The Ketchikan miner., 1907-10-19
(From Saturdays Daily)

are guests OI tue OttulHdu.
 c. E. Hooker, one of what is get.
 ting to be a somewhat numerous brood
 of commercial travellers nesting al Juneau, is registered at the Stedman. The tugs Artic and Kayak will
 probably tow the big ship Star ol
 England out to sea from Loring today, with S5, 900 cases of salmon from the
 Loring cannery.
 Geo. E. Rodman, the Wrangell le-
 gal luminary, is the first outside at
 torney, not an official of the court, to
 arrive in town fr,.c abroad. He is
 domiciled at tic Stl,'.san, and has at
 least one case aend pg in court in
 which he is rsyi. isintiff, and per-
 haps attorney.
 Mir. Howe, tlit Gu,,un photograph CT, is passenger Y the Jefferson en- route to his houie. He informs us that he succeeded r se,,iug the negatives for quite a numi2r of views of Ketch-
 ikan, and of the magnificent scenery hereabouts, copies of which he will send back for examination and for sale to those who may be pleased to buy.
 The Stedman Annex is now open and all rooms occupied, as indeed are those of the entire hotel. Those like ly to be vacated by outgoing passen- gers on the Jefferson have all been re- served by persons to arrive in attend ance at court, and everything about the hotel is certain to be full for the several coming weeks except the pro- prietor and his corps of assistants, none of whom are that kind of folks. The success of this we'll built, well equipped and elegantly furnished hos telry is conclusive evidence that Alas kans, and those travelling Alaskaward, want and will be content with nothing less than the very best.
 Two of our local gasolene launches had an experience night before last which those on board will not be apt to very soon forget. When crossing Clarence strait both the Alert and the Spray encountered heavy fog, and both met with serious mishaps to their machinery-first the Spray and then the Alert. Being within hailing distance, the Alert went to the assist ance of the Spray and took her in tow until her own machinery became en- tirely disabled. In the meantime the Spray, having made some repairs made an effort to tow the Alert, but found herself unequal to the task, and both lay for some time in the straits entirely helpless. Fortunately the Patterson Elk happened sufficiently near to hear the guns which were fir ed from the disabled launces to att tract attention, and lowed them in. The Alert's machinery is badly dam aged-to such an extent as to put her out of commission for a couple of weeks at least. In the meantime, the Elk is making the regular mail run for the present.
 The Victoria Colonist recites that the steamer Alaskan, which halls from this port, and is plying between here and Seattle was formerly the Victoria steam schooner Mischief, and has quite history. She was built at Yaquina bay to trade between Yaqui- na and Columbia river ports, and was sent north as sealing vessel in the days before the United States decided to refuse permits to its citizens to engage in that industry, and the Mischief was then placed un- der the British flag. She became a tender to the sealing schooner, in Boring Sea, taking supplies north and bringing skins south, and then Capt. H. R. Foote, who lost his life when his steamer Islander was sunk after with ice in northern waters, took charge of her. In 1893 he took the Mischief north to St. Michael with the first cargo of British goods since the Russian occupation ended nearly thirty years before. The Mischief was operated on the west coast of Vancouver island and on Puget Sound, and in the early days of the Klondike rush was sold to Seat tie company and despatched north, and afterwards tran.f.rred to the Ketchikan company.
 The Heist Vaudeville Co. is in hard luck. After having made arrange ments for an entertainment Monday night, they found their trunks had been carried away to Seattle, and that they will have to await their return.
 The Jefferson arrived down about noon, having a large list of passengers mostly from Dawson and Fairbanks. She brought the court contingent, in- Judge Cunnison, deputy clerk Fox, the official court stenographer, Marshal Shoup, deputy marshals Me- Nair and Faulkner, jurors, witnesses. besides several prisoners who are to be subjected to the tender mercies of the grand jury first, and to trial by court and petit jury later. Following is list of those whose names were h4 x;- xL