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LOCAL CURIOS
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■ ;tter.
An egg today is better than two |
lens tomortow. ‘
Me strives in vai.-i who strives to t
.dense everybody. i
Few Ketchikan urchins get dr jwned 1
la the family wnsli bowl.
A mischievous cur must be tii d !
short—so also a treacherous one.
The man who never does wrong sel
dom, if ever, accomplishes any good.
We are all miserable sinners, and
the man who says lie isn’t proves it.
It takes three yards of elastic to
make a pair of garters for the average
J.menu belle—all owing to the brac
ing climate.
“The sandal tree perfumes, when
riven,
The axo that lays it low;
Let him who hopes to be forgiven
Forgive and bless his foe.”
“She's a small woman, is mother,”
.-•?id a Newtown boy within Curio’s
hearing the other day, * ‘but win n she
pulls off her slipper and says ‘Willuir,
come here this minnit,' we boys go
just as though she weighed a thousand
pounds. ”
In remarking that a Valdez merch
ant advertises “canned hell” for sale,
the Dougins News rises to further re
mark that it had always thought the
reverend gentlemen of the missionary
persuasion were the sole agents for
the sale of that commodity in Alaska.
They don't use any snow plows up
at Juneau. Whenever a heavy fall of
snow occu a the council simply em
ploys a certain one of its memljers to
walk once around town on the princi
pal streets and the paths he makes aie
wide and solid enough for all practical
purposes.
This trying to edit the first number
of a new paper, without mails from
any direction for more than a week,
with no exchanges, and long disuse of
pen and pencil, is like Artemis
Ward’s first essay at writing a Mor
mon romance—“rather confusing to
the intlleck.”
If there's one thing more than an
other calculated to provoke profanity
on the part of pater familias it is 1 ic
ing complacently told by his better
half after he has vainly tried half an
hour in the cold, dark night to close a
window through which the chilly
blasts of winter are blowing a ten or
twelve knot breeze, “my dear, there’s
a stick under it!”
A smart boy of this town stuck a
firecracker in the keyhole of the front
door of the paternal mansion a week
or two ago, rang the hell, and . when
he heard his mother coming to answer
the ring lit the fuse and ran away.
The good inother and the fire in the
fuse communicated with each other at
the door anil the boy shipped as cabin
boy on a steamship the next day—flee
ing from home because his parents
were cf-utl to him.
It snowed pretty lively the other
day, and when it snows in this town a
man is very apt to meander with
bowed head. Any how that’s the way
Chris. H:—r held his head the day
it snowed so lively. He was going for
his lunch at the restaurant where he
takes his meals and, proceeding at a
pretty lively gait on Mission street,
failed to observe the electric light
pole opposite The Mining Nejys. We
say he didn’t observe it, but that’s a
mistake; he did observe it, but not
till his knees and chin and the top of
his head had come into contact with
it. Then he looked up, and when he
saw the pole he appeared to be some
what displeased with it, judging from
the fact that he turned and walked
backwards'from it, and shook his fist
at it, and talked at it in some foreign
language, and hurled italic quotations
from the seaman’s dictionary at it,
until the water hydrant at the corner
of Main street impeded his progress.
No, it didn’t impede his progress,
either—for he went right over it,
partly sidewise, and sat himself down
on the cold, cold plank. Not another
word did he utter, but picking him
self up took to the middle of the
street and sped for that restaurant
with rapid stride and gritting teeth.
If H-r wasn’t a really mild temp
ered man and a, Christian gentleman,
he probably would-have embellished
the occasion with a few cuss words—
and then a few.
COMMUNICATION
To the Editor of the Mining News:
Will you kindly allow me a little
space in which to answer, partially,
the flagrant attacks that are being
made upon the Midway saloon by the
editor (?) of the Daily Miner and
Mining Journal. I suppose that a
saloon man has no business to resent
any kind of, treatment that may be
served up to him by anybody, but it
seems to me that when a man makes
it his special business to bang away at
my place alone, a suspicion of motive
might prise in the minds of fair
minded people, who would properly
ask “why does he keep after Gowan
so persistently?”
Now, Mr. Editor, the Daily Miner’s
account of the shooting of Leaver so
far as it affects the Midway is an ab
solute untruth. The statement that
Esther Mitchell hangs out at my place
is equally untrue. She has come and
gone in the .Midway saloon just as she
has in any of the other saloons, where
women frequent, and on the night of
the shooting was in the Horseshoe
saloon a few minutes before that
affair.
All I ask of the public is a suspen
sion of judgment until they are sure
of the facts. Then do justice, no
patter whom it hurts.
SAJIGOWAtt 1
How many of you fellow* who took
passage on the water wagon on the
1st still retain your seats?
Owirg to the scarcity of coal, the
3cainn.< n’s Cafe will close from 8:30
p. m. to (1 a. m., beginning Sunday
evening until further notice.
The personally signed communica
tion printed elsewliete in this paper
is given space in pursuance of the
!>oliey of “square deal” f< r everyltody,
and lor no other reason.
Watch your watch, nrd If it doesn't
keep -.rood time take it to Taylor, the
Jeweler.
The old Richard III, i ngaged In the
coal and ore carrying trade, which
broke from her moorings and went
ashore at Hadley, a fortnight or more
ago, was towed into this j ort by the
tug Clayburn last Saturday, and is
now anchored In the stream waiting
for the ice in Niblagk anchorage to
break up sufficiently to enable her to
get in and take on a cargo of copper
ore.
uf uivine [itTmiNiiun oi me auinor
ities at Washington, the proprietor of
the hotel at Hadley will lie permitted
to re-open his bar and ran it in con
nection therewith, subject to super
vision and report by the forestry in
spector. Ana yet there are those who
try to think thnt Alaskans are pos
sessed of all the rights which legiti
mately accrue to a free people.
But you cnn do better at Taylor’s,
the Jeweler.
Mrs. A. A. Wakefield pave two very
plaesant afternoon functions Saturday
and Monday last, in honor of her
mother, Mrs. John McLaughlin, who
will leave town shortly to join her
husband at Hadley wliere thev will
hereafter reside. Mrs. Wakefield will
likewise leave Ketchikan in a few
days to join Mr. W. in a new home
prepared for herself and children at
Maple Bay, B. C.
The Mining News is informed that
a protest has been filed in the local
land office at Juneau, against the al
lowance of an application now pending
for patent to a mining location within
the proposed limits of the Ketchikan
townsite, on the alleged ground that
the land is non-mineral in character.
This will most probably result in a
hearing being ordered' to determine
the point so raised.
If your watch doesn't run, run with
it to Taylor, the Jeweler.
The Pacific Coast and Alaska Steam
ship companies appear to have dis
solved business relations in dead earn
est. so far as Ketchikan is concerned.
The Pacific Coast company’s ships
now discharge and take on passengers
at the Heckman wharf, while those of
the other line tie up to that of the
Ketchikan Wharf company. It is
understood that the P. C.' company
will establish an up town agency.
In the brief summary of Ketchikan’s
business places, printed on nnother
page, the large new skating rink, as
well as the new bowling alley, l»oth of
which are well patronized, no mention
was made. Both are popular insti
tutions, but were inadvertently over
looked. So, also, of the machine
works, saw and planing mills, the
cannery, the cold storage plants, bot
tling works—and it might be added,
etc., in order to cover them all.
The finest stock of jewelry in South
eastern Alaska at Taylor's,* the Jew
eler.
The buhlishers of The Mining News
have had the question of a daily pub
lication broached to them by a num
ber of persons. All in good time good
people. When the time comes that
we can undertake the publication of a
daily paper that will be a credit to its
home town, and at the same time
fairly profitable to its publishers,
without calling upon its patrons for
more patronage than they can reason
ably be asked or expected to give,
they will not lie slow in responding to
the demand. As they view the matter
now they do not deem it either wise
or expedient to spoil a good weekly
by making it a mere rehash of at best
a poor daily.
The Alaska Monthly magazine for
January, shows a marked improve
ment, and thus fulfills the publisher’s
promise of making each succeeding
number better than that which pre
ceded it. It is the only magazine
printed and published in Alaska,
(though we lielieve there are two or
three makeshifts of similar title that
falsely purport to lie the products of
Alaska brains and enterprise,) and as
such, while it maintains its present
and promised standard of excellence,
should be accorded the cordial support
of all Alaskans. Alaska Monthly
Magazine Company, Juneau; C. W.
Taylor, Manager; 12.50 per year.
It was the earnest desire and inten
tion to present the first number of this
publication to the reading public the
first week of the new year, but the
realization of that desire was prevent
ed by a combination of untoward cir
cumstances that could not very well
have been foreseen. First, tfie ex
ceedingly untoward weather which
prevailed during November and De
cember delayed work on our new
building, which Is as yet scarcely hab
itable; then our typesetting machine,
which should have been received not
later than December 15, did not arrive
till the fith of January, since which
time the exceedingly cold weather
combined with the open lattice substi
tute for a plate glass front to our
office, has served to seriously retard
the work of getting out the paper. It
is here now, however, to stay, and
will hereafter be published on 'Friday
of each and every week.
PERSONAL.
Harry Raymond, the genial com
mercial man, who sells* goods and
things to our retail merchants, has
been here interviewing and swapping
stories with the latter, during the
past few days.
Sam Guyot, known to all the older
residents of Ketchikan, from his long
connection with the Tongass Trading
company, now a memlier of the com
mercial drummers’ corps, is in town
booking orders galore.
The man who designed the man-of
war which ornaments the show win
dow of the Tongass Trading com
pany’s store, may lie a splendid sales
man, but has evidently missed his
calling. He should have been an
artist.
H. C. Bradford, right hand man of
the manager of the Ketchikan S. S.
Co., wearing the same genial smile,
enhanced by the absencs of any hir
sute adornment, returned to his home
here on the Dolphin Monday, from a
protracted visit to the Sound cities.
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vacant spaces, the balance being
taken out and shipped. In this %ay a
safe working is effected, at a very low
figure, considering the hard texture
of the quartz. Based on the tonnage
as shipped, the cost of stoping
amounts to $1,30 per ton; but when the
actual number of tons mined is taken
into consideration, 11.00 per ton will
easily cover it.
Besides the Outsiders group Mr.
Parker secured for his company the
Bluebell and Eagle groups, both situ
ated in the neighborhood of the Out
siders. These properties promise
even better returns than the Outsid
ers, assays showing as high as 7 per
cent copper. Titus it will be seen that
in addition to making the Mamie a
paying property Mr. Parker set a pace
for the mining mien of this district
which they will And hard to excel—
that of developing a paying mining
property from a prospect hole—in less
than a year’s time, over (1,000 feet
from tide water. The Outsiders is
now shipping 70 tons of ore per day to
the Hadley smelter, and can make it
200 tons if desired. This seems to be
a special faculty of Mr. Parker’s who,
we understand from reliable author
ity, in nine months brought to view
nearly 350,000 tons of ore for the
Dominion Copper Co. in its mine at
Phoenix, B. C\, which resulted in the
property being sold for 1050,000. This
was in a mine the vein of which had
been lost to his predecessor and less
than 20,000 tons of ore in sight when
he took hold of it.
Mr. Parker’s theoretical training
was obtained at Yorkshire College,
Leeds, England, where he took a
diploma in mining, and won the spe
cial prize for practical geology. He
then tackled the practical side of the
industry under the direction of such
well kifown men as Hercules War
mold, and W. J. Craig, M. P., the
latter one of the foremost mining
engineers and mine owners of Great
Britain. At the age of 23 he took
first place in the Colliery Managers’
examination, at Newcastle, and was
immediately appointed underground
manager at Mr. Craig’s mines, which
position he held ;for five years. Dup
ing this time he was offered the post
of govrenment assistant mine inspect
or, which proffer, however, he de
clined, and in 1888 came to the United
States, where he occupied important
positions in the mines of Alabama,
California, Washington, Oregon and
Montana. In 1800 he accepted the
position of superintendent of the
North Star mine at Cranbrook, B. C.,
and the next spring moved to Port
Arthur, Ontario, as mining engineer
for the firm of Mackenzie & Mann—
the builders of the Canadian Northern <
Railroad. The next year; as stated ■
dirst-Class Service, Reasonable Rates
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Ketchikan Restaurant
MANUEL DIAZ, Prop.
Regular Meals and Short
Orders Served
Table Furnished with Every
thing the Market
Affords.
Front Street, Near Wharves
Ketchikan, Alaska
J. L. Parker
MINING ENGINEER
Minina Properties Examined and Reported
ADDRE8S
Hotel Stedman, Ketchikan
The Fairfleld, 6th and Madison, Seattle.
, above, he assumed charge of the
i Dominion Copper company’s mines at
i Phoenix, B. C., and later took the
- general management of the North
* Star property at Cranbrook. From
there Mr. Parker came to Alaska, and
his work for the Brown Alaska Co.
Thus it will be seen that Mr. Park
er’s training nnd experience have
lieen of such a nature that he is an
authority on either coal or metal min
ing and he is recognized as such by
the mining men of this district.
The present prosperity of the min
ing industry in this section is prob
ably owing as much to Mr. Parker as
to any other one man in the disrtict,
as that gentleman has at all times
lieen filled with the belief that the
values were here, and has striven
almost without cessation to work out
his theories with a success even be
yond his expectations, as is evidenced
in the fact that both the Hadley and
Portland Canal properties give better
actual smelter returns than his esti
mates called for. This faith in our
resources he continues to entertain as
shown by his having lately secured
options on several properties in this
district, which he intends to embrace
in a company he expects to float in
the near future.
Since resigning from the Brown
Alaska Co. he has had several good
offers, but has decided to go into the
consulting engineering practice, with
headquarters in Seattle. Thus it will
be seen that while the district here
loses Mr. Parker from its immediate
presence, he. will be where he can
really do us more good as a whole by
b'lng in closer touch with monied
men and Investors than if he contin
ued his residence here. He is on the
lookout for properties of merit and
can be addressed at the Fairfield,
Sixth and Madison street', Seattle.
Outfits Are Our Specialty
We carry a complete line of General Mer
cnandise, Hardware, Crockery, etc. Our
Staple and Fancy Groceries are the Best
the Market affords and our Dry Goods are
this Year’s Style and Patterns.
NEWTOWN’S BUSY STORE
J. W. Young & Co.
lumber:
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We Manufacture and keep in Stock 11
Spruce and Cedar i
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Hough and Dressed Lmnber ;
of all kinds ;;
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And are prepared to fill orders for same, large or ] |
small. Our dry Kiln is now working so that we can '
furnish dry material. \ |
KETCHIKAN POWER CO.
Ketchikan - - Alaska ||
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Union Steamship Company
Operating the
Str. Ella Rohlffs and launch Alert
Carrying Freight'and Passengers to all points in the
Ketchikan Mining District
ALERT ELLA ROHLFFS
MONDAY, 8 a. m.—Metlakalitla, FRIDAY, 8 a. m.— Niblack, Bald
Niblack, Balwdin, Dolomi and win and Dolomi.
Chomley. SATURDAY, 8 a. m.—Mt. And
WEDNESDAY, 8 a. m.—Metla- Kasaan' Karta Ba.v and
kahtla, Niblack, Baldwin, Dol- c vTi'iin v v • , ■ . , , «
omi and ('homier SATURDAY, midnight, for Hunt
omi and Chomley. er’s Bay, Copper City, Copper
THURSDAY, 8 a. no.—Mt. And- mount, Sulzer, Bruce, Klawack,
rew, Knsnan and Karta Bay. Shakan and Marble Creek.
F. H. BOLD General Agent