The Ketchikan mining news., 1907-01-18

passage on the water wagon on the lst stillretain your seats?
 Owirg to the scarcity of coal, the Scann, n's Cafe will close from s 80 p. m. 10 6 a. m., beginning Sunday evening until further notice.
 The personally signed communica- tion printed elsewhere in this paper is given space in pursuance of the policy of "square deal" fer everybody, and for no other reason.
 Watch your watch, ar d if 1t doesn't keep good time take it 10 Taylor, the Jeweler.
 The old Richard III, engaged in the coal and ore carrying trade, which broke from her moorings and went ashore at Hadley, fortnight or more ago, was lowed into this lort by the tug Clayburn last Saturday. and is now anchored in the stream waiting for the ice in Niblack anchorage to break up sufficiently to enable her to get in and take on cargo of copper ore.
 By divine permission of the author. ities at Washington, the proprietor of the hotel at Hadley will be permitted to reopen his bar and run it in con- nection herewith, subject to super vision and report by the forestry in- spector. And yet there are those who try to think that Alaskans are pos. sessed of all the rights which legiti- mately accrue to free people.
 But you can do better at Taylor's, the Jeweler.
 Mrs. A. A. Wakefield gave two very pleasant afternoon functions Saturday and Monday last, in honor of her mother, Mrs. John Mclaughlin, who will leave town shortly to join her husband at Hadley where they will hereafter reside. Mrs. Wakefield will likewise leave Ketchikan in a few days to join Mir. w. in a new home prepared for herself and children at
 Maple Bay, B. c.
 The Mining News is informed that protest has been filed in the local
 land office at Juneau, against the al-
 lowance of an application now pending ) for patent to mining location within the proposed limits of the Ketchikan townsite, on the alleged ground that
 the land is non-mineral in character.
 This will most probably result in a
 hearing being ordered to determine the point so raised.
 If your watch doesn't run, run with
 it to Taylor, the Jeweler.
 | The Pacific Coast and Alaska Steam ship companies appear to have dis. solved business relations in dead earn est, so far as Ketchikan is concerned. ) The Pacific Coast company's ships
 now discharge and take on passengers
 at the Heckman wharf, while those oi : the other line tie up to that of the : Ketchikan Wharf company. It is understood that the P. c. company will establish an up town agency. In the brief summary of Ketchikan's business places, printed on another page, the large new skating rink, as we'll as the new bowling alley, both o1 which are we'll patronized, no mention was made. Both are popular insti.
 tutions, but were inadvertently over.
 looked. So, also, of the machine works, saw and blaming mills, the cannery, the cold storage plants, bot. ting works-and it might be added, etc., in order to cover them all. The finest stock of jewelry in South. eastern Alaska at Taylor's, the Jew.
 eler.
 , The publishers of The Mining News have had the question of daily pub. lication broached to them by mum. Der of persons. All in good time good : people. When the time comes that , we can undertake the publication of a
 daily paper that will be credit to its
 home town, and at the same time fairly profitable to it's publishers, without calling upon it's patrons for
 more patronage than they can reason. ably he asked or expected to give, they will not he slow in responding tC the demand. As they view the matter . now they do not deem 1t either wise or expedient to spoil good weekly by making it mere rehash of at best poor daily.
 The Alaska Monthly magazine for January, shows marked improve ment, and thus fulfills the publishers
 promise of making each succeeding
 number better than that which pre-. ceded it. It is the only magazine printed and published in Alaska,
 (though we believe there are two or three makeshifts of similar title that falsely purport to be the products of Alaska brains and enterprise, and as such, while it maintains its present and promised standard of excellence, should be accorded the cordial support of all Alaskans. Alaska Monthly Magazine Company, Juneau; c. w. Taylor, Manager; s2.5O per year.
 It was the earnest desire and inten- tion to present the first number of this publication to the reading public the first week of the new year, but the realization of that desire was prevent ed by combination of untoward cir. cumstances that could not very we'll have been foreseen. First, the ex. ceedingly untoward weather which prevailed during November and De- cember delayed work on our new building, which Is as yet scarcely hab. itable; then our typesetting machine, which should have been received not later than December 15, did not arrive till the 9th of January, since which time the exceedingly cold weather combined with the open lattice substi. tute for plate glass front to our office, has served to seriously retard the work of getting out the paper. It is here now, however, to stay, and will hereafter be published on Friday of each and every week.