The Ketchikan miner., 1908-06-13
Nl THE LOCAL FIELD
(From Saturdays Daily)

Ben Delzelle left on the Thordi yesterday as special customs officer. Captain CauH Hhrean will leave to- morrow for hls property at Heln Bay. to be abse thirty days.
 The Onward look party consisting of Marshal and Mrs. Campbell and
 family and Juf @ Stackpole and Mrs. Stackpole to M 1tlakahtla today. .,,,..
 John Raber and Ed. Williams and their families returned from their outing in Chclnondeley Sound early this morning in the launch o. K.
 w. W. McDoyell, the Butte mining operator, with E. c. Howard and J.
 R. Mahoney, left on the Rohltfs this morning for the Goodro property at Karta Bay.
 The Thimble Club held its regular meeting yesterday afternoon, Mrs. Frank Bold being hostess. Mrs. T.. s. Clark of Seattle was d guest of the Club for the afternoon.
 Among the passengers on the Prin- cess May this morning was John H. Cobb, the Juneau attorney who is re- turning from the Court of Appeals at San Francisco.
 Well, well, well. With the advent of a yellow backed two seated touring car, Ketchikan has again cinched her tite as the first city in Alaska, The car is speedy one, though run with only one-horse power.
 Chas. H. Cosgrove received a wire yesterday announcing the safe arrival of Nus, Cosgrove in Seattte, stating that she had stood the trip we'll and that she had been placed under excel- lent care In tie Miner Hospital.
 Attorney Charles E. Ingersoll is to- day moving into his new sanclum, ad- joining the cable office, which under the tender touch of the decorating firm of Ingersoll and Graham has been made respiendent with all the hues of an Oriental sunset.
 The members of the Tuesday Club are closing their year ot association most pleasantly today with picnic it Nadeau Beach. Their husbands. while not eligible to the discussions of Hon. Shakespeare and Charles Dickens, have been voted sufficiently inte Ilgent to discuss the merits ot the punio lGach to be provided at six o'clock.
 Among the arrivals on the Princess May this morning was Mr. W. H. Scnrader, of the Pacific Mluer oI Sa.l Francisco, who is registered at the Cornell, and will stop over here long enough to write up the min ing interests about Ketchikan for his paper. He will stop at Juneau and Skagway and wjll then cover the en- tire country in the Interior, travelling leiaui ely down the Yukon River to Nome.
 The Princess May came in this morning lohd,d with passengers to her capacity. arriving just at the right hour te give the festive tourist 3 claice 10 .bjoy Ketchikan sunshine and inspect ketchikan curios. For Ketchikan were Mr. and Mrs. Albert E. Brown, w. II. Schrader and Mrs. Henry Rudland.
 A petition is being circulated today praying for an ordinance compelling owners of chickens to keep them in their own back yards, instead of allow ing them to rage furiously around on other peoples preserves. The Miner luan signed it willingly and if clause caE be added which will reduce by couple of thousand the number of worthless, mangy, loud-voiced. lono- cared and low-bred Siwash dogs that ohstruct Me view in our streets, the Min,r. man will gladly sign it once CT twice more.
 Peter Shalh and wife came in yes :elday from week spent at Wards Cove. WEic! they. describe as about the irtst sl>t cn earth. As sample of oue days fishing they brought in a string of tH eEty two trout weighing thirty pounds, one of them a rainbow, weighing inst measuring "A inches ''from tip 10 tip"
 A rote was received this morning hy Mrs. F. j Hunt conIeying the sad news of tle death of little Dorothy Knight, yoli 4est daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Knight. The little girl had been .'l with measles, when bronchial pneumonia set in, causing her death on the evening of May 29th. Mr. and Mrs. Knight have hosts ol friends in Ketchikan, all of whom will sympathi2e sincerely with them in theIr trouble.
 The postponed meeting of the School Board was held yesterday afternoon. all the members being present. The question of reducing ex- penses by reducing tie numl CT of teachers was taken up, that plan hay ing been suggested to the Board by