The Ketchikan miner., 1907-08-31

scow load of timber and lumber to tn
 Nihlack mine. On her return sh
 will bring in raft of logs from Chol mondeley sound.
 The Ketchikan cannery is within 1000 cases of completing the pack fo which provision had originally beer made, and has ordered more tins with the intention of continuing oper ations as long as the run of salmon continues.
 w. W. Butler, an old time resident and prospector of this section, arrived up on the Humboldt yesterday, for q look around over his old stamping ground. Mir. Butler is resident of Seattle, but may conclude to pass the winter here.
 The schooner Myrtle, with her master of 6 feet inches elongation, is at the Heckman wharf discharging a hundred or more barrels of salmon bellies taken and salted at Nakat har- bor, near Port Tongass, by Alex Mil lar, who during the season sold about 20, GOO red fish to the canneries. The Alaskan arrived over from the west Coast of Prince of Wales about 10 o'clock this morning, and goes to Mt. Andrew and other Kasaan bay points this afternoon with freight. Returning she will sail on her regular Seattle run tomorrow, her cargo con- sisting in most part of ore from the Jumbo mine.
 Miss Etta Clark, of this place keeps gradually ascending to the head in the Post scholarship con- test, now standing eighth in list of vote of 126. 950. It now looks as if with little effort on the part of her friends in this section, she might be able to land the prize.
 The tug Pioneer, with the barge Sonoma in tow, passed down this morning on her return trip from the whaling station at Murder cove, Admiralty, island to which place she lowed the barge with a cargo of fuel oil about two weeks ago. The Miner learns that the detention of the tug and barge was due to the unprepared- ness of the station to receive the Sonoma's cargo.
 Prof. Leo Ranney, the new superin- tendent of the Ketchikan public schools, arrived on the Humboldt yes terday. Prof. Ranney comes from Seattle where he has until recently been principal of the Salmon bay pub lie school, and therefore, though young man, is not without experience as an educator. The schools, for the fall and winter term, will reopen next Monday.
 Geo. E. Moran, of Chicago, is in town representing the Inter-Ocean, of that city, in a well meant desire to make itself useful to this section and Alaska generally as an instrument of wide publicity in the way of herald ing to the world the magnitude of its natural resources as by way of invit- ing the attention and enlistment oi capital in their more speedy develop ment. As The Miner goes to press meeting to hear the proposition he has to offer is in progress at the library building.
 (From Wednesdays Daily
 s. P. Garness and J. H. Hartley. of Kiam arrived over last night, and are quartered at the Revilla.
 L. A. Babcock, wife, Miss Pearl and Master Louis E. Babcock their children, are registered at the Re- villa
 N. o. Lawton, manager of mines for the Brown. Alaska company is a passenger south today on brief busi- ness trip to Seattle.
 s. ". McGrew, who has been so- journing at the Goodro location, Karta bay, left on the Dolphin today for his home in Cleveland, Ohio.
 The Marion, having had the leak in her boiler repaired, sailed this after noon for Maple bay, with number of men to work in the mines of the Brown-Alaska company at that place.
 The many friends of Peter McKin- non, the veteran local navigator, and pioneer resident of Ketchikan, will regret to learn that he is seriously ill, at the Ketchikan cannery location, where he has been employed the past several months.
 A placard posted on the Heckman wharf makes inquiry for one Jack Quincy, who is ''wanted to save man from prison, and asks any one knowing the whereabouts of that indi- vidual to communicate with J. $. Wheeler, Nome, or with Minna Craemer, 1739 Melrose place, Seattle
 Jack Caughlan, the man who was picked up last Friday morning from where he had fallen on the rocks be- |. n