haikes items.
Haines is to have a new electric light plant soon. Corporal
Joseph Glover, U. S. Signal Corps, who is on furlough has the con
tract to install the wires and lighting equipment in re silences
and business houses.
U.S.Commissioner, A, F,McLean, has purchased a one hundred and
fifty horse power Heisel engine and the latest electric generators
and machinery and expects to have the plant in operation in a few
months. The installation of the new electric light plant fills
a long felt need and jJudge McLean is being congratulated on all
sides for his untiring efforts to get the project going.
The strawberry crop is being picked and shipped at this time,
and while not a large yield this year, the quality of the berries
is above the average on account of the open, sunny weather we
have been enjoying for the past several weeks,
Haines was visited by two private yachting parties Saturday
and Sunday, One of the boats hailed from Los Angeles and the
other from Victoria, B.C., and both were on a pleasure cruise
along the Alaskan coast.
Quite a crowd of young people from Haines and the Post attended
"The Days of ’98" Carnival in Skagway last Friday night and all
report an enjoyable evening.
Mr. Jesse Patch motored to Pleasant Camp last Sunday with Mr.
Hopkins, Miss Nellie Hopkins, Miss Mary Clayton and Mr. R.D. Walker
as his guests and reports the Haines-Pleasant Camp road nearing
completion to the boundary line between the U.S. and Canada.
Mrs* Anderson and daughter of Juneau have taken a cottage in
Haines and expect to spend the summer here.
MONKEY- DO 0 DLE-BUSINESS.' ,
If you should ever doubt the Evolution law,
While tangled 'tween the Monkeys and the "steers
Just to show you the value of this lawr
We’ll try you by ”a jury of your peers”.
While sheltered by the Court - the jury in the box -
Phrenologize about their ’’beans” and ears,
Remembering, those monkey-domes are heads,
Eitted to "a jury of your peers".
Oh, the endless march up the Evolution line,
While humanity has everything,to fear
Waiting the upward climb, of the Tad-pole,
To a finished "jury of their peers".
G.P. W.
MRS. J.3.BERNH0EEER AND MISS A. JACOBY VISITING HAINES.
Mrs. J. B, Be mho f fe r and Miss A. Jacoby, of Juneau, came up
on the S,S,Queen Sunday and expect to spend the summer in Haines.