The Ketchikan miner., 1907-10-05

continued about 30 seconds and shook | things mp generally but did no dam- age. It also says that Capt. O'Brien, of the City of Seattle, which arrived | It that port tho same day reports hay ing seen when passing the south end of Sullivan island, in Lynn canal, dense black smoke issuing from q mountain peak some 20 to 9 miles to the westward. The smoke was first discovered at 10 o'clock on the morn ing of the 24th, and the Capt. got his first intimation of there having been seismic disturbance when the ship arrived at Haines two hours later. The Captain believes that an extinct volcano in that section has broken out afresh.
 Skagway Alaskan-1t is reported that during the earthquake shock last night one of the large boulders at the top of the mountain near the wharf came crashing down the mountain side but did no damage.
 General regret is heard among business men over the order of Judge Gunnison in reference to the closing of the Board of Trade saloon. While it is perfectly we'll understood that Judge Gunnison's order was along the lines of law, still, the place being one of the best conducted in the city and closed upon complaint of an itinerant resident is regretable.
 Those returning from Juneau are loud in their praise of the new city wharf just finished in that city The wharf has good storage freight sheds and ample accommodations, and the price of wharfage is much less than is imposed upon the Skagway people 1 for wharfage.
 The Record of Juneau contains the following in an article dealing with the fixing of saloon licenses recently ordered by Judge Gunnison. 1.-The president of the school board who was also present, made no protest to the census taken by w. C. Irish some time ago, fixng the population of Juneau at something less than 1500 " This would indicate clearly that the population of Juneau is littie if any, larger than Skagway. However, the Territorial Republican Central Con- mittee has seen fit to give Juneau twice as many delegates to the repub- lican convention as it allowed Skag- way. There is no reason for this whatever. Skagway should have as many delegates as Juneau and the del egates to the convention from this city, if any, should see that Skagway gets what she is entitled to or insist that Juneau gets what she deserves.
 To this every good law abiding resident, whether churchman or lay man will say amen, and none will es- say an effort to stay the efforts of the governor in any work he may set out to do in that direction. The law against the selling or giving of intox icants of any kind to natives can not be made too stringent. The Dispatch, supposedly by authority, says: "Goy. Hoggatt will, in his annual report to the President strongly advocate mak- ing it felony to sell or give liquor to Indians. He will follow this up by a personal effort to have the recom- mendation enacted into law at the next session of congress. Governor Hoggatt will have the active support of every we'll meaning citizen of Alas ka in securing this change in the code of Alaska. If there was ever a curse ridden country over a proposition it ;s this territory and the boot logger. This specimen of depraved humanity is fast running the Alaskan Indian to the determent of every citizen in it. The present law limiting the sentence for the offense to six months in the federal jail in no wise puts to terror the many rum soaked outcasts who make practice of the Indian liquor traffic. They have in the past carried on the selling of liquor to Indians on a gigantic scale. A few convictions for felony would soon clear out the professional hooch peddler and put a stop to the demoralizing practice. y
 Wrangell Sentinel-Mr James T. Waters believes in experimenting to ascertain what may be produced in this country His latest experiment is with wheat, this year, and he tells a reporter that he has had the satis- faction of seeing the cereal, which he 1 planted last spring at his place on the hill in the western part of town, grow and fully mature.
 -Wm. Cook, the laundryman, has this year been experimenting with q new variety of bean, lot of which may be seen growing in his garden. One day this week Mr. Cook brought q fine mess to Sentinel people, and they are very fine. The bean grows on a straight stalk which reaches, sometimes, to the height of four feet and resembling a tree, from which characteristic it derives the name of tree bean" The pods are very large