The Ketchikan miner., 1908-03-21

| ioW Watef anu tne lenStn or tune pos sible to devote to the work was short. A force of men has been employel for several days past in removing the rub bish and new pipe will be laid As far as can be determined, six lengths of pipe were crushed.
 (From Wednesdays Daily)
 The Woman's Guild of $. John s church will meet Thursday afternoon at the Rectory.
 Registered at the Cornell today L. E. Buell. of Juneau; Dave Studer of Portland, Ore. /; Philip Jackson of Nihlack.
 The Alaskan left Seattle yesterday for this port and, if everything goes right, may be expected Friday night or Saturday morning.
 Dave Studler, representing the Marshal-Wells O., of Portland, Ore gon, was ketchikan passenger on the Humboldt today.
 The Alert left out this morning on a special trip to Karta Bay, taking as l a passenger Mir. J. c. Barber. who is on his way to the ''lt" mine in which he is interested.
 The launch Uncle Dan arrived in last night bringing about so salmon, most of which were for the Hunt-La rop Co. She will return to the fishing grounds this afternoon.
 |. E. Buell., resident representative of the Armour Packing Co.,, with headquarters at Juneau, came down on the Humboldt and is interviewing local merchants today in the interests of his business.
 Wrangell and Petersburg now get mail on the Humboldt The people of the towns got up petitions and sent a representative along with them and now they have an extra mail boat. That seems easy.
 The mission school is making shipment of nearly S200. % worth Of native handiwork, baskets, mncca- sins, etc., on the Cottage City, order ed from Cleveland Ohio. A story oI the process of basket making, the condition of the natives and the work being done among them. as we'll as description of some of the natural re- sources of Alaska is to be included with each basket as sold; all of which should tend to dispel a small amount of the prevailing elA Atainess in E*ss ern minds as to the Ys.fozen North" {" The Humboldt arrived in south bound this forenoon after having made an unusually quick round trip to the northern ports. She carried four teen passengres, several of them for his port, and took on number of boxes of salmon. She had total of seventy three boxes of fish on board.
 The reason why some of the young men are hoarse this morning is that .he Glee Club met last night for prac- ice. They get put through pretty muchly at their rehearsal and this with the talk fest they hold after the practice ruffies up their vocal chords. They met at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Thompson.
 The Humboldt is now equipped with wireless telegraph apparatus. At Sitka they got Bremerton on their 'fine' though the communicating vas faulty on account of some minor defect in the apparatus. It will soon ne dangerous to go up Deer Mountain for who knows when a wireless mes- age might go shooting across the peak and knock fellow in the head.
 The Tuesday Literary Club have social meeting once month, when in addition to the intellectual past they generally indulge in, they enjoy a more material repast. Two members preside on such occasions. Mrs. J. l.. Myers and Mrs. Bertram G. Mitchell were hostesses yesterday afternoon at the home Of the former It being the anniversary of the day when the snakes emigrated from Ireland, sham rocks and the wearing of the green were much in evidence. Portieres of green crepe paper hung between the dining room and parlor. The napkins for the luncheon had shamrocks in outline painted in the middle. Sand wiches in the shape of shamrocks, eclaires and other daintes were serv- ed. Each person present was given a small autograph album with the name of an English author painted on the i front and shamrock on the back in which they were to get autographs and quotations from every other one present. The quotations were from the authors they represented. After l these were filled, the ladies were giv- en card with eleven simple words such as these-eclectic Nebobolassus i hegira, neuology and few familiar l phrases which were to be worked up into an original short story. Mrs. J. K. Beegle was judged the best though all were of such merit that they de- serve place in American literature. 1 Mrs. Walter s. Coutant, former me ember of the club besides the repu-