The Ketchikan miner., 1907-03-23

boat. with the tail of his neither gar ment hutering in the breeze as maiestically as certain ketchikan bum is wont to periodically stalk into Judge stackpole's court and plead not guilty to the charge of drunk and disorderly. By the time he got his anchor up, the brooches had rounded the north point of Pen mock island into the west passage where, catching the full force of the wind. he knew they would soon be beyond pursuit. Just then he hap pened to remember that there were too or three ladies living on the beach near by, and he concluded the better part of valor would be to sit down and row himself out of sight, and keep on rowing till darkness spread its sable mantle over the waters and adjacent shore. Tk;s he did, going ashore only when he deemed the darkness sufficient to hide the catastrophe from the eyes of what might be too inquisitive and oh- serving public He did get home unoticed, however, but the scene which occurred between himself and better half can be more easily imagined than described. The latter is now anxious to find out if any equally jealous individual of the male persuason has found pair of unmen- tiahle in place they hadn't ort to be.
 Seattle, March 22-The newly merged Northwestern and Alaska Steamship companies announce that they will each operate under their old names with little or no changes in the management. Arrangements are now pending for enough more vessels to increase the heect to about twenty steamers. The finest and best will be put on the southeastern Alaska run where the company is determined to maintain the suprem- acy now enjoyed by the Jefferson and sister boats. The freight business will be handled by large modern freighterS, capable of taking care of the largest machinery, ect. in as fast time as is now accomplished on the Atlantic coast.
 San Francisco, March 21-The ex- tent of the depreciation of our city was exposed to the very bitterest depths last night when the grand jury after weeks of investigation brought in sixty-fiye new indictments against the ring of grafters who have been debaunching San Francisco. The names on the list o: those indict- ed is shocking surprise to the people of the city. and that there can be no question of the standardization of the greater number of the indictments i became patent to all when il was stated that Mayor Schmidtz-a ner- vous wreck-has made 3 clean breast of the whole affair. Two twenty-five thousand dollar gratis are brought home to Abe Ruef. all the men who had acted as supervisors under him. had confessed when subjected to the grilling cross examination of the district attorney Scores more in dictments are promised involving many of the leading fnanciers of Wall street. Hartman ssname is said to be included in the list.
 The grating was practically all in connection with new franchises for public utilities using the streets of the city when the new city was laid out.
 San Francisco. March 21-Wo ord reached here this morning that the river at Stockton is rising again. The streets in the lower part of the city are veritable mill races and it is impossible to navigate many of them even by boat There is hardly q cellar in the town that is not filled with water and the fist story of fully half the houses is submerged. Owing to the high water cutting of con- munication it is feared that food supplies will be exhausted in and l around Stockton.
 Boise. March 20-The attorneys for the defense in the Mover trial are still arguing for a change of venue.