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The Ketchikan miner., 1913-10-24
SPEEDY VOYAGE
 FOR THE AL-kl

The steamer Al-ki made port at eleven this mornig, about sixty-three hours from Seat tie, which is very good time for the vessel. Among her car go is the lumber for the Strong building end cement foc the same and about fifty tons of general freight for Ketchikan. For Jun,au she has some big pieces of machinery for the company consisting of electri- cal generators and a big con- crete mixer. She had twenty five passengers on board, ten of whom were for Ketchikan Among the latter were H. c. Strong. A. w. Morgan and Clyde Morgan.
The Ketchikan miner., 1913-10-24
VOICE OF CONSCIENCE

Is the name of a very strong drama at the Grand theater to- night. It is a beautifully acted film. ''The Peddler's Find" is another of the dramatic type with high principle in volved, 'It Pays To Wait" featuring Warren Kerrigan, and " The Maverick" are two good pictures. and drought out the bill a lesson of higher and greater thoughts of fife is dominant.
 Tomorrow night We wil show a magnificent hard eolored two reel feature fillo for your entertainment, so don't forget to Watch the Grand. adv.
The Ketchikan miner., 1913-10-24
PRINCESS MAY
 WILL TIE UP

Sailing from Victoria on Oct. 3I. the Princess May make her last trip north this winter, and the Princess Sophia will in- augerate the winter seheduel, sailing from Victoria on Nov. for Skagway. Her following sailings will be on Nov. 2i, Dec. 5, and Dec. 10. The dates of sailing for the early part of the new year will be announce ed later. Calls will be made by the Princess Sophia at Alert Bay, Prince Rupert, Port Simpson, ketchikan. Wrangel and Juneau. both north and southbound. The steamer Princess May, which has maintained this service for many years, will be laid up in. definitely.
The Ketchikan miner., 1913-10-24
DOLPHIN soUTHBoUND

Having been unable to get into Lake Bay last night on ac- count Of the bad weather. the Dolphin arrived here at 30. considerably ahead Of time. Her passengers from this point were Otto Tucker and wife, C. W. Spencer. NJ. \. Hodge. p. A. Seper and several steerage. Owing to the fact that she had no suitable space left. she had to leave about fifty boxes Of fresh fish at tie New Eng land plant. After leaving ketchikan she went to Roe Point where she was to take on 300 cases of salmon. From points north she had f5S boxes of fresh halibut. 72 barrels Of salt herring and nine tierces Of mild cured salmon. The Dol phin schedule provides for making one more trip this fall Unless she comes out in the Jefferson's place while the latter vessel is oyerhauling.
The Ketchikan miner., 1913-10-24
ALBERT CREEK MEN
 TAKE OUT $12oo

Little is known about the richness of the new strike on Albert creek in the Nelchina country beyond the fact that iietchell and Olsen had taken ont 65 ounces of gold on Dis covery claim and Mccormick on No. 1 above and Anderson on No. 3 above secured good prospects from banning, ac- cofdlng to James. Murray, pioneer Alaska mining man who returned from the Susit- na on the Mariposa recently.
 "Getchel and Olsen worked the ground to a width of 30 Feet and for 70 feet up and down the creek" said Mr. Murray, "and they had not discovered the full width of the pay dirt. The ground worked was twelve feet to bed rock. Four feet of it was pay dirt and there was eight feet of overburden. Empire
The Ketchikan miner., 1913-10-24
SAILORS ON Al-M
 HAVE CLOSE CALL

Two of the crew of the steamship Al-ki, taking cargo 1t pier i, narrowly escaped serious injury yesterday morn ing when a pulley block clamp on the forward mast snapped under the weight of twelve tons of machinery. The brok- enclamp. weighing about twenty pounds. fell to the deck between the two seamen, who were stationed to help swing the cargo into the forward hold. The .Al-ki is loading machinery for the Gastineau Mining Company, Juneau, and I hitch had been made around I big crate which stood on a flat car on the pier. The der lick crane lifted the heavy box few inches from the car. pulley block. through which run the port boom lines. snap ped. An examination show ed that there was flaw in the casting of the clamp. The starbord ratlins fell when the .lann uaS hrnkan-
The Ketchikan miner., 1913-10-24
OFF ON A HUNTING TRIP

\ h'lnting party consisting of Newt Gasperson, "Biddy' Mall one, John Wall, F. Broderius and T. s. Perkins are off on board the Francis R. They plan 10 be gone about six or seven days and will go around the island and it is hardly neces- sary to say that what they won't do to the game of the regions visited won't be worth taking about.
The Ketchikan miner., 1913-10-24

It is reported that the Midas copper mine near Valdez, has been sold for SI23,000 cash. It is said to be the intention Of the company to fight the Gug- genhiems for the copper bus mess of Alaska.
 A new and important gold placer strike is said to have been made near the head waters of the Matanuska and Teslina rivers. The new strike promises to out-rival the Chis- ana.
 The Fairbanks Commercial Club is gathering an exhibit of Panama valley produce to be displayed in Seattle.
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 Emil Hartman, of Dome, is under arrest at Fairbanks charged with assaulting Anton Boroje, of the same place, with intent to commit murder. It is alleged that Hartman took three shots at Boroje with a shotgun at Dome, September 10th. It is said that the men quarreled over some inconse- quential matter.
 The coal creek coal taken from the Yukon river short distance below Dawson, to Fairbanks and used by the Panama Valley railroad as test did not prove to be the sue cess that was expected to. It is said that ton of the coal produced about the same re- suits that cord of wood would produce. However, the locomotives on the railroad are wood burners and not design ed for the use of coal, and it is admitted that the test was not entirely fair.
The Ketchikan miner., 1913-10-24
OF PRESIDENTS RACE
 ENTERS ALMSHoUSE

Aged and decriped, worn out
 by years of toll and travel in
 the silent Northland, Frank
 Madison, a great, great, great
 grandson of James Madison,
 fourth president of the United States, and known through out Alaska as "Musselshell
 Frank, will pay the toll of the
 trackless places by ending
 his days in the home for in digent pioneers recently es- tablished at Sitka by direction of the first territoral legislat- ure of Alaska. Madison, ac- cording to recent arrivals from the north, left Juneau a few days ago to spend the balance of his life at the only elee- mmosynary institution in AL aska.
 During his long lifa in the territory he visited practical ly every mining field that has been discovered in Alaska and the British Yukon, but invar- ibaly seemed to stake the claims upon which no pay streak was developed. In one case, when out of provisions and short of money he sold for a small boat and a few sacks of flour a claim which afterwards yielded S250,000. He refused an offer to buy the Treadwell mine for $500. It afterwards sold to James Fred for S400. It has since pro- dnced more than S50,000,000 and it's annual production is about equal to the amount paid by the United States to Russia for the entire territory. Madison's one great achieve ment in the north-the one for which he has been most bles- sed by those who follow him into the territOry-was the in- Vention of the Yukon stove. This device, because of it's and adaptability to the environment in which Il was used, saved the lives of many miners. Madison did not patent it. He took several of the stoves with him to Daw- son in the first days of the great stampede, but instead of manufacturing them for sale he followed mining and went Iiroke while others became rich from the manufacture and sale of his invention, which they traded to the early 1 pioneers on the 'pound for half ounce" basis-a pound of i stove fer a half ounce of gold.
The Ketchikan miner., 1913-10-24


 We, the (nand IT, sum- moned to attend the Special October 1913 tarm of the United States District Court for the District of Alaska, Div ision Number One, having com pleted our labors for the said term and conclude the bus mess brought before us, now beg leave to report to theHon- orable Court as follows:
 We have been in session six days and have acted on fifteen bound-over cases, have con- ducted three investigations, have found fifteen True Bills, and one Not True Bill. We have examined fifty nine wit nesses and employed two in- terpreters.
 We find that the condition of the Federal Jail is good, that it Is clean and sanitary. But We have certain recommen- dations to make concerning facilities needed in the Court House; sufficient number of chairs should be bought to ac- commodate the witnesses who rae now compelled to stand in the railways of the Court House waiting for hours for their turn to be called before the Grand Jury; two inch stand pipe should be installed m the Court House and should connect with valve on each floor and each should have at tached to it one hundred feet Of hose, so that the prisoners n the Federal Jail and the Court House itself together With the books and property therein may be better protee- cd against fire. But even with these added facilities and improvements the accommda- tlons for the Federal officials stationed at Ketchikan will vet De inadequate. AS soon as possible the Government should erect at Ketchikan a commodious fire proof build negotiating offices, court rooms, etc. sufficient to ac- 'ommodate the District Court and the Commissioners Court and all other Federal officials stationed at Ketchikan: as well as a commodious and up- to-date jail.
 We repeat the recommen- 1atlon made by former Grand 1urles that jurors in the Dis trlct Court be allowed fee of five dollars per diem besides mileage.
 In concluding, we extend our thanks to this Honorable Hoart, and to the offices of the United States Attorney and United States Marshal for the many courtesies we have re- celved at their hands during sitting of the Grand Jury.
 Dated at Ketchikan, Alaska, this goth. day of October. A. D. 1913.
 THOMAS TORRY
 Homo
The Ketchikan miner., 1913-10-24
BIRTHS GREATLY
 EXCEED DEATHS

According to Health Officer Si Howell, the population of Ketchikan is steadily growing. for instance, during the period from April 15 1912 to October %, 1913, the number of births in Ketchikan has exceeded the deaths by 13. The totals for that period are: Births, 51; Deaths, 3S.
The Ketchikan miner., 1913-10-24
OFF TO CONFERENCE

Collector of Customs Willis was one Of the passengers on board the Sampson Saturday. He is on his way to New York 'o attend a conference of the various collectors Of customs 1f the United States in that city November 3.
The Ketchikan miner., 1913-10-24
ARE INSTALLING
 HEATING PLANT

Foord & Company the plum bers have secured the con- tracts for installing vacuum steam heating plants at the Mitchell and Torry residents. They will also install a hot water heating plant and do the plumbing on the residence Dr. Ben Myers is having built.
The Ketchikan miner., 1913-10-24
OvERHAULlNG GEAR

The halibut power fisherman Alice is in port today over hauling fishing gear, etc. Among other improvements a new anchor and cable were in- stalled.
The Ketchikan miner., 1913-10-24
WILL CONSULT SPECIALIST

Mrs. Thoday left for the south on the Alameda this morning. She goes to Seattle to consult an eye specialist for little Catherine Barry, who las a very badly infected eye She took botk he Barry chill CreH with Ter.
The Ketchikan miner., 1913-10-24
LoNcSHoREMEN m
 FORM UNION

A number of the local long shoremen met at the Socialist Hall last night and organized | longshoremen's union. It is understood that they propose to boost prices for handling several commodities on the local wharveS.
The Ketchikan miner., 1913-10-24
PuRSER PARKER
 WILL TAKE A REST

H. NJ. Parker, purser of the good ship Dolphin will not come out on the vessel again this season. He will take hls vacation instead before taking p his winter work.
The Ketchikan miner., 1913-10-24
DID YOU GET ONE?

Col. Higgins as town asses sor has been sending out bil- letSdoux 10 most everybody in town of late. They are gentle reminders of the fact that ones property has been taxed and 10 tell your troubles atont it to the Town Council which will sit as a Board of Equali- gers November 3, and ,.
The Ketchikan miner., 1913-10-24
'EW HOSTING GEAR
 FOR THE COLUMRINE

\ new winch and anchor windlass arrived on recent Doat for the lighthouse tender Golumbine and was loaded on hoard the vessel this morning. She also took on board q big consignment of buoy anchor cables which had been on the ketchikan Wharf company's iCek for some time.
The Ketchikan miner., 1913-10-24
DIFFERS HER RETURN

Mrs. C. NJ. Taylor. who was expected home on an early boat. writes that she has left Port Orchard for an auto trip 70 Portland, and will not be home as soon as she expected.
The Ketchikan miner., 1913-10-24

Seattle, Oct. 23-The halibut market remains unchanged. An oversupply exists and the best price offered is two and one-half cents per pound.
The Ketchikan miner., 1913-10-24
HOUSE ALMOST FINISHED

Henry Goemaere's new resi- dence on Glover Hill is rapid ly approaching completion. It IS a spacious. well-btilt struct- ure, 0 credit to both owner and builders.
The Ketchikan miner., 1913-10-24

Have you seen those car pet sample rugs at Heckmans9 ?
 For bargains in carpet sample
 rugs see the display al Heck mans. adv.
The Ketchikan miner., 1913-10-24

You'll find what you want at Heekman's i'll the rug line.
 Advertising.
The Ketchikan miner., 1913-10-24
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Iskut River on the gas boat Salmon with a crew of men to survey and map a channel from the mouth at the Stikine to the canyon. some thirty or forty miles, as was stated in last weeks issue of the Senti- nel. The men accompanying Engineer Kean were Bert Me Kay, Dave Lewis and Eddie Lynch. The work is expected to take about three weeks. This means much for this part of the country and it is only a question of time now until this section will be a steady pro ducer and will mean much to Wrangell as all the travel and commerce will come through here. -Wrangell Sentinel.
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 w. G. Whorf, the Port Gra- ham coal and cannery man, proposes to install coal bun kers capable of handling one thousand tons of coal. The construction work will be car ried on this winter. A shaft of 125 feet, located some dis tance from the former work ingS on the mine has revealed two ten-foot veins of coal, one encountered at depth of S5 feet, the other 35 feet below this. The lower vein is an especially fine grade of coal, much superior to the upper vein. Mir. Whorf, has reason to believe that there are two or three veins lying beneath the lower one encountered, and is having the shaft con- tinued to determine the matter Mr. Whorf declares he has orders for more coal than he can fill at the present time, but in the spring he figures on being in shape to supply the large market. The Sampson mail brought him an order for 300 tons from one concern in Southeastern Alaska. He pro- poses to establish agencies in all the coast towns to handle his products. s.-Chitina Leader.
 Bishop p. T. Rowe carried out his threat that he would mine the coal at Lisburn for the benefit of the missions by actually taking out some of the coal and bringing 1t down for the use of the natives.
 Advices from Valdez state that Senator Willard has struck an exceedingly rich body or ore in the upraise on the Tatum property.
 The Alaska Steamship com pany has announced that it will maintain it's present schedule until the end of De- cember. with the exception that the Dolphin will be taken off the run the 2Gth., of the present month.
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 One of the most important steps that has been taken during the past summer per taining to the opening If the great interior country at the headwaters of the Stikine river, is the building of the wagon road from Telegraph creek to Dease- lake hy the British Columbia government under the supervision Of Charles Collins. The road has been built out i3 miles from Telegraph this summer and most Of the worst of the road las been constructed, leaving wo bridges to be built and few miles Of mountain road. The rest is rolling Draipie
The Ketchikan miner., 1913-10-24
The Daily Miner, $1. per. mo.

ALL ROADS LEAD TO THE 1EEAM. adv
The Ketchikan miner., 1913-10-24

Bishop P. T. Rowe carried out his threat that he would mine the coal at Lisburn for the benefit of the missions there, by actually taking out some of the coal and bringing it down for the use of the natives.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1913-11-20

temperate regions throughout tn,
world. It is widely distributed through
out the cotton belt and holds the place
in those states that Kentucky blue
grass holds in the north. II is warn
weather grass. 1t will not grow il
cold weather and usually winter kills
when the temperature fall much be
low the zero point
II is primarily a pasture grass and
is relished by all kinds of stock II
will stand close grazing and much
tramping. 1t also makes hay of excel
lent quality, but it will not grow tall
enough to NOV except on very fertile
soil. On fertile soil under favorable
conditions, it often furnishes two or
three cuttings, yielding in a season
from two to four tons of hay per
acre.
Since it furnishes no late fall or
early spring pasture, summer and
winter clovers and vetches must be
added to the sod or other grasses, or
animal pasture crops must be grown.
in order to supply continuous grazing
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1913-11-20

he followed her in. Upon the stove
was frying pan that sent forth the
appetizing doors which he had dis
cerned and in 1t lay quarter OF q
delicatessen store turkey.
Il think It's DONE" said Fanny. and
she removed it from it's resting place
and set 1t upon platter. Then, open
ing cupboard. she took down two
plates from a shelf, two knives, two
forks, two napkins, and salt shaker.
Out of the inside Of the little stove
she took four large and piping hot
baked potatoes.
You weren't going to eat four!"
said John, with clumsy POPULARITY, and
Fanny blushed. So she had planned
to invite him from the beginning!
However, a healthy appetite does
not permit of retrospective analysis.
It was not until the plates we're quite
clean, except for turkey bones and po-
tato peel, and the last morsel of the
feast was done, that they found time
for anything but the scrappiest frag-
ments of speech. Then John looked
at Fanny and his heart began beat
ing In that absurd way again. How
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1913-11-20

nice 1t would be to have somebody
| like that-as nice as that-as pretty
as that-to cook every meal for him!
And how he had hated to see her
start out 80 early and come back so
late from the department store! Be-
fore he realized it he had forgotten
all his shyness and they were talk
ing learnedly and delightfully."- about
their homes.
They thought of the free country
afr and the roads and fields white
with snow, and the peacefulness OF
little farm of their own; hut they
did not mention the proprietorship.
Still, by sort of telepathy, each
knew that the other was thinking of
that. And the stuffy little lodging
house room became filled with ro-
nance for them and they looked won
deringly upon each other and thought
that fate was very kind.
And it's this way" said John. 81
know that / was fool to leave the
farm and come here. There was just
the one thing knew all about and
could have succeeded at, and | threw
1t up to take up something l never
can succeed at"
Same here" said Fanny briskly.
IF you knew how tired get of try
ing on ladies' shoes And they have
such dreadful tempers, some of them.
and sometimes their feet are SO out
of shape | have hard work TO keep
from laughing at them
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1913-11-20

I'm sure they can't any Of them be
as pretty as yours" said John, and
he blushed almost as deeply as she.
And then as they sat there side by
side John found courage to draw his
chair so close that 1t actually touched
hers, and before he l.new what he
was doing he found himself holding
her little hand in his. And she let
him hold it-that was the astonishing
thing!
Fanny" he said-it was the first
time he had called her that-"if
could save up three hundred dollars
l could buy little place on mortgage
and make 1t pay. know l could make
1t pay. But can't save a penny and
never shall. for can't earn enough.
But If you would go into partnership
with me for just one year, and we had
one room instead of two-and two
could live just as cheaply as one
and after a year we had saved up
three hundred dollars, do you
think"
But 1t was more astonishing still
when she let him kiss her. And their
poor little arrangement seemed like a
financier miracle and the heavens
were opened In her little bare hall
room.
Next Thanksgiving we shall have
our home for ourselves" he said pres
emily. Doesn't it make you happy?
Can you be as happy as l am. Fanny?
Do you know, don't know what your
other name is, Isn't that stranger"
Il don't want to tell you, John"
but don't you think I ought to
know
We'll, but what's the use of telling
you when you say I've got to lose 1t
so quickly?"
Copyright. 1912, by W. G. Chapman.)
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1913-11-20

COW peas, soy beans, lespedeza. pea
nuts or some other good leguminous
crop for one or two years and then sod
ding it In Bermuda grass, crimson
clover, burr clover and white clover
and lespedeza for pure bred hogs, cat
tie, horses. mules, sheep and other live
stock to Craze.
The best pasture grass for the south
Is Bermuda We are growing corn and
cotton on poor soil to feed few scrub
stock to obtain the necessary cash to
pay the expenses. We are not able to
say just what is the average cost of
production of an acre of corn or cot
ton, but the cost of production of ar
acre of Bermuda grass on fertile soil
Is fence and gate tn turn the stock
In. The stock will harvest the grass
and usually bring large per cent. OF
clear profit.
Bermuda grass is the great pasture
grass of the subtropical and warmer