The Ketchikan miner., 1907-05-18
FROM FRIDAYS DAILY

FROM F'RlDA ' 5 DAILY The Marion took over 20 men this morning to work in the mines and shelter at Hadley.
 The Vigilant arrived up from Port land canal at four o'clock yesterday afternnon towing the barge Japan laden with ore for the Haoley shelter.
 Got Two Months -J. Johnson, for some time cook on the barge Japan, was sentenced this morning to two months in the U. $. jail, for stealing canned goods from the boat. Johnson had been discharged, and when pack ing his kit to take it away last night, slowed some canned goods belonging to the boat in it. Capt. Gus Groot discovered the theft and told John- son that if he would bring them back nothing would be done about it. This he failed to do and warrant was sworn out for his arrest with the result stated.
 Location of Fire Hydrants-The fire and water. committee of the town council have been busy lately decid- ing on the location for new hydrants for fire fighting purposes. They have decided to install three new ones on the fresh water system as follows: One on Mission street just east of the Episcopal church, one in front of Guthries store on the east end of Mission street, and one on the walk to the cannery about midway be- tween Guthrie's store and the south boundary of the town. Nine new hvdrants will be installed on the salt water system now going in-one each at the following corners: On Mission and Main, Main and Dock, Dock and Front, Market and Front, Custom house alley and Front, Front and Grant, and three equally distant from each other along the Newtown walk, the last at Cornell x Thomp- sons store.
 The tug Challenge, after the com pletion of repairs at the Northern Machine works and official inspection, left this forenoon for Klawlk, her home port, via Wrangell.
 Two men, named Montgomery and Munson who, had been employed in construction work on the portage road. arrived here on the Alert this morning in a crippled condition, occasioned by accidentally cutting their feet while at work, the first named sustaining a wound which will lay him up for a month or more. If the story these men tell is true, a job on that road is good one for work ing men to hold aloof from. They assert that the men are aroused from their hunks at o'clock in the morn ing, have breakfast at six, and are then required to walk to their work in their own time, and then put in ten full hours on the work of con-
 
 struction. They say that no provision has been made for the care or treat ment of those taken ill or injured by accident, and that in their own cases they were made to pay board for the time elapsing between the hour they were disabled and the arrival of any boat by which they could get away and come into town for necessar y care and trea tment-and then their fares both ways were deducted from their pay checks. They claim that the outfit has nothing in the way of medi- cines except horse liniment, and that is their cases the cooks apron had to be torn into strips for bandages with which to bind up their wounds. It seems almost incredible that men could be expected to remain long at work under such ircumstances-and it would not be surprising should a general exodus shortly ensue. Yet it is possible, even probable, that there may be two sides to the story.