0. W. PALMER
KNiK, ALASKA
in. —
Some of Our Specialties:
WELLMAN CANNED GOODS RED CLOVER BUTTER
TIP TOP EGGS SPERRYS FLOURS
M ARSH FIELD CHEESE
And a full line of
HARD" ARE. STOVES. HAY AM) TEED
No Belter Goods Can Be Bought At Any Price
0. W. PALMER, Knik, Alaska
Lang's (Pat.) Hot Blast Smokeburning
STOVES AM) RAMIES
Are (il AR AM FED to burn but one-half as much
fuel as OLD MALE RAMIES.
^ Because they consume all gases and smoke in
tuel. All fuel is burned (torn top.
The “EACH 1C.” as shcvn in cut. Is our Stand
ard Family Range made in three sizes.
Sold at BROWN & HAWKINS*
We make Stoves from $1.00 to $300.00
Write us for Catalogues,
f. S. LANG MANUFACTURING CO.
2756 First Ave.. South. SEATTLE, WASHINGTON
via
"Milwaukee
FIRST IN SCENERY
FIRST IN EQUIPMENT
FIRST IN SERVICE
and the only road operating over its own lines all the way from
Seattle to Chicago
The “ODmpiaiT The “Columbian"
two crack all-steel trains every day.
For information and literature write
X. H. MCDONALD. Alaska Steamship Co.. Seward, Alaska
WAYNf Blit. The Admiral line. Seward, Alaska
Agents for the
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
A. f. HARRIS.
Travelinq Passenger Agent,
Juneau, Alaska
THE UNSURPASSED EQUIPMENT
OF THE - ---■-=*=
Great Northern
Railway
Affords the Maximum of Comfort from the Pacific Coast
To California and all points East and Southeast.
Three Overland Train* Dally. The “Oriental Limited” holds the
on time record between Chicago atid Seattle.
WIN TER EXCURSIONS TO UONOLULC BY THE OCEAN GO
ING PALACE STEAMSHIP “GREAT NORTHERN," EQUIPPED
LIKE THE BEST HOTEL.
A. S. DAUTRICK, Traveling Freight and Passenger Agent,
Room 18, Valentine Building, Juneau
T. J MOORE, CUv Passenger Agt., Second and Columbia, Seattle.
A. WFUTNALL, City Pa**euger Agt., 607 Hastings St., Vancouver, B.C.
Amuse—
Yourself
BILLIARDS POOL
BOWLING
FIRST-CLASS BAR
Open Day and Night!
I Pay from
$1 to $2.50
tor Bear Skulls
In good Condition
J. R. STEVENSON
Taxldiralst
Juneau b« 731 Alaska
(.HAS. It. MUELLER
Manufacturing furrier
Honesty and Reliability
Seud your Raw Furs to mo to bo made
Into Sou while Summer Prices prevail
Remodeling and Repairing
1621 SECOND AVENUE
SEATTLE, - WASH.
ANDERSON & MURPHY
THE
TERMINAL
Olympia, Rainier, BmOveiser
and Lemp* Beer.
Olympia Beer on Draught.
All Beer and Wines Strictly
Cold Storage.
Try Us Once, then You lie the Judge
OLD CROW
OLD NERMITAGE
OLD WINES
Blue Ribbon Beer
Olympia Beer
Rainier Beer
ONLY MINERAL CABINET
WHERE? AT
JACK’S
J. P. Stotko - Proprietor
The Carstens Packing Go.
Wholesale and Retail
Beef, Pjrk, Veal, Mutton, Poultry
Lard, Mams and Bacon.
Butter and Efcjjs
Orders from the Westward and
Cook Inlet Given Careful Attention
4 J
Fourth Ave Seward
f
Send Us Your Check
...ASSAYS...
Falkenburg 6* Laucks
Ore Testing and Milling
Gold and Silver. *1.00
Copper 100
Lead 1.00
Seattle, Wash. “Analyte Anything*
C. C. BERG
ladies’ Furrier ITaxidermisI
Semi your Raw Furs.
We do our own Tanning and
Manufacturing.
Twenty-seven Years in Seattle
1125 First Ave. Seattle, Wash.
The Commerce
Newman & Powers
Proprietor*
Wines, Liquors
and Cigars
BEST BRANDS Draught ana
Bottled Beers
Lane,
Whitehead
&
Hayden
Seward,
Alaska
mow—
/ *
We Design. Build.
Install and Oper
ate for a
Period of 30 Days
lllll
Dredges Designed
and Built to
Suit Conditions
under which they
are to operate
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Leading Builders
of Smaller
Sized Dredges
with buckets I\ to
5 cubic foot
capacity
Our Special Design
Fine Gold Saving
Devices
Installed on
Dredges of the
Flume type
Mill
We build Light
Drills capable of
digging 4-in.
holes 50 feet
Two men can
handle them
Hill
Write for prices
and particulars
AMERICAN GOLD DREDGES — TYPE OF AMERICAN GOLD DREDGE OPERATING AT NOME
AMERICAN DREDGE BLDG. AND CONSTRUCTION CO.
503-504 Pioneer Bldg. B Bernard, Manager SEATTLE, WASH.
$12,500,000 IN GOLD WENT TO THE BOTTOM
WHEN THE YASAKA MARU WAS TORPEDOED.
STEAMER YASAKA MARU,
SMOKtr.6 ROOM anoSALON
(That tin- steamship Ynsuka Maru. sun* I
by a German or Austrian submarine off ^
I’ort Said, carried 112.500.000 Japanese
gold with her to the bottom was an- |
nounced in Tokyo Although tlie new
11,000 ton vessel was almost hurled out
of the water 1/ the force of the torpido and sank In lorty-nlne minutes, tho commander maneuvered with Hu>:h skill
that every person on board was in tho sm ill boats before tne steamship turned turtle and disappeared from view. A
French gunboat, cruising near, picktd up uie passengers and crew at midnight and landed them at Fort Said On tho
passenger list were fifty-one men, lift i ui won,.. . » • . f whom were Hntush subjects. W. J.
Leigh, the only American citizen on board, was born In China. Ills father was a resident of California. ,\lr Leigh naa
passed most of his life In China, hut recently has lived In Kngland. He was returning to China on board the Yaiuki
Maru to take a position with a business house. The insurance on the vessel amounts to 5,600./W yen The
Nippon Yusen Kalsha. owners of tho Yasaka Maru, are discussing the feasibility of abandoning tho Suez eanal louie for
future voyages of their vessels In favor of a route around the Cape of Good Hope. News of the sinking of tho Vasa lea
Maru caused great excitement 'n Japan.]
LUMBER!
Alaska Lumber Made by Alaska Labor
DIMENSION LUMBER
in Any Quantity Now
DRESSED LUMBER
in Any Quantity Soon
-THE
SEWARD SAWMILL CO.
A. F. RLSMUSSEN, Prop. Phone Kcnai 2
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Department of the Interior.
U. S. Land Office at Juneau, Alaska,
December 31, 1915.
NOTICE is hereby given that John
Nash, of Seward, Alaska, who, on
November 27, 1915,made Homestead
Application, No. 02756, for Lot 1,
Section 1, Township 1 S., Range 1. YV.,
Seward Meridian, and the SW& Sec.
36, SMiNWtt Sec. 36, NEttNWtt
Sec. 36, T. 1 N., R. 1 YV., containing
317.80 acres, has filed notice of in
tention to make five year Proof, to
establish claim to the land above des
cribed, before M. J. Conroy, Com
missioner, at his office at Seward,
Alaska, on the 6th day of March,
1916.
Claimant names as witnesses:
YV. A. McNeiley,
H. H. Hildreth,
Louis Simpson,
Charles Christensen, all of Sew
ard, Alaska.
C. B. YVALKER,
Register.
See the reaay made skirts and
waists at Butt's.
NOTICE TO TRESPASSERS
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
Notice is hereby Klven that the lands em
braced in U. S. Survey No. 241 and U. S.
Survey No. 242, patented by the United States
to William 11. Poland and transferred by deed
to Frederick William Low, and the Ian.la em
braced in U. S. Survey No. 249, patented by
the United StitLcB and conveyed to F. G. Jem
inott, situate on the North snore of Resurrec
lion Huy and bounded as follow*, to-wit: on
the South by Resurrection Bay. on the Weil
by Rudolph homestead, on the North by Fred
Johnson homestead claim and Reaurreclion
river, and on the East by U. S. Survey No.
722, commonly known us the Rcvell homeatead,
are private lands, and ALL PERSONS are
warned not to trespass thereon, or cut or re
move wood or timber therefrom.
Dated, Seward, Alaska, the 4th day of
December, 1916.
F. G. J EMMETT and
FREDERICK WILLIAM LOW
By S. O. MORFORD, AKont.
First publication Dec. 8, 1916.
Last publication Feb. 9, 1916.
Jumpers Active
in .New Diggings
FAlllBANKS A recent arrival from
the Tolovana s at»*s that tin January l
there whs more ground jumping iu the
new camp. Some of the ground was
j restaked because >uflici«-n* work bad
• not been done on it: but there were
many who jumped claims that they
will have small likelihood of fielding if
the cases ever come into court.
There was one claim on Bear creek
that was jumped at midnight on the
1st. Before three o’clock in the morn
[ iug it had been staked again, by a man
who claimed that the lir^t jumper had
j put Ips stakes in before the hour of
i midnight, and that such a ioeaiiou w a*
j therefore invalid. —Times.
Yukou \\ under Berries.
The Dawson News says Mike U'Kee,
au enthusiastic Da w sun guiUcner,
raised ueur fst. Mark's hospital this
seasou the hrst wonderoemes grown
in the Yukon. They are the mar
velous berry brought out by Bur
bank, the wizard gardener of Cuiilor
ma. These berries have ripened and
are a hard, r^und *aiK skinned berry
similar lo the Yukon blueberry but
mure perfectly round in loun, and a
trifle haiuer of sain, lnousunos of
berries cover the low busnes, proving
the adaptability ot the berry to ibis
country.—hx.
Percolators, Electric and Common,
Casseroles, El Grillo-Toasters. Make
sensible presents. Buy of SEWARD
COMMERCIAL CO.
Special price on all wall paper,
twenty percent oil for this week only.
Brown & Hawkins, “Quality First.”
FOR SALE: English Setter bird
dog pup at $25 each. The best of
oreeding. Eligible for registration.
Write M. D. Snodgrass, Kodiak.
Table of Distances—Seward to Iditarod
Seward to Girdwood (A. C. R. R.) . T5 Miles
Girvvood to Bird Creek (Government Trail) . 12 Miles
Bird Creek to Indian Creek. 1 Miles
Indian Creek to Sibly Camp (Near Timberlin) . 5 Miles
Sibly Camp to Forks Sheep Creek. 6 Miles
Forks Sheep Creek to Eagle Rivor . IT Miles
Eagle River to Old Knik . 16 Miles
Old Knik to Knik (Trading Post) . 20 Miles
Knik to Susitna (Trading Post) . 35 Miles
Susitna to Mouth of Skwetna. 40 Miles
Skwentna to Hays River. 30 Miles
Hays River to Happy River . IT Miles
Happy River to Pass Creek . 29 Miles
Pass Creek to Summit (Rainy Pass) . 9 Miles
Summit to Rohn Rivor. 12 Miles
Rohn River (Mouth Dalzell) to the Kuskokwim (Mouth of Rohn) 4 Miles
Rohn to M’Grath, on Kuskokwim .100 Miles
M’Grath to Gane Creek, Innoko.25 Miles
Gane to Headwaters Iditarod .125 Miles
PACIFIC ALASKA NAVIGATION CO.
“The Admiral Line”
STEAMERS SAIL FROM SEATTLE 9 P. M.
5th, 15th, 25th of Each Month
for SOUTHEASTERN AND SOUTHWESTERN ALASKA PORTS
Sailing of 15th calls Illiamna and Kodiak.
All Vessels call at Knik anchorage During Open Season.
-CALIFORNIA
Seattle to San Francisco, evary Wednesday and Sunday, connecting
with Steamers Yale and Harvard for Southern California Points.
Right reserved to change steamers and sailing dates without notice
RICHARD J. RINCWOOD, Manager. WAYNE BLUE. Local Agent.