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KETCHIKAN - -- -- - — — — ALASKA. >
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Alaska Steamship Co.
THREE DAY SERVICE
Sailing from Ketchikan Northbound. Southeastern Alaske Service
JEFFERSON, April 15, 26, May 6. 17, 29.
DOLPHIN, April 8, 20. May *» 12> 24
RETURNING THREE LATFD
:.y-L COMFORTABLE SHIPS ON SOUTHEASTERN ROUTE
ALAMEDA, April 1, 27, May 17, June 7th.
b NORTHWESTERN, April 13, May 2, 23, June 13.
ALASKA, April22, May 12, June 1, 23.
MARIPOSA, May 7, 27, June 17, July 7.
Wrangell, Juneau, Skngway and Westward, Returning 10 Days
Eater. I,argent and Fastest Ships running to Alaska.
'i Sailings Subject to Change Without Notice.
Tickets to Seattle, Tacoma, Victoria and Vancouver, British Columbia.
+ C. M. TAYLOR, Agent - - Phone 64
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j STEAMERS FOR
] Seattle, Tacoma
Vietoiia, Vancouver, Ana-ortes, Bellingham
Everett, Olympia Port Townsend, South
Bellingham, Eureka, Santa Barbara, Mexico
San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego
M. BRANDT, G.A.P.D. C. D. DUNANN, P.T.M.
608 Second Ave, Seattle. 112 Market, SanFranolsoo
Right reserved to Change Schedule
next SAILINGS FROM KETCHIKAN
SPOKANE Mar. 4, 15, 26, April 6, 17, 28, June 9, 20, 31.
CITY OF SEATTLE Mar. 31, Apr. 11, 22, June 3, 14, 25.
RETURNING THREE DAYS LATER
P ;ONE 77. ------ F. H. BOLD, Agent.
« Border Line Transportation Co.
REDUCED RATES BETWEEN KET- = i,—t Class.$17.50
* CHIKAN AND SEATTLE Second Class. 11.00
S, S. ALKi PASSENGER AND FREIGHT
’ SERVICE BETWEEN SEATTLE
AND S. E. ALASKJ 5>IRE«*
S. S. DESPATCH SERVICE TO WEST CO'* \
OF PRINCE OF 'VAL*W '«L
S. S. NORTHLAND
Right reserved to change schedule without notice.
For further informaion apply to
D. W. Hunt. Agent, Northland Dock. Phot. 60.
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The Canadian (Pacific Railway
TIIE PRINCESS LINE
1 Leave Seattle March 4, 15, 25; April 5, 15.
Arrive in Ketchikan March 6, 17,27, April 7, 17.
Leave Ketchikan March 10, 21, 31, April 11, 21.
Arrive in Seattle March 12, 23, April 2, 13, 23.
^ Subject to change without notice
Steamer*1 connect at Vancouver with trains for all Eastern points.
We oiler attractive rates to eastern rail destinations.
The Line »' Quality. Our Service is Unsurpassed on Water or
Rail. Full information give n by
F. E. RYUS, Agent Phone 39
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| Save Time
Use the New Short Route
To and From EASTERN CANADA, also EASTERN and SOUTH
ERN UNITED STATES POINTS via
ii ;PRINCE RUPERT
Transcontinental trains to Eastern destinations: including Bos
ton, Buffalo, Chicago, Detroit,Hamilton, New York, Niagara Falls,
Montreal, Ottawa, Quebec, Toronto and Winnepeg.
Steamers to southern points: including Seattle, Victoria, Van
couver and Anyox.
Lowest fares. Electric Lighted trains. Observation cars. Un
excelled Dining and Sleeping Car Service, including both Stan
dard and Tourist Sleepers.
GRAND TRUNK PACIFIC RAILWAY AND STEAMSHIPS.
J. .1. Raliegh, Agent, Ketchikan. Phone 60j
Commencing April 4, Prince John will arrive in Ketchikan every
Tuesday morning southbound.
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BILL TO MAKE
ALASKA A STATE
INTRODUCED IN CONGRESS BY
DELEGATE WICKERSHAM
MARCH 30, 1916.
I (Continued from last issue.)
i Sec. 7. Appropriation for Expen
ses of Constitutional Convention.—
| That the sum of $100,000, or so
• much thereof as may be necessary.
: is hereby appropriated, out of any
money in the Treasury not other
wise appropriated, and for defray
ing of the expenses of the election
provided for in this Act and said
convention and for the payment of
the members thereof and their mile
age, under the same rules and reg
ulations and at the same rate as
are now provided by law for the
payment of the Territorial Legis
lature of the said Territory of Al
aska, a»d the disbursements of the
money appropriated by this section
shall be made by the Secretary of
the Territory of Alaska.
Sec. 8. Representatives in Con
gress — Territorial Continuance.—
That until otherwise provided by
law the said State of Alaska shall
be entitled to four Representatives
in the House of Representatives of
the United States, one to be elect
ed from each of the four judicial
divisions into which Alaska is now
divided by Act of Congress. And
the aid Representatives, together
with the governor and other of
ficers provided for in said constitu
tion, shall be elected on the same
day of the election for the rati
fication or rejection of the Consti
tution; and until said officers are
elected and qualified under the pro
visions of such Constitution and
the said State is admitted into the
Union, the territorial officers of
Alaska Territory shall continue to
discharge the duties of their re
spective offices in said Territory.
Sec. 9. Sections Sixteen ai'd Thir
ty-six Granted for Common Schools.
—That upon the admission of the
State into the Union sections num
bered sixteen and thirty-six in
every township in Alaska Territory
and all indemnity lands heretofore
or hereafter selected in lieu there
of are hereby granted to the State
for the use and benefit of the com
mon schools: Provided, That sec
tions sixteen and thirty-six em
braced in permanent reservations
for national purposes (excluding
therefrom forestry reserves and
withdrawals for classification or
further legislation) shall not at any
time be subject to the grant nor
the indemnity provisions of this
Act, nor shall any lands embraced
in Indian, military, or other res
ervations (excluding therefrom for
estry reserves and withdrawals for
classification or further legislation)
of any character, nor shall land
owned by Indian tribes or individual
members of any tribe be subjected
to the grants or to the indemnity
provisions of this Act, until the
reservation shall have been extin
guished and such lands be restored
to and become a part of the public
domain; none of the lands mention
ed in this section shall ever be
sold for less than $10 per acre.
Sec. 10. Appropriation of Fur
Seal Fund—Public Roads—Public
Schools.—That there is hereby ap
propriated, out of any moneys in
the United States Treasury not
otherwise appropriated, the total
gross sum and amount, as shown
by the accounts of the Treasury
Department of the United States
received by the United States from
rental and leases of fur-seal fish
eries of the Pribilof Islands in Al
aska, and from the sale of seals
and skins therefrom, from the date
of the purchase of Alaska from
Russia by the United States to
the date of the admission of the
State of Alaska into the Union:
that said total gross sum and
amount shall be paid to the State
of Alaska in twenty annual in
stallments or payments of equal
amount, and shall be expended by
the State of Alaska exclusively,
one-third for the improvement of
public roads in the State and two
thirds for the erection and equip
ment of school buildings, the pay
ment of teachers and the main
tenance of common and graded pub
lic schools in said State; that said
annual installments or payments
shall be divided equally between
the four areas within said State
described in the now existing four
j judicial divisions into which Alaska
is divided by Act of Congress.
Sec. 11. Grant For Universities.
And so Forth.—That section num
bered thirteen in every township
in Alaska is hereby reserved from
settlement or other disposition un
der any Act of Congress and grant
ed to said State of Alaska for the
following public uses: One-third
thereof for the erection and main
tenance of State universities; one
third thereof for the erection and
maintenance of State normal
schools, one one-third thereof for
the erection and maintenance of
| agricultural colleges and schools of
1 mines. The said lands and the
proceeds thereof as above apportion
ed shall be expended in the erect
ion and maintenance of institutions
' of learning, respectively, within the
I four judicial divisions into which
Alaska is now divided by Act of
Congress where the said lands lie.
Such educational institutions shall
remain under the exclusive con
trol of said State, and no part of
the proceeds arising from the sale
or other disposal of any lands
herein granted for educational pur
poses, or the income or rental there
• of, shall be used for the support of
, any religious or sectarian school
college, or university; none of the
lands mentioned in this section
shall ever be sold for less than $10
per acre.
Sec. 12. Grant For State Institu
tions, And so Forth.—That section
numbered thirty-three in every
township in Alaska is hereby re
served from settlement or other dis
position under any Act of Congress
and granted to the said State of
Alaska for the erection and main
tenance of State charitable, penal,
and reformatory institutions, and
public buildings to be erected with
in the four judicial divisions into
which Alaska is now divided by Act
of Congress where the lands lie:
Provided, That sections numbered
thirty-three in each township with
in that area described in the Act
of Congress entitled “An Act to
reserve lands to the Territory of
Alaska for educational uses, and
for other purposes/’ approved
March fourth, nineteen hundred and
fifteen, shall be used for the pur
poses therein designated: And pro
vided further, That the university
to be erected within the fourth ju
dicial division of Alaska, as now
described by Acts of Congress di
viding Alaska into four judicial di
visions, may be erected upon the
site 'and campus granted to the
Territory of Alaska by the afore
said Act of Congress approved
March fourth, nineteen hundred and
fifteen, and thereafter maintained
in connection with the agricultural
college and school of mines there
in authorized; and for four sec
tions of land granted to the Ter
ritory of Alaska by the said Act
of March fourth, nineteen hundred
and fifteen, are hereby granted to
the State of Alaska for the uses
and purposes mentioned in said
Act; none of the lands mentioned
in this section shall ever be sold
for less than $10 per acre.
Sec. 13. Forest Service Grant.—
That there be, and hereby is, grant
ed to the State of Alaska four hun
dred thousand acres of timbered
lands suitable for forest reserve
and the development of State for
ests, one-fourth thereof to be desig
nated in each of the four judicial
divisions into which Alaska is now
divided by Act of Congress; said
lands shall be designated by or
under the direction of the chief
forester in charge of the United
States Forest Service within one
year after the passage and ap
proval of this Act. If any part of
said granted lands shall be within
the unsurveyed public lands, they
shall be surveyed on the outer
boundary by the forest service and
the description thereof, together
with the description of any within
the surveyed area, shall be return
ed to the Secretary of the Interior,
who shall note the same on the
plats and lists of public lands:
said forest lands shall be held by
the State for the benefit of the
public as a State forest reserve:
the proceeds thereof shall be util
ized by the State in the support
and maintenance of a State for
estry service: Provided, That said
lands shall be located and desig
nated within a national forest re
serve if any exist in that division
where the reserve, or any part
thereof, is to be chosen.
Sec. 14. Leasing Mineral Lands.
—Where any part of the lands
granted to the State of Alaska by
this Act are valuable for minerals,
which term shall also include gas
and oil, such lands shall not be
sold by the State prior to January
first, nineteen hundred and thirty
five, nor at any time for less than
$20 per acre, but the same may
—continued * on rage 4 —
The laxative tablet
with the pleasant taste
If you are bilious
or constipated
They keep your
System as dean
as a stone jug
rinsed with cola
spring water
We have the exduiive telling righto
(or thh great laxative
The ^e^caJUL Store
THE KETCHIKAN DRUG CO.
INC.
THE REXALL STORE
FOUND A TROLLING BOAT.
Near Mountain Point last Friday.
Owner call and identify same.
—Jimmy Williams, Mountain Point,
near Saxman.
J. FILLMORE WARDER
Attorney at Law
General Practice Revilla Block
PATRONIZE HOME
INDUSTRY
Smoke a Ketchikan Cigar
KETCHIKAN CIGAR FACTORY*
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Go With The Bunch
Where everybody goes
To The
STEDMAN CAF Z
Our Motto
Cleanliness, Quality, Courtesy and
Reasonable Prices
MEAL TICKETS $5.50 for $5.00
We do not advertise our meal
tickets, you will be after them
Give Us A Trial
The Stedman Cafe
CHAS. H. COSGROVE
Attorney at Law
GENERAL PRACTICE |
C. E. INGERSOLL
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Prompt attention given to perfect
ing land titles and securing patents
KETCHIKAN, ALASKA.
James M. Shoup
Attorney at Law
Offices adtoinlng V S. Customs
Office
Notary
S. A. PLUMLEY
Attorney and
Counselor at Law
Office—Town Council Chambers,
Ketchikan, Alaska.
MARY A. C GIBSON
Stenographer
Notary Public
OFFICES
—Newtown Home—
Phone 142
General Hauling:
and work of all kinds
done by the
Independent Transfer
Company ■
0. M. TAYLOR, Agent
Phone 64
Alaska Delivery
WALTEE OBAT, prop
COAL DELIVERED FROM AL1
DOCKS
PHONES 51—Ti
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Ketchikan Wharf Co.
COAL |
COAL
NANAIMO
Lump Coal
$9.00 PER TON.
Ketchikan Wharf Co.
C. M. Taylor
Phone 64 Agent
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ENGINES-and BOATS
Alaska Boat and Engine Agency
i Agent and distributers of the well known engines.
Palmer Engines 2 & 4 cycle medium & heavy duty engines
Calaie Perfection 2 &4 cycle high speed engines
Northwestern 2 cycle high speed and heavy duty engines
Van Blerck high speed and medium, 4 cycle engines
Red Wing high speed and medium heavy duty engines
Kermath 4 cycle heavy duty engines
Oriole 4 cycle ideal engine for trolling purposes
Fisherman 4 cycle-1916 model will convince any man
that it is the greatest engine on the market today for its
price and quality, only Mfg. for work boat purposes, two
sizes 6 H. P. 1 Cylinder weight 600 pounds, 2 Cylinder
12 H. P. weight 8S0 pounds, only Reversible engine Mfg.
Call on
Geo. Wilkes
I For 1916 Quotations.
CORLISS ENGINES a Specialty
Ketchikan, [- - Alask
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5 Is the most popular resort
| in town; because of the l
£ quality of Liquors,
| Wines & Cigars Sold, by
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A MESSAGE T
On Your Arrival in, or your Departure From
the Cityif YouZ Visit
The SIDEBOARD 1
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Corner Front and Dock Streets, You Will be Welcomed on Your
Arrival and Carry the Good Wishes of M. E. MARTIN
With You on Your Departure.
Congeniality, Goodfellowship and Fair Treatment
Combined, is our Long Suit.
the Cabinet
Is widely known; not only for the narlity
of its Liquors, Wines and Cigars,
but for its hospitality to
its numerous patrons.
Henru Goemaere anti fl. W. Morgan
Ketchikan, Alaska.
The ADMIRAL |
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A place where Friends or Foes are equally well
treated: a place where the best Liquors, Wines
and Cigars are kept, Our motto being-:
“Thebestis none too good for our Patrons”
At the Admira! Saloon, Ketchikan. |
I NORTHERN MACHINE WORKS
l Standard Gas Engines
l OXY ACETYLENE WELDING 1
[ We Weld |
Steel, Brass, Bronze, Cast-iron *
1 Malleable iron. Welds Guaranteed, t
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PACIFIC ALASKA NAVIGATION COMPANY
THE ADMIRAL LINE
Puget Sound-Calikounia Puget SuUnp-ala.ska Route
Route _ Tacoma and Seattle for Ketch n
—Seattle-San Francisco, con- kan, Petersburg. Juneau. Katalla
Yakutai. Cordova, Valdez, Port
necting with the Yale and Mavard Wells. Ellamar, La Touche, Cook
lor Southern Galilornia Ports. Inlet points, Seward and Kodiak.
Steamers Admiral Evans And Watson Call at Ketchikan North and
Southbound on the 8tli, 18th and 28thof each month.
Right reserved to change schedule w ithout notice.
H GALLAGHER, Agent, NORTHLAND DOCK CO., Agent
Jnneau PHONE 60 Ketchikan