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+ NORTHERN HAPPENINGS 4
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When an Indian, an until tor
t»ci son of the forest, who
knows nothing of schedule “K"
in tlie Underwood tariff hill
and who does not know wheth
er ttie late European war took
place in the Balkans or W’ar
* largo ,North Dakota, can de
vote a half day to digging out
n black fox which he can ex
change for a team of horses,
a wagon and five hundred in
cash, it is time for the average
newspaper editor to sit down
on the “hell box” and think.—
• Whitehorse Star.
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John Matson Beratovich,
Hussion Finn fisherman, was
drowned last week near Wran
gell.
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A. F. Ilolden a director of the
Alaska Gastineau Company,
died at Cleveland, Ohio, on
. May ISth.
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A Nome man went to Seattle
• suffering from appendicitis and
escaped without an operation.
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Haines business men are wak
irig up on the railroad question
as they should have done many
moons age.
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The citizens of Ruby have
asked the Road Commission to
expend $75,000 for roads an 1
trails in that vicinity.
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The report comes from Ju
neau that the litigation over
the Elmer property lias come to
an end and the hoodoo is off.
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• The floaiing court, on the
revenue cutter Thetis will de
part from Valdez June 13, ac
- cording to the latest informa
tion.
.m. .a.
Judge Robert W. Jennings,
of the First division, has ap
pointed S. H. Milwee as courl
stenographer, to succeed Ralph
E. Robertson.
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If the plans to open Alaska
should also have the collaterfi
effect of closing Delegate Wick
ersham, prosperity would take
the next boat north.—Ex.
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The Canadian government
will build a wagon road from
Telegraph creek, at the head or
navigation on the Stikine river
to Dense lake, a distance of It
• miles.
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Ottawa telegrams stale that
- the government has awarded
the mail contract for the Daw
scn-WhitelTorse service, Winter
and summer, to the White Pass
Company at $80,000 a year.
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The steamer Senator, of the
Pacific Coast Steamship C >..
sailed from Seattle for Nome
oil the morning of June 1st and
the Victoria, of the Alaska S.
S. Co. sailed 24 hours later.
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George Evans, a’ government
coal expert, has gone to the
S Westward, but it is said that
he will return in a month to
examine the claims owned by
George Harkrader over on Ad
miralty Island.
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Mrs. Ruth Kelsey, who was
severly burned in the firo
which destroyed the Dominion
hotel at Whitehorse, died on
the 28lli ult. The fire wa
caused by the explosion of a
bottle of gasoline which the
. woman was using for cleaning
.clothes.
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. Up to May 30th ninety eight
small boats had left White
lmoe for down river points.
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Stanley Oaksmith of Hadley
was an arrival on the Alki. He
• has been south on a business
trip.
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SPOKANE SUlClDtZ WAS
BUCKMAN MUTINY HERO
H .an ford Wilson, who corn
milled suicide by leapuig from
lhe steamship Spokane in
Queen Charlotte sound May 3‘»
was one of the heroes in the
light aboard the steamship
Buckmann when two pirates
tried to seize the vessel off the
California coast August 21,
J 910. In the fight Gapt. E. B.
Wood, master of lhe Buckman,
was killed.
Wilson was employed on var
ans coast steamships as an able
seaman. A year ago last Mav.
while going aboard an Alaska
Peifip steamship at Seattle a
carbonic acid ggs lank that was
lowered to the pier exploded.
A piece o fthe steel tore away
a portion of Wilson’s jaw.
Through his counsel J. Hemy
Denning, of this city, lie secur
ed judgement against the steam
ship company in Alameda
county, California, for $10,000,
'i he case is now on appeal.
Should the verdict be affirmed
lhe money would go to Wil
son’s father who lives in Nova
Scotia.
The ‘-'Buckrian” Mutiny
The Seattle Times contains
the following account of Wil
son’s participation in the Buck
man mutiny.
“Wilson was a watchman on
the Buckman on this trip. The
pirates were George Washing
ton Wise and French West,
who took passage on the ves
sel from this port. At mid
night when the Buckmann was
off Eureka, Wise and West en
tered the pilot house and held
guns on the officers at their
post.
“They bound the second of
ficer, Frederick Plath, and corn
manded the quartermaster, Ot
to Kolilneister, to bold the ves
sel’s nose toward the shore.
Leaving Wise in charge of the
two officers, West went to the
captain’s cabin, and being re
fused admittance lie fired a
charge of buckshot through
the door, killing the master of
the vessel.
“Plath, in the wheel house,
pulled a signal cord to the en
gine room for an alarm of fire
The engineer and crew rushed
cn deck, and ran to the bridge.
They were halted by West. A
general battle followed, in
which the chart house was rid
dled with bullets. At this point
Watchman Wilson appeared
with the only revolver in the
captain’s cabin. He snapped
the weapon twice at West but
ii failed to explode.
“Wise fled from the wheel
house and West tried to cut
the wireless outfit. The first
officer, B. G. Berenan fired sev
oral shots at West who turned
ui him with his shotgun and
revolver. West finally beat a
retreat and strapping on a life
preserver leaped into the sea.
Wise could not be found, and
Wilson, who secured a rifle
from a passenger, stood guard
until daylight. In the morning
\Vi>e was pulled out of his
bunk, put in irons and taken
to San Francisco. He confes
sed that he and West, believ
ing that there was gold aboard
Die Buckmann, had planned tv
murder the officers and crew
and beach the Buckmann on
the coast near Port Blanco and
loot her of her treasure.”—Em
pire.
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HERE ON EXTENDED VISIT
Mrs. Wells of Tacoma and
her daughter arrived on the
Alki this afternoon for an ex
tended visit. While in Ketchi
kan Mrs. Wells will be the
guest nf her mother, Mrs. F. .1
Hunt. Mrs. Wells is one of lhe
early residents of this place,
an 1 has a boast of friends and
acquaintances here.
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Jot printing at The Miner.
.
The Secretary of the South
eastern Alaska Fishermen’
1 nion is busy today getting the
cannery men signed up as to
the scale of prices to be paid
lor fish this season. J. R. and
Tom Heckman have already
signed the agreement. The
price of dog salmon has been
cut from three and three and
one-half to two and one-half
and three cents a piece. Sock
eyes twelve cents at the stream
raid fifteen cents delivered.
Cohoes twelve cents at the
•dreams and fifteen cents de
livered. Humpbacks one and
one-half cents a t the streams
and one and three-fourths de
livered, and Dogs two and one
half cents at the stream and
three cents delivered.
ATTEMPT ON LIFE
OF THE PREMIER
London, June IS}-The wild
est and most exciting scene of
the decade took place in the
House of Commons when an
attempt was made on the life
c:' Premier Asquith. Tin;
Propiier rose lo make a speech
and a male suffrage tie who
had eonceled himself in the
gallery suddenly rose and hurl
ed a sack of flour throng space
at the Premier on the floor lie
low. The sack lit right at Hie
(eet of the Premier and then
the disorder stared. 11 the
flour had found its mark it.
vould have seriously injured if
it did not kill the man it was
intended for. The assailant
was immediatelly arrested and
Imried through the croxwl to
escape the mob that was rap
idly forming.
BILL AND TEDDY
FIGHT TOGETHER
Rochester, June 12—Governor
Sulzer and Teddy Roosevelt
made three speeches here yes
torday. They spoke from the
same platforms and liolh urged
the adoption of the direct pri
mary law.
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SECOND REPLY TO
JAPAN NEXT WEEK
Washington, June 12—The
second reply of the United
States will be sent to Japan
next week. Secretary Bryan
made the announcement here
today, lie refuses to make pub
he the details or any of the
text of the answer.
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AMERICANS HAVE
WAR ON HAND
Manila, June 12—A large
force of Regulars have been
ordered to make preparations
for a campaign against a party
ol rebilious Mores. The Moros
have been committing depreda
tions and destroying property
in the vicinity of Bagsag. They
are understood to be intrench
ed at the latter place.
GRAND V1ZER OF
TURKEY ASSAISSINATED
Constantinople, June 12
While Grand Yizer Mahud
was motoring through the
streets of (he city with his aide
yesterday they were sud
denly set upon by two masked
civilians and alter a terrible
sb'tiggel they were both killed.
The streets of the city are the
scenes of rioting and disorders
of all kinds today. The popul
ation is highly excited and dem
onsfrations are being made a
gaiust the government.
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ILLINOIS ANOTHER
SUFFRAGETTE STATE
Springfield, June J2—The
[louse here today passed the
lew giving the women of this
.-(ate equal rights and the bal
lot. The Senate lias already
passed the bill so it goes to the
Governor at once for his sign
ature.
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Col. Shoenbar, who has been
laid up for Ihe last five weeks
is up and able to gel down town
again.
\
THE LAW DEFIED,
ARfflED FORCES RULE
Charleston, Juno 12—The
special committee of the Ben
nie started work today on the
investigation of the coal strike
situation. Testimony was tak
en that went to show that the
laws had been broken and the
courts defied and that the arm
td forces hired by tlie mine op
erators had the upper hand and
tl at striking miners were sent
ij jail without due process of
ii.w on any pretext at all. On
many occasions miners have
1-. . a draged from their homes
and taken to jail without being
allowed to consult a lawyer or
.-land trial. At other times they
simply disappeared and for
days their families were unablt
to locate them as they were
not allowed lu c ommunicate
v dh anyone.
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MARTIAL law IN
CONSTANTINOPLE
Constantinople, June 12—
Martial law has been declared
bore. After the assassination
of the Grand Yizer yesterday
the population broke out in a
c rifs of outbreaks and threat
ened tiie lives and property of
different officials of tiie Turk
i-h Government. Prince Halim
has been appointed Grand Yi
zer for Hie time being and th'
report states that the outbreak
is very serious.
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SPANISH CABINET
ARE FICKLE BUNCH
Paris. June 12—Advices haw
been received here that the
Spanish Cabinet have resigned,
rite cause, of the crisis is un
known. They all resigned last
Saturday but Monday morning
bright and early they were all
on the job again. Now they
have done Hie same thing ow.
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IN FROM WEST COAST
Frank Burkhart came m from
tiie West Coast this morning,
lie leporls lots of king salmon
and that Hie Sockeyes are just
showing up over there.
GOES TO WRANGELL
Father Sheperd of Hie local
Catholic Church is going to
Wrangell ihis evening and will
return Hie latter part of next
vc ek.
A. C, JOHNSTONE HERE
A. C. Johnstone, President of
the Tougass Trading Co. came
in on Hie Alki. Mr. Johnstone
is ou a business trip and will
inspect tiie new building.
Mrs. Mitchell and Miss Bug
gy returned from their camp
ing trip to Smugglers Cove this
morning. Mr. Buggy and Mi
Howard also came in.
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A. F. Zipf, traffic manager of
the Northern Navigation Con.
pony, went north last week to
Ids station at Dawson, from
which point lie will direct tii •
operations of Hie company's
slearners during the present
summer.
BUSINESS MEN TO
OPERATE RAILROAD
Seward, June 1 1—The busi
nessmen of Seward are oper
ating [he Alaska Northern rail
road. The government de
mandod a tax of sixty seven
ihonsand dollars and the com
pany refused to pay as they
claimed that the tax was ex
cessive and the property would
not stand it. Chief Engineer
Swanitz called a conference of
the business men of the town
and turned Ihe road over to
them. They accepted the prop
oily and are operating it now.
it has not been definately set
tled as (o what disposition will
linaly he made of the proper
ly. It is understood that the
business men would rather op
erate the road at a slight loss
than to have it cease opera
tions altogether.
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REPAIR STERN BEARING
The steamer Vigilant of the
Ketchikan Power Company is
on the beach at Radenbtuigh’s
ship yards having her stern
bearing repaired.
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FINANCE COMMITTEE
ON THE JOB TODAY
The Finance Committee of
the Fourth of July Celebration
are on the job this afternoon
and are busy gathering in the
shekles. Captain Connell was
the first party intended and ai
mice signed up for fifty dol
lars. Now everybody do their
part and the committee will
see that no otic gets the chance,
to say, “they did not nsk me,"
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IN FROM HATCHERY
Fred Patching of the Fort
inaiin hatchery is a guest at the
Revilla for a few days,
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The Daily Minor, *1 per mo.
We want builders to see os
about roofing.
We want to demonstrate why it
is to your advantage to roof
your building with Malthoid
Roofing—and we will do this to
your complete satisfaction.
We will show you beyond any
question that Malthoid is the
very highest type of
roofing perfection and made so
well that it will last as long
as the building it covers.
We will show you that Malthoid
is a better roofing than
shingles—is more satisfactory
than iron—is cheaper than tin—
in fact, we can prove that
there is no other roofing known
to the building trade that
is as good—
as durable—
as long lasting—■
as water proof—
as fire resisting and as cheap as
Malthoid Roofing.
It has got every other brand ot
ready roofing marking time
while it is progressing—
there is more of it sold
on the pacific Coast than ail
ether brands combined and it
speaks well for the
intelligcncc of builders that
this is so.
The makers of
Malthoid Roofing—
The Paiaffine Paint Co,
of San Francisco
and Chicago Heights,
know th sir business for they
have been at it
for twenty-eight years and
they not only make this roofing
to sell but they make it to last
and to please the people who
buy it.
They would rather have the
good will of the builder than
his money—and they get both
by the way they make
Malthoid Roofing.
If you have roof troubles of any
kind or of any description—no
matter what kind of a roof
you have on your building, see
us at once and we will help
you out of vou» -ufficulty.
Ketchikan Agents
J. FI. HECKMAN & COMPANY
TONGASS TRADING CO.
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WATERS OF PACIFIC"
LET INTO CANAL
Waters of the Pacific Ocean
were let into the Panama Canai
on May 18, when 32,750 pound
of dynamite were exploded un
der a dike three miles from
the Pacific entrance. The de
tonation was heard at a great
distance. It shook buildings
several miles distant. The
shock was felt at Panama five
miles away. The event was wit
nesscd from afar by a great
multitude, it being regarded as
1he first step in the actual op
ening of the canal. The water
now flows as far as Miraflores
locks.
This is the first rush of the
ocean into the main channel of
ihe 'canal, Ihe Chargres River,
which previously carried Hi.!
tide ten miles inland, hjaving
been dammed or diverted along
Ihe line of excavation The re
moval of the dike, and the ad
mission of the water to the
channel between Corozal and
Miraflores means the virtual
completion of the Miraflores
locks, the base of which is be
low Ihe tide level, and carries
the Pacific (ides four miles
from La Boca, the mouth of
the canal.
The blasting of the dike amt
the flow of the ocean into tho
section about one mile in
length, from Miraflores south
east of Corozal, marked the
completion of one of the most
difficult undertakings which
confronted the canal builders.
When dredging was first he-'
gun in this section, the work
was made almost impossible
by the daily rush of the Charg
res River tides, which spread
over a wide area of swamps
savannahs. The problem was
complicated by the continual
encroachment of the waters of
the Bocoli River, which pour
ed into the Chargres at this,
point.
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YOUR LAST CHANCE
TQ SIGN SATURDAY
The Census enumerators have
nearly finished the work of
canvassing the town and they
wish to announce that they will
he at the council chambers
from two until five on Satin'
day afternoon for the purpose
of letting anyone that may
have been inadvertantly over
looked call and express their
views on the matter.
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FOREST SERVICE
MAN ARRIVES
W. H, Babbitt and wife are
registered at the Stedman.
'they arrivd on the Humboldt
last night. Mr. Babbitt is
forest ranger and is to he sent
to Craig to take the place oi
Hoy Lillick. who was accident
;dy shot there some time ago.
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HATCHERY MAN IN TOWN
Superintendent Hancock, of
the Yes Bay Hatchery is regis
tered at the tSedman for a few
days stay.
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Huby is to have an np-lo
dafe water system.
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BUSINESS MAN RETURNS
W. A. Bryant, manager of
Beckman’s store returned from
the south on the Humboldt last,
night.
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NOTICE TO MARINERS
Nichols Passage, Blank Island
light, reported May 20th, 1913,
as flashing incorrectly. The
regular characteristic of a
group flash every 0 seconds,
was restored June. 4th. By di
rection of the Commissioner of
Lighthouses. In the absence
and by direction of the Inspec
I tor. Signed.
MILO HOADLEY,
i Superintendent.