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The Ketchikan miner., 1909-07-03

Delegate Wickersham' s bill to give Alaska a territoral legislature will probably have to be introduced into two or three congresses before it can get through, but local government will come some time. A local law making body which can legislate with some knowledge of focal conditions and needs is the right of the territory and it's importance is recognized by the most virulent oponents of home rule by repeated urging of code com mission to recommend legislation to congress. The same object is sought to be accomplished by both projects. Opponents of territorial government have always set up straw dummy to throw bricks at They have pointed to the awful expense and to the general impractioability of county government in so sparcely settled territory as Alaska. It would be difficult to find a man who has ever advocated county organizations in Alaska. The sole demand has always been for a local legislature and the demand has always been made with full knowledge of the fact that Alaska legislatures would be composed of no better material than state legislatures. That is to say, an Alaska legislature would contain more cheap men than bright ones, more self seeking curbstone politicians than capable legislators, nearly as many grafter a honest men. That is the way state legislaturs are made up, but nobody seriously urges their abolition on that account. Long experience in self-government has taught the Amer ican people that legislators are gener- ally as good as their average consti- tuents and that government by the people is little better than govern ment by monarch and viceroys. Val dez Prospector.
The Ketchikan miner., 1909-07-03

Today's Dolphin brought in number of commercial travelling and they glad to get here to have them. The salesman of observation and quick forming conclusions He travels everywhere and learns where the most promising communities sit uated These all admit that business conditions in Alaska not what they should be- but their faith in ultimate greatness gratifying Just at present it is gen. eray admitted that Kechkan is the best town along the line This is not boast there is for it. One of the largest fish companies in the United States the New England is spending nearly three hundred thousand dol lars here. The Mt Andrew mine shipping constantly and the say it will not close down again in life tme The It mine is constant shipper is the Sulzer The Goodro is installing tram and will be sending copper to the snelter five stamp mill is pounding gold out of the quartz at the A. B. w. tram and five stamp mill is being installed by Mr. Rodgers. Tunnels being driven prospecto busy and development work being done. There scarcely vacant house in Ketci- kan superintendent in Saturday get few ma chine miners and couldn't find They all busy. Ask of those salesmen how it is elsewhere and while is too much of gentleman speak disparagngly of any particular community he will tell you that Ketchikan is the most prosperous city in Alaska today We're not up to our limit. We have yet rough and rugged road to travel before arrive at the supreme heights but we're way.
The Ketchikan miner., 1909-07-03

prominent in the recently said that every girl who had arrived the eighteen deested We have forgotten her and have destroyed the paper with the the affair in of eighteen old friends won't hold of it and believe all they read in the the place has long this old guinea eighteen she has forgotten what heart hrobs feel e and ouns her vavuar rheumatism with love then argues that doesn't like little observation part and a little abstract reasoning might this ice berg that neither eighteen old girls other old girls detest Of minute freezer with
 liquid where her ought might deest eighteen old maiden We know better. That did know better before fell into the and yellow leaf And the girls know better.
The Ketchikan miner., 1909-07-03

Prof. E. J. Voyle, the chemist ol Berkeley college, claims he has made one of the greatest discoveries of the age. It is nothing less than the method for removing the 'drunk" " from wiislley without diminishing it's exhilirating powers. His recipe takes the kick out of whatever liquid you may imbibe, leaving all the recuper- ative powers.
 Prof. Voyle says the thing in whis- key which causes woe is not acoho l, but "cyanide. All you have to do is to carefully extract the cyanide from your whiskey and you may drink it freely without fear.
 "Pure alcohol is not responsible for the intoxication that follows the drink ing of it, o said the professor. "The evil ingredient is the associated ele- ment cyanide. It is one of the minor constituents not removed by the pres ent process of fermentation and distil . ation. Chicago Tribune.
The Ketchikan miner., 1909-07-03

| Climatic features of the different districts of A Alaska are described in a senate document presented by Senator Piles. The following data concerning the southern coast of the territory are given:
 "The Pacific coast province and more particularly the panhandle, is well known for its heavy rainfall and cloudy weather. This portion of Alaska, as we'll as the northwest coast of the states, has rainfall compara- ble only to that of the Aleutian islands, the immediately adjacent costal DOT tions of British America, and the coast of Washington and Oregon. IT. general however, the precipitation within Alaska falls somewhat short of l that recorded in the latter disrtict. 1 The heaviest annual rainfalis in this province occur at Nuchek (190 09) Fort Tongass (133. 10 inches), Stk a l (SS.1 inches), and Fort Lscum. (Sl 3 Fort Wrangell, Killisnoo and Kodiak stand next, with 50 inches or more. W hi le Tyonok, Skagway and Kenai have only between 15 and 25 inches S
 "Nearly all this precipitation falls as rain, and for the most part from September to January, both inclusive. During the other months a cosidera- bly, smaller portion of the annual rain- fall is precipitated. The season of least rainfall and consequently the one having the fewest rainy days is gener- ally from April to July, Nuchek being the only exception to the rule. At that station the heavy rain last unlil May and begin again in August. Dur ing the month of heavy ra.ns there is scarcely a day without precipitation,
 the number of rainy days in month running up to twenty, twenty two, nd in the case of Fort Liscum, even to twenty eight and half. On the other hand even in the less rainy months the number of days per month on which rain falls is usually not less than ten, except at Skagway, Kenai, Fort Liscum and Tononk, where 1t is five or even less.
 "A feature of the local rainfalls which is often of economic importance is the maximum rainfall during a limited period of time-e. g. in twenty four hours. If the material at hand were more complete and time allowed, table of average maximum rainfalls would prove very valuable. The east ern portion of the Pacific coast pro- vince is subject to the most severe downpours as a rule the maximum amount of raj in twenty-four hours in that region being from 3 to inches. The western station have downpours generally less than inches. Orca, how ever, has record of over inches of rain in twenty-four hours which is the heaviest reported from ary Alaska station and yet is moro than 3 inches less than the heaviest daily ralnfalls which have been recorded in the United States.
 Generally the excessive rainfalls occurred during the charactistically rainy months, viz in the fall and win ter. Nuchek and Kodiak however, again show variations from the gen. eral rule, as they have very heavy rains during May, while Juneau has Its heaviest rains in July and August. "
The Ketchikan miner., 1909-07-03

the tourists remarked today that the people here acted quite civilized She looked like Kansas school teacher the often that had enlarged her on If you're from Kansas Kan Kawnsaws It's about easy for leopard to change spots frecled stork the wndswept prs acquire the musical of the dreamy south the classical utterances bung owed Boston, We sensitive do like be referred of missing links pack snfes who have been handing manual training geography vertical writing until they think the uni outside of School Dist No is still in the protopasmc development We civilized in Alaska until body doubts it, then That IS taunt which has sting rankles the Great Father Washington
 thinks civilized and appoints to here to Civilized people like be governed by out sders
The Ketchikan miner., 1909-07-03

owners will be opened on an extensive scale this summer. The mine is but eight miles from Cordova on the bay front.
 MT. Hewitt has arranged to be going July l5 to install $2O, 900 worth of machinery consisting of 6000- foot tramway, 300 feet of track with 20, pound steel rails and eight machine air compressors and drills. This equipment will be ready by fall so that the property can be worked on an extensive scale next winter.
 For some time six men have been kept steadily at work driving tunnels and exposing the ore vein, and the owners have been expending some thing like 5000 month.
 The ore is what is known as chal- copyrite-copper and the chalcopyrite huxes the copper, so that the com pany can get its ore treated for noth- ing, owing to the demand for this huxing material.
 Captain William N. Armgstrong of the Cordova Copper Company, which owns the property a mile below the wharf. arrvied on the Northwestern. --Cordova North Star.
The Ketchikan miner., 1909-07-03

Todays announcement that of the big ships the be taken off and added to the tourist fleet of Alaska will be disappointing to this dis
 ct For the have directed immigration to the distant regions Perhaps the longer hau and consequent larger this action Anyway is certain Southeastern Alaska is due to have her importance listeners already hear the rumble of the approach ing prosperity They have rich dosits norh but no richer than ours The tide is turning way.
The Ketchikan miner., 1909-07-03

The property belonging to the CordovaTacoma Copper Company of which Henry Hewitt Jr., of Tacoma, Jos. F. Diggs and Milo Kelly are the
The Ketchikan miner., 1909-07-03

Independence Day only two days distant We then British lions tail and for freedom and high people like 4t of July which resembles Ketchkan not being composed of pail bearers that something will happen that resembles enthusiasm
The Ketchikan miner., 1909-07-03

Judge Thomas Lyons says T the first Alaskan to be elected the bench here and want to make record among friends people, know the country, know conditions and think know the law. All ask be judged by record
The Ketchikan miner., 1909-07-03

tide which drifting norhward Go down south hundred miles, drop box plank into the and after awhile, uninterrupted will find it's way to Alaska along Alaskan the beach is dotted with fir polished with their long travel norhward ths but it be there Alaska The fact not only interesting itself ypfes the drift of immigration to this mysterious land of opportunity the affairs of that drifting Alaska which taken the flood leads to Already thousands have been mpeed unconscousy to the norhwar drift and many yet upon the tide magnet that and holds Many but
The Ketchikan miner., 1909-07-03

Britshers coming from Prince Rupert help eel ebrate the threshing gave their grandpas
The Ketchikan miner., 1909-07-03

Washington achieving the reputation for freak laws that the the legsa Men who looking for the ultimate good sometimes about it's accomplishment devious They feel that only the smoking cigarettes and they pass laws making misdemeanor. The who is picking himself in ncone the hedgng with the yelowfever fingers and the sumpve with the aundced lungs all feel that they abused by operation this They adhere the belief that they endowed with the American privilege of destroying themselves that looks good But protection society necessary sometimes restrain the impulses of the individual individually units the expression of life and mahemacaly the displacement of unit destroys the solution problem the failure of individuals perform disrupt the fabric which society The ages the combined knowledge pahoogsts prove exclusively that the nicotine habit dis
 that injurious when contracted in the form cigar Humanity certainly has moral right protect itself against the evils of cigarettes the that has against opium
 the various other of facilitating narcotics
The Ketchikan miner., 1909-07-03

There thrill in dispatch in columns today Every variety has committed Accident illicit love have played their and children have slain babies Not of hospital being founded nothing said of Chre deeds of loving charity mention made of all the gentle words and kindly sympathy that makes this world something than hell print this the public the repentan heart of shame picture it's words of cruel paint vivid ly until the the behoder something the tragedy and will have readers This demand for excitement has down through the with marked continuity the Roman the height and though history records Nero the monster, the public equally guilty it's demand sensation ne bull fighting prize fighting and have wrestling matches and This dwnding off shows progress of the spiritual the physica the mental the material the good Today representations crime Tomorrow the world will ask the Chrst1e And will receive, it will asked arigh Then the newspapers will the of great will be told where the story of wrechednes pears.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1909-05-19
Clark County Farmer Shot.

K. II. Curtis shot and wounded
VIII r. Locknane. The shooting
occurred on the Ruckerville pike,
five miles from Winchester. on
Wednesday. May II. The two
men are neighbors and the shoot
ing grew out of law suit, in
which Curtis testified against
Locknane. Curtis shot Locknane
twice, one shot taking effect in the
hip and the other in the abdomen.
Locknane was taken to LeXing-
ton in an auto for surgical opera
ton. He died early Thursday
afternoon. The two men were
alone when shooting occurred.
Curtis can be tried in Fayette
county for the murder, although
the shooting was in Clark. The
shooting of Cockrell in Jackson
and his death in Lexington during
the series of murders in Breathitt
revived the law of trial where
death occurs.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1909-05-19
AT HARVARD FIFTY YEARS AGO.
N. S. Shaler Tells Us of the Life of a
Senior.

He was a senior in Harvard college
and had a well-deserved name for
scholarship in the classics, as well as
for a miscellaneous assortment of tai
ents and knowledge. He was reputed
to be the best player of the game of
checkers in the country; knew the
political history of the United States
amazingly well; was learned in pugil-
ism, having at his tongues end the
story of all the prize-fights of recent
times; withal he was the merriest lit
tie man | ever seen. | well recall my
first morning with him, when, sitter 60
ing over the best of what ! could and
could not do, he asked me if i could
box. / pleaded guilty to some knowl-
edge of that ignoble art At that time
/ had not learned of his interest In it,
and thought that ] would be lowered
in his eyes by the confession. To my
surprise, indeed to my horror, for
had a swordsman's contempt for the
business, he insisted on my having a
bout with him at once.-N. s. Shalers
Autobiography, in the Atlantic.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1909-05-19
A Novel Introduction.

The DR.. Howard Company have
entered into an arrangement with
". :. Lloyd's drug store, by
which a special Introductory offer
will be made of % cents on the
30 cent size of their celebrated
specific for the cure of constipa-
ton and dyspepsia.
SO remarkably successful has
DIR. Howard's specific been in
curing constipation. dyspepsia and
all forms of liver trouble. that y ,
:. Lloyd will return the price
paid in every case where it does
not give relief.
W. :. Lloyd has been able to
secure only a limited supply. 50
everyone who wishes to be cured
Of dyspepsia or constipation should
call upon him at once or send him
% cents by mail. and get GO doses
of the best medicine ever made,
on this special half price intro
ductory offer, with his personal
guarantee TO refund the money if
the specific does not cure.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1909-05-19
WORLDS GREATEST IN
VfNTION
Achieved by a Boy, Who Sets OFF
Explosive Miles Away BY
Wireless.

A lanky, sweatered school boy
has achieved what Tesla. Marconl
and other wizards of the wireless
have been months vainly lahorlng
for-the invention which scientists
long ago agreed would be the
greatest blessing to mankind.
He is Charley Williams. eigh-
teen-year-old Evansville. Ind, lad.
BY pressing the key of a wire
less instrument rugged up in his
mothers woodshed the other night
he caused an explosion to occur
three miles away. 1t shook every
building in the city.
That's what this boy has ac-
complished. His is an engine of
war that will kill war. The
United States Government is ne-
gotiating for it. If Uncle Sam
gets it, he will be supreme among
the Powers of the earth.
Charley Williams hasn't stopped
at inventing the apparatus which
sets off the explosive. He has
discovered the explosive itself.
He calls it "Williamsite," and de-
ciares it to be forty times as pow
erful as dynamite.
Three ounces of it was enough
to scare this city out of years
growth. A pound. experts say,
would have RACED every building
within mile of the tree top in
which he set up the three ounce
bottle for his test.
And the boy has this terrible
invention of his perfected. He
can direct his blast wherever he
wants its force to go. If man
had been standing under that tree
not hair on his head would have
been displaced" young Williams
said. II had the charge fixed so
that all its force was upward"
They examined the tree for
proof. Its top had been sliced
off as with a knife, but beneath
not leaf was disturbed. Below
not a living creature was harmed,
but the ground for a radius of
half mile was strewn with dead
sparrows.
(This appeared in a Louisville
daily from Evansville, Ind, May
6. 1t may be true. 1t appears
unreasonable; but such amazing
discoveries have been made that
we are slow to reject reported
achievements in. Scientific dis
coveries. --Editor.)
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1909-05-19
Grant Gives His Views On Prohi-
bitiOn.

In Chicago Major Gen. Freder-
lex Dent Grant delivered an elo--
quent plea for temperance.
Il am not a Prohibitionist." he
said. Il believe that regulation
can accomplish more than prohi-
bition at present, but | do believed
the individual can be tee totaller.
If you will allow me two glasses of
champagne and one drink of whis-
KY in eighteen years, then | cam
claim to have practiced what l
preach.
The reason | urge that in
young men is because have found
it an invariable rule that when
man drinks but sparingly, only
getting drunk once in great
while, he always chooses for that
periodical jag the worst possible
time.
Il never have been in private
residence in Chicago or on the
streets of the city, or any of the
other places in the world where |
have been, and seen a man intoxi-
Gated but that | have felt like kick
ing him."
(The writer has refrained from
wines, whisky and other intoxi-
cants for about 80 years; but does
not want to kick the thoughtless
man who gets drunk, or enters
saloons for the purpose of drink
ING. Editor.)
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1909-05-19
COURTESY IN THE STREET CAR.
Something Of Reversal Of the
General Rule.

do you suppose that's an effect CT
the recent agitation of women's
rights?" asked the man, indicating
with a nod of his head a scene that
was taking place in an Il" car in the
homeward rush. His companion
looked and saw a slender, handsomely
gSwned woman offer her seat to a
young nan who. in the crush, was
standing in front Of her and was car
rying an armful of large, heavy
books.
The young man looked rather en-
barrassed and bravely declined with
a pleasant little smile. which was all
he could accomplish in lieu of rails
ing his hat with his heavily incum-
bered hands.
We'll, then" said the lady CON-
posedly. resuming her scat, let me
hold the books in my lap"
THAT would certainly be kind If
you don't mind" consented the youth,
relinquishing his load; and when the
lady reached her station. leaving her
seat to him, he thanked her for her
thoughtfulness with fully as much
gratitude as a woman would have
expressed for a similar courtesy from
a man-perhaps with mere appre cia-
ton, the experience being more
rare
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1909-05-19
Two Marks of Beauty.

Beautiful eyes and brows are, in
one sense, a special gift of nature.
Many a plain woman is redeemed by
fine eyes; many a pretty face spoiled
by red-rimmed, dull, lusterless eyes.
But at the same time a great deal may
be done to make even unpromising
eyes clear and attractive, to render
eyes which are only passably pretty
really beautiful.
Attention TO the general health will
go far to make the eyes clear and
bright and prevent fatigue, even when
they are called upon to do a great
deal of work.
Have you never noticed the dull
eyes of person afflicted with dyspep-
STA, the yellow tinge of overlooking
and neglected liver; the lusterless
eyes of the woman who sleeps in an
ill-ventilated room, who takes no ex-
ercise and spends all her spare time
reading novels over the fire?
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1909-05-19
When It's a Nude,

THE Bather" was the title of the
young painters picture, the first that
he had ever shown. 1t hing, unnoticed
on the line.
But" said his friend, you have
done nothing to draw a crowd"
I've done my best work." said the
young painter.
Fudge was the retort. Work
draws, but there are better magnets.
At the Paris exhibitions every artist,
until he makes name, uses some de-
vice to keep a crowd about his daubs.
"A painting like The Bather always,
in Paris, has the model, very beautiful
ly dressed. strolling idly back and
forth near it. The resemblance be
tween her and it is at once perceived.
And the result is the greatest curiosity
an immense crowd-a tremendous
hit"
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1909-05-19

by toe designers to work out salts
factorily if no untoward event
arises.
Just now the Beckham contln-
gent is busy tinkering with the
platform which will be submitted
to the Democratic voters in 1911.
All have agreed, it is said, on the
State wide plank, for they believe
it will be a winning one, and de-
sire. if possible. to beat the Re
publicans to it.-Louisville Herald.
MAY 1O.-Frankfort Message.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1909-05-19
Country Printer Who Became
Governor.

Many American public men
have had remarkable careers. in
that they raised themselves by
their own ability and energy from
the lowly plane of poverty to sue
cess and position. Entitled to
rank high among these caryers-
out of their own fortunes is the
Hon. Jared Young Sanders, Gov
ernor of Louisiana. Governor
Sanders is the son of Confeder-
ate veteran who was a planter in
Louisiana, but who died when the
lad was only twelve years old and
in year when a great food swept
away the family's plantation.
The widowed mother, having eight
children on her hands, young
Sanders, the eldest child. was
obliged at once to 90 to work.
He was employed for time as a
clerk in a country store, but sub
sequently entered the office of a
country weekly at Franklin, La. ,
where he learned to set type. At
the age of twenty-one he became
editor and then began to study
law, Three years later, in 1898,
he entered Tulane University Law
School, and after his graduation
began practice at Franklin. For
a time he was associated with ex-
Governor Foster; of Louisiana.
and others, but afterward set up
for himself. In 1892 he was elect
ed to the Legislature and served
twelve years in that body, being
for four years Speaker Of the
House. In 1904 he was elected
Northumberland, and in 1908
Governor. The Governors adj
minlstration has been successful
and popular.