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The Ketchikan Miner
vo? . KETCHIKAN, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JUNE S, 1907. ' N0 20
ANDREW CHILSERG. Pres. J■ R HECKMAN. Vice Pres.
MINERS & MERCHANTS BANK
Cf Ketchikan. Alaska
Transacts a General thanking 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
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JOHN W. STEDMAN ,, ,
Proprie tar 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 Mr Bacmtet Regarding S.*Ag. AaccurtU
Electric Lighted Rat**: *> to *2.50
Steam Healed Pw D*r
The Hotel Re villa
J. F. Du bail. Manager
KETCHIKAN
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Suites with Bath ALASKA
THE MINES
What the Mines and Miners of
This District Are Doing-Cheer
ing Prospects Ahead.
Shipment from the I'm le Sam—
originally known as the White Eagle
! —are being made to the smelter at
Hadley. Though the shipments are
not large, the product fully compen
sates in quality for ary lack in
quality, in which latter respect
material improvement is looked for as
work processes.
Shipments are being made from
the Hydah, where the gravity surface
tram is now in successful operation.
The ore is high grace, and what is
• r yet. appears to exist in
practically inexhaustible quantity.
The discoveries and developments
at and around Kart a bay are of the
most encouraging character. Is:
addition so the Hydah, now entering
on what promises to l>e a long era of
production, the Good to and Thomas
and the Poison and Kush properties,
of the .very large extent of which no
doubt is- entertained, more recent
discoveries of high grade sits
give reasonable assurance that tin
Kayta bay district is soon to become
one of the most active mining camps
- most
lucrative, withal. The Haldis elear
mrsday with 3600 tons of Mt.
Andrew ore and the Henriette on the
same day with 1000 tons of Bush and
Brown ore from Karts bay.
A new ar.d unexpected strike of
rich ore is reported from the Xib
lack— a: the ' •• v : thi shaft a
the 300 foot level.
X. O. Lawton, general manager of
the Brown Alaska Co., was a Ketch
isitor over Sunday, This morn
ing at 4 o’clock he . iz oa the launch
Eik for Port Simpson, and Maple bay
where the Brown Alaska’s Portland
Canal property is located. The
scarcity of coal compelled the use of
thr Eik in place of the Marion, which
vessel is t-.eJ’ up ’otting to the fuel
famine. ’
Xo fault can be found with the
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pace a: which the Ketchikan mining
istl is forging to the front in the
number and productive capacity of
its producing mines. These now ^
'
cations now are that the cumber wii.
be doubled before the end of the
year, by the addition of properties
cow in course of development and
king preparat ns foi
of product. More than this. the
mines now working ai
if not i ittaining re as
of product, notably the Mt. Andrew,
and Mamie, to say nothing of the
Bush and Bi
were s - ed last fall with from
15,000 to 20.000 tons of ore broken and
awaiting shipment. Work in this
- resumed less than a month
ago, and shipments u . in
Older of the cay the product going tc
the Tree smelter, at C'rofton, B. t .
If cot hampered by lack of neces-ary
sportati this mini
ship nearly, if cot quite, as much
ore this year as was shipped from the
entire district iaat year, including
that smelted at Hadley and Copper
mount.
At the Mamie, thesome c.;rb
cuity ha-- l>een experienced in keep
ing the mining force at the desired
maximum, the daily output is being
gradually increased, as is also true o:
the Mt. Andrew and Stevenstown.
The Mt. Andrew is shipping at the
rate of about -t.»• per month, while
the Stevenstown is sending an
average of not far fr- m 10" tor- per
day over the tram to the Hadley
smelter. It is safe to estimate the
monthly production of the last three
mentioned mines a: not less than
JO.'.M) tons.
The mine force at the .Jumbo is be
ing increased by putting on an
additional shift, by which means it
is believed the daily product can he
more than douhied. The mine con
tinues to improve, both as to value
and size of ore body. Another cargo
of gin.i it) 2-"jdo tons will be ready 1<.
shipment by the time transportation
can be had.
The Northern Machine Works ar
getting out a s._-t of gripe- for the
Hydah Mining Co's. tram. They are
S of the same design as these used on
the tram at Ni black, having been
designed by Win. Schlothan. the
Northern Machine Work’s proper! -
tor.
The smetier at Hadley will shut
down tonight, temporarily, on account
o< a lack of coke.
Charles Guzman reports some find
of silver ore on Bail Island carrying
over $130 p>er ton in values.
•Seattle, June ■>.—Laura Kngland.
a well known woman mining oper
ator of the Nome district, is sueing
I). S. Brown, an attorney, of this
city, for $.■>»),000 which she claim
| he owes her on the sale of a mining
ciairn near Nome. It appears that
the woman owned a claim oo the old
beach line of which she gave Brown
pxiwer of attorney. He sold the claim
but thus far has failed to turn over
^ the proceeds to her, hence the sun,
WEATHER RECORD.
The follow ing meteorological sum
nary of the weather conditions dur
ing the week ending' June 4. 1WT, is
reported by N. K. Whitfield, deputy
U. S, land and mineral surveyor:
May a. m. to «» p. m,—cloudy ;
; light wind from south, average tem
perature 52.
May 31—6 a. m. to tip. m.—rain:
showers, wind from S. E. average
temperature 51.
Rainfall during May nine four
tenth inches.
June 1—(5 a. m. to 6 p. m.—rain j
showers: wind from S. and S. E.,
average temperature 51.
June 2 —0 a. m. to t> p. m.— rain
showers: wind from S. and S. E.,
average temperature 51.
June 3—0 a. in. to 0 p. in.— sunshine
and showers: wind from S. and S. E., j
average temperature 52.
June 4 t> a. m. to *> p. in.—cloudy:!
wind from south, average tempera
ture 52.
Rain fall during June to date- one
one tenth inch, -
BEST CLIMATE IN ALASKA.
The climate of the upper Cook inlet 1
is described by members of the geo-|
logical survey as the finest in Alaska.
In a paper eu climatological features
of Alaska A. II. Brooks and C. Abbe
j r. say:
"The Cook inlet region, including;
the lower part of the Susitna basin,
though somewhat colder than that
part of the seaboard which lies di
rectly on the open ocean, has probably s
the most delightful climate of any
portion of Alaska. While the winters
ire cold compared with southeastern
Alaska, the upper part of the icier
being usually locked in ice from
November to May, they are not so
severe as those of Bering sea. The
charm of tire Cook inlet climate is •
its bright, clear weather in the spring;
and summer, when there is just
■ aojgii rainfall to insure ample water
for the growth of vegetation.” _ j
Commenting on this Prof. G. C’. ;
Martin says in his ‘‘Reconuapiance '
of the Matanuska Coal Field*:”
"The Matanuska valley is some
what colder and has less rain than
jk inlet. The proportion of bright
Jays in samraei' is probably greater
at the head* of Knik arm than at any ;
other point on the coast of Alaska, j
•' additions are practically the samel
throughout the Matanuska valley as
as they ai e mod- j
itieu by differences in latitude.
"It appears highly probable that ,
the region bordering Knik arm and
art of the Matanuska valley will
support important agricultural in is
The district should become .
not self-s
porting, but - capable of supplying
garden produce to such surrounding!
regions as are connected with it by
.tv means of transportation.” |
Seattle, June 5.—The new steamer'
Pres :ific < -■ Steam
ship Co. is now ecroute to Nome,
toe feal passengers ei
leg. which no other Nome boat:
-se-~e-. i> a daily paper published
on i»jard the vessel, which is equipped 1
with a wireless telegraph instru
ment.
Srattle, June 25.—No one was!
allowed to leave the steamship j
Minnesota upon her arrival here last
night until police officers had search
.-d them and their baggage. Shortly
after leaving Japan. Edith Goodman,
a passenger on board, made the dis
covery that her baggage had been
ransacked ar.d jewelry valued at
#1<X»,»»X> had been stolen.
New York, June 5.—A telegraph
operator receving messages of prices
of cotton committed an error t ester- !
day which co-t some people dearly, j
When taking the message he made a
mistake of one figure, and the result
ing flurry in the market enabled one
firm to clean up a million collars be
fore the error was discovered.
London, June 5.—Richard Crocker's j
h iis: Orby. with Reiff up. won Eng
land's great tace, the Derby, yester
day. King Edward was present and
personally congratulated Orby's
owner.
S'.n Francisco, Juni 5.—Two severe
earthquakes occurred in this city ,
shortly after midnight last night
bringing a night of fear and appre
hension to thousands who suffered in
the disa-ter of a year ago. These
two shocks were the worst that have
happened since tiie great one. Dozens
of burnt walls standing since that
time were hurled to the ground, and i
many partially finished buildings
were injured. Thousands of peop] e
fearing a repetition of that time
camped out in the streets and squares
rather than return to their homes and ,
risk the possiblitv of an untimely
death. Reports are.coming in from
-urioun .ing cities to the effect that
the disturbance was wide spread, I
extending hundreds of miles in every
direction. No deaths are reported
although several minor accidents are.
Tunis, June A vessel carry ing
ammunition to the insurgents hack of
this city was intercepted by a British
cruiser, yesterday. The captain of
the vessel, seeing that he could not
escape, touched off the powder maga
zine. blowing the ship up and killing
’ all but cut man of the crew,
KETCHIKAN
Local Happenings of the Past
Seven Days Tersely
Told.
FROM WEDNESDAY'S DAILY
‘‘Billy’’ Short and wife left on last
night’s Princes May for a visit of
about a month among friends in the
south Billy is right hand man at
the Hotel Stedmau and he will be
missed by the natrons of that popular
hostelry
Promoted.—W. S. Corcoran, the
old time popular purser with the
Alaska S. 3. Co., and more recently
assistant superintendent, has been
promoted to superintendent of that
and its allied companies, to succeed
Frank E. Burns, who 1ms been made
treasurer and assistant to President
Peabody.
Well, it's about time somebody was
saying something about baseball for
Sunday. It will take lots of practice
to get iu shape for a first class game
for the glorious Fourth.
Hose company No. 1 were out
stretching their legs last night in
preparation for gathering that cash
prize offered in the Fourth of July
celebration.
L. D. Ryus goes toDolomi, Monday,
to survey ten mineral claims there,
the property of the Princeton Mining
and Milling Co.. B. A. Erdley, mana
ger, on which patent has been applied
for.
L. D. Ryus is back from Petersburg
where he was for some weeks platting
a townsite there for the Pacific Coast
and Norway lacking Co. under the
management of O. P. Brown. This
company now has a sawmill, cannery,
machine shop, and ship ways in
operation and intend building a town
at the point, which is at the head o'
Wrangell narrows. Tie sawmill is
now working on an order of building
material for Valdez. There is as yet
no mining in the immediate rieigh
borhood of Petersburg so that the
town is dependant entirely upon the
fishing and lumbering industries. In
the former respect she claims to he ;
the leading shipper of halibut in the i
world. There are now two general I
merchandise stores a; that point and '
other places of business either!
starting or expected to shortly. One !
peculiar feature of the place, for!
Alaska at least, is the absence of!
saloons, there is nothing of the kind
there and the management are quoted
as saying that they will use every
means in their power to prevent one
starting.
Fremont King, manager of the Ton
ga-s Trading Co., left on the Princess
May last night for a business trip to
the Sound.
J. H. Rogers, one of the operators !
of the Craekerjack mine, at Hollis’ j
came over yesterday after suppliesj
for his camp.
J. S. Dull, bookkeeper for the J
Britannia Smelting Co., at Mt. j
Andrew, is in town enroute to Bell
Island Hot Springs where he will
spend a short vacation.
M. A. Mitchell, the man who
handles the cash at the M. A M.
bank has purchased the Garrett resi
dence. The property is a good invest
ment and would make a nice ]
home if-well, time will tell.
The C. P. S. S. Princess May came
in south hound aljout eight o'clock \
last night. That company . from now
on will operate two boats, the May i
and Beatrice, on this run, each on
a fourteen day schedule.
FROM THURSDAY'S DAILY
Price & Teeple, of Chicago, piano
manufacturers, have one of their in
struments, a Cabinet Grand, on exhi
bition at the Tongass Trading Go.
This company expects to establish I
an agencv in Ketchikan as soon as the
necessary arrangements for same are
perfected.
X. Kitzmiller has accepted a posi- j
tioh as deputy marshal at the court
house. "Kitz" has had considerable
experience as a peace officer and will
undoubtedly he a valuable acquisition
to Mr. Campbell’s staff.
The Jefferson was in south bound
this morning arriving about 7 :’M.
She had a fair crowd of passengers
from northern points but little
freight for there. She took ten pass
engers, and 40 tierces of mild cured
salmon from Bergman's packing
house.
W. A. Langille, inspector of forest
reserves for Alaska who has been
away on a tou- of inspection return
ed last night. While gone lie visited
Sitka. Hoonah, Icy Straits, Peters
burg and many of the minor places
besides.
The shooting gallery now has its
new awning in place, a marked im
provement. By the way did you
notice that offer of •’Jimmie's" to
put up a pair of five dollar shoes for
the best score between now and July
titb 1
Jas. Millar left for the south this
morning on hoard the Jefferson. He
goes with the expectation of securing
the charter for Ketchikan lodge F. it
A. >1.
A. S. Dautrick, agent for the
Alaska S. S. Co., at Juneau, is in the
city, arriving on this morning’s Jeff
erson.
The Ketchikan Cannery Company’s
gasolene tender Creel arrived up
from the Sound about ten o’clock last
night with Lyle Blodgett in command.
She towed a scow carrying 4iXX> gal
lons of gasolene and was ten days on
the trip.
The steamer Humboldt was reported
out of Seatle last night. She should
arrive here Wednesday morning.
The boys at the shingle mill on
Georges Inlet are wondering what
sort of liquid refreshment W. J. Sully
acquired at Metlakahtla yesterday,
that made him get into Georges Inlet
on the way back, thinking he was
headed for Ketchikan.
PENCIL AND SCISSORS.
—The annual marvelous copper
strike on Hoodoo island is reported a
little early this year. Copper lodes of
large extent and stunning quality
have been announced each year since
11*00 by weary wayfarers on Hoodoo
island but none of them has ever
gotten past the announcement stage.
Still the same history has been re
corded of many districts which have
later produced gold, silver or copper
in fabulous quantities and Hoodoo
island may yet prove to be a bonanza.
The latest strike is about five miles
across the water from Beatson’s and
is near the beach.—Seward Gateway.
—Tanana has a directory which
shows a population of over 80tX) in
the town and on the producing creeks.
—Gateway.
—Mr. J. E. Ryus, of the Ryus Drug
Co.. Ketchikan, accompanied by his
wife and daughter, came up on the
Humboldt and remained until the
return trip to the same steamer. Dur
ing his stay here, Mr. Ryus made
arrangements for the establishment
of a drug store at this point. A por
tion of the Pioneer building will be
fitted up for the purpose, and when
ready, Mr. Ryus will send a first class
druggist and pharmacist to take
charge of the store.—Wrangell Senti
nel.
— ine following dispatch was printed
in the Juneau Dispatch of the 2!)th
ult. :
Seattle. May 29.—A dispatch from
the Fairbanks News says that
obection is madeto the selection of
Governor Hoggatt as the representa
tive of Alaska at the Alaska-Yukon
Pacitic fair ground breaking. Both
the Fairbanks News and the Fair
banks Times contain editorials pro
testing against the selection of Hog
gatt. The papers of Nome, Valdez
and Seward have joined the move
ment. The Daily Alaskan at Skag
way today joins the other papers in a
long editorial. The Fairbanks papers
expect to hear from the Ketchikan
Daily Miner today.
Why the Fairbanks papers should
expect to hear from the Ketchikan
Miner in a matter of such trilling
importance The Miner cannot clearly
comprehend. Looking at the matter
from almost any standpoint, this
paper cannot see any good reason why
Governor Hoggatt should not have
been invited to make the principal
address on the occasion referred to.
The Miner is not devoting itself
very largely to helping Seattle boost
the fair to the chief glory and benefit
of Seattle, and has no particular
concern about it, one way or the
other, consequently could have no
objection to the loan of Governor
Hoggattt for the purpose for which
he was desired. It may have had
some little sympathy for those who
were expected to be present and par
ticipating in the exercises, and
especially for the other orators who
would be made to feel even smallei
than 30 cents by comparison, but that
was all. The Fairbanks, Seward
and Nome editors were not under
any compulsion to be present at the
exercises in question—if they had
been tinder such compulsion, they
might have had a just cause to com
plain.
—The attitude of President Roose
velt and the rulings of the court have
placed the Seattle companies formed
to exploit Alaska coal lands, in a
peculiarly unpleasant predicament.
They have sold stock, hut have no
way of gobbling up the coal.—Doug
las News.
Newspaper men in Alaska are
winning fame, hut of an unenviable
sort. One makes a meal off of an
opponent in a fight, another gets the
grand bounce from a public office,
and now comes this Tanana fellow,
who when captured, has to he chain
ed to the deck of a steamboat!—
Douglas News.
—At Fairbanks, Judgo Gunnison
has issued an injunction restraining
the striking miners from interfering
with the operation of mining proper
ties.
Boise, June 6.—Harry Orchard, the
self confessed murderer of ex-Gover
nor Stunenberg, stood by his guns
yesterday and today on the witness
stand when he repeated in sultstance
all he had said in his confession about
Haywood's complicity in the killing
of Idaho’s former governor. Orchard
is evidenty sincere in his claihi of
religion, and intends, apparently, to
make a clean breast of# the whole
thing. During the course of his
testimony he related several instances
in which the Federation had used him
in unlawful practices and made such
an impression upon the jury that it
will take a tremendous amount of
evidence by the defense to remove,
even if they can ever do so. Orchard
told his story in such a way and with
such an air of candor that it could
not help but carry conviction into
the minds of his hearers.
Tokio, Japan, June 6.—The papers
of this city are still clamoring for
the government to take some action
on the resolution offered by Uaron
Okuma the radical leader of parlia
ment, demanding that the United
Slates be called upon to apologize for
San Francisco, Juno 4.—Gov. Gil
lett last night announced that he had
appointed a committee of leading
Californians to secure industrial
iacene the state.
Canton, China, June 6.—Another
rebellion is reported from the Gulf of
Tongking, the former abode of
priates. The authorites claim that
they have subdued the first outbreak,
but it is a noticeable fact that they
are rushing troops into the region as
though they expected the trouble to
continue. Not far from Hong Kong,
the women are reported to have form
ed regiments and will join, with the
men. in the struggle to overthrow the
government. Several high officials
have been captured there by the in
surgents and put to death with
horrible tortures. Grave fears are
entertained for the safety of the
missionaries in the disaffected dis
tricts.
Fresno, Cal., June 3.—F. Jackson, a
farmer living near this city was
arrested Saturday for cruelty. Jack
son, who is a big, brawny fellow, has
been in the habit of hitching his wife
and sixteen year old daughter to his
plow and making them pull it. Satur
day he concluded that it was too warm
for him to walk to town, a distance
of about three miles, so he hitched
them to his buggy and made them
haul him in. The citizens outraged
at the sight were for lynching him,
but wiser council prevailed, so he
was arrested for cruelty and will get
a sentence of at least six months in
jail at hard labor.
Franklin, Wash., June 3.—J. Mor
ris, a negro miner of this place, while
drunk made a brutal attack upon his
wife. Attracted by his mother’s
screams. W. H. Morris, the son of
the couple, rushed into the room and
shot his father dead. He latter gave
himself up to the authorities. Morris’
ungovernable temper while he was
under the inlluence of drink is well
known here and the sentiment of the
community is with the boy.
Mexico, June 5.—General Moralles,
last night confessed to assassinating
Dr. Barrillas, president of Honduras.
He will be shot.
Washington, June 3.—Naval author
ities have just figured out that the
additions to the navy recently decid
ed upon by the German parliament,
raises that country to second place
among the naval powers of the world.
St. Petersburg, Russia, June 3.—
Desiring to bring about the death of
the Grand Duke Constantine who
was on a train enroute to this city,
a party of nihilists stole a locomotive
standing on a side track and started
it down the track at full speed toward
the Grand Duke’s train. The result
was a wreck in which several people,
lost their lives hut the Grand Dukei
escaped unharmed.
San Francisco, June 6.—Gov. Gil
lett has sent a personal report to Pres
ident Roosevelt on the position and
treatment of the Japanese on the
Pacific coast. The report has been
kept secret hut is considered to be a
forerunner of governfhent investiga
tion upon which the President will
base his action in the matter.
Allentown, Pa., June 0.—Incen
diaries set this town on fire in four
places at once this morning in an
evident attempt to burn up the town.
Tiio fires were extinguished and the
town saved only with the greatest
difficulty.
San Francisco, June <’>.—The Japan
ese consul in this city has signified
his intention of suing the city for
damages the restaurant at the Japan
ese bathhouse sustained in the recent
attack upon it by the mob. He main
tains that it is the city’s duty to pre
serve the peace, and in failing to at
least attempt to do so, is liable fur
the damages inflicted.
Washintgon, Juno 0.—President
Roosevelt today sent formal notice to
the navy department that he would
inspect the Atlantic fleet off Chesa
peake Ray, July 4th.
Seattle, June fl.— Recause her hus
band winked at another woman in one
of the street cars of this city, Minnie
McFadden, went to police headquar
ters and told of a murder the man bad
committed in the east. McFadden lias
been arrested and an Inquiry about
the alleged murder has been sent < ast.
Seattle, June .3— Local longshore
men struck on unloading a Japanese
vessel in the harbor here Saturday.
M. Furuya and other prominent .(Mil
anese took the matter up, and gath< r
ed together their countrymen, unload
ed the vessel. Much ill-feeling exists
and trouble is feared,
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