The Ketchikan miner., 1908-11-21
WITH ALASKA EXCHANGES.
Interesting Items Gathered With Pen-
 cil and Shears.

Lee Johnson. wanted for murder at Nome, is reported to be running at large near Unimak Pass.
 Chief of Police Miller of Fair ,,nks was lately shot and mortally wounded by woman named Blanche DlNal, whom he was trying to arrest.
 The output of the Yenta and Val tlez districts this season will be close iu Sl50, GOO, according to estimates of l,t rrlvals in Seward from the dig gi9-s.
 A little over s5, 900, GOO is the esti- mate put on this years output of the Nome district by F. T. Thatcher, cashier of the Alaska bank of Nome.
 Tine Perseverance Mine, back of Juneau, appeares to be having trouble -or rather the company has. It has had lot of its concentrates which were on the wharf at Juneau awaiting shipment, together with a lot of new machinery enroute to the mine and mill, attached for debt.
 The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, in printing cabled story of the shooting of c. M. Summers, dds insult to in- jury by running a head on the ar ticle which reads Juneau Barber Shot While Asking Apology. "-Juneau Transcript.
 The guns from the old Russian fort at St. Michael, established more than three quarters of a century ago, were turned over to Agent Shepard for exhibit on at the A. Y. P. fair. Nothing like proving to the world that Alaska can produce old Russian guns and other things equally as obsolete and worthless.
 A recent grand jury at Nome con- demned the present voting system for delegate to congres and recommended a law providing for registration and an official ballot. A registration and official ballot in Nome would be a Imaginable innovation, if nothing more.
 The Skagway Alaskan reports the first big snow fall of the season to have fallen on the 9th inst, spreading all over mountain and vale, and ex- tending as far as to the Yukon river with total fall of twenty inches in Skagway. How such hoppenstance would deligh the hearts of the youth of Ketchikan, to be sure.
 When H. K. Love was appointed United States marshal at Fairbanks, Alaskaps in general expressed approv- al of the selection. But there seems to be something in the air in the in- terior which plays hob with a man $ common sense when he breaks onto the federal pay roll. Mr. Love is now, if reports are to be believed, devoting his time to dry-nursing the morals of the camp, as menaced by the practice of shaking dice for the drinks or cigats. Juneau Transcript.
 The Wrangell Sentinel records the death by drowning of Wm. Crogan in tn uppeer Stikine river. It appears that the unfortunate man had gone with party of three other meL up the river on hunting and prospect ing expedition, and were on their re- turn, when the canoe in which they were embarked struck rock and cap si zed, turning them all into the river wh ere the current was very strong. and which swept Crogan into a whir1 pool where ha sank and was not seen again. The party lost their entire outfit of guns, blankets and provisions, and were thirteen days in making the their way to Wrangell after the acci- dent occurred. Crogan was eighty four years of age, and man well known in Wrangell and the Stikine river sections.
 It is stated the whole, or large part of great herd of caribou which travelled southward across the Forty mile and the Sixtymile rivers toward White Pass last winter is treking northward again this year. It crossed the Sixtymile river few days ago. George Black, Yukon councillor, re- turned to Dawson from a hunting trip this week, visited the Sixtymile in company with Charley Paddock and says they discovered tracks as thick as they could be over width of ten miles. There must have been tens ..of thousands of caribou in the herd, he says. When they got there the bunch had passed with the exception of some stragglers.
 "A change in the spirit of it's dreams of how newspaper may be most successfully conducted seems to have come to the Juneau Record, if one may judge from the fact that it no longer indulges in the personal journalism which until quite recently it's distinguishing feature. Iris well, and much to be commended.
 w. D. McMillan has been appoint ed U. s. deputy marshal at Douglas, and is making things lively for those
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