BAD WEATHER 11
ON WEST COAST j
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Reports coming in from For- j
roster Island are to the effect
that the weather has been so
' 1 ad there that the boats can
not get out to troll. In five
days but two hours of fishing
were had, last Friday .when -i50
fish were taken in a very short
time, showing that the fish a;e
there if the weather will only
improve so that the trollers can
get out.
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HEADED FOR
FRIDAY HARBOR
The cannery tender Hidden
Inlet leaves for Friday Harbor
about midnight tonight. II. J
Barton will be in command
with “Sandy” Clark as pilot
The boat will be used in con
junction with the company’s
annery at Friday Harbor.
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FISH PACKER RETURNS
Among the passengers arriv
ing on last night’s Northwest
ern was L. Wurzburg, of the
Iievilla Fish Products company.
To the Miner Man today, Mr.
Wurzburg stated that he did
not think his company would
attempt to do much in the fish
packing line this year as the
market is too unsettled at this
time. He said though that if
the market showed indications
of stiffening, his plant was
ready at a moment’s notice.
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SNOW GOING AT LAST
“Billy” Semar, who came ov
er from the West Coast yes
terday on the Rough Rider, re
port- for the first time this spr
ing Jake Lauth was able to use
a wagon on the road across the
portage on Prince of Wales is
land. At that there is still con
siderable snow in places. Thi -
ns perhaps the latest in the mem
orv of white men in this re
gion that snow has lain so late
;n the year so close to the
beach.
OLD TOWN WILL
HAVE TO GET BUSY
]>r. John Myers reports that
there were two additions to
the population of Newtown this
rooming, a baby boy arriving
on the scene at Bert Steers
house at 11:15, and a little
daughter at the John Sjursen
home at 12:45. If this keep^
up. Oldtown will be left far be
hind in the population race.
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TO WEAR BRASS BUTTONS
The council is considering
requiring the Chief of Police
to wear a uniform. Some ques
tion exists as to what style ia
to he adopted, but as long as it
his lots of brass buttons and
resembles that of Chief White
of San Francisco anything will
do.
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BRIGHTENING UP
THE 8TEDMAN
Capt. Connell is making a de
cided improvement in the in
terior appearance of the Sted
man bar and lobby by having a.
coat of paint applied to the
walls and the place furbished
up generally. The new paint
improves the appearance of the
rooms and makes the light
much better.
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BRINGS NO COAL
The Santa Ana of the Alaska
Steamship company's fleet,
made port last night about ten
o'clock. She failed to bring
any coal, however, in spite of
Charley Taylor’s hunch to the
contrary. Such a shortage of
fuel exists on the Sound that
vc-sels arc unable to fill their
fuel hunkers, so it is impossi
ble to get any for this part of
Die world. • •
HEATED FIGHT
ENDS IN MURDER
W. R. Rodgers shot and in
stantly killed Jack Wixon at
Christmas creek, forty-five
miles from Haines, in the Por
l>ine country Friday. Rodgers
mushed to Haines and surren
ocred himself to Deputy Mar
shal Harding Saturday. He
claims he acted in ■self-defen?*’
An inquest will be held in
Haines, as Commissioner Ode'!
is ill and unable to make th?
trip to the scene by wagon. The
witnesses and the body will be
brought in over the government
road.
The above story was gleaned
lrom the official report tele
graphed to Marshal Faulkner
leday and the press dispatch
sent over wire by the Dispatch
liaines correspondent. It seem -
Podgers and Wixon came north
a month ago to prospect the
claims on Christmas creek
owned by Col. Gardner, former
ly commanding officer at the
port. Rodgers was working
under W'ixon's direction. He
says he wanted to quit his job,
but Wixon tided to keep bin
at work. Rodgers says he
struck Wixon with a hammer.
Wixon then grabbed a gun bid
before he could raise it to hi
shoulder Rodgers drew a gun
and shot Wixon dead.—Dispatch
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WONG BACK FROM CHINA
Wong Chong, proprietor of
the Eagle Restaurant arrived
from the south on the
Northwestern last night. Wong
has been away in the neighbor
hood of a year, the greater part
of which time he was in China,
whither he went for the pur
pose of going into business on
his own account. The unset
tled conditions prevailing there
as the result of friends of the
old empire making things a-:
uncomfortable as possible for
the new*republie, soon put the
notion out of his head, so after
a visit of several months with
relatives and friends he cam;
back. He will take charge of
the Eagle Restaurant again at
once, and gather in a goodly
share of the restaurant busi
ness of the town. Wong has
long been known as one of the
best cooks in Alaska and has a
host of friends.
FINISHES HER CONTRACT
The tug Vigilant of the Ket
chikan Power company Is back
from her stay in the north
While away she towed over a
million and a half feet of logs
from Petersburg and nearby
points to Juneau for the Worth
ert Lumber Mill.
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ALASKA GASOLINE
In order to double the capa
city to the plant that furnishes
{.osoline and other fuel oils to
the people of Alaska the Am
algamated Development Com
pany, composed of Vancouvei
capitalists headed by Janie
McMahon, recently made tht
final payment of $}25,000 foi
fity-six oil claims near Comp
troller Bay, owned by the A!
o>ka Development Company, i
Seattle organization headed bj
Charles P. Monday. The claim
were optioned to Clark Davi
at $300,000, and sold to th*
Vancouver syndicate at an ad
vance on this price. The Am
algamated Company lias foui
wells, each producing fron
thirty to fifty barrels of crudi
o'J per day. Their refinery ha
a capacity of 250 barrels a day
but this is to be increased b
f 00 barrels a day. One well i*
0J2 feet deep. The compare
plans to enter the gasoline arn
distillate business all over Al
a-ka.
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Work at the Kensinglon min<
started up last week.
MAY BUILD fi CONCRETE SCHOOL
The Town Council lias a prob- ,
lem on its hands at the present
time in figuring what kind .of
an addition to make to the
school house. The number of
school children has simply
grown beyond the capacity of
the present school building,
end an addition is absolutely
1 ecessary, so the council is
| trying to decide whether to use
lumber of cement blocks. The
present building, which is dif
ficult to heat, and expensive to
maintain, has demonstrated
that lumber i- the more expen
sive in the long run, and a
strong undercurrent pervades
the public sentiment of the
town demanding that more sub
stanlial public improvements
shall be made in the future.
To satisfy this demand the
council has asked Contractor
Kreidler to make an estimate
ct the cost of both kinds of *
building, lumber and cement
block, with an estimated idea
of the cost of upkeep of the
I two and on his report will
! hinge the settlement of the
: question.
At least twelve and possibly
fifteen hundred dollars will
have to be put into the old
building this year in fixing the
foundation, and the same’ a
mount or more will have to be
expended annually in keeping
it in shape. On the other hand
with a good solid foundation
such as the rock immediately
cast of the present building af
fords, a concrete building will
go for twenty years without
'he expenditure of a cent out
side of a little paint for the in
terior. The latter building can
be heated for one half that
necessary for the former, while
as far as safety, permanance
and appearance are concerned
there is no comparison.
The Council are in doubt as
to what they can afford to do.
so it behooves every citizen of
the place interested in that!
greatest of American institu
t.ons, the Public School, to see
io it that he gives the council
all his support in the matter in
favor of a permanent building,
which can be added to as the
town and the school population
grows.
ALASKA MARBLE
—
With the increased deman 1
i for Alaska marble in the con
I
Istruction of our modern sky
scrapers, Alaska is steadily
pressing to the front and t>
now recognized as the nations
great storehouse for that par
ticular mineral. The past few
years have seen large marble
industries established and
Wrangell has benefitted by
j these developments.
, The Vermont Marble Com
pany of Proctor. Vermont, op
ened their first quarry at To
koen but a few years ago and
since that time have shipped
great quantities of marble to
their headquarters at Tacoma.
This year it is their intention
to test Red Bay, Ham Island,
and El Capitan, should there
properties prove good addition
al quarries with increased em
ployment will be the result.
The Pacific Coast Steamship
Company’s big freighter, Dehli,
discharged three carloads of
machinery for the new works
this week, and a score of men
are already at work clearing of;'
a site for the construction of
| the necessary buildings and
! v harf.
The Mission Marble Com
Ipony of San Francisco, which
[also has quarries near Tokeen
■ is doing things in the marble
| line and expects to branch out
ion a large scale in the near
future. At the present time
they have eighteen men em
ployed.
This great industry has given
to Alaska a permanency, and
an assurance of a bright future
for every Alaskan.—Wrangell
Sentinel.
WILL UNITE
Of vast importance to fish
ermen is a resolution pledging
11:e support of the International
Seamen’s Union of America in
the organization under one head
of the fishermen of this coast,
including the Alaska, United,
and Halibut Fishermen’s Un
ions, adopted recently by dele
gates to the international un
ion's convention in session at
the local Labor Temple in Se
attle.
Authority was granted the ex
ecutive board of the interna
tional body to issue charter*
and to aid otherwise in an am
bitious plan for the organize
turn of the fishermen of the
Coast. The recently settled
strike of the halibut fishermen
was the deciding argument in
favor of an all-coast fisher
men’s union, the strike being
given as an actual example of
how a strong organization
icould have gained what the haL
ibut men asked for.—Ex.
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Polite -'L-ciety of interior Al
aska's biggest mining camp Las
placed the taboo on “ragging’
T'i.e fexternal orders of the
\orth have taken up the mat
ters, and have decided Lho’
Bunny Hugging,” “TurKev
T oiling" end the “Tango” and
ail other ultra-modern tero
s.chorcan stunts must not be
included in the programs in
Fairbanks. The sourdough*
waul none of their members to
emulate the “outsiders'* in
their hale-i dances.
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AL V. Doze has been appoint
ed U. S. commissioner at Mc
Carthy.
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is STANLEY OAKSMITH, Ketchikan, Alaska
THE OUTLOOK FOR
PACIFIC COAST MINING
As the season opens the out
look for mining development
on this coast is excellent. AH
along the line from Oregon to
Nome new work is being star
ted and new enterprises finan
ced; many of these are small
it is true, but they are the be
ginning of greater things and
even in themselves aggregate a
large sum.
Every camp in Washington.
Oregon. Idaho, British Colum
bia, Alaska and I lie Yukon
shows more signs of progress
and prosperity than in any
spring of recent years. In
parts of Oregon. Idaho, British
Columbia and Alaska it is plac
ers that have the call and
dredging, as well as hydraulic
ing and sluicing that is com
manding attention. In other
parts of Oregon, Alaska and
British Columbia it is milling
gold ores that are being ex
ploited and in other districts it
is copper, lead, zinc and tin
that are being sought.
Dredging and free milling gold
are unquestionably the leaders
in the market, and the most
men and the heaviest money is
going into these avenues. Cop
per exploitation is confined to a
few localities but those few are
large operations in each case,
but this is always so for pay
able small copper mines are
rare things in any country.
Enterprise is not confined to
!hc commoner metals and ores,
everything in the mineral line
has its searchers and exploiters
In one place it is manganese,
at another it is infusorial earth,
fire clay or cement making ma
lerials.
The hidden wealth and the
mineral possibilities of this
coast are being appreciated to
day as never before and capital
is forthcoming to make this ap
preciation effective. The pres
out season will on the whole
be by far the best we have ever
hod in mining and allied in
dustries.—Pacific Mining Jour
n cl.
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CAN MAN IN TOWN
“Bill” Gould, the cannery
machine expect, arrived down
from Yes Ray this morning and
icft on the Berlin for Roe
I'oint. He states that the Yes
Bay cannery is making cans al
the rate ot close to three thous
and cases per day, with the
machinery all working in fine
shape.
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JUENAUITES ON
BOARD 8POKANE
"
Among the Juneau people on
board the Spokane this morn
ing who called on Ketchikan
friends while the boat was it.
port were Judge J. R. Winn,
one of the best-known attor
neys of the Capitol City and
John Spickett, formerly post
master of Juneau.
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WILL “YUMP HIS YOB”
Kd. Richmond has the States
l ee in his bonnet and will quit
at ihe Ketchikan Wharf about
the first of the month to take a
position in the Alaska Steam
ship company’s offices in Seat
tle. When questioned by the
Miner Man he said that he ex
pected to hire a preacher for n
lew minutes shortly after his
arrival in Seattle, Carl Ains
worth, Mr«. Charley Taylor’s
nephew will succeed Ed. In the
wharf office.
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It is reported that oil of
Frank Manley’s mining macb
mery apparatus and equipment
that heretofore has been used
in the Hot Springs district on
the rpan,';no is ready for ship
ment to the Iciitarod nn the first
water this spring. Manley wiii
confine his efforts to the last
named district.
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EASTERNERS WANT
ALASKA SALM ' M
Washington, May 28—A de
termined and well-sutoined at
tempt is to be made to intro
duce one or two species of Al
aska salmon on the New Eng
land Coast. The present con
dit ( it of New England river.,
precludes the possibility of re
establishing the large native
salmon therein; but there is
a prospect of introducing small
species of Alaska salmon which
spawn near the sea and would
rot be affected by obstructions
and the greately changed phy
sical character of the head wat
ers which for some years have
practically prohibited natural
spawning of the Atlantic sal
mon. The salmon that will be
used are excellent food fish
and will prove very acceptable
substitutes for the native spec
ies. Many million eggs can be
sent to the New England hatch
eries for incubation, and if nee
essary the usual output of
trout can be curtailed.
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CHRIS 8HAFTADT IS
LOST NEAR WRANGELL
A telegram from Deputy Mar
shal A. F. Schnabel, of Wran
gell, says that Chris Shafstad,
of that place, has been missing
since April 18th. The telegram
suggests that he is lost in tho
woods.
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THE TOP STORY
Work on the third and top
slory of the Tongass Building
was begun this mornings Con
tractor Quist’s crew is making
fine headway, and it looks as
though the building is going to
be ready for business all right
during the month of July.
A REMARKABLE ESCAPE
A remarkably fortunate es
cape is reported of one of the
trollers who went to Forrester
island on the Ethelyn, early in
the week. As told yesterday in
the Miner, four of the trollei -
took to their boats when the
squall struck the launch, and
su high and abrupt were the
seas that one of the skiffs with
a man m it was turned over,
end over end. His companions
in the other boats rescued him
out of the w'ater just in time.
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TEACHERS GO SOUTH
Having closed the school year
Mrs. M. V. Combs, C. S. Blake
and Miss L. Arke. all on the
local teaching staff, left for the
■slates on last night’s City of
Seattle. The former will re
turn this fall, to take up her
teaching again.
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EDISON'S LATEST
A new disc talking machine.
Edison’s latest, pcriypd Pft H <3
Spo}canp fjpg mRrpingp fo;:
Ilyus’ Store. It is the ypry
newest thing in the talking ma
chine line, and like all of Edi
son’s inventions is a wonder.
Everybody and their aunts are
invited to see and hear it.
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MAY TAKES SALMON
The Princess May, which nr
rived in son inbound shortly he
fore noon, after calling in at
!he Ketchikan Wharf company
dock, proceeded down to the
Ketchikan cannery, where
look on 000 cases of salmon fnp
the H. Bell-Irvlng company in
Vancouver. The fish is Inst
years pack of course, and .was
needed to finish out a shipmnnl
of British Columbia fish.
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Edouard Methot was instantly
killed on a large transformer
on the North Fork line, near
(he Ogilyip hi:idgp,' ftt
I!is body was found across \
live wire carrying 10,000 volts
of electricity.