The Ketchikan miner., 1908-03-07

destruction.
 How the fire originated is not defin- itely known, but various theories are advanced, all more or less speculative, and without any known facts to sub- stantiate them. Dr. II. c. Story. whose office and living rooms were on the second floor, was lying down at the time the fire broke out and narrow ly escaped with his life by making his way bindly out through the smoke and out through the front door which happened to be open. He can give no other account of the affair than that he was lying on his ped taking an afternoon nap when he was awakened by the heat and smoke and made his way out as stated. He gives it as his opinion, however, that the fire orig mated from an overloaded stove which set fire to the paper of an adjacent wooden partition. He WAS himself badly burned about the head, and is now at the hospital. All his personal effects, save his surgical instruments and medicine case were destroyed, and the upper part of the interior of the building badly damaged.
 iFrom Wednesdays Daily)
 H. z. Burkhart accompanied MT. P. J. German to Kasaan this morning, most probably with an eye to husln.ss which is nobody else's business.
 Whenever the Young Mems lee Club has rehearsal the price of saiL and lemons goes up. There may be no connection at all, but nevertheless 1t Is fact.
 The barge Blanch has been recanIk- ed, and is now being repainted pre- paratory to service in the delivery of salmon boxes to the various cannefies in southeastern Alaska.
 The work of repiling the Ketchikan cannery wharf is to be undertaken within few days, the contract hay. ing been let to w. A. Patterson, the boss contractor in that line of con- struction.
 The sloop Falcon, which was sunk near the powder house on Pennock island, just opposite town, was raised this morning and brought over to place of safety, where she will be re- paired and put in condition for service once more.
 The large scow Queen City is now being loaded with 50, 900 feet of lum- Der at the Power company's mill, for delivery to the Tyee Whaling com pany at Murder Cove, south end of Admiralty island. on or before the 10th inst.
 Painful, but peculiarly true. is the circumstance that there is but one pa- present. time. and he is the surgeon himself. He is progressing favorably without being obliged to call substi. fute to his relief
 Charlie Taylor has tho grip. It is not the Odd Fellows grip, nor tho Mason's, but just the good old fash- toned achey LaGrippe. In order to make it more interesting he Is trying to get the tonsiitis, but he is not sure that he will succeed.
 The gasolene boat Yankee, belong ing to the Baronovich brothers, brought in late yesterday three tons of halibut to Hunt-Lathrop company. These, together with those previously received and packed, with others yet to come in will constitute the largest shipment this firm has made this sea- son.
 Today is Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent. For something like l75O years Churchmen have observed special time of repentance, self-denial and withdrawal from worldly festivi- ties, which has gradually developed into the definite forty days now ob- served, and called the Lenten Season. Ash Wednesday receives it's name from a curious and very ancient dis cipline practced on certain offenders. On that day they appeared before the doors of the ancient churches, ''cloth- ed in sackcloth, barefooted and eyes fixed upon the ground, confessing themselves guilty both by the babit and their looks" At the conclusion of solemn pentential service, they were sprinkled with ashes by their Bishop: whence came the name the day has borne for many hundred years. Lent continues (except on Sundays which are not included In the forty days) from today until April 18th, which is Easter Sunday, and is ob- served more or less strictly by Church. men all over the world wherever the Church has made it's way.
 The damage caused by fire in the Pittenger building yesterday is esti. mated at $500-Sl75 on the building itself, and the balance on the personal property and effects of Dr. Story, the tenant. The latter lost all his cloth- ing, in fact everything save his medi- cine case and surgical outfit -aud yet ;., Irt l