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ALASKA
STEAMSHIP
COMPANY
Fast and commodious steamers sailing between Seattle, Ketchikan,
Wrangell, Juneau, Skagway, Cordova, Valdez and Seward.
Sail Seattle ' Arrive Seward
FEB. 16 . ALAMEDA. FEB. 22
FEB. 24 .ALASKA.. MAR. 2
MAR. 1 .MARIPOSA. MAR. 0
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, F. B. TRACY
Agent. General Agent.
PACIFIC STEAMSHIP CO.
ADMIRAL LINE
Ms&m
ALASKAN SAILING DATES
Leave Seattle Leave Seward
Feb. IB .FARRAGUT. Feb 22
Feb. 26 .. WATSON .. Mar. 4
Mar. 2.EVANS.Mar. 9
Mar. 9..FARRAGUT..Mar. 16
Mar. 19 ..WATSON.. Mar. 26
Sailings from Seattle to
CALIFORNIA
Mondays, Fridays & Saturdays
Steamers
President, Governor, Queen,
Senator, Umatilla, Admiral
Schley and Admiral Dewey.
BMaagfaniaai!
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ROUTE.
San Francisco to Los Angeles, daily .except Sunday.
San Francisco to SaouPiego, Monday, Thursday and SatuI
STEAMERS HlSvARlS, YALE, PRESIDENT, GOVEltNOR,
ADMIRAL SCHLEY AND ADMIRAL DEWEY.
Schedule Subject to Change Without Notiee.
For Full Particulars, T. B. WATSON, Agent, Anchorage, Alaska.
Alaska Men
Going Outside This Winter Outfit at
CHEASTY’S
The Specialty Men's Shop
in Seattle,
run A Inn a c- GRAVES- PRBS
LrULnJ 1x0 II lb. 2a Av. and Spring
Men’s and Young Men’s Wear
:: Sundberg’s Grocery
PLANT EARLY. WE HAVE THE SEEDS.
EAT GOOD EGGS. WE HAVE THEM.
SWIFT'S PREMIUM HAMS AND BACON, THE BEST
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Folger’s, Reliance, Orescent and Blue Ribbon.
Staple and fancy pastry at the
North Pole Bakery. 429
Best music and entertainers at Pe
terson's. 399
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LICENSE TAX
Alaska territorial license tax laws
upon fishing and mining corporations
were recently put into effect by a su
preme court ruling. Appeals in test
suits from the lower court’s decrees
upholding the territorial legislature’s
tax acts were dismissed.
The decision of the supreme court
in upholding the territorial courts in
the tax cases generally pleases Alas
kans, because of the fact that it means
a guarantee of an additional income
to the territory of nearly $500,000 an
nually. This income from the can
nery tax of from 1 to 4 cents a case
on salmon, a saltery tax of 2% cents
per 100 pounds of fish, a fish trap tax
of $100 per year and a gill net tax
of $1 for each 100 feet, as well as a
mining tax of 1 per cent of the net
income in excess of $5,000.
Contested by Miners and Fishermen.
The suit was commenced by repre
sentatives of mining and fishing in
terests at Juneau, following the de
mand of the territorial officials for
taxes as imposed by the legislature of
1913 and 1916. The companies ad
mitted the facts and the amounts due
in the test cases and the territory
agreed to accept taxes and accrued in
terest at the rate of 8 per cent per
year and waive enforcements of the
penalties provided by law, in case
the decision resulted favorably to the
territory.
Penalties in the statutes for non
payment of taxes include 10 per cent
interest charge as a fine, with each
month a separate offense.
Claimed It Additional Tax.
Fish packers and mining men who
objected to the payment of the terri
torial tax did so on the ground that
it was an additional tax, as they were
already paying a federal tax. Their
^)oint was that the Organic act which
was passed by congress in 1912, and
which gave Alaska her territorial
form of government, specifically pro-,
vided that the territory should not
legislate on fish or fur laws. The act
of 1906, which exempted the salmon
canneries from the federal tax of 4
cents a case, by the release of Salmon
fry from private hatcheries, also was
brought into the case, because it speci
fied that the federal tax “shall be in
lieu of all other license fees and
taxes.”
Contention of the Territory.
The territory contends that the Or
ganic act, passed in 1912, should “not
operate to prevent the legislature from
imposing other and additional licenses
and taxes.” The territorial point of
view was that this section of the law
repealed the act of 1906 and made can
neries and mining companies liable
for a territorial tax which would be
“other and additional” to the federal
tax.
The first territorial tax imposed in
1913 on the fisheries provided for 7
cents a case on sockeye and king sal
mon, and V* cent a case on hump
back, cohoe and chnm salmon. The
tax law of 1915, which superceded
|hat of 1913, provided for 4 cents a
case on king, sockeye or red salmon,
2 cents on medium reds and 1 cent a
case on all others, besides the saltery,
fish trap and gill net taxes.
Will Yield Half Million.
Estimates of the income fyom the
tax to the territory place the revenue
from the mines at about $250,000 per
year, with $175,000 from the fisheries
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“Quality First”
The Store For All the People.
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LARGE ASSORTMENT
Garden Tools GARDEN SEEDS Get Them Now
SOLE AGENTS FOR PREFERRED STOCK CANNED GOODS
FiyilfitCIClKIfilGICIGICIGlElRICIEIGICICICiriCICIcmEiCtEIEUEICLEiJELeiEirmmi ____
and about $75,000 from all other busi
ness and manufacturing plants tax
able under the territorial law.
The appeal of the cases from the
district court of the First division of
Alaska to the circuit court of appeals
at San Francisco, was taken by John
Cobb, territorial counsel, last year.
The cases were continued and fought
out in the supreme court by George
B. Grigsby, attorney general-elect,
and present counsel*for the territory.
Arrest—You may rest assured that
the best meals are at Cameron’s
Cafe. 354
Tony's Cafe
OPPOSITE EMPRESS
THEATRE.
.. TABLES FOR LADIES—
—NEWLY REMODELED
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Kitak Show Case Co.
Furniture, CubmetH.
Bank and Office Fixtures
Made To Order
Kiln Dried & Seasoned Lumber
' Factory Opposite White House
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3 IN 1 LAUNDRY
AND BATHS
Now Reopened on the New
Premises.
Between G and H on 5th Ave.
Next to Harry Cribb.
P. H. RINGSTAD - Prop.
FRATERNAL ORDERS.
MASONS
Anchorage Masonic Club
meets first and third Thursday
in month. G.C.HAMMOND, Sec.
L. 0. 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.
WOOD SAWING
Also Wood, Any Lengths, for Sale.
Leave Orders at Robarts.
BOB PETERSON. 320 K Street
LAURITZ
“THE SIGN MAN ”
PAINTING AND PAPERHANGING.
DESIGNING DECORATING
5th and D Street.
IT’S A REAL PLEASURE
to view the new wall decorations on
view here exclusively. They are so
unconventional, so out of the common
and so unusually artistically attrac
tive. If you plan to repaper you
should by all means see these new
papers. To decide without doing so
is apt to result in regret later.
EVANS & FRANTZEN
Hotel Anchorage
NEWEST AND MOST MODERN IN THE CITY
SUNNY ROOMS
HOT AND COLD WATER.
REASONABLE RATES
ELECTRIC LIGHTS
Dohrmann-Herning & Co.
BUILDERS’ HARDWARE
TOOLS AND SPORTING GOODS.
HOUSEHOLD FURNISHINGS.
PHONE 76R.
New Iflatanuska H ofel
MATANUSKA JUNCTION.
M. J. ROCHE, Prop.
CAFE IN CONNECTION
A. LYALL, Prop.
LEARN TO DANCE;
Latest Daucefl Taught. Begin
ners given special attention. For ap
pointment call at third house from
C on fith Ave.
WM. BUNTING.
Peterson’s Billiard Parlor for latest
war bulletins. 400
0. HENNING
TAILOR.
Ladies' and Gentlemen's
Suits Cleaned, Pressed and
Repaired. 4th Are. and D St
Fancy cakes to order at the North
Pole Bakery. 429
BANK OF ANCHORAGE
Territorial Depository Foreign Exchange
SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES FOR RENT
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ESTABLISHED 1916 THE BANK OF SERVICE