The Ketchikan miner., 1907-12-07
WITH ALASKA EXCHANGES

WITH ALASKA EXCHANGES
 The Juneau Dispatch records a drunken fight between three dwellers in one of the native settlements to which the capitl city is an annex, in which one of the participants was stabbed we'll nigh to finish. One is in the hospial, and those who did the stabbing are in jail-but there is no mention of the arrest of the miscreant or miscreants who sold or gave them the apparent cause of all the trouble.
 Frank D. Wells, late of Rampant, and formerly sheriff of Yavapai coun- ty, Arizona, died at the Simpson hos pital, Juneau, on the 10th. He was on his way to Washington to press charges against certain court officials of the third judicial divisison--partic- ularly Judge Wickersham-but owing to heart troubles was not able to con- tinue on his contemplated journey be- yond Juneau.
 A. s. Dautrick, until recently agent for the Alaska Steamship company at Juneau, and for long time connected with the shipping affairs of Southeast ern Alaska, has severed his connec- tion with the company and has gone, or will go, to Valdez to reside.
 Then again, those Juneau delegates who quit the convention may have had a tip in advance that the rent for the hall was not paid and thought it bet. ter to walk out than to wait and pos sibly be thrown out.-Skagway Alas kan.
 Referring to the late convention. the Juneau Transcript says: 'Poor old Ketchikan. She was promised every thing, and on these promises she tied up with people 5000 miles away from her, but when the plums fell they took long wistful look into their basket but there was nothing in it." This is very true. The error Ketchikan made was in tying up with the north- ern delegates-with as poor repre- sentative bunch ot statesmen as could anywhere be encountered, but at that, the Alaskan thinks it was toss up as to which would have been more repre- sentative, the Dick Ryan aggrega- tion from Nome or the Democrats and representative of the Treadwell and Perseverance mines who appeared for Juneau. .-Skagway Alaskan.
 To all of which, were The Miner to venture suggestion at all. it would be somewhat in the language of the late and much lamented Judge De- laney that it is up to these gentlemen to 'skin their own eats." But the Ketchikan delegation needs no defens' at the hands of The Miner, nor any one else. The language above quoted is in itself a sufficient refuta- tion of the intimation that the gentle men comprising that delegation went ! to the convention with other than an intent to serve what they honestly be- lieved to be the best interests of their party and of the territory. They had no basket of their own they expected to have filled, DO personal axes to grind, fact that IS proved by the further fact that they waived all hon. ors for themselves iL the interest of peace and harmony, looking to the future. It may be conceded that the Nome fellows were rather greedy, but it is not clear how the Ketchikan del- egation can be held in the least de- gree responsible for that, since had the first division been united the re- suit would have been precisely the same.
 If it is true that Speaker Cannon has said that he will oppose territorial government for Alaska as long as he lives, there are many Alaskans who will not pray that his day may be long in the and.-Skagway Alaskan.