The Ketchikan miner., 1909-06-05

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 New York, May PIE. Hartman is booked for passage to Europe. He sails June l.
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 Paris, May 27-The court of appeals has decided that the children of Anna Gould shall remain with her and not with their father Count Castellaine.
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 Balboa. Spain, May PA hundred fishermen were drowned yesterday off the coast here, owing to fierce storm which sunk ships and destroyed pro- perty.
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 New Orleans, May 27-Floods are inundating the entire south. Heavy rains and swoolen rivers are causing loss of lives and destruction of pro- perty.-
 Chicago, May 27-Prof. Grant and other scientific men from the North western University will leave June ? for a tour of Alaska to study it's geo. logical, glacial and mineral forma- tion aud character.
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 Washington, May 27-The cruiser St. Louis may carry Taft to Alaska this summer. An attempt is being made to have the war department con- sent to cruise of war vessel and take the president as guest.
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 San Francisco, May 27 Jack John son has wired the fight managers here that he is willing to meet Al. Kauf- man in July or August for purse of ten thousand dollars, wir, lose or draw.
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 Kalespell, May 27-Fitty cents day increase in wages has been granted two thousand lumber workmen as a result of their recent strike.
 The men are iubilant over their vic tory and have all gone back to the woods.
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 Decatur, H., May 27-After wan derng for years around Alaska and declared legally dead two years ago by the courts. Henry McVey returned here today and proved his identity. He will get five thousand dollars left him by the will of his father who died several years ago.
 United Press special Seattle, May 27-All Seattle steam ship lines have joined the freight cut to St. Michaels and Nome and are now offering a six dollar rate. The steamer Santa Ana will be sent north immediately to take the route of the Dora which is badly damaged by ice foes to the westward. The Dora is to come south for repairs.
 United Press special Seattle, May 26-Arnold George the Klondike official representative to the A. Y. F. E. stepped in front of a street car today and was carried two blocks on the fender. George has lived in Alaska so long he hardly knows the uses of a street car and got rattleo when the cars and automobiles crowded the streets.
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 Vancouver, May 27-The steamer Coquitlan owned by the Union steam ship company caught fire this forenoon off Point Rol ts and one deckhand with three Japanese laborers who'were sleeping in their hunks were burned to death and the mate will die from the severity of his burns.
 There were ten passengers aboard and they worked with the crew to ex tiuguish the flames and by their united efforts the ship was saved.
 The Coquitlan was about ITO tons and in 1890 was on the southeastern Alaska run. She was bound from Vancouver to Queen Charlotte Island when the fire broke out.
 Detroit, May 27-Forest fires are raging in various parts of Michigan. The town of Dalton has been wiped out and many homes have been de-