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The Ketchikan miner., 1908-10-10

and his political campaign is limited to the aim of securing reelection to the United States senate.
 The solitary Mir. Foraker makes very able defense against the allega- bions or insinuations of MT. Hearst, which have been taken up by MT. Roosevelt and echoed far and wide ID the press. The whole country, in fact. has committed the unpardonable ifense in pronouncing Mr. Foraker
 ailty, without waiting for his reply.
 ,ud his reply does him great credi'. .t will have to be accepted unless
 meone is willing and prepared to
 ,ss him with Annanias, that distin- ,uished individual whose fame has
 en greatly revived in recent years. : We hope that the outcome of all this u,s about nothing will be something more important than the election of this or that or the other md ividual to lhe presidency. We hope it will make E it clear to the majority of the people that passion and prejudice make poor lawmakers, that the work of legisla- tion requires manhood and man sense, that the statute-making power is not an instrument of revenge, that corpo- ration-lynching is most dangerous fol- ly, that men are less powerful than things in the.making of public prob- lems, that the way to right evils is to think and not to howl. MT. Foraker may be wrong in his attitude toward the rate bill, but he is entitled to credit for sincerity, especially since he makes very frank explanation of his dealings with the much execrated Standard Oil Go. If he does not choose to be made political scape- goat, that is his privilege.
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-10-10
WHO'S WHO?

Sometimes we listen to those who in their innermost soul, touched with the harp of a thousand strings enter into the discussion of class distinction. The familiar theme of the poetic stanza thatt he ''coat does not make the man" is the burden of many a song. And with it is connected, wealth. Iris true, and only too true, the coat does not make the man, nor
 in a spiritual sense does, riches. It sounds pretty to say that coats and riches do not make the man, and is we'll worn and threadbare theme used by many speakers for the purpose of touching the serious side of nature. but it is allegorical, and like all such,
 is not universally accepted theory. No, not even accepted as an hypothe- sis-except to fit special occasions which demand dramatic rather than
 logical effect. The book of Job is poem. True, not one which stands fer all that we might expect in this twen- tieth century, yet, nevertheless a poem. Besides, it is an allegory, as defined by the masters of art, ltera- ture and science.
 Therefore, when we look back and see that from almost the beginning we find that the coat does make the man. But there are different men and different coats Joseph had one of many colors and he was man. On the other hand the Prodigal Son had from the day of his birth good coat, until his own degradation changed it to a dirty one. It did not take the Prodigal long time to retu to the land of his fathers, where the days were dreams of delight and the soft and odOrous nights made romance love again. Another feature brought face to face to US, is that the exchange of pea hulls picked out of a pig sty, for the dainty dishes of fond mothers home, soon enticed the young man to return to that home W where Nature was brightest, sweetest mad loveliest. He quickly decided to change his coat from fringed and dirty one to good, we'll made and clean one. The lesson of the ''coat'' and the ''man" is hardly applicable to the vast number of inhabitants of Alaska, most of whom are of the workingmen's order, industrious, quiet, clean and as rule, fairly pros porous. Our court records show that criminal arrests are far less than the average found to exist in more popu- lous communities and the greatest number of cases to be of the lesser or der. On the day that Cain killed Abel, class distinction began and will continue until the Millennium. If a coat of fine raiment be worn by man of diabolcal, wicked and lecher- ous nature it will not keep clean very long. Time, the great mediator touches it with aspersion.
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-10-10
The Best Machines,

The idea that peace could be the normal relation of the nations never entered Napoleon's head or the head of any man about him, declares A. L. Kielland In "Napoleon's Men and Methods" In his mind peace could only mean pause between two wars. He had no idea to give to the world. His thoughts did not go beyond his own life. He shrinks at once in con- parison with a man of science, who ex- bends his life to create thought that will nourish and elevate posterity.
 If Napoleon reached the highest sum- init of a prince and commander, he was also the last who succeeded in gathering about his person all the glamour that had been wont to accom- pany and adorn the bloody business of war. There was no more of it after his fall. War became afterward an academic study. Military affairs came to resemble Industrial interests, in which it is the best machines that gain the victory.
 We now strip our armies of their gold cords and waving plumes. The admiral. who used to stand on the bridge in his gala uniform, with his decorations and sash, now sits in a steel box and presses buttons like a telephone girl. When the glamour goes from q thing it Is near its end.
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that smeIter alone However, official estimates place the production at about POO. %, 900 pounds per month. If the smeter treats F, 1000 tons of ore per day and the production of copper amounts to 20,0O0, GOO pounds, the ave- rage copper conents of ore must be less than fifty pounds to the ton or a little more than 21s per cent.
 However, what is usually pretty reliable outside estimate, places the average amount of ore treated daily at 10, 05O tons and the August copper production at about 21, POO, GOO pounds, giving an average copper content of d fraction more than sixty eight pounds to the tor, or nearly 31a per cent cop per.
 No reliable information in all the world is more difficult to obtain than information about the big operating companies in the Butte district. Io give out important information is an offense; to repeat it an unpardonable crime.
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Trousers.


 The shape. being loose around the knees and ankles, allows sailors trou- sers to be quickly rolled over the knees if 1t Is necessary to leap into shallow water. such as js necessary when bleaching boat. Thus. by keeping the trousers dry, the men are able to move more quickly and do not suffer from cold. The sailors uniform Is not sub ject to varying orders of fashion. wherefore seafarers of today wear clothes of essentially the same pattern as those prescribed for them when the American navy was first esta tablished. This was taken with little change from that of the British navy. which was adopted by order of King George III. about the middle of the eighteenth cen tury. For many centuries men almost universally wore "breeches" (also known as "small clothes'). garment which, whether tight or full, never reached below the knee, though during the seventeenth century loose gar ment. known as "tongs," or "slyders." came into general use among the work ing classes, at first probably used as overals. A picture of tAe pirate Will fam Teach, known to have been painted in 1734, shows him in long trousers, wherefore it is supposed that men who followed the sea were among the first to adopt the more comfortable garment.-Huusekeep
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-10-10
 SOLITARY AND ALONE.

The Mining Record credits Senator Foraker with the enjoyment of party all by his lonesome. In its opinion, MT. Hearst is not the only maker of independent parties. Foraker has out- done Hearst notwithstanding he lacks the Fastaffian army that characteriz- es that of the Yellow Kid. Politically he stands alone, and there seems none other to confess himself of the party of FOraker.
 Strange it is that there is no con- servative movement before the country. Some had supposed that Mr. Taft represented the extreme right, but MT. Roosevelt insists upon throw ing him to the extreme left, while MT. Taft says nothing. Mr. Foraker enjoys the distinction of being the only conservative before the public,
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Tho Greatest General.

All things duly considered, the great est general of whom we have any knowledge was in all probability the Carthaginian, Hannibal. All the in- formation we have of Hannibal comes from his enemies. and yet what achievements they were forced to cred 1t him with! The second Punic war the most brilliant in history-was prac- tically one man against whole na- tion, and that the strongest then known. With the army that he had nodded out of raw and barbarous levies Hannibal had to fight nation of the stoutest and best trained war riors of ancient times, and he had to do this without any assistance from home It has been well said that there Is nowhere else an example of what a single man of genius may achieve against the most tremendous odds New York American.
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EVIL POLITICAL BROODS.

Even in Alaska, far distant from the |storm centers of political contest, we can see that the campaign is one of
 surprises. Scandals are being uncover
 ed, precedents are shattered, william
 ies are charged, and trickeries
 brought to light fast upon the heels
 of one another It is as if frebrand
 were thrust suddenly into dark hole
 and revealed all the creatures of the
 mire crawling about their noisome
 business.
 Apathy is gone-no wonder! How
 could apathy exist in the presence of
 such startling revelations of chican-
 cry, double dealing misuse. of power
 and of privileges, concealment and
 forgery filling the air. If the cam
 paign has any more of the same evil
 brood.-in hiding, let them come forth quickly and be dispatched, and let there be an end.
 If things political do not change, it
 will become imperative for president Roosevelt to take the stump and de- fend his policies from the assaults of the Democratic party. Until re gently, the issue was whether Mir. Bryan was a better Roosevelt man than MT. Roosevelt himself, but in the last few days, this has been changed into whether Roosevelt is a Roosevelt man at all. Mir. Bryan says he is not, and that brings this issue. Il Mr. Roose- welt is a. genuine Roosevelt man, it behooves him to go on the stump and show it. MT. Bryan says he is not, that Roosevelt is fraud and sham, or words to that import. Mir. Roose- welt declares that he is as relentless an enemy of and a more potential force to curb predatory wealth than MT. Bryan. As Sir Lucius O'Trigger ''It is a very pretty quarrel as it stands," and as Sir Peter Teazcl said in the same play, ''This is a Id wicked world we live in." Then, it is insisted by many, the thing shall be fought out on the stump the issue, what is Rooseveltism and who is the true exemplar of Roosevelt politics?
 The Democrats are demanding that Taft meet Candidate Bryan to discuss that question. Such thing is hardly possible. As for the dig nity of the thingwho was the prime minister of England that failed to go on the stump for his party? Even his most ardent admirers would scarce say that Ro osevelt is much greater nan than Gladstone. To those who nave kept themselves posted in the Rooesvelt--B -Bryan--H - Foraker controversies, the above may strike hem as pertinent. We disclaim al! ntent towards personal criticism herein.
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-10-10
AVERAGE YIELD OF BUT
 COPPER ORES.
BUTTE


 Conflicting reports, says the Mining Journal, makes the yield of the Butte copper ores all the way from 54 to S7 pounds to the ton. The difficulty ex- perienced in getting accurate infor- nation about the Butte mines anC the copper production gets an illustra tion in some recent near-Of1icial state ments relative to ore shipments ano copper production by the Amalgamat- ed company, writes the Butte ccorres- plondent of the Boston Commercial. At public gathering recently, the superintendent of the Washoe shelter made the staement that an average of IF, 900 tons of ore were treated daily. Statements repeatedly made and at tributed to other officials of the com pany were that the average copper contents of the ore shipped by the North Butte company was per cent, or 120 pounds to the ton; Butte Coal tion per cent, or 100 pounds; Ana conda and Boston & Montana, 41s per cent, or rinety pounds; Butte x Bos- ton and Washoe 4 per cent, or eighty pounds, and Parrot and Trenton about 315 per cent or seventy pounds, giv. ing an averayge of STE pounds of cop per for all ore shipped to the Washoe 
 In thlrty-one days, at l2.O00 tons per day, the smelter would treat 372, GOO tons of ore, and yielding an average of S71a ponuds of copper, the July and August output should have been 32, $50, GOO pounds per month for
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idle in 1906 to 1,640 short tons in 1907, while the value rose from $348, S67 in the earlier to SS90, 048 in the later year.
 The principal tungsten minerals are wolframite, a tungstate of iron and manganese, and scheelite, tungstate of calcium. Both minerals, like tin ores, occur as rule in quartz veins cutting rocks containing much silica such as graphite and rhyolite, but some apparent exceptions to this ru are found, as for instance in NJ Mexico, where nubnerite and s1nai amount of scheelite occur with pyrlt' and lead minerals in vein cuttn- limestone; and at Nome, Alaska. where scheelite is found in the gol placers in a region of schists severai miles from the nearest granite out crops. The greater part of the Amer ican tungsten product in 1907 came from the mines in Boulder County Colo, which reported an output of |, : l46 tons of wolframite valued at $57, GAP. "A. In California, which was the second state in order of production, the output was in the form of schee- lite, as was also most of that from Montana. The total scheelite report ed was 4l4 short tors. Small amounts of tuungsten ore were also produced
 in Washington, Nevada, Arizona, and probably in New Mexico. No ore is known to have been produced in South Dakota. although much prospecting and some development work was car ried on.
 Concerning the probable future of tungsten, F. L. Hess of the United States Geological Survey, from whose statistical report for 1907 the forego- ing paragraphs have been abstracted makes the following state mems:
 Tungsten deposits are usually pock- sty that is, the ores occur in lenticu lar masses or shoots in veins. Those occurring at the surface are often quickly and easily mined, and it may then require all the profits made from the frst-exposed ore body to locate anothre one. However, the yiens car rying tungsen minerals are generally of deep seated origin, and generally speaking other ore bodies will pro- bably be found in depth, although, as in mining for other minerals, the expense of search may be Out of pro- portion to the size of the pay shoots. "Tungsten is of wide spread occur ence, but the individual deposits car hardly be said to be large. In times of high prices there are many depos- its which can be worked that will be Idle at lower prices, and considering the great decrease in value of tung- sen ores in the last three months oi 1907 it seems probable that the. output for 1908 will be much less than in the previous year"
 An interesting and important part of Mir. Hess's report is his brief de- scription of the tungsten minerals and some simple tests by which they may be identified. These tests are such as can be made by any prospector whc can obtain hydrochloric (muriatic) acid, test tube, teacup or a water glass, and little tin foil, a piece o1 zinc, bit of solder, or even scraI from an ordinary tin can. Copies oi the report, which is published as all advance chapter from "Mineral Re- sources of the United States, Calander Year 1907," may be obtained by ap- plying to the Director Of the United States Geological Survey, Washing ton, D. c.
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AFTER PATENT MEDICINES.

According to the views of the De- partment of Agriculture experts, if a medicine is advertised to accomplish certain results, it must do so or the owners thereof violate the law. Act ing on an order to this effect, seizure was made in Washington, D. C., the other day in one of the large depart- ment stores. The goods seized are branded Excelsior Skin Food," Fertilizer Tablets, y Excelsior Hair Tonic, the Great Hair Grower" "Ex- celsior Complexion Bleach, "Blush of Youth," etc. The libel charges that the articles are misbranded in violation of the pure food act, and are liable to condemnation and confs- cation, for the reason that the pack ages and labels bear certain statements regarding the drugs which are false and misleading-that is to say, that the said Fertilizer Tablets are specific for curing flatulency and all gastric troubles'' and are cure foi obesity, and said last mentioned state- ments," continues the libel, are false and misleading in this, that the said last mentioned drug is not a spe- cific for curing flatulency and gastric troubles and is not a cure for obesi ty." The ''Blush of Youth" prepara- tion is declared misbranded in that it does not restore the complexion tD chidike purity, and the Excelsior Skin Food" is declared not to be food for the skin, and both are there fore misbranded in violation of tht pure food act. The mixtures seized are known as the 'Madam Yale" The Department of intends to make a test case of the seizure. It is the first of it's kind under the law.
 James J. Doyle.
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-10-10

Fire has been burning in the Ana conda and St. Lawrence mines near Butte, Montana, since 1889, and all efforts to extinguish ib have been fu tile, as the fire feeds itself on sulphide ores. The portions of. the mines where the fire prevails has been flooded, and bore holes have been put down from the surface, through which streams of water have been run; but it has had no effect on the fire. The only effective measure was to wall the fire in with cement, and in that way it has been kept nuder control, but often it breaks through somewhere or a carck in the rock permits the gas to escape. It is often impossible or diff cult to locate the leak and the only way the gas can be driven out of the mine is by air currents. but it breaks out or appears in unexpected places and the miners are driven out of the mine. A very little of the gas is sufficient to keep the men from working. The latest outbreak was chiefly in he shaft, and during the shut down some min ing was done through the St. Law renee and Never-sweat shafts, both of these mines being connected with the Anaconda. The latter employs about 800 men and hoists about $50 tons of ore per day.
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hs when the use of the wireless e the means of saving many lives.

1he Plymouth Church of Seattle every year sends huge box contain ing Christmas presents to the native children of the Arctic side of Alaska and Siberia. Last year each Eskimo youngster received Teddy Bear. This year, bright colored, warm knit jerseys will be sent, as well as box of candy. Some of these youngsters will be in the Eskimo village at the fair next year.
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Another One of Them.

Browne-Tve discovered that you were right about Borum.
 Towne-What about him?
 BrcwDe-Don't you remember you re- marked about that bad habit he hns of saving. 'I told you so?" Well. r.
 Towne-Ha, ha! Didn't tpil youf- Philadelphia Press.
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TUNGSTEN IN THE UNITED
 STATES

The demand for tungsten ores and products during the first nine months of 1907 was much greater than that of 1906, prices were high, mining and were both actively carried on, and. as a result the output of the United States was increased from a total of BPS short tons of concentrates arrying 6O per cent of tungsten triox.
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Herman Rldder, the new treasurer of the Democratic committee, is now under fire as the foe to union labor, one of the counts raised against Gov ernor Haskell. MT. Ridder says he can prove the charge to be without foundation, and is going to be given tull opportunity to do so. Both par ties are this year solicitous about the union labor vote, and all leaders who are not acceptable to it must remain in the background.
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The spirit of Speed,

His coat is greasy leather, and his cap Is worse for wear. He leaves a smell of gasoline behind him on the air. His face is black and grimy with the oil that on 1t lies, And a pair of dusty goggles hide his wild and rolling eyes. He's always in hurry, and he only lives to go, And the man in blue and buttons he ac- counts his deadly foe, And he's only feeling happy when he grips the steering wheel, For he is the youthful chauffeur of my merry mad mobile.
 -Lippincott's Magazine.
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-10-10
An Eaoer Parenf.

"Jack Is so brave! He went right into the library and said to father. I want to marry your daughter
 And what did your father say?"
 "He said: 'Good Which oneT" "- Lippincott's.
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-10-10

A feature of the Alaska Yukon-P Pa cicfi exposition next year will be the exhibit of prehistoric town discover ed by A. N. Sayre of Tacoma. The ruins will be moved bodily to Seattle.
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-10-10
lndjunaut Disclaimer.

Vanilla Beane-How odd! That solid gold ring of yours makes black mark around your finger. Hazel Nutt-The ring didn't make that mark That that's dirt!-Chicago Tribtae.
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-10-10

Some people are inclined to question the expediency of cannery at the A. Y. P. exposition ''just as they are run in Alaska" They ask: "Did you evr know an Alaskan who would eat canned salmon? v
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-10-10

Governor Haskell has left the Dem- ocratic head quarters for Oklahoma and the word has gone out that he will remain in comparative seculsion for a few weeks. There are many people in both parties who believe that the present would be good time for Governor Haskell and Senator Foraker to join forces for hunting trip to some fastness beyond the reach of the telegraph.
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-10-10

Bubble bubble; toll and trouble. V How many letters has Hearst got up his sleeve, anyway?
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-10-10

The 1909 encampment of the United Spanish War Veterans vii be held in Tacoma during the time of the fair at Seattle. Last month the first camp of U. s. s. w. V. in Alaska was organ ized in Fairbanks. It started with six ty members. Another is to be organ ized at Nome. Both will have dele gates at the 1909 encampment.
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-10-10

The agreement of the governments of Canada and the United States to establish 120-foot neutral strip be- tween the two countries has many things to commend it , but it will be rough on the gentry who have houses located a-straddle of the boundary line, for dispensing liquid refresh ments without payi g a license fee or duties.
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-10-10

All the world may not exactly love Il lover, but 1t always takes quite an interest in his letters when they are read to the jury.-Puck.
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-10-10

Some of the last men to come out from Nome say that the story that the output for this season has been short- ened by lack of water is all bum combe. The truth of the matter, these men claim, is that the country is tied up in litigation. Men who know the conditions will not invest their money for fear that as soon as they open up a property and find gold in paying quantities, a pettyfogger of a lawyer will appear and drag them into court, and tie them up for two or three years.
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-10-10

"Fairbanks district will produce s7, 500, 900, and fully BIO, ,O0O,0 900 will come from the Tanana valley this year," says J. W. Goodwin, receiver for the Alaska Central railroad and until recently United States commis- sioner and mining recorder at Fair banks,
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-10-10

Two hundred men and sixty teams are at work preparing the ground for the "Pay Streak" at the Alaska Yu- kon-Pacifc exposition which will be held in Seattle next year. The great pleasure resort will contain one hund- red of the biggest and best amusement features.