The Ketchikan miner., 1907-11-30

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 Tht spectacle of . Chicago Board Of Aldermen voting for prohibition Is calculated to rebuke those pessimists who insist that the Windy City is morally hopeless.
 Alaska people-all except the gold barvns-are not 60 much worried as to whsre they will spend a winter va s.tion e to shere they will get the money to spend it with.
 Nurops ia getting back some thous- snds oi the immigrants she has sent se us. Remarks in tho foreign press about no e''unwa washed hordes"of Amer isA may now be looked for.
 A sale of autograph letters reveals that Daniel Boone spelled the name sfa Western river thus: "Ohigho. " Daniel was always too busy reforming Indisns to reform his spelling.
 Single Taxers want to nominate Tom Johnson for President. That is sAsit privilege. It is the prerogative ot lr. Johnson to decline. A mayor city in the hand is worth moro than Presidency . long way of in the bush
 Senator Ross of Canada, thinks the Democratic party in this country sui fsrs from "A lack of timber" The Senator must have his mind fixed or the quality and is not thinking of the quantity of ths material to which he rafsTv.
 A grocer In Seattle who had beer h busines for tsn years without lay Ing up | cent couldn't figure out th' isasoa why until his head clerk wal taken sick, and believing he was go ing ts die voluntary owned up to hay ine smbeszlsd oil the profits.
 Nov tho Marine Corps cannot ge mon enough without raising thei psy. It ought to be raised. While vs SpeHd millions on battleships VI eAn afford to spend an occasional dol lar en our enlisted men in all branches of our naval and military service.
 Tho administration is softening to ward the corporations rapidly. Th' aants Fe flne for relating before las week va only s33o, GOO. Three month syo tAs same practice cost the Stand srd Oil e3o, 900, 900, or would hav' done % If the nne could be enforced
 A 11soma lawyer whose wife gav' . sowing boo for tho poor the othe day reports that twenty ladies in at tendance could each and every one o then have boon sent to state prisol on 1t lsast three counts, and that th' "bss'' produced ono pair of boy psnts and an old woman's night-gown
 Tho formally social side of Emperor WilAsim's visit to King Edward is , bowling suocsss. The perceptibly coo 6atituds of the populace is a sort o dsAth's mask at thu feast, but the eti Qustts of tho situation demands tha 1t be overlooked by tho principal act orY in tho drama of royalties.
 In . Sunday school last Sunday, , minister was sndeavoring to empha sizs the virtue of avoiding occasions of sin. What should a man avoid, ht ssksd, who 10 In the habit of getting too much drinki A bright-eyed but rather forlorn looking boy was ready with an answer. Please sir, a police man.
 Tho Jamestown expedition has be. como . national joke. Now the pro- pos1 is tentatively made that it shal Dc continued next year. However, ell the state commissions have taker an emphatic position against this, and tas project will doubtless die a-born- 1ne. Tho country should be able tc laugh it's isugh out this year.
 Tho turkey always was a foolish slrd. This years crop is reported to k 70 belsted that the young birds hAvs not been fit to kill for Thanks giving. And this is the year when oaly once in . while a family can afford Thanksgiving turkey, anyhow, Ss fns, fat youngsters would have bssa safe roosting low on the tree.
 1t was announced by an Astoria preacher that next Sunday he would preach on tho subject of Hell and Who Will be There" This week he received letters from Chief Gammal, Bill Chance, R. M. Watson, Dick Kel- 1syr, Fredie Brown, Billy Gratke,