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The Ketchikan Miner
PRICE 10 CENTS KETCHIKAN. ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 23, 1013. VOL. 2. NO. 40
FOUR BOATS IN
DURING THE NIOHT
The A!ki was in yesterday
evening, southbound, took on
thirteen passengers, 2S tierces
of mild cured salmon, dis
charged five tons of salt at thc
. Ketchikan cannery-, and got &
way for the south about seven
o'clock.
The Princess May, north
bound, arrived about eleven o’
clock with close to a dozen pas
sengers for Ketchikan.
The Jefferson and Curacao
were in southbound, the one at
5:45, the other at 7:45. The
Jefferson took on three pas
sengers at this place, including
the Misses Laura and Margery
Young.
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BURGLARY LAST NIGHT
Some time during the early
morning some miscreant broke
into the fish house used by the
Diamond “T” packing company
on Strong's dock and stole 35
king salmon. The salting and
spliting crew was at word un
til after midnight, so the theft
must have been committed be
tween that time and daylight,
the fish being hauled out
through a window
ENJOYABLE EXERCISES
i*ocal folk were agreeable sue
Ijuised at 4he uniform exeeli
•cnce of the program of the
•Commencement Exercises of
the Eight grade of the local
schools at Red Men s Hall last
night. Every number of the
-program was good, showing
iiow well the young folk had
been trained in their years of
school life.
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YUKON DUE AT SEVEN
The wireless office is in re
ceipt of a wireless message
stating that the steamer Yukon
will arrive in port on her way
to the westward about seven
o'clock. She left Seattle Tues
day evening.
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Florence Turner in a Vita
graph at the Dream tonight, adv
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The halibut fisherman Polar
is and the troller Aurora both
entered at the customs house
today.
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Trolling Skiffs at Sully’s. - ad
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SENATOR DENIES IT
Washington, May 23—Sena
tor Chamberlain today entered
a general denial to the state
ment made by Wickersham
that the former had introduced
a bill in the Senate carried with
it the monopoly by the Guggen
h:ims of the Comptroller Bay
waterfront.
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REPORT STORMY TRIP
The curing plant tender
Ethelvn is back from the West
Coast and reports having had a
hard time of it during the
sto-'in of last Tuesday. She
had rounded the two capes ail
right and was about half way
across the straits to Forrester
when the gale struck her. She
could do nothing in the wind
iand sea with the big tow of
trolling boats she had, so had
to cut them adrift, and run for
it. Four of the trollers who
were in their boats when the j
>torm broke managed to row
ashore and land but. seven were
adrift without anyone on board
When »he J. P. Todd, II., saw
jl.ow is was, she went out in tl o
eale and picked up alt but tw )
of the skiffs and took them in.
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WILL LEAVE FOR
BRITISH COLUMBIA
A Adkins will be a passenger
on the Seattle tonight on his
way to Hartley Bay, y-hither he
!goes in the interests of E. A.
’Eardley, who has considerable
! property in that neighborhood
The property consists of min
ing claims, standing timber and
a sawmill,
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AN INVITATION
The management of the
Dream Photoplay House in
forms the Miner Man that he
is inviting the graduates of
1013 and their teacher to at
tend the Dream tonight as the
guest of the house,
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Change of program at the
Gross tonight. adv
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Ex-Governor Walter E. Clark
and wife were passengers
south on the Jefferson this
morniDg.
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All children free at the Gross
■ tonight. adv
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j: Western Meat & Fish Go. $
j! Branch of Frye..Bruhn Co. 5
I Packers and Jobbers of £
Fresh Heat, Provisions and Fish \
We Make a Specialty of _ }
Ship and Camp Trade ' " ^ $
;! Kectchikan, - Alaska ^
STRONG STOVE CO.
W. G. STRONG. Manager
Monarch Ranges
Coal and Wood
Cook Stoves
Hot Blast Heaters
Camp Stoves
\ Heckman Bldg.
MEN HERE
W. J. Rogers, secretary 01* i
I
the Mount Andrew company'
K. E. Campbell, of Phoenix. W. i
C., and A. E. Brydou, also of:
British Columbia arrived up!
from the south on the May last
night. They come on business |
connected with the Mt. Andrew j
property. Mr. Campbell is thej
representative of the Granby;
smelting interests and M. Br>
GOVERNMENT MAY
MINE ALASKA COAL
—
Washington .May 23—Sena- j
lor Pittman today introduced a
I
bill providing that the govern
ment may mine coal in Alaska
when needed by the navy or at i
any time relieve oppressive con
0 it ion due to coal monopoly.
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PORTLAND CANAL
TRIP DEFERRED
Owing to the fact that the
Northland is bringing freight'
for Portland City and will not
arrive until Sunday morning,
the trip of the Teddy scheduled
for Saturday morning has been
1 ostponed until Sunday after
lhe arrival of the Northland.,
j-te Ed. Williams for partie?
ulars at Rvus’ store.
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MIKADO VERY SICK
Tokip, May 23—The Mikado
very sick, having been strick
en with pneumonia. Tie has
been confined to his bed for
several days, and doctors stale
that his condition is precarious.
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FINE NEW SIGN
Jim Newman the signwriter
hung up a fine sign for Dr.
Reese today. It is on the cor
ner of the Ryus building ami
l- well worth looking at.
Jon is a mining engineer of the
-•line company. The three will
go over to the Ml. Andrew prop
erty tomorrow, and rumor has
■I that there is every probabil
iiy that the smelter company
will take a bond on the proper- )
ly which is just what they need
to work in conjunction with
their mine and smelter on
Loose Bay in the Portland Can- ,
a? country.
BREECHBLOCK BLOWS
OUT, THREE KILLED
Charleston, May 23—During ,
the night practice at Foil
Moultrie, the breechblock o(
n* of the four inch guns blew ,
0 il hast night. Four members j
of the crew were killed, and
nine injured, some of them >o
badly that, they will die.
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COMING EVENTS CAST
THEIR SHADOWS BEFORE
I. G. Pruell purchased the
Guzman home some time ago
Miss I.aura Young is a pa<
>c. tiger south on the Jefferson.
“Gus” Pruell leaves for Seat
tle tonight on the Seattle.
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U. OF W. WINS AGAIN
y> Tiattle, May 23—Completely
outdistancing their oopornents
the University of Washington’ '•
eight oared boat lieat that of
the University of California or.
Lake Washington by se\< i>
1 ‘iigths. The southerners nev
*r had a look in.
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KAISER KISSES CZAR
Berlin, May 23—Czar Nicholas
and suite arrived here today
Kaiser Welhelm embraced hip;
mi his arrival, ki-sing him or
Loth cheeks.
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I CLUB DANCE 1
P
SATURDAY, MAY 24. H
ADMISSION $1.00 $
^ Get Your Club Tickets at the Door j|jl
THE STEDMAN I
W. A, CONNELL, Proprietor f|
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I’m not the man
That put the “C” in Clothing l.ut I am the person that
will put the best clothing on earth on your back and at
the lowest possible price. You will have the advantage
)t selecting from the large-t stock of clothing in town
bought for cash direct from the manufacturers and sold
to you for cash, at bed rock prices. Give us a call for
your next suit or over-coat.
P. J. GILMORE
“The Clothier”
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PRESIDENT 18 SORRY
Washington, May 23—Provi
dent Wilson today wired his
sympathy to the Mikado, and
wished him a speedy and com
pute recovery. The latest bul
letin from Tokio reports no
Sign ol improvement in the rr y
ai ickman’s condition.
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EVERYBODY SHOULD HELP
An effort is being made to ar
range for everybody in town
not too busy otherwise to go out
lo the new cemetary next Fri
day, Memorial Day, and help
get the grounds there in shape.
The lodges are making their
arrangements to be there, and
I be private citizens should do
the same. It is for the benefit
of everybody for the cemetary
is strictly a public institution,
so every able bodied man
should turn out with a pick and
shovel and the work will be
done.
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“Bob” Graham, after a trip
o! a couple of weeks or so i.i
the south is home again, hav
ing arrived on the May.
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LOOKS GOOD TO
COMMITTEE
Washington, May 23—An
agreement has been reached by
the. Senate committee in charge
of Uic Alaskan railroad bill to
report favorably on the same
next Tuesday or Wednesday
with the recommendation that
it be passed forthwith. The
question of the actual number
of miles to be constructed will
not be touched in the commit
tee’s report, being left for Con
gress to decide,
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NEWLYWEDS ARRIVE
Mr. and Mrs. “Jack” Mc
Bride arrived down on the Jef
ferson this morning home from
Juneau. They are at home ii
the Mcllravie block, and Jack
is back on the job at the Cit
izens Light, Power & Water
company.
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“Katzenjamnter Kids” at the
Bream tonight. adv
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Most complete line of Felt
and Straw lrats at Field’s aJv
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Change of program at the
Dream tonight . adv
JAPS BOYCOTT
LEGISLATORS
Sacramento, May 23—Won!
conies from various parts of
the state that the Japanese
have instituted a boycott on
every member of the stale leg
islature who took an active pari
in the passage of the anti-alien
act. Enemies of the Japs arc
pleased with their action, as ii
will make easy the passage of
a more stringent bill planned
for the next session of the leg
islature.
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CURACAO HAS BIG CARGO
The Curacao this trip lias
big cargo south including 000
tons of ore from the Sulzer
mine; 500 tons of marble from
Fokeen for the Vermont Mar
ble people and 500 barrels of
whale oil from Pt. Armstrong.
11 is said there was over two
feet, of water in her engine
room as the result of the bad
weather she had run into when
she arrived at Rose Inlet on bee
way north.
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BIG CROWD ASSURED
Already enough people have
promised to go to Metlakahtla
next Friday to assure the ex
cursion being a success, and the
baseball boys are accordingly
elated. The baseball grounds
at Metlakahtla have been re
arranged so that the home plate
is where second base used to
be, and the younger generation
a! that town are hard at if.
practicing to get their team ir.
shape. They claim to have
some speedy players just out
of schools below.
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BREAKING IN THE BOSS
Jack Rounsefell is taking
things easy these days. lie in
tends to go south about the
first of the month to take ; )
additional course at a Business
College and is now breaking t
Ihde Hunt to the bookkeeping.
1 his means that Jack is doing
; lie heavy standing around
w! 11 e Hale is doing the work.
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Miss Pearl Temple will be a
passenger south on the Seattle
tonight, to be gone the great- r
part of the summer.
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“Camille” in 2 reels at II '
Gross tonight. adv
This Will Help You Save.
Open a Savings Account §
and we give you one of
S i
these handsome home
banks. It takes all deno
minations of coins and
paper money, and is of a
size and shape convenient
to carry in the pocket to
the Bank for deposit |
You Keep the Bank and §
B
We keep the Key. |
Savings Department Of The
MINERS & MERCHANTS BANK