The Ketchikan miner., 1907-08-24
New York, August 1e.-Attorney

General Bonaparte says that notwlth- standing the slump in the price of stocks, guilty corporations must suffer punishment for their crimes. 1T do not agree with Mir. Root" said he,
 "when he makes the statement that we are threatened with a panic owing to the investigations we are making, or are going to make. Such state- ment is without foundation. The country is in healthy condition. If a given stock has given earning capacity, its price will be fixed by that capacity, and if it depends upon 1 lawlessness to raise that capacity be- yond reason, then the sooner the law steps in and compels honesty in stock dealing, the better for the country at large, even to the very men who are protesting the loudest against these investigations. Why, if we carry this argument to an extreme, the same thing may be made to apply to any kind of lawlessness with equal force. y
 New York, August 16.-The tele- graph companies and their former employees are apparently drifting further and further apart and the indications point to a long, bitterly contested struggle. President Small in an interview in Chicago this morn- ing gave it out that after carefully canvassing the situation he had come to the conclusion that there were not to exceed one thousand men that the companies could figure on for strike breakers in the whole United States, while nearly p, GOO men are out on strike. It is expected that practically all of the Canadian operators will go out tonight thus preventing business being sent around that way.
 President Small was met at the depot in Chicago, on his arrival from the coast by fully 5,000 strikers and their friends, who raised the cry of DO compromise, and it is not a bit likely that any compromise would be acceptable at the present time. In fact the sentiment among the strikers is decidedly opposed to arbitration or interference of any kind. They feel that in demanding what they do they are asking no more than their due and will not be content with less. From Boston comes word that the union printers have wired President Lynch, of the International Typo graphical Union, with headquarters at Indianapolis, asking that he make decision about the handling of scab copy, and his decision is expected at any moment. The Boston printers say they are ready to refuse to handle the copy. The newspapers every where have been compelled to cut down their number of pages, except the Hearst papers, which are reaping rich harvest.
 Portland, Ore, August 16.-A trunk evidently filled with explosives was accidently dropped at the Washington dock in this city. The result is a huge hole in the floor of the building and several people were severely injured.
 Manila, August 17.-Naval men are considerably troubled over the recent order from naval headquarters direct ing six of our warships to make a visit to Yokohama, fearing the possi bility that history might repeat itself and the blowing up of the Maine be re-enacted. One of the officers in command of one of the vessels ordered to repair thither said today: We want it distinctly understood that we are not afraid to go, but we don't just like the idea of it. The Jap is natur ally treacherous little devil. and there are many of them ready and willing to put any one or all of our vessels out of commission. There is no such thing as conscience in the makeup of the average Jap, or in their national being, as far as that is concerned, and I am satisfied that should it be the intention of Japan to attack the United States they would not hesitate one minute in perfecting a plot to blow up the entire squad ron.
 Capetown, South Africa, August +. This district is in turmoil over the escape of Jacob Morengo, a native chief who has been confined in the British military prison here. Mor- engo is the chief of the Hereros triEe which caused the Germans so much trouble some little time ago. After defeat he fled to Cape Colony to stir up trouble among the natives there, and was promptly arrested by the British Mounted Police. He is now massing the natives in the mountain ous part of German South Africa and will undoubtedly be in a position to attack the German settlements before troops can be secured to defend them. l Owing to the objection of the German Socialists, troops have been with drawn from Africa since Morengo was arrested and the country is not pre-