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Ketchikan VOL j KETCHIKAN, ALASKA, SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 1907. _*_ - - - ANDREW CHILBERG. Pres. J. R. HECKMAN. Vice Pres. MINERS & MERCHANTS BANK Of Ketchikan, Alaska Transacts a General Banking Business The easiest way to establish your credit in a community is to open an account with your home Bank. Small accounts are welcome M. A. Mitchell ... Cashier ■ -..-> Many Lives Saved By buying Drugs at the Neatest Drug Store in Alaska The Revilla Drug Co. i New Goods i i J A 01==® ) J B I i 1“”” L'R Spring and Summer stock of Dry i Goods is now on display. It is the I j* - largest and prettiest, as well as the J A g most complete line of Dry and Fancy j ^ Goods ever brought to Southeastern ’ ^ Alaska. AVe invite you to come in ) A and look them over whether you buy or not— ) j J we want you to see them—they will be the talk J ^ of the town before the week is over. 1 1 4 Space does not permit us to describe these I 5 goods as there are hundreds of different designs ! }{ and many different fabrics. The line is com- I A plete so you will not be disappointed if you J ^ have any special pattern in mind for a dress. j 2 1 - 2 I J. R. HECKMAN & CO. KETCHIKAN, ALASKA 5 -.—J i Rates; SI.00 to $3.00 Electric Lighted Room with Bath ^ Steam heated Hotel Stedman European Ketchikan JOHN W. STEDMAN Proprietor Alaska Every Alaskan Should have a Savings Account with DEXTER HORTON & CO., Bankers, Seattle All Savings Accounts draw interest at the rate of 4 Per Cent. DEPOSITS MAY BE MADE BY MAIL Write for Booklet Regarding Savings Accounts % fc. Electric Lighted Rates: $1 to $2.50 Steam heated Per Day The Hotel Re villa J. F. Dubail, Manager KETCHIKAN Suites with Bath ALASKA ■' n ru*vm' v ■» ■ ■ 1 ■ ' THE MINES What the Mines and Miners of This District Are Doing-Cheer ing Prospects Ahead. The very favorable change in weather conditions affords promise of ; renewal activity in the mining affairs j of the Ketchikan district at an early | day. Not that there has been any i considerable depression, other than j such as might reasonably have been I expected, only that the unprecedented j snow fall has had the effect to retard operations in some quarters during - the past two or three months, so that some of the mines have not been able to increase their output to the extent hoped for and confidently expected at the beginning of the winter, while at others, where open-cut mining was in progress, operations were almost entirely suspended. In these last mentioned cases, however, work will shortly be resumed in full force, ' while it is pleasing to know that r preparations are making for the g commencement of development work on a number of new and promising I properties which have not yet reach ~ ed a point beyond what may properly ^ be called the prospecting stage. In R fact, the indications are that there k will be twice as many men employed ^ in the mines of the district this year ^ as there were in lUOti. H There is every reason to believe * that tiie fires at the Hadley smelter will lie relighted within a week or e ten days, to he kept burning brightly, h it is confidently expected, without in H terruption for months to come. It e j has a large amount of ore on hand. j which is being added to daily,and the t! only contingency in the way of a long ^ j and continuous run that can be fear R ed,is a possible failure to secure a R steady supply of coal and coke. In £ the meantime, operations at the »I Mamie mine are progressing satis t factorily, with the piomise of a steady * increase of product until its present R daily output will be more than doubl R ed. _ R There seems to be some hitch in the J consummation of the plans of the ^ . re-organized Alaska Copper company * i from what cause, however, The Miner j ^ can only surmise. This paper has R ■ knowledge of the fact that the re-j R organization was based on the pledge g of a large amount of money to he de- ! ^ voted to the develo) ment of the prop- I 1 erty at Copper Mountain and in plac * ing the smelter in first class condition - t for doing business, and if that money i If is not now forthcoming the reason can g very readily and correctly be surmis u ed either as being due to some un- , warranted outside interference, or R else to a failure of the re-organized i t company to rid itself of an undesir f able element inherited f"om the old g corporation. Whatever the cause u may be the delay is much to be re ■ gretted. since the re-organization » I meant the investment of millions of t dollars in the development of the ^ mines at Copper Mountain not only, - but possibly of others within the dis , trict. The Rush and Brown mine, recog nized as one of the richest mines in the district, is idle, with from 15.000 to 20,000 tons of ore broken and ready for shipment. This unfortunate state of affairs is due to the failure of the Alaska Copper company, which has a lease of the mine, to ship the pro duct. pending the re-organization of the leasing copmany, and the refitting of its smelter, to supply which, in part at least, the lease was taken. It is sincerely to be hoped that affairs will soon so shape themelves as to bring about a resumption of opera tions at this really great mine. At the Valparaiso mine a surface tramway is in course of construction from the mine to the beach in John j son's inlet. When completed a ship ; ment of a cargo of unusually rich ; gold ore will be made to one of the j smelters. _ The launch Onward got away Sun day for Unuk river with a scow in tow loaded with the prospecting out fit of the Wells party. The intention of the party is to thoroughly prospect the placer properties they have in the Unuk valley to see if values there actually warrant the installa tion of modern machinery. They have a machine capable of lifting a core of 10 or 12 inches in diameter with which they will cover their ter ritory. With such a contrivance there will be no trouble in ascertain ing values. The party, which is from the Oroville, Cal. region, have had plenty of experience in their bus *■ iness, and results are to be expected from their work. Mr. J. H. Rogers, representing the parties who have the liond on the Cracker jack mine, is in town from a visit to that location. It was bin j intention to put a force of from fif ! teen to twenty men on development work without delay, but he found the snow too deep to make such an attempt immediately practicable. ! Pending the dissipation of the heavy | snow fall he will content himself with j making all necessary preparations for the commencement of active mining operations as soon as conditions will permit. Seattle, April 4—The old Hotel Washington, for so long one of Seattle’s liest known landmarks, was totally destroyed by lire last night. The building was being torn down to permit of Denny hill, upon which it stood,being graded down to con form to the new level on Second and Third avenues. The furniture of the hotel was stored in one end of the builling and was consumed also. The Hotel Washintgon was begun as the Hotel Denny shortly after the Seattle tire during the winter of 188(1-90. When completed, except the interior finishing, trouble in tiie company building it resulted in its being tied up in the courts for years, and it stood an eyesore to tiie people of the city. About four years ago a company, organized by James A. Moore, pur chased tiie building, finished and furnished it and formally opened it as! the Hotel Washington, and President Roosevelt made it his head quarters while in Seattle three years ago. A year ago the change in grade plans of that part of Seatle resulted in the decision to demolish the build ing and erect on its site a monster theatre and hotel. This was being done when by some accident it took tire last night making a spectacular tire visible all over the city. Cleveland, Ohio, April 4—Labor circles in this city are in a ferment owing to what purports to bean inter view with Roosevelt in which he classes Debbs with Harriman, and then bunches them with Moyer and Hevwood, and brands them all as anarchists. Union representatives | say that labor has always looked upon the President as being friendly to wards them, but if he is really re sponsible for the interview as pub lished they can no longer entertain such an idea. Washington, April 4—Fearful that the government will institute pro ceedings against them the Harriman lines are preparing to restore thous ands of acres of coal lands to the government which they have fraud ulently acquired. The government has been quietly investigating tiie holdings of some of tiie transconti nental lines but such a movement on the part of this system comes as a surprise to the department. It is thought that other roads will follow suit ns several othdt^ are in the same boat. San Francisco, April 4—Prosecutor Heney scored a marked victory in Iiis auto graft crusade yesterday when he succeeded in getting Chief of Police Denan to desert Ruef and join his forces against his former partner in crime. Denan is now assisting He ney and Burns with tiie whole of the machinery of the city police force, and more revelations of a startling nature are expected. Ruef is begin ning to squirm as lie feels the coils beginning to tighten about him. and has intimated that if he is sent to tiie penitentiary he will see to it that he does not go alone, but will confess enough to implicate several of the higher officials of the Southern Pacific system.~‘r He considers that that road is largely responsible for letting the cat out of the bag, and intends to play even on them. Wm. Herrin, the political manager for that company is the man who has done it all, and Ruef says lie can tell enough 1 to place that gentleman behind the bars. Those who have been watching j the investigation from an entirley dis , interested standpoint are not slow to i say that they see in this move of Ruef’s an attempt to blackmail these | people into letting up on Ruef to keep themselves out of trouble. Battle Creek. Mich., April 4—Mil I lionaire Detwiller. one of the largest ; stockholders in the Home Telephone I Co., and implicated with President ! Glass, of tiie same company, in the charge of bribing Ruef to grant their I company exclusive franchises in San ; Francisco, broke his arrest last night. | He has been under treatment at the j sanitarium here under the surveillance | of detectives sent from San Francisco. | Last night he evaded his wardens, ! and climbing into a waiting auto mobile escaped. Pursuit was at once made but before it could he organiz ed Detwiller had gotten out of sight and has not since been seen. It is supposed that he caught a train for Canada. San Francisco. April 4—A fire in Potiero, one of San Francicso's suburbs, resulted in the death of eighteen Italians and tiie injury of twenty more. The fire broke out dur ing the early morning hours in a lodging and hoarding house occupied entirely by Italians. When the fire men arrived they found the occupants of the upper stories huddled together like a lot of sheep. While trying to rescue them several jumped from the third story windows receiving in some cases fatal injuries. The fire men saved all they could find but tiie j building was a maze of crooked pas sageways and closet-like rooms, and when a roll call was called this morn ing it was discovered that eighteen were missing. The property loss wq« inconsiderable. KETCHIKAN What Her busy Citizens are doing Local Happenings of Va ious Kinds The gasolene launch Edith has been hoisted out of the water, and is now at Knight & Morrow’s boat building plant where she will be replanked and otherwise repaired. The tug- Novelty has been denuded of its entire upper works, which will be replaced by new ones, for which work Knight mil Morrow have the contract. It is perfectly safe to assert, that Ketchikan’s mosquito fleet is larger than that of any other port in Alaska. The wonder is where all the boats come from. A repair shed is being erected on the south side of .T. R. Heckman & Co.’s warehouse under which .boats will be housed while undergoing repairs. Its first occupant will be the Novelty. Knight & Morrow are making a heavy boom for the Ketchikan Steam ship company’s wharf to he used in discharging coal from the large steamers. It is so arranged that it can be readily attached to the masts of steamers, and just as easily de tached. It will till a long felt want. Gas For Ketchikan.—Among the first acts of the new council was the passage of an ordinance granting to M. E. Martin and associates a fran chise for furnishing the town with gas for lighting and heating purposes j for a period of twenty years from the date thereof. The ordinance requires that the plant shall he in stalled within one year, and fixes the maximum rate that may t> ■ charged at $1.75 per thousand feet. The ' Miner learns that it is the purpose of Mr. M irtin and those associated with him to organize a company, subscriptions to the capital stock of which have already been pledged, and to commence the work of con struction, laying the pipe, etc., within i from four to six months from now. The carburretted water-gas system will be employed as being the cheap est and most desirable of any now in vogue, more of that kind of gas being used in the United States at the present time than other. The miners and pospectors are re joicing over the weather, which now ! promises an earlier opening of the . season than has heretofore been antic- j ipated. The rain and wind is fast dissipating the snow on the lowlands, j and It is thought, must be operating , 1 with like effect on the mountains, j | It is sincerely to he hoped that their i rejoicing may not prove to be pre- , mature. But for the snow, which j has fallen in unstinted measure dur ing the past two months, there would not be an idle man in Ketchikan. Boys and girls, under the age of sixteen years, are now prohibited by ordinance from being on the j streets between the hours of 10 p. m. and 6 a. in., unless accopmanied by and in charge of a competent adult person. The fact of their being so found on the street unaccompanied by an adult person will he taken as prima facie evidence of the violation of the ordinance, the penalty for | which is fixed at not less than one nor more that fifty dollars, in the discretion of the municipal magis trate. Parents, as well as boys and girls, should make a note of this and govern themselves accordingly. The trouble and worry of the elec tion is over and now we can settle down to business again and the town will go on in the same old way. The j total nubmer of votes cast was 1112 as follows: Union Ticket— F. .T. Hunt 125. A1 K re idler 115. ,T. .1. Pittenger 14<>. J. E. Lathrope 130. A. A. Cornell 107. Thos. Torry 171. Chas. Deppe 70. Citizens Ticket— J. C. Barber 72. Floyd F is 70. W. A. Connell 74. Eli Copeland 127. Ira H. King *4. In the school election 174 votes were cast of which 150 were credited to .1. J. Daly and 24 were thrown out as being wrongly marked. It is proper to say that though Mr. Copeland’s name appeared on the official ballot as a candidate on the Citizen’s ticket, he did the best he could to withdraw therefrom, and had announced himself as an independent candidate. It will he noticed, also, that four members of the present council were re-elected. The defeated cadidates for the com mon council do not appear to he at all down cast today. It is altogether probable that a few months hence they'll he “glad of it,” if indeed they are not now rather more joyful than otherwise. A New Business.—In another col umn will he found the advertisement of the Ryus Reality Co., of which Leroy D, Ryus is manager! The. i company lias taken out a license JRRRJR t rau-aet in” a genet al reality husinHJRRR aia! we think will lill a niche that RR||Rlj| in Ketchikan for some timHRRJR that ot an up-to-date engineering, t-HRRRJj e-taie and renting imsiness. lHRRR| fact that Key Ryus’ name appct^HHH as manager is a guarantee that tR>itpg;l. husini-ss will lie conducted as RSHeVh should he. If you have anything RBHjHj I'uy. sell, or rent communicate ''v'^Rmfilfi them. RRHH The Miner yesterday inndvtflRRJR tent h omitted In mention the appniHuRJR ment hy the new eouneil of L. j^RJRRR liyus as city surveyor and cnginccflRRRj Young, a^R^^R Ka.' Linton, of Grace harbor, i-laml. wore among the arrivals HRRRU theStedman. this morning. The gasolene launch Spray made R'. '1'ivial trip to Hadley today, taki^RRRRR seven men who go there in the hoHRRRR of tinding employment. |H|HbB Knight »x Morrow are in rceciHJRRRJ of their new shaping nuu-hiHRHR per the steamship llutnholdt. Tlt^HRRB will add materially to the rapacity HJRRRR the shop. The IhunlioUit brought up the ele^HHH trie harp for the Admiral sampRl^;:^ rooms and billiard parlor, which 'vflURRJR tune for di^^^^H coursing sweet strains to the patro^RSRRj of that popular resort, probably lH£j$£S£j the time this item appears in pi-inHRRRR Go and hear it. RRRRR Tim steamship Humboldt, arrivoHRRRR up early tiii- morning, with a list, iHRRRR loo passeners, a dozen, or more. <HRRRj whom were for Ketchikan. She al^^^^H hretight :>«» tons of freight for thHRRRj place, including a large new safe fuHJJRR the lkacitic Coast company. S^^R The KUa Kohl it's arrived back fron^RURRj her trip to Wrangell and armmt^R^^R 1 Vince of Wales about 2 o'clock thiHRRR morning. having made excellen^^^M time. Capt, Fulton reports that slu^^RR much steadily, and witl^^^H practically no roll, the result o^^^^R putting on new bilge keels and tlu^^^H emova i of the after part of her lioustflRRR which I'ermitted her small boats t (HRRRJ he carried on the main deck, lie ii^^^^R iimi'h ]'leased with her action heavy and considers her now^^^H full.' equal to the satisfactory pcrforHJJJR of the she has to do. j^^^H The Ladies Aid will serve theit^^^^R iiumt lily tea at l he home of Mrs. .iHRRR U. Heegle next Wednesday from 2 t,H o'clock. Hostesses. Mrs. WUlisH|Hj Mrs. Heegle. Mrs. Strong and Mrs.^R^R Ira. King. Ail tlm ladies of KctehikaiHRRJ invited. Humor has it tliat there will he a^^^H in town ere long, in which^^^H the emit ract ing' parties will he one ol^^^R Ketchikan's most, prominent, ynungRJJJR business men and one of the fairest^^^R and most highly respected of ourRHR young ladies. The Miner does not^HR reel at liberty tit present to mention ^^^R j^^R The Globe Fishing and 1 kicking RRJR ol which Mr. G. li. Fergn- ^^H -on ih" moving spirit, lias been in- ^^^R corporate!!. will in the R^H sain,on salt ing business at Grace liar- R^R I'or. Dali island the coming season. RII111| Huring tin- season a freezer will he RRH up in. with a view to tlie shipment R^^R of fresh li~h. while in tile meantime ^^^R tlm refuse from tlie saltery will be RHB ulilized in tli" manufaet rue of guano. j^^^R ( '• mt ri hut ion Acknowledged.- Mrs. .1. Thompson. who solicited funds for ^^^R the relief of the starving people in R China, hands the following letter to ^HRj The Miner with the request, that it H|||| lie published for the information ^^H of those who generously responded to ^^H the call for help: RRRJj Office of Christian Herald, H New York, March 25, 1!M)7. ^^R Mrs. J. Thompson and Friends: - jHBJ We thank you for your gt>nerous RR remittance of siih.no to he applied to ^^R famine relief work in China. May H||| the blessing of God rest upon the HSU giver and tin* gift, as also upon those in whose behalf it. is to lie expended. Hl| Very Cordially Yours, HR LOUIS KLOPSCH. HR WEATHER KEt OKI). 'fill The following meteorological sum- ||||| rnary of weather condit ios during the tH!1 week ending, April 4, 1JMI7, is re- .RR ported hv N. Li. Whitfield, deputy v^H U. S. land and mineral surveyor: j^R March 2h—ti a. in. to (i p. in.— ;^R clear: wind from S. W. average r^B temperature 2'U |RR March 30—(5 a. in. t.0 (! p. m.— .Hp Snow: wind from S. E. average tein- (RSg perature 33 (,^R March 31—fi a. m. to <i p. m.— Cloudy: snow showers at intervals, ^^R wind from S. E. average temperature s)^H Rainfall during week in March one ('^R five tenth inches, JR Snow fall during week in March tn^R .4 inches. ll^R Total rain fall during month of cRl March two and two tenth inches. Total snow fall during month of w^R March 27 inches. p^R April 1—fi a. m. to (1 p. in.—Cloudy; to^R strong wind from South S. E. aver- wR age temperature 32. crH April 2 fi a. m. to ti p. m.—Snow: titH wind from S. E. average temperature ofR hrR April 3— <i a. tn. to fi p. m.— Rain; hoR wind from S. E. average tempera- clttR ture 33. fefl April 4—G a. m. to 0 p, m.--Rain, DuR