The Ketchikan mining news., 1907-01-25
NOTES AND COMMENTS


 Washington, the Wickersham case stands about like this. now he is in. now he is out, may he he'll land it, maybe he will not.
 -Skagway is to have a school of art, 10 he established and maintained under the auspices of some of the prominent ladies of the place. Wood carving will he made the principal study to begin with.
 The Seward Gateway. referring to the statement that army officers in Alaska. object to canned vegetables remarks that most of the residents of Alaska likewise object to canned government.
 Former governor McGraw is re- ported to he in Washington lobbying for an appropriation for the Alaska Yukon-Pacific exposition. He is only asking for an amount in the neighbor- hood of two million dollars. and being \ Seattle man. his extreme modesty has occasioned some comment.
 Gov. W. W. B. McInnes has re- signed the office of chief executive oi the Yukon Territory to accept the leadership of the liberal party in British Columbia. and is candidate for parliament. He is credited with having brought order out of chaos in the Yukon Territory. and his retire ment appears to be much regretted by the people thereof,
 Delegate Waskey is reported to be making an effort to have the Indian appropriation bill amended so as to provide for the admission of Eskimos to the Carlisle and other Indian schools. In the opinion of The Min ing News. sending an Eskimo to au Indian school in the states would be going rather a long way for an edu- cation which. at best, would be oi little value to its recipient.
 -Skagway is justified in putting OF scallops. She has an efficient and wholly satisfactory water system oi her own. reasonable water and light rates, a good school and good sanitar. conditions, and is entirely out of debt. though the rate of taxation has never exceeded one per cent. Surely. the people of that town cannot properly be considered as being part and parcel of those Alaskans upon whose capacity for self-government an implied doubt is continually cast by the oppo- nents of home rule for Alaska.
 Juneau will soon have a railroad of her own. if not two of them. It is announced on seemingly good author ity. that the Perseverance Mining company will build a narrow gauge line from tide water at that place to the upper end of Silver Bow basin. where its mine and mill is located. The line will be six or seven miles ir length. and is designed for the hand ling of the company's supplies. It is hinted. too. that the bonds, of the company which has franchises from both Juneau and Douglas for building and maintaining an electric railway between those places have been hoated. and that the work of construc- ton will be commenced at an early day.
 Prof. t?) Henry ". Elliott, many years ago government agent at the Seal Islands, afterwards paid lobbyist for the Alaska Commercial Company at Washington. and who in one of his official reports as such agent put or record the assertion that Alaska was country in the whole extent oi which the most needful of domestic animals could not be kept is to the front again in Washington, this time with charges of pelagic sealing and other unlawful acts against the pres ent lessee of the seal islands. It is possible, even probable, that there may be some foundation for his charges, but it's dollars to doughnut> that a rigid investigation will reveal q personal grievance on the part o1 Truthful Henry as the animus ny which he was prompted to action.
 Hon. Frank H. Waskey has placed us under obligations by causing the Congressional Record to be sent regu- larly to our address. It was just what we wanted. and mourned because we had it not. Curio long ago acquired the habit of reading himself to sleel after he had retired for the night. He did not, however, understand the philosophy of the thing. He would 20 through his exchanges, get away with several pages of some popular author, and perhaps as many more oi the book of books, before being able to successfully woo the drowsy god. He was unusually wakeful one night. and got away with everything read able within reach, except a Congress sional Record, upon which he laiC violent hold in the last stages of de- .pair. It was efficacious: in less thar three minutes he was fast asleep: and
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