The Ketchikan miner., 1907-11-30
WITH ALASKA EXCHANGES

Douglas News:-
 Many marriages are reported at sure sign of cold winter.
 Since the Reynolds episode, some crank has dubbed Valdez, ''Zion City,"
 Tom Gale, delegate from Alaska, will revel in the luxury of private secretary during the coming session of Congress.
 It is reported that the placer claims on the Klahena river, near Haines, in the Porcupine district, have been sold to New York syndicate for $125, GOO.
 Construction work on the Alaska Central railroad closed down for the winter on November 1st. Increased activity is assured in the spring.
 The Seward Gateway asserts that the Polk directory and gazetteer of Alaska contains stock of information that's worse than last year's almanac
 The annual exodus of Orientals, employed in Alaska canneries, to San Francisco, is now on. These men are usually not paid until they reach the city where they were hired, and thus their inclination to get gay while in the north and spend two-bit piece, is nipped in the bud.
 The receipts of gold at the United States assay office in Seattle for Ocro Der, and for the current year 90 far, indicate a slight falling off from the figures of last year, but still denote an active and steady output of gold from the far North. The receipts of the precious metal from Januray l to October l, of this year, aggregate $l5,- ' i61, ell. 66, the mouth of October alone contributing s4, 357, O6O. 72 to the total.
 An interesting feature of the Juneau convention was to watch the delegates dig to pay the hall rent.
 If some one who knows would ex- plain the action of the bolters, he would confer a favor on suffering public. The people are in the dark. Col. Sol. Ripinsky made a speech, favoring home rule, that was replete with both wit and wisdom. The man from Haines does not have to take his Alaska history secord hand.
 At Juneau there was convention filled with quarreling, strife and con- tention, but the kickers walked out, and now there's no doubt, that to bolt was their intention. And the boys from the Second and Third, with nev- CT so much as word of regret al their loss, with their long-heade6 boss, went sailing along like bird. Now the conventions are over this fall, for the chairman is done with his call ; and the gang that walked out
 nay continue to pout, and when they feel bad enough bawl.
 The Juneau Daily Record, the paper that has torn its shirt clear up to the neck band defending Gov. Hoggat' from imaginary attacks, publishes the following dispatch from Fairbanks with exutant joy: "Judge James Wickersham, in signed statement 1T one of the local papers, has come ou' with the admission that his resigna' tion was forced by the loss of Gov. Hoggatt's friendship. He states that certain decisions he made in case ir Juneau were antagonistic to the inter ests of the freinds of Hoggatt and that this resulted in Hoggatt turning against him." All we have to say is that if Judge Wickersham made that statement it is terrible-if it is true It is damnable.
 Cattle are raised in considerable numbers on the Shumagin islands farther to the westward On her east bound trips the steamer Dora gets 8 regular supply of fine beef at Goa harbor, where MT. Tibbey has small herd of cattle. On Unga and adjoining
 islands people feed native cattle hay ol silage from three to five months of the | year.. but on islands further from the mainland cattle are doing we'll with
 ut being fed or sheltered from one | year's end to the another. Seward l Gateway.
 Some of the salmon fishermen are putting up howl about the wholesale use of herring for the manufacture o1 guano. And they have just cause for complaint. At Killisno the herring fishermen take as high as six hundred barrels of these little fish at one haul of seine. Just stop and think what this will amount to if allowed to con- tinue. It means that with each suc- ceeding year the favorite food of the salmon become scarcer, and that with in comparatively short space of time the salmon will have to chose another habitat than the waters of Alaska and one of the greatest industries of the territory will become an item of history. Thousands of ..employes will thus be thrown out of employment at the, canneries-an enormous sacrifice to the greed of one or two small con- cerns. Excellent fertilizer can be made from seaweed, of which there is an exhaustless supply; and if the man. agement of the various fish guano