The Ketchikan miner., 1907-12-21

week and said: Stop my paper: l don't want anything to do with such n sheet.a That made Us sore and then we did all those things to him, and we would have done more had he not 'coughed up two dollars and told us to send the paper another year.
 Marshal Grant, ex-oilieio Coroner Snyder and Dr. Hughes were summon ed to Petersburg one oay this week to look into the drowning of Albert White, native. Upon investigation, it was decided that the tnoian was dead, and that death was caused by upersubmergenee in water, said sup ersuhmergence being brought about while the Indian was in state of in- toxication by falling from the wharf and becoming entangled in a lot of tines N @hieh brailed some logs. Who ever gave that Indian the liquor should be strung up higher than Glide roy's kite.
 Mir. A. c. O'Brien, who has re- signed his position of Editor of The A laskan to accept q similar berth on the Record of Juneau, sails with the Jefferson tom orrow. Mr. O'Brien has won many friends during his stay of something like a half year in Skag- way through not only his personality but his capable and energetic conduct of The Alaskan, and this little army will be sorry for his going but will wi ish him the best that falls to the lot of his calling in his new field. Alas kan.
 The Juneau Record says that "The Hon. George Irving of Ketchikan,
 who was elected chairman of the ter ritorial committee at the convention
 which nominated Murane for congress-
 will now probably call convention to meet some time in the spring to elect TWO delegates to the national convention in accordance with the rul- ing of the national committee. " That
 would put a finishing touch to the sit uation to be sure. And it is getting about as near the real gist of the matter as the Record might be expect l ed to get. It has nowhere been stat 1 ed that the Juneau convention was il- l legal from party standpoint, other than that it had prematurely been called for the purpose of select ng delegates to the national convention
 for which no apportionment had been
 made or provided for. Upon what the ory the decision of thenational commit ] tee on that point can be neld to revive
 local committee agapist the regular ] ity Of which it had already decided,
 and which decision the committee re-
 ferred to had yielded compliance, is not quiet as clear as mud.
 Wrangell Sentinel:
 "A party of natives from ketchi-
 kan came up on the Jefferson, bring | ing with them a lot of furs which, they said. they couli not realize on, owing to scarcity of money ill that town. They got their price in Wran- gell and were paid in good hard coin of the realm.n Must be some mistake about that. Those natives most prob- ably went farther and fared worse. The Sentinel is just little bit too credulous, perhaps.
 We have seen the last of the steamer Humboldt-at least for this season, her last voyage completing her charter with the Pacific Coast company. Unless she carries mail ''I Don't Care if She Never Comes Back"
 The Stroller resurrects the follow ing bits Of ancient history pertaining 10 the meteorology of the WDitehorse region: Jim Boss. chief of the Le- barge Indians, and through whose veins courses the blood of long lirr of Indian chieftai~s and warriors who were noted in their respective days and generations as weather seers, was in town one day this week and after doing what business be had with the bark fer Jim is man of ways and
 neaaa. te confided to the Stroller that tue weather we are now having is nothing unusual, in that there is a winter very similar to the present one every three or four hundred years. Indellibly impressed On the black board of Jim $ memory is the story handed down from his eighth grandfather that the winter of HOT was just such another as this except that it was more so. That year grouse nestled in January, and crocUses were used as decorations among Christmas viands, while one pair of guuny sack mocca- sins, wUtn for the first time at St. Andrews ball, lasted until the first of May. For these reasons the year HOT was more so than tue present one. Delving deeper into the dust of archives and pigeonholes of family lore. Jim informs the Stroller that the year llii was likewise very much to the mellow as far as weather was concerned. That year lowneck, one button cut-away ball was held on