The Ketchikan miner., 1909-03-20
THE LOCAL FIELD
lFrom Friday $ Dailyl


 Jefferson for Haines, where they go to visit their daughter, Mrs. C. c. Ba- ker, who is i'll.
 Gold dust valued at 5, 000, 0o0 has arrived in Seattle where it will make one of the exhibits at the Alaska Iu- kon Pacific Exposition which opens June 1. It was brought out over the winter trail from Dawson City, Nome and Fairbanks.
 The Ketchikan wireless is extend ing it's range. Last night Mir. Mclsaac established communication with the ship Helonian 20 miles out of Hilo, Hawaiian Islands, distance of 2SOo miles. The ship spoke fair weather and everything all right and the in struments here recorded it without a skip.
 Skagway is broke, says the Alaskan, or perhaps it would be better to say financially embarrassed.
 The bills presented at the meeting of the town council last night exceed ed the visible assets of Skagway by about sl. 900. For the next month it will be case of tits all going out and there's nothing coming in' so that when the present town council goes out of office the town will face a deficit exceeding g, 0O0."
 The Wrangel Sentinel, the weekly newspaper published at Wrangel by MT. Snyder. has suspended publication and now Wrangel is one of the very few towrs in southeastern Alaska without a newspaper. A well edited newspaper is essential to the success of any town. IL advertises the town CD the outside; it encourages public spirit within. The merchants and business men of Wrangel who refused to support the Sentinel will undoubt- edly regret it before long. Their policy was short sighted one.-Skag- way Alaskan.
 (From Saturdays Dailyl
 P. Heaney. of Seal Bay, came in last night and is registered at the Sted- man.
 Fred Melvehr, of Sulzer. came in CD the Alert last night and is register ed at the Connell.
 H. H. Phelps, of Saxman, came into town last evening and will go south on the Princess May.
 A. N. Thompson. superintendent oi the government schools, left on the Portland today for Yakutat.
 Christian Science Services will be held in the parlors of Hotel Cornell on Sunday at II a. m. Subject. Substance - All are welcome.
 MT. Kazis Krauczunas, United States immigration officer will gc south on the Princess May to Prince Rupert to be absent about ten days.
 ". c. Semar, Seattle, Charles A Fox, Douglas, Alaska, A. L. Clark, San Francisco, c. W. McElray anc Mrs .Y. Merrill of Wrangell, came 1T on the Jefferson last night.
 Hans Apsch returned from Sulzel last evening after four days sta! there. He says that the mine is nov working about sixty men and als' making the usual shipments oi ore.
 John Busher, an old time miner ( the Sulzer country, returned to ketch ikan last night. Mir. Busher has beer away from Ketchikan for nearly three years and hardly knew the little cit! upon his return. He will go south fol a brief trip.
 The subject for the sermon at th' Methodist church tomorrow will b' "What the Christianity of 1909 stand for'' by the pastor, Rev. Frederick V. Fisher. At p. ID. big praise service will be conducted by the pas tor, choir and congregation, witt printed programs for all, at which th' pastor will read Gypsy Smiths famous and thrilling sermon "Slay Utterly. ;
 D. c. Abrams. Deputy marshal a Ketchikan arrived on the steamer humboldt, having in custody Pau Johnson, a l5-year-o.d boy who l; charged with house breaking. aDC bound over to await the action of th' District Court. The lad is young chap who has bean neglected by hi: parents and thrown on the world, and the probabilities are that he will be sentenced to serve term at the re. from school, if convicted. -Junear Dispatch.
 Otto Miller, sailor, miner and pro. spector. died last night about F o'clock at his home in Newtown, from heari disease. He was forty years old aDd was born in Hamburg Germany, but has spent most of his life in America. For several years he was engaged as 8