The Ketchikan mining news., 1907-03-08

or Juneau nave tlme ana agaln-aU every opportunity afforded them, at public meetings, in nearly every partisan and non-partisan district convention held in that town, and finally at the first general election declared for territorial government. Why then, do they not get it? Is it because that in the case of that town the tail is stronger than the dog, and that the "people be damned" fellows are allowed to misrepresent the public sentiment-or what is it!
 Mrs. Flora McD onald, of Chicago, wife of the once celebrated "Mikeo Mcdonald, millionaire gambler and party boss, is in jail for having shot and killed one Webster Guerrin a couple of weeks ago. Mcdonald says that the woman's victim was black mailer who was forcing her to pay him money on threat of making dis closures seriously affecting her char acter. However that may be, the woman is certainly old enough to have known better than take the life of a man in the hope of saving a character that was damaged beyond repair at least a quarter of acentury ago.
 Hon. Jno. 0. Spooner has resigned his seat in the U. s. Senate, and the telegraph reports that Hon. like" Stephenson has started campaign for the succession. Like" has long nourished hankering for the togo, and barrel, and upon the vulnera- bility of the legislature to the in- sidious influences of the latter must depend his hope of success. Spooner is a man of conspicious ability, and
 small of stature, but were he the veriest pigmy physically speaking his senatorial toga would be several sizes too large for man of Stephen sons caliber. Ye Gods, what a change that would be!
 The mother of Evelyn Neshit Thaw can hardly be classed as one of those parents children are enioined by the scriptures to honor with respect.
 Treating as unworthy of credence the testimony of the daughter to the effect that the mother was direct party to her original shame, yet is the mother worthy of the seyerest re- probation for the stand she has taken in furnishing the public prosecutor with data for the wholly cruel and merciless cross-examination to which the poor girl was subjected in giv- l ing her testimony in behalf of her husband. Inhumanity could have gone to no greater length in the evil dent desire and intent to blacken the character of her own daughter, than l in this case, which will find it's only compensation in the influence it will have in strengthening the public be- | lief in the truth of that daughter s 1 testimony to the effect that she owed her original ruin and disgrace to the connivance of the mother herself with the lecherous rascal of whom the
 world was well rid, when Thaw shot
 him down.
 They want hls money. In 1898, or '99 the Swedish Mission Society sent one Peter Anderson as a missionary to the Eskimos at Golovin Bay,
 Alaska. The missionary buiness for
 which Peter appears not to have been particularly well adapted, didn't argee with him, and he for sock the calling for that of prospector in which he amassed a fortune of several hundred thousand dollars. Now, the society has obtained a judgment for S25O, 900 against him, on the ground that being sent out by it he was it's agent, and that conse- quently it is entitled to all his gains. What the society would have sued him for had he confined his operations to the saving of Eskimo souls with as | little success as has thus far attended the efforts of the average Alaska missionary can only be guessed. How ever, some missionary societies, like some of their agents, appear to be possessed of ''itching palms. :"
 
 It is reported that Pittsburg combination is sending, or will send, a cargo of supplies to Alaska with a view to beginning work on railroad to be known as the Alaska Pacific Railway and Terminal line. The line will start from Martin Island, in Controller bay, and follow the Cop per river route over which several other roads are proposed, notably the Rosene, Burleigh, Guggenheim and other projected lines, none of which are asking government aid, but all intent upon grab which will give them either the control of the copper and coal deposits, or else valuable franchise on which to speculate. None of these proposed lines pur- pose obligating themselves for the construction of through line from tidewater to the Yukon, and none of