The Ketchikan miner., 1907-11-16

 have thrown home pride aside long enough to stop in Ketchikan and get a cabbage that would outweigh his Skagway sample to the extent of half dozen pounds or more.
 Az outside paper, in referring to Cassie Chadwick's death, said "She left a cool million,' and the Douglas Island News said the only way she could keep it cool was to leave it.
 Ira ". King, the new agent of the Alaska Steamship company at Haines, was up yesterday. Mir. King is an affable gentleman and will cer- tainly get along nicely at Haines. So says the Skagway Alaskan, to which The Miner would like to add that if he doesn't get along nicely at Haines, the people of that town will prove themselves hard lot to please.
 A man down at Wrangell, whom the Sentinel calls poet, fell off the dock and lit head foremost on the rocks below If he had gone down the other way, he might have broken leg. As it was, he escaped injury. Alaskan,
 The Douglas News, having ven- tured to suggest that "the Skaway Alaskan argues political questions like the old woman kept tavern, that paper comes back at the News with this quotation from old English song :-"There was an old woman who kept hotel, and this old woman she kept it dom well,n
 Leroy Tosier, of Fairbanks is said to be on his way to the Juneau con- vention with twenty proxies in his pocket. That he has no more is due to the fact that the call failed to pro- vide for sufficiently large repre- sentation,
 Copper Is up cent, says the Douglas News, but a good many cop per kings are up the fue.
 The Douglas News is of the opin- ion that speaker Cannon is ready to play a stack of chips in the presiden- l tial game. White, red or blues, Mir. News?
 Rather than face the angry preach CTS in the far East, ExGov. Brady headed straight for Sitka. As long as the old Governor retains his pride, there is hope for him. Douglas News.
 Those Massachusetts preachers in- vested in the hope of gain-a hundred fold or more, and if they have drop of sporting blood in them they will not kick because they have lost.- Douglas News.
 A Washington report says that Commissioner of Education Brown is taking an active part in urging the passage of a compulsory education law for the native Indians of Alaska. The government had better first try to teach them to wipe their leaky noses. Douglas News.
 -Is this, from the Juneau Record, to be explained on the theory that the editor was thinking of something else, when he wrote it? It is an open ques- tion, however, whether that editor ever does any thinking: "The voice of Hoggatt is the voice of Roosevelt, not the voice of the people of Alaska. The fact that every man, woman and child in Alaska is in favor of territor- ial government is no argument in fav- or of the propositioc, only inasmuch as Alaska is the integral part of the United States. To say that Alaska is entitled to territorial government be- cause the people of Alaska want is to say that South Carolina should have been permitted to secede because all the people of that state were in favor of it. Alaska does not belong to the people of Alaska any more than it does to the people of Tennessee. It is simply possession of the peolpe of the United States, and the people oi the United States could sell it back to Russia for s7, POO, GOO and the people of Tennessee would have vote on the proposition of making the sale while the people of Alaska would have none.