The Ketchikan miner., 1907-09-21

''cross,o we counted 100 of them as they signed and twenty-two could not sign their name. And some of the seventy-eight signed with pencil stamp. This is remarkably large percentage of illiteracy. Juneau Rec ord.
 Charles E. Ingersoll, attorney for the Alaska Home Railway, filed the articles of incorporation of the con- pany in .the suryeyor-general's office today. The company is organized un- der the <aws of the state of Washing ton. MT. Ingersoll will return to Ketchikan but come back to Juneau in time to take the Portland for Val dez, where his headquarters will be. Juneau Record.
 The Juneau Record tells ofa man who has gone from that place to Val dez, where he will associate with him in business "a man named Reynolds. !" The one who goes from here to the same place has formed an association with the same Reynolds.
 The first wireless message from Sitka was sent to the cable ship Burnside at Juneau on the 4th inst.
 It is no longer hyphenated con- cern, but is now the plain Alaska Daily Record The old saying that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet not only applies to this case but the change is decided improve ment, and in line with the improved appearance of the paper, mechanically and in all other respects.
 The Nome News estimates that labor strikes have reduced the possible output of that section by two million dollars.
 That town is never last that has one public spirited banker to come to it's financial rescue in a case of public financial stress. Such banker, ac- cording to the Dispatch, Juneau has in the person of B. M Behrends, the pio- neer banker of Alaska, of whom it says: 'The B. M. Behrends bank has come to the relief of the city until the government license money is turned over to the city treasury and is cash ing all outstanding warrants at par. This is quite a favor to the council as the members of that body did not want city warrants to be discounted thereby causing loss to laborers and other the license money will be turned over on the return from Skagway of Feder- al Clerk Page. He secured an order from Judge Wickersham approving all licenses except these pertaining tc the retailing of liquor.'
 One Indian bought bottle o1 Haines whiskey of Jap purveyor al the cannery of the Alaska Packers Association, Pyramid harbor, the other day, and two Indians, man and woman, drank it and both whiskey and Indians lasted pretty milldan quick. At last accounts the man was dead, the woman dying, and the off cers looking for the Jap who sold the poison.
 Probably has made up his mind as the parrot did, but unlike the latter from fear of wrath to come rather thar because of the penalty already escaped The Juneau Dispatch thus tells how { certain attorney held discretion the better part of valor: George Israel an attorney from Olympia, Wash. was not present when Federal Judge Wick ersham opened court Saturday even ing to sign bill of particulars in cer. tain appeal cases in which the said at. torney was the leading counsel Strange to say his associate counse was also conspicuously absent and an. other attorney attended to the matter, The absence of attorney Israel was g keen disappointment to the fedora. judge owing to recent attack upor the court by the Olympia attorney. Judge Wickersham did not call it a closed incident but branded the attack sufficient ground for disbarment and an evident attempt at blackmail. The matter caused great deal of discus sion among the attorneys when Judge Wickersham called up the natter" <"
 The Dispatch has been made the official paper of Juneau, and will here after, for the term of one year do the city's work for practically nothing. Next. thing in order is a screed from it's editor showing the value of the local paper to the town or community in which it is published
 None of the towns of Southeastern Alaska were taken in by the dollar a line epresentatve of the Chicago h. ter Ocean. Alaskans are usually easy.
 Anyone who wishes to step into the so-called romantic age of rickety, slow, jolting, uncomfortable stage coaches needs only to take ride on the Seward Peninsula railroad cars. says the Nome Nugget.