The Ketchikan miner., 1907-07-27

editors have changed their minds?
 T his may be so, for the great Napol-
 con said wise men were liable to change their opinion, but fools never Record Miner. Isn't it just possi-
 ble that what worries the double
 barrelled editor of the hyphenated
 sheet at Juneau, is only lull in the
 storm of indignant protest at misrep-
 resentation on the one hand, and a
 disinclination to continue firing on a
 vanquished enemy? The suggestion
 about wise men sometimes changing
 their opinions would sound better
 coming from some one capable of in-
 telligent advocacy and defense of
 the opinions he himself professes
 The Skagway Alaskan has new
 editor, in the person of Mr. A. R.
 0 Brien, formerly of Montana, who is
 an experienced newspaper man, and a
 writer of ability. The Miner extends
 him the glad hand of welcome to
 Alaska, and sincerely hopes he may
 show himself able to cope with the
 task of putting on and successfully
 wearing the sandals of the best and
 most graceful editorial writer Alaska
 has thus far ever had. Had he been
 drafted into the service of almost any other publication in southeastern
 Alaska he would not have been set
 to so difficult task as that which
 now confronts him-making good in
 such case would have been easy com pared with an effort to maintain the high standard of ability which
 Johnny" Troy left as the heritage of the Alaskan. The Miner earnestly
 prays, however, that its hopes, rather than it's fears in that regard, may be , fully realized and that quite speedily. , The Dispatch says that the Per- severance Mining company eXpects to } have twenty more stamps dropping soon-this in addition to the fifty al ready in operation. If that mine : proves winner, as it now promises :. to do, 1t will be the means of estab- } fishing peradventure the permancy of Juneau as d great mining center; but $ should there be d failure in that | direction, considering all the noise } that has been made over it, the blow
 to Juneau's prosperity will be a
 serious one indeed. Therefore, The Miner, for one, hopes the Persever- ! ance may prove, all, and more than $ its management anticipates,
 A recent dispatch from Fairbanks U says In spite of the handicap under which the district has been last
 winter and this spring, it is estimated
 there will be between B, ,00O GOO and 2 $7, O. eco of gold taken out of this f section this summer. This is the con- . servative estimate of those who have
 thoroughly canvassed the situation, and from actual figures which are r kept in the banks Of the city.
 r Victor Lindquist, the well known e blacksmith, was badly bruised by a seventy foot fall over the bluff on the
 basin road near the Rielly mine Sun-
 day. Vic and Charley Anderson were
 going up the basin in a buggy when $ one of the Casey teams was met. n Their horse started to back and shov- e ed the light zig Cger the steep em- n bankment. Anderson jumped and | Lindquist and the horse and buggy e went oyer. TheS s40o buggy was
 crushed and the horse escaped with a few bruises. Vie was found badly h crushed. Juneau Dispatch.
 n Ross Higgins & Co.,, one of the : principal mercantile houses of Juneau < has determined to retire from business , in that place, and is s Hing out its D stock at prices regardless of cost. ' e This firm retired from business in { Skagway in a similar way some two q or three years ago.
 Rev. Dr. John Pringle writes from l Dawson to the Winnepeg Tribune of the "lnfamy of Dawson referring to that place as the "Legalized Plague Spot in Canada. ' Taking Dr. Pringle at his word the only logical inference
 that can be drawn is that he has done ] very little good in Dawson That hi, l labors in the corners of the Lord 5 : vineyard have been barren of results
 that he has expended his time and 3 energy to no purpose and that his is r but one more case of ministerial mis- fit.-Whitehorse Star. The reverend } gentleman probably preferred the big . stick to moral suasionn as a means of saving grace-a mistake made by not a few missi onaries who have been , sent into this northern "Wilderness. :" It is something like the old plan of educating children with q club.
 , The Douglas News says 5000, | more or less, railroad laborers at Catalla are on a strike. More likely : that they nre merely raising hades
 on general principles.
 Alaska exported 30 tons of gold and tons of coal in 1906, says an ex- change. Don't know about the coal, L,t ba of nn11 i.,