The Ketchikan miner., 1907-07-27
KETCHIKAN
Local Happenings of the Pa Seven Days Tersely
 Told.


 while men, who were receiving COL
 pensation at the rate of 8 cents ca for reds and $7.50 per thousand
 humpies, made demand on Thu day for an increase equal to about per cent, which the manager refus to grant and yesterday morning we out ana gathered in the boats { nets which he lowed in and tied at the cannery, and there the mat rests. The agreement with the fish men was practically for the purch of the fish taken, the company furni ing the boats and nets, and mak it's own delivery from the fish gounds to the cannery. But few are running and the action of strikers looks very much like attempt on the part of the strikers hold the cannery management respd ible for the scarcity.
 Hon. Wm. Sulzer left on the phin today for trip down the kon, taking in all the poin ts of in est on the way, inlcuding side from Fort Yukon up the Chand as far as Caro. He will go as far Nome and possibly Point Barrow. goes partly on business, and partl. further acquaint himself thro personal observtion with the sources and prevailing conditions the great country in which he such an abiding faith and manif so much interest in and out of q gress.
 W. c. Freeburn, manager of Mt Andrew mines, is in town tod and that reminds us that the big $ Haldis on her down trip will takd full cargo of Mt. Anrdew ore, inst of going to Sulzer as stated yes day. All the available space at Mt. Andrew, from the bunkers to stepes, are filled chockablock VI ore, and as between that mine the Jumbo the question is no longer one of cargoes for the Mackenzie ships, but one of the latter meeting their demands for transportation.
 The Japan. The Victoria Colonist says that the ill-fated Japan was ar old bark of 669 tons, built 3S years ago by O. A. Brodin, of Gefle, Sweden. She was 155. feet long, 33.2 feet beam and 1S.8 feet deep. She came to Victoria some years ago from Valparaiso and was sold here by her Chillian owners and was converted into barge, being used until short time ago in carrying coal between Comox and the Sound. On her arrival from Chilli the Japan lay for some time in James bay and achieved considerable notoriety in consequence of number of thefts of bicycles that were traced home to two members o1 her crew. The two men, both Chil, ians, stole bicycles and took them tC pieces, secreting the portions -of the stolen wheels in the hold of the Japan The local detectives unearthed the pieces and the two Chilians were sent to jail.
 Haines is all torn up over a lant imbroglo in which.Col Sol Ripinsky is seeking to have made good his title to forty acres of land embraced in the townsite which, to the certain knowledge of The Miner, he bought and paid for nearly, if not quite twenty years ago. The land covers what is now the principa busness part of the town, and th' pending suit is expected to come III for trial before Judge Wickershan in August.
 The Ketchikan cannery appears tt be getting enough fish, principal. humpbacks to keep'going, and manage Rounsfell thinks he will have no diff cutv in making up the pack for whicl he set out in the beginning.
 FROM MONDAYS DAILY
 Finer Than Silk.-The new steam ship Princess Royal, of the Canadia Pacific line, put in her first appear ance this forenoon, with Capt Hughes, formerly of the Princes Beatrice, in command. She not onl presents a most inviting exterior view, but is pronounced by all wh boarded her while at the wharf, al being the finest and most elaboratel finished and furnished ship ever ye seen in these waters.
 Mrs. Willis Murphy, who sustaine an injury at the rink one day las week, is so far recovered as to b able to be out and around again.
 Mrs. A. A. Wakefild and childre arrived up from Maple bay on th Marion, and after visiting for fe' days with friends here, will go Hadley for more protracted sta with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joh Mclaughlin.
 Mrs. J. II. Mclaughlin, an daughter Belle, returned to thei home at Hadley on the Marion today | Rorn-Fridav nipht Julv 19 l90l