WOOD
Bird Creek Lumber Co.
Phone 52-Y
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP
COMPANY
Fast and commodious steamers sailing between Seattle, Ketchikan,
Wrangell, Juneau, Skagway, Cordova, Valdez and Seward.
Leave Seattle Arrive Seward
MARCH 9 .ALAMEDA. MARCH 16
MARCH 16.NORTHWESTERN.MARCH 23
MARCH 23.ALAMEDA. MARCH 29
MARCH 30.ALASKA.APRIL 6
, This company reserves the right to change schedule of steamers with
out notice. Tickets on sale at up-town office, Empress Building.
J. J. LANKIN, Agent. F. B. TRACY, General Agent.
PACIFIC STEAMSHIP CO.
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LASKAN SAILING DATES
t .eave Seattle Leave Seward
Mar. 9.. FARRAGUT.. Mar. 16
!Mar. 19 ..WATSON.. Mar. 26
JLv. Seattle Ar. Anchorage
Mar. 26 ...EVANS... April 3
Apr. 1 ..FARRAGUT.. Apr. 9
Sailings from Seattle to
CALIFORNIA
Mondays, Fridays & Saturdays
Steamers
President, Governor, Queen,
Senator, Umatilla, Admiral
Schley and Admiral Dewey.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ROUTE.
San Francisco to Los Angeles, daily except Sunday.
San Francisco to San Diego, Monday, Thursday and Saturday.
STEAMERS HARVARD, VALE, PRESIDENT, GOVERNOR,
ADMIRAL SCHLEY AND ADMIRAL DEWEY.
Schedule Subject to Change Without Notice.
For Full Particulars, T. B. WATSON, Agent, Anchorage, Alaska.
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Alaska Men
Going Outside This Winter Outfit at
CHEASTY’S
The Specialty Men's Shop
in Seattle.
0. C. GRAVES, Pres.
2a Av. and Spring
CHEASTY'S Inc.
Men’s and Young Men’s Wear
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PLANT EARLY. WE HAVE THE SEEDS.
BOOTH’S SARDINES AND TUNA FISH,
i SWIFT’S PREMIUM HAMS AND BACON, THE BEST
TEAS—Folger’s, Reliance, Crescent and Blue Ribbon.
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Sandwiches, coffee and pastry lunch
es served at the North Pole Bakery.
Best music and entertainers at Pe
terson’s.
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The Methodist church at Juneau has
a ‘‘Prospectors’ ” Sunday school class.
Parties returning from the interior
to Valdez report the winter an excep
tionally cold one, and a startling ab
sence of game at many camps.
Fred Olson, of Latouche, and Mrs.
Susia Carter, of Douglas, were mar
ried in the latter city recently by the
Rev. Martin L. Larson, of the Luther
an church.
William Howard, a policeman at the
native village at Douglas, was recent
ly bound over to the grand jury for so
liciting a white man to buy him a bot
tle of whiskey.
To prove his contention that there
are grasshoppers in Alaska, James
Russell, of Juneau, recently brought to
the Dispatch office in that city a fine
specimen of the locusta viridissima
caught in the Taku valley.
Ole Berg, the well-known mining
man of Strelna, returned a few days
ago from a trip to Boston, where he
succeeded in financing his property,and
will immediately commence develop
ment work on a large scale.
Judge Robert W. Jennings, of the
district court at Juneau, sentenced Ed
ward Krause to terms of imprison
ment in the federal prison at McNeil’s
island aggregating 45 years on the
charge of forgery and fraudulent use
of the mails, of which he was convict
ed several months ago.
The Moose basketball team of Val
dez has challenged the Seward team
for a series of games to be played ei
ther at Seward or at Valdez for the
championship of Prince William
sound. The Moose team is an excep
tionally fast one and believe they can
take the scalps of any team along the
Alaskan coast.
In reply to a communication from
the Cordova chamber of commerce
urging the construction of the govern
ment of a branch line from the Copper
river road to the Bering river coal
fields, Secretary of the Interior Lane
acknowledges the receipt of the com
munication and says the matter will
be given careful consideration.
Chairman Edes, of the Alaskan En
gineering Commission, has announced
that the commission has decided to
lease to the San Juan Fish company
of Seattle, for a period of 20 years,
a 300-foot section of the waterfront at
Seward on which the company is to
expend $150,000 for a cold storage
plant and other facilities for handling
fish.
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a term of ten years at McNeil’s island
for statutory rape, committed at Fair
banks, and whose case was recently
remanded back to the court at Fair
banks for retrial, by the appellate
court, has been admitted to bail in the
amount of $2,000, and as soon as the
bond is approved will return to Fair
banks to stand trial again, with a
good chance of acquittal. **
The Cordova chamber of commerce
has sent a request to Governor Strong
for permission to transfer 20 head of
deer from southeastern Alaska to Cor
dova for the purpose of placing them
: on Hinchinbrook and Montague isl
ands, which the desire to stock with
big game. It is also the intention to
ask the department at Washington to
make strict ivies and regulations to
protect the deer for five years.
Maggie Mitchell, a native woman
about 20 years of age, was shot and
instantly killed recently at Douglas by
Marina Albertina, an Austrian. He
had made several threats to kill the
girl, but friends had thought they had
succeeded in dissuading him from the
rash act. He enticed the girl to his
home by telling her he had some beer
for her, and then shot her with a 38
calibre revolver, one bullet entering
the top of her head and the other en
tering the right side of the abdomen.
Dick Dawson, a well known Alas
kan, who was suffering from cancer
of the throat in Seattle, died a few
days ago, and the remains were ship
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The Store For All the People.
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PPlri.S°£VEt.JHi?,J!0G QVMTION-UNEXCELLED FOR BAKING
PRICE 25c PER CAN._EQUAL TO 3 DOZ. EGGS.
PRICES REASONABLE— PROMPT DELIVERY
PHONES: STORE 7 R
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OFFICE 20-R
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ped to Peterboro, Ontario, for inter
ment.
Frank Miller, a resident of Cordova,
was found dead a few days ago in the
:abin of a friend. Alcoholism was giv
sn as the cause of death.
It is predicted that the output for
the coming season in the Tolovana will
be considerably larger than that of
last year.
The store of J. L. White at Olnes,
which was recently damaged by fire,
las been repaired and is now open for
business.
In three days recently the tempera
ture at Chitina raised from 60 below
sero to 40 above, a change of 100 de
crees.
Down in Ketchikan was the only
place in Alaska where the groundhog
Failed to see his shadow on Groundhog
Jay, and the people of that burg are
preparing for an early spring.
Mary Junemann, of Kansas City,
wants to marry a young, good-looking,
well-to-do Alaskan with a good dispo
sition. Gosh that girl is some partic
ilar.
Articles of incorporation are being
irawn up in Juneau for a shipbuilding
company, organized by residents of
that city, and ground has already been
eased on the waterfront for the plant.
Civil service examinations on the
subjects of stenography and typewrit
ng will be held at Fairbanks next
lune before the local board of exami
ners which has recently been organ
zed.
Phone 43-Y for car, day or night.
iVood and coal a specialty. Universal
faxi and Transfer. 126
NOTICE !
Direct from factory to Anchorage
>ver the trail—Wheat Straw cigarette
>apers. Robarts. 599
MONEY TO LOAN
Short term loans on Real
Estate. Bills discounted.
EL NICHOLLS, 615 7th Ave.
FRATERNAL ORDERS.
MASONS
Anchorage Masonic Club
meets first and third Thursday
in month. G.C.HAMMOND, Sec.
L. O. O. M. 1534
Regular meeting every Wed
nesday night at 8 o’clock,
at A. L. U. Hall.
JAS. L. CORT, Sec.
BILL’S CLUB.
J. T. WESTERMANN, Secy.
Meets at Club Rooms every
Tuesday evening at 8 o’clock.
EAGLES CLUB
Meets every Friday night
at the Anchor club. Lathrop
Block. C. G. GANTY, Secy.
irOTZCE
To al! Carpenters: United Broth
erhood of Carpenters and Jolliers of
America, Local No. 1475 meets at the
Anchor Club rooms. 4th and H St. ev
ery Tuesday evening at 7:30 p. ni.
J. S. BALDWIN, Sec.
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Alaska Pool Room
_Fourth Ave., Near D.
Cigars, Tobaccos, Candies, Soft Drinks, Fruits, Concord
Grape Juice.
MUSIC
JOSEPH SCHMITBAUER.
Proprietor. !
BANKING BY MAIL
It makes no difference where you are located, you
can send us your gold dust or checks and we will place
them to your credit, acknowledging receipt and furnish
ing you with a check book so you can draw money when
needed; or, if you prefer, we will place the money on de
posit in our Savings Department where it will earn 4 per
cent interest.
We will be pleased to attend to any business you
wish transacted anywhere.
German-American Mercantile Bank
SEATTLE
WASHINGTON.
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Hotel Anchorage
NEWEST AND MOST MODERN IN THE CITY
SUNNY ROOMS
HOT AND COLD WATER.
ELECTRIC LIGHTS
REASONABLE RATES
Dohrmann - - Herning & Co.
BUILDERS’ HARDWARE
TOOLS AND SPORTING GOODS.
HOUSEHOLD FURNISHINGS.
PHONE 76R.
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New Matanuska Hotel
MATANUSKA JUNCTION.
M.J. ROCHE, Prop.
CAFE IN CONNECTION
A. LYALL, Prop.
LEARN TO DANCE.
Latest Dances Taught. Begin
ners given special attention. For ap
pointment call at third house from
C on 6tli Ave.
WM. BUNTING.
Cotton felt mattresses, bed springs
and linoleum, at Crocker’s. 459
C. HENNING
TAILOR.
Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s
Suits Cleaned, Pressed and
Repaired. 4th Ave. and D St.
Pies, fancy cakes, staple bakery
goods at North Pole Bakery. 567
OUR COMPLETE FACILITIES, together with a thorough knowledge
of the INDIVIDUAL REQUIREMENTS of our customers, make
our service distinctively profitable and satisfactory to those
who deal with us.
DIRECTORS:
Leopold David Chas. E. Brown
Sidney Anderson Geo. W. Palmer
Harry V. Hoben J. E. O’Rielly
BANK OF
RESOURCES OVER $500,000.00
ANCHORAGE
ESTABLISHED MAY 20th, 1916