The Ketchikan miner., 1907-11-30


 tender operated by the Northwest Fisheries company, arrived in today : from Seward. She is on her way to Seattle, and stopped in here to make few repairs to the boilers.
 The Bonita, new boat designed for engaging in halbut fishing. arrived in this afternoon from Seattle, and as soon as bait can be secured will start for the banks. The Bonita is operat- ed by the same parties who operated the Mackeral last year in a similar line of work
 The Miners and Merchants bank makes the announcement today that from now on and until further notice, clearing house certicfiates from the Seattle and Tacoma clearing houses will be accepted as cash.
 Seattle, Nov. 27.-At a meeting called for the purpose of forwarding to congress request that the mining laws be so changed from their present form as to do away with the necessity of performing the annual assessment work, after lengthy discussion however, the matter came up for a vote and was defeated. l. was argued that the result of the passage of such measure would tend to decrease the development of properties and would result in benefit only to the holders of hundresds of claims in the Copper river district Steele, of Valdez, led in the fight against the adoption of the resolution,
 tFrom Mondays Daily) The Farallon came in last night from Hunters bay, with cargo of salmon, the last of which was taken on from the cannery at that place. The Shelikof, the Northwestern Fisheries Co. $ tug which has been undergoing repairs to her boilers, left out this forenoon for Seattle. Owing to the change of schedule of the Union Steamship Co. $ sailing dates, boat will leave tomorrow on the regular run to Loring and Yes bay.
 Weather permitting, a boat will | leave tomorrow for Moonshine to pick up scow with two mules that are anxiously awaiting transportation to Seattle.
 The Teddy returned Saturday even- ing at about o'clock with a scow load of 175, 900 shingles from the Beaver Falls company's mill in George inlet. She encountered bad weather and had a strenuous time rounding Mountain point, but turned the trick all right, as the Teddy is wont to do.
 The steamship Humboldt arrived up at 6 o'clock yesterday Sunday morn- ing brihging 50 tons of freight for Ketchikan merchants, and Mir. and Mrs. H. z, Burkhart, Mrs. R. R.. Gould, Harry Brice and NJ. J. Doyle as passengers. Captain Baughman reports having been obliged to leave considerable freight behind, because of a lack of capacity to take all that was offered.
 The Caughren Elk which left here for George inlet yestei day went ashore at Mountain point. Running short of gasoline, the engines stopped and she drifted onto the beach. On the next tide the boat was hoated and anchored in deep water. A messenger was des- patched to Saxman and word sent to Ketchikan. The Pioneer letf out this morning to render assistance, ard brought her in about noon.
 The Vigilant arrived back last night with the barge Blanch, after having delivered her cargo of timber and lumber at Excursion inlet Capt. Doyle reports having run all the way back through a continuous SHOW storm, and says he is pleased to know that he will have no more trips to make to that point until the winter is over. She is undergoing re-inspection today at the hands of the local inspectors of hulls and boilers.
 Fremont King, E. Pollard, w. Forss and N. Casperson, who left last Thurs day in the launch Calkius for Tolsto on hunting expedition. returned last night with a string of ducks, but minus any large game. They report having secured one deer, but didn't bring back even the skin as evidence of the truth of the assertion, and charge their ill luck to the beastly weather which prevailed all the time they were out. No hing daunted, however, the party, all except MT. King, left | again today for DaIl head, where they will try their luck once more. Weatherbound. The steamer Alas kan is reported weatherbound and anchored at some point on the west coast of Prince of Wales, where a storm has been raging for several days. She is waiting for fair weathe"