The Ketchikan miner., 1907-06-01
EXCHANGE GOSSIP.

company it's light and water plant. It appears that some three or four years ago becoming dissatisfied with the water service supplied by the com pany the city put in plant of it's own, the cost of which has been paid in full, while the city has had an abundant supply of pure spring water for domestic use, and for fire protection as well. Now the company proposes to sell its electric light and water system to the city for consideration of $2o, 900, and the question of buying is being seriously discussed both by the council and people of the town. The Alaskan intimates that accep- tance of the company's proposition will. in effect, place long time mortgage on all the assessable prop erty of the town, and advises the city dads to go slow in the premises.
 James Cosby, an old resident of Haines, disappeared some weeks ago, and failing to return his house was entered, and everything being found as might naturally be expected except that his gun and rubber boots were missing, it was concluded that he had gone hunting. Now it is feared that he has been caught in one of the bear traps the natives have been in the habit of setting in the adjacent country, and has either not been found or else that having thus been brought to grief the fact is being concealed by the natives.
 Alexander Mcleod, miner working at the Standard Copper mine, in the Prince William Sound district, fell over a perpendicular cliff 300 feet to his death, while on his way to work along a mountain trail on the 2lst of May.
 The miners strike at Nome, which was for four dollars day and recognition of the union, is announc- ed as having been compromised-the mine owners and operators conceding the wages demanded, and the strikers waiving the other part of their de- mand.
 Two brothers, named Ball, who came to Alaska from Chicago, joining in a recent stampede from Valdez to Knight island ocasioned by a report of rich copper discoveries there, start. ing in small gasolene launch, with out sail, oars or provisions, expecting to make the trip of about sixty miles in few hours, They had not gone far when the usual gasolene engine "balk' occurred, and they found themselves helpless and drifting out to sea. An inshore wind, however, drove the launch back toward their destination, and they drifted about the sound for six days and nights until they were finally picked up by a launch which had been sent to search for them. They were found in starving and partially crazed con- dition, near Drier bay, on the west side of the island they had stated for.
 All these paragraphs that are floating about concerning the recent meeting of the governors of the two Carolinas, and the breaking of an age honored tradition, must be con- sidered dry humor.
 The "Pioneers of Alaska" is the name given a new organization at Nome wich has been started with membership of over 300. Besides the usual moral and business standing required for membership, the appli- cant for admission must have been a resident of the far north prior to the 18th day of January, 1899. To out siders it will not appear that seven years residence will be sufficient to confer the title of ''pioneer" in any other civilized section of either Nor h or South America. Yet if the ''old boys" of seven years experience in Alaska constitute themselves the
 pioneers, they ought to establish 'Patriarch' degree for the benefit of those at least who have attaint d the full term of twenty-one years residence in Alaska.
 An Ohio exchange says: Don't judge man by his clothes, God made one and the tailor made the other. Don't judge man by his family, for Cain belonged to a good family. Don't judge man by his failure in life, for many man fails because he is too honest to succeed. Don't judge a man by the house he lives in, for the lizard and the rat often inhabit the grander structure. When a man dies they who..survive him ask what property there is left behind; the angel who bends over the dying man asks what good deeds he has sent before him.
 Running newspaper, is just like running hotel only different, says an exchange. When man goes into hotel dining room and finds some- thing on the table that does not suit him he does not raise hades with the landlord and all in hls old hotel.