The Ketchikan miner., 1908-06-20
PENCIL AND SCISSORS,

The Katala Herald retaliates or Geographically on the Seattle papers by using C instead of an s in spell ing the name of their town as an off set to the employment by the latter of d C instead of K in constructing the proper name of katalia.
 According to d statement made by Vice President $. w. Eccles of the Copper River X Northwestern, three steamers will be operated on the Cop per River. between Abercrombie can yon and the bonanza copper mines un- til the railroad is completed to the interior, W which Mr. Eccles is quoted as saying, will be next year.
 The navy department has just com pleted Xperimenting with katalla coal with a result most complment- aty to the coal from Alaska. The re-
 port just published gives the Katalla coal the credit of being the best for steaming purposes on the entire Pa ciic Coast. not excepting that from Nanamo. B. C., which has up to this time been regarded as the best.
 Alleging that an attempt is being made by the Marcus Daly estate to wrongfully dep!ive him of his right ful inerest in the famous Nickle Plate mine at Hedley, which is valued at 9i QD0 lD0 M E Ponarc fen ii ittoat, years he special representative of the Anaconda Mining Company and until recently tho head of the Guggenheim railroad interests at katalla, has brought suit in the British courts to recover one-quarter interest in the valuable property and to share in the profits that have reached nearly Sl, 900, 000 since the acquisition by the Daly crowd in 1898. The plaintitf claims that the Daly estate endeavored to settle with him on basis of $2, GOO, GOO valuation which he refused in view of the fact that only recently an offer of S4, 900, 900 for the mine was turned down by the Daly crowd. The property is located at Hedley, B. C.. on the line of the Victoria, Vancouver & Eastern, Railroad now building through British Columbia.
 That excellent publication, the Alas ka-Yukon magazine, made in CeattIe, says that ''the attitude of few of the
  Alaskan and Yukon newspapers toward the Alaska Y ukon- Pacific exposition is nexplicable. In this criticism, if such it may be called, The Herald must be included, for we are frank to confess our open and avowed hostility. not to the exposition itself, but be- cause of the fact that Ceattle is mere- ly using the title to hoost itself and it's interests at the expense of Alaska and the Yukon. If the people of the Spirit city will call their fair the Ceattle exposition, the Herald's an- tagonism will cease at once. o course it will be denied in Ceattle hat that city IS using the names of Alaska and the Yukon to conjure with, but this will not be received with credence by real Alaskans. It W ill do for the summer birds and the Ceattle Alaskans but it will not an- swer the 'sourdough." Ceattle's spirit of exploiting Alaska and Alas kans for it's own sole use and behoof is known in every city, town, hamlet or mining camp throughout the great north And the antnagonism Alas kans will not be removed until Ceattle changes her brand of spirit toward | Alaska and Alaskans. It is the spirit of the supremest selfshness, its methods those of the picaroon. Ceattle could not secure corporal's guard to attend her exposition, but for the names of Alaska and the Yukon and | she knows it well. Yet there be ad. mirable people in Ceattle, but these have been thus far able to escape the much vaunted microbe called ''the | spirit. "-Katalla Herald.