SPEEDY VOYAGE
FOR THE AL-KI
The steamer Al-ki made rort
at eleven this mornig, about
sixty-three hours from Seat
tle, which is very good time
for the vessel. Among her car
go is the lumber for the Strong
building t nd cement foe the
same and about fifty tons of
general freight for Ketchikan.
For Jun'au she has s*>nie big
pieces of machinery for the
company consisting of electri-1
cal generators and a big con
crete mixer. She had twenty
five passengers on board, ten
of whom were for Ketchikan
Among the latter were H. C
Strong. A. "NV. Morgan and
Clyde Morgan.
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PRINCESS MAY
WILL TIE UP
Sailing from Victoria on Oct.
31. the Princess May make her
last trip north this winter, and
the Princess Sophia will in
augeraie the winter scheduel.
sailing from Victoria on Nov.
T for Skagway. Her following
sailings will be on Nov. 21.
Dec. 5. and Dec. 10. The dates
of sailing for the early part of
the new year will be announc
ed later. Calls will be made
by the Princess Sophia at
Alert Bay, Prince Rupert. Port
Simpson, Ketchikan, \Vrange!
and Juneau, both north and
southbound. The steamer
Princess May. which has
maintained this service for
many years, will be laid up in
definitely,
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ARE INSTALLING
HEATING PLANT
Foord & Company the plum
bers have secured the con
tracts for installing vacum
steam heating plants at the
Mitchell and Torry residents.
They will also install a hot
water heating plant and do
the plumbing on the residence
Dr. Ben Myers is having built.
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DID YOU GET ONE?
Col. Figgins as town asses
sor has been sending out bil
letsdoux to most everybody in
town of late. They are gentle
reminders of the fact that
one's property has been taxed
and to tell your trouble.? about
it to the Town Council which
will sit as a Board of Equali
zer? November 3, 4 and 5.
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Seattle, Oct. 23—The halibut
market remains unchanged.
An oversupply exists and the
best price offered is two and
one-half cents per pound.
DOLPHIN SOUTHBOUND
Having been unable to get
into Lake Bay last night on ac
count of the bad weather, the
Dolphin arrived here at 12:30.
considerably ahead of time.
Her pa-'engers from this point
were Otto Hucker and wife, C.
W. Spencer. M. A. Hodge, P.
A. Seper and several steerage.
Owing to the fact that she
had no suitable space left, she
had to leave about fifty boxes
of fre-h fi'h at the New Eng
land plant. After leaving
Ketchikan she went to Roe
Point w here «he was to take on
'i 500 cases of salmon. From
points north she had 158 boxes
of fresh halibut. 72 barrels of
-alt herring and nine tierces of
mild cured salmon. The Dol
phin s schedule provides for
making one more trip this
fait. Unless she comes out in
the Jefferson's place while the
latter vessel is overhauling.
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The Dally Miner, $1. per. moJ
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ALL ROADS LEAD TO THE
DREAM. adv j
JIMMIE BURGUN SELLS OUT
During the past dav or two a
deal has been closed whereby
•‘Jimmie” Burgun has dispos
ed of his interest in the Pal
ace Bakery to his partner Rob
ert Wood, who will continue
the business. Jimmie says he
will take life easy for a time
but will remain in Ketchikan,
which he believes is the only
town in Alaska. Messrs. Bur
gun & Wood have built up a
nice baking business at the
Palace. Mr. Wood is a first
class baker as the quality of
his goods have demonstrated.
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LONGSHOREMEN
FORM UNION
A number of the local long
shoremen met at the Socialist
Hall last night and organized
i longshoremen’s union. It is
inderstood that they propose
to boost prices for handling
several commodities on the
local wharves.
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3AILORS ON AL-KI
HAVE CLOSE CALL
Two of the crew of the
steamship Al-ki, taking cargo
U pier i, narrowly escaped
-erious injury yesterday morn
ug when a pulley block clamp
an the forward mast snapped
under the weight of twelve
tons of machinery. The brok
enclamp. weighing about
twenty pounds, fell to the deck
between the two seamen, who
were stationed to help swing
the cargo into the forward
hold. The Al-ki is loading
machinery for the Gastineau
Mining Company, Juneau, and
1 hitch had been made around
i big crate which stood on a
flat car on the pier. The der
•iek crane lifted the heavy box
i few inches from the car,
pulley block, through which
nm the port boom lines, snap
ped. An examination show
ed that there was a flaw in the
•asting of the clamp. The
starbord ratlins fell when the
•lamp was broken.—P. I.
DEFERS HER RETURN
Mrs. C. M. Taylor, who was j
expected home on an early
boat, write; that ;he has left
Port Orchard for an auto trip
to Portland, and will not be j
home as soon as she expected, j
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OVERHAULING GEAR
The halibut power fi-herman j
Mice is in port today over
hauling fishing gear, etc.
\mong other improvements a :
lew anchor and cable were in
'tnlled.
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OFF TO CONFERENCE
Collector of Customs Willis
\va- one of the passengers on
hoard the Sampson Saturday.
He is on his way to New York
'o attend a conference of the
various collectors of customs
»f the United States in that
city November 3.
PURSER PARKER
WILL TAKE A REST
H. M. Parker, purser of the
good ship Dolphin will not
ome out ori the vessel again
this season. He will take his
vacation instead before taking
ip his winter work.
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'EW HOISTING GEAR
FOR THE COLUMBINE ;
A new winch and anchor
windlass arrived on a recent
•oat for the lighthouse tender
Columbine and was loaded on
hoard tlie vessel thi« morning.
->hc also look on board a big
•onsignment of buoy anchor
cables which had been on the
Ketchikan Wharf company’s
lc . k for some time.
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rhe Daily Miner, $1. per. mo.
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4 NORTHERN HAPPENINGS 4
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D. M. Kean, Provincial Gov
erment Superintendant of !
River Work who was in (lie
city for a few days last week
left Sunday morning for the j
Iskut River on the gas boatj
Salmon with a crew of men to !
survey and map a channel j
from the month at the Stikine
to the canyon, some thirty or
forty miles, as was stated in
last weeks issue of the Senti- j
nel. The men accompanying j
Engineer Kean were Bert Me- j
Kay, Dave Lewis and Eddie
Lynch. The work is expected
to take about three weeks.
This means much for this part
of the country and it is only a
question of time how until this
section will be a steady pro
ducer and will mean much to
Wrangell as all the travel and
commerce will come through
here. —Wrangell Sentinel.
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W. G. Whorf, the Port Gra
ham coal and cannery man,
proposes to install coal bun
kers capable of handling one
thousand tons of coal. The j
construction work will be car
ried on this winter. A shaft
of 125 feet, located some dis
tance from the former work
ings on the mine has revealed j
two ten-foot veins of coal, one
encountered at a depth of 85
feet, the other 35 feet below !
this. The lower vein is an
especially fine grade of coal,
much superior to the upper
vein. Mr. Whorf, has reason
to believe that there are two
or three veins lying beneath
the lower one encountered,
and is having the shaft con
tinued to determine the matter
Mr. Whorf declares he ha? '■
orders for more coal than he |
can fill at the present time, j
but in the spring he figures on |
being in shape to supply the j
large market. The Sampson I
mail brought him an order for :
300 tons from one concern in
Southeastern Alaska. He pro- ;
poses to establish agencies in j
all the coast towns to handle •
his products.—Chitina Leader.
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Bishop P. T. Rowe carried
out his threat that he would
mine the coal at Lisburn for ,
the benefit of the missions
there, bv actually taking out
some of the coal and bringing ;
it down for the use of the
natives.
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Advices from Valdez slate
that Senator Millard has I
struck an exceedingly rich j
body or ore in the upraise on j
the Tatum property.
The Alaska Steamship com- j
pany has announced that it
will maintain its present
schedule until the end of De
cember. with the exception ;
that the Dolphin will be taken
off the run the 20th., of the
present month.
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One of the most important
steps that has been taken '
during the past summer per- 1
taining to the opening i f the
great inferior country at the
headwaters of the Stikine
river, i> the building of the
wagon road from Telegraph
•reek to Dea-e lake by the 1
Bcili-h Columbia government
under the supervision of j
Charles Collins. The road has
oeen built out 13 miles from
Telegraph this summer and
most or the worst of the road
has been constructed, leaving
wo bridges to be built arid a
few miles of mountain road.
The re-t is rolling prairie
easily constructed. When
-his road is finisher it will
ompletely revolutionize the
transportation in that country,
cutting the freightrale« nearly
half and hc-iping as nothing
•ould do in the developing of >
■ his vast country with its great
ruining outlook, which i> grow
“Wrangell Sentinel. i
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11 is reported that the Midas
copper mine near Valdez, lias
been sold for $123,000 cash.
It is said to be the intention of
the company to fight the Gug
genhiems for the copper bus
iness of Alaska.
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A new and important gold
placer strike is said to have
been made near the head
waters of the Matanuska and
Teslina rivers. The new strike
promises to out-rival the Chis
ana.
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The Fairbanks Commercial
Club is gathering an exhibit of
Tanana valley produce to be
displayed in Seattle.
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Emil Hartman, of Dome, is
under arrest at Fairbanks
charged with assaulting Anton
Boroje, of the same place, with
intent to commit murder. It
is alleged that Hartman took
three shots at Boroje with a
shotgun at Dome. September
10th. It is said that the men
quarreled over some inconse
quential matter.
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The coal creek coal taken
from the Yukon river a short
distance beiow Dawson, to
Fairbanks and used by the
Tanana Valley railroad as test
did not prove to be the suc
cess that was expected to. It
is said that a ton of the coal
produced about the same re
sults that a cord of wood
would produce. However, the
locomotives on the railroad are
wood burners and not design
ed for the use of coal, and it
is admitted that the test was
not entirely fair.
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WILD HORSES HAVE
BECOME A MENACE
The Canadian government is
confronting a new problem,
according to late reports from
the Peace river country.
During the rush to Dawson
in 1897-98, a great many
pioneers traveled through the
Peace river on the famous
Edmonton trail. Many had
horses which they were forced
to abandon in many instances.
Now the Canadian ministry of
agriculture has been request
ed to lake steps to protect the
settlers from the depredations
of wild horses. It appears
that these horses have made
raids upon the ranches of the
new settlers in the Peace river
valley, killing domestic horses
and leading others away which
have been imported at consid
erable expense. The wild hor
ses aie supposed to be defen
dants of the horses abandoned
during the gold rush.
VOICE OF CONSCIENCE
Is the name of a very strong
drama at the Grand theater to
night. It is a beautifully acted
film. “The Peddler’s Find”
is another of the dramatic
type with a high principle in
volved, “It Pays To Wait”
featuring AVarren Kerrigan,
and “ The Maverick” are two
good pictures, and through
out the bill a lesson of higher
and greater thoughts of life
is dominant.
Tomorrow night we wi 1
show a magnificient head
colored two reel feature film
for your entertainment, so
don’t forget to Watch the
Grand. adv.
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OF" ON A HUNTING TRIP
A hunting party consisting of
Newt Gas person, “Biddy” Mal
one, John AA’all, F. Broderius
and !.l. S. Perkins are off on
board the Francis R. They plan
lo he gone about six or seven
Jays and will go around the
-land and it is hardly neces
sary lo say I hat what they
iVQn’t do to the game of the
•eglons visited won’t be worth
alking about. 1
CONTRACT FOR WEIDING
BOAT LET
The Weiding <x Independent
Fisheries Co., last month
awarded the contract for the
construction of the first of
the two power schooners
which will replace the steamer
Weiding, which was lost in
the early summer.
The new vessel, which will lie
ready, it is expected, by the
first of the year will cost about
$22,000. She will he the
largest halibut schooner built
oil the coast this year and the
largest power halibut schooner
of the sound fleet. The boat,
desigined by Lee & Brin ton,
will 100 feet long. She will
have a 20 foot beam and will
de an enlarged type of the
j schooner Idaho, Capt. Quinn,
■ designed by the same archi
tects. The engine will be 150
J li.p. The boat will carry eight
j dories. —Pacific Fisherman.
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WILL CONSULT SPECIALIST
Mrs. Thoday left for the
south on the Alameda this
morning. Stic goes to Seattle
to consult ail eye specialist
for little Catherine Barry, who
has a very badly infected eye
She took both, .he Barry chil
dren with her.
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COSTS 20 CENTS LESS
TO GET MARRIED
m
If the fees established by the
Territorial law providing for
the recording of deaths, births,
and marriages, takes preced
ence over the fee bill for re
cording certificates of this
nature, it will cost 20 cents
lc'S to got married. More
over, the stork can keep busy
without any charge being laid
up against his work in the re
corder’s office. Neither will
it cost anything to record the
fact that one has snuffed out
this mortal coil.
There is no law compel
ling the recording of marriag
es, births, and deaths, until the
I Territorial Legislature passed
1 lhe“Vital Statistics Act," but
1 there was an established fee
bill that made $1.20 the sum
; necessary for recording mar
; riage certificates. The Ter
i ritorial law making United
• States court commissioners
recorders of vital statistics,
fixes a fee of $1. 00 for mar
riage certificates, and provides
no fee at all for births and
deaths.
The ministers of the gospel
have been discussing the ques
tion of the fee for record.ng
the certificates of marriage,
and some of them have decid
ed that they are only permited
by the Territorial statute to
certificate. Those that have
discussed the matter have
decided that they will, for the
present,, collect only $1. as
provided by the Territorial
law, and present that and the
certificate to the United States
commissioner as provided. •
—Empire.
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EIRTHS GREATLY
EXCEED DEATHS
According to Health Officer
Si Howell, the population of
Ketchikan is steadily growing,
fur instance, during the period
from April 15 1912 to October
20, 1913, the number of births
in Ketchikan has exceeded the
deaths by 13. The totals for
that period are: Births, 51;
JJeuths, 38.
HOUSE ALMOST FINISHED
Henry Goemaere’s new resi
dence on Clover Hill is rapid -
h approaching completion. It
is a spacious, well-built struct
ure, a credit to both owneiU
and builders.
You’ll find what you want at
Heckman’s in the rug line. J
Advertising.
FRISCO SALMON MARKET
The canned salmon business
has been gradually gaining
strength and volume for the
last month,and though not
obtainable below the opening
figures has before this com
pletely disappeard from the
market. Some buyers are
still holding back, but the
trade everywhere is beginning
what it usually is at this time
of year, nor what it should be
in view of the cxeremely low
prices, the present situation
giver, much more encourage
ment than was felt a month
ago. Rumors of price-cutting
have turned out to be for the
whatever may been for a time
to realize that the pack this
year was not so enormous as
was at first supposed, and that
the prevaling prices will give
a great impetus to the con
suming demand. The fact
that salmon is demanded for
consumption is well indicated
by the rapidly growing number
of repeal orders received
from those who have already
purchased in a moderate way;
trade to actual conditions is
reflected in the marked in
crease of new business from
the larger markets, especially
within the last two weeks.
Notwithstanding the com
petition of medium Reds,
which have been in compara
tively fair demand, Pink sal
mon is beginning to show
more strength being purchased
Chums, but this year find dif
ficulty in filling their require
ments of that variety.—Pacific
Fisherman.
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OF PRESIDENT’S RACE
ENTERS ALMSHOUSE
Aged and decriped, worn out
by years of toil and travel in
(he silent Northland, Frank
Madison, a great, great, great
grandson of James Madison,
fourth president of the United
States, and known through
out Alaska as “Musselshell
Frank”, will pay the toll of the
trackless places by ending
his days in the home for in
digent pioneers recently es
tablished at Sitka by direction
of the first territoral legislat
ure of Alaska. Madison, ac
cording to recent arrivals from
the north, left Juneau a few
days ago to spend the balance
of his life at. the only elee
mmosynary institution in Al
aska.
During his long life in (he
territory he visited practical
ly every mining field that has
been discovered in Alaska and
the Rritish Yukon, but invar
ibaly seemed to stake the
claims upon which no pay
streak was developed. In one
case, when out of provisions
and short of money he sold
for a small boat and a few
sacks of flour a claim which
afterwards yielded 8250,000.
He refused an offer to buy the
Treadwell mine for $500. It
afterwards sold to James Tred
for $400. It has since pro
duced more than $50,000,000
and its annua! production is
about equal to the amount
paid by the United States to
Russia for the entire territory.
Madison’s one great achieve
ment in the north-the one for
which he has been most bles
sed by those who follow him
into the territory—was the in
vention of the Yukon stove.
This device, because of its
tightness and adaptability to
the environment in which it j
was used, saved the lives of j
many miners. Madison did
not patent it. He took several
of the stoves with him to Daw
son in the first days of the
great stampede, but instead of
manufacturing thftm for sale
he followed mining and went
ijroke while others became j
rich from the manufacture !
and sale of his invention, I
which Ihey traded to the early j
pioneers on the “pound-for- j
half ounce” basis—a pound of |
stove for u half ounce of gold.
We, Ihe ir; -:mi
moned In attend llio Special
October 1013 lann of t,ho
Uuiled Slalcs District Court
for llic District of Alaska, Div
isioii Numlii'i’ One, having com
nli'lcd our labors for llio said
term and ouni'ludo tho bus
iness brought lioforo 11s, now
heg leave to report to IhcIIon
orahlo Court as follows:
We have been in session six
days and have acted on fifteen
bound-over cases, have con
ducted three investigations,
have found fifteen True Bills,
and one Not True Bill. We
have examined fifty nine wit
nesses and employed two in
terpreters.
We find that the condition of
the Federal Jail is good, that it
is clean and sanitary. But
we have certain recommen
dations to make concerning
facilities needed in the Court
House; a sufficient number of
chairs should be bought to ac
commodate the witnesses who
’ae now compelled (o stand in
the hallways of the Court
House waiting for hours for
I heir turn to be called before
Hie Grand Jury; a two inch
stand- pipe should be installed
in the Court House and should
'onnect with a valve on each
floor and each should have at
tached to it 011c hundre4 feet
°1 hose, so that the prisoners
n the Federal Jail and the
Court House itself together
with the books and property
herein may he better protec
ed against fire. But even
with these added facilities and
mprovements the accommda
lions for Hie Federal officials
stationed at Ketchikan will yet
he inadequate. As soon as
possible the Government
should erect at Ketchikan a
’ommodious fire proof build
ngrontaining offices, court
rooms, etc.,sufficient to ac
•ommodafe (lie District Court
nid the Commissioner’s Court
and all other Federal officials
stationed at Ketchikan; ns
well as a commodious and up
to-date jail.
^ e repeat (lie recommen
iation made by former Grand
Hirios that jurors in the Dis
trict Court he allowed a fee of
live dollars per diem besides
mileage.
In concluding, we extend
our thanks to this Honorable
~o:irl, and to the offices of the
United States Attorney and
United States Marshal for the
many courtesies we have re
ceived at (heir hands during
sitting of the Grand Jury.
Dated at Ketchikan, Alaska,
this 20th. day of October, A. D
1913.
THOMAS TORRY
Foreman.
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ALBERT CREEK MEN
TAKE OUT $1200
Li Hie is known about the
richness of the new strike on
Mbert creek in the Nelchina
country beyond the fact that
1 >elchell and Olsen had taken
out (i.“) ounces of gold on Dis
covery claim and McCormick
on \o. 1 above and Anderson
on No. 2 above secured good
prospects from panning, ac
cording to James. Murray, a
pioneer Alaska mining man
who returned from the Susit
na on Ihe Mariposa recently.
“ficlchcl and Olsen worked
the ground to a width of 30
led and for to feet up and
down the creek,” said Mr.
Murray, “and they had not
discovered the full width of
I lie pay dirt. The ground
worked was twelve feel to bed
rock. Four feet of it was
pay dirt and there was eight
feet of overburden.—Empire
Have you seen those car
pet sample rugs at Heckmans?
For bargains in carpet sample
rugs sec the display at Deck
man’s. adv,.