The Ketchikan miner., 1907-09-07
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NCNbtSQ H0st0 lttt HAaSAA bl SotaS VI NhV owners of the unsightly, unoeeupied and worthless old shaeks of that town by urging the common council to cause their removal. These people insist that the Alaskan's course in calling attention to the existence of such wholly disreputable structures is cal culated to hurt the town "A town that is not visited by strangers might toll crate such structures without injury, but not so with one having the least pride in itself. Better suffer little peeuniary loss in their complete oblit- eration than maintain them Is stand ing evidence of a deeaging town and and community devoid of any sense of public pride.
 \ Belgian woman, thought to be in- sane, and who had been bothering Skagway people for several weeks, was sent back to Vancouver on the last down voyage of the Princess May, which ship had taken her north, and the officers of which offered to carry her back without expense to the Skag- way authorities. The old lady, how ever, showed the method in her mad ness by refusing to accept other than first-clasS accommodations, and prom ising to raise hail Columbia if they tvopa not c,ivo. bpp
 The Alaskan editor displays just a little ignorance of Alaskan geography when he speaks of a person going to Fairbanks from Skagway lover the ice by way of valdez.n
 The Juneau hyphenated daily labels itself the leading newspaper of southeastern Alaska Very thought full that: else, how in the world would any body ever have found it out.
 The Alaskan says "the Juneau town council has recently taken a new hold and passed a set of whereases and a resolution. The burden of the prayer is for an act that will put the collec- tion of licenses in the hands of the town council, and will also How the cities of Alaska to revel in the luxury of bonded indebtedness. That Jun eau town council has happy faculty of always taking hold of the wrong end of things. The Alaskan is au- thority for the statement that excur- sionists on the last voyage os the steamer Spokane presented her cap tain with a solid silver drinking set. Perhaps it was some influence of that character that invariably brought the Spokane to Ketchikan in the night and almost as invariably caused her to sneak down a back alley when she made the place in daylight, all through the season.
 The Juneau Record says that as the time for the return of Judge Gunnison approaches the anxiety of the saloon men increases, as to the amount of the license, which is a question for him to determine. And in that fact is found one of tho beauties of the license tax law Why should 1t be made in- cumbent up any one official to say that one person should pay more than an- other for the privilege of doing busi- ness-thac the saloonkeeper of Juneau, for instance, must pay higher license fee than he of ketchican or Skagway. or Wrangel, or one in the same busi- ness outside of an incorporation--or, put it vice yersa-why the latter should be required to pay less than the Jun eau manor. but he is a wise man who can discover any wisdom in reg ulating liquor license tax on popu- lation, thus offering permission for falseheod in both directions.
 Charley Joe. Skagway native mourning the loss of a totem pole, is comforted by the Seattle P. l. with the suggestion that it may either turn up in Chicago or some eastern art in- stitute. Should that be the case, the question will then arise as to how it managed to get past the Seattle Spirit.
 The Juneau Record has enlarged to a seven column paper and with little of the spirit Of true Americanisn in stalled into it's editorial columns Hould be an altogether credtabe publica- tion. It claims to be the Heading paper of southeastern Alaska, but it is pleasurable to know that it is not leading very many people to a belief in it's own unpatriotic views on the question of popular home government for Alaska-in fact if leader at all, it is one with a very scant following. Another boast-that of the largest cir culat.on in southeastern Alaska, if true would bs little to the credit of the reading public, but the proof of it can be had by merely asking it's pub fisher.
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