The Ketchikan miner., 1907-10-05
(From Saturdays paily)


 guest at the Revilla.
 Mrs. A. E. King, and Jack Douglas of Sunny Point, are registered at tht Stedman.
 The cannery tender Companion k now engaged in carrying salmon box. es from the mill here to the cannery at Kasaan.
 The two Canadian Pacific liners, Princess May and Princess Royal, have booked 6 passengers from this place during the month of September.
 The little schcoac. Victoria, which has been in tcwr cay or two from Masset, GraA II island, sailed fot home today With : eek load of lum- Der from the l.. c.o.
 H. C. Gray5s |, coast and geo. detic survey, Washington, D. C., re- turned last nish, fcm trip around Prince of Wals iiand. He reports having located an unchanted shoal in Sumner strait, near Level island.
 The steamship Jeanie, of the Alaska Coast line, stopped here for brief rest Thursday on her way down from Valdez. Fortunately she was going in the wrong direction to carry away any men to work on the Home railway, and possibly get shot for their labor.
 The repairs to the machinery of the Artic was completed in time for her to sail for Boca de Quadra to- day, where she will goes for cargo of salmon eggs for the Portman hatch cry. It is expected that she will thus be employed for the next two or three weeks.
 The Princess May passed down ear ly last evening, taking among others the following passengers from Ketchi- kan: Jas. c. Leask and Mrs. C.. Guz- man for Port Simpson; J. P. McEd- wards, Bert Mcdonald and T. D. l Pickard for Seattle: Frank Tremblay and J. D. Nichols for Vancouver, and H. Rudland and wife for Prince Rup- ert. She was filled to the limit, and could not accommodate all who desir. ed to take passage from here.
 The bar and fixtures for the new wet goods dispensary to be opened in connection with the Revilla hotel is in place, and is just such piece of work as might be expected at the hands of Knight X Morrow, the build- CTS, upon whose skillful workmanship it reflects much credit. The new dis pensary will on the whole be very neatly furnished and ornamented re- freshment parlor, convenient not only to the guests of the hotel but to the general public as we'll.
 A man just out from Dawson, has called on The Miner with a request that it be made known that a bad con- diton of affairs, so far as business and labor is concerned exists in that im- mediate section. All mine work has been suspended, even to mining of coal on coal creek, in Forty mile region. where it was planned to establish the electric lighting plant for Dawson. which project has been at least tenn porarily abandoned. This gentleman says there is likely to be much suffer- ing among the poorer people the com ing winter, and wishes to warn people against going there at present either for business or in the hope of securing employment.
 Work on what is to be known as Water street, and in which a large part of what has heretofore been known as the newtown walk will be utilized, has been commenced under the direction and supervision of the street committee of the common coun- cil, of which Alderman Kreidler IS chairman and the moving spirit. The street, which will be of the uniform width of twenty-five feet, will extend from the intersection of Front and Grant streets to the corporate limits at the upper end of newtown, running on practically straight line from Gurney s wharf, thus eliminating the bend or curve between Gurney's and Young's store. W. A. Patterson has tie job of driving the piles, and it is the intention to make the roadway al- together solid and substantial in every particular. No time has been set for the completion of the work, but it will be pushed as rapidly as may be prac- ticable.
 The New England, one of the New England Fish company's sea going tugs, came into port yesterday after noon looking for either herring or salmon suitable for halibut bait. She pulled out again, ostensibly for the purpose of testing the halibut grounds in this section of Alaska The New England IS the company which last year bought location here with the avowed purpose of establishing a sta tion and removing its headquarters from Vancouver to this place, but as vot ,1Ct bipu ,nora has bean fooa in