GAS BOAT MEN ATTENTION
We have just received and hold for
your inspection a complete line of
Ignition and Lighting Supplies.
Motsinger Magneto and Auto Sparker
The Spitdorf Spark Coil
The Champion Accumulator
And also a fresh stock of Columbia Dry Cells
LeVally BRUSHES, Spark Plugs and
Low Voltage Lamps
| Citizens Light, Power & Water Co.
Alaska Steamship Co.
Sail p fr* *i Ketchikan. Northbound
JEFFERSON -Jeo. 18, 29, Jan. 8, 18, and 28.
Returnign Two Days Later
vi ‘.mutt.rtahlf Stop on Southeastern Alaska Route
JEFFERSON-Feb. 8th-18-,28 and Mar. 8 and 18.
MARIPOSA—Feb. 1st 22 ar.d Mar. 12th
NORTHWESTERN—Feb. 12-M ar. 2nd. and 22nd.
Returning about 10 days later
It arqest and faste-stSveamers running to Alaska
vti -nine- ’ to i'hanf>' wi'hout notice
Tvfcn Tirrn.i Victoria md Vancouver. B. 0
C. .Vi. 1 \\ LOR, Agent - - Phone 64
FOR SALE
Organ—Kimball six Octave ;
I 1 stops knee swell and full
ii: mi:. Black wnfnut case in
; .-ii di ioi . Inquire at
Thi mpsui.'s Store
THE GAS SCREW BERLIN
will make regular
trips between
HADLEY AND KETCHIKAN
leaving Hadley 7.15 p.m.
Saturday, and Ketchikan
2. p.m. Sunday.
FOSS BROTHERS & CO.
Ketchikan PUBLIC LIBRAR>
and
FREE READING ROOM
Open from
10 A. M. to 10 P. M.
MRS. J. 6. THOMPSON
Librarian
R. O. REESE
DENTIST ;
Office upstairs over Ryus’ j
Drug Store.
KETCHIKAN. - ALASKA j
HENRY C. STORY
Physician and Surgeon
irlin* - rgeor, Pur. IU*
l-ri Mar It i: o.- p- la Service fc-Jim
i t,g P iv-UeioO Equitable L .t*>i.s;C
aod N. Y. Lift* Id*, '.o.
Cot. M* n and Mission SI., overj.. .
Customs office. Phone No. 57.
J L Mien H L- Mset’
Drs. Myers and Myers
Physicians and Surgeons
flew Koel Building
KCTCH1KAN - - ALASKA
Dr. G. E. Dickinson
PH Yah IAN .nd nL'PGhoN
Dr. Beatrice P. Dickinson
PH Va 1CIA N and SVR*iEON
fD3ic* dn>i R* -•dence Dickinson-Cos?ro ve Block
Nex^ building to Electric Light Office.
Telephone ;o_
✓Ketchikan Cii^P; No. 20, A. B.
Meets -very |Modc«a\ a fc \
jf each rnontn t*f .Ued Men s
tTail, 8 |>. m.
Visiting Brothers Welcome
U. K. iTiekiason, A. C.
|> smith Harris A. 0
Violin instruction
for term** apply W>
J. SUMPF
opposite Red Men's Hall
'Alf*o prlrat*- *!«•%; r.* VI kinds of losiiMmenifr
EDW. BROWN
ASSAYED • CHEMIST
Wrtthikan - WMk
27 27 27
THATS THE NUMBER
To call for Dynamite Service
KETCHIKAN DRAYfNG CO.
Chas. Finzel, Prop.
Office at Finzel and Boss store
Coal delivered from any dock.
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PAY YOUR DOG TAX
—
The new ordinance No., 103.
reducing the annual tax on
dogs is now in effect and the |
dog tax is payable to Si
Howell Chief of Police.
All dogs on which the tax is |
not paid will be killed by the
police force.
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"Mv husband told me a mouth ago
that I could pay any price I wanted to
for my spring hat.'
"What had he been doingt'blca
{o News
Getting Her Money’* evoitr..
Mrs. Gimp—Don’t you iind Dr.
Soakum’s charges rather steep?
Mrs. Simp—Yes, 1 do; but, then,
ha always gives such dignified and
impressive names to the most ordi
nary ailments that it is really a
pleasure to be ill and go to him for
; treatment.—Springfield Union,
i
Exchange of Courteeie*.
The Creditor—I trust that you
will honor me with a check today.
The Delinquent — Sure thing!
Put who’ll honor the check?—Chi
^ cago Daily News.
A Calculating Pers«n.
I “I know a man who never takes
a step without consideration of the
weight attached to it.”
“He must be a remarkably
thoughtful man. Who is he?”
“A convict with a ball and
chain.”—Daltimore American.
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W. C. T. U. NOTES
The following clipping fror
Midas Criterion, an organ r
the liquor traffic is significar
“ But it must be acknoledgc
that new weaves of though
have passed over the land ir
1913, which have had a power
ful influence on the trend of
affairs. These have appeared
in every walk of life. In polit
ical life it has manifested it
self in a revolution, which has
already greatly modified the
tariff and currency, and intro
duced the income tax.
“When this letter shall have
appeared the year 1913 will
have passed among the dead
ones. And what a year it has
|been! It recorded the passage
of the Webb-Keynon law, the
first Federal law seeking to
regulate thetraffic in liquor
ever put on the statute books;
.it saw. Tennessee practically
| lost to the trade, and Arkan
sas in the same attitude, with
Iowa seeking a more stringent
enforcement of intolerant . leg
islation and the wiping out of
hundreds of retailers in Ohio.
At the very finish of the year
we see President Wilson mem
oralized to urge Congress to
pass a law seeking to put pro
hibition in the constitution. All
of these are significant and
menacing. It is useless to
close one’s eys to the situation.
What ever may be said of the
Webb-Kenyon law it is a bad
one for the trade because of
the possibilities under that law
Whatever may be thought of
■the action of those who have
besought the President to urge
constitutional prohibition, the
fact remains that agitation is
now directed toward Washing
ton. and who can calculate the
dire results of such an issue?
“However, I did not start out
to be a pessimist, and there is
no use in borrowing trouble.
The immediate present and the
immediate future are at hand,
and it is .brobablv best to take
stock of what is before our
eyes. That is the evidence
that the year ju.-d closing i
not up to last year in point of
business done, whether it be
distiller, wholesaler, jobber or
broker. There are individual
exceptions to this of course,
but when looking at the trade
as a whole in all its depart
ments the statement is true.
This is due to many things,
not the least of which are the
conditions enumerated in the
first paragraph of this letter.’’
.... W. C. T. U. PRESS SUPT.
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Hank Summers, an old timer
and well-known in every gold
camp yet discovered in Alas
ka and the Klondike died in
Whitehorse December <>. Sum
mers was a pioneer of Juneau,
going there in the early 80’s.
Since that time lie has stam
peded to every strike of any
note, and was on his way to
the Sushanna when death over
took him at Whitehorse.
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THE NEW NICKLE
Some time ago the govern
ment issued a batch of new
nickles, common looking
things, with a big buffalo on I he
reverse side. They say they
will npt accept them at the
Wrangell postoffice under any
circumstances. But that is
another story. Some days ago
a man dropped into the Poodle
Bog Bar and exhibited one of
these new coins to the propri
etor asked what il was. “That
said “Burn ’Em Up” ‘is no
good, If npist be Mime kind
of u Mexican coin." “i have
three of them,” said the strang
er, “what will you give me for
them?” “Oli, about a dime,"
‘‘Alt right." said the plefesed
ustomer, as he passed over
tne three Buffalos and loving
ly pTcke'd iip the sifv'er dime.
| HART’S .
I GENIUS j!
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By COLIN 3. COLLINS.
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Hart stirred uneasily as the tones
floated out, now round and full,
now the merest whisper of divine
melody. No mere amateur it was
who tenderly bowed the violin. Ilart
bad heard the best of those who
had come to America on tour, and
he knew that this was the playing
of a master.
Even as a child Morris Hart had
been strangely moved by music,
and now bis soul thrilled as the al
most human notes pierced the air.
For a time he could not locate the
player, but at last he caught a
glimpse of a girl as lovely as the
music she made.
She stood at the window of a
squalid tenement that faced the
building in which Hart had his of
fice and, all unconscious of the
notice she attracted, played on and
on. The same airs she played over
and over again, but the trial bal
ance waited while Hart drank in
the melody. At last, with a sigh,
she laid down the instrument and,
carefully putting it away, busied
herself witli the preparation of her
simple meal.
Hart turned again to the trial
balance which the bookkeeper had
laid upon his desk, but he could not
banish from his thoughts the fair
musician and the picture she made
framed in the opening in the rough
brick of the rear wall.
She was fair with the fairness of
| the north, but her eyes were the
i lustrous black of the Latins, and in
her face was an odd mixture of the
cold repression of the north born
with the passion of the sunnier!
south. Even in the poor dress she
wore she did not lose her queenly
stateliness of bearing, and the eol
larless, shabby waist betrayed the
round fullness of the neck and the j
dazzling whiteness of her shoulders. '■
For a man who had hitherto ;
accounted women things of little |
importance the girl of the violin |
occupied much of Hart’s attention |
that afternoon, and in the evening
she absorbed his thoughts to the ex- j
elusion of all else.
Ilart was early at his office in !
the morning. He had passed an al
most sleepless night and had come
to the office in the hope of find
ing forgetfulness of the girl in the
absorption of work. But scarcely
had he begun when from across the
yards came the sound of the violin.
Today she stood slightly more in
the shadow, and he could barely
discern her face, though his mem
ory needed no refreshing, and he
| could see her as plainly as he had
the day before, when she had stood
just in front of the window. Over
and over again she played the same
airs. The head clerk came in foi
the mail, and Ilart waved him away.
It was not until the violin was put
away and the girl sat at the window
with some sowing that Ilart could
give his attention to his affairs.
Late in the afternoon the violin
was taken up again, and once more
Hart stopped work that he might
drink in to the full the sweet
strains that seemed to gain an add
ed beauty from their environment.
For a week or so Hart enjoyed
the daily concert; then there came
a day when the windows were clos
ed and the violin did not 6ound. In
-ome way Ilart worried through the
day, but when evening fell, instead
of going direct to his dub, as was
his custom, he hunted up the little
house on the back street. It was
with difficulty that he located the
apartment, but at last lie found the
right one and made eager inquiry
of the slatternly woman who an
nounced herself as the janitress.
They were gone, she told him.
the little old professor and his
daughter. She did not know where
tiicv had gone. They were annoy
ing the other tenants with their
everlasting playing and had been
asked to move on that account.
Ilart turned away heartsick and
discouraged. Now that the girl was
gone he felt that he had let pa-s out
of his life the one woman who
would have made him happy. All
the evening he moped at the club,
and in the days to come the em
ployees at the office asked each
other anxiously if the depression in
stocks had impaired the capital of
the business. Only business wor j
ries could account to them for
Hart’s irritability.
Then came a night when one of
his associates at the club insisted
upon carrying him off to a vaude
ville 11 mi so.
“There’s a musical act on thai
voti will like. You can't afford to
•ii— it.” he urged, and Hart went
. .r c<ununiiv's sake, though he de
tested the musical offerings of
vaudeville.
The seats were easy, smoking was
permitted, and Hart found himself
comfortably bored until the next to
the last number was announced.
“This is great; something new,”
explained his companion, and Hart
regarded curiously the black void of
the stage.
Nothing could be seen save the
black curtains with which the stnge
was hung. The music was playing
a weirdly fantastic introduction. A
flash of blinding light ran across
the front of the stage, sending to
the flies a cloud of smoke, which
cleared to disclose a woman garbed
in white.
Hart started forward in his seat,
then fell back again. It was the girl
of across the way. Now a chang
ing robe of white fell in graceful
folds from her shoulders, and her
masses of golden hair were left un
bound. She looked out at the audi
ence with inscrutable eyes and rais
ed the violin to her chin.
She played the same selections
that he had heard in his oflice, and
when at last the curtain fell and a
whir announced the commencement
of the motion pictures Hart sought
out the manage!’, whom he knew
slightly.
“No mashing there,” declared the
manager, with a laugh, when Hart
begged for an introduction. “Her
father is with her all the time.”
“1 want to meet them both,” ex
plained Hart. “The playing is won
derful. 1 have never heard the
like.”
Something in his earnestness car
ried his point, and presently he was
behind the scenes shaking hands
with a bent and withered little man
who nervously paced the stage while
he waited for his daughter. Hart
was introduced as an interviewer,
and at his suggestion the party, in
cluding the manager, adjourned to
a restaurant, where they could chat
in greater freedom.
To his surprise, the girl (he now
knew her to be Mona Munth) seem
ed to avoid talk of music, turn- '
ing helplessly to her father as Hart
repeatedly brought the conversation
around to that topic. A girl who
could pi iy so beautifully should
be able to talk well upon her be
loved art.
The supper was but the fir^t of
many. Hart could make himself
very entertaining when he so wish
ed; and the old man seemed to find
in him a kindred spirit.
The end of their engagement was
drawing near before Hart found
the courage to speak of his love.
Mona grew white as he told her how
her music had enslaved his heart,
and Herman Munth, walking be- i
hind, hurried up as she turned gasp- |
ingly to call him. For a moment he
listened; then he turned to Hart.
“Is it that you love her or her "
music?” he demanded.
“Both,” was the prompt response.
“It was the music that first attract
ed me.”
“And without the music?”
“Without it?” Hart was puzzled. ,
“We had to do it,” explained tho !
old man. “I could not make much j
teaching, and me, old and worn, ;
they would not have on the concert
stage. So I conceived the idea that
in vaudeville a beautiful girl would
be accepted where I would bo turn
ed away. Very well! It is I who
play, not Mona. She does but imi
tate my bowing, while I, behind a
screen, make the music. You saw
her practice—how to bow so they
would not know. She is tone deaf.
She cannot play a note.”
“And to think,” cried Hart as he
reached out his hand for hers, “that
1 thought it was her music all the
time. Now I know that it is she
and not the music 1” J
Accepting the Inevitable.
1
“Uow do you like my new hat.
Henry?"
“Can It be sent back?”
“No.”
"Most becoming you ever bad.”- Chi
cage News.
Paper Fasteners.
The little paper fastener that
holds together a number of loose
sheets is more than 2,000 years old
Such a device was used by the Ro
man soldiers of that era as an inob
dental of their costumes of uni
form. The belt of thin copper worn
by the ancient legions was fastened
to a strip of cloth, serving as a lin
ing, with a series of little bronze'
clasps precisely like in principle the
paper fastener of today.
The Baity Miner, $1. per. mo
1 HUMBOLDT
STEAMSHIP COMPANY
S. S. Humboldt sails from Ketchikan for Skag
way, and all S. E. Alaska Ports on or about
the folowing dates:
FEBURARY, 2-,14 and 26th.
And every 12 days thereatter, leaving south
bound three days later
HECKMAN WHARF COMPANY, Agents.
| Western Meat j& Fish Go* \
£ Branch of Frye..Bruhn Co. £
| Packers and Jobbers of ^
(Fresh Heat, Provisions and Fish \
VVe Make a Specially of ^
> Ship and Camp Trade ' ' £
| Ketchikan, - - - Alaska \
Some Exceptional
Bargains in
Ladies, Misses, Men’s
and Boys high
grade Shoes
at
E. E. Sparhawk
NEWTOWN - KETCHIKAN
| IIIGHET GRADE CIGARS HEER 5 Ctb f
j The Royal Hotel and Bar I
| Hans Apsch Prop. I
4 f
X A CHOICE LIME OF WINES IIQUORS AND CIGARS <9
|> Fight year old Oed»i Brook. Bought in bend, the whiskey that made Ketchtkn £
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| Nicely Furnished Rooms %
by the day, week or month. %
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NEXT SAILINGS FR3M KETCHIKAN
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RETURNING FOUR DAYS LATER.
PHONE 77.. H. BOLD, Agent.
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