The Ketchikan miner., 1908-03-07
(From Fridays Daily)


 The funeral service of Capt. Micah Northman, who died from injuries received at Bell Island Hot Springs recently, will be held at s. John s church, Saturday morning at 10: :0O O clock.
 The AI-Ki arrived down at 8 o'clock last evening. bringing mail and few passengers. She carried cargo of 500 tons of concentrates and two boxes of gold bullion from the Treadwell mills and fty boxes of fresh halibut, taking on few boxes of the latter commodity here.
 Mrs. Florence Baker, of WrangeIl, formerly Mis-, RyuS. of this city, is in town on visit to relatives. She ar rived down on tue last trip of the Cot tage City, and it is needless to say has been most cordially greeted and welcomed by host of Ketchikan friends.
 Miss Delaney will be passenger north on the Cottage City, going first to Wrangell for brief visit, thence to Juneau, and later on to Sitka, at which latter place she will be the guest of Mrs. P. T. Rowe, and where she will finger the greater part of the coming summer reviving recollections of old.
 F. c Brown, superintendent of bridges and wharves for the Pacific Coast Steamship company, arrived from the north on the Al-Ki, and is registered at the Stedman. He is spending the day looking over the company's interests here, aud wlll leave for Seattle on the Jefferson to- morrow.
 The receipts of halibut have been unusually light today, fact not at all strange in view of the low prices at which they must be handled in order to afford even the promise of small margin of profit in the Seattle mark ct. In fact the season for this class of fishing may be considered practi- cally closed for this year.
 It would almost appear as if "the sprngtime has come again, gentle Annie.'' The garden shrubbery is beginning to sprout and put forth its leaves, and not few householders have begun work cleaning up their grounds and putting them in condition for early planting. It is just possible, however, that they may be little too previous notwithstanding the pres ent promising climatic conditions. w. c. Symouds, the undertaken and embalmer, until quite recently with !. R. Heckman X Go. has accepted a position with the c. w. Young e,tab- | lishment at Juneau, and will remove to that place at an early day. He is an expert in his line, and if the Rec ord correctly reports recent occur renee in that neighborhood, should find considerable work in his line handling the remains of not few un- assimilated persons of foreign ex- traction whose embalmment might not be amiss-unless they can be otherwise disposed to decent behavior. The Ketchikan Power company has contracts for making the salmon boxes for no less than ten different canner- ies. some of them located as far west as the Aiaska peninsula, and to which delivery will have to be made by ocean steamers. The contracts call for something more than half million boxes. which are now being turned out at rate of about 5000 per day.
 Grateful. The denizens of the Sun nysde annex to Ketchikan, without respect to race, creed. sect, CT previ- ous condition of servitude, request The diner to return their thanks to the management of the Ketchikan Power company's mill for the donation and delivery of sufficient quantity of lumber to complete the extension of the sidwealk from the upper end of newtown to the line of the Nadeau mineral location, and to which point it has now been laid and completed. No News.-Mrs. English received letter this morning from the men who went over to Cholmondeley sound day or two ago to make search for her husband who is believed to have been drowned, stating that everything possible had been done, but that the body had not been found. Eubanks had gone back to his camp, but Gist remained at the scene of the supposed drowning, and will remain there till Monday when he will return to town to ascertain the further wishes of Mrs. English in the premises Though il is not stated, it is believed that the water where the body is supposed to lie is too deep to be effectually drag ged, by reason of which latter fact there can be but little if any hope for the recovery of the body.
 w. A. Pittenger has the first sec tion of the hot house he is establish l Al l.: ul ( kl~