The Ketchikan miner., 1907-07-20


 every American port on both sides of the Pacific and in the islands will be equipped with naval mines ready to drop into the water eifectually sealing the harbor entrance within 2i hours.
 waulzee July lS.-Justice Brew CT, of the United States supreme court, in responding to q toast at the state insurance agents annual banquet last night said: "The United States is passing through a rather peculiar period just now and the tendency seems to be to go to extremes. A year or two ago we all thought that the railroads had this country in their grasp and would tighten that grasp until they would choke the country and Us to death. We broke their hold, however, and today the thing is reversed the railroads are, in a sense, down on their knees pleading for the breath that the state legisla lures at different times within the past year or so have choled out of them by adverse legislation. l am afraid though that in their zeal to obtain glory to themselves and hold the railroads in check they have gone too far. and when the limelight is turned on again they will discover that many of their anti-railro bills are unfair, and perhaps upconstitu- tional. In fact, I consider that the attempt is being made to squeeze the concerns which have made possible the development of this great land,
 The Woman's National Daily ex- presses the opinion that Fairbanks, the Indiana icicle, has his opponents for the presidential nomination skin- ned to q Gnish--all because of his rescue of u maiden fair from death from drowning, recently reported by cable, and which places him before the world in the light of a hero of elongated proportions. The affair happened down in Yellowstone Park while the lengthy statesman was on his way to meet and fraternize with the Christian endeayorers at Seattle. 1t appears that he Was sitting on the hotel piazza buzzing the proprietor, probably about rates or something of the sort, when he heard a piercing shriek. He knew in a minute that it was d maiden in distress, and in the twinkling of an eye all his knight hood was in hower, and he was over the piazza rail and bounding toward the lake like a giraffe in the Sah derby. He peeled his coat as he went and was ready to jump when Ire reach ed the brink-of the drink. He did jump, and right here the reader naturally pauses to ask why in the world did he jump? Why didn't he wade2 Any way, he jumped, and this part is hard to believe. Report says the water was over his head. Must be an awfuily deep lake, or the brave rescuer was in a recumbent or squat ting position. Another queer fact is that nothing is said of ice forming on the surface of the lake coincident with the splash caused by the plunge. The writer might safely have describ- ed the ascending spray coming down in the shape of snow, and not been 1 branded as a nature faker. Anyhow, Fairbanks saved the girl, and that is the main thing. ,.Now he is a hero. Being a married man and man Qt family. of course She can't marry him as they always Go in, the story books, i bu t if he ever cones to be president or even candidate. what cinch that girl vii have as a side show or vaudeville attraction. as the only girl on earth ever rescued by Mr. Fair banks, and not an icicle in sight. A waiting nation is interested in what the rest of them are going to undertake as an offset to this heroic deed. Just suppose that had been Taft on that piazzia when that pierc- ing shriek rent the air. What an awful S1,lash there would have been