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I Ready for Business j
I In our new location it will bew
our Motto just as in the past THES
RIGTH GOODS AT LOWEST^
Prices. g
flen’s Clothing, Hats, Shoes,I?
Underwear, Flannel Overshirts, H
Oil Clothing, Gum Boots and]|
everything for Hen to wear. $
The Cheapest Store in Town
J. FENYES I
Across the U. S. Custom House. «
AMONG I'HE CHURCHES
First M. E. Church
Sunday Church service 11 a. m. aed
f:30 p. m.
Wednesday Prayer Meeting 7:30.
Friday choir meets 8 o'clock.
First and third Wednesday after
Boons at 2:30 Ladies Aid Society.
H. W. MICHENEB, Pastor.
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CATHOLIC CHURCH
Sunday Mass at 8 a. m. and
J o a.m.
Sunday School at 2:30 p. in.
Sunday Vespers at 7 p. ni.
YVeeK. Day Mass at 8 a. m.
1’. .1. Mahoney S. J.
Pastor.
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Saint John's Church
Bev. Robert Ewell Eoe, priest in
sharge.
Sunday 8 a. m. Holy Communion.
45, Native Sunday School.
11:00, Matins list. Sunday, Holy
Communion) and sermon.
12;15 White Sunday school.
3 p. m. Native service.
1 p. m. Evensong and sermon
Wednesday 7:30 p. m., Native ***'
rice
Saturday !:00 p. m. J. > S. 7:30
p. m. choir practice.
Meeting of Vestry first Monday
night in month; Womeh’s Guild, si
ternate Thursdays, 2:30.
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Christian Science Society
Front street, Ketchikan,
Hegular Services Sunday It am
Subjlce for Harch 1st.
“CHRIST JESUS”
Wednesaay eituuig reading
and Song Service at 7 :30 P. M.
All Are Welcome
INDEPENDENT
DRAYING COMPANY
General
xiauling:
and work of all kinds
Launches
Rough Rider and Teddy
Monday, 8 a. m.—Chomley
(Sunny Point), connecting
with mail carrier for Suizer
and all points on West Coast
Prince of Wales Island.
Tuesday, 8 a. m.—Metlakahtla,
and Dolomi.
Wednesday, 8 a. m.—Loring
Yes Bay (Cannery Hatchery)
Be^l Island Hot Springs and
Shrimp Bay.
Thursday, 8 a. m — Same as
I Monday.
Friday, 8 a. m.—Ketlakahtla.
Saturday, Kasaan, It Camp,
Rush & Brown, and Hollis.
Carries Passengers and
Freight
Williams & Hubbard
Masters
Agents for
WADHAMS OIL CO.
Ketchikan Wharf Co.
COAL
COAL
NANIMO
Lnmp Coal
Ketchikan Wharf Co.
C. M. Tavlor
Phone 64 Agent
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FOB CHARTER
“SEARCHLIGHT”
Equipped with
electric Lights, Steam Heat,
Spring Bunks
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Special rates for loop trip
~. W. TEMPLE. PHONE
Master. M 5 R
For Your
Hardware, Clothing, Shoes, Underwear,
Fishing Outfits.
The Celebrated Walrus Oil Clothing
Go To
N. F. ZIMMERMAN
Ketchikan, - - Alaska
THE MINER
DAILY: Published every week day. Subscription 11.00 per month
WEEKLY: Published every Friday.S3.00 Per Year in Advance
Entered as second class matter March *8th. 1910 at the postoffloe In Kotchikan. Alaska, under
the act of Mhrch 8. 1379.
MINER PUBLISHING COMPANY. PUBUSHRRS,
RICHARD BUSHELL. JR.. Editor M. H. BlfSHELL. Associate Editor
EDI TOR I A L PAGE
FACTS ABOUT BELL
ISLAND HOT SPRINGS
Unless one has been there
lately they can have no idea of
the conditions prevaling at
Bell Island. The average man
expects that he can rent a cab
in there for eight or ten dollars
per month, or possibly $15.00,
but in doing so everybody
makes a great mistake. Then
again the general impression is
that two or more persons can I
go together in one cabin for the
same rent, as is the case at
other hot springs in Alaska.
But that time has passed at
Bell Island, the rent per cabin
there now being one person,
$15.00; two persons, $30.00:
three, $15.00; (our, $00.00, per
month.
Each cabin is one single
room and everybody must
furnish his own bedding. Can
you grasp it? Two, three or
ever four persons, strangers to
each other, forced to crowd to
gether in one little room, cook
ing, eating and sleeping there
They may he of four different
nationalities and not one know
ing what the others’ sickness or
disease may be-huddled toget
her worse than cattle in a pen, i
—and still forced to pay a head i
tax of fifty cents each, $2.00 I
per day. $00.00 per month for
such a place.
A small log cabin, size about
10x12, rents at the present
time for $1.00 per day or $30.
00 per month, and the same
price is charged for a little
squallid room in the store j
building. I
If you happen io go there at
a dull time, you get a cabin to
yourself at $15.00 per month.
Soon, however a crowd will
come, and you get the kindly
choice of either taking in one
or more room partners or get
ting out. The choice is not
much to study over as you can
not leave before the next mail
boat arrives consequently you
have to take in one or more
partner^. You probably came
there for rheumatism, while
the fellow or fellows who are
dumped in on you come on ac
count of skin disease or some
thing else of a more loathsome
nature, and for this pleasant ac
comodation you pay $15.00 per
month.
One man came there with his
wife and paid $30.00 per
month, and stilt had to share
the cabin with another man
who paid $15.00.
What can such rent be based
on ?
When to this rent you add
fuel and food at Hot Springs
prices it is evident that a per
son in moderate circumstances
cannot afford the pleasure of
this public hot spring. Wood
cost* $3.75 per rick at the tram
way. Mr. Landlord of the Hot
•Springs gets thits wood cut and
delivered at the same tramway,
about eight hundred feet away
for $2.00 per rick. Ho trans
portation of this wood for a
bout 800 feet and the profit is
$1.75, or 87J.2 percent. Coal
costs $1.25 per sack, and food
prices are in proportion.
When a person stops to con
sider I he condition of the cab
ins, Hie capital invested, the
money and work spent to main
tain the place, the comfort and
accomodations offered, he can
come only to one conclusion:
The present rent and prices are
not only unjust and unreason
able, but outrageous, and can
only he based on one principle:
How much will the public stand
for? Those who arc fortunate
enough to have their own boat
and live on same so that they
do not have to rent a cabin,
will he kindly allowed the use
of a bathtub for the small sum
of 50 cents per bath, and this
at a hot springs owned by the
government.
In regard to the bathhouse:
There may of course he some
difference of opinion, but on
this all are agreed: The steam
pressure and the head are a
a little too strong. If you are
in a sound condition, you can
adjust this by standing part of
the time on your head and part
of the time on your feet. If,
on account of old age or rheu
matic defects you are unable
to do this acrobatic stunt, there
| is still another safety devise:
I Just open the door and the
window and a cold draft will
immediately cool off your feet
and eventually reach your head.
Then again, the matter of
cleanliness: It does seem to
me that common decency
would demand that the bath
house and and another cer
tain public place be scrubbed
out once a day. When you con
sider that this is a public place
and that those who come there
for rheumatism or other dis
eases, some of them transmit
able, have to patronize these
places in common, a scrubbing
once a day should not he out of
order. I was told however that
t|i« hired pi an studied law by
correspondence, so time spent
at scrubbing took him from his
hooks, and thus delayed him .
beginning his career as a law
yer, hence the dirt,
Some people will probably
wonder on reading this why we
stop there? Well, we go there
not knowing the conditions,
and by the time we diseovei
•he prices, etc., the mail boat
is gone, and there you are for
a week. By the time you have
a chance to get out you have .
started the bath cure, and as it
takes time and money to move
to another hot springs you de
cide to stay and make the best
<>f it, by making ypur stay as
short as possible,
This is not written with any
malice or hard feeling toward
Hie present holder of the Bell
Island Hot Springs, but for the
benefit of those’ whose health
may require a lengthy stay at
a hot springs, end who at the
same time are compelled to
lake a square look at every
cent they part with. Those
who doubt if this is true can
easily verify it by taking a one
week's cure at the Bell Island
Hot Springs.
“M. J.”
.
Always.
Somebody is always fooling tbe pub
lic and making money at it.
There is always something for Wall
street to worry about.
Some woman is always stirring up a
row because she wants to be president
of something.
Something Is always about to be
done to reduce tbe cost of living.
Somebody is always trying to get
something for nothing and being dis
appointed.
Something is always Interfering with i
our plans to save money.—Chicago J
Record-Herald.
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The Weekly Miner $3. a year
Ketchikan
Di*ayingCompany
CHARLES FINZEL, Prop.
Draying
All Orders will be promptly
ail carefully executed.
Con I facts Takei For Anv Work,
YOU DON’T KNOW
WHAT YOU’RE MISSING
If you are not having our laun
dry do up your shirt waists
and skirts. Ladies who appre
ciate and enjoy the delight
ful sensation of knowing that
thejr garments are as plean as
thorough washing can make
them—and laundered in an Im
maculate manner—should send
their washable clothes to us.
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T. W. C3LLINS, Manager
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FRESH MEATS
and
PROVISIONS
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Phone 120 Kctchikar, Alaska
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STEAMER “ALKI” SAILS FROM SEATTLE
Feb. 26 lh and March 9th.
Steamer “NORTHLAND” Sails roni Seattle northbound
March 14th.
Plione No. fiO
D. W. HUNT.Local Agent
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3 We Manufacture and Keep in Stock ail kinds of
§ Spruce and Cedar Lumber
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S or cut to specifications . . .
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^ Steamer Vigilant and Barge Blanche J
j for charter for freight purposes
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Canadian Pacific Railway Co.
"TRJ5 PRI.VCBSS I,INF
OPERATING THE
PRINCESS MAQUINA
Northbound, Feb3 and 17, March 3 and 17
Southbound, Feb. 6 and 20 Ma rch 6 and 20.
Service the best.
Steamers and sailing dates subject to change without
notice. Tickets to all parts ot the world. Informa
tion gladly given. Inquire of
H. W. Rrudie, O. P. A Floyd E. Ryus, Agent,
Vancouver phune;3v Ketchikan Alaska.