The Ketchikan miner., 1907-09-07

among the latter Miss Minta Foster,
 government school teacher at Kiln
 quan, and H. L. Clark, of Seattle.
 Those old stagers, M. E. Martin,
 Peter Mckinnon and Mickey Doyle
 went to the Bell Island hot springs
 yesterday. The ex-Mayor went
 loaded for assuming, of course,
 that rocks may be considered effective
 implements of warfare in dealing
 with wild animals of their ferocious
 class.
 The carpenters will about complete their work on the Stedman annex this
 week, with the exception of finishing up the main stairway from the hotel proper, when the rooms will be ready for carpeting and the reception of fur niture. It is expected that it will be ready for the reception of guests not later than October l. When this an- nex is opened Ketchikan will be able to boast better and more commodious hotel accommodations than any other town in Alaska.
 The plant of the Ketchican Power Company-saw and blaming mill, dry house and the coneomitants of first class lumber manufacturing and finish ing concern-is Ketchican's most i'm portant and flourishing industry. It cuts about B, 900 feet per day, and can, when emergency requires approx innate 40, 1000. It gives employment, at good wages, to about 40 men, independ- ent of those engaged in getting out logs on contract, and supplies practi- cally all the lumber used in building up the town and required by the sur rounding mining camps, besides filling large orders from distance. It's inn portance to the town cannot easily be over- estimated.
 The fates seem to be against Jim- mic Cummings in his quest for 'mo- wich" this year. A week ago yester- day James accompanied by Gust Anderson went out bright and early and sighted deer which they say was big enough to be the great grandfath- CT of all the deer in the southeastern The sight of it, and the thought of all the fat, juicy steaks and chops it contained set their mouths to watering, and down they dropped on their knees to crawl up within easy shot. Jim went first and after crawl ing through mud and brush for an hour more or less, came out in sight of the big buck. Up came that trusty tor rusty) 30-30 and the deer was as good as dead. He got fine sight, pulled the trigger but no explosion followed. Frantically he worked the lever and pulled the trigger again: again no explosion, and for the five times he repeated the operation with the same results. Gust by this time was getting anxious and raised up for a shot. He wasn't taking any chances so he took rest, drew bead on the deer but his gun failed to discharge too. By this time the deer was tired of looking at the two mighty hunters and walked away and Jimmie withered all the trees around with the sulphur osity of his discourse, while Gust was so dumbfounded that he couldn't say word. Cummings say that Anderson didn't have a cartridge in his gun, while the latter doesn't say a word about Jimmie's failure to get results from that 13-inch cannon of his, but just winks great big wonk.
 Mrs. ". T. James. wife of the man. ager of the hard ware department of J. R. Heckman & Co.'S big establish ment, arrived home this morning from Seattle, bringing the joy of the horn in that city. with her much to the qualification of the pa ternal parent.