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jij Above everything is a high elevation. That is the Attitude
of our Values. If in need of a suit or a pair of pants call !
a on us. Not a fraction of a fib, fabrication, falsehood or i_
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§ Our prices on Hardware, Guns and Ammunition, beat all !
| competition, Fine assortment of Glass and Crockery ware, i
g Every buv is a bargain.
8 N. F. ZIMMERMAN, The LEADER j
CHAS. DEPPE Cigars
Barber Shop and Bathrooms and
Ketchikan, Alaska Tobacco
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General Machine and Blacksmith Work
Iron, Steel and Piping on Hand
Special Attention to Mine and Marine Work
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SAM GOWAN, Prop.,
We Carry the best assortment of
Gonfc.tionery, Fruits, Cigars and Tobacco,
Smokers Supplies, Reading Matter, Indian Gurios, etc.
We Pay Cash for Furs of all kinds
Opposite Tongass Trading Go.
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Pacific Coast S. S. Co
THE PIONEER LINE OF ALASKA
The Elegant Steamships of this Company leave as follows:
Cottage City northbound, Jan. 20 and Feb. 2, southbound 27th.
Ramona northbound, Jan. 15 and 29
“ * southbound Jan. 19 and Feb. 2nd.
Cottage City via Vancouver, Sitka and Killisnoo.
AL KI, win sail about twice a month, call at outside ports
and will carry combustible freight when necessary.
Above sailing dates subject to change without notice
H. S. REYNOLDS, Ticket Agent, Ketchikan Alaska.
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Dr. Hall has moved his office to the
King" house,- -three doors west of
■ Turner’s store, Newtown walk.
Dr. D. W. Figgins and wife, of
Hadley, were in town Monday and
Tuesday last. The doctor came over
to officiate as Deputy Grand Sire at
the institution of the new lodge of I.
O. O. F.— Ketchikan No. 4.
If your watch doesn’t run, run with
it to Taylor, the Jeweler.
It. T. Graham, E<rj., the death of
whose wife at Los Angeles, is else
where recorded in these columns, ar
rived home on the JelTersaon. yester
day morning.
Ex Mayor M. E. Martin, who may lie
properly styled the “Father of Ketch
ikan, “returned Thursday morning on
the Jefferson from a rather protracted
stay in Portland, Oregon. Don't you
dare to do it some more, Michael!
Dr. Zuber, Dentist, Frye-Brnhn big.
Henry Goemaere. of the Seattle
Bar, has bought from Fred Forss,
the house and lot on the water front
|opposite bis place.
Preaching at the Methodist church.
Sunday at 11 a. m. and 7.30p. m. Sun
| day school at noon. Morning subject:
j "The Christian—His Speech.” In the
; evening a live song service and a prac
i tical gospel talk. A cordial invitation
to all.
Watch your watch, and if it doesn't
keep good time take it to Taylor, the
Jeweler.
Col. Shoenbar left on the Princess
Beatrice for Boston, intending to he
gone till sometime in April.
The Ketchikan Steam Laundry,
which was temperarily out of blast
for ten days or more, is again working
full time, and now we can all put on
clean rainment once more.
Mrs. M. E. Geoffroy and children
left for her home in Boston on the
last south iKfftnd trip of the Amur,
after a visit extending over a period
of several months with her broth
er, Chas. H. Cosgrove, and family.
But you can do better at Taylor's,
the Jeweler,
Tongass Trading Co’s artist has been
at- it again. If you don't believe he's
an artist, look at his latest effort at
displaying in the show window of the
establishment in which he is em
ployed. It looks, however, that
there might be two. or three or four
of him.
Dr. Zuber. Dentist. Frye-Bruhn big.
Fremont King, manager for the
Tongass Trading Co., who had been
in Seattle for a few weeks attending a
meeting of his company, and doing
other business, arrived home last
Friday Morning on the Dolphin, look
ing very much as if the trip had done
him good.
Miss M. A. Edmonds, erstwhile a
missionary teacher here, who had
been on a visit to her relatives and
friends in Tacoma, arrived up on the
Cottage City, Monday morning, and
and has taken up her residence in one
of her own cottages on Dock street,
near St. John’s hospital.
C'apt. Brunn. the mariner of local
fame and long experience in these
inland waters, is again at home,
after a brief sojourn in Seattle, to
which place he was called by the
death of his father. The captain is
out of commission just now, but it is
not likely that he will long remain
so, unless he himself elects to have
it that way. •
H. C. Strong, manager of the
Ketchikan Steamship Co., has gone
to the Sound ports in quest of coal
with which to relieve the famine, and
to get the Alaskan again into active
commission, that steamer now being
tied up to her wharf here, and unable
to move for the want of fuel. It is to
be hoped that he may be successful in
his quest.
The steamer Marion took to Hadley
yesterday afternoon the smelter em
ployes who had sojourning in town
during the temporary shut down of
the works, and who were summoned
back, the intention being to blow in
the furnaces again this morning. It
is now hoped and comfidently expected
that the smelter will have a longer
and more profitable run than ever be
fore.
Jas. H. Rice and wife took passage
on the Princess Beatrice for Van
couver and Seattle. Their return is
uncertain, though its dollars to dough
; nuts that they will find no better
| place in which to make their home
‘ than Ketchikan, and that this will be
the spot to which their hearts will
| ever be turning. Should it bej other
wise, however, they will have the
hearty good wishes of a host of Ketch
ikan friends for their prosperity and
happiness wherever they may elect to
stay.
“Do fish hear?” is a question just
\ now. agitating the minds of scientists.
Al. Buliring says that when he gets
ready to go out among the spring
salmon, he’ll make them harken to a
dulcet voice that will lure them
into fairly hooking themselves on to
i his spoons and beg him to rescue th6m
1 from the cold, cold, briny deep. Not
| hear! Why, he says, if it wasn’t
, for his gentle winning voice he'd
never get within catching distance
. of a single salmon.
The Mining News is now prepared
to do job printing of any kind. Our
plant is new and our facilities such
that we can turn out the best of work
: in the shortest time.
; The Alaska papers are giving circu
lation to a statement that a white swan
; had lieen shot near Ketchikan. Won
I der if any of those scribes ever saw or
j heard of a swan of any other color?
DELAYED LOCALS
Mike Wadding, of Loring, was in
town last Saturday. He eaine down
as aide-de-camp, first officer and pi
lot, with Capt. Walter Thomas of the
good ship Grade D. Rumor has it—
well, perhaps he wouldn't like to have
us give it away.
Mr. William Duncan came over
from Metlakahtla last Saturday, and
took passage south for a trip to Port
land and the Sound cities. This is his
first absence from Alaska in three
years and will not be a protracted one
at that.
Gust Peterson, the veteran pros
pector, who discovered and located
the Lookout group of mineral claims
at Niblack, is back from a trip to
Seattle, and will renew work on his
properties in George Inlet.
A needed change has been made in
the fire department hose house, by
putting two sets of double doors in the
side facing on Main street and closing
up the old one in the north end. This
makes it much more easy and con
venient for the fire laddies to get the
carts, or any part of the apparatus out j
and in, whereas, under the old ar
rangement, it frequently Occurred
that a part which was not needed
must be removed in order to get at
that which is most imperatively re
quired.
OBITUARY
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James Fleming, a well known resi
dent of Ketchikan, and who was in
the employ of Hans Andersen, pro
prietor of the Ketchikan t lub, died,
after a very brief illness, at the
Revilla Hotel, Friday morning, the
1st inst. '“Jimmy” as he was famil
iarly called, was a quiet, unassuming
man. whose every impulse was that of
kindness and generosity, and he was
without an enemy in this community,
or elsewhere, so far as known. He
had been on a visit to his relatives ■
and friends at Enumelaw, Wash., and
returning, on his arrival here was
taken from the steamer direct to his
room seriously ill. He was a member
in good standing of the Fraternal
Order of Eagles, the members of
which cared for and comforted him
during his last illness, and took
charge of his remains, and sent them
to the sorrowing relatives at Enum
claw.
OLD RULE HOLDS GOOD.
It never rains but it pours. But
then come to think of it1 it doesn't
rain, neither does it pour, other than
figuratively in Ketchikan just now.
On the contrary there is a decided
lack of moisture, a water famine being
the last visitaion poured down upon
this unfortunate community. First
came the coal famine, followed by the
burning of the electric light power
house which plunged the town into
almost utter darkness, supplemented
later by a freezing up of a section
of the water mains and the conse
quent shutting off of the supply of
aqua pura for domestic and other pur
poses. Aside from the inconvenience j
of carrying water for household pur
poses, scurrying after wood as a sub
stitute for coal, not a pound of which
last is to be had for love or money,
and the vexations attendant upon try
ing to do business after nightfall :
with no other light than the effulgent j
rays of the festive tallow dip, the ef
fect on the small industries using wa
ter as a motive power has not been
such as to greatly exalt in our people
a spirit of Christian patience and
humility,
SCHOOL NOTES.
The Ketchikan Public School News I
is published every other week by |
the Sixth and Seventh Grades of the j
Grammar School. Frances Preston j
has been elected ■ editor and Edith
Brunn. assistant editor.
The new paper “It'' made its
initial appearance last week. The
paper is published by the Fourth and
Fifth Grades of the Grammar School.
“It” will be published “as often as
the notion strikes us,” says a notice
in its first issue. “It” is a very neat
and newsy paper and should be kept I
up. The editors of this paper are I
Hazel Heath and George Taylor.
Speaking about school papers, it j
might be said that Juneau and Nome
are the only cities in Alaska that 1
have printed school papers. “The j
First School in Alaska” ought not to!
be behind in such a worthy enterprise, |
and we would like to he able to:
announce that we are planning to join
them in the near future.
The Jack London Literary society
elects officers this week. The girls
of Prof. Mitchell's room have formed
two basket ball teams. Elaine Hunt
is the Captain of one and Frances Mor
gan of the other.
Miss Karasek's room again captured
the banner for the best percentage of
perfect attendance.
The attendance this year is remark
able. The opportunities for earning
money are plenty, and the temptation
to forsake the books is strong, but
only two have left school thus far.
This means that education is becom
ing an important factor in the life of
the Ketchikan boy and girl.
S. JOHN'S CHURCH,
Services for the week:
Sunday—8 a. m., Holy communion.
11 a. m., Morning Prayer
and Sermon.
12:15 p. m., Sunday School.
3 p. m., Native Vespers.
4 p. m., Native Sunday
School.
7 p. m., Evensong and Ser
mon.
Wednesday—7:30 p. m.. Litany and
Prayer Service.
Friday—4 p. m., Litany.
Other days as announced. The
church is always open, pews are free
and everyone is welcome.
CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATION.
It is announced that the.annual ex
amination of candidates for positions
in the customs service .will be held at
JuneAu, March 4, Parties wishing to
enter for the examination should ad
dress Mr. J. R. Willis, Secretary, at
Juneau.
A FRUITLESS ERRAND
The tug Pilot, of which mention
was made in the last issue of this pa
per as having gone in search of the
barge Richard III, returned Saturday
evening after having gone around
Cape Chaco,past Dali Island and near
ly to Queen Charlotte Island without
seeing anything of the missing ves
sel. The Pilot encountered a heavy
sea, the waves at times washing over
her forward deck, and returned here
coated with ice. Her captain gave it
as his opinion that unless the Richard
had gone ashore at some out of the
way place or had foundered, was
afloat 2(H) miles at sea when he aban
doned the search.
The past week or two has not been
an altogether satisfactory period to
the fraternities meeting in Redmen's
Hall. The absence of the electric
lights has made it impossible to see
how to blanket the radiators so as to
keep them warm.
Washington advices are to the effect
that Congress is likely to make an ap
propriation of $190,000, to be used in
the construction of a second line of tel
egraph between Valdez and Fairbanks,
and an extesion of the system from the
latter place to Circle.
General Furiston complains that ma
sons and hod carriers receive more
pay than army officers. Well, why
shouldn't they? Don't they work
harder, and longer, and really earn
more? If the doughty general don't
like his pay as brigadier general,
why not throw up his, .commission and
enlist in the hod carriers brigade?
The plea of insanity has been set up
defence of Thaw, the man who shot
and killed Stanford White in New
York some months ago. Now comes
into play the insanity expert, then
the complaisant jury, then acquittal, j
most probably.
The House has passed a new pension
bill which provides $12 per month for
veterans who have reached 62 years
of age, $16 for those of 7o years, and
and $20 for those of 75 years or more.
The bill will will undoubtedly pass
the Senate, if indeed it has not already
been passed by that body.
The parlitnentary elections held in
British Columbia, last Saturday, re
sulted in a decided victory for the Con
servatives. Ex-Governor Mclnnes, of
the Yukon Territory, who resigned his
office to accept the leadership of the
B. C. liberals, and who was one of the
candidates at Vancouver, was defeated,
if his defeat will result in his being
sent back as governor of the Yukon
Territory, the people up there may not
be expected to very greatly regret
the outcome.
It is reported that Andy Carnegie is
getting behind in his efforts to get rid
of his millions. There are not a few
people even in prosperous Alaska who
would not respond to his call for help, j
There are several in Ketchikan would j
gladly volunteer their service) i such
an emergency.
The Barge John C. Potter, which
came up for a cargo of Niblack ore.
being unable to reach that place on
account of the ice, took a cargo of,
1150 tons from Mount Andrew for the
Croft on smelter. The Haydn Brown j
also took 12(H) tons from the Mount
Andrew mines last Saturday, con
signed to the same smelter.
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ELITE
Skating Rink
The only Roller
Rink in Alaska
Ketchikan’s Popular
Resort
ADMISSION FREE
SK ATE S—Mornings, 35c
Afternoons and Evenings 50c.
Natives allowed on Floor
Tuesday and Friday only
J. E. SAYLES, Mgr.
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Fish and Game
Fresh from water and woods
First-class in every respect
E. K. TURNER
Newtown Walk
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Raber’s Barber Shop i
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Transfer & Draying Co.
HARRIS & HILLARD
All Orders will be promptly
and carefully executed.
Order;, may be left with Ccnneli
& Thompson, Union Steamship Co.
Stedman Hotel, and Pacific Coast
Steamship Co.
CONTRACTS TAKEN TOR WORK
S. John’s Hospital
Trained and Skillful care
to all alike, rich or poor
Open to any Phycisian
Miss E. M. Deane, Nurse in charge
NEW VIENNA BAKERY
H. C. SCHMIDT, Proprietor
Bread and Pastry of all
Descriptions
Pies Like Mother Used To Make
Party Cakes
Alade on Short Notice
Kriedler B'dg.
Newtown Ketchikan
THE
KETCHIKAN HOSPITAL
Is ready for business at
all hours of the day or
night. We give the best
of care.
Open to all Regular Physicians
Mrs. Sara R. Langstrom, Matron
Newtown
Ketchikan Alaska
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11 Someone has said “man wants but little here below.” That sentiment is a good one,
jj|| but we think the writer failed to complete the thought in not adding ‘'but wants that
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It lias been our endeavor to live up to the last
part of the thought, the “GOOD” part. We
feel that we have succeeded. Our business is
steadily increasing which means a greater num
ber of customers for us to satisfy, and We Are
We are tke Sole Local Ageats for Alfred Benjamin & Co's Clothing. Dougherty Filhun and Nettleton Shoes. THE BEST
I Doing It. Our stock comprises every tiling
that a general store in Alaska should offer for
U sale, and we know that you will be thoroughly
(1 satisfied if you conclude to give us a trial. We
fl make a specialty of camp trade and guarantee
II that you get the goods you order.
§1 Yours for Business,
1 Tongass Trading Company
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