The Ketchikan miner., 1907-06-01
EXCHANGE GOSSIP.

4nS S uAlSau INScOiQ--NfnSr, m glN- ing the names of ten persons in jail at that place awaiting the action of the grand jury. boasts that Juneau Is not represented. and credits Frank Wheeler to Ketchikan. The fact is that Wheeler came to ketchikan from Juneau, and remained just long enough to rob native boy. and then skipped back to his lair in Juneau. If the fellow had any hahitation in Alaska prior to his arrest and com- mitmens it was in Juneau.
 Judge WicAersham seems to he crowding business at Juneau. and if he keeps on \ little while longer will leave something closely resembling s play spell" behind him for Judge Gunnison to enjoy when he gets back to his hailiwick. He disposed oi the case of the Alaska Mildred Gold Min ing company vs. Wm. NJ. Ebuer in short order by directing the jury 10 return verdict for plain,itf in ,hc sum of SlA asn, with interest from June as. 1905. So the Record Miner says.
 About the arrest of Editor Henry, at Fort Gibbons recently. on a charge of criminal libel, and his being taken to Fairbanks in handcuffs and chained to the deck of the steamer, it will be safe to wait and see about how much truth there may be in the story be- l fore registering even mild kick.
 It a ppears that Commissioner Snyder. of Wrangell, was the vic tim of the "hig stick, = which in his ease happened to be in other hands than those of the President.
 Report comes from Valdez of a big stampede to Knight island, where copper is the magnet.
 The Ellanar miners have lost their strike and gone back to work without any advance in wages.
 It is probably not generally known to the natives of Alaska that the law of Kansas approved March T.. 1906, grants to each of them. who is the head of family, one hundred and sixty acres of non-mineral land. as ! homestead, to be selected by himself under the rules and regulations 1 prescribed by the secretary of the interior. Douglas News. Good reason why it should not generally be known Kansas laws are not operative in Alaska.
 In the May number of the Alaska Yukon magazine. Margaret North has poem entitled. "A Day ir Douglas. which goes like this:
 \ tired day droops wearily to rest,
 No gleam of gold relieves the
 sombre west.
 The gray, gray clouds look dowr upon listless earth
 4 day of gloom and sadness, not oi
 mirth
 If Margaret was in the writin mood today. she would have it like this:
 The steaming earth may now undo
 its vest,
 To let chance breeze cool it;
 throbbing breast.
 The sun looks down upon a glist n-
 ing sphere,
 \ day of palm leaf fans and lager
 beer.
 Capt Cousins, of the Pacific Coast l Steamship Co.'S new ship ThePresiden can go right up to the head, assuming that he hasn't been made the victim Of not altogether veracious news paper reporter About the mar rowest escape I ever had from gettins shipBrecked was up in the Lynr canal. when was master of the little steamer Mary. many years ago, v sait Capt. \. F. Cousins, the jovial skip per of the President. Tn those day the Alaskan waters were difficult tc navigate. The charts were inaccu rate: there were no aids to naviga ton, and IL was all a shipmaster : life was worth to take a vessel uI there. I had never been through those waters before and was pretty much up against it with the littl, Mary. We were about fifty mile. south of Dyea, just across from where Skagway now stands, and in mos dangerous bit of water when a heavy fog came up. IL got so thick that you couldn't see your hand before your face. The only thing for me. to dc was to anchor. l set the watches anC turned in for nights sleep. About } o'clock the watchman called me and told me that he thought the the ship was moving. I hurried on deck, but the fog was as thick as ever. The water was sure enough rushing by us at great rate, but we decided that Il was the current. This continued and it seemed as though we were moving. but we were not sure as the anchor cable was taun1 About five o'clock the fog cleared up, and what do you think: Why dead ahead, and scarcely mile away was Dyea. ordered the anchor hove in at once to ' find out what it meant, When it came