The Ketchikan miner., 1907-09-07
ed fifty per cent in the last ten days.

ed fifty per cent in the last ten days.
 Norfolk, Sept. 3-W. E. Hearst, the millionaire New York newspaper man was the speaker of the day at the labor meeting in the exposition grounds yesterday During the course of his speech he said that San Francisco was not the only city in this country that was affected with graft, and gave it as his opinion that men who prostitut- ed the ballot hox to vote them selves into office were as gently as Schmitz and should be with him be- hind the bars.
 Seoul, Korea, Sept. 3-Japanese soldiery are arresting Korean revolu- tionists and shooting them with not more than tine preterce of trial. The Japs are also burning dozens of villages said to be the hot beds of the rebellion against Japanese rule. The rebellion is spreading rapidly.
 Steubenyille, Ohio, Sept 3-Labor day paraders attacked . party of non union miners near this place yester- day, and in the fight which followed several people were badly hurt. The lives of two telephone girls, Mary Magee and Eulalia Rocks, are despair ed of.
 New York, Sept 3-The telegraph companies this morning refused to con- fer with a representation of the tele- graphers' union.
 Seattle, Sept. 4-Royal A. Gunni- son, judge of the first division of the US. court for the district of Alaska, is in the city on his way home to Juneau. Judge Gunnison, when asked for his opinion on the sealing situation gave it as his opinion that the quickest and easiest way out of the dilemma would be to kill off all the seals and thus prevent the possibility of international complications.
 San Francisco, Sept. 4-Senator Stone of Missouri, was passenger from Japan on the steamer arriving last night. When seen by newspaper men he said: 1T have had the trip of a lifetime, and one which l shall never forget. Yes, Japan is a wonderful country and her people have tremend- ous possibilities before them. They seek to dominate the Orient, and dom- mate it they will They are assim- Hating Korea, and China will undoubt edly be her next mark. 1 found that the anti-American sentiment is soft ening and within short time will have disappeared. 1 am satisfied that it is not Japan's desire or intention to provoke trouble with this country. She wants peace and chance to re- cuperate from the effects of her recent conflict within Russia.
 Chicago, Sept. This city is indeed undergoing a reign of terror the like of which was never before experienced by any American city. A bomb was exploded on State street this morning, the fourth within week. This time the show rooms of Stanley Graham were wrecked and fully q hundred thousand dollars damage done. No clue.
 A { midnight last night the Palmer house caught fire and six hundred guests fled from the building to the streets in their night clothes. The fire was gotten under control after about an hours hard fight. Incendi- alism is believed to have been the cause of the conhagration.
 Auburn, Wash, Sept. 4-senator Nickerbockers state bank at this place was footed of every cent in it's safe Sat urday night, amounting to $5. 5l6. It now develops that the key to the inside door of the safe disappeared about a week go. When the robbery was done the time lock was not set and the burglar worked the time combina- tion, apparently experiencing little or DO difficulty in opening the door. The sherif's office is nov looking for Bernard Alderson, a former employee 6 of the bank, who Mr. Knlckerbocker says is the only person except himself who was acquainted with the combin- ation.
 New York, Sept. 1.-The goyer. = ment suit to dissolve the Standard 0 l Company. under the provisions of the sherman act, is set for tomorrow. The case is not taken seriouly by the officials of the company, except in so E0GGGG3GC COGGCGCCG099G0G9GD IE3 so,a,L