service the best.
Steamers and sailing dates subject to change without
notice. Tickets to all parts ot the world. Informa
tion gladly given. Inquire of *
H. W. Brudie, U. P. A Floyd E. Ryus, Agent,
Vancouver phone m Ketchikan. Alaska.