The Ketchikan miner., 1907-10-12
WITH ALASKA EXCHANGES

Ketchikan district. Naturally the na me of the superintendent is "Ba con. " Exactly what the relation may be between Moonshine and bacon is not clear to the ordinary power of comprehension.
 It is reported from Fairbanks that the Wickersham and anti-Wickersham forces have settled their quarrel, and Gale -Wickersham political combine has been formed which, it is expect ed, will be all powerful throughout Alaska. That's about what kind of combination it will be, sure. What the one lacks in popularity in the one judicial division is made up to him in the other, and vice versa-and neither one is without a goodly number of friends and admirers in the first.
 M. J. O'Conner returned on the Dolphin from his visit to the states. He says that he had a mighty good time and did good stroke of business for Douglas in securing branch of the Scandinavian-Am bank, which will be located here in the near future.
 Juneau Record :-"Why," asks the Juneau Record, 'does not the P.- I. attend to the liberties of it's own people in the state of Washington by asking that the limit of state indebt- edness fixed by congress be removed and the people of that commonwealth given full power to act for their own good?" The ignorance that querry betrays on the part of the Record edi- torial writer is too apparent to need pointing out.-Ketchikan Miner. Gov ernor Swineford is eminently correct. The writer meant one thing and wrote entirely another. But when we are shown our error we fess up. Here is where we are greater even than Gov ernor Swineford himself, for the more you show him his error the more ve hemently he clings to it.-Record. The person who confesses to ignorance such as that above pointed out to him so readily, is not very apt to be pos sessed of a knowledge which will en- able him to discover the errors of others. When Governor Swineford perpetrates an error, and 1t is pointed out to him, he will be found great enough to acknowledge it without equivocation or subterfuge such as the Record resorts to in the above.
 And then, again, what does this from the Juneau Dispatch import other than there is pair of them en- gagged in struggle for permission to polish the same pair of boots? The Dispatch says: We were under the impression that Governor Hoggatt had withdrawn his support from Judge Wickersham, if be had withdrawn it, by reason of the determination of Wickersham to stand by his friend Tom Gale in face of the protest of Governor Hoggatt. Now that the governors organ assures us that 1t has been taken into the executives confidence sufficient to know the in- nards of the coolness existing between the governor and the judge we won- der whose fur will fly when the Cale- Heidi Wickersham forces line up in the next territorial convention with the full authority of the president to secure an administration delegation to the next national convention. It is probable then that Judge Wicker sham will have again been ''indis- erect in Juneau, to say the least. It is more than probable that the 'indis- erect Juneau acts' of Wickersham is a refusal to be the cats paw of cer- tain official whose record in this con- nection is known to many in Juneau.