The Ketchikan miner., 1908-03-21
tFrom Mondays Daily)

i pack at th3 local cannery. She haG T passenger list of seventeen who are Southboupd from the westward.
 THE SHAMROCK Tomorrow is St. Patrick's Day
 A bunch of green I'll wear: It reminds me of the home I love
 In dear old Inisfale
 t reminds me too. of childhood days- Some thirty years ago Of where played, would like to TOW
 Where the dear little Shamrock grows.
 It brings glad joy to girl and boy
 Who hails from where did; Who remembers true. though words
 not new,
 What Neiob Fadruig said. It's been for fourteen hundred years
 Au emblem Of our soil, | Worn by each son and daughter,
 At home or in exile.
 It still will be our sacred plant,
 As years go rolling on.
 It's memories will be handed down
 From Gaelic sire to son.
 l know that every Irshman, Wherever he may stray. Will always wear the Shamrock
 On each St. Patrick's day.
 M. ]. HENEGHAN.
 From Tuesdays Daily
 Viii Cranston of Seattle. Peter Zib- Ter of Paris, and Mrs. A. E. King oi fSunny Point, are registered At the l Stedman.
 J. Alvey, C. Williams and o. Will Hams, of Seattle, came in on the Priu- cess May last night and are registered at the Cornell.
 Evan Jones, foreman at Sulzer, and Frederick Rogers of the same place. .ame in last night on the Alert ano ire stopping at the Connell.
 The Princess May arrived from the south at II o'clock last night, bring ing mail and passengers. Her arrival here was entirely unexpected as i vas believed she would not be Tn until ,oday.
 The Alert returned last night about midnight from her regular mail run. She took out number of passengers and drought back several from Sulzet who had come over the portage. Mrs. King, of Sunny Point, was also pas senger for Ketchikan.
 The launch Teddy, for.rerly run ming out of Ketchikan to the West coast and Wrangell on regular mail run. las adopted the follow ing sched- ule on her neT mail run. She leaves | Wrangel at o clock Thur ,day evep- ,ng for Sulzer, cali"g in at Howkan ,n the southhound trip. Returning she leaves Sulzer Tuesday IS soon a. the mail is received.
 Winter has been lingering in the lap of Spring-it's heen doing wors~ han that the sly cid fpx-it's beer :outting Spring for the past two months, keeping itself in abeyance as much as possible, until. having gained the ascendency, it has led Spring to he altar and Gn'ted with her in the luIy bonds of matt imony. On no other hypothesis can The Miner account fcl his sudden joyous outburst CD tGr part of our ordinarily mild-maunere. winter.
 We wish to call attention to the ad- vertisement of the Rvus Drug Co.,. . which is offering the residents oi Ketchikan an opportunity to remove some of the monotony and rougbness from the external appearance of the town by adding little color to it, They are offering to distribute, free. packages of sweet pea seeds, and, as further inducement, will present to the person whose care and cultivation of the plant leads to the first blossom. prize.
 About six months ago. at the time the improvements were heinz made to Edmond street, a quantity of roots and snags that were removed during the progress of the improvement were carted down 10 the end of Main street and dumbed off onto the beach below. The Main street sewer is laid on the beach at the point where the rubbish was dumped. running parallel with the street. The heavy, water-soaked stumps were thrown directly over the sewer, and the mud covering the pi ps was not sufficiently firm to withstand the weight. As d result the pipe! were crushed and the sewer blocked Since then the contents of the pipes have been oozing out through the con