The Ketchikan miner., 1907-08-10
KETCHIK
Local Happenings of the Past Seven Days Tersely
 Told.

the Portman hatchery for few days returned to their temporary abiding place at the Revilla last evening, ant report having had most enjoyable outing.
 Billy Schlothan, who has been or the sick list for several days, is all O. K. again, as big as life, and twice as active as heretofore.
 Marko Jackich, a miner employed at the Mamie mine, met with pain ful accident day or two ago, by hay ing his foot crushed by a heavy piece of rock falling upon it from an ore bucket he was handling. He is now in the ho spital at Hadley.
 The Tacoma builder reports slow progress on the new hull for the tug Vigilant, which will probably not be completed much, if any. before the first of September.
 Kazie Krauczunas, immigrant in- spector. has gone to Nome, in pursu- anee of his official duties. He goes by way of the White Pass and Yukon river route, stopping long enough at Skagway for an interview with his brother inspector of unprouneeable cognomen. and taking in Fairbanks and other prominent places enroute. He will be absent from Ketchikan about six weeks.
 FROM MONDAYS DAILY | Buy a ticket for the benefit ball given by the Degree of Pocohontas, Thursday night Aug. Sth for worthy me n Der in distress. Tickets sl. co. Refreshments consisting of Stokes Seattle ice cream, home made cake, coffee and sandwiches will be served from Pocohontas dining rooms. A change of proprietors of the Owl cafe, Dock street, took place this morning, H. c. Burgarg succeeding l Williams l5 Hardwick.
 The City of Seattle is reported as having left Vancouver at one o'clock yesterday afternoon, and should arrive here at an early hour tomorrow morning.
 | ". A. Patterson commenced the work of repiling the Heckman wharf this morning. Many of the old piles Lave been so badly injured by the teredos, as to threaten the safety Of the wharf, and it was deemed wise to take time by the forelock and thus provide against possible accident.
 The ''humpieso continue to in crease in numbers, the waters of the Narrows being fairly alive with them. The local cannery cannot begin to | handle all that are taken even by it's own crews, ard many are being sent to Kasaan and Loring, though last year it was the rule, rather than the exception to draw upon kasaan waters and others at distance for the raw material from which to make the Ketchikan pack.
 | The master of the excursion ship who does not give his tourists a reasonable length of time in Ketchi- 1 kan to see what is to be seen, robs them of sight he will not afford , them chance to see elsewhere dur ing the entire yoyage-that of thous- ands of salmon leaping falls fifteen to twenty feet in height.
 The Peterson, army tender to Fort William H. Seward, passed up to- day, stopping only long enough tc take on coal left here for her use some two months ago. She has been undergoing repairs and a general oyerhauling at Seattle.
 The Henriette arrived up last night, and after discharging enough coal to fill present demands for hall bushel lots, departed this morning for Sulzer. where she will take on [ cargo of Jumbo ore for one of the British Columbia smelters. The Jum- bo bunkers are full, and the Henriette taking thousand tons will go but . little way in relieving the pressure on their capacity.
 John Beasley, the carpenter. is branching out in new direction, and doing something of which he may wei be proud. His latest effort is book or specimen case now on exhibition in the window of Heckman's 5 furni- ture department and it is hummer. It is built of Alaska yellow cedar with deer horn legs and the whole thing is elaborately decorated witf burnt work making very handsome and artistic piece of furniture.
 The Alert will sail at l o'clock 1T the morning for the Portaqe ant Chomley and her regular Karta ant , Kasaan bay ports.
 The next day or two will be long on steamsboats, the Seattle is duo up about 6 o'clock tomorrow morning, the Jefferson "Wednesday morning while the Dolphin is due to happer along southbound any old time, ant Cottage will be in tomorrow morning
 Mr. and Mrs. Frank Shelton return 1 cd on the Princess Royal this morn