The Ketchikan mining news., 1907-02-22
JAMES J. DOYLE.
PENCIL AND SCISSORS.

Juneau is to have new and better water supply about the first of next July. The town needs it.
 Pete Andrews, manager of the Lief hotel at Fairbanks creek, blew the top of his head off with rifle. He had been drinking.
 Fairbanks has paid off it's municipal debt. It had risen to S34, 900 before the first of the year, but tax pay ments were such that it went fast after the first The treasury has a large cash balance.
 Skagway has long distance tele- phonic connection with Whitehorse. The telephone, takes the place in large measure, of the telegraph in the operation of the w. P. & Y. railway.
 Thirty Yukon sleds loaded with furs arrived in Knik in one train about the middle of last month, brought by Indians from the Mat anuska river region and beyond the range toward the Copper river.
 Capt. Abbot, of the tug Katahoon was washed overheard from his boat recently and drowned. The tug was going from Juneau to Tee habor. It was very rough and the captain was at the wheel when last seen. A mem Der of the crew discovered the pilot house empty and search of the vessel failed to reveal the captain. He had been carried out by sea.
 Mr. and Mrs. Heeter's hens have been breaking the record in the pro- duction of eggs lately, the thirty fowls reaching the high average of dozen a day. Last week an egg of enormous size was found. It measured 74 inches around one way and 64 the other. The shell will be sent to the Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition. - Yukon Valley News
 A snow slide occurred near Glacier, on the line of the White P ass x Yu. kon railway, on the 18th inst which covered iEasss: ss iszaS5R 8 l, asRsA 2{ z more, and rrieti away more than 2 mile of ts graph line. The Alaskan says that Hs6se who saw the occurance say that q snow came down with a roar grdster than the heaviest thunder, Carrying with it everything with which it came in contact, and stripping inc mountain side bare tc its rock 1nade ribs.
 Indeed from the material stand point, I know not what to call Alaska, save it be our billion-dollar territory. We paid for it $7, POO, OoO It has paid back in revenue. more than BIO, 900, 900. Gut of fifty-seven millions ir seal skins the government has receiv- ed royalty of 5000, ,ooO It's furs have brought us SSo, GOO, OOO; its fish, $96, 900, 900 tits gold $12O, ,OO0,O 900. IT single year it has sent out $2O, 900, GOO of the precious metal. Senator Piles of Washin gton.
 If the bill of Mir. Jenkins becomes law, the Governor of Alaska will have the power to appoint and at pleasure rellove the commissioners ir and for he1district. The bill further provides that such commissioners shall, during their term of office, each reside at the. place in the district designated in the respective orders ot appointment More one man power Of course, the people of Alaska have no interest in the matter of who shall hold the office of recorder, justice oi the peace, etc--if indeed they are com potent to select them!
 The Skagway Alaskan says that M. Thomson and others connected with the company that secured an option on tisc Rainy Hollow copper properties are expected to arrive in Skagway at any time. Letters have been received from MT. Thomson saying that 3he will be here before March 1st, to begin active work. Prof. Anderson, one of the mining engineers whe got MT. Thomson and associates Interested in the Rainy Hollow county, writing to Martin Conway, says they will be here some time in February and that they will beign work 6hia large scale at once. He says 300 M 4oO men will be em- ployed.
 Every assurance is held out that the for fhe property will be made as provf1ed for in the options.
 The Seward Gateway very truthfully remarks: When a man lives in Seattle few fGars he thinks Alaska is suburb of t6at mushroom village. Hence it is th&E Alaska cable news is loaded down xjth Seattle news, in cluding the kJnnastics of the kinder garten politiciahs in the legislature at Olympia. Ehe Gateway is emil nently correct Enc news service of the Alaska tA 4ies would probably not be tolerated hy their owners and publishers wei they in position to better it. td} made up from the dis patches printed n the Seattle morning