The Ketchikan miner., 1907-09-07
fFrom Saturdays Daily)

1 OI J Juneau IS dt iue INoNiiia. eiouS L the register credits him to Seattle.
 X change in the location of the counter at the Revilla hotel greatly improves the internal appearance o1 that popular hostelry.
 The tug Vigilant got away last night with tow of a quarter million feet of timher and lumeer for the new can- nery at Excursion inlet.
 Jack Medallion and wife will depart on the Jefferson for visit to the ''ould sod" and q friendly shake with his old friend Albert Edward.
 The Marion arr csd up this morning form Maple bay, la,inging number of people among yhen Messrs. Randolph and Case, of the l. 9wn Alaska Com pany.
 W. C. Freebusn arrived up from a business trip to lhe sound cities, on the Cottage City this morning, and inscribed his autograph on the regist- CT at the Stedman.
 Superintendent Rounsfell of the To- cal cannery expects to practically con- plete his pack of 10, GOO cases tonight, though he may add on few thousand cases next week, for good measure.
 Among the arrivals at the Stedman today are Milton F. Veil, Chas. K. Ford. Oak Oleson, and U. s. G. Gun dy, of Seattle, C. E. Hooker, of Jun eau ana J. r. Jnman. of Petersburg.
 Jack Caughlan is reported much better today and it is now thought that he may recover his mental bal ance in very few days. Sleep, the sweet restorer of the mind diseased, seems to be doing the work.
 Mr. Moran the representative of the Chicago Inter-Ocean, whose dollar-a- line proposition for publicity through the columns of that paper was repect- fully declined by the common council, departed for home on the Humboldt this morning.
 The scarcity of miners and laborers is still in marked evidence throughout the district. The near close of the fishing season will however release many who will be ready to accept em- ployment in the mines during the fall and winter months, and that will serve to ease up the situation to some extent at least.
 The Fraternal Order of Eagles, though deficient in voting strength in such contest as is now in progress for piano, and in which trade is the ruling factor. is growing in member ship faster than any other order in Kecthikan, or in Alaska, or for that matter in the whole United States of America
 Mir. and Mrs. "Jack" Willis, form CT residents of Ketchikan, now of Jun- eau, where Mr. Willis ranks next to Collector Hobart in the customs ser vice, were passengers on the Cottage City this morning to their home from swing around the circle on a tour of inspection of supports. They have many friends who regret that they did not come sooner and stay much longer.
 The salmon fishing season is draw ing to close with the indications all pointing to full pack at all the can neries. Indeed it looks as if the pack might exceed in the number of cases the output the cannerymen had reason to anticipate when preparing for the seasons work. and advices are to the effect that prices will be fairly rem unerative, enough so to compensate in large measure the losses sustained in the last two or three years.
 (From Mondays Daily)
 The Patterson Elk took a party of commercial travellers over to Metla- kahtla today.
 Joe Dubail and wife were passengers south on the Jefferson this morning. en route to Seattle where they will make their home in the future.
 Tom Johnson and wife, and M A. Mitchell returned from the Bailey bay hot springs Saturday night, and report having had pleasant though rather strenuous outing.
 Jack Medallion and wife left on the Jefferson this morning for Ireland, whither they go, it is whispered, to permanently abide. If that be so he will live long time in that country before he will find himself able to pick up the strands of the prosperity he sewers in leaving Alaska.
 The Skating rink reopened Saturday night with a fairly large attendance, made up largely of ladies. This lat ter fact was due no doubt to the ab sence of a large proportion of our in- habitants of the male persuasion. However the attendance was large enough and of the kind to afford much satisfaction to the management.
 The remains of gigantic pre-his-