The Ketchikan miner., 1915-07-23

Alaska is proving, . DD. drawing card among Eastern tourists only second to the expoaitisn at San Francisco" said F. G. McMieken, general passen- ger, agcnt of tho North Pacific Steam ship company of | San Francisco !" About tho first question the nvcr- age Easterncn asks on his arrival in Snn Francisco is the distance and tho auote and the time it will tokc for tue Northern trip Julging by tho aumhcr of ~thcse inquiries that havc coue to Emo. personally, Seattle will see q great many tourists this sum- |mcr bound North on sightseeing trips tos ,AlasksM,,,s s5 siwssts z e..s;tae t%.tA +.i# ,5seageM Roup,lo for Chicaaof, sSoatheAstcrn Alaska, the ,lauach uhicagof, recently completed atnthe Heath yards at OK hqw,l6left Seattle aaweekE ago. The tNessel went north in chargo of Capt. c. F. McCarthy and a crew of six tmem She has q cargo of ten tons of dynamite for the Chicagof mine. Tho ltween Chicagof and Juneau carrying
 Mining company md will ply s be- tween Chicagef andlJuneau carrying lsupriiesss and geldA bullion. The yes
 sel is sixts-five feet long md four ltsen feet, beam.e ss si#rii
 | Il -R -R. fI.4. l s Two brown bears that ure known to
 be roaming on Amck islhnd pare now being hunted to death before 1.-the
 Murphy sheep arc turned loose. MT. fAfurphy ywent west Son one of the
 recent boats to start a sheep and cat l tie ranch On the island. Just before
 he got there brown bear an lher cubs were killed, but the. two others tstill, on. 1.-the ilsand | are considered lar menacs.-Seward Gateway. ss
 a.l4 usat ++ | +lqe9 geissgE
 Robert W. Service, tKe we'll Known
 Yukon writer, who ltft the territory
 three years ago, siifce which he sefv-
 cd as correspondent in the Balkan
 war and then. went to Paris and mar
 ried French girl and settled down
 there to writes has given up the grind Eef making copy and gone to the front. IaisNgaa U tt + astF{ vssla l. Albert Berton Peterson, 35 years old, light complexion, VI blue eyes, 6
 feet tall, medium light hair, rsmali finger of left, hand cut off at the
 root of the nail,; caane to Alaska in
 1908. silf you know anything about hlims write to his worried mother.
 Mrs. Henry U Wilcox, Harbor tsprings, Michigan.
 iss3Vas aug 2f + q 'k t7i#s sfs IasAn interesting feature of the new
 license by law passed June 29th by
 the Prince Rupert council was that
 wherein it was ordained banks shall pay san, annual license Of 2O0i each
 As there yare five banks there it will Iincres'se tie' city's revenue materially. Essas s9dfo iEs 4rsas flt sea i. esfss r An investigation of tho reported
 epidemic ' of dfphtheria among thc
 natives at Tonsina reveals that ono
 native had died, probably frompto-
 maine poison, and another was sick land suffering from tubercular throat. V 'iei- 9ai ae 4sfrsesa ss'Si The goverhinent jail at Petersburg
 has been strengthened and repaired
 for the fall trade-Ex. fFps i''.'5f EsaH a9i.+ %a4is s'iisas iis 2 F Albert Pcarce. an. enipploye of the
 government, was drowned at Eagle
 liver, near Anchorage, two weeks ||aso. ai4" 'siiis'l {. A'' ''.'ss sa' "ae iis+4+ 2 v 'fFf
 seven angora goats were landed at
 iIaines on teh last trin fof the. Hum ! boldt ana Were, taken to Klukwan to
 see if they prove a success. l 12 -" .,izs The Hon. ;JolinMcPherson,. secretary 1 of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce
 passed up the town of Petersbprg ] with promise toi return in August sa1 1o 4osg < asefs4si isl lx at