The Ketchikan miner., 1907-05-11
EXCHANGE GOSSIP.

Alaska road commission Is to remain, for the present at least. in that place. It is much more likely that when they are removed from Skagway they will go to Fairbanks. At all events, they ought not to be moved n thousand miles farther away from where the major portion of the road work is to be done.
 They have something new in the way of dancing music up at Rampant. It is what the News calls ''zana- phone, and not only furnishes the music but does the calling" as we'll i: but whether it is operated by horse or water power the News does not say.
 The Sentinel is authority for the statement that all the stores in Wran- gell are now kept closed as tight as clans on Sunday. How about the places that sell wet goods only?
 Bishop Innocence will return to Sitka as the head of the Russian church. in Alaksa.
 Andy Anderson and Fremont Campbell, two professional baseball players of Tacoma, will play in the Juneau 1907 team. That Juneau team ought to be required to eschew professional players on penalty of be- ing left to play ball' all by its lone- some.
 Philip Holiday. mining recorder for the kluane mining district, was tried and convicted for selling whiskey to Indians and fined Sl5o and costs.
 A press dispatch states that q professor named dagger will make a complete technological survey of the North and visit all of Alaska's vol canoes during the coming summer. He must be intending to look at those volcanoes through an inverted glass -tumbler. and from long distance Between the Police Judge and the Marshal. the honor of keeping the city jail full is divided. Perhaps 1 the extra number of crooks has some thing to do with it. Ordinarily Alaskans are law abiding citizens. Recently the governors of some of the states have made this sort of dump, i ing ground for their bad eggs. Grim. inals have been pardoned with the proviso that they immediately make tracks for Alaska. That's what we call raw procedure. Each state should be honorable enough to take care of it's morally sick, and not seek to dump them on a people who are denied the right to handle the reins of their own government. Douglas News. Why bless you, Mr News, don't you know that at the time the present bastard form of government was provided for Alaska, the question of making it penal colony was seriously considered, as being far pre-. l ferable to our present plan of govern ment. And are you prepared to say l that it wouldn't have been the better plan.
 ] That must be an admirable lc l cation for the terminus of proposed great railway to the interior. 4 i lighter with forty tons of dynamite which was being unloaded from the
 steamship Jeanie, was wrecked al Catalla on April 2l. The dynamite was intended for the Copper River S Northwestern railway and was val ued at s10. coo What a fine thing ] that dynamite will be either afoat oi sloshing around on the bottom, and be. ing cast up box by box on the rocks ] of turbulent roads.ead like that al i Catalla
 The Panama placer mines. now that there is plenty of water (of which there was great dearth last year, running, and rich gravel dumps wait. ing to be sluiced down. have gone or a strike. and refuse to be comforted other than with ten hours pay fof eight hours work The owners are alike stubborn, and declare that they will keep the mines idle all summer rather than concede the demand for an ei0ht hour day.
 The assurance that Rainy Hollow is to be developed on large scale is a reminder that Skagwav is located in the midst of the greatest mineral region in the North. We are virtually surrounded by quartz and placer fields which bear gold, silver copper. lead and other minerals. This city is the hub of this district and the connection between tidewater and land transportation. It offers an ideal location for smelters and the heaqduarters for mining companies. -Skagway Alaskan.
 A new broom is supposed to sweep clean, and the new municipal govern ment at Skagway is intent upon ex- employing the adage, by thorough cleaning up of the town.
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