Douglas Island news., 1899-10-18

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 Dewey is an expansionist, and so are all other people who have not lost their heads
 The Secretary of the Navy wants seventy-three million dollars for next year. We hope congress will grant it. skagway originated the idea of hold ing the convention, and the polite thing would have been to let that city have the chairman.
 The Philippine insurgents got away with one of Uncle Sam's diminutive gun boats, and the old Iowa will be sent east at once.
 Our old friend Will D. Jenkins, Sec retary of state for Washington, is going to the bow VOWS sure-he has joined the auti-expansionists.
 In Kansas many of the pops, refuse to combine with the democrats this fall and the chances are in favor of general republican success.
 Assistsnt Secretary of State Adee denies the interview that congressman Cushman claims to have had with him. We will back the young congressman in his statement on the matter,
 Indiana Democrats have declared in favor of McKinley's Philippine policy, and many other states will do the same. Poor Bryan will be in hard lines when all the states are heard from.
 Our eastern exchanges speak of corn and grain inspectors, and crops of all kinds, which seems queer to us up here where gold, lumber and fish are our only merchantable products.
 Old Daddy Kruger is still holding the British at bay. The last time the English tackled him they got the stuff ing licked out of their army, and we hope the same thing will happen again if war is commenced.
 The Daily Alaska Miner is the name of a new paper started at Juneau, and No. 1 is upon our table. It is bright, newsy paper and if kept up to the standard of the first number will fairly represent the future Capital city.
 A new Methodist church was recently dedicated at Gaylord, in Smith county, Kan, a former popuEst stronghold. We will, from this distance, bet the price of chicken iu Alaska, that the county goes republican this fall. Such prosperity can't wriggle under pop rule.
 The American mule can stand any thing except an eastern typhoOn. The transport Siam, loaded with BPS mules, encountered one of these high rollers and put into port with sixteen animals, and they were pretty we'll used up. At kinson x Co. will rejoice over this mis- fortune.
 The Cottage City steamed into the channel Monday evening between five and six o'clock. She had small passenger list. The News is grateful to chief steward Sanders for some very late papers and other favors. The handsome blonde stewardess is still with the ship.
 Ex-President Cleveland belongs to the anti-expansion crowd. A man of his name hauled down Old Glory that was raised in Honolulu several years ago, and if he knew just what the peo pie thought about his manner of run ming this government, he would keep his darned old fool mouth shut on DO litical matters.
 Bishop Vincent, of the M. E. church presided over conference down or the Sound recently, and the papers re ported that he became rattled and more than mixed things up, or, in other words, lost his head. We don't wonder at it. He is an anti-expansionist and belongs to the Atkinson S Go. outfit The next general conference ought tc vote him ''non effective" as it did Bish op Bowman, after he had made foo of himself in Seattle six or seven year' ago.