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KETCHIKAN ALASKA. WEDNESDAY. OCT. 6, 1915
WHERE ABE WE AT?
According to late leiegrapshie art s, the Attorney j
General ruled that the act enacted by our territorial
legislature in reference to the public school, is null and
void, as it ••conflicts" with the act of congress.
When some one asks a question that requires an'
answer, and if the answer th.-.t may be given ts exposed
4o contradiction, the best way to answer it is by quoting
another's opinion, which is the shortest road to the an
swer. Bst there are questions that cannot be answered
thus, as there are no authorities that can be cited; for
instance: supposing the question was: What authority
has our territorial legislature bo enact laws! That ques
tion has sever been answered because shat authority—If
any—is so thicaiy blanketed wish aari-iguity that the aid
of an X-ray we-all be required to fathom its mystery and
embody it in an intelligent answer, that it has not bees
lone. Xe sir. no man can correctly define our iegisis
tare's authority, nairas it be that it has no authority
Whatsoever which would be the shortest if net the safest
answer. Be that as it may, if the Attorael General is
■correct in his contention, oer legislature may as wel.
resign, take oar organic act and with its compliment re
turn it to congress with the requesqt for a clear definition
?f its authority. As it is now, no one can tell where
he is at, besides any official can baits in and tell us to
get off the earth as our presence < nfli-cts with their
autbetity.
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HAVE WE FORGOTTEN"
Where is all that road-baiiding spirit that was it
evidence early last spring- wies everybody talked
• Charcoal Point EUaad! Where are all those generous
contributors e-f either money or labor of those days! Yes
where they t
It is only a few months ago that petitions an!
memorials were circulated Jhat found innumerable signers.
Likewise, resolutions were introduced and adopt>: ; by
•livers organizations jetting forth an unequivocal Intention
of doing things, provided the government would start
|W ball arolling.
Well, and as amatter of fact, the government did
start the ball arolling and apparently will keep It aroll
ing until the read is finished, that is to say, to the city
limits, and there will drop anchor. From there on it
is np to the city of Ketchikan; but seemingly, the road
building-spirit of a few months ago must have died a
homing as there seems to be nothing doing. But si nee
the road, unless completed can he of very little benefit to
anybody, we may well ask; What are we going to do
about it?
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STRIKING FACTS ABOUT ALASKA
'From Leslie’s)
Statistic? are tiresome- Most persons will not read
them, and most who do speedily forget their significance.
But every reader can remember a few striking facts a
hont Alaska, unique, incomparable, nnequaied, unexcelled.
It is magnificent in its isolation. It ha* an area of 60t\
>vt square miles, one-fifth the site of the United States
which means that it wit! make fourteen New York’s and
netrlv Rhode Islands. Tt cost Uncle Sam $",200,00.1
forty-eight veers ago. or less than 2 cents an acre. Tt has
paid for itself twenty times and more in the output of
it? fisheries- Its gold mines this year will prodyee more
than three times what Alaska eost us. Alaska claims
to have more gold than California and more copper than
Michigan and Arisona. more coal than Pennsylvania, and
is willing to prove it if the government will rut the red
tape restricts* r.s of nonsensical .*'nservation and let c-w
its! do its work, as it has done it with the geld and cop
per mines and the fish industry. Its great cattle ranees
remain untouched, and most of them are free to the
homesteader. Wealth? Alaska will roll in it long be
fore the present century approaches its close. Already
Fairbanks, away up in the interior W<1 miles from the
coast, is getting ready to celebrate the semicentennial of
Alaska ’? purchase, two years hence. Get ready new to
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tsealtlo. too, the great- big good brother of Alaska,
that has lone more than all the rest of the country to
indu e the newspaper* of our great cities ;• give Alaska
a fair hearing, she too, the star-lit city of the sea. Is to
celebrate Alaska's fiftieth birthday.—John A. Bleicher.
SOUNDS OF DESOLATION
(Prom the Saturday Evening PosO
Yon proceed a little farther in Arras to a large
circular place, once imposing. Every house in it pre
sents the same blighted aspect There is no urban stir,
but in the brief ir.terv.il* ,,f the deafening cannonade can
! be heard one sound—blinds and, curtains fluttering against
empty frames, and perhaps the idle faint banging of loose
shutters. Not even a cat walks. We are alone—we ami
the small group of staff officers who are acting as our
hosts. We feel like thieves—like Peseerators. Impiously
praying.
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Continue.; sly arre the hollow soon! of ibices
failing and slippitg within the sm ~hed interior* behin 1
the facades. And then came the sound of a baby cry
ing—for this city is not, after all- uninhabited. We saw
a woman coming out of her house and carefully locking
the loor behind her. Was she backing it against shells
or against burglars?
THE GRAND !
To=Night! 1
“THE BOLTED DOOR’j
A three part drama featuring |
J. Warren Kerrigan So
“THE PRAIRIE TRAIL” §
A two part Western drama with William yo
Clifford and Phillis Gordon in leading parts S!
me:
Cash and no Credit Tells the Tale
/ can Save You Money and the Trouble of sending
Out of Ketchikan for Your Supplies.
Get My Prices on first class groceries for Your
Winter'll Supplies, before buying elsewhere.
There has been no chgnge made in the class of
Commodities which I have always carried, simply a
matter of safety first.
Phone 6
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G. G. Sparbawk, Ketchikan.
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Patronize Home Industry
When Buying a Cigar Cal! for
KETCHIKAN CIGAR
It is made from the Purest and Sweetest
Havana filler the market offords. Made
by hand and union made
TRY ONE
I JOHN A. ANDERSON Ketchikan, Alaska
the Lotus Buffet
Ketchikan Jflaska
The Originator and
Vendor of the Celebrated
“LOTUS FIZZ”
‘Nuf said!
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Ketchikan Iron Works
We Cut Gears
THAT ARE
Evenly Spaced
Accurately Cut
ANY NUMBER "oF TEETH
FROM
7 to J_4_ Pitch
AGENTS FOR
Atlas Oas Engines
Oxy = Acetylene
Welding
BLACKS MITHING AND
GENERAL MACHINE WORK
Q. E. LINGERFELT, Proprietor
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Just Received a Line of
.Men’s working pants, a $5.00 value for $3.50
Men's Blue Serge, a $7.00 value for $5.00
Boys' Grey Mixture, a $1.75 value for $1.25
Boys’ Blue Serge, a $2.00 value for $1.50
TONGASS TRADING COMPANY
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KETCHIKAN
PUBLIC LIBRARY AND
FREE READING ROOM
10 A. H. to 10 P. M.
MRS, J. B. THOMPSON
Librarian
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Christian Science Society
Sabjec* Sanity. October 10, 1915
‘ Are Ssn. Disease And Death Beal?”;
Front street. Ketchikan.
Regular Services Sunday 11 ami
Wsdaesdiy evening reading aed :
Stag 8em.ee at 9.90 pm
Ail Are Welcome
Flrrt K. JL Cinch
e«ad*y Ctareh Htrte* 11 l m sad
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XAartdaT Prayer Meeting S: JO. p.x.
Sn-iay th»4r Boevs 5 o ctoci.
Ft ret and third Welaewlay alter
m*i at i~.30 Laaiea Aid Society
H. W. MJCHJE.NEB. Feeuv
CATHOLIC CHURCH
Low Mass at 8:30 a. m.
High Mass at 10:30 a. m.
Sunday school at 2:30p.m.
Sunday Vespers at 7:30 p. m.
Week, bay Mass at 8 a m.
Re* PAUL P. KER.N5.
Paster.
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Saint John's Church
Kcy. Harry P. Corner. Prie
charge.
Sunday g a.m. eecund Sun
day of the mouth Holy C-Jin
■ii u it k>u.
S»:i5 a. ax. .Native Sunday
Scb'.oL
1 . a.m. Morning Prayer and
Se* aion. During December, 2a<i
a;.J llh Sundiys.
7:-su p.m. Evening Prayer
»i ,j Sermon. 2nd and Mb Sun
da. • of December. Musical
^e ce island 3rd Sundays.
'i uursday 8 p.m. Choir prae
ti< e.
M< et.og of Vestry first Mon
day night at each mouth;
Woman's Guild. alternate
1 hi.rsdays.
People Ask Us
What ia the best laxative? Years a#
expasiecae in —fong *11 bunds leads us
to always rstociirusad
as the safest, rarest and scat aalufae
tory. Sold only by os.
Ketchikan Drug Co.
Hit The Trail
For the hast
Via the
“MILWAUKEE"
The New Short Line and the Alaskan’s Favorite 1
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All-steel trains and a
Top-notch serv ice where
You’ll be among friends
From start to finish.
For information or literature write or ask,
C. M. TAYLOR. Local Agent, or
A. E. HARRIS, Traveling Passenger Agent
Juneau. Alaska
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
PACIFIC ALASKA NAVIGATION COMPANY
THE ADMIRAL LINE
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Son* —TsMffli and lor Keteiu
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, wtM IUimYum H.**m Weils. EMana* L* Tow**.Cook
lor Souberr Catferii Pwt*. lEics voici* Se-ard aod Kodiak
Steamers Aicursi Erin- And Watson Call at Ketchikan Korth and
South board os the 8th, 18th and 28tbcf each month.
R.*L*. merrtC v> ce*£*e Kl«di > » ;£...3i ao*;ee.
H GALLAGHER. At»i. NORTHLAND DOCK CO.. A**«
Jam*. PHONE 6C Hatch***
A Great Reduction Sale
In Dry Goods and Shoes at
GATEWAY STORE
These Lines are to be Closed Out
and the Sale Will Contnue till They
Are All Sold Out. It Will Pay You
To Call At Once.
A. Kaleel, Prop.
[ Royal Hotel
ENTIRELY REMODLBD
HANS APSCH, Prop.
Beds 50 Cents Per Night |
BEST BRAND OF
Wines, Liquors, Cigars j|j
FRONT STREET. KETCHIKAN
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STERLING ENGINES
The Engine of Refinement
Made in All Sizes : : :
Sold at popular Prices : :
H. R. Thompson
Distributer
Ketchikan Alaska
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GANNON'S BAKERY & GROCERY
13 lbs. cane sugar SI.00
Ail milk 3 cans .25
8 02. can Bakers cocoa .25
Am oca t Coffee .40
Reliance Coffee .40
Gold Shield coffee .40
Canned Pineapple .15 & .20
String beans, .20c. two for , .35
Goleen Wax beans .20c. 2 for .35
Pumpkin, 20c. 2 for . .35
Hominy, 20c. 2 for .35
Sweet potatoes, 20c. 2 for .35
Krout, 20c. 2 for .35
E. J. Peas, 20c. 2 for .35
Com .15
Solid Pack, Amocat and Beiiance
Tomatoes, .15
Fancy selected Hazelwood Banch
Eggs, per doz. .40
Lend fbrerer cocoanut per lb. .20
Baking powder, per lb. - .15
Your money back if not satisfied.
Bread, Boils, Pies, Cakes and Layer
Cakes, Angel Pood, White Cake, Jel
ly Boll, Lemon Boll. Cup C»kes, Gin
ger Bread, Cocoanut Kisses, Maca
roons. Honey Jumbles, Frosted Creams,
Lemon, Sugar, Currant, Spice and Co
coanut Cookies, Doughnuts and Toast.
Draying
All Orders will o«. promptly
aid carefully executed.
Contracts Takei For Anv Von*
Ketchikan
DrayingCompanj
J. W. CORDELL, Propietor.
Phone No. SO.
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For Rent—Desirable four roomed
s house, hot and eold water, bath
i room, and all the modern eonven
5 ienees. Fine view. A pfdy Mrs.
l'sung, Newtown. 6t a.Iv.
To Hold Examinations
' Forest Hypervisor,
. Dear Sir:—
It has been decided to hold a rnog
"r examination this fall on or about
October 25 and 2d. Yon have been
i designated as the examining officer
for the examination to be held at
i your headquarters.
Your* very truly,
C. 3. BUCK
Acting District Forester.
LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE
Regular Meetings
Wednesday Locals
Visiting brother
cordially invited
Hall for reot Mon
day. ThursdaySo.
, night irnitr 0.
22tdaj Friday.
ROYAL CAFE
UNDER
NEW MANAGEMENT
We make a specialty of
short orders at all times
of the day or night.
Our Dinners are un
equaled in the North.
Private boxes for dinner
parties,
MITCHELL KILICICH, Prop.
* We Manufacture and Keep in Stock all kinds of
*
| Spruce and Cedar Lumber
Can fill any order either stock
or cut to specifications . . .
::
;; Steamer Vigilant and Barge Blanche
for charter for freight purposes
Ketchikan Power Company
TAKE DOWN YOUR
LACE CURTAINS
and send themto this laundry to be
done up. When you get them back
you’ll not be able to tell them from
new ones. We have a special knack
of doing up lace curtains that no
home work ca equal and we can
prove It.
KETCHIKAN STEAM LAUNDRY
For Your
Hardware, Clothing, Shoes, Underwear,
Fishing Outfits.
The Celebrated Walrus Oil Clothing
Go To
N. F. ZIMMERMAN
Ketchikan - - Alaska
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Remember that the Firm of 3
5 WW A. E. WALKER & CO. §
^ DEALS in HOUSE FURNITURE as well as in HUNTERS’ and S
JJ FISHERMEN’S SUPPLIES, such as GUNS. FISHING TACKLE, ^
^ TENTS of all Sizes, and kept constantly in stock ^
S Prices Most Reasonable. ^
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