The Ketchikan miner., 1908-08-15

A Los Angeles woman has just been granted her sixth divorce This beats the "Seattle Spirit"
 The French government has declar- ed war to the knife on the labor un- ions. The struggle thus ushered in will attract world W ide attention.
 When the people play against death by running automobiles at seventy five miles per, they should be prepar- ed to lose.
 The Powers propose to build fence around Venezuela and maintain Castro in perpetuity as the worlds court jester.
 . The campaign liar has evidently finished his task, and The Miner sim cerely hopes and trusts that it may have no more of his prevarications, at least not until the advent of an- other delegate election.
 Mir. Taft is now Union man, but If he gets to be president the unions must not expect him to observe the eight-hour day. There's too much to do on the job.
 The city of Chicago will have separate building at the Alaska Yukon-Pacific Exposition which will be held in Seattle from June l, to October 15, 1909. The metropolis of the Middle West is the first city to definitely decide upon a separate structure in which to exploit itself.
 Uncle Sam will spend $500, 900 for his part at the Alaska Y ukon- Pacific Exposition. Of this sum s25O, 900 will be expended for the following build ings: main government, Alaska, Hawaii, Philippiens. Fisheries, and biographic lecture hall. The remain ing $350, 900 will be spent for the col lection and maintenance of the ex- hibits.
 Chief Justice Emery of the M aine Surpeme Court, recently handed down 8 decision which is attracting wide spread attention. The courts have for a period of..six or seven years had be- fore them the case of the State vs. the J. P. Bass Publishing Co.,, the point being the constitutionality of the Maine statute prohibiting the ad- vertising of intoxicating liquors ir Maine publications. The judgment just recorded is in favor of the State.
 The Chirornop oS 0>~tt.O l..,v VT | ganized an anti-opium crusade. They | claim to be able to cure the victims of the opium habit by giving them something that is drunk in tea and is ! said to effect cure in three or fou months. The league proposes to s' ,. port all persons who desire it du j. ~. the curative process. For beni =. heathens, the Chinese can z some remarkable pointers 1'o V things. S" Il Recent arrivals from
 say that it is imposs' Ffince Nape ' away from that .ele to keep people is nothing part- .'eint, though there just now at f, .4c4iAr that they can dc Grand rr, ne future terminus of tht :, .or Ank Pacific. The mule ha oo:A med the most obstinate of al an'n .ls He isn't. That title be loAs to the man who, despite re r lated warnings, will persist ir ''stamI,eding" when there is absolute. ly 10 justication for it.
 The Miner has received copy oi 1.-The Trail," an annual issued by the pupils of the Skagway High School. The little book, which is modelled on the line of the familial college annuals, would be credit te school ten times the size of that al Skagway, and aside from the more personal features contains matter which will make--it of general interest to those unenlightened residents ot the east who still think we eat whale blubber. and seal oil and live in..Igloos.
 The Presbyterian Mems Foreign Missionary society of the United States has determined to make an effort to raise o.. 900, 900 for foreign missions next year. Many earnest, right-living and right-thinking people are of the opinion that considerable proportion of this sum could be ex- pended to better advantage right at home. -Ex. And there are many others who are not only acquainted with conditions right at home, but also with conditions in foreign fields, who will say that the Society is doing a splendid thing in a splendid way.
 Tributes to former President Cleve- land have since his death, filled every newspaper and come from every man of note. Mir. Cleveland had even unto the end prominent place among the brilliant galaxy of Americans whom