The Ketchikan miner., 1908-01-18
KETCHIKAN
Local Happenings of the Past Seven Days Tersely
 Told.
(From Mondays Daily)

l From Mondays Daliy)
 The Stedman register shows the fol- lowing arrivals: Milton F. Well. Jas. Coyle, Mrs. l.. Levy, Otto R.. Lonstorf, James H. Fox, Bertran' Holmes, E. Larsen. J. E. Levy, R. N. Riblet, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. A. Sulzer, W. A. Langille, E. H. Jacobs and wife, Miss Raymond J. R. Heck man and wife, and Wm. C. Freeburn.
 Death of Mrs. F. P. Hicks. The following notice from the Tacoma Ledger of January 7th is of interest to many Ketchikan people, who will join The Miner in expressing sincere sympathy for pr. Hicks in his loss : Mrs. Anna c. Hicks, aged 50 years, wife of F. P. Hicks, 34l0 North Thir- ty-6rst street, died at the Tacoma private sanitarium yesterday follow ing long illness and an operation. Besides her widower she is survived by her mother, Mrs. Annetta Adams, 224 North Yakima avenue. The funer- al will he held from Hoska's chapel Wednesday afternoon at 1 o'clock. Mrs. Hicks had been d resident O Tacoma for the past nineteen years. "
 From Tuesdays Daily
 E. H. Jacobs and wife, of Seattle. are here enroute to Sulzer, where Mir Jacobs will accept the position of stenographer in the office of the general manager,
 The steamship Henriette passed up today, bound for Skagway with coal, coke and railway ties for the White Pass and Yukon railway.
 A scow is being loaded with fifty tons of coal for the Niblack mine at the Strong wharf today, She will be lowed over by the Patterson Elk to- morrow or next day
 The Toledo, the ship which is to ply temporarily in the Aaskan's former run between here ard Seattle, left the latter place last Friday, and should reach Ketohikan tomorrow. She comes via Vancouver, and will go from here with freight to the west coast of Prince of Wales island She will take to Suzer, among other things, a lot of cable for the aerial tramway at the Jumbo.
 An industrious hen belonging to ] Deputy Marsbai Campbell, supposed to have strayed, been lost or stolen, was discovered under the family resi- depce on the 10th, where she had matched out three chickens, all as lively and chipper as if they had been incubated in midsummer. The incl dent is given simply by way of con- trast as to what would probably have been the fate of that hen had she attempted similar achievement in one of the eastern states.
 w. C. Freeburn, the mine manager who did such excellent work in the developmnt of the Mt. Andrew prop
 
 will go to Karta bay to superinteud, for time at least, operations at the It or as it is generally known the Taylor property, which is held under bond ny Messrs. Black and Strong. It is tEe intention to develop this property for all it may prove to he worth, and Mir Freeburn is the man above all others in the district at whose hands satisfac- tory results may be an cipated.
 Rumors are anoat-and they are not without foundation- that mining oper- ations are likely to he resumed at the Mt. Andrew mines not later than the 18th of March. The mine is not onl. fully equipped but in condition fol large production, operations having been suspended only because of the slump in copper prices. It is believ- ed, and not without good reason, that the mine can be made to pay at pres ent prices, but whether that be so or not. even slight advance will cer- taiuly be sufficient 10 justify the lessee company to repew operations with al- most absolute certainty of fair profits ahead.
 Commenced. Work on the Water street improvement was commenced yesterday and is now in progress from the corner of Grant and Front. The street as contemplated will correspond with the full width of Grant to the rear end of the Thiell lot, and thence continue to point beyond Young store on width of twenty-five feet to a connection with that of the same width already completed to the cor poration limits at the upper end ot newtown. It will follow on the line of the old newtown thoroughfare to Gurney's boat house and wharf, where it will make cut of to the left on piles already set, thus making the street shorter and more direct. or rather making new street, bat leav- ing the one now used intact. Should the present weather continue the work of construction will not be one of long duration.
 (From Wednesdays Daily)