IS SHE CRAZY, OR
IS SHE ACTING?
The courthouse authorities
have a peculiar job on their
hands m trying to decide
whether one of the prisoners
there is crazy or just pretend
ing to be. Neddy Dale was
taken oft one of the •south
bound steamers here some
weeks ago on a telegraphic
warrant from Juneau charging
her with having stolen money
from several of the prominent
citizens of the Capitol City. She
was taken back to Juneau
where she was confronted with
the evidence of her work, and
promptly fainted. She was
brought down here for a hear
ing. and shortly after arrival
developed symptoms of insan
ity. The question is whether
the woman is really insane or
just trying to appear so and
thus avoid a trial and jail sen
tence.
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IN FROM TONGASS
Tlios. C. Noyes, king of Ton
gass, arrived in town on his
cruiser Elmira last night ,and
reports all well in his island
kingdom. He is up on business
before the District Court.
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WILL KEEP THE
P. B. C. ALIVE
The meeting of the members !
r.l the Ketchikan Power Boat
Club last night was fairly well
attended, and the decision ar
rived at to keep the club alive
and active. To this end, and
because cash is the most need
ed thing in the game, John
Koel was appointed collector
and instructed to get busy to
dav and see what he could do
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toward getting m new mem-.
Lers and collecting dues from
both old and*new. lie is busy
at bis new task today and tells1
the Miner Man that he is do
ing finely.
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Trouble makers are at work
among the fishermen trying to
get them to strike for a higher
price for spring salmon . It ap
pears that while fish was scarce
during the bad weather of last
month, the buyers paid as high
as five and one-half cents per
pound for the salmon just as
they came out of the water.
Now that the weather is moder
ating they have gone back to
the old rate of five cents for
the reds, and the malcontents
ore trying to get the fishermen
to demand the higher rate. The
mild curers stale that owing to
the large proportion of small
f.-sh which produce “seconds”
they cannot afford t^> pay the
five and one-half cents for all
the red fish caught, irrespec
tive of size, and if they are
compelled to do so for the lar
ger fi^h will have to cut the
smaller ones down below five
cents to even matters up.
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CANNERY CREW STARTS
Superintendent J. E. Saylss
was in receipt of a telegram
today stating the crew for the
Iloe Point cannery would come
up on the Mariposa, which is
due to arrive here May li.
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CABLE TOLLS TO BE
CUT IN HALF
Seattle, May 5—The army
headquarters here have an
nounced that the Alaska cable
toll- for commercial messages
not exceeding ten words will
be reduced fifty per cent on
July first.
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“Jimmie" (lemmings who
I ad been over on the West
Coast putting up a store build
ing for the Tongass ,returned
on the Forrester having finish
ed the work .
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Juneau complains of too
many idle men.
MILLION DOLLAR
MINING DEAL
Seattle, May 5—Colonel J. P.
Grant, special mining engineer
and representative of Sir Arthur
Pearsall, of London, England,
is in this city enroute to Eng
land from Alaska where he has
been in the* interest of his
employer and has succeeded in
purchasing the copper proper
ties at Latouehe and also on
Prince of Wales Island. lie is
very well pleased with the north
and says that his company will
be interested in the copper of
Alaska to the extent of over a
million dollars.
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FLOYD TAKES A TRIP
ED. GOES TO WORK
Floyd E. Rvus, manager of
the Ryus Drug and Jewelry
company left on a short busi
ness trip on board the Princess
May last night ,to be gone in
the neighborhood of a couple
of weeks. During his absence
F.d. Williams will he found be
hind the prescription case at
the drug store. II quite brings
back old times to see Ed. hand
tug out the sweetened aqua
pura and charging for It in
that pleasant way of his.
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SENATE CONFIRMS
STRONG’S NOMINATION
Washington. May 2—The
Senate today confirmed the
presidental nomination of J. A.
E. Strong, of Juneau, Alaska as
governor of Alaska. Major
Strong leaves at once for hi«
home in the north.
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At noon Thursday the first,
legislative assembly of the Ter
ritory ot Alaska, came to an
end. The Senate adjourned
jvhile Senator Henry Roden
j played the strains of “Home
I Sweet Home’' and the last act
| of the House of Representa
tives, immediately following the
adoption of the motion to ad
journ sine die, was to sing the
lines of “Auld Lang Syne” lead
by Representative Charles I).
Jones.
Long before the hour of ad
journment arrived Ihe galleries
of the Senate and House were
Idled by those that had come
to witness the last hours of
i the legislature.
Contrary to the custom in leg
islatures, State and National,
the legislature had its business
practically cleaned up before
the beginning of the session
Thursday. The appropriation
and revenue and taxation bills
l ad been passed and approved
by the Governor a few minu
tes after they had received the
signatures of the President of
the Senate and the Speaker of
Ihe House.
The time after the meeting
and before the adjournment of
the short session was given to
the cansideralion of memorial
and resolution^, and the pre
sentation of a gold watch and
n gold-mounted gavel to Presi
dent L. V. Ray, a gold watch to
j Speaker E. B. Collins, of the
I louse and a gold watch to the
j R ev Father F. 11. Brown, chap
lain of the House.
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REP. INGERSOLL BACK
FROM LEGISLATURE
Among ihe passengers on the
Humboldt this morning wa
Hon. Chas. E. Ingersoll return
,ng Tom the Territorial Legis
lature. Mr. Ingersoll says tha
in general he is satisfied wit!
Ihe act;uii i.! Ihe body of whicl
h-3 was a member ,but think;
that IK* lie* l interests of Soutl
eastern Alaska will lie subser
\ed by a division of the terri
lory. The tendency on tin
part of the members from tin
northern sections have been t<
try to force this region int<
footing the bills for the entiri
territory.
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Job pi lifting at Tlie Miner. ^
GRAND JUR* REPORT
United Stales Bistt ’ict Court for
the District of A1 oska, Divis
ion No. 1. At Ket ohikan, the
Special April 1913 Term.
To the Honorable Th omas R.
Lyons, Judge of the Above
Entitled Court:
We, the grand jury, sim.'
moned to attend the S oecint
April 1913 term of the United
States District Court for the
District of Alaska, Division
Number One, having completed
our labors for the said term
and concluded the business'
brought before us, now beg
leave to report to the Honor
able Court ns follows:
We have been in session <>
clays and have acted upon 17
bound-over cases, have con
ducted 3 other investigations,
have found 15 True Bills, and
j3 Not True Bills. We have ex
amined 80 witnesses and em
ployed one interpreter.
We find that the condition of
the federal jail is good, that it
clean and sanitary. On an
inspection of the court house
we find that it is quite essential
that various of the rooms in
the court house building be
painted.
We further wish to empha
size ihe recommendations of
previous grand juries to the ef
fect that the walls of the var
ious rooms, especially of the
grand-jury and petit-jury rooms
(,)■ |be court house he deadened
sc that the session of the juries
can be secret in fact. As an
example of (he necessity ot
such steps to render the ses
sions of the juries secret we
call attention to the fact that
during the investigation of a
ease by the present grand jury
(he defendant in the jail could
hear the discussions of the case
by the jurors and the examina
tion of the witnesses and
through the partition which
separated this defenant front
the grand jury the former dir
ected questions through said
partition to the witness and to
the grand jury and could hear
and be heard as readily as if
she had been present in the
grand-jury room. We hope
and trust that this condition
I may be remedied before an
other session of court is held
at Ketchikan.
We further recommend that
jurors in the District Court lie
allowed a fee of five dollars
per diern besides mileage.
In concluding we extend our
thanks to this Honorable Court,
Ihe United States Attorney, his
Assistants and other officers
connected with the Department
of Justice for the many court
esies we have received at their
bands during the sitting of tlie
grand jury.
Dated at Ketchikan, Alaska
Ibis 3rd day of May, A. I) 1913.
DONALD SINCLAIR
Foreman.
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EIG POWER HOUSE
BURNS AT DAWSON
Dawson, Y. T., May 5—This
city is entirely without light,
|power or water supply today as
| the result of a disastrous fire
| which destroyed the power
house of the Dawson Light
I Company with a loss of two
j hundred thousand. The origin
in! the fire was the burning out
of an oil switch on the big
hoard and as a consequence
there is no power to he had in
| the city. The mining opera
lion have had to cease and em
eigency engines are being user
along the river hanks.
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BENCH MARK IS
ESTABLISHED
Engineers from the McArtinu
, yesterday established a bend
, mark on the Koel Building 01
, Dock street. It consists of i
copper plug set in the cemen
corner buttress on the south
cast corner of the building.
OLD BUILDING 18 DOWN
After being in course of de
molition for several days, at
last (he old Club building is a
thing of the past. It was built
dining the fall of 1800, and
when creeled was the largest
buddings in the town. Frank
Waterbury was the builder for
Bruno Grief of Wrangell, the
greater part of the lumber be
.ng brought from that place.
There is every probability that
a three story concrete build
ing will be built within the next
! c
[eighteen months to lake the
place of the old one just re
moved. Practically enough bus •
iiess is assured to guarantee
[be new building which would
be occupied by the offices of
the Northland Steamship com
nany and mercantile establish
ments on the lower floor and
offices up stairs.
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LOADED FOR BEAR
Bert Howdeshell, formerly
publisher of the Miner ,arrived
down from the north on the
Spokane this morning. Bert
-ays he come down to go on
a bear hunt with Dr. Zuber, and
incidentally to renew his ac
quainlence with the host of
Ketchikaners who are all his
friends. For the past year Mr.
Howdeshel has been in charge
of the Skagway Alaskan and
has materially improved it dur
ing that time.
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CAPTAIN WA3 IN COMMAND
According to word received
from the West Coast on Iasi
night's Rough Rider, Capt. Fred
Nystrom was in command of
the Curacao at the time she
went ashore at Craig. Paddy
Timmins had been taken on
board to pilot the vessel to Big
harbor ,but bad not taken char
go of the vessel at the time of
the accident, as the captain was
maneuvering her to get her
away from the wharf and out
into the channel.
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BABY ARRIVES AT SULZER
According to word received
from Sulzer in yesterday’s mail
a son was born to J. D. Wynne
and wife at that place last Sat
urday, May 3rd. The baby
weighs 7 3-4 pounds ,and with
bis mother is doing finely.
HADLEY HAPPENINGS
»•*' » -T-f*■"
April 21), i l) 13
'[’lie cannery tender Ceres,
Capl. Kezel, came in today with
a raft of logs lor the mill.
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The tug Freyea has been pul
on the beach lo undergo a gen
eral overhauling and have a
new pilot house installed.
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Ffjss Brothers ft: Co. have
leased ih.e Hadley holel from
11 aus Anderson and the build
ing has been opened to accorn •
module their crews, numbering
clo-e lo forty men.
-PAUL NORDSTROM
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MAY MAKES QUICK TIME
The Princess May, made the
frip from Wrangell in consid
erable less than seven hours
Sunday, thus estblishing a new
record for running time be
tween the two places.
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BUILDING A WALK
Properly owners on Mahoney
Heights have just finished lay
ing a walk from Rounsefell
street up Ilurd avenue nross
the cannery properly. This
walk will materially aid in getl
ing building material in to the
new suburb.
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Sluicing began at Fairbanks
on April 22. A water shortage
is feared.
The mis engine in the launch
Leona exploded near Wrangell,
No one hurt.
MAKES FIND OF
PURE GLASS QUARTZ
It is a well-known fact that
glass makers of the Pacific
Coast are on the lookout for
chemieally pure quartz for
glass making, and it looks as
I hough Wm. Dalton has at
last discovered the goods. He
reports that over on Lime
Point, near Cordova.bay, he has
discovered a ledge quartz,
which assays 99.75 per cent
silica. The assays were made
by R. L. Kilpatrick ,the min
ing man and assayer in charge
of the Coppermount properties.
The claims, three in number,
aie in the neighborhood of
twenty-three miles down Het
t.i inlet from Sulzer, on a good
harbor, and are easily access
ible. There can be no doubt as
to the importance of the find,
as raw material for the manu
facture of glass is comparative
ly scarce.
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BETTER SLOW DOWN
A LITTLE BOYS
Several complaints have been
made of late about the speed
maintained by the two local
automobiles in rounding the
corners at the Thompson store.
This is a bad corner ,owing to
the fact that there is no side
walk and unless the drivers
are more careful somebody is
hound to get hurt. If the driv
ers refuse to use more care
then it will be up to the council
to restrain them by ordinance.
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Edward Benson, about 45
years of age met his death in
a peculiar manner at (i;30 Inst
night. In company with two
cm three kindred spirits he had
been sitting on the outside
stringer of the Ketchikan Wharf
drinking heavily the greater
part of the afternoon ,and
when the bottle was passed to
him the last time, stood up
with his back to the outer edge
(■'• the wharf, (he better to em
pty the bottle. In drinking he
loaned so far hack, that he over
balanced and fell over the edge
bead foremost. The tide was
CMit at the time, so the unfor
tunate man fell somewhat over
21 feet, striking the wafer
with such force that apparently
his neck was broken, or else
be was knocked unconscious,
so that except I hat the body rol
led over onto its face, there
was no movement after it
-truck the water, A boat was
o.iickly lowered from the sur
vey ship McArthur, which was
lying close at hand, and the
body, which bad continued to
float, was picked up and
brought ashore. Dr. John
Myers was summoned, and up
on arrival did what he could to
icsuscitale the man. It was
without avail, however. There
upon Coroner Stackpole was
notified and a coroner’s jury
was empaneled consisting of
Peter Johnson, Lee Green,
John Lhote, George Stevens,
W. E. Perkins and If. E. Ayers.
The jury after listening to E.
.1 Ela and Dr. Myers, returned
a verdict of accidental drown
ing. The dead man had been
a resident of this region for
several years, and was well
known along the waterfront.
As far as can be discovered be
lias no relatives in this part of
the country. lie was a mem
ber of the local Moose lodge.
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WARD COVE CANNERY
WILL INCREASE PLANT
Messrs. N. G. Mickle and R.
P. Walsh, the owners of the
Wards Gove cannery arrived
up on the. Alki last night and
are making preparations I'm
Inis season’s pack. They stale
that they intend to build an
other warehouse larger Ilian
I ho present building, and other
wise improve their plant. They
plan to put up a pack of about
ten thousand cases this year.
FOREST SERVICE
WILL BUILD TRAIL
The local office of the Forest
Service is preparing to build a
trail from tidewater on Bailey
Bay, on the mainland just be
yond Yes Bay, to the hot spring
about two miles inland. The
springs are said to be rich in
medicinal qualities, the water
emerging from the ground at
a temperature of 200 degrees,
According to n recent order, a
total of ten per cent of the
gross receipts from the nation
al forests may be used for road
and trail building inside the re
-erve. This is in addition to
the 25 per cent, of the total
which goes into the Alaska
fund, the greater part of which
is used for rood building.
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WILL SPEND SUMMER
IN KETCHIKAN
Mrs. 11. I). Kirmse and Miss
Gladys Kirmse who arrived
from the north on the Spokane
yesterday ,wili probably re
main in Ketchikan for the sum
mer. The Kirmse jewelry
store is making preparations foe
a large tourist trade this sea
son.
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JENNINGS IS CONFIRMED
Washington, May 7—The ap
pomtment of Robert W. Jenn
ings as judge of the First Ui
v 3:en in Alaska was confirmed
by the Senate yesterday, and
there is every probability ' that
the name of “Judge” Erwin
will he reported on favorably
next Monday or Tuesday for
the marshalship of the Fourth
r»iYi.*»on.
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LATOUCHE HAS
NEW WHEEL
While on her way south this
last trip ,the LaTouche struck
a submerged log, knocking one
of the blades off her propeller.
The wheel was replaced at Ta
eome hy discharging the ore
from her after hold first, which
raised her stern so far out of
1 he water that, the old wheel
was taken off and the new
one put in place without any
delay.
A BIG FISHING CAMP
Forest Supervisor Weigle.
who has just returned from a
tour of inspection of the West
Coast, informs the Miner Man
that there is one of the biggest
fishing camps on Sea Otter
sound near Karheen, td he
found in the whole district.
When he visited it consisted of
iui tents all occupied hy natives
while 05 power fishing boals
\vere anchored in front of the
camvp . The run of fish in that
region is very light as yet.
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FISH DROPS OUT OF SIGHT
Henry Wilke, manager of the
New England Fish company,
was in receipt of a message
last night telling that owing to
ari over dose of fish the bottom
had dropped clear out o ft ho hoi
ihiit market, the price being bill
2 1-2 cents at Seattle, the
lowest for a year. As several
of the schooners arriving with
fish on the Sound had hauled
their catch by the New England
plant which lias been paying
three cents for some time ,lo
receive but two and a half on
arrival at Seattle, it is easy to
imagine that the fishermen will
he sore at themselves.
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TRYING TRAP CASES
The District Court is today
trying the Ludy trap case, in
which the charge is fishing dur
ing the closed period of Sun
day. Ward T. Bower, 'lie. fish
bureau representative is here in
Ilu* interests of bis department.
Capt. Wm. Thompson, one of
the best known navigators °f
Southeastern Alaska is a guest
of the Sfedman, waiting for bis
vessel the Meteor to arrive
fiom the skiuth.