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Fresh Meat, Provisions and Fish 1
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Ship and Gamp Trade *
KETCHIKAN - -- -- -- -- ALASKA. |
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Alaska Steamship Co.
THREE DAY SERVICE
Sailing from Ketchikan Northbound, Southeastern A'.aske Service
JEFFERSON, April 15, 26, May 6. 17, 29.
DOLPHIN, April 8. 20> May 4> 12> 24
RETURNING THREE LATFT>
?-'■ COMFORTABLE SHIPS ON SOUTHEASTERN ROUTE
ALAMEDA, April 1, 27, May 17, June 7th.
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, Sk.tgway and Westward, Returning 10 Days
Later. Largest and Fastest Ships running to Alaska
' • 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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I STEAMERS FOR J
Seattle, Tacoma
Victoria, Vancouver, Ana-ortes, Bellingham
Everett, Olympic Port Townsend, South
Bellingham, Eureka, Santa Barbara, Metico
San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego
* M. BRANDT, G.A.P.D. C. D. DUNANN, P.T.M.
608 Second Ave, Seattle. 112 Market, SanFrancisco
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
Pit ONE 77. - - - F. H. BOLD, Agent.
Border Line Transportation Co.
, REDUCED RATES BETWEEN KET- Fir-t Class.$17-50
CIIIKAN AND SEATTLE Second Class. 11.00
. S. S. ALKI PASSENGER AND FREIGHT
’ SERVICE BETWEEN SEATTLE
AND S. E. ALASKJ DIRECT
S. S. DESPATCH SERVICE TO WEST CP-* T
OF PRINCE OF "VAI^iS ''6T
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
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
Steamers connect at Vancouver with trains for all Lastein points.
We otier 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
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. J. Raliegh, Agent, Ketchikan. Phone 60.
Commencing April 4, Prince John will arrive in Ketchikan every
Tuesday morning southbound.
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HANS APSCH, Prop. \
i| Beds 50 Cents Per Night j
; ; BEST BRAND OF |
|| Wines, Liquors, Cigars |
! I FRONT STREET, KETCHIKAN
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CHARGING DEAD
LY GERMAN FIRE
AN ACCOUNT OF A BATTLE AS
GIVEN BY LIEUT. JOHNSON
OF HIGHLANDERS.
I am sending you an account of
the battle of September 25. “From
Ypres no one returns alive,” says
the German soldiers. When I heard
that the Scotch brigade, of which
I am a member, was to deliver an
attack there I felt something like
the guests at Belshazzar’s feast
when they saw the handwriting on
the wall. At dawn with slung
rifles and bandoliers, we started for
the firing line via a communicating
trench. The firing line was made
up of a few trenches. “No Man’s
Land” in front, which reached to
the enemies’ line, was a catacomb
ed maze of battered-down trenches
strewn with bones and the withered
flesh of dead bodies, pieces of equip
ment, broken rifles, tins and frag
ments of sand bags.
By elevating a telescope on a
parapet which was ingeniously con
cealed from the enemy we had an
excellent view of the trenches that
were to be captured the following
morning. Formidable rolls of barb
ed wire protected the first line of
trenches. Now and again above
the enemy’s parapet we observed
blue-gray caps and the spikes of
pickelhaubes moving up and down
the trench.
Scouting At Night.
When darkness came, in com
pany with Lieutenant M— we start
ed on a nocturnal reconnoissance
with the object of reconnoitering
an old trench leading from our fir
ing line to the enemy’s, a distance
of 50 or 60 yards, through which
if satisfactory, a detachment of
grenadiers would dash with their
bombs in the morning. After list
ening for about 20 minutes to a
working party of Germans we were
about to leap over a barricade
across the trench when a star shell
was sent up. It had no sooner
illuminated the trench with its bril
liant light than, scarcely two yards
away on the other side of the
barricade, we faced the silhouettes
of two heads that almost instantly
j disappeared. Then we heard the
double click ofrifle safety catches
and the points of two ugly bay
onets were thrust over the bar
ricade. But to shoot or use the
cold steel they had to expose their
bodies, which gave us the advan
tage. The star shell commenced to
flicker and fall, and for some sec
onds the silence remained tense.
Then the thought struck us that
they were preparing to throw a
bomb. Quickly we moved backward
and as we reached our own para
pet we heard an explosion up the
trench where we had just left. Had
we hesitated this story would nev
er have been written.
Oldest Scot® Regiment.
The honor of being on the ex
treme right in the charge and of
capturing an invulnerable redoubt
that had been mined and was to
go skyward at the commencement
of the bombardment fell to the
Royal Scots, which its traditions
say, is the oldest regiment in Scot
land.
At 3:50 a. m., the darkest hour
of the night, the fireworks started.
As the bombardment became more
intense the ground began to shake
as if from a violent earthquake.
At 4:05, with shining steel bayon
ets on their rifles a long line of
battle-mad soldiers scrambled over
the parapet and disappeared in the
darkness. Accompanying a number
of grenadiers with aprons full of
bombs we dashed up the old trench
I had explored earlier in the night.
The enemy had checked our ad
vance by dragging a large pronged
tree up the trench. We got out of
the trench to pass the tree, but
on jumping back in we encountered
another obstacle in the form of
several long barbed wires which
the enemy were working from a
windlass in their trench. SimuP
taneously a machine gun began to
enfilade the trench with a murder
ous stream of lead. Quickly hop
ping out of this death trap I ran
forward over open ground. Ma
chine guns were pumping bullets
into the earth everywhere. I found
myself caught in the cul de sac of
impregnable barb wire entangle
ments. It was another death trap,
for a few feet in front, hanging in
the wire like a fly in a spider’s
web, was a corporal, whose feeble
efforts to extricate himself showed
that he was dying. The hot lead
was coming in sheets and I began
to develop a strong affinity for
Mother Earth. Suddenly I was
covered with earth by a violent
explosion and for some minutes I
lay dazed, the blood gushing from,
a wound in my hand where a piece
of shell had gone clean through.
Incapacitated as I was now, and
with death facing me on every side
life never seemed sweeter than at
that moment. Scrambling to my
feet I made a dive into the newlv
made and still smoking shell hole.
It was deep and J was at least
safe from bullets. From every
where came the piercing screams
anil squeals of men dying in poig
nant agony. Never will those hor
rible and penetrating cries be ef
faced from my mind.
Playing Tag With Death.
To lie in the shell hole until
dayight meant certain death, and
it was already gray dawn. Strip
ping off my equipment I started
on the 40-yard sprint, and luck
was with me for halfway I stum
bled into an old sap which gave
me ample cover until our parapet
was reached.* With a number of
others, wounded, but who could
walk, we attempted to leave the
firing line, but it was *too late.
Hundreds of German cannon train
ed on the communication trenches
had blown them to atoms. Sand
bags and earth were still going
high in air leaving deep open ca
vities through which in daylight it
would be impossible for reinforce
ments to arrive or wounded to
leave.
At 8 a. m. the bombardment of
the enemy became more intense. It
was the prelude to a counter at
tack. Huge “Jack Johnsons” fell
nearer and nearer until our dugout
shelter became so precarious we
were forced to make for farther up
the trench. I looked over the
parapet and saw dead bodies every
where, with far in the distance
what looked like a low dark cloud
moving nearer and nearer. It was
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Phone 106. First-Class Work
F. MILLER
Painting, Kalsomining, Paperhanging
and Graining a Specialty.
KETCHIKAN, : : ALASKA
EVERYBODY IS
DOING IT, DOING IT.
DOING WHAT?
Going for a square meal
at the STEDMAN CAFE.
Give us a trial!
CANNON’S BAKERY
AND GROCERY
Armour’s fancy select Ranch
Eggs, per dozen,.30
Tavern Steel-cut Coffee, 35c or
three for. 1.00
Marigold Steel-cut Coffee.25
Nuraya Tea, per pound.65
Fisher’s System Flour, 49 pound
sack .1.75
Fisher’s Blend Flour, 49 pound
sack . 2.00
Satisfaction Guaranteed or Money
Refunded.
FOR SALt
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Bell Island Hot Springs
Located 45 miles north of Ket
chikan, Alaska- Composed of 22
cabins, -tore with $1,000 stock, dock
and walk from dock to Springs, a
distance of one quarter mile.
Numerous number of springs. Five
of the largest cemented, walled and
fenced in apd thc water is seven
feet deep. Creek flows by springs
with good water power, being fed
from four large lakes.
Springs are in the hands of the
heirs of George Roe, and their de
sire is to sell if reasonable price
if offered in the near future.
Terms can be made on this sale.
Inquiries and information can be
had from W. L. ROE,
Ketchikan, Alaska.
1 EBB
The 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
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! Attorney at Law
General Practice Revilla Block
PATRONIZE HOME
INDUSTRY
Smoke a Ketchikan Cigar
' KETCHIKAN CIGAR FACTORY]
Go With The Bunch
Where jeverybody goes
To The
STEDMAN CAFS
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. 1NGERS0LL
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Prompt attention given to perfect
ing land titles and securing patents
KETCHIKAN, ALASKA.
James M. Shoup
Attorney at Law
Offices adjoining \J 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 ■
C. M. TAYLOR, Agent
Phone 64
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Alaska Delivery
WALTER GRAY, prop
COAL DELIVERED FROM AL1
DOCKS
PHONES 61—71
Ketchikan Wharf Co.
COAL
COAL
NANAIMO
Lump Coal
$9.00 PER TON.
Ketchikan Wharf Co.
€. M. Taylor
Phone 64 Agent
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ENGINES and BOATS
Alaska Boat and Engine Agency
Agent and distributers of the well known engines.
Palmer Engines 2 & 4 cycle medium & heavy duty engines
j Calaie Perfection 2 &4 cycle high speed engines
I 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 850 pounds, only Reversible engine Mfg.
Call on
Geo. Wilkes
For 1916 Quotations.
CORLISS ENGINES a Specialty
Ketchikan, j- - Alask
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« PETER NELSON, Prop. Ketchikan, Alaska *
A MESSAGE T
On Your Arrival in, or your Departure From
the City,', if You” Visit
The SIDEBOARD |
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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 Ireatment
Combined, is our Long Suit.
Zbe Cabinet
Is widely known; not only for the narlity
of its Liquors, Wines and Cigars,
but for its hospitality to
its numerous patrons.
Henry Goemaere anti fl. W. Mortjan
Ketchikan, Alaska.
m ADMIRAL \
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 Admiral Saloon, Ketchikan. |
\ NORTHERN MACHINE WORKS
I Standard Gas Engines ♦
I OXY ACETYLENE WELDING l
I We Weld I
Steel, Brass, Bronze, Cast-iron
I Malleable iron. Welds Guaranteed. *
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PACIFIC ALASKA NAVIGATION COMPANY
THE ADMIRAL LINE
Puget Sound-Calikornia Puget Sound Alaska Route
Route — Tacoma and Seattle for Ketchi
—Seattle-San Francisco, con* kail, Petersburg, Juneau, Katulla
Yakutui, Cordova, Valdez. Port
nect.ng w.tk the Yale and Havard Wclls. Elian air, La Touche, Cook
lor Southern California Ports. Inlet points, Seward and Kodiak.
Steamers Admiral Evans And Watson Call at Ketchikan North and
Southbound on tbe 8th, 18th and 28thof each mouth.
Right reserved to change schedule * 'tfcuut notice
H GALLAGHER, Agent, NORTHLAND DOCK CO.. Agent
Jnneau PHONE 60 Ketchikan