The Ketchikan miner., 1908-04-18

"'h' "i'' pioSpe'e TUT su'hup'e location to settle down permanently, probably somewhere in the Rogue River valley. Ed Turner has been resident and good citizen of Ketchi- kan for many years, and The Miner wishes him luck and good fortune in his new home
 The Alert left this morning on a special trip to kasaan Bay with I. C. Barber, who goes to inspect property in which he is interested. From Ka- saan the Alert will go to Hadley for scow which she will tow to Nihlack if the weather will permit. Capt. David Schooler arrived on the Farallon yesterday to take con- maud of the steamer Marion. Her machinery has been put in order for tho trip to Vancouver and after pre- lminary trial under her new officers, she will leave the Ketchikan district permanently. Her new owners will remodel her somewhat and put her into service as a tug, plying about Vancouver. Her papers have been changed to British registration and she can therefore clear from here without difficulty.
 In view of the fact that so many fishing parties have been going out and coming in this spring The Miner hot oI, k, glad to verify the stories of the num- Der of fish caught, upon one condition. ii q representative from each of these fishing parties will report at once at The Miner office as soon as he arrives from his expedition and present each or all of it's staff of correspondents.w with reasonable number of fish, for in- stance. if they be king salmon, seven or eight to.each one of the force tor if they be medium sized trout thirty or forty will suffice), The Miner will bold tacedly attest to the number of fish caught It must not be construed from this that The Miner force is either hungry or susceptible to bribes they simply want to be shown.
 Democratic Primaries. A largely attended and enthusiastic Democratic Primary was held at Sulzer on April 1lth. 1908. Mr. J. Durkin WAS elect ed chairman and Dr. c. F. Dickenson, secretary. Mir. Chas. A. Sulzer was unanimously elected delegate to the convention to be held at Juneau, May 18th. 1908. Several speeches were made on a territorial form of govern ment, and on motion committee con- sisting of Messrs. Sulzer, Gould aN Petty was appointed by the chair, so draft resolutions. which duly reported the following, which were unanimous ly adopted:
 Resolved That it is the unanimous sense of the Democratic voters of Sul- ger expressed in primary assembled this llth day of April, 1908, that the District of Alaska be accorded full and complete territorial form of gov ernment by congressional enactment, and we hereby instruct the delegate elected by this primary to vote and work for any expression in favor of such form of government in the con. vention at Juneau.
 Resolved Further, That we were all citizens of the United States before we came to Alaska, and do not think that we need any civilizng assimila- tion to make us as good citizens in Alaska as we were in other parts of the United States.
 (From Thursdays Daily)
 The Princess May is due from the south early tomorrow morning.
 G. c. Wattles, F. K. Turner, and Rena Edgar left for the north on the Humboldt this morning.
 Among the Humboldt passengers, were Manager o. r. Brown of the Petersburg cannery, and c. w. Young of Juneau, both of whom are we'll known here.
 The Humboldt arrived on schedule time this morning with q heavy pas senger list and full cargo of freight. She brought only five passengers for Ketchikan s. H. Smiley, J. Doe, J. w. Southard, F. M. Davis and J. c. Darling. The mal ked feature of tha passenger list, which totalled 250, was the number for Treadwell. no less than 3S rst class and so second class passengers being billed for that point. It is probable that these arrivals will not tend to increase the cheerfulness of the turbulent Treadwei atmosphere to any noticeable extent. The Uum- boldt proceeded northward after dis charging 5 tons of local freight.
 The following meteorological sum- mary of the weather conditions during the week ending April l5, 1903, is reported by N. B. Whitfield, deputy U. s. land and mineral surveyor:
 April 9--6 q. lp. to 6 D. m. rain, wind from southeast, avg. temp. 36 deg
 April l0--6 q. m. to 6 D. h. n-ran, wind from sontheas', avg. temp. 35 deg.