The Ketchikan miner., 1907-05-04
KETCHIKAN
Local Happenings of the Past Seven Days Tersely
 Told.
FROM TUESDAYS DAILY

Deputy Marshal Campbell returned this morning on the City of Seattle, from Mt. Tabor, where he had gone to take Mrs. kallazeny, the insane woman who recently made an attempt at suicide. He left the woman in an apparently cheerful frame of mind. and in an improved state of physical health. He left the husband in Port land, where it is hoped he will either have to earn living or starve.
 Superintendent Pullman. of the portage wagon road, is in town today on business.
 The Marion will tow the scow B. D. Brown, with 75 tons of coal, to Niblack, tonight or tomorrow morn- ing.
 If boss Miller shortly finds him. self in a place where he can neither fish nor cut bait, he will have no one to blame but himself.
 Advices have been received to the effect that the mine owners have again elongated the price of coal and decline to give any assurance of sup plying the demand with any degree of certainty as to time.
 A strike that is likely to prema- turely end the seasons operations of the fish dealers engaged in the mild curing and cold storage packing of salmon is now on. The strike, if such it can properly be turm:d. is based on demand for higher prices from the buyers of salmon to which the latter will not accede, with the declaration that they cannot do so and continue in business, except at a loss to themselves.
 It appears that up to last Thursday the buyers were paying 50 cents each for red salmon T. pounds or more in weight, 30 cents each for reds below that weight, D cents for whites weighing over T. pounds, and half price for whites of less weight-the buyers taking the fish at the place where caught. An i'll advised buyer for one concern. and who now finds himself out of employment. ran the price up to D cents for reds. regard less of size, and in consequence one or two buyers withdrew. The buyers. however, held meeting and agreed upon price of 50 cents, each for reds and ? cents each for whites. regardless of size. Thereupon, the fishermen organized and appointed a committee consisting of two white men, and three natives-one Thlinket. one Hydah and one Simpsean-and this committee came back at the buyers with demand for 50 cents each for all salmon, without regard to size or color, accompanied by threat of personal violence and property damage to any and all fishermen who might dare to sell for less. This threat has been partially carried into effect by the violent eviction of two or three native fishermen from the 1 fishing grounds, while hundreds of valuable fish have been permitted to spoil, and others are being practically wasted by dying.
 The report is that one Miller, a professional agitator, is at the bottom of the trouble, and if so, it would be no more than even and exact justice, If not made to suffer at the hands of the law, should he have, when the affair is ended, goodly unstrained portion of that commodity meted out to him by those to whom he will be indebted for the loss of many hundreds, if not thousands, of good, hard, round dollars, they otherwise would have earned.
 Call at Frye, Bruhn CO. $ market Try our Rose of Ellensburg butter. Fresh shipments on every boat. *dw-
 FROM WEDNESDAYS DAILY
 MT. Frye, lately with the Tongass Trading company, went to Niblack this morning to enter upon the dis charge of his duties as bookkeeper for the Niback Copper comp pany.
 The Marion has gone to tow the scow B. D. Brown. with 75 tons of coal, to Niblack. She has also on board the cars and sheaves for the tramway at the Hydah mine.
 Thomas Stevens, the prospector, has struck ore on his mining location adjoining the Goodro property, at Karta bay. The ore is bornite. exactly like that of the Goodro, and Mr. Stevens says, occurs in lenticular form, but he is as yet unprepared to say anything definite as to the extent of the deposit, other than tha1 the lenses outcrop all over the surface of the location. The samples brought to town are apparently as rich as any ever found in the district.
 Henry Clay Horsley, of cable fame, went to Port Stewart on the Meta this morninD, with trawl and five hundred fathoms of line, intent on breaking the fishermen's strike and bringing in the biggest salmon ever caught in these waters ar in lien of that uotb-