The Ketchikan miner., 1907-09-07
KETCHIKAN
Local Happenings of the Past Seven Days Tersely
 Told.
(From Tuesdays Daily)


 hand, is the hoasted town of Prime Rupert, B. c. F. D. and F. o. Dem CTS, of Seattle, but who have spen most of their time during the past tel years at Dawson and Fairbanks, arriv ed here Monday from that place ol the Princess Royal, and are stayin, at the Revilla. They went there witt a view to purchasing lot ant erecting a business building, bu found it town so entirely closed ant tightly sealed that they could get nt place to sleep or anything to eat The company, who owns the site declin, all offers for the purchase of lots, ant will not permit any one to engage il any sort of business, evidently being intent upon reserving to itself all tn, best property and holding the balance for high prices when the building O the railroad to that place shall have become an assured certainty. The company, instead of booming the place, is doing its utmost to keep peo pie out-will not even permit the in. stallation of newspaper plant.
 (From Wednesdays Daily)
 Mrs. Agnes McAlpin and Mrs. T. J. Case and children, of Wrangell, are registered at the Revilla.
 The Ketchikan creek is on the rampage, and the salmon that makes the ascent today will have to have wings rather than cartilaginous os. sicles. The break in the water supply from to a. n., was occasioned by the choking up the screen at the in. take of the mains, caused by the debris brought down by the flood.
 The ketchican cannery completed its pack of 40, ,000 cases yesterday morning, just as it received catch oi 5000 red fish from Boca de Quadra, which it was unable to handle for the want of cans or tins for making them. But for this lack of tin, the cannery could have increased its pack to the extent of. 5000 cases or more. The superintendens made every possible effort to obviate this difficulty, but without avail
 Jack Laughlap, the man who was held in jail as a disorderiy person, and who it was feared might be found a proper subject for examination in lu- macy proceedings, will be discharged in a day or two, having fully recover ed his senses, and being to all appear ances as bright and chipper as-when he fell off the sidewalk to where he lay unconscious in the rain for period of eleven hours. Whether he will profit by the experience remains to be seen.
 The Alaska Packers cannery at Loring is within 5000 cases of her full pack of S5, GOO, and would be full up, but for the fact that the management is holding out the 5000 cases for echoes With which he expects to fill them. 50 far The Miner has not heard of any cannery in this part of Alaska that is unlikely to achieve a full pack on the other hand, some oi them are likely to exceed the output for which preparations had been made at the beginning of the season. At the same time there is likely to be a considerable falling off in the Alaska and Pacific Coast pack as whole, con pared with the total of last year.
 The looked-for steamship Tran sit of the British Coast Steamship line, is likely to be some days late in her arrival at this port. She sailed from Karatza, Japan, on the 10th oi August with full cargo of coal, and arrived at Astoria, on the Both. She was originally scheduled for Victoria, but shortly before sailing her destina- tion was changed to Columbia river. Subsequently orders were sent to her captain at Astoria directing him Lc proceed to Puget Sound but for some reason the order was not needed, and the ship continued up the river tc Portland where the agent of the Paci- Ha n uh n was consigned, refuses to receive il for the reason that the bunkers anC wharves are all full and there is nc place to store the coal. A knowledge of this fact undoubtedly was the req son for the effort being made to divert the ship from the mouth of the Co. lumbia. Whatever may have beer the reason, her captains refusal tc obey orders will undoubtedly cause ; delay of several days in the entry O his ship in the ore carrying trade O this district.
 The scientists will have to revise their theories concerning the habit! and characteristics of the salmon, ap parently. Here the canneries have been struggling through heavy rur of humpbacks until just at the close o the season, when the sockeyes whicl should come second in the usual orde of salmon invasion, begin to put il their appearance, to the chagrin, 0 the management of the Ketchikal