The Ketchikan miner., 1908-11-21
@ITHE LOCAL FIELD
lFrom Saturday's Dailyl

ing for Hadley, taking freight and passengers. among the latter Hans Andersen, the jolly host of the Hadley hostelry.
 The large gasoline boat Baldy, of Port Townsend, which has been en- gagged in doing towing work at Val dez for several months past, called in this morning, en route to winter quar- ters at her homs prt.
 Buhring and Forss, the fish buyers and packers, took in fine lot of hali
 hut this mol ning and are in expecta- tion of a goodly lot more to come. The many friends of Mir. and Mrs. George Morrison, will be pleased to learn that their baby daughter, who has been dangerously ill is now much better, and on fair road to complete recovery.
 The tug Pilot came in early this morning having in tow the barge Oregon laden with l, 900 tons of gyp- sum from the Chicagoff quarries. Reporting at the custom house here the tug with her tow cleared for Tacoma and sailed on their way.
 The carter who overloads his horse or ehicle in Ketchikan is deserving of very little sympathy either if the one balks at steep grade or the other breaks down flat on level plank road-even if there isn't any law in Alaska for the prevention oi cruelty to animals.
 E. J. Williams and family, who have been visiting in Oregon and California for several weeks past, are again at home. They report having had splendid time, but profess theirselves as beng very glad to he back in ketchikan once more. Ed. is again more than at home behind the counters of the Ryus Drug Co.'S, estab- lishment.
 The festive halibut is to the fore again. The gasoline schooner Bonita came in this morning with catch of about 1000 pounds, taken in Clarence strait, near Ship island, and which she discharged on the Heckman wharf where they were packed in ice for tht Seattle market. The Bonita's skip per seems to have instructive knowl- edge of the haunts of these denizens of the brinv waters, and seldom, il ever. returns empty handed in his search for them.
 Coming Soon. n.-Rev. Richard k. Roe, Sho is tn succeed Rev. Thomas Jenkins, of s. Johns mission church will be on the Dolphin, which sails from Seattle tonight. MT. Jenkins will depart fot his new and more ex tended field of labor on the next up voyage of the Jefferson. The head quarters ot the latter will proba bly be either at Skagway or Juneau-w whence he will swing around the circle as his clerical duties may require.
 There is hitch in the construction nf the eight foot causeway from Mis-. sion street to the north line Of the New England Fish company's tract which threatens 10 indefinitely post pone its completion. The causeway is projected to be built through the grounds of the Fidalgo Island Cannery Company, which is within the corpor- a te limits of the town, and it now appears that company either delays or declines to dedicate the right of way, except on term, that are objectionable to the common council. and which it's members cannot, with a proper re- gard for the rights and interests to ,te public, concede. It would not appear that there can be any good and sufficient reason or excuse for grant, ing to the Fidalgo company any spec ial privileges or exemptions which may not with equal justice and pro- priety be accorded to the other prop erty owners of the town.
 Sad News.-Mrs. John Mclaughlin, of this city, mother of Mrs. A. A. Wakefield. received last night cable gran conveying the sad intelligence of the death of her brother, Mir. M C. Ormes, whose dead body had been found in the woods, not far from Puyallup, Washington, where he had gone to examine a tract of land in his capacity as timber cruiser. But little is known of the circumstances other than that the deceased had gone into the woods for the purpose stated, taking with him gun belonging to friend at who's. house he had been stopping, saying that he had seen a bear. Not returning for several days his friends became alarmed and ipsti- tuted a search with the result of find ing the man lying dead wh ere he had died from tie effects of gnushot wound. In the absence of full par ticulars it is supposed and believed that Ormes fell over log or other ob- struction. and in falling the gun was accidentally discharged inf,cting a fatal injury if not producing instant