“CONTRIBUTE TO FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATION”
IS SI nCiAN-gKEflKBOPy PULL.
RUMORED SALE OF
SHIPS IS DENIED
PACIFIC COAST OFFICIALS SAY
NO DEAL WITH ADMIRAL
LINE IS ON.
SEATTLE. June 13. — Circulars is
sued Saturday by the Pacific Coast
Steamship Company emphatically de
ny reports which have become current
during the past week that the com
p. ny is about to sell its principal ves
s--ls. the steamers Congress. Presi
dent and Governor, to the Pacific
Alaska Navigation Company.
Tiie circulars are addressed to the
employes of the passenger department
of the Pacific Coast Steamship Com
pany and contain the following:
"From time to time for the past 2
years persistent rumors have been
circulated, seemingly originating at
Seattle, that the Pa’cific Coast Steam
ship Company, or its principal vessels,
the Congress, President and Governor,
were about to be sold or acquired by
the Pacific Alaska Navigation Com
pany.
"These reports, which, in spite of
continued denials, are periodically re
newed. found their latest publication
on June 1 and were widely circulated
by various newspapers.
"We are advised by Mr. William M
Barnum. president of the Pacific Coast
Steamship Company, New York, and
also by the president of the Pacific
Coast Steamship Company. Mr. J. C.
Ford, and its vice president. Mr. E.
C. Ward, that there are no negotia
tions now pending with the Pacific
Alaska Navigation Company, nor
have there been, either ' with that
company or with any other company,
looking toward the sale of the Presi
dent, Governor or the Congress, or
contemplating any change whatever
in the ownership, operation or control
of the Pacific Coast Steamship Com
pany.
“C. D. DCNANN.
"Passenger Traffic Manager.'
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MR. WASHBURN'S MOTHER
WILL VISIT FOR SUMMER
Mrs. C. Washburn is expected to ar
rive on the Dolphin this evening from
Chewelah, Wash., and will spend a
few months in the city the guest of
her son and daughter. Mr. and Mrs.
C-eorge Washburn. From Seattle she
was accompanied for the trip north
by Miss Margaret Benolkins, Mrs.
Washburn's sister, who has been at
tending the Holy Names' Academy in
Seattle, the past year and comes home
to spend her holidays.
FOR SALE
Lot 11 in block 6—4S ft front by
US ft. deep, on Water street opposite
the Lighthouse dock. One '. c two
room cabin and a one and a half
story house., each rented ror S9 a
month. Buildings are in good condi
tion and are good renters. They
occupy less than half of the lot, leav
ing room for hree medium sized
houses. This is one of the most desir
able lots in town. At present wul
net ten per cent as a business loca
tion. The value will be enhanced
by the completion of Cliff Avenue, the
construction of which is now under
way. adv. tf.
EDW. BROWN. Newtown.
A REMARK/ BLE
COINCIDENCE
BOAT BUILT N.NETEEN YEARS
AGO RETURNS TO BUILDER
FOR REPAIRS.
Nineteen years after Mr. Raden
baugh- »he boat builder whose yard
is across the wat -r from Ketchikan,
had built and launched the power
boat •'Nomad' while a resident of
Anaeorates. Waal ngton. the boat is
brought back to 1 is yard for repairs
And while the bui’der had never seen
it since, he recognized it as soon as
it came in sight. The boat lias chang
ed ownership set jral times since it
was launched, ye it has never un
dergone materia! repairs. It was
built for the owners of a tannery for
the purpose of cairymg young women
from the city of Anaeorates to the
cannery where they were employed '
Mr. Radenbaugh says that it was
used to carry the notorious outlaw
Tracy, when he made his escape from
the King County. Washington, officials.
Tracy forced the men at the point of
a gun to take him over the waters
where he escaped and remained in
hiding until he was finally discover
ed. shot and wounded and when he
ended it all with his own gun.
The boat is as good today, said Mr.
Radenbaugh. as it was when he
launched it nineteen years ago and
modestly admits a record in effi
ciency.
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FERN THAT WALKS
OVER THE ROCKS
The walking fern, some specimens
of which have been installed at the
I Children's Museum of the Brooklyn
Institute is a native of the United
States. It is f<*ind in certain iocal
j ities of the Eastern States and west
ward to Kansas, usually growing on
moss-covered rocks, or near the bases
of cliffs. Because of its peculiar man
ner of growth, it has been given Latin
names meaning "fruit-dot” and "root
ing leaf." writes Miss M. S. Draper in
the Children's Museum News. The
fronds, when fully developed, are
from six to twelve or fifteen inches
long, their tips reaching down into
the mos: or crevices of the rocks,
where they develop young plants of
two or three tiny fronds. At a later
stage a mass of fine rootlets forms
and holds the little rosette in posi
tion. After several months the long
frond to which the little plant is at
tached becomes withered and the
young fern sends out fronds which
produce new plants. It is said that
in a few years a single plant under
favorable conditions will develop into
a whole colony.
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DESCRIBES DESTRUCTION
OF ENEMY’S AEROPLANE
PARIS. June 14. — Lieutenant M.
varre thus describes U'.-> l-rng.
down of his sixteenth an .even .• :r
aeroplanes:
“The first one was fly ng over Vau
quois at 3,000 yards. I v.cs 200 yards
above. 1 played various tricks round
and over the enemy, who nipt led his
machine gun on me without effect,
bv i was then coming d rn and get
ting within range of any antiaircrau ,
gnu. The only thing was to glide
down upon the enemy. My first ma
chine run fire scrapped his motor,
my second killed the observer. I
glided down once more and killed the !
pilot. The enemy machine then drop I
ped ds»ad in front of our trenches, i
This was my sixteenth.
"My seventeenth was an Albatross, i
When 1 met him I was below him. He j
threw bc-mbs, which I luckily escaped.
1 climbe^ up and attacked, and he
n- or even replied, why 1 do not
know. He seemed to be unarmed.
Anyhow, he upset, and fell straight
down into the woods."
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PACK FROM UNIVERSITY.
H. W. Clark, was an incoming pas
senger on the Prince George Wednes
day evening from Portland. Oregon,
where has has been attending the
Columbia University for tlie past
term. Mr. Clark will visit with his
mother, Mrs. Clark, for the summer
vacation in Ketchikan.
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THE DEATH OF GRAMMAR.
(Portland Journal.)
Grammar is in a bad way. The gen
eral education board has condemned
it for a mess of nonsense. Dr. Flex
ner says, in his polite, bedside man
ner. that it is “futile as an aid to
correct speaking and writing.” "For
ma! grammar," its enemies call the
persecuted study, damning it with an
: epithet. Has anybody ever seen any
grammar that was not formal? One
might as well speak of a male man as
; of formal grammar. But when people
are resolved to put a heretic to death
they stop at nothing.
“Grammar is the science,” says the
verareious textbook, "that teaches how
to spe„k and write the English lan
guage correctly." And it begins to
teach this valuable art by telling the
pale little urchin that it has four de
partments — orthograph, etymology,
syntax and prosody. This piece of in
; formation usually proves very inspir
ing to the young, it may be depend
ed upon to set most boys off into a
spasm of correct speaking and writ
ing instantaneously.
We are disposed to confide to the
reader the results of a series of life
i long observations we have made as to
the effect of grammar on the soul.
Not its theoretical, company effect,
but its real one. Above all other arts
and sciences it makes people con
I celled. Teach a woman half a page
of grammar and she becomes unbear
ably prone to criticize everything you
say in her hearing. Do you remark
innocently that the train “runs
slow?" She comes back at you quick
a a flash with severely pursued lips
that the train runs “slowly.”
Now she is wrong about it in spite
of her grammar. Some trains go fast
and others slow, though any train
may go slowly if it likes.
BRITISH SAILORS
FEEL GRATIFIED
HIGH RANK OFFICIAL SAYS GER
MAN FLEET MUST STAY
IN PORT.
LONDON, June 12.—"It is a tonic
to visit Beatty's battle cruiser fleet
from which I have just returned,” said
a naval official of high rank to the
Associated Tress. He added:
"The officers and men are in splen
did fettle. Instead of feeling depress
ed, they are inclined to feel sorry for
the poor Germans. It is impossible
to speak too highly of the officers and
men of our destroyers, who were
simply wonderful. They consistently
held the upper hand in the greatest
battle ever engaged in by these little
war crafL
“XTntil we have Admiral Jellicoe’s
full report, which is being collected
and digested as rapidly as possible, it
is quite out of the question for me to
give any more connected details of
the battle than have been published.
But 1 can relate a few incidents and
give some impressions, which may
show something of the spirit of our
men. As far the fleet itself, it is quite
ready for another battle as big as the
Jutland action.
Striking Incident of Battle.
“The gallant action of a command
er of a destroyer is one of the most
striking incidents of the battle, which
abounded in extraordinary feats.
This destroyer, fifth in line, saw her
four file leaders, one by one, put out
of action, but kept ahead without
swerving and got all her torpedoes
home. She then discovered a great
German battleship looming out of the
mist so closely that when the- enemy
fired his big guns their blast blew
over the funnels and masts of the lit
tle warship. She escaped without
further damage.
"Another marvelous escape of one
of our destroyers was discovered when
a stoker reported himself wounded.
But as no shell had struck the ship,
the commander declined to believe
the man. He, however, reported him
self again the next morning as a cas
ulty and showed the commander a 12
inch unexploded projectile which had
dropppd through the hatchway into
the hold.
Threw Projectile Overboard.
“A similar incident occurred aboard
he battle cruiser Lion, where two
junior officers from the fighting top
saw an unexploded twelve-inch pro
jectile lying on the deck in some burn
ing debris. These#offieers ran to the
fire and extinguished it and threw the
projectile overboard.
“I was surprised on my return here,
when I saw for the first time the first
German official admission of casual
ties and personnel which show from
the number known to have been en
gaged, that the losses of German ships
must have been greater than our es
timate.
“Our officers admit that the German
gunnery was good, but not as destruc
tive as ours. At first the light was
much in their favor, but, toward the
er.d. our maneuvering changed this.
The result was, in the general opinion
of the officers and men of our ships,
which were engaged in the action,
that the German fleet received such
a strafing that it is not likely to make
sea for six months."
MR. HURJA ENTERTAINED.
Mr. Hurja who is a visitor in town,
was entertained at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Forest J. Hunt last Wed
nesday evening at dinner. Those
present were: Miss Nell Morehouse,
Air. Hurja, Mr, Jack Talbot, the
Misses Elaine and Amy Hunt, and the
hosts.
Mr. Hurja has found a fellow stu
dent in Mr. Talbot, and had also met
the Misses Hunt, who were guests at
some of the University doings, while
!h •> visited in Seattle last winter.
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A SON OF HIS FATHER.
(Washington Times.)
Stockholders in the enterprises
which were headed by the late J. J.
Hill need, it would appear, to have
little cause for alarm in view of the
fact that the mantle of the great
builder of the West has fallen on the
shoulders of Louis Hill, a worthy son
of a great father. In an interview the
sou is reported as saying: “In spite
of my father’s standing I had to be a
self-made man. I never subscribed to
‘who’s Who.’ but I would like to read
an authentic book on ‘What’s What.’
I'm afraid 1 shall never be a figure
on Broadway, but shall continue to
operate railroads the best I know how,
and have the boys just call me Louis,
and look after trifling things like roll
ing stock, roadbeds, promotion of ag
ricultural and mining conditions along
our right-of-way, and try not to work
too hard—say not more than twelve
to fourteen hours a day."
RETURNS FROM SHORT VISIT.
Edgar Anderson, who left here at
the close of the school term for a visit
to the States, returned on the Prince
George Wednesday evening.
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SULZER NEWS ITEM,
Mr. Arthur J. Sandler formerly of
Sulzer, has finally returned from Se
attle, and is a welcome addition to
the Sulzer contingent.
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The Daily Progressive-Miner is for
sale at both the Walker Drug store
and the Kyus Drug Store.
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GOODIE SALE SATURDAY AT
HECKMAN'S.
Doughnuts, cakes, candies, bread,
etc., will be on sale by the Ladies’
Aid Saturday afternoon, at 2 o’clock,
at Heckman’s Store. 2t
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Geo. Looker, D. A. Bonar and wife
E. Perkins and wife. F. B. Hyder, F.
J. Griffiths, H. Burton, W. McDonald,
C. B. Hawthorn and wife, J. J.
Releigh.
AT THE REVILLA.
Frank Moore, Tokeen, Alaska; W.
W. Wyall, Seattle; E. E. Mourer, R.
Thompson, Chinook; T. Riley, R.
Smith, Martin Kildall, Petersburg.
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ADVERTISED LETTER LIST
of the Ketchikan. Alaska, Post Office.
For week ending June 10, 1916.
Arvik, John
Brown, Chas. H.
Carson, Tom
Chung, K. S.
Chuck, Billy
| Coy, Stanley
I Dahlbeck, John C.
Hackney, F. R.
Johnson, Chas. H.
Morrs, John
Porters, Geo.
Samson, Wilfred G.
Sproule, George
Troy, John.
Walers, E.
When calling for the above, say
“Advertised.” Parties claiming let
ters front the above list must pay a
fee of one cent for each letter claim
ed. All letters unclaimed by June
24, 1916 will be sent to the dead letter
office, Washington, D. C.
M. E. Swineford, Postmaster.
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CABIN FOR RENT—Apply to Dr.
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