The Ketchikan miner., 1908-01-18

be pretty good eating If you are sport enough not to mind little thing like toughness.
 There is now William J. Bryan in the United States senate, but he does not hail from Nebraska. He is one of Florida's senators, appointed by the governor to succeed the late Sen ator Mallory.
 With Count Aoki and Secretary Taft both pulling hard for peace the re- spective countries have very effectu- al guarantee of a continuance ol friendly relations between Japan and the United States.
 A Pittsburg preacher spurned purse of slOO of the new gold coins be- cause they didn't have the motto, Tn God we trust," on them. Somehow, the feeling comes into our heart that we would hate to trust that man.
 The alacrity of ex-Senator Watson T. Squires, of the State of Washing ton, to couple every allusion to Presl- dential aspirants with the booming o1 Seattle, is an example of puffery that, if exceeded by none, is emulated by few.
 The chaplain of one of the houses of the Legislature. in Oklahoma, pray ed for the success of Mr. Bryan's thire assault on the Presidency. The news papers are very careful not to suggest to whom the prayer was addressed, bu one of them naively says that an ablel petition was never presented to law making body.
 A Spokane schoolgirl was required to write an essay of 250 words about an automobile. She submitted the following: My uncle bought an auto mobile. He was riding out in tht country when it busted going up long hill. I guess this is about 5' words. The other 200 are what m, uncle said while he was walking bacl to town, but they are not fit for school essay"
 All other republican candidates art now 90 far in the rear of Taft ant Hughes that they can scarcely be con sidered in the running. Hughes il likely to have the New York delega tion solid, which comprises a greater number of delegates than Ohio ant Indiana combined. In all probability however, Taft will be the second choice in the Empire state and frs choice in the nation at large. Ina is.how it looks at the present writing
 It is sincerely to be hoped tha nothing will occur to justify the rumors ahoat to the effect that tht Alaska Y Youkn-Pacifc Exhibition may be abandoned. We have too much confidence in the pluck of Seattle peo pie to believe it will be. And yet il must be confessed that the opposition to the proposed appropriation for g government exhibit, and for Alaska, Porto Rico and Philippine buildings and exhibits which has developed ir the East, and particularly in congress, looks bad for the success of the pro- ject.
 A Denver judge recently sentenced a batch of promoters and mining en- gineers who had been exploiting the gullible public by means of sales of stock in the Lost Spanish Bullion Mines company, typical get-rich- quick concern. Two of the promoters were fined s1,00O and given thirty days each in the county Jail; three others were fined $500, and given ff- teen days in jail, and a number of others were assessed for smaller fines. Tho charge on which the convictions were obtained was use of the mails with intent to defraud, crime con- mitted in the case of nearly every frsudulent mine promotion. The Lost Spanish Bullion Mines company had no property and no other assets of any importance, but in these particulars did not differ much from many other companies whose promoters have not heen arrested Millions of dollars have been fooled out of the public the past few years, and it appears that some of the government legal depart ment's zeal might well be expended in warfare against this particular sort of offense
 It seems probable that as a result of the recent undertaking given it, with the dispute between the line and staff