' FROM WEDNESDAYS DAILY
READY FOR FISH
Frank Burkhart arrived over
from the Waterfall caneT> lasl
night and reports that the can
nery at that point of which he
is superintendent is ready for
business. The cans were fin
ished some time ago and since
then the machinery for handl
ing the pack has been overhaul
ed and .the necessary changes
made and the cases for the
cans have been put together.
LATOUCHE ARRIVES
After having been expected
for several days the LaTouche
made port this morning on her
way north She had miscellan
eous freight for town and a
good sized gasboat for a local
fisherman In addition to the-e
she had a coi:> rnmcr.l of hogs
on board for II Schaefer of
Ketchikan Daily
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Gerald Hoadley will leave for
the south on the Alki tomor
row.
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A BAD BRUSH FIRE
"What looked or a while as
though it was going to be a
bad fire occurred yesterday
afternoon, just outside the
town limits, when a brush fire
started near Kubley's store on
the beach north of town spread
under the strong wind, and
threatened several of the build
ings in the neighborhood. The
fire was extinguished after
considerable work and was a
demonstration of the need of
great care in the handling of
fires during dry spells in this
region.
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WARDEN ARRIVES FOR
FORRESTER ISLAND
George Willett, who will be
warden at the Forrester Island
bird preserve, ar: wed on the
City of Seattle this morning
and will leave for the Island as
soon as he can get a boat. Thi
is Mr. Willett's first year in
this particular capacity, al
though he has been in the ser
vice for some time and has
spent two season- in Alaska.
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A CHANGE IN THE
MESSENGER SERVICE
Robert Potts ha« sold his in
terest in the Ketchikan Mes
senger Service to A. Forsyth,
who with Jimmie Lampton will
conduct the business in the
future.
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FIRE AT STEWART B. C.
Recent arriveU from Stew
art at the head of Portland
Canal report a bad lire at that
place during which many of
the buildings of the town were
consumed, among which were
the Northern Hotel and the
near by buildings. Powder
had to be resorted to to stop the
fire.
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Fairbanks, Maj—Last Tues-■
day a school election was held
at Chatanika that developed in
to a warm contest. It was a
case of male against female,
as three women opposed three
men for positions on the board
The women, although outclass
ed in number of votes in the
district, managed to elect their
entire ticket. Mesdames A. A.
Jewell, F, E. Johnson and F.
M. Keyes were the successful
ladies.
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Fairbanks started (he new
fiscal year with a municipal
debt of $8,000.
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The etiv council of Juneau
has passed a chain-gang ordi
nance wheicby the city mar
shal is autho ize.j to work lb ■
prisoners on the streets. ‘
Bakex
■ to
Perfection
”1 had no idea this Oil Cook Store would bake |
bread and cook everything just like my steel range, I
But it does. And best of all my kitchen stays cool §|
these hot days. Besides, there’s no coal or wood or jj
ashes to lug. Oh, I’m delighted with it.” »
New Perfection I
OIL COOK 5TOV£ I
; It bakes, broils, roasts and toasts—perfectly. It if
does all that any wood or coal stove can do—and at ■
less cost. It doesn’t smoke; doesn’t taint the food. ft
Clean, safe, convenient. Ask to see it at your §
dealer’s. I
- STANDARD OIL I
FOR BEST RESULTS COMPANY 1
USE PEARL OIL (California) 1
Ketchikan I
SEATTLE IN NORTHBOUND
The City of Seattle, with
passengers on board made
port this morning, and after
di-charging her local cargo
an I ten passengers for Ketchi
kan, got away for northern
p -iiits between seven and eight
''deck. Among those return
ing on her were David Nieoll
and Chief of Police Howell.
Six passengers boarded her
here for upper points.
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WILL TAKE MUCH FISH
The steamer Alki, which is
due southbound tomorrow,
will take considerable mild
cured salmon from Ketchikan.
The Diamond T company will
ship 34 tierces, and the Sal
ni"n Packing Campony prob
ably more. Several passengers
have secured passage on the
ves-el south from this port.
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ROCHELLE IN SOUTHBOUND
The steamer Rochelle of the
Swan Navigation Co., was in
port this morning on her way
south. Her cargo consisted
mainly of empty oil drums and
a little plunder.
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Fairbanks, May —A wire re- !
reived here from Washington
asks for bids for the purchase
of fifty horses. The wire is j
-ig'ied by the members of the
new railroad commission and '
also ask- for detailed infor- j
ma ion about packers, the
number obtainable and the
wages required. People here
are confident that business
will take a big boom this year
due to the influx of govern
ment employees who will start
the survey work between here
and Susitna.
I is averted that when Alas
ka' - go to the States they have
to break themselves of the
habit of -peaking about the
“Outside,” for fear others will
think they have been in jail.
—Exchange.
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The government has with
drawn from entrv 3810 acres
of land at Chena lor railroad
purposes.
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Fairbanks citizens are be
coming alarmed because the
’Tauana river seems bent on
changing its course.
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If is reported that the only
<a!oort. at Chisana will close
for want of patronage.
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The regular summer sched
jule on the White Pass Ry.,
will be inaugurated on May 24.
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1 ihe Daily Miner $i. per mo.
Eigil Busehmann, superin
dent of the Quadra cannery is
a local visitor today.
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LOHSNG PHONE LINE OPEN
The telephone line tp Lpring.
on which a crew had been
working for several days, was
placed in commission yester
day afternoon. It is now pos
sible to phone right through
to the Fortman Hatchery.
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LOOKS LIKE BUSINESS
Among the Quinault's freight
ta-t night were two framed
houses for the Marconi Wire
less Company’s plant out at
Ciarcoal Point. This looks as
though the company plans
e ■iy action in the erection of
their towers and other build
ngsof their plant at Ketchikan
HAS SAWMfLL CREW
Among the passengers on
the City of Seattle this morn
ing was a new crew for the
Alaska Lumber & Box com
pany’s mill at Hadley. The
steamer went in to that place
to deliver them after leaving
Ketchikan.
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Fairbanks, May—Ellis Gard
er, the new assistant district
attorney who left Cordova for
this place a short time ago,
became ill on the trail between
Chitina and Fairbanks and is
confined to his bed at a road
house. Mr. Gradner, accord
ing to the report, is very ill,
■ ut not dangerously so. The1
'ature of his sickness has not
been ascertained. The appoint
ment of Gardner is taken here
to indicate a change in the in
cumbent of the district attor
ney for this division.
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Fairbanks, May —Harry C.
Hern, a pioneer Alaskan, with
friends in all parts of the in
terior and the Yukon, died here
last week after a long seige
of pneumonia. Hern has been
in the placer mining regions
of the north since the first
Dawson rush and was sixty
two years old when he died.
Burial was in the local ceme
ter%\
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Just to show that Alaska is
not the whole thing, a race of
blond Eskimos has been dis
covered in Labrador.
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George Riley, the last sur
vivor of Dr. Kane’s polar expi
dition in 1853, died on the 18
of April at Tacoma,
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For Rent modern furnished
room. Bath. heat. .<nd light ap
ply Miner office. adv.
-PTPINOtt FINISHED
The piping in the sharp
freezers and cold storage
; rooms at the Ketchikan Cold
Storage company’s plant, was
finished last night and is be
: ing tested today. This means
that the plane is now ready for
all kinds of business in ad
dition to the manufacture of
e which it has been doing for
me time.
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QUINAULT ARRIVES
\fter bucking head winds all
e way up, the Quinault ofthe
rlland Steamship company
• rived in port yesterday after
on about five o’clock. She
1 83 tons of freight for Ket
: iken. and four passengers,
te goes to Sitka this trip and
t'l be southbound about
T nday.
WINBER IN PORT
After tafcmg on water and
me supplies, the steamer
'mher, tender for the canner
at Excursion Inlet, King
ve and Pt. Moller, left for the
•mer place this morning, on
her way from Bellingham to
Pt, Moller. She is loaded with
cannery supplies and material
for new buildings.
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HE CAME BACK
Lee McElrath, and old timer
j of this region, who had been
south for about a year, re
turned on the Quinault last,
night, satisfied that^ there’s no
place like Alaska.
George M. Easterly was a re
cent visitor in Cordova en route
to Ghittitu creek, where he has
large hydraulic holdings. He
will employ 40 men or so this I
season and expects to cleanup
$250,000 if there is plenty of ;
water to get in a full season's
work. ( I
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ASKS $10,000 FOR BALM
FOR MINING ACCIDENT
John McCauley has brought for
$10,000 damages against the
Alaska Gastineau Mining com
pany at Juneau, through his at
torney, John H. Cobb, alleging
that on March 13th, while
working on the night shift in
the Perseverance mine on level
No. 10, he was seriously in
jured through the negligence
of other workmen. In his
complaint McCauley declares
he was assisting in placing lad
ders up through a raise. A
rock fell down and struck j
McCauley on the leg, he says, j
breaking it and incapacitating
him from work since the ac
cident. The complaint says
the falling rock was loosened
by a crew of men who were
engaged in blasting. McCauley j
bases his complaint that no
warning of danger was given
him.
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I
Dogs broke up a mail team
of reindeer at Solomon recent
ly. The dogs became uncon
trollable and attacked the deer.
One deer brooke its leg in try
ing to escape through the snow
and had to be shot, another
on the sled was so badly bitten j
that it may die, while one loose
dog gave chase to the other
deer and neither the dog nor
its quarry have been seen
since.
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Alex Ranke, a pioneer of the
north, widely known among
Alaskans, died in Seattle May
i. Deceased was the eldest
and surviving son of the late
Otto Ranke, who was one of
the prominent business men of j
Seattle years ago. Ranke
went to Circle City in the early j
’90s, and was later at Dawson
and Noms.
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All kinds of fresh green veg
tables at,
N. F. ZIMMERMAN. adv.
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The Daily Miner, fl. per. mo.
FROM THURSDAYS DAILY
WILL OVERHAUL
THE STEDMAN
Work on a new tar and grav
el roof on the Stedman Hole!
was started today, advantage
being taken of the present
fine weather As soon as the
roof is finished the building
will be overhauled and repaint
ed inside and out, as Mine Host
Martin Bugge intends to keep
it right up in the front ranks
as the hotel without a superior
in the whole of Alaska.
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CHANGES AT THE
BOWLING ALLEY
Proprietor Ilaack of the Bowl
mg Alley is having several
changes made at that popular
place of amusement. Among
them are the installation of a i
soda water fountain and ice
cream counter, which will no
'louht prove quite a lnisiiic"
getter,
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Canning Company
Changes Name
The Walsh-Moore Canning j
Company has changed its cur-- !
porate mime to that of the j
Ward’s Cove Packing Com
pany. This company operates
a salmon cannery at Ward’s j
Cove, near Ketchikan.
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'ish Egg Cannery Will Operate
There having arisen some J
question a, to whether the j
Fish Egg cannery of the Lind
erburger Packing Co., would
operate the coming season, we j
are authorized to announce
that it will be operated with
an output of from 40,000 lo
.'>0,000 cases.
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ADVERTISING ALASKA
The May number of Hie Alas
ka es Northwest Mining Jour
nal, published in Seattle, lias
several interesting articles a
hout Alaska. The first article
is an illustrated description of
getting out the government
coal from the Matapuska fields
for a nayal test. The oil pros
pects surrounding Katalla are
given intelligent mention, and
there are other interesting Al
askan features.
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The grocery firm of Reidly.
Slater & O’Neil, in Cordova,
has been broken up by the
withdrawl of Mr. Reidly from
the firm. Jas. IJ. MacGormac
has been taken into the busin
ess, which will now he incor- ;
porated under the name of
O'Neil & Slater Co. Mr. Reidly
will settle in Sascathewan.
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M. J. Callaghan, the mining
operator, has incorporated the j
Port Wells Gold Mining Com- 1
puny wilh a capitalization of
$1,000,000. The company
owns the Hogan and Biack
claims, commonly known as
the Tar Flat group, located on
Harriman fjord, in the Port!
Wells section, and about five
miles from the Granite mine I
recently opened by Senator Mil
lard, enj considered the 1 -1
properly in this section.
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Joe Prairie and Tom McDer- ;
mott have taken over the
Prospector hotel business, and
will continue the popular old
stand, with the resturant at
tached in charge of Gus Thorn, j
ston. Joe is the man who re
cently made the great race to
Sixty mile, where lie staked
prize ground.—Dawscn News.
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Arthur Specker, superintend
ent of the Hlue Hell mine on
Porcupine creek, reports that
good progress is being made
in opening up the property and
getting the mill set up in place
for the seasons work. If the '
weather continues fair it is j
hoped that stamps will he j
dropping on this property with i
in the month.—Seward Gatway.
NORTHWESTERN ARRIVES
The big steamer Northwest
ern of the Alaska Steamship
company made port about one
o’clock this morning and after
discharging in the ncighbor
! hood of twenty tons of local
freight, left for the north about
two-thirty. She had 151 pas
sengers on board all told, of
whom 2.'! were for Ketchikan.
.Nine boarded her at this port
for the north and west.
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1 he main topic for consid
eration at the meeting of the
Common Council last night was
lliat of extending the town
boundaries to take in the tide
Hats and that region southeast
of town including (he New
England holdings, the eeme
Utry and the Standard Oil plant.
A committee had been appoint
ed at the last regular merlin
to look into (his matter, and re
ported hist, night that the cost
ol the preliminary work and el
ection would not he excessive.
Their report was adopted and
they were instructed to go a
head with the work of the sur
veying, preparing the piul, and
cl rq vying up the necessary
petition to secure the election.
The Committee appointed to
look into the advisability of
enlarging (lie building used for
the Council Chambers and the
Public Library, Reported fav
oring the addition of a leanto
on the back of the building and
re-shingling the entire struct
ure. As but one bid was sub
mitted last night the committee
was instructed to secure other
bids, and was given authority
to go ahead wit-lithe work after
such bids had been submited.
A petition was read and re
ferred to the Light and Water
committee from residents of
Mahoney Heights asking that
two lights be installed on
Gulch Avenue, one 300 feel
from Stedman street, and the
other 000 feet.
Mayor Harris reported that
several complaints had been
made tohim about the speed at
which automobiles are driven
in the streets of Ketchikan, and
made the suggestion that an
ordinance be prepared to limit
their speed, and also require
that they use pneumatic tires
instead of solid rubber as the
later are too hard on the plank
in,
The matter of changing the
light on the corner of Front
and Dock streets from its pres
ent location on the Stedman
corner to the Tongass corner,
where the Tongass company
had offered to ereet an oramen
tal lamp post, was referred to
the Light and Water commu
te, with power to act.
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More than a hundred citizens
of Fairbanks have admitted
that their annual income is in
excess of $3,00 Oand will pay
the government incometax.
There are but three people
who live in Dyea now, and one
third of the population was al
most exterminated a short
time ago by having his motor
go dead while making the trip
home from Skagway in a bad
storm. Emil E. Klatt was the
adventurer, and tie managed to
escape death by beaching the
boat.
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Fairbanks, May—Jack Mc
Cann who arrived here from
the Kuskokwim last week, tells
of tlie finding of the body of
Frank Vevey and clears up the
mystery of his disappear
ance last fall. He says he
found the body frozen into the
ice of Fish Lake. The body
was discovered because of a
slump of one of the dead man’s
hands that was sticking out of
the ice. The hand itself had
been eaten away bv animals.
McCann dug out the body and
identified the man and later
buried him. On arrival here
he reported his find to the U.
S. Marshal.
TWO STARS ARRIVE
The steam whalers, Star I,
and Star II, arrovod np from
the south this morning after a
trip lasting since Monday
night. Capt Selness is an
command of the No. I, and l<\
Krueger oft he No. II. The
vessels arc the property of the
l uiled States Whaling Cam
pany, and will make their hcad
«inarters at Port Armstrong.
Kach carries a crew of Id men
in addition to the captain and
gnn handler.
tiapl. Selness of the Star No.
I the largest of the three ships
commanded (he schooner
Lizzie Sorenson when she was
rammed and sunk by a wound
ed whale of the Alaska coast
some years ago. The whale
went through the vessel’s
hows. She sank in five min
utes Selness and liis crew of
eight, men barely escaping in
a sixteen-foot skiff. A dog
and cat also jumped into the
■'kill', which was overloaded to
sl|eh an extent one of the men
was kept busy bailing out the
water that slopped over the
sides. After rowing fifteen
hours, the party reached the
shore,
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Fish Frozen By IMew Method
A novel way to freez fish for
shipment has been invented in
Ilenmark, according the the
Pishing News, of Aberdeen,
Scotland, which consists of
dipping the fish in fresh water
and then thrusting it into a
vessel containing refrigerated
I)rino. The fresh water film
around Ihe fish congeals in
stantly, preventing the ac
cess of salt from the brine. So
quickly does this method work
that a live codfish 18 inches
long was frozen hard enough
to be sawed in fifteen minutes.
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During tlie winter just past
a new paystreak was found
near the mouth of Ready
Bullion creek in the Fairbanks
district, which is paying big
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Rhodes and Hall, the quartz
miners who put Fairbanks on
the quartz gold map, are work
ing 30 men on their Cleary
creek high grade quartz prop
erty.
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The Seward Commercial
Club has prepared a splendid
article descriptive of the sur
rounding country for the See
America First magizine. The
article is illustrateed with
more than fifty photographs
depicting the scenery, agricul
tural possibilities, mines, big
game hunting and townsite of
Seward.
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A nugget valued at $785 was
found on Gains creek in the
Dphir country. A new find
has also been made on Candle
creeek, a tributary to the To
c.otna river, and from reports
t promises to make a good
camp.
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS
In ;Iio Commissioner’s Court
for I lie Precinct of Ketchi
kan, Territory of Alaska, Div
ision No. 1,—In Probate.
Notice is hereby given that
William A. Connell liar bee?
inly appointed administrator
with Die will annexed of I he
estate of Linus A. Gould, de
ceased; and all persons having
claims against said estate are
hereby notified to exhibit them
>viih the necessary vouchers
within six months after the
fi'rl publication of this notice
wilh the undersigned at his
place of business, the Slcdman
Hotel, Ketchikan, Alaska.
Doled this 4lh day of Septem
ber, JO 13.
WILLIAM A. CONNELL,
Administrator of (he Estate of
Linus A. Gould, deceased.
Ghas. II. Cosgrove, attorney for
Administrator. 0-20-13