The Ketchikan miner., 1907-09-21
town authorities, to the end that all necessary precautions may be taken to pervent infection and the spread of the dread discss, ainoung our people. Action cannot |, ,uo promptly taken in the premise.
(From Th .., st,ays Daily)

The room in tic lSeyilla lately occu- pied as law oGc~ by E. c. Ingersoll is being remode,led and rearranged for the new purpose designed for it. that of thirst extinguishing annex to the hotel.
 It is whispered in the breezes gently waited to us from the south, that there will be an accession next year to the number of canneries doing bus mess in Southeastern Alaska, and that there will be more activity in fishing circles than ever before.
 Persons wishing to quench a con- suming thirst can now approach the liquid dispenser at the Emerald bar, by passing in through the front door and out at the rear, or vice versa, as the case may be. The new stairway in the rear gives easy and safe exit to the water front to persons who are in search of a wetness they cannot find within.
 Jimmy Cummings has brought to this office some stalks of wheat, oats and barley he found growing at Caam- ano point, Cleveland peninsula, which indicate these cereals may be success fully grown in this section, if for nothing else than fodder. It is not likely, however, that they would ma ture on a average of more than one season in five.
 The steam schooner Washington, on her return voyage south will take copper matte from the Hadley shelter to the refinery at Tacoma.
 The steamship Jefferson arrived up at one o'clock this. morning, and after discharging 60 tons of freight, pro- ceeded on her way north at 3:3O. Among her passengers for Ketchikan were, Ed. Schlothan, Kazis Kranczunas, Oscar Larsen, w. E. Fulton, Mrs. w. Hopkins and G. w. Geryais.
 The skeleton of the prehistoric ani- nal unearthed on Graham island, Queen Charlotte group, is now said to be that of mastodon, the leg bones of which measure fourteen feet in length. The skeleton is now praeti- cally complete, and will soon be on exhibition at the Vancouver Museum. It was unearthed from a depth of eighteen feet and at distance of three miles from tide water.
 lFrom Fridays Daily)
 The Princess Royal carried large list of passengers south last night clearing from here about II o'clock. Among those taking passage from Ketchikan were: Joe Brisbols, John Amer, H. Edwards. Lee McElrath and wife, Nj. J. Dunn, Frank Stephens and wife, L. G. Griffith, F. A. Bennett, Dr. J. L. Myers and wife, Edwin Nell son, Dave Thomas, Mrs. Boyd Young and Miss Clark.
 Mrs. Boyd Young left for her home at Port Simpson last night on the Princess Royal.
 MT. M. J. Dunn, ships writer on the survey ship Explorer, left on the Princess Royal last night for the Ma rine hospital at Port Townsend, to which he goes by order of the ships surgeon.
 The big tug Equator, of Seattle, be- longing to the Northwest Fisheries company, and which has been doing service as cannery tender at Chignik, touched here on her way to her home port this morning.
 s. Johns Mission will gladly supply reading matter to any camp desiring it. Bundles of assorted magazines, etc., new and old, will be forwarded upon request as promptly as possible, and by the courtesy of the Union Steamship company, will be delivered free of charge. Requests should be addressed to S. Johns Mission, Ketch- ikan.
 The voting in the piano contest has dwindleG down to seemingly inap- preciable quantity. For the week ending the 18th inst. only 749 votes were cast, all for the Odd Fellows.
 Dr. J. L. Myers and wife left on the Princess Royal last night for an extended trip east. They will go first to Kansas City for brief sojourn at the doctors old stamping ground, thence to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Mrs. Myers former home, and from there will go to New York and Philadel- phia, where the doctor will inquire into the medical schools with a view to future post graduate work which he has in contemplation. Returning, they will stop at Chicago for the pur- pose of making additions to the doc tors labratory and office equipment. They expect to be absent about three months.
 Mrs. H. E. Heckman and son, ol Loring, are in town visiting friends and relatives.
 c. Nygard, the mayor and common council of SealeveI, all in one, is al the Stedman, feasting his hunger ant snoozing the snooze of the just.