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Alaska Steamship Co.
THREE DAY SERVICE
Sailing from Ketchikan Northbound, Southeastern A.aske Service
JEFFERSON. APRIL 12-24, MAY 5-18.
DOLPHIN. APRIL 18-SO. MAY 12-24.
RETURNING THREE LATF°
MOST COMFORTABLE SHIPS ON SOUTHEASTERN ROUTE
MARIPCSA, APRIL 20. MAY 8 26.
ALAMEDA, APRIL f-26, MAY 1!.
NORTHWESTERN- APRIL 15, MAYS-21.
Wrangell, Juneau, SkAgway and Westward, Returning 10 Days
Later. Largest and Fastest Ship running to Alaska.
All Sailings Subject to Change Without Notice.
Tickets to Seattle. Tacoma, Victoria and Vancouver, British Columbia.
C. M. TAYLOR, Agent = - Phone 64
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STEAMERS FOR |
Seattle, Tacoma
Viclo.ia, Vancouver. Ana-ortrs, Bellingham
Everet, ^lympia. Port I owruend, South
Bellingham Eureka, Santa Barbara, Mexico
j San Francisco, Los \ngeles, San Diego
H. BRANDT, G.A.P.D. C. D. DUNANN, P.T.M
608 Second Ave, Seattle. H2 Market, SanFrancIscc
Right reserved to ,change Schedule
NEXT SAILINGS FROM KETCHIKAN
CITY OF SEATTLE May 13-24: June 5-17-29: July 11-23.
S. S. SPOKANE. May 8-19-30: June 11-23; July 5-17-29.
RETURNING THR5E DAYS LATER
PHONE 77. ... - . - F. H. BOLD, Agent
HUMBOLDT
STEAMSHIP COMPANY
S. S. Humboldt sails from kdtchikan for Skag
way, and all S. E. Alaska Ports on or about
the folowing dates:
APRIL 4-14-24.
And every 10 days therealter. leaving south
bound three days later
HECKMAN WHARF COMPANY, Agents
Border Line Transportation Co.
_ . „. ___ . ___ _ First Clasp <15.00
REDUCER RATES TO SEATTLE
Second Class <10.00
- C 4 J 1/1 Northbound May, 5th-17th-29th
O) ALIY I Southbound May 9th-21st- June 2nd.
Sail3 for West Coast of Prince of
S. S. DESPATCH Wa.es Island and Sitka, May 4th '
and 20th.
c* cr KinuTUI i Kif\ Sails from Seattle with freight and
S» S. lNUK IHLAiND explosives.
Right reserved to change schedule without notice.
For further infonnaion apply to
D. W\ Hunt, Agent, Northland Dock. Phone 60.
Canadian Pacific Railway Co.
TH£ PRINCESS U.W
The Princess May
> NORTHBOUND, MAECH 23, APRIL, 2, 13 23.
SOUTHBOUND, MABCH 26, APEIL 5, 16 26.
Service the best
Steamers and sailing dates subject to change without
i notice. Tickets to all parts ot the world Informa
tion gladly given. Inquire of
H. W, Brodie, hr. P. A Floyd E. Ryus, Agent
Vancouver phohh » Ketchikan Alaska.
PACIFIC ALASKA NAVIGATION COMPANY
THE ADMIRAL LINE
Puget SousisCaijkobsia Puget Sousd alaska Route
Route —Tacoma and Seattle lor Ketcht
—Seattle-San Franciaco, con. kan. Petersburg. Juneau, Katall*
, v , , H , Yakutai, Cordova, Valdez. Port
neeting with the Yale and Haverd Wells. Eilamur. La Toucbe. Cook
lor Southerr CaJilornia Ports. Inlet points. Seward and Kodiak.
Steamers Admiral Evans And Watson Call at Ketchikan North and
® Southbound on the 8th, 18th and 28thof each month.
RiEbi reserved to ebanite schedule without notice.
HUGH GALLAGHER. Agent. NORTHLAND DOCK CO., Agent
Jnneeu PHONE 60 Ketchikan
ENORMOUS SAVING IN DISTANT
BY USING CANAL
The government has been making
• seme comparisons to show the mileage
and tlie time saved l\v the use of tin
Panama Canal, more especially tin
savings to the cities of the Pacific
Coast in their dealings with the At
lantic Coast cities of the country and
with Europe and certain parts of
South America. The figures are both
interesting and instructive.
The greatest users of the canal are
American coastwis vessels, each of
which it is pointed out, saves a
bout 7.800 miles per trip. Assuming
their average speed to be ten knots,
they will save more than a month at
sen on each voyage from coast to
coast. It formerly requirel fifty
five days for the trip, which is now
made in twenty-two days.
The next heaviest traffic of the
canal is that between the American
Pacific Coast and Europe. The canal
brings Han Francisco 5,606 miles near
er Liverpool than formerly, a sav
ing of two-fifths the old distance by
way of Magellan. Gibraltar is now
7,621 miles from San Francisco, where
in the old days the distance was 12,
571 miles.
Distance Materially Shortened
The distance between Han Francisco
and New York by water has been
shortened by 7,S73 miles. It used to
Le 13.135 miles by way of Magellan
and by the canal it is 5,262.
The distance from Sen Francisco to
Freetown, on the west coast of mid
dle Africa, was 11,380 miles; by way
of the canal it is 7,277 miles.
There has been an important short
ening of distances between the Atlan
■ tie Const of the United States and the
| West Coast of. South America. New
, York is nearer Valparaiso bv 3 717
miles, owing to the canal: to Iquipue,
one of the important nitrate ports, by
4, 139 miles, ami to Guayaquil, by
7,405 miles. From New York to
Guayaquil the present distance of 2,
j 765 miles is approximately 27 per
cent of the former distance. 10,270
miles.
From San Francisco to Buonos Aires
by way of Valparaiso and Magellan,
the distance is approximately' 7,610
miles, which is shorter than the route
through the canal, by which the dis
1 tanee is 8-941.
To Bio Janeiro by the canal the
distance is 7,885, and by Magellan 8,
609 miles; to Pernambuco, on the
! eastern point of South America, the
j distance from San Francisco is 6,746
, by the canal, and 9,748 by Mag. ian.
i l’o Para the distance by the canal is
! *s 5,642 miles, and by Magellan it is
i l'i.s52 miles.
New York is nearer to Yokohama
! by 3,763 miles than by Suez, the
former route. The Suez route, Uow
i ever, is eighteen miles shorter than
j the Panama route for vessels plying
| between Xew York and Hongkong.
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What Is the Best Remedy For
Constipation?
This is a question asked us many times
each day. The answer is
We guarantee them to be satisfactory
to you. Sold only by us.
The Ketchikat, Drug Go., Inc.
HAND WORK
’ When it comes to laundry is better
| than Steam Work.
The Y. A. Hand Laundry
INDIAN TOWN
1 Makes a specialty of family wash
I iag;ca.ling for same, taking care of
! it Just as yon would yourself, and re
turning it just as you want it.
We guarantee not to shrink your
| wooHens.
WE ALSO DO CLEANING AND
j ’BUSSING.
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Vow Yo: k is forty-one miles nearer
Manila by Panama than by Suez, ami
3.932 miles nearer Sylnev. The canal
makes the distance between New
York and Yokohama 1,880 miles short
or than the distance between Liver
pool and Yokohama. New York is
nearer than Liverpool to Sydney by
2,421 miles.
Maximum Saving Accomplished
From Colon, on the Atlantic side
of the canal, to Balboa, on the Paclf
ic side, the distance by water around
South America is 10.500 miles;
through the canal it is reduced to
forty-four miles. The difference in
length of these routes, 10,456 miles,
represents the maximum distance that
can be saved to vessels by use of the
canal.
This maximum. however, it- is
pointed out, is more interesting geo
graphiely than commercially, because
vessels bound for the Pacific Coast
by way of the straits of Magellan
would not skirt the entire Atlantic
Const of South America, but would
strike across the Carribean, if from
ihe' I'nited States, or across the Cen
tral Atlantic, if from Europe; and
recede by the most direct route con
sistent with commercial advantage.
What counts in the commercial val
ue of the caual, say government
experts, is not the distance that could
be save], but the distances that real
ly are saved, by vessels Substituting
the canal route for the earlier route
around the continent in regular trade.
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MEETS WITH ACCIDENT
AND DIES ON TRAIL
Tom Juraek, a prospector well
:nown in interior camps, was found
frozen to death on the trail twelve
>r fifteen miles from Betties about
ten days ago.
Mr .Juraek had been working for
A. J. Campbell, driving a wood team
at Tanana. He started out light to
go to the Koyukuk. At the first
camping place outside of Tanana he
cut his foot with an axe ,and numb
ers who met him advised his to turn
back; but he said the cut was not
serious and he could make it all right.
The weather was very soft, and it is
believed the sloppy trail caused blood
poisoning to develop in his foot, so
that he was unable 0 help himself
when the weather turned cold.
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GERMAN THRIFT NOTICABLE
Petrograd—Evidences of German
thrift witnessed by Russian soldiers
luring their invasion of East Prussia,
proved a source of great wonder to
them. Recounting their experiences,
wounded soldiers in the American
hospital exclaimed over the clean
homes, carpeted floors and various
comforts which the Russians gener
t;lucked. “And pianos, ” ejaculat
ed one. ‘ ‘ We found pianos in some
of those houses!”
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NU-BONE CORSETS
Mrs. George Washburn, local repre
sentative. Fittings in privacy at
Washburn’s Millinery Store'. For in
formation call up ix. 136. tf. adv
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20 per cent, discount on desirable
ready to wear goods at Field’s retir
ing from business sale. adv.
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FARM FOR SALE
The S. E. quarter of Section 26
North of Range 23. in Yakima County
Wash., is for sale for $4,000. Om
fourth of that amount is wanted
down, the balance on easy terms. Tic
place is fenced, has a small house
ind eighty acres of it are under culti
cation. The place is ten miles from
Mapton and four miles from Brynes
elevator. For particulars call at the
Miner office or N. F. Zimmerman.
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• 20 per cent, discount or one fifth
off on everything in Field’s store.
Retiring from business. adv.
a.'.asu
BARGAINS
Electric Stoves, Grills,
! %
Disc Stoves, Percolators,
Irons etc.
At Reduced Prices
While They Last.
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Citizens Light, Potver & Water Co.
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FOOLED THE COLLECTOR.
CUver Way In Which a Coatly Turner
Drawing Was “Restored.”
Tliere was a wealthy art con
noisseur and collector in London
] who had a room full of beautiful
i Turner drawings that had becD
stored away for a long time, and
drawings and glasses had become
laden with dust. The collector v’as
going out of towu and instructed
a firm well known as honorable pic
ture dealers to clean and overhaul
the precious works of art.
Before the collector left town
the senior member of the picture
firm went to his house and brought
away the treasured drawings and,
carrying them fhto the room be
hind the shop, took the first draw
ing out of its frame and mount pre
paratory to dusting it and laid it
on the table. Being suddenly called
into the shop by a customer, ho cov
ered it with a sheet of Whatman pa
per and left it. His brother entered
from the street and passed into the
private room. A moment later the
other followed and found him,
knife in hand, cutting a mount on
the top of the Turner. With a cry
he rushed to the paper and lifted it,
and there the horrified brothers
found the 2,000 guinea drawing cut
into two pieces.
What was to be done? To make
a clean breast of it was apparently
out of the question, so it was deter
mined to call in the clever artist
and repairer for the firm, and he
joined the pieces and remounted
the drawing, and down where the
vertical cut was he boldly painted
in a tree!
The picture was in due course*
taken back and rehung in time for
the owner’s return. A couple of
days later came an urgent letter
calling the dealer to the house.
“Look at this drawing,” said the
collector. “What docs it mean?
There’s a tree here. I never saw
that tree before!” “No more did I,”
quietly replied the dealer. “I told
you that you would hardly recog
nize the drawings when the glasses
had been cleaned inside and out.
Whv, you could hardly see them!”
The owner, though still astonish
ed, accepted the explanation and
probably never guessed the truth.
The dealer told the story himself
shortly before his death.
“Cranks” Catalogued.
A catalogue of murderers la one ot
the curiosities In the offices of the
United States secret service in Wash
ington. In Ihis catalogue ail the
“cranks” In this country are listed,
first alphabetically under their names
and aliases and. secondly, under the
particular forms taken by their obses
sions. The catalogue is kept up by
contributions from the police of every
town and city where a crank Is found.
Purifying the Air.
A pitcher of cold water placed on
the table of nn occupied room will ab
sorb all the gases with which the room
la filled from the respiration of those
eating or sleeping In It In a few
hours this pitcher of pure water will
make the air of the room pure, while
the water Itself will become totally un
fit for use.
Breakfast Table Revelations.
To girls about to marry one would
tender tbe advice that they study their
intended victim at breakfast. If he ia
one feeding like forty, reject him aa
the direct descendant of Circe’s herd
of swine. If he Is melancholy, beware
of the abrupt curves of his tempera
ment If he is boisterous and face
tious, remember that an empty drum
gives the greatest reverberation and a
chatterbox at 8 a. m. is as tiresome as
chanticleer at 3 In the morning. By
their breakfasts, my sisters, ye shall
know them.—London Saturday Review.
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CHOICE SALTED OOLICANS
Position wanted as watchman by
a thoroughly reliable man. If in
need of same notify the Miner or J.
M. Campbell, Ketchikan. 7t. adv.
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For Rent—Furnished front room, light
and sunny. Enquire at Thompson's
Store. adv.
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Have you really considered what
20 per cent, discount from Field’s for
mer low price means on good depend
able ready to wear clothing? adv.
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A well-furnished four roomed house
for rent, close in. Apply Miss
Edmond. tf. adv.
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CALL FOR BIDS
SEALED PROPOSALS will re receiv
ed at the Office of the Lighthouse In
spector, Ketchikan, Alaska, until
2 o 'clock p.m.. May 20 1915, and then
opened, for furnishing approximately
1,500 tons of coal, 1,000 barrels of fuel
oil, and re-charging GOO aeetylcny gas
lanks during the fisciul year 191G.
Blank proposals and particulars may
bo obtained by addressing the above
office. tf. adv.
The Daily Miner $1 per month.
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STRAW HATS
FOR EVERBODY
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Genuine Panamas $7.00
E. E. SPARHAWK
PHONE 6 NEWTOWN - - KETCHIKAN
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I Western Meat & Fish Go
Branch of Frye.wBruhn Co. 1
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r Packers and Jobbers of
Fresh Meat, Provisions and Fish
We Make a Specialty of X
Ship and Camp Trade £
KETCHIKAN - - - - - - ALA8AK. J
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KETCHIKAN
PUBLIC LIBRARY AND
FREE READING ROOM
10 A. M. to 10 P. M.
, MRS. J. B. THOMPSON
Librarian
' LAUNCH
HARRY
i For Hire
Towing, Freighting or
Passengers
HEMLOCK PILING FOR SALE.
WM. ANGEL, Phone 144
S. A. PLUMLEY
Attorney and
Counselor at Law
| office—Town Council Chambers,
l Ketchikan, Alaska.
C. E. 1NGERS0LL
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Prompiattention given to perfecting land titles
aDd securing patents.
Ketchikan Alaska
CHAS. H. COSGROVE
Attorney at Law
KNERAL PRACTICE
For that odd job of carpenter
ing or cabinet woork call up
105, Sully will look you up. tl
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Send in your furs and get the
best market price for them
from P. J. Gilmore. adv.
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Small burnished Cottage for .
Gent. Inquire at Sully’s or
Phone 105. tf. adv
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SETTING EGGS FOR SALE
Eggs for setting, Rhode Island
Reds $1.00 per setting. Inquire Mrs
flco. H. Caughrean. adv
LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE
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Local No. 224.
Regular Meetings
Wednesday night
Visiting brothers
cordially invited.
Hall for rent Mon
day, Thursday Fri
day and Saturday.
The quality of Ladysmith Coal is
guaranteed by the Northland Dock
company. adv.
Furnished cabins for rent
Enquire at Sully’s. adv.
Ketchikan
DrayingCompany
J. W. CORDELL, Propietor.
Phone No. 60.
Draying
All Orders will be promptly
and carefully executed.
Contracts Takei For Anv Work
Ketchikan Camp, No. 20, A. B.
Meets every Mondays evening
of each month at Red Men’s
Hall, 8 p. m.
Visiting Brothers Weloome
W. K. Spaulding, A. C.
D. Smith Harris, A. K
60 60 60
THATS THE NUMBER
KETCHIKAN DRAYING CO.
J. W. CORDELL, Propietor.
3oal delivered from any dock.
BEAR SKULLS WANTED
I pay from $1.00 to $2.50 for bear
ikulls in cood condition.
J. R. STEVENSON, Taxidermist,
P. O. Box 731,
Juneau, Alaska.
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Reserve Your Rooms
for the bi£
EXPOSITION
$1.00 to $2.00 a day.
~S2J Address:
Hotel Thomas
Next Door to Everything in San Francisco
971 Mission Street
Near Sixth
; On Direct Car Lines to the Exposition anti Depots.
San Francisco, Cal.