The Ketchikan miner., 1907-08-24
KETCHIKAN
Local Happenings of the Past Seven Days Tersely
 Told.
(From Mondays Daily)


 this morning.
 c. c. Page, clerk of the U. s. dist rict court for the first division distric of Alaska, arrived down from Juneal on the Humboldt last night, and i' registered at the Revilla.
 Mrs. A. E. King and Jack Douglas of the Sunny Point salmon saltinl establishment Sundayed in Ketchikan returning home this morning on tht Oracle Felitz.
 Brigadier General Elliot, accompa nied by Mrs. Elliot and an aide, is { passenger this trip on the Cottage City. He is on tour of inspection O. posts and stations in Alaska.
 Tracy James returned yesterday afternoon on the Cottage City, aftel an absence of two months. Mrs James and their little daughter re. mained in Seattle and will not come up for month.
 Geo. l.. Marrs, a Denver mining engineer and expert, who has been 1T this section for a week or ten days Investigating the mining conditions and prospects, left enroute for his home on the steamship Humboldt last night.
 Attorney T. R. Lyons, of Juneau, who has been in this section the past week on legal business, sailed fol home on the Jefferson this morning ir custody of his better half, who came down on the Humboldt to meet and escort him home.
 Rev. Joseph A. Chapman, Fremont King and Geo. c. Chesney left this afternoon in Mr. Kings gasolene launch Venus for voyage of discov- cry around Revillagigedo island, in- tending to be gone a week unless driven back by stress of weather.
 Neil Walker, of the American Marble company, Calder, Prince oi Wales island, is in town, presumably to look after the reshipment of a lot of wire cable and machinery landed here from the steamship Jefferson-tc be forwarded by first boat sailing for that place.
 Attorney Chas. H. Cosgrove re- turned from Juneau Saturday on the Dolphin. Mr. Cosgrove's visit to Juneau was in behalf of the town of Ketchikan at the hearing in the pro- tested application for mineral entry within the town limits of Ole Hamre and Walter s. Coutant-not on a political mission as stated by one of the Juneau papers.
 The teachers and students from Eastern colleges mentioned as having gone north two or three weeks ago, on tour of scientific research, having more particular reference to the flora of the country, arrived back Saturday afternoon, after having spent some time at and around Skagway, Sitka and Juneau. The party, which is under guidance and tutorage of Prof. Henry c. Cowles, of the University Of Chicago, one of the leading educators of the United States, in addition to himself and wife consists of Elizabeth G. and Louise Robertson and Emma Dalfngle, of Louisville, Ky, Rose mary F. Mullen and Louise Haessler, N. Y. City, Betty Haessler, Milwau- kee Wis. Adele Laskner and Flora Holmstead, Chicago; Freda Detmer, Columbus, o. ;; Estella D. Fogel, How ard, Ark. !: N. Johanna Kildahl, Maza, N. D., and Adah NJ. Field. The party went to Hadley and Kasaan bay points this morning. Prof. Cowles tells The Miner that it is his inten- ton to return next year for longer stay and more extended research, after which he will embody his obser- vations in detailed report for publi- cation.
 (From Tuesdays Laily)
 J. L. Abrams, of the customs sel- vice, is off to spend a part of his annual thirty days vacation hunting and fishing at Union bay, northeast side of Cleveland peninsula.
 Mai. Simmons, of the Alaska Cop per company, who has been in the district the past two weeks on busi- ness looking to the rejuvenation of the affairs of the Coppermount mine and shelter, is registered at the Stedman.
 E. w. Gurney reports having a fine garden at the mouth of Unuk river, where all the seeds planted last spring have produced in abundance. Mr. Gurney has staked 320 acres as a homestead for which he intends to make application for entry and will hereafter devote much of his time to tilling the soil.'
 Old fishermen assert that the run of salmon this season exceed in numbers that of any one year in the last decade and they are still coming in vast schools. It does not appear possible that so many salmon could ever have been spawned in the Ketchikan creek notwithstanding the assertion that