The Ketchikan miner., 1907-03-23
KETCHIKAN
What Her busy Citizens are doing Local Happenings of Va.
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Dolphin.
 The child who cries for the moor and dosen't get it is usually better of next day.
 An honest. hearty laugh is the best tonic for dropping spirit; try it-it's cheap.
 The Dolphin. on her last up triI carried fifty employees for one of the IChilkat cannerieS.
 l Craig Millar. manager of the store at Hunter bay cannery, has been in town for few days.
 When the snow ceases to fall The Miner will be more than pleased to l make a note of the fact.
 A. w. Geiger has resigned from the superintendency of the Hadley shelter, and goes to the states. but whether 10 accept similar position elsewhere is not known.
 s. ]. Goodro. of karta Bay. is in the city. He reports that work is progressing favorably on the Goodro- Thomas property. with values holding mp and lots of ore in sight.
 Al kreidler' s smiling face is on the streets again accompanied by his iovial body of course. Al returned or the last Jefferson from rather pro- tracted visit to his old home in Ken lucky.
 Thos. Riddle. Esq. the we'll known shelter operator and manager. is in town. Though the fact has not been announced. it is an open secret that he will succeed Dr. Johnson as man. ager of the Hadley smelter. w. J. Thomas. Philadelphia cap italist. who is interested with Captain John Irving in mining properties at Whitehorse '. T., passed up on the Dolphin sunday. He will stop here for the purpose of looking at some properties in this district on his way back.
 The papers have begun their annual stories of races between steamships plying on the southeastern Alaska route; this too, despite the well known fact that racing is forbidden by the management of both the prin- cipal lines. The first is reputed race between the City of Seattle and the Jefferson on their last voyage north. There could have been no race on that occasion. at least north of here. owing to the fact of the difference between the ports at which the steamers were obliged to call.
 They're Losing No Time.-The members of the Bachelor Club are losing no time in following up the suggestions of the Daily Miner last week. and yesterday demonstrated to the Thimble Club what fine house keepers they are. The occasion was the house warming of the Bachelor Clubs bungalow. from , to o'clock. and right royalty they entertained the ladies of the Thimble Club and their gentlemen friends. Refresh- ments-liquid and solid-were served. and music, both vocal and phono- graphic. was rendered to the complete satisfaction of both visitors and bachelors.
 Some mistake about this, probably. The Soo Mich. Times tells of fair maiden named Rose Sweitzer who will soon leave that place for Juneau to wed the man of her choice. John Trigg. "a well known merchant and trader" There may be man in Alaska of that name who is well known merchant and trader, but if so his well knownness hasn't spread to this remote part of the confines there of. However, the News says his place of business is located about 1900 miles from Juneau at which place he will come to meet his bride some timen ext month The mistake comes in the further statement that the bride when she reaches her new home will have travelled 2,6OO miles-it will have been 3. 800 when she arrives at Juneau.
 The Wrangell chamber of com- merce will issue a 1OO-page pamphlet, descriptive of that city, and scatter them to all parts of the civilized world. Ketchikan ought to do the same, and not be slow in doing 1t.
 There are enough bankers in the Ohio penitentiary to finance prison newspaper, but unfortunately for the scheme there are no printers in the penitentiary to do the mechanical work. A Nome paper suggests that the solution of the native problem will be found in ''herding" them on reservations long ways from civilization.
 Juneau expects to have powder manufacturing plant, and the Douglas News expresses the hope that it may not be opened with blowout. Roth tho Valdez and Seward uaDers