The Ketchikan miner., 1908-12-26
a THE LOCAL FIELD
(From Saturdays Dailyl

from dadley with passengers and mail.
 The Cottage City is due to leave Seattle tonight at 9 p. m. with pas sengers and freight.
 The Nonrthlanl will leave Seattle Monday on her first trip since her accident, with full cargo of mer- chandise for Alaska points.
 John Wicks and Paul Nordstronl were passengers from Hadley on the Onward. They gre both registered at the Cornell.
 Messrs West and Decker left for Mallard Bay this morning on the Taku to look after mining interests in that locality.
 Pierce Thomas, of the Thomas Goodro mining properties, went to Karta Bay on the Alert this morning to look alter mining interests there.
 The Alert went out on her regular mail run to Kasaan, Hollis and Karta Bay having only light passenger | list.
 Mrs. Bert Hager, who has been looking after mining interests on Prince of Wales Island, was pas senger on the Onward this morning and is stopping at the Cornell.
 Capt. James, who is an old timer in this vicinity is reported to be seriously Ill at Hollis. The marshal went on the Alert this morning and will bring Capt. James to Ketchikan if it is pos Sible to move him.
 Mir. A. McGpe, who came in on the Humboldt from Juneau, will go to | Vancouver on the Princess May to spend the holidays. Mr. McGee will return to Ketchikan in January with a view to going into business.
 Mir. c. P. Overmire, formerly with the Northern Commercial Co.,, as chief accountant at both St. Michael and Fairbanks, is temporarily filling c. B. Warehouses place in the office of the J. R. ..Heckman Co. and will probably locate here permanently.
 Ketchkan Lodge No. l59, F. x A. M. elected the following officers fo, rhe ensuing term: W. M., w. E. Zuber: s. w., J. c. Barber; J. N., John R. Beagle: Treas, N. A. Bryant Sec., Chas. Deppe.
 Mr. A. B. Eardley and wife, of Dolomi, are in town for few days md will go south on the Jefferson Monday. Mr. Eardley and wife are going to rheir old home at the Dalles, Oregon, for the winter and will re- turn in the spring to open work again at Dolomi.
 The Queen Esther Circle of this city, group of girls from ten to four teen years of age, sent box to the Eskimo mission school at Slnuk north of Nome, on the Breing sea. They recieved word. yesterday by the "Pennsylvania" that the box had heen received and that its dolls and gifts would furnish the merriest Christmas the Eskimos of that fan coat ha ever known.
 (From Mondays Daily)
 Mir. Calvin E. Villas, who has been connected with the United States assay office in Seattle for the last ten years, in speaking of the business ir connection with his office stated that more than 35l tons of gold had passed through that office in that time. The coining value of this mountain of golG was $15, OBS, 992 l4. What proportion of this great sum came from tn. Alaska 6elas, Mir. Villas did not state hut we feel safe in saying that the greater portion of it came from the Alaska mines.
 It is with regret that the many friends of Mrs. H. c. Schmidt vii. learn that since going to the Seattle hospital about month ago, her health has not improved, on the con- trary, she saeans to be getting worse as time progresses. Her physicians. iu communication to MT. Schmidt stated that she had become so weak that they could not operate. Mrs. schmidt has ulcers ot the stomach.
 A wife's devotion to her husband combined with h.r desire to carry ou, all his requests even after death is proven beyond all question of doub ny some neighhnrs who chanced to call upon a hereaved widow who sal calmly by the slab in which her deac husband lay one cold winter night. She heda fan in her hand which she waved hack and forth over the brov of her mate and upon being asked why she famed the corpse on such Il cold night replied: My husbands last words were. Wife wait until 1 am cold before you marry again. "
 In an address recently delivered at St. John, N. B., the Rev. Dr. Pringle, of Yukon fame. declared that somc day the mother lode of the Kond'ke would he discovered, and that the | 1. .lzx .k,