“JUST IT’ IS ALL HE WANTS
The ioeal customs house is in
receipt of a communication
from Gorge F. Foster at Prince
Rupert stating that his launch
the "J ist It" went adrift from
that place in the gale of March
5th .aid is believed to have
drifted up this way. In case
anybody sights same or picks
i* up tney are requested to so
inform the Customs House.
WHALER IN FOR REPAIRS
The steam whaler Star No. 2
in port for the purpose of
going on the beach to have a
new wheel installed. The Star
i> the property of the l\ S.
haling company at Port Arm
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NOTICE
Notice is hereby given tha»
the Ketchikan Consolidated
Mines Company, a corporation
organised under. the jaws cf
the State of Maine, is the own
er and ia legal possession oi
all of ifcst certain miaing prop
erty covered by U. S. Mineral
Survey. No. 70S» and Entry No.
050, situated In a northerly
and southerly direction above
the town site limit of Ketchikan
That said company ha* pa: j to
the government of the United
Slates for said land and ha
performed such other act*
which justly entiTler it to the
ownership thereof: and further
notice is hereby given to a.
person*, and especially *. new
comers to Ketchikan who may
not be familiar w:*f the con
ditions under w 4ich said pmr
erty s* held, tiki* afl jumper
of and‘trespass *r? or? «a i Ian*:
will be cnroinfcllj* prosecute*1
to the full extort of tlie law-.
Ketchikan Consolidate*! Mine-1
Co.. By John Shoenbar. Ge:: -
era! Manager.
Ketchikan Alasika. Feb. it tPloj
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GAFFNEY BILL IS
PASSED BY HOUSE
The House Safur.!?.y by a U -
e-cve vote rer-: led the act of'
gre-- regarding rale of liq
' t ;••• Indians, eiinvinabr.g the
feiony feat :re and .r.ak.ng it a
• i me for Indians to solicit'
r. The bill re Is as fol
lows.
That if any person «b •.!!. vi.h
out the authority of the Unite 1
r-tute-. se.!. barter «_ r give tc
any Indian any spirituous.]
malt or '■ r>.us liquors or :ntox-'
bating exr: =•:*. oy alcoholii
!-ever - h person -ha!!
’ i on . or.-, etion thereof, for
the •' rst offense be guilty of a
m - ferns nor and be fined not
less than one hundred ani
nfy dollars nor- more than
hundred ■:■■!:&-s or be Em
it -oned sn the federal ja.i
r*'»t less than sixty lays
more than two hundred and
every sub
sequent nvict
lease. ?f the fact of a previous
co % ■ -. r. - pie -.-led in the ' -
" be gi .i ■ mis
demeanor and oe fined not Jes
ihan two hummed and fortv do;
; >rs ii- r more tt-r-n one thou
and dollar-, or imprisoned i,s
the federal jo:; not le~- than
U r months nor more thau
o..e year. And even- Indie i
"ho -hall wrongfully
Uisly —of- cif, incite or ind:jee
anv per-on to furoi-h him o<
1-'t with any ; mail’
or vino .s >qu>r • j intox rating
extract, or alcoholic liniment,
oh ulir paten; tne-firine or
• dio!t«- beg- . shall, upon
fo:.victior: the be punished
- provided this -e on.
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NEW TELEPHONE
DIRECTORY NEXT WEEK
f opy ?».r a new telephone di
rectory i- being prepared, and
the •ame will he issued next
week. In cr.se you are con
temp;avng he. -g -> telephone
• »• J. you r.ad better go o
the ibPzeris L ght Power and
\\ ---f lump;,! v. sign a con
tra-; .have the phone in.-*a'> ’
and ge* your name in the new
direi tory.
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♦ NORTvi \ HAPPENINGS ♦
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Two native Indians recently
arrived at Atlin bringing the
statement that the prospector
on Silver creek were panning
out ten dollars a day on the
• average. They say that the
new^ strike is promising well
and that a permanent camp
is sure to be established.
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Soldiers at Haines recently
caught a bear cub. which is
: >w the recognized mascot of
die 30th infautrv.
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Pay ^otng as high as $30 to
[the square fool has been found
[by Auolph Bock an old-time!
mining man. on Sullivan creek
in tbt Hot Springs district,
t he <treak is demonstrated to
!>e 100 feet in width. The
discovery means an increase of
>100.000 in the output and is
:he richest made in years in
he district. Bock is to open
up on a - s ate according to
;epor' brought by musher
■ '"orr> the lower river.
* * *
The Valdez Miner is not at
• 'I iii sympathy with the re
port o tfhe railroad eommis
-ion in that part of its report
which commends the Cordova
and Seward routes So the inter
or. The Miner says: Argu
ment- were undoubtedly pre
-• itt ri to them that a- the rail
: ad to Chitina was already
built they could either buy or
make *-::table traffic arrange
ment- and that it would work
a groat hardship on private
op ‘a! and enterprise to build
-hotter and more practical
e. more or less parallel with
ie one aJrea*dv built And
ihen the gentlemen from Sew
t! wh'i also have a while el*
ph r-.pt on the.:- hand-, argued
ha- the Mabmv-ka coal -hon’d
i-e opened and that they had
l ie sh'-rt cut to the Idifaroi
and the commission no doubt
tS;o :gh+ * ha! they should have
>eeord place. Valdez, having
uhing to seU. but standing on
it- merits, had no one to pre
-ent her - laims after the eom
mission left for Fairbanks, and
so had to take third place. But
Valdez ha- this consolation:
! is the logical gateway lo
he interior, offering the be-'
•uorle’t and cheapest line to
i, i.sdaiii. and soonor or later
h - fact will be recognized anil
■he railroad b >i!t from here."
George Haskins, pioneer Al
iskan and one of .the success
go: j -eeker- of Rampart
-I March 19th at his home
car Se -ttie. Many years he
re the great gold strike in
e Klondike. Mr. Haskins pros
e ted in the North. He wa
smong the first to stake claims
‘ Dawson. Ho wa- at Daw
in 1897 and 1898, and par- 1
:paied in the -trike at Ram
*.r and Circle City. It was a
Rampart that he made his for
■. me.
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FIREMEN ELECT OFFICERS
♦ 4 4
The Ketchikan Volunteer
re h'--' rfment held f'eir res
f*r nr.-4t.ng Tuesday night
it wa- the annual election
f officers a fire alarm was
;n:er! in to be -ore that all
-en i— - would be - ire to get
.- i Dale \V. Hurt wa- the
an.'.. - rho ■'*• for rhief
r. I h - r ame will be pre-ent
• 1 f.» tf f: flu ncil for confirm
'd i' . Rob*. Graham was ci
te i \--f. Chief: \V. T. James
-..,-T and John Koe’
. K 5*pa .! g and O. Wi!
fri- Member- of the Board
- A- they get mor-'
r.r - ‘ u ‘h« |joj - need more
- • ; a e look:’ j 'o' r« v
more good men. Tt;ey aie
i • t ic-'ai rner.t
til* V O a iig
W. i. j AAifc.3. i
A CRACK-A-JACK
8EINE BOAT
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Kigel Busehmann is in town
today having brought up the
big seine boat White Roar. Sh*
is a new one 54 feet long,
with a beam a little over 1 i
feet, and is powered with a So
Corliss. She leaves for the
West Coast in the morning.
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FORMER KETCHIKAN
MAN DIES IN TACOMA
According to word received
from the south on the last
boat. Fred Phtnney. brother-in
law of Art Theho. died recent
1> at Tacoma, and was buried
at Bremerton. He was well
known in Ketchikan where he
was captain of the baseball
team to 1010
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NORTHLAND LEAVES COAL
The steamer Northland saved
the day in the fuel line by ar
riving yesterday afternoon and
leaving in the neighborhood of
one hundred tons of first-class
coal. She cleared for the south
and got away about >ix o'clock
this morning. For cargo she
had 500 empty distillate drums
seven tierces >f mild cured sal
nun and 22 boxes of fresh hal
ibut.
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SALMON
APPEARING
iteport- from Union Bay are
■ the effect that the soft
her of the past few days
•i - brought in the Spring
: roon. They ire not biting
fa-* as \eL but consider
able are being taken. There
e !<>>e to a thousand people
the fshing camps scattered
the fishing camps scattered
ng from Union Bay to Cape
ucmano.
IV ILL PROTECT
HOTEL KEEPERS
HOUSE BILL NO. TO
i trod need by Representative
Kelley.
A BILL
'-'or an Act to prevent frauds
n :nn-keepers in the Terri
ory of Alaska and provide pun
-Iiment therefor.
Be it enacted by the Legisla
•nre of the Territory of Al
1 * *v3.
Sec. i. Every person who
■'obtain any food, lodging
accommodation at any hotel
•estaurant. boarding house or
*'!-ing house without paying
cere for, with intent to defraud
i,a proprietor or manager there
or who '.hall obtain credit
a hotel, restaurant, boarding
i.-I'C or lodging house by co>
or aid of any false pretense,
esentation, token or writ
g. or who after obtaining
I. lodging or accomoda
on a! a hotel, restaurant,
.•■ardipg house or lodging
lou-e. shall abscond or sur
epfitiously remove his bag
■age therefrom without paying
o' such food dodging or ac
omodation, shall be guilty cf
misdemeanor, and upon con
•t ou thereof shall be punish
‘ by fine not less than five
or more than two hundred
i* d fifty dollars and shall be
prisoned in the federal jail
i'til such fine and costs are
>a>d.
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*IP2RTS STORMY TRIP
f ie Bertha arrived from the
- ward about four o’clock
morning. This trip the;
--el went a- far as Kodiak,
’ reports a very stormy voy
on her way south.
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^~ESS COMPANY
AUDITOR IN TOWN
B -oh, one of the trav
'j auditors of the Wells
Express company ar
■iv, i on the Sampson yes
and has been auditing
o ol- of the local of
l.c-3 today.
COMPLETE THEIR
ASSESSMENT WORK
D. W. Sanford and Geo. V.
Biand, arrived last evening
fi*oiu Dali Head where they
have been doing development
; cork on the mining properties
■owned by them in lhat setion.
'! hey report a decided improve
ji out in the properties as a re
-ait of the opening of more
■ ad better ore than heretofore
i vealed.
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FATHER SHEPHERD
GOES NORTH
Father Sheperd was a pas
senger up on the Humboldt
' this morning en route to points
orth. While he is away he
*.v:M hold services in Wrangell
.ii-l Juneau, returning early
i ext w eek.
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SALOONS HELD
ACCOUNTABLE
Unless they stop the sale of
bottled beer and other liquors
•'*' persons who in turn illegally
dispense intoxicants. several
local saloonmen may lose their
I censes. This is a gist of <•
warning sent out by U. S. Mar
-hal Faulkner today in a eir
i alar letter, in accordance made
Saturday by Judge Lyons.
In part the letter says that
where a saloonman sells bot
tled beer to a person or per
sons w ho are known by him to
be selling liquor without a li
cense .that saloonman is liable
t.i arrest, and request may be!
made that he show cause why!
bis license should not be re
voked.
Tiie authorities’ crusade a
gainst the illegal sale of liquor
in nooses of prostitution is
said to have just begun.—Dis
patch.
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SITKA GOING DRY
Sitka is going dry. The dis
tressing news was received by:
Arthur Shoup by the Georgia
moil, (t appears the women of
Sitka, enthused by the elective
franchise, have arisen in their
might and circulated a petition
containing over seventy names*
protesting against the re-issn-,
::g of retail licpior licenses at:
dka. —Dispatch.
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WIRELESS MAN RETURNS
M. Thompson, wife and lit
tle son, returned on the Spok
■ ie this mornrng from a three
months- absence in the states.
Mr. Thompson was in charge
r. ■ the Marconi wireless station
ci this place prior to his de
parture, and takes up the same
work now.
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SEA PUTS WIRELESS
OUT OF COMMISSION
The big cannery steamship ;
'Yindbar which was in the har- i
bor yesterday evening on he.’ i
way to the .Sound from King i
Cove, reports having enrount- j
pred extremely bad weather onp
her trip down. So rough wasp
il at one time that the big |
motor generator in her wire-p
Ie.-- room was torn loose fromp
if- foundation, and before itp
i ould be secured had smashed l
a!i the furniture in the room,
including the wireless set. j
l-'or'nnately Mrs. If. K. Soule. ;■
'he wife of the captain of the ]
VC- cl, who is the wireless op-ji
crotor, had just left the room, ]
- ."(j one was hurt. Of course
I he wireless plant is out of;
'omntision until repairs can be
i-iade at Bellingham, the steam i
destination.
SPRING IS HERE
AT LAST-SURE
At last it looks as though j
-pring is really here. Not in
the weather partiularly, al
though that isn't bad, nor in the
gardens, for they are behind
.a-i year, but in the creek*—the
.•mil are running again. K.
Berg went out today noon, and
i, lc«s than three hours came
t orrie with a fine string of “cut
nroal-.” That’s a sign that's
hard to beat, and incidents
I ibey la-te mighty good.
Claiming that the new Ton
‘ gass Builidng was being pro
jected out into Dock tSreet fivi
inches over the edge of the lot
J R. Heckman .acting in lie
half of the J. R. Heckman £
Co. has secured a temporary t
restraining order against the
Tongass company returnable
in Judge Lyons’ court at Ju
neau next Saturday, April 12th
'1 he result of the restraining
order is the total cessation ol
all work on the new building,
which is practically in the
hands of Marshal Davies and
Ins deputies.
Of course there is consider
able difference of opinion
around town about the merits
of the case, and it is a safe bet
that if one sees two or more
men talking together on the
streets today, that the injunc
tion is the topic of conversa
tion.
According to the Heckman
side of the story, the Tongass
lot was not quite square with
the street, so that company ap
plied lo the Common Council
for >'eltef, and that body deeded
the company a triangular piece
seven or eight inches in width
on the front and running out
lo nothing on the back, for the
purpose of straightening out
the kinks, which the Tongass
accepted, but that company in
erecting the new building now
plan to build out another l'ivo.
inches, and have so placed the
foundations.
On the other hand, Manager
I rcd G. Johnstone of the Ton
gass Trading company, states
that his company in erecting
llieir building is occupying
ground two inches less than
that granted them in their
deeds, and even at that the
main wall will be five inches
l ack from the street, as the
building will be of pilaster con
slruction with curtain w-alis
between. These pilasters, six
in number, will project from
the rest of the wall five inches,
but at that will be within the
old Tongass lots.
Here is the case as presented
ty the two claimants, and
which one is right can only be
decided by the court after due
consiedration. But this much
cannot be disputed, it is very
unfnrlunate that such a con
dition should have arisen al
this time, whan apparently we
were on the verge of an era
of building here in Ketchikan,
which is bound to be affected
1 y litigation of this nature.
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At last it can be delinately
slated that Ketchikan is to be
the distributing point for the
Stanadrd Oil company in South
eastern Alaska. Word arrived
this morning that the distillate
tank, 60 by 30 feet, and capa
ble of holding 15,000 barrels
of oil was in Seattle and
would come north on the North
land. Al. Kreidler now has a
gang of mem at work prepar
ing for the foundation above
Strong’s oil dock, and the big
tank will be put in position as
.-con as the base is ready.
When this is in, the price of
distillate will be reduced to a-j
bout one cent per gallon above
the Seattle price—in the* neigh
borhood of three cents lower
than ikp'—and an immense a
tnonnt kept on hand at ail
limes. Other tanks will he er
oded, all of them on solid rock
and cement foundation, the
larcest one, that for crude oil,
will he 06 feet in diameter and
hold over thirfy thousand bar
rels of fuel oil, or more than
-even thousand tons. A ware
house is being erected on the
wharf in which rase oil will he
stored ,aml after il is complet
ed no more explosive oils will
in stored by the company in
,-ide the , city limits. Besides
II, e different fuel oils, the
company will carry a com
plete stock of all the various
lubricants, etc., they manufac
ture.
THE SOLUTION
(Contributed)
For years (lie public lias been
studiously seeking a solution
cl the financial question. Hap
pily the I. \V. \V. offers it—
Abolishment of the wage sys
tem.
Now the I. W. \V. is no new
thing. I have been filled wiih
lliis same noble inspiration for
more than forty years. At a
Lout that time I was hired
out to work for an uncle on a
farm.
To Work for Wages—'think
of it! The disgrace, the igno
miny of it. Even though the
wages were very small—$7.00
per mouth—I was to work for
wages. At this time 1 was quite
a young philosopher, filled
with ali those qualities so nec
essary to I. YV. Wism. My
uncle had a corn field in which
I was cultivating. On one side
was woods—nice and cool and
shady On the other side a
rail fence, every corner of
which was filled with great,
luscious black raspberries. It
was at this time my tender so
licitude for animals was form
ed. Every time I crossed the
field 1 gave that poor old horse
a nice long rest, and philos
ophised.
In our neighborhood lived a
vlapilalist. He owned a mus
ket, an old six-shooter, two
silver watches—one of which
would run some—an army cap
with a red, white and blue
plume on it, also many other
treasures. His greatest asset
however, was a big harvest ap
ple tree, loaded with the ino-d
succulent fruit.
Now right here came a dis
agreement between myself, a
wage slave, and the Capitalist.
At this point we boys in the
neighborhood organized a se
cret society. The greatest dif
ficulty about reaching those
apples was a high fence with
a barbed wire on top. Though
we couldn’t follow the I. W.
\V. method of removing the oh
joet, we found it possible to
surmount it. Now this socie
ty was not known as the I. W.
\V., and modesty deters mi?
from giving the name we were
Known by. It is only neces
sary to state that our princi
ples were practically the same.
For instance, no rich man can
join ttie I. YV. W., his son was
not allowed to join our society.
No merchant, businessman,
manufacturer or farmer can
join the I. W. W., their sons
were excluded from our soci
ety. No preacher can join the
T NY’. W., their sons could not
join u- regularly, though there
was one preacher’s son who
would have made us a most
valuable worker. He could get
over a fence the quickest, and
through the smallest hole of
any boy I ever saw.
When I look back at those
days, I feel that I can nlmo-t
say that I am the originator
of the I. W. W.
After a while a new party
popped up calling themselves
Socialists. Now, I thought
here is the panacea. Hut im
agine my disgust to find that
they not only upheld working
for wages, but even have the
audacity to demand a material
increase in wages, which of
course makes them impossible
Therefore, 1 feet that I am an
1. W. \V. That is I Want Work.
E. A TEETER.
P. S.—And Wages.
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On February 22, a remark
able -hipment of newspapers
and magazines reached Fair
banks The shipment consisl
cd of six tons of reading mai
ler. destined lo be distributed
among the homes of Alaskan
lamilies, prospectors and trap
pers, and comprised the first
second-class matter Rial Fair
tanks had seen for a period of
pearly two months. II repres
ented the largest single ship
merit of mail ever received ov
erland in Fairbanks.