The Ketchikan miner., 1915-07-23

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 s' 4 Alaska is proving drawing card among Eastern tourists only second to the exposition at San Francisco said E. G. MeA4ieken, general passen- ger agent of the North Pacific Steam ship company, of San Francisco. About the first question the, aver age Easternen asks on his arrival in San Francisco is the distance and the lnote and sflie time it will toke for the Northern trip: Judging by the number of these inquiries that have come to' line personally, Seattle will see great many tourists this sum- ancr bound North ! on sightseeing trips tes A1aska'' ss Sfies9ss Y srsss,si4.s t%sA . iz .s1sa
 RoupAo for Chicagof, sssontheastern Alaska, the launch Glricagof, recently completed at4the Heath yards at OK bew,slleft Seattle a e.sweek ago. The vessel went north in charge of Capt. C. P. McGarthy and q crew of six men She has a cargo of ten tons of dynamite for the sGhicagof mine. The tween. Chieagof and .Juneau carrying Mining company sand will ply z be- tween Chicagef anda Juneau carrying supplies and gold bullion, The yes sel is sixty-fivc feet long and four teen feet beam.e sss te
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 Two brown bears thatlare known to be roaming son Amok islhnd are now being hunted to death before iiithe Murphy sheep are turned loose. MT. Murphy wwent west Ion one of the recent boats to start a sheep and cat tie ranch on the island.s Just before he got there a Sbrown bear an dher cubs were killed, but the two others still < ons4asthe ilsand sare considered il {, nenace. Seward Gateway.
 .g g.i4 se.a ii | fl4s 3eiag v Robert w. Sepviee,s tke we'll Known Yukon writer, who left the territory three years ago, since which he serv- ed as a correspondent in the Balkan war and then. went to Paris and mar ried French girl and settled down there to yritea has given up the grind of making copy and gone tosthe front. 4issBssH I fef ' 6ff gsii ssIAlbnrt Berton aPetefson, 35ayears old, Light complexion, blue eyes, 6 feet tall, medium light hair, qsmali fingeroof left hand cut off at the root of the nail,i lcasne to Alaska in 1908. eIf ayeup know anything about siims write to dlis worried motlier. Mrs. Henry J. Wilcox, Harbor Springs, Michigan
 sas4An interesting feature of the new license by law passed June 29th by the Prince Rupert council was that wherein it was aofdafheas banks shall pay san annual license Of o$200 each. As sherc are five banks there it will sincrcase the city's revenue materially. ls:5as fsdta Iii +sa4 ah siss i st'sf z An ihvestigatioff Of tho reported epidemic of dfphtheria among tiio natives at Tonsina reveals that one native had died, probably frompto- maine poison, md another was sick and suffering from tubercular throat. I ';5isi- @sts na 4g4a4 esaa ss'tss4
 The goverhnent jail at Petersburg has been strengthened and repaired for tiie fal1 trade.-Ex. alss a''5.a fsg.ig aas% %a1as, .'iss..ssa Y Albert Pcarce, an eemrilpllloye of the government, was drowned at Eagle sfiver, ne;alr Anchorage, two weeks ago. saais ssi a
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 Seven ansora 7 goats were landed at Haines on teh last trip ,siof the, Hum sboldt ana We're taken to Klukwan to See if they IsrSv pIrove success.
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 The HSh, yohnM Emerson. secretary of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce passed up the town of Petersbprg with promise to return in August 1sss s9 yeStgsts sz4:ftS#sf fss.es.x SIit