The Ketchikan miner., 1907-09-28

critics o1 its own people in the state of Washington by asking that the limit oi state indebtedness fixed hy congress be removed and the people of that commonwealth given full power to act for their own good:'' The ignorance that query betrayS on the part of the Record editorial writer is too appa- rent to need pointing out.
 -"The King is dead: long live the King. The Juneau Record says that Holm Olds walking around in the oeeldental hotel giving orders to the employees again as in days gone by, looks familiar to say the least. Mir. Olds may be behind the times in running an up-tO-date hostelry such as Juneau should have. but as the Demo- erats said of Mr. Parker for president, he is safe and sane anyway. and that is more than can be said of poor Tony. All the same, that ancient inn has never looked exactly natural and home like to it's old patrons without the presence of the genial pioneer proprietor present and in command.
 The press dispatches today go far 10 explain why the order ''ham and" ! is not giyes in Juneau so often as it used 10 be. Alaska has been the dumping ground for spoiled meats from Seattle for the last decade.- Record. All the same the people of any town. in Alaska or elsewhere, are very apt to get anything in the line of provisions they order and are willing 10 pay for. Ii Juneau has been made the dumping ground for spoiled meats il would almost seem is if the blame might be located nearer home than Seattle.
 The employees of the Occidental hotel who did not receive their wages before Tony kengyel. the proprietor, lei. on the last steamer, were very indignant and proceeded to have him brought back from Ketchikan. but it seems there is no law covering the case and the matter was dropped. ! The stewardess claims he owes her nearly Sj90. and the other employees each have sums ranging from 800 up. Even Martin. the porter, has s2j0 ! coming, ard he has been faithful employe. Record.
 Jack simpson. the man wanted in connection with Steuenberg murder case. in Idaho. and for whom a reward of 2I.o00 is offered. is claimed to have been seen in Juneau last, but immedi- ately disappeared.
 At Whitehorse the other day one Bob Witter, ships carpenter. tried ;o kill his mistress, a notorious woman known as Ida Williams, by shooting ] her in the head and without waiting 10 see if hehad made a good job of it, fred a bullet into his own brain, kill ing himself very dead indeed, and with commendable dispatch. The woman's skull, however, being as hard as her reputation. hattened the bulle:, and at last accounts she was still living.
 Concerning the native Alaska boy, reputed to have been sold by his par ents to Wrangell Chinaman and who was made the subject of press dis patches as being on the point of sail ing with his purchaser for China, the Wrangell Sentinel says the fact is that Sing Lee. who is Chinese mer- chant at that place. did not buy the boy bat adopted him, and that both Sing and the boy are still in Wran- gel.
 -Wrsngell Sentinel, 18th: Llama ger L. r. Hunt was over form Shakan during the week. The Shakan can- nery is working this year for 48, GOO cases, and when he left home was only about ,, 000 eases short of that amount. --Supt. Brown Of Petersburg says he is succeeding well with his pack: that he is working for 50, GO cases of salmon. and Of this number has up E, 0o0 cases. being still short 17,000 cases, which he was sure getting without difficulty.
 Secretary Taft has spent some days in Seattle, and is now on his way to Manila, 10 open the Filipino legisla- ture. Wouldn't it have been A joke On the big secretary if he had board ed a vessel for Juneau, instead of Ma nila. But then Te Alaskans will have to be educated up to American ideas before we can hope to have legislative session opened. Sentinel. All governments exist with the con- sent and for the good of the governed. IL is the duty of tine governed, as good citizens, 10 take an active inter- 1 est in their government, to find out 1 were it is weak and to rcctify that | weakness and make it wholesome and 1 profitable for All concerned. Tn the l republican national convention to be | held next year, Alaska has been gem eroDsly allowed six delegates, whose l votes count for just as much in the 1 nomination of candidate for prcsi- 1 dent, as those from any state. The