The Ketchikan miner., 1908-08-22
KETCHIKAN
Local Happenings of the Past Seven Days Tersely
 Told.
(From Wednesdays Daily)

(From Wednesdays Daily) l The Taku left for the It mine earl,
 this morning.
 The City of Seattle passed south
 bound early this morning.
 The Dolphin is scheduled to sai from Seattle tomorrow morning.
 The Jefferson is due from the north about tomorrow evening.
 The Princess May arrived early last evening with big crowd of pass. engers, only few of them being fol Ketchikan. There were about dozer second class arrivals and only two frs, class, Mrs N. J Coulter and Edward
 H. Davis.
 MT. E. M. Horrie representing the D. $. Johnston Co.,. music dealers oi Seattle arrived from the north last night and is registered at the Sted- man.
 Captain Caughrean returned last night from his mining property in Smuggler's Cove where he has been performing the annual labor. He re . ports an excellent showing on his cop per property, the deposit apparently being of great size with values in- creasing as the work progresses. The Ryus Drug Company announce that the Pianola recital, notice of which was given several days ago, will be held in Redmen's hall tomor- row (Thursday) evening, the ladies of the Pocahontas having kindly con- sented to allow the use of the hall for the purpose. The entertainment will begin at 8:30, and after the rendition of the program as arranged, Mr. Hor- rie has consented to furnish music for dancing if desired. No admission will be charged and every body is in. vited.
 The Spokane came in early last eve- hing with the largest passenger list of the season, and the tourists were giv- en ample opportunity to see Ketchi- kan, though several of them were heard to remark that they would like to stay here for a week instead of a few hours Pract calIy every large city in the United States was repre- fsented in the passenger list, and there were several registrations from Eng land. G. w. Andrews, head of the passenger department of the Pacific Coast Co.,, was among the passengers. Mir. Harlan Updegraff. chief of the Alaska Division of the Bureau of Ed ucation, with headquarters at Wash ington D. C., and Mir. A. N. Thomp- son, superintendent of the southeast ern division, arrived from the north on the Seattle last night, and will spend several days in Ketchikan. They have spent the summer in a tour of inspection of the various gov ernment schools of Alaska. and are putting the government equipment in good shape for the work of the com ing year. An innovation in the work in Alaska will be conference of all the government teachers. to be held in Juneau within the next few weeks, to secure more uniform system of instruction and more compact or ganization of the teachers and their directors. It is understood that the government will erect a fine new school building at Petersburg, equip ped for special instruction in cooking etc., as well as the three "r's''
 Some months ago The Miner printed an apparently well authenticated states ment that the United Wireless Con- pany was about to install station in Ketehikan, and later was led to n- dulge in few pointed remarks about the veracity of the man who made that promise, as the weeks dragged into months. A letter just received from the company contains the fol- lowing information which looks as if the company meant business after all. and which speaks we'll for Ketchikan's S prospects: t'I was mislead re garding the erection of station up there by the man who had charge of our con- struction work. He guaranteed before I wrote you, that he would commence work on that station within two weeks from that day. That man is not in charge of the consgtruction de- partment at the present time. Mir. c. Q. Galbraith, of New York, who has had number of years experience in that line, has control of the con- struction and operating department for the Pacific Coast and the wet ut the present time. We are going to start a station Ut Ketchikan very soon. am not going to promise just when at present. but know this: There ate eight stations to be built. One at Cor dova, one at Skngway, one at Ketchi- kan, one between Ketchikan and Vancouver, one at Victoria, E. C., one at Coos Bay, Oregon, and one at Eureka, California, and the other one between San Francisco and Los Am geles. Mr. Galbraith is going to try very hard to have these completed