OFF ON SHORT
BUSINESS TRIP
Among the passengers on
this trip of the City of Seattle
vill be J. R. Heckman, who
goes south on a short business
trip connected with his can
nery interests at outlying points
in this region.
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JEANNIE IN SOUTHBOUND
The steamer Jeannie of the
Swan company was in south
bound early this morning, load
ed with ore from Skagwav. Af
ter taking on water and clear
ing at the customs house .she
proceeded on her way south.
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WILL TAKE CHARGE OF
WEST COAST STORE
Ogd^n Norwood, who has
been employed on the dry
goods side of the Tongass
1 radivg company's store for
some time, will leave on ar
early boat for Water Fall where
he w-sil t.ake charge of the
i ranch store the Tongass is
putting in over there. Water
1 all is the most easily acces
s ble place for the spring sal
mon fishermen of Forester Is
land and surrounding region,
so the store there is sure to he
winning venture.
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EXTENSIVE CHANGES
The changes and repairs oa
Wrong's Dock are moving right
ilong. although they will iake
in the neighborhood of a month
more to complete. When don?
the dock will be equal of any
ir the country for size ami con
\enier e. The present-changes
and repairs will total in the
neighborhood of five thousand
collars.
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HARD TO KEEP UP
ENOUGH STEAM
The saving in the actual log
consumption for amount o;
lumber produced is very evi
dent in the fireroom of the
Ketchikan Power companv
sawtnii in this city. W ith the
rAd circular saw -rig the amount
•of sawduet made by the saw
kept up steam easily. Now
wi*h the new bandsaw outfit,
which reduces not to exceed
c-<e fourth as much timber i i
ihe cutting into sawdust diffi
culty is experienced in getting
fuel enough to keep the en
gine- working to t-p efficiency.
The new saw is working finely
ar>d turning out a lot of high
grade lumber.
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LEAVES MORE COAL
The steamer Cordova, which
had been discharged fuel a‘
the Quadra cannery returnee
during the n:ght and left 1 oh
t,-n? of coal additional at the
Ketchikan Wharf. This morn
in? she cleared for northern
points and will stop at Santa
Ana and Wrangell with coal.
AN UNJUST EXEMPTION
The income tax law offeree
in Congres- exempts from it
operation- the President and
Y.cc President, judge- of the
Tutted States court- and all of
f -ers and employee- of th
slat*'-- In most casees the ofTic«
holders earn their ^asarie- w.tt
lei ~ effort than individuals ir
i ;\il life. There -eem- to be ne
ju-t argument tn favor of th<
proposed exemption, so lonf
office holding is not com
pulsory
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BIG POLITICAL
STRIKE TO ENC
I’r s=el- April 2! The lead
er- have agreed to call the bif
j olitical strike off tomorrow
tf the government through th<
Chambers of Deputie.-. will a
jree to improve the presen
•franchise system.
THE SALMON SITUATION
FROM PACIFIC FISHERMAN
The past month's exports of
i canned salmon from San Fran
i cisco were rather light, being
jonly a little over 54.000, com
pared with over 88,000 cases
for the previous month. Of thi
the greater part went to Eng
land. The demand has been
[iiglil for all descriptions, some
|of the cheaper varieties being
‘entirely neglected,
j This season for several years
(past has been marked by the
jreceipt of heavy advance orders
jor inquiries for new pack sal
mon. but tins feature is entire
ly lacking at present, no ap
parent interest being taken in
I anything but Soekeyes. on
which some handlers report a
large business. In other lines
the trade is consistently follow
ing the policy of buying only
j oh at is needed for nearby re
quirements. and there seems
o be quite a general impresion
tnat prices on some varities
will be lower on the new pack.
While some dealers estimate
that there are -till about 200.
000 ea-e- of Alaska Reds alone
m first hand- 'Mine local pack
ers assert th it they are already
sold out. and all show a feel
ine of confidence that they will
j be able to clean up before the
'r.ew pack comes in. It is fell
that a season of fair consump
tion is still ahead, while the dis
tributing trade has accumulat
'd no surplus, and the spo
movement will accordingly be
much heavier than usual dur
ing the spring and summer. I
•s well known that the weal
holders have 1 y -.hi* time so!
mt. and what remains is fo
the mest part in -trong hand-.
\!; -ka Reds are -teadily held
at the opening price. and
Chums at 60 cents, while Pinks
-how a rather firm tendency
t 67 t-2 cents. The only real
weakness is in Cohoes in which
th- re is- increasing prassure to
-ell. with very little demand.
A- fT the future many deal
ers are convinced that, with
he heavy pack of Soekeyes in
prospect, the market for high
er r-de salmon will be fully sup
plied. Red- tending to supplant
Pinks in some markets where
ti e latter have of late gained a
foothold. This would make if
necessary to dispose of the
Pinks in the Southern and ex
port markets which have al
|ways been the heaviest buyers
• if this grade.
On futures ‘hat has been a
large business done on Sock
eve-. but little or nothing on
the other grades.
CAPT. WARNER WILL
COMMAND ALAMEDA
Official- of the Alaska Steam
~flip company announce thai
when the Alameda sails north
■n April 10 ,*he will be in com
n and of Cap*am bred Warner,
one of the mo-t widely known
masters -ailing Ala-kan water.
Captain John Johnson, who ha
•• rmer’v be*-., in command of
(he Alameda in former sum
mer-. is now the master of
■ he Seward. The Alameda w ib
- I for F - W illiam sound
jrf,rS- via the in-ride passage,
touching at Ketchikan, Juneau
and Skagway.
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THE POLAR BEAR
8TRIKES MUD BAN1
The Polar B- -r, Loui- Larie’
exploration - liooner. went a
hore la-l Sunday at Strawber
ry Point. He was headed for
Glacier Bay and .n the dark
i r<... jr.-t hi- bearings. Roberl
Forbes, the Fx»- rsion Irilel c.
! rery man with the tend*
' Horner saw hi- predicamen!
i and went to the rescue. Th*
Polar R*
:-cveral puli- by the Jack Hor
I jner and - now on her way to
i\card the polar seas.
SENATE TURNS DOWN
FISH TRAP BILL
Word arrived by wire from
Juneau Saturday evening that
the upper house in the Terri
torial Legislature had turned
down the Sutherland anti-fish
trap bill by a vote of five to
three. This comes as a deci
ded victory for the trap men
'who would have been put out
of business January L 1011, >i
11 he measure had become a
law.
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WOODEN CHIMNEY
RESULT A BLAZE
A small blaze called out the
fire department about noon yes
terday to the residence of Dr.
T Miller on Water street. The
origin of the fire was a wood
enclosed terra cotta chimney.
The damage done was nomi
nal. It looks as though the fire
1 units should be extended so
as to require more substantial
chimneys in the down town dis
triet.
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BILLY TRIES ANOTHER
LINE OF BUSINESS
••Billy'* Short, for so long as
sociated with the different ho
tels of Ketchikan, has “jumped
his yob” at the Revilla and is
now to to be found at P. J.
Gilmore’s clothing store. Bills
i~ known to every man who ha<
been in the town in the past
six or seven years .and should
prove a success in his new line
of work.
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MRS. KNIGHTS LOSES
CONSIDERABLE MONEY
Seattle. \pril 21— As the re
sult of a wireless message a
detachment of policemen were
or the wharf when the Alk't
landed at this port this morn
ing. It appears that Mrs. F.
Knights of Loring. Alaska, one
ot llie pa**engers on board the
-learner had missed two hun
dred dollars of her cash, and
su>pected that it had been
-toler. A search failed to
reveal anything however, so no
arrest- were made. Mrs. F.
Knights missed the money
-horUy after leaving Ketchikan,
but is not sure whether she
lost it or it was stolen, as about
one hundred and fifty dollar*
remained in her pocketbook
\%hen -he discovered her short
age.
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GO TO WATER FALL
Lee Green and “Jimmie"
lamming- have gone to Water
Fall for the Tonga*- Trading
company to build a -tore build
ing there. It will be used to
bouse the branch store the com
pany i* putting in there.
M’DONALD TRIAL
SET FOR JULY 8
Judge Lyons last week
*et the trial of Joseph DacDon
ald for 10 a. rn.. July 8, coun
-el for the defense and the dis
trict attorney having stipulated
that this date would be *atis
f- lory. Judge Overfield will
ibkeiy come to Juneau about
May 15 in order (<> pass on the
•; plication of MacDonald to I <■
admitted to bail pending trial.
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ENTERTAINS HIS FRIENDS
M >-ter Jim Cosgrove enter
tained thirtv -ix of his little
friends in honor of hi* fifth
cithday at a Matinee Party
g-ven at the Dream Theater.
. th - afternoon. Special sub
ject* were selected for the ben
efit o| the little one*, light re
fer--) merit- were served and all
‘ e little tot* enjoyed a verv
pleasant afternoon.
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C opper has gone up a cent a
pound. If i* now worth 15 1-2
cents a pound.
RECENT DOINGS AT
THE LEGISLATURE
Senator Roden's bill, provid
ing an eight-hour day for wom
en. received its death blow in
the Houre Tuesday afternoon.
1'l.e deed was done by sus
t;,ing the committee report that
:> do not pass. Those voting to
sustain the committee were
Driscoll, Ingersoll. Jones, Kel
ly. Kennedy, Shoup, Stubbins,
and Codings; aganst Aldrich
Hoyle, Burns, Gaffney, Gray.
Ingram, 'and Svindseth—8 to 7.
And now the bill is dead.
The House continued to
swing the cleaver and landed
effectually on the neck of Sen
ator Bruner's bill, providing
for a code revision commission
This bill has been resurrected
through parliamentary action
ami was up for consideration.
Several times Shoup tried to
-ave it from destruction but
;he temper of the House was
set to kill it and they did it by
a vote of 9 to 3.
Representative Shoup Wednes
day a< chairman of the House
judiciary committee asked to
have the rules suspended for
the purpose of allowing the
committee to introduce a sub
>iitute for Senate Bill No. 23,
Millard’s white slave act. The
rules were suspended and the
substitute was rushed through
to final passage and the meas
ure will now go back to the
Senate for concurrence.
This bill was designed to
make felons of the parasites
that live off the white slave
traffic. It was declared to be
ineffectual by the district at
torney at a hearing on the Sen
ate measure because it could
not be enforced. The substi
tute is constructed in plain lan
guage and is very stringent. It
has what is known in police
circles as the “move on'' feat
ure-provision is made for a
ten day suspension of sentence.
The Driscoll bill “to provide
for an official ballot,” and in
cidentally to prevent party nom
iuation from appearing on any
ti-.ket passed the House Thurs
day
Under its provisions a nomi
ation can be made only by pe
:.':on signed by 25 voters. Ary
roe so receiving nomination by
petition, may have name of any
■ol Deal party inscribed on the
balk t after his name. Tbe
fact that -a man is a regular
parly nominee cannot be shown
on ;he ballot. If John Smith,
for instance, is nominated for
d* Agate on the Republican tic
k»- in a convention composed
oi 200 delegates, elected by
2000 Republicans, and John
Jones is nominated by a peD
lion signed by 25 Democrats,
but designates himself as a Re
publican, their names will ap
pear on the official ballot thus.
John Jones (Republican)
John Smith (Republican)
The bill to permit a city
council to till vacancies occurr
ing in its body was also pas
• fd. Gaffney vigorously oppos
i-d the bill in vain.
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NOTICE TO MARINERS
Prince William Sound, Val
dez Narrows, Middle Rock light
v .1- relighted April 17, 1013,
Prince William Sound, Bas
ic, Island Light was relighted
April 17, 1012.
By direction of (he Commis
-ioner of Lighthouses, in the
absence and by the direction
<.f the Inspector.
A. B. EDMONDS,
Chief Clerk
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Yukon people are becoming
interested in the Alaska sys
tem of stocking (be country
with reindeer, and an attempt
i- to be made to secure some
of tbe produsing animals to add
,lo the supply of the north.
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Apples at Zimmerman's. ad\
KILL ALL THE BEAR
YOU LIKE-OR CAN
The hen on black bear has
been lifted by a sweeping or
der of the Secretary of Com
merce, W. S. Redfield. This
announcement was made recoi l
ly b\ Ward T. Bower, of the
Alaska division of the bureau
cf fisheries. According to the
order no restriction are placed
on the killing and shipping of
black bear in Alaska and the
news will come as a pleasant
surprise to nimrods who have
heretofore been restrained from
shooting black bear in the ter
ritory.
The order of the secretary of
commerce is in response to a
w idespread appeal from hun
ters in Alaska.
It is now hoped that the fish
eries department will eventual
ly be given jurisdiction over
the brown bear in Alaska,
which is controlled at present
by the department of agricul
ture.
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SPOKANE’S TOURIST TRIPS
According to C. 1). Dunann,
traffic manager of the Pacific
Coast S. S. company, the Spo
kane will call in at Ketchikan
or. her summer tourist trips at
approximately the following
dates and time:
0 p. m. June 2?t'n to
8:30 a, in. June 28
0 p. in. July 11th. to
8:30 a. ra. July 12th
S p. ni. July 25th, to
7:00 a. m. July 2Gth
S p. m. August 8th, to
7: a. m. August 9th.
8 p. m. August 22nd, to
C:00 a. m. August 23rd
MINERAL APPLICATION
NO. 01573
U, S. Land Office, Jnneau. Alas
ka. January 15, 1913.
Notice is hereby given, that
\V. 11. Timlin, of Milwaukee.
Wisconsin, by his duly author
ized attorney in fact Charles I!
Cosgrove, of Ketchikan, Alaska
has this dav filed his applicn
lion for patent for the WANT
LODE, designated in this office
as Mineral Survey No. 971. and
described by the plat and field
inotes on file herein as follows:
WANO LODE: Beginning at
Cor. No. 1. identical with NK
_,oc Cor. and Cor. No. 4 of
he Hill Side Lode Survey No.
940; F. S. M. M. No. 21 bears
N 59 deer. 37 min E. 2157.15
ft. dist. Thence S. 21 deg. 44
min. E. 555.00 to Cor. No. 2;
Thence S. 03 deg. 06 min. W.
1 420.40 ft. to Cor. No. 3;
Thence N. 21 deg. 44 min. W.
364.59 ft. to Cor. No. 4;
Thence N. 63 deg. 29 min. E
14 19 ft. to Cor. No. 1. the
■ place of beginning: Contain
ing 18.174 acres; Mag, Dec. at
all cors. 29 deg. 30 min. E.
isoutherly shore of McLean!
■ Arm. a tributary to Clarence
Straits, and is about 6 miles
north of Cape Chacon, the mod
southerly point of Prince of
Wales Island. Ketchikan Min
ing District, Territory of Alas
[ka; longitude 132 deg. W: lat
!itude 54 deg. 46 min. 3ft sec.
E.; Hill Side Lode. Mineral Sur
jvey No. 940 adjoins this sur
vey on*the east; This claim is
j bounded on all other sides by
i nsnrveyed lands. Plat of said
|claim and this notice posted
i pon said claim December 16,
;1'.)12. Location notices there
of of record in the Ketchikan
I recording office, original, in
! Volume V of Mines at page 526
|No. 2845; amended location no
jlicc in said records at Volume
VI of Mines at page 139. No.
j3079, respectively.
Any and all persons claiming
adversely nnv portion of the
above described claim or the
'•nrfare ground thereof are re
Tpiired to file said adverse
claim with the Register of the
Land Office at Juneau, Alaska,
within the sixty davs period of
)r within eight months there
after of the publication of tin
above notice, or they will be
barred.
n. n. WALKED.
Register
[I. is hereby ordered that Hie
foretroing notice lie rohlished
in the Kptrhiknn Miner, a
"’ecklv newsnnner published a1
Ketchikan, Alaska, for ten ■ 10:
consecutive weeks.
C. B. WALKER.
H egislcr.
f’.TIAS. H. rOSOROVE,
Ketchikan. Alaska.
Attorney for Applicant
’irsf Prl.'Velion t-n 3f 'r>f
r asl Public*c.„;i I I E'l
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“Furs” a Biograph Comedy a!
the Dream tonight. adv.
COMMITTEE TAX
PLANS FORMING ’
The joint legislative commit
tee on revenue ami taxation lias
adopted a tentative plan Ilia*
will soon bo submitted to both
bouses of the legislature. There
will be no attempt made at
this time to establish a tax
system of a permanent nature,
but simply to devise an exped
ient for meeting present neces
sities. In establishing a sys
tem of taxation the committee
believes it will be necessary to
have Congressional action in
that nearly every branch of
commercial activity is i^pw tax
ed by the general government,
mostly without, any regard to
equity, or justice. For in
stance a transfer concern with
one rig pays the same tax as a
like concern using a dozen; a
ten-room hotel contributes the
same amount as a hundred
room house. Stamp mills are
taxed so much for each stamp,
but other methods of extracting
ore values pay nothing.
There will he an attempt to
raise revenue only to meet the.
expenses that will be incurred
through the enforcement of
such laws and acts that this
present legislative body may
pass. This it is thought can
best be done by levying on the
principal industries, fishing and
mining. It is proposed that the
tax shall be based on the in
come or productive capacity.
Nothing in ihe line of ordinary
business is to lie touched.
Mines will be taxed according
lo their capacity of production
in wealth, not according to the
amount of capital invested or
the number of stamps or other
machines in operation; fisher
ies and the fishing industry
will be treated in like manner.
In addition to this there prob
ably will be a direct poll tax
of perhaps $2.00.
It is said that the burden
will be so light as not to be felt
owing to the very modest sum
to raised. In the meantime
the committee will seek to
have the legislature memorial
ize Congress to amend the pres
ent license tax system and
have it established on a more
equitable basis.—Empire.
FORMER JUNEAU
MAN IS NAMED
Washington, April 22—Presi
dent Wilson yesterday named
Charles Davidson, of Fairbanks
formerly of Juneau, as surveyor
general of Alaska, succeeding
Gen. Distin.
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TAYLOR IS AGENT
FOR THE CORWIN
C. M. Taylor has been ap
pointed agent for Ihe steamer
Corwin, which will he in Ketch
ikan, hound for Nome and St.
Michaels ,May 13. The little
vessel has the record for being
the first to reach Nome every
spring for many years, and
will try to live up to her record
this year. For terms and par
i hollars see Taylor.
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BAD WEATHER
HAMPERS SURVEY
Owing to the nun uni had
weather the coast survey ves
sel Gedney is having a hr.r 1
time of it. Last year lie’
weather at this time was idenl
for outside work, while Ihis
year it is a succession of g .>
after gale. 'I he Gedney came
in and anchored in the nar
rows Ibis morning.
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Dcmrnert Brothers at Sha
kail are building a new <>i
foot gasoline boat.
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That (he Koyukuk district .s
,t good place to keep away
from is the observation of Den
ny Murphy, formerly with Men!,
Icy in the Millie cafe at Fair
banks, I
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