The Ketchikan miner., 1907-10-05
KETCHIKAN
Local Happenings of the Past Seven Days TerseIy
 Told.
(From Tuesday's s Daily)

M. ID. lckiS, Q. B. Prime, Wm Tucker, J. Ball and Wm. Mcdonald are at the Stedman today.
 L. H. Cumminger, foreman at tht Niblack mine, is in town today il search for miners who desire employ. ment.
 Mir. and Mrs. Wm. NJ. Ebuer, o Juneau, were passengers to their pres ent place of residence on the Cottage City yesterday. It is understood here that Mir. Ebner has disposed of all hi: interests in and around Juneau, and contemplates a removal to California.
 The Alert, which will make hel regular mail run tomorrow, will make a round tri ip rate of Sl. 90 to Metla. kahtla for all who wish to attend the Father Duncan jubilee exercises. leav- ing here at the usual hour. Return ing. she will stop at Metlakahtla and remain until after the conclusion oi the exercises at the church. thus en. abling all round trip passengers to that place to get home the same day.
 Today is the fiftieth anniversary ot Father William Duncan's missionary labors among Simpsean natives, and the people of Metlakahtla are giving two days to an appropriate celebration of the event. vieing each with the other in the manifestation of tokens of respect and reverence and love for the good old man to whom they are so largely indebted. Mir. Duncan left Plymouth, England, December %, 1858, and arrived at Port Simpson, October l, the following year, where he at once began his missionary labors as teacher, though he did not at tempt to preach to the people among whom he settled until he had suffici- ently mastered their language to en- able him to expound the scripture, in their own tongue and without the aid of an interpreter. Here he remained 1 till the summer of 1887, when compli- cations for which neither he nor his people were in any wise to blame ! forced him and them to abandon the we'll regulated, orderly. prosperous and christian settlement they had founded, and migrate to their pres ent home on Annette island, known as Metlakahtla. He and large number of lis people reached the latter place August :, 1887 and signalized their landing by unfolding to the breeze from the top of one of the tallest trees on the island, which had been trimmed 1 for the purpose, the American flag which they saluted, and to which they declared their allegiance from that time forward. The exercises today will consist of an address this evening by Mr. Duncan in response to the greeting and respectful congratula- tions of his people, while tomorrow will be made day of general jubilee and rejoicing with an address to Mir. Duncan, to be made by Rev. J. A. 1 Chapman at the request and on behalf of his people. h the evening the Oratario of the Messiah will be rend- cred in the church.
 The following comes to The Miner from an apparently almost heartbrok- en mother at Washington, D. C., to which it most willingly gives in- sertion free of charge, in the hope that if any one who may find the lost son alive and we'll may consider it his duty to kick some sense of decency and of flial duty into his what must be worse than worthless carcass. Nothing but death can excuse such neglect by son of such mother 1 Wanted-To know the whereabouts of my son, Irwin Brewer, who went to l Alaska, Oct, 1905. Was last heard Of at Seward, Alaska just after arrival : since then nothing has been heard from him. I am getting very feeble and old; indeed, my life is simply wasting away from sorrow and anxie ty If anyone knows where he now ! is, or has ever seen or known him, they will grant great favor by com municating with me at once. If he. ! himself should see this notice, I beg him, in the name of God, to write me at once. He is now twentyseven years of age, about it., 6 in. tall, dark hair, blue eyes, and has deep scar over right eye. Hoping for some information from anyone concerning him, I am sincerely,
 Mrs. s. F. Brewer,
 1230 Fla. Ave. N. E.,
 Washington, D. C.
 Alderman Jacob E. Pittenger, who went south week or two ago ostensi- bly to buy COW or two for his milk ranch, managed to escape the Seattle spirit, and is now searching for what he wants in the dairy line way down in North Central Ohio. Joking aside, Mir. Pittenger, who has not been East for good many years, concluded after reaching and concluding his business on the sound, to continue on his journey to Ohio and pay visit to his father whom he has not seen ir many years and who is 8 years of age, and quite feeble. The aged gen.