The Ketchikan miner., 1907-04-13

Board of Trade were tried and fined slO0 each in the commissioners court at Juneau lately on the charge of gambling. The warrant was sworn to by Deputy |. s, Marshal Faulkner on information fornished by com mittee from the Douglas Island Miners Union. This was the first game of chance opened at Douglas City since the sweeping order issued by the federal court five months ago.
 The issue yesterday in the school l election was clear cut. IL was for a male principal in the public schools. Alex Ross, a highly respected citizen. was defeated on this issue alone. The attempt to weight him down with present school conditions proved too much. His defeat shows that eighty some odd voters piled up a majority for the issue. Juneau Dispatch.
 B. NJ. Behrends. the Juneau banker and merchant. who also has a mercantile establishment at Skag- way, has bought the finest residence in the latter town. and proposes tC make it his home part of the year, whereat the Alaskan rejoices, as well it may. for Alaska has no better or more enterprising resident than that ,elf-same B. NJ. B.
 The Skagway Alaskan ella inns tC have private information to the effect that the Guggenheims have bought the Treadwell properties on Dougia: Island. and the Hadley shelter. Thai private information may not be amis; as to the Treadwell, but is certainl y rather premature as to the other part of it.
 The Rampant district is to the front with sloo pans on Skookum.
 San Francisco wants line O. steamers direct to Alaska. Well. she knows how that particular want can be supplied.
 The Juneau Transcript. which notwithstanding the idiosyncrasies of its editor, is the best publication al the capital. has been enlarged to g six column folio.
 The new Str. Iroquis. of the Alaska 5. 5. Co.,. arrived at Seattle March 90, from New York. She i; practically new ship. and has here totore been plying on the great lakes between Buffalo and Duluth.
 Twenty-Five Masons were raised from the third degree to the thirty second on January ., at Nome.
 Douglas is still suffering a fue shortage. No coal. DO wood. Tn, Householders who have paid sl6. 0' per cord for wood are now forced tt resort to all kinds of expedients t keep their homes warmed. Tn school is short of fuel and may hav' 10 close down. Several business mel hare cabled to Seattle for smal amounts of coal but the rank and fil' are facing a dilemma. News.
 William H. Parsons, manager o the Washington-Alaska bank, of Fair banks, estimates the 1907 out put o the Panama at SIP, 600, GOO.
 An exchange says that Valde. has two marked features at this ti me an unlimited coinage of snow and virulent epidemic of copper fever.
 Members of the Juneau Common Council are hereafter to be paid five dollars for prompt and full attendance at each meeting. That will be none! in their pockets in two ways, in tha they will, ostensibly be earning tha much instead of spending an equa amount of time instead of sitting around another kind of table anC losing as much or more at the seduc tive game of solo.
 A Nome paper publishes the following token of love and affection for brother editor: When in a dls gustingly drunken condition, he wa: dragged through the streets by { police officer to the jeering of large crowd of spectators. and was throwr into the i'll smelling, vermin- infested city jail along with other common drunks, blackguards and malefactors.
 As might have been expected, the forty-'leyenth story of the dis coyery of the famous Lost Cabin placer mine, turns out to be a fake pure and simple. Now comes the Rampant News, in which the last story originally appeared, with the statement that it originated in joke
 The report that President Roose- yelt will visit Alaska this summer will probably cause stampede of bears and other game animals to the tall timber, while the sly politician will haunt the water front. Douglas
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