The Ketchikan miner., 1908-03-14

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 MARCH IA, 1908
 The "Vancouver" brand of Port and cement, made on Vancouver Island, is guaranteed to meet the re- uuirements of both the Canadian and the American Society of Civil Engi- neers.
 The Canadian Bank of Commerce at Skagway has number of deposits, ranging in amount all the way from 50 cents to s2sOO, left by parties who have seemingly gone away and forgot ten all about it.
 Stocks are not as high as they have been, but the considerable fluctuations make the market one that offers plen- ty of opportunities for venturesome traders. It's up and down with tol- erable degree of regularity.
 The Skagway Alaskan, anticipat- ing the death of Edison, who isn't even reported in ill health, rises to remark with anticipations of sorrow, "Ah, that will strike upon the face of time like a cataclpsm. Of course, every body knows what cataclpsm is 1.
 Canadian people are now in posi- tion to emphatically deny the accuracy of the old saying "Talk is cheap" It isn't. According to statement made by Sir Wilfrid Laurier in the House of Commons recently, the average cost of publishing the debates per column for 1907 was S5.4
 A After all these months MT. Harri- man has finllay scored. But Mir. Fish says that the case is still to be tried on its merits. Mir. Harrahan, presi- dent of the Illinois Central, is pleased with the developments, very pleased. They are balm for the sore spot where MT. Fish swatted him some months ago.
 There are two families named Canoe living in certain town-it may be Ketchikan or it may be some other place-but that doesn't matter much. One of the boys of one of the Canoe families went to visit his cousin Tom, and misbehaving himself, the uncle proceeded to thrash him. Between the i ks that were being administered to him, John looked up and innocently inquired, ''I say uncle, why don't you paddle your own cancel"
 The experts on naval construction are giving the navy muckrakers, prin- cipally Henry Reuterdahl. some un- pleasant hours lately. Mir. Reuter- dahl's ingeniousIy constructed article is shown to have been composed large ly of transformation and half truths. The percentage of truth in it is only sufficient to make it plausible, without in any degree justifying it. The fair repute of the navy was first vindicated by Admiral Converses report, and is being further justified in the senate hearings.
 William Allen White, the distin- guished Kansas editor. has discovered that the 'patent insides'' of patent inside newspapers are being used to disseminate anti Roosevelt and anti Taft sentiments. But Mr. White should know that the time when the reader takes patent insides seriously is left far behind. Patent inside news papers these days find their most i'm portant function in covering pantry shelves.
 The Juneau Record voices the con- plaint that the city does not provide sufficient night police protection, and says that the saloon men themselves are the greatest sufferers from this neglect as fights and brawls usually occur in their places of business and they have no power other than brutal force to stop it. It would almost seem as if the arrest of drunken men before they reach the saloons in a quarrelsome condition would be the most efficacious means to solve that particular difficulty. A saloon row in Ketchkan is rare occurrence.
 Some of the papers are recalling Phil Sheridan's remark that if he owned He'll and Texas he would rent out Texas and reside in Hell. Texas has never been disposed to feel bitter toward the general for this ungraci- ous remark, for it is the prerogatiye of every man to stand up for his own country. So also of the feeling of Alaskans towards those who apply a similar remark significant of Sheri- dan's liking for the place he prefer red to Texas. The Miner thinks that those who prefer Sheridan's choice of residence to Alaska are welcome to go there as soon as they find it altogether convenient-but they are advised to