The Ketchikan miner., 1907-05-04
PENCIL AND SCISSORS.

Judge Wiekersham has decided, in the case of the city of Juneau vs. Ashby. that Alaskan municipalities are under the law possessed of the right to exercise the power of emil neat domain, and can thus compe, the removal of buildings and other Instructions of the public streets.
 -,Ir. Schlothan and Claire Snyder are building a new furnace for the steamer Challenge at the machine shop in ketchikan. They expect to have il completed in about six weeks. -Wrangell Sentinel. Now. what in the world has Claire Snyder got to to with it? Why couldn't the Sentinel simply and truthfully have said that the Northern Machine Works, at ketchikan, are putting a new furnace into the steamer Challenge?
 A Portland pawn broker claims 10 have been bilked by an Alaskan who sold him a poke filled with bogus gold
 A bout $500 00 contributed by out siders for the relief of fire sufferers in the town of Wrangell was used by the town council to repair streets. = Douglas News. And its one and only newspaper made vail because another three hundred escaped d similar diversion from the charitable purpose for which il was subscribed.
 The cartoonist seldom turns his attention to Alaksa, but the Nome News employs an artist who touches the sore spots with caustic. A re- cent effort entitled: Twill Alaska re- ceiye her Valentine-Territorial Gov ernment, is worth framing. T. depicts President Roosevelt as the keeper of the "Goyernment Confec- tionery." At the door stands the boy
 Trusts filed with the sweets, and the little girl Alaska pointing to the stick of candy marked Territorial Government pleads to Uncle Sam :;
 If 'ou will get that for me I'll be your valentine. - Waskey. a lad in short pants. adds his petition, "Ah get il for her. Uncle. Don't be so stingy.h Gale says. ''She will not De satisfied until she gets it.'' But Coz. Hoggatt, pigeon-toed and round faced, on whose head rests the paternal hand of Teddy" files his objection, Don't you do it Uncle, il will make her sick. '-Douglas News.
 The Douglas News indulges the following reflection anent the recent labor ''unpleasantness' at that place : The labor troubles at the Treadwell mines have been settled, presumably to the entire satisfaction of all parties concerned. The men are going back to work as fast as places can be found for them, and every body seems to be happy. 4 number of men who have gone to the States will return as soon as they learn that conditions are aga.n normal. At times a storm will clear the atmosphere and the day will be brighter than before. So. in troubles of this kind, employers having seen their mistakes, rectify them, and employees, gladdened by the change, work with better heart. Consideration i5 due both employer and employee, and the laborer is worthy of his hire. That is, be is worthy if he gives good days work for good days pay. The employer and ernploye are mutually dependent upon each other, but each should do his part. We have no sympathy for the man who is continually growling. If something is wrong, out with it, ] and have done with it, but when the wrong i5 righted let contention cease. So. now that the storm cloud has foated past and the glad sunshine of peace warns our hearts, let Us run the race that is set before Us, with patience, and each do what he can to help make our little corner of the great world land of happiness and joy.
 An exchange tells of man in Missouri who mortgaged bis farm to | buy his wife pair dIa..ond earrings. 1 The wife took Tn washing to pay the | interest on the mortgage, but on the | first job she lost one of the .'sparksr in the studs, whereupon she tried to 1ang herself in the barn, but .he rope [ broke and she fell on a Jersey COW | worth sl20 and broke its back. The | husband then undertook to shoot the ;ow to end it's misery, but the dod yasted gun bursted and destroyed ais egesight, and his wife ran of with ! rural mail carrier. But the mortgage is still doing business at he old stand, drawing its breath and