The Ketchikan mining news., 1907-02-15
PENCIL AND SCISSORS

new land offices at Nome and Fair banks.
 Reports from Dawson say that the Rothschilds have sold out to the Gug- genheims. Holy Jerusalem Douglas News.
 Even the old conservative Sitka Al, askan intimates that Mrs. E. L. Barr, who says Alaska children are neg1 lected, is liar.
 Gambling is wide open in the towr of Fairbanks. Games are again run ming in the house formerly owned by Judge Wickersham.
 The new town of Wickersham, ir| the American Forty-Mile, has a jail and a U. s. Marshal. Archie Heath formerly of Eagle, is the deputy.
 The navy proposes hospital for Sit ka. Something like that is needed. The removal of the territorial capital affected the town like an operation for appendicitis. Seward Gateway.
 Editor Snyder of the Wrangell Senti- ! nel denies that he intends slopping| over into the daily field. Snyder is right; a good weekly is better than al poor daily, any time..-Douglas News.
 Vault Creek in the Fairbanks dis trict is again pushing to the front, this time with new strike on the Victor group where pans are running from $4 to $lO.
 For week prior to the 7th inst. water, the Sentinel says, was sold for one dollar a barrel in Wrangell. Must have been badly wanted for other than thirst quenching purposes.
 Warned by the recent disastrous fire in that place, the people of Haines have organized and will equip fire de apartment, so as to be prepared for another attack by the fiery element, hould it come.
 Mrs. w. R. Mills, wife of Sitka's s leading merchant, died at her home in that place on the 29th of January, last. She was an old resident, but spent much of her time in California on account of her health.
 The Wrangell Sentinel says that Bruno Greif, the least obtrusive, but one of the most enterprising citizens of that place will construct water system of his own, to be supplied from a reservoir, which he will build on the heights back of the town.
 A complaint has been filed in the U. s. Commissioners Court at Fairbanks, charging fraud and conspiracy against ex-Mayor Barnette and his associates in securing title and possession of the Dome creek properties, alleged to be worth more than a million dollars.
 Wrangell people were much surprised to learn of the marriage of Miss Lu cinda McGee to Mr. Michael Wad ding, which occurred at Loring one da, Hast week, Rev. Chapman of Ketchi | Kan off1o1atlnG. AS IS Wcl known in Wrangell where she ha spent most of her life. Her man, friends here wish the happy couple
 A long, happy life,
 A great deal of joy,
 A nice litte home,
 And fat bouncing-turke, for Thanksgiving dinner Sentinel.
 Railroaing in the Nome section O Alaska is going to have boom nex season. Construction engineers of the Solomon railroad have contracted witt the steamship companies operating to Nome for enough space on the first steamers in the spring to ac- commodate 10000 tons of rails, 25O, OOt ties and 50, 900 feet of bridge timbers. Discovery of gold deposits on the sec ond and third beach lines, and the quartz in the hills, has so increased the demand for freight transportation in that section that the railroad has had to make provisions for a much larger business next year.
 The Mining News disclaims any and all responsibility for the following Ketchikan occurrence thus related by the Wrangell Sentinel, though it has a job open for that reporter if he can be found:
 "A cub reporter in Ketchikan the other day was sent to investigate a quarrel. This is what he wrote: "A man killed a dog belonging to another man. The son of the man whose dog was killed proceeded to whip the man who killed the dog of the man he was the son of. The man who was the son of the man whose dog was killed was arrested on the complaint of the man who was assaulted by the son of the man whose dog the man who was as- saulted had killed"
 !. There is some strange fascination about this great Northland that mere words cannot express. Although at this season the hills are cold, bleak and forbidding, in the valleys are warm hearts that leave deep impress on all who have once felt the glow of the