WRANGELL WIRELESS
IS OUT OF COMMISSION
* Word comes from Wrangell
that during the big windstorm
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of a couple of nights ago the
aerial wire system of the l'n
. i:ed States Wireless station
there was blown down. The
(lamage was not excessive, as
• the big central pole is «ti!l
'landing, but the task of gett
ing the outfit back into com
mission again will be a diffi
cult one. Petersburg is com
pletely cut off while the wire
U'« sysiem is out of commis
sion. *
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ALASKAN INVENTS NEW
KIND OF HECTING STOVE
■ .lessc Rogers ef Tdilarod. is
perfecting an uVn for new
stove. which he claims will re
sult in a saving of a per cent
iii the wood bill. Hi- 1 inten
t■on is that the center of the
;b.ve as at present con-ti ucted
. is loo far fro mthe healing sur
face or outside of the stove,
end that in consequence much
* of the heat generated is wast
ed. His idea is to divide the
stove in the center in such a
way that there would be an
open space therein between
two iron plates. This would.
of course, greatly increase the
heating surface of the stove at
less expenditure of wood. There
ore several other ideas which
he proposes to incorporate in
the new patent.
IF NOT, WHY NOT?
IS THE QUESTION
The fire which broke out ye?
terday noon in the box en
closing the flue on the build
ing occupied by Dr. Miller,
was a forcible reminder of
“what might have been" the
re-tilt. Fortunately the roof
was low and easily reached
from the rear of the house,
and the flames quickly exting
ui-hed. If the fire had been
in some of the two story frome
building along the wharf, fan
ned by the high wind which
was sweeping through the
sireet?, there most likely would
have been a disastrous fire;
tnat brings us to inquire if
there is not a city ordinance,
which provides that all build
ing- of two stories or more
shall have ladders on outside ol
such buildings. Judging from
appearances, the ordinance has
not been enforced and the city
i? in danger of some tme suf
fering loss from a big blaze,
If not—why not?.
The above, which was brought
in to the Miner Man this morn
ing -peaks for itself, is pertin
ent ana to the point. The mem
hers of the Common Council
serve without thanks or even ap
preciation. They pass ordinan
ce- for the common good,
which too often we deliberate
ly di-regard, to our own loss
an dthe detriment of the com
munity in general. The ordi
nance mentioned above is a
good one .clearly for the pro
tection of the property owner,
yet that very individual is the
one who disregards it.
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Pay going as high a? §30 to
the square foot has been found
by Adolph Bock, an oid time
ruing man on Sullivan creek,
in the Hot Spring? district. The
streak is demonstrated to he
100 feet wide. The discovery
means an increase of 4100,000
in the output and i? the richest
made in year? in the district. '
pock is to open up on a big
scale according to a report
brought bv mushers from the
lower river.
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PUTTING UP A BIG SIGN
The Pacific Coast Steamship:
company is installing a big
sign on Heckman’s dock today,
it is thirty-two feet long and
was made by Newman the sign .
painter.
interchange of
TICKETS IS STOPPED
Owing to the fact that the
Maska Steamship company is
putting sc many boats on the
s 'neastern Alaska route, the
head officers of the compam
have issued an order to di
CKitinue the interchange of
tickets between their company
on*! the Pacific Coast Steam
si. p company. They go on the
hypothesis that their service
with boats every three days
does not need to interchange
with anybody. The greater
number of us don't care a rap
but the “drummers” will cer
tainly kick.
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GROW SWEET PEAS
MAKE HOME BEAUTIFUL
Reiger. the California Per
ftimer, has supplied the Rytis
Drug Company with a quality
of California Sweet Pea seeds
for distribution to the peoph
of Ketchikan. The seeds are
fresh and are selected from
the vines front which Reiger
secure- the blossoms for his
new Sweet Pea perfume.
“Countess Spencer.” The
seed-: will be distr
and prizes will be offered f
the largest bouquet, the great
est variety of colors .and also,
for the first bouquet of the
coon grown from these seeds.
11 un Ryus, get your pack
>ge and beautify your yard.
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SURVEY STEAMER
TAKING ON F
The coast and geodedie sur
very steamer McArthur wi'
take on bunker coa! here before
oruceeding to her desfinat
which is the Prince William
bound region.
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GOVERNMENT HATCHERY
MAN IN FROM YES BAY
W. K. Hancock, superinten
dent of the government hatch
0 / on the lake above Yes Bay
is a local visitor registered at
1 t»c Stedman. He report* tha*
ever; thing at the Hatchery i*
moving along finely.
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ON THE WATERFRONT
The barge Elwell being towed
L-y the Phillip F. Kelly to the
Sitka hay cannery and compel
led through stress of weather
to go to anchor at Smith* Cove
{.• it away on her trip yesterday.
The fishing schooner Victor
and Ethan is in port waiting
(or haliblut bait.
The Wiese and the Diamond
"T” mild curing plants are gett
ing in plenty of fish these
last few days.
The gasoline cannery tender
Protection was in port yester
day on her way north to Tee(
Harbor.
The halibut schooner Direc
tor brought in 11,000 pounds
i f halibut which the New Eng
land Fish company will freeze.
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SOMETHING NEW
FOR SHINGLING
\\ . J. Sully the carpenter ha
been putting a new roof on
•‘The Market" today and using
sometning new in a nail hop
per and holder line while so
doing. The machine does away
with holding the nails by hand
end apparently increases a
man’s capacity in nailing shin
gles fullv a third.
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The sentence of Col. F. Cooke
formerly of the 22nd regiment,,
has been commuted. He was
convicted of irregularities in
connection with the disappear
ance of government funds while •
in command at Fort Gibbon.
Private Willian Lane, the man]
who was reputed to have got
away with the cash, disappear
ed about the time the deficit
in the accounts was discovered
and has not been heard from;
since. - • •• .
BUILDING CHANGES
ARE HELD UP
The non-arrival of the wood
I'ihe** plaster is delaying the re
modeling of the Royal Hotel
building. It is expected on the !
m-xl Alaska Steamship romp-i
any boat, when it will he put
on the walls and the work!
iv.Mied through to completion.
The advantage of the wood
liber plaster over the ordinary
i me and sand plaster, is that
a nail can he driven into i!
without hurting the wall, does
l ot rub off. and will not crack.
Besides ttii- it is a perfect
noise deadener, and will nol
take nearly so long to dry as
the ordinary kind.
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WIRS. ROY THOMPSON
RETURNING ON ALKI
Mrs. H. R. Thompson, who
ln> been on a visit in the
Mates for the past couple of
months, is returning on the
Alki.
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AND JIMMIE WENT
TO WORK
Confronted by the alternative
of either wheeling the baby
buggy or going to work. Capt.
Jimmie Sayles succumbed to
(he ine\ itable this morning,
and is now installed as regular
donkeyman on the gravel rais
ing plant on the wharf. He
handles the levers like an old
timer.
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LOOKING FOR DESERTER
One local man is said to be
anxiously inquiring how long
it takes for desertion from the
navy to outlaw. Fremont King
and Dr. Reese are said to tie
ass sting, but won't say w ho he
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ARE NOW TYPEWRITER
AGENTS IF YOU PLEASE
Messrs. Mahoney <x Wheeler
have recently added a type
writer agency to their flourish
ing drug business, and by the
last sieamer were in receipt of
Gx of the latest and mod up
to date L. C. Smith machines
made. They can either one of
them demonstrate to any body
that these machines are easily
the finest made, although ‘Doc’
Mahoney is a little the more
proficient in peddling the hot
air, but anyhow, the machine
is a good one. and if you need
anything in this line call on
'hem.
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AGENT FOR A BIG
STEAMBOAT LINE
H. G. Samdahl, bookkeeper
cd the Northern Machine Works
has been appointed agent for
llii- region for the Norweigan
'American Steamship line. This
company j> now operating two
fine vessels between Scandi
navion points and the United
State'. Mr. Samdahl has auth
ority to sell tickets either way
across the ocean. For further
particulars see him.
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A. E. WADHAMS
IS IN TOWN
A. E. Wadhams, superinten
dent of the Gorman cannery at
Kasaan is renewing acquain
tenees about town today, hav
ing arrived during the night.
The cannery crew over at Ka
saan is getting matters in
■•hape for the coming season’s
work.
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NO MORE FIRES
FOR DR. MILLER
Bobby Clemensson is putting
r;i a cement chimney in the
t oii'e occupied by Dr. Miller.
“Doc.” says lie had enough fire
fighting last Sunday to last
him for a long time, hence the
himnev.
Job printing at Th« Minor.
IMMIGRATION
INSPECTOR BA&K
I). Maskeviezius, immigration
inspector of this territory, who
had heen to Fairbanks on of
ficial business, returned on Hie
i'vorthwestern this morning.
He reports that business con
ditions are very unsettled in
the interior. He made quick
time, six and one-half days ov
er the trail from Fairbanks to
Chitina, and was fortunate en
ough to catch a train right out
of that place to Cordova, but
was compelled to wait at the
latter place the greater part of
a week for a boat.
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Cant. Connell, proprietor of
tlie Stedman Hotel is watching
the erecting of the new Ton
gas* building with considerable
interest, and to the Miner Man
this morning, told the reason..
He has leased the entire two -
upper floors of the building as
on annex to the Stedman.
There are twenty-three rooms
in all, twelve of which will be
fitted up for office rooms, the
other eleven for sleeping ap
artments. Besides this, the
big heating plant in the new
building will furnish steam for
the Stedman as well. Tha
I oiler will be a fifty horse
power and capable of heating
culier buildings in addition to
these two.
Work on the new building is
moving right along, practically
all of the walls below the street
level being in. and if the weath
er allows the sand and gravel
to arrive as per schedule, an
other month or six weeks will
see the walls finished.
CAPT. FORSS A
BUSY STEPFATHER
Cap!. Forss, who arrived in
town this afternoon from his
chicken ranch between town
and Saxman. states that his
family has increased materially
tin- last week making him the
busiest step-father in Alaska.
Last Sunday night his first lot
cf incubator chickens hatched
out. 05 fine, healthy little
fellows. They are all living
now. and apparently enjoying
life in their brooder, watched
over and fed by the Captain.
His hens are laying lots of
eggs as demonstrated by the
basketful he brought m to
town with him today.
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It is reported that Edwin
Uekern of the Seattle broker
age firm of Coles & Rekern,
will purchase the Valdez bank
and Mercantile company.
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Now is the time to roof
your building.
Don’t wait until the rains start
and you are inconvenienced
by working in the wet.
Do the work while the
conditions are favorable
and save yourself the
annoyance and disagreeable duty
of being compelled to hurry a
job that requires care
and attention.
No matter what kind of a roof
you have or what kind of a
building you own, you ought to
sec us about your roof troubles.
Our roofing experience
will help you.
We will show you the kind of a
roof you should have and the
way you should lay it and
demonstrate to your complete
satisfaction that there is no other
rooofing on the market that
will give you so good a roof
service as Maithoid Roofing.
The Paraffine Paint Co.
of San Francisco
and Chicago Heights
svere the original makers of ready
roofings twenty-eight years ago.
Ketchikan Agents
J. R. HECKMAN & COMPANY
TONGASS TRADING CO.
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Trolling Skiffs at 8ully’s. • advl
WILL MAKE SHIPMENT
OF ORE TO SMELTER
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On the next trip of the Cur
acao, the Northland Develop
ment Co., owning and operat
ing the copper property at Big
harbor on the West Coast,
v illi P. A. Tucker as manager,
expect to make a shipment of
tin tons of their ore. This will
be the second shipmeut by Ibis
company, the first, a small one
for test, purposes having given
(he nest of results. The tun
nel on the property is now in
over S00 feet and is opening up
I he property in fine shape.
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SNOW DELAYING THE
GAME AT SULZER
The unusual heavy snow is
materially hampering opera
tions at Sulzer. so that the
mine is able to get out an av
erage of less than fifty tons of
ere per day. Warm wmas ones
rain are anxiously looked for,
which would soon dispose of
the snow.
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DOLOMI DOPE
(Contributed by A. Adkins)
Our camp here has been con
siderably livelier since the ar
rival of the Alki early in the
month with Mr. Eardley and
family and crew of men for
the mill. Everything is now
running in fine shape at the
mill and the mine will start in
a day or two, and then every
body in this part of the world
will be busy.
The Fortune and the Union
properties are each working
small crews with satisfactory
results.
Robert Cook shot and killed
a big gray wolf while hunting
recently. This class of gome is
more plentiful than deer here
now.
Capt. H. J. Hanson was in
bom Xiblack the latter part of
last week, as were also J.
Purdy and Gabe Johnston, who
are watching the properlf of
the Shamrock quarry. They all
h ft for home Saturday.
Fred Pickle the watchman of
the North Arm cannery was
over Saturday, and reports that
the superintendent of the can
nery is expected most any time.
J. Westlake is doing assess
ment and development work on
bis mining properties on Min
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NORTHERN ADDITION
READY FOR BUSINESS
The fifteen room addition to
the Hotel Northern is finished
and ready for business. This
addition gives that popular
rooming house 25 rooms, with
a bunkhouse downstairs large
enough to accomodate 35 men.
Messrs. Barclay & Churchill
have gone to considerable ex
I ensc in gelling their piace In
shape, and report first-class
business.
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With due and proper cere
monies, the United States cable
between Seattle and Silka went
out of commission yesterday
afternoon shortly after three
o'clock, and again fhe north is
hung u]), although as yet Iho
wireless rales have not been
again raised. Where the break
in the big rope is, nobody at
Ibis end can say, and all we
can do is to hope that it ■will
be in commission again in
time for us to get the returns
on next fall’s championship
baseball series. In the mean
lime we shall have lo worry
along without telegraphic news
a hardship on the Miner’s read
ers, but a harder one on the
Mi nee Man.
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The government is getting
rut it new issue of parcel post
stamps. Why is either an old
or a new issue needed when we
already have no dearth of per
f-jelly good postage stamps?
RETURNS FROM
THE WEST COAST
Frank Bold, local agent for
the Pacific Coast company,
v ho had been away for the
greater part of (lie past week
on the West Coast of Prince of
Wales Island ,returned on last
night’s Rough Rider. He states,
that Hie fish are beginning to
run over in that region and a
prosperous season is assured.
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COLUMBINE IS
TAKING ON FUEL
The dock crew is loading
forty tons of bunker coal on
hoard the Columbine today.
The vessel, which arrived up
from the Sound after a big
overhauling, Saturday night, is
preparing to go out on an in
spection tour. Superintendent
Milo Iloadley is acting inspec
tor.
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STEAMER VIGILANT
IS IN COMMISSION
Repairs and over hauling of
(he steamer Vigilant were com
plet-'d the latter part of last
week, and the vessel is now in
commission. Sunday she wend
over to Kasaan and brought
over a boom of logs for the
Ketchikan Power company,
and is now down at Boca du
Ouadra on the same mission.
As soon as she returns from
there she will go to Petersburg
from which place she will tow
1.500,000 feet of logs to the
Shattnek-Worthen mill at Ju
neau. v
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The greater part of the ma
chine shop machinery of the
Ketchikan Iron Works has ar
rived from Hadley, and is now
being cleaned up and assem
bled at the Works. There is
every probability that the con
cern will move to new quarters
ui the near future, as arrange
ment-; have been completed
whereby George Rounsefeli
will build them a shop and
wharf on his property on Wat
er street, just beyond the foot
of Grant street. The shop will
be 30 x 50 feet, while the
wharf will run out to deep wat
er, with a slip on each side.
With the new machinery in
stalled, and a waterfront lo
cation, it is a “cinche” that
the new company will do busi
ness,
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Juneau, April 23—The Ter
ritorial Medical bill passed the
Senate without a dissenting
voice today. The bill provides
that all doctors coming into
the territory after the law takes
effect must pass an examina
tion submitted by a board of
eight practicioners composed of
two residents of each of the
four division of the territory.
Those now licensed and pract
icing will not have to take any
examination.
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SOME FISH
An k.j pound salmon, the big
gest of the year, was brought in
from Gamano this morning.
Unfortunately for Hie man who
caught it, it is a “white” but
even at that is considerable of
a fish.
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GEORGE SU:XLE ARRIVES,
LOOKS FAT AND SASSY
George Sickle, after a stay
below of several weeks arrived
up on the May last night. As
will be remembered lie had
been ailing for some lime and
was operated on while below,
lie has been improving stead
ily ever since, and now looks
letter than be has for years.
Secretary Bryan complains
that he has difficulty in find
ing men who can afford to ac
cept ambassadorships. lie
might issue an order confining
them to dollar dinners.
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