(Western Meat & Fish Go
Branch of Frye.Bruhn 0,0. ;
Packers and Jobbers of
Fresh Meat, Provisions and Fish ;
We Make a Specialty of ,
: Ship and Camp Trade
! KETCHIKAN - -- -- - - -— ALASKA. '
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Alaska Steamship Co.
THREE DAY SERVICE
Stiltng from Ketchikan Northbound, Southeaster* Ala eke Service
JEFFERSON, April 15, 26, May 6. 17, 29.
DOLPHIN, April 8. 20, May I, 12, 24.
RETURNING THREE LATF°
Vr-" .OMEORTABLE SHIPS ON SOUTHEASTERN ROUTE
ALAMEDA, April 1, 27, May 17, June 7th.
NORTHWESTERN, April 13, May 2, 23, June 13
* ALASKA, April22, May 12, June 1, 23.
MARIPOSA, May 7, 27, June 17, July 7.
Juneau, Skagway and Westward, Returning 10 Days
Later. Largest and Fastest Ships running to Alaska
S .'lii)g« Subject, to Change Without Notice.
Tickets to Seattle. Tacoma, Victoria and Vancouver, British Columbia.
C. M. TAYLOR, Agent - - Phone 64
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I STEAMERS FOR I
j Seattle, Tacoma
Victoria, Vancouver, Ana'ortesr Bellingham
Everett, Olympic Port Towmeod, Sooth
j Bellingham, Eureka, Santa Barbara, Mexico
I San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego
It BRANDT, G.A.P.D. C. D. DUNANN, P.T.M,
608 Second Ave, Seattle. *12 Market, B«nFrancl*oo
Right reserved to Change Schedule
NEXT SAILINGS FROM KETCHIKAN
SPOKANE—May 9, 20, 31. June 11, 23, and July 5, 17 and 29.
CITY IF SEATTLE—May 14, 25. June 5, 17, 29. July 11, 2?
RETURNING THREE DAYS LATER
PHONE 77..- F. H. BOLD, Agent.
Border Line Transportation Co.
REDUCED BATES BETWEEN KET- First Class.$20.00
CHIKAN AND SEATTLE Second Class... . 14-00
S. S. ALKI PASSENGEE AND FREIGHT j
SERVICE BETWEEN SEATTLE
AND S. E. ALASKJ ^IRE^dt
S. S. DESPATCH SERVICE TO WEST CP-* T \
OF PRINCE OF 'VAIJW ^BL
S. S. NORTHLAND
Right reserved to change schedule without notice.
For further lnfonnalon apply to
D. W. nunt. Agent Northland Dock. Phou 60.
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The Canadian Pacific Railway
Tire PRINCESS LINE
Lve SEATTLE .April 24. May 6, 16, 26.
Arr. KETCHIKAN .April 27. May 8, lg, 29
Lve. KETCHIKAN ..May 1. May 12, 23. June 2.
An-. SEATTLE .May 3. May 14, 25. June 4.
Subject to change without notice
Steamer* connect at Vancouver with trains for all Easteiu points.
We otter attractive rates to eastern rail destinations.
The Line >' Quality. Our Service is Unsurpassed on Water or
Rail. Full information give n by
F. E. RYUS, Agent Phone 39
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Save Time
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Use the New Short Route
To""and From EASTERN CANADA, also EASTERN and SOUTH
ERN UNITED STATES POINTS via
IPRINCE RUPERT
Transcontinental trains to Eastern destinations: including Bos
ton, Buffalo, Chicago, Detroit,Hamilton, Ney York, Niagara Falls,
Montreal. Ottawa^Quebec, Toronto and Winnepeg.
STEAMERS to southern points including Seattle, Vic
toria, Vancouver and Anyox. S. S. Prince John will ar
rive in Ketchikan every Monday night southbound.—
Lowest fares. Electric Lighted trains. Observation cars. Un
excelled Dining and Sleeping Car Service, including both Stan
dard and Tourist Sleepers.
GRAND TRUNK PACIFIC RAILWAY AND STEAMSHIPS.
J. J. Raliegh, Agent, Ketchikan. Phone 60.
J. D. McAULAY, Traveling Freight and Passenger Agt.
Juneau, Alaska.
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: Royal Hotel
ENTIRELY REMODLED
HANS APSCH, Prop.
Beds 50 Cents Per Night
BEST BRAND OB’ - ■
Wines, Liquors, Cigars
FRONT STREET, KETCHIKAN
i OFF ON A BIG
MOVIE TRIP
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“ W. B. WOODWORTH GOING UP
; NORTH ON A TRIP WITH
; CAMERA.
1 - a.
W. E. Woodrworth, who is well
’ known here was about town ycs
1 tcrday taking pictures- He. left
• last evening for Juneau where he
1 intends to stop for a few days, for
| the same purpose, that of taking
pictures for a movie picture com
pany. He came here from Prince
Rupert, and this is what the Even
ing Empire has to say about Mr.
Woodworth and his associate:
"Yon remember those advantur
ous boys who came down from
Skagway in a power boat, and gave
caberet concerts on their way to
the Frisco Fair last fall? They
showed in the merry Majestic and
made a hit. Sure! Well, one of
them, the leader of that bright
band, W. B. Woodworth blew into,
town the other day with a how-do
for his friend Billy Wright of the
Windsor Hotel and news of a new
adventure which he and his partner
H. Coffey, the camera artist of old
time Rupert fame, have on hand.
They are going, backed by a couple
of movie production companies, on
a prolonged tour into Alaska and
the Arctic with 20,000 feet of film
and then some—taking movie pic
tures of the Northern Wonderland.
They will take films of Alaska in
summer, dispelling the ice-bound
idea of the fairest portion of all
American possessions, and will hit
the North still farther from Nome
by a staunch ship to get Arctic
Pictures of polar bears and seals.
. and Esquimaux belles, and igloos,
i and Aurora Borealis displays, and
other wonders. The boys will be
gin by taking pictures of the break
up of ice on the river at Dawson,
and will let their film reels roll up
scenes of spring and summer in Al
aska to unfold them again radiantly
for southern eyes. Then gradually
the whirring reels will gather in
pictures of the icy Arctic, a regular
procession of pictures from ice to
ice through all the sunshine of an
Alaskan summer. It’s a big adven
ture all right, much bigger than
even the power boat trip to Frisco
thoty^h on that, the boat sunk five
times, and was exhibited as a
phenomenon of naval architecture at
the great Frisco fair where the
boys had a successful season.”
WHAT FRANCE HAS REGAINED
(Nations Geographic Society.)
Roughly measured, the territory
regained from the Germans in
France exceeds 2,500 square miles,
or considerably more than the area
of the State of Deleware. Its popu
lation before the war was in the
neighborhood of half a million.
Within the redeemed area are
sorpe of the most interesting places
in France, notably Reims, the place
of coronation for most of the kings
of France since the beginning of
the Capetian dynasty. The most
famous ceremony of this character
to take place here was the anoint
ing of Charles VII., after Joan of
Arc had driven the English from
before the city walls- It was here,
too, that Clovis was baptized on
Christmas day, in 496. Before the
devastation wrought by the present
war the great Reims cathedral was
considered by many critics of archi
tecture the most beautiful structure
produced during the Middle A^es
Amiens, with a population of 90,
000 before the war, is next in im
poi*Vpnce among the salvaged cities.
Its cathedral, one of the most im
posing piles of thirteenth century
architecture in Europe, was scarcely
less famous than the one at Reims.
It was in this city that Peter, the
Hermit, the great preacher of the
first crusade, was born. Since the
war the city’s noted woolen, silk,
cashmere and velvet manufactories
have suffered greatly.
Arras, also reclaimed, was noted
for its woolen manufactures before
the war. In medieval days its ta
pestry hangings were so famous
that the name of the city was ad
opted as a common noun for drap
eries in England. Robespierre, the
revolutionist, was bom in Arras
AGENT FOR “LIFESTAFF.”
Mr. P. Nelson, of the Seattle
Bar announces that he has receiv
ed the agency for an un-alcht>lic
beverage called “LIFESTAFF,"
• brewed by Hemrich Bros. Brewing
Co., of Seattle. Sold in pint, quart.
| or case. (adv. 12t.)
We. do fine job printing
THE NORTHERN HOTEL
UNDER NEW PROPRIETORS
0666
Announces tha re-opening of that popular Hotel sup
plied with a fresh line of goods that compel patronage.
BRITTON & VAN DUST.
(Splendid Rooms NexlTBobr.)
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POPULATION GROWS 4,433
DAILY.
(Country Gentleman ),
We grow in these United States
of ours at the rate of 4,433 folks
a day. Think of it, ye descendants
of the Mayflower pilgrims—enough
new Americans every day to have
crowded the passenger Hat of an
armada of Mayflowers! And think
of it also, ye raisers of 4wy cat
-tie and ye growers of foodstuff^—
every week brings more than^SO,
000 new mouths to feed
We are appalled at the slaughter
of regiments and divisions on the
European battlefields. We hear of
statesmen bewailing the possibil
ities of race suicide- But how little
heed do we pay to the tremendous
natural increment of races of man
kind. ’Tis worth sober reflection,
this constant growth of ours, worth
the pondering of every producer of
food or other products. Our vast
markets are growing faster by the
day—by the hour for that matter.
And our marketir^ problems are
ever growing more complex and de
manding closer study.
“Stop. Look ifnd Listen” signs do
very well for railroad 'crossings, but
they have little other value for pro
gressive mankind- We are growing
too fast. A few years hence our
growth will be at the rate of 10,
000 a day. It will be as if little
showers of hamlets and villages
rained down constantly from the
sky. The newcomers must all be
fed and clothed. The, farmer k the
producer of the raw materials. He
must follow closely our growth,
speculate on' it, prepare for it by
progressive measures, keep abreast
of all the live things that are do
ing. If he does not he will be left
at the post
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WHY WE FEAR SNAKES.
Mr. Allen S. Wiliams, director of
the International Herpetological So
ciety, who has made it his life’s work
“to eradicate from the mind of the
public the many silly prejudices, su
perstitions, and errors regarding
snakes and other reptiles,’’ says that
the fear of serpents cherished by
many adult human beings in the tem
perate zone on this hemisphere is
chiefly due to the absorption of mis
information imparted to them in
childhood by their elders, who in turn
were similarly misled
“Unfortunately,” says Mr. Wil
liam, “the study of nature which is
commonly pursued in schools, public
and private, stops short at reptiles,
partly through a lack of publication
of popular scientific advice about this
phase of natural history. If children
were permitted to remain in abso
lute ignorance of the nature of ser
pents they might not fear them, but.
instead, they are told fakes, in place
of facts, by older people, and even
many instructore of biology in our
public schools are very meagrely in
formed about the life histories of
reptiles, and particularly of serpents
“Out of an experience of 20 years
of association with living serpents,
and of making people acquainted
with them, I can refer to tests innu
merable with small children from 2
years of age upward who showed no
signs of fear of serpents, but readily
handled them and were loath to part
with pets which evidently pleased
them. Photographic records have
been made of many of these in
stances, which are convincing to any
observer
“No, the fear of serpents is found
ed on ignorance, and I have observed
that among people, savage or civil
ized, who lived where reptile life is
abundant there is the same ridicul
ous, unwarranted fear that might be
better justifies] in denizens of cities
where a serpent is never seen except
ing in zo-o'iogical collections or
shows-’
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A LEOPARD ATTACKS
AUTOIST ON STREET
PITTSBURG, May 10—Persons
on Federal street were alarmed
when they heard cries of “The
leopard has escaped!” Men, women
and children sought safety behind
doors and in stores and barrooms
as the leopard ran up the thorough
fare- —
John Douglas stopped to crank
his automobile to make better time
in getting away. The leopard'
sprang at him. With the auto
crank he defended himself, beating
the animal on the head until it was
unconscious, but not before he had
been badly scratched about the face
and body.
The leopard was being transfer
red from the winter quarters to a
circus on East Robinson street to
a wagon, when the cage door be
came unfastened. The animal sprang
out.. and,-. running along Lacock
street, turned up Federal street.
After Douglas had beaten the
animal, employees of the circus
bound and took it back to its cage.
Douglas is not much worse for his
experience.
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flillinery Sale
Friday and Satur
day only. Your choice
of any trimmed hat,
$4.95
Patching «£ Cross
FLOWERS FOR MOTHER’S DAV.
A big shipment oF flowers for
Mother’s Day, Sunday, May 14th, j
will arrive at Kubley’s soon- Get
your order in early. 3t.
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Subscribe for the Progressive
Miner—only 75 cents a month.
ADVERTISED LETTERS
Avertised letter list of the Ket
chikan, Alaska Post Office. For
the week ending May 6, 19166:
Alander, Joe; Brhem, Hafiz; Ca
puiso, Steve; Craig, W. A.; Dorris.
Mrs.; Hallson, Oddie; Potter, J. B.
All letters unclaimed by May 20,
1916, will be sent, to the dead letter
office, Washington, D. C.
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Parties claiming letters from the
nbove list must pay a fee of one
cent for each letter claimed.
When calling for the above, say
Advertised.
M. E. SWJNEFORD,
Postmaster.
ANOTHER AMUSEMENT PLACE
With the re-opening of the Shoot
ing School at the foe* of Mission
street, the people may i>. ■ • ‘her
place of amusement where i,. > can -
shoot away their little wads. Mr.
DeYoung will attend vc< the rest *
Just go and shtot ow,>;; all you mind
to.
CANNON’S BAKERY
AND GROCERY
Armour’s fancy select Ranch
Eggs, per dozen,.30
Tavern Steel-cut Coffee, 35c or
three for. 1.00
Marigold Steel-cut Coffee. .25
Nuraya Tea, per pound.65
Fisher’s System Flour, 49 pound *
sack .1.75
Fisher’s Blend Flour, 49 pound
sack . 2.00
Satisfaction Guaranteed or Money
Refunded.
General Hauling
and work of all kinds
done by the
Independent Transfer
Company •
O. M. TAYLOR, Agent
Phone 64
PATRONIZE HOME
INDUSTRY
Smoke a Ketchikan Cigar
KETCHIKAN CIGAR FACTORY:
Alaska Delivery
WALTER GRAY, prop
COAL DELIVERED FROM AL1
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DOCKS
PHONES 51—71
Ketchikan Wharf Co.
COAL
COAL
NANAIMO |
Lump Coal
Ketchikan Wharf Co.
C. M. Taylor
Phone 64 Agent
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| A MESSAGE
On Your Arrival in, or your Departure From
! ' the City, if You*,Visit
The SIDEBOARD
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Corner Front and Dock Streets, You Will be Welcomed on Your
Arrival and Carry the Good fishes of M. E. MARTIN
With You on Your Departure.
Congeniality, Goodfellowship and Fair 7 teat men t
Combined, is our Long Suit.
the Cabinet
Is widely known; not only for the oai'lity
of its Liquors, Wines and Cigars,
but for its hospitality to
its numerous patrons.
Henry Goemaere and fl. W. Morgan
Ketchikan, ' Alaska.
T.ADMIRA l
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A place where Friends or Foes are equally well
treated: a place where the best Liquors, Wines,
and Cigars are kept. Our motto beiug:
“Thebestis none too good for our Patrons”
At the Admiral Saloon, Ketchikan.
| NORTHERN MACHINE WORKS j
| Standard Gas Engines <
| OXV ACETYLENE WELDING f
We Weld f
I Steel, Brass, Bronze, Cast-iron |
| Malleable iron. Welds Guaranteed. |
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PACIFIC ALASKA NAVIGATION COMPANY
THE ADMIRAL LINE
Puget Sound-Calikoiini a Puget SouND-ALAbKA Route
Route -Tacoma and Seattle Tor Ketchl
—Ssatlle-Scn Francisco, con. X kan, Petersburg. Juneau. Katfflla
Yakutai. Cordova, Valdez. Port
nectlng with the Yale and Havard Wells. Ellamar, La Touche. Cook
Ur Southern California Porte. Points. SeVard and Kodiak
Steamers Admiral Evans And Watson Call at KstcbUran North and
Bonthbonnd on the 8th, 18th and 2fethof each month.
Right reserved to change schedule witnuuj notice.
H GALLAGHER. Agent, NORTHLAND DOCK CO,, Agent
Jm«„ • PHONE-60 Ketchikan