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Anchorage : : Alaska
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ARTHUR FRAME
Lawyer ;
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WALLER & DUGGAN
Attorneys-at-Law.
Alaska Building Anchorage i i
CHAS. G. GANTY
Lawyer
Hewitt Building
Anchorage Alaska
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C. H. Sundmacher
LAWYER
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CITY DRUG STORE
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Stenography, Typewriting, Dic
tation.
Peterson Building Phone 61-R
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General Merchandise
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Wood for Sale!
Dry wood, seasoned wood, any
length, any kind. Anchorage Supply
Co. Phone 46-K or 25-R. 133
Second-hand harnesses bought and
sold by Bartholf, between 5th and 6tb.
near C St. 20
COOPERATIVE
DEPARTMENT
STORE PUNS
The late issue of the Seattle Ma
rine News Says:
Plans are in the making for an im
mense co-operative department store
and supply house in Alaska. The
headquarters will be at Juneau, with
branches at Ketchikan, Wrangell and
Anchorage. It is the plan of the
promoters to have each establishment
a modern supply house for miners,
fishermen and boatmen, while the re
tail department will carry everything
needed by the general public. There
is a particularly strong, bright op
portunity for such an establishment,
Juneau having increased in population
and being in need of just such a mod
ern store. Those operating various
stores in Alaska have made tremen
dous profits during the last three
years of activity and they are the
ones who have paid for the publicity
given to high freight rates. This pub
licity has been extremely profitable as
it has enabled the merchants to
make the high rates an excuse for
the exorbitant addition to the ruling
price on all commodities of retail, and
it has also served to deter other mer
chants from entering so “barren and
uncompromising a mercantile field.”
Probably no city in the United
States today offers so many mercan
tile advantages as either Juneau or
Ketchikan, while Fairbanks, located in
the interior and soon to be the termi
nus of the government railroad, offers
a rare opportunity for a new dry
goods store, general merchandise
store, machine and blacksmith’s shop,
combined hardware and ship chand
lery.
A prominent Alaska broker, with
headquarters in Juneau, upon being
asked his views as to the advisability
of such a co-operative store being es
tablished in Juneau, said: “Well, I
doubt very much whether it will prove
a paying venture. The history of
such establishments in Alaska, with
possibly one or two exceptions, has
been one of failures. The exception
being the co-operative store at Cordo
va. The general cause of such insti
tutions not proving successful is in
the management—too many heads, so
to speak.”
“On the face of the proposition such
establishments would seem to be suc
cessful in this territory, as, apparent
the various persons interested would
have sufficient sums invested and
would influence a certain amount of
patronage, but invariably dissensions
arrise in the management, resulting
in inefficient management with the
ultimate result that a stagnation of
business ensues. However, the new
concern may have evolved new ideas
and plans in conducting the proposed
co-operative and supply stores which
will enable it to prosper. Time only
will tell.”
“You know,” said the broker, “there
are a few co-operative native stores,
but as a matter of fact management
resolves itself into practically one
head, viz., the bureau of education in
Alaska; they being co-operative in
name only with reference to their
management.”
SEVERE WEATHER.
(Iditarod Pioneer.)
Probably no more severe weather
was ever experienced by the white
residents of this portion of Alaska
than that of the past ten days. Since
December 1, when the thermometer
registered 40 degrees below zero, it
has never been higher than that mark,
and a minimum of 56 degrees below
zero was reached on the night of the
3d and 4th. Such weather is unusual
in this vicinity, and while there have
been even lower temperatures than
these, never has a coldspell been pro
tracted to such a length of time be
fore. The extreme cold put a stop
to travel for a while, and many team
sters from the creek were caught here
and compelled to wait for more mod
erate weather, as it s considered un
safe to send horses out when the tem
perature is so low. There appeared
little indication of a change last night.
The following table of tempera
tures is from readings taken daily at
7 a. m. at the fire station, compared
with similar readings of the same
date last year. The minimum is for
the preceding twenty-four hours:
Date— 7 a. m. Min. 1915
Dec. 2 ...—46 —48 —35
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4 .-52 -56 -35
5 . -50 -64 -34
6 . -52 -54 -30
7 . -40 -42 -36
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Phone 43-Y for car, day or night
Wood and coal a specialty. Universa'
Taxi and Transfer. 126
Wood—Phone 40-R.
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ELECTION OF
PRESIDENT Of
DIRECT VOTE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 5.—It
is not the popular vote, of course,
which elects a president. The presi
dent and vice-president are actually
lelected by the votes of “election” in
each state, chosen according to the
laws of that state, on the first Tues
day after the first Monday of the first
November preceding the expiration of
the terms of the president and vice
president.
The constitution of the United
States prescribes that each state shall
“appoint,” as may be directed by the
legislatures thereof, its electors and,
not until after the civil war were
electors in every state chosen by di
rect vote of the people. The number
of electors must equal the number of
representatives and senators to which
the state is entitled in the federal
congress; no senator or representative
however, nor any person holding an
office of trust or profit under the Uni
td States, shall be an elector. The
constitution requires that the electors
shall be chosen on the same day in all
the states.
The electoral votes, to which the
different states of the Union are en
titled, are divided as follows:
Alabama . 12
Arizona . 3
Arkansas . 9
California . 13
Colorado . 13
Connecticut . 7
Delaware . 3
Florida . 6
Georgia . 14
Idaho .. 4
Illinois . 29
Indiana . 15
Iowa . 13
Kansas . 10
Kentucky . 13
Louisiana . 10
Maine . 6
Maryland . 8
Massachusetts . 18
Michigan . 15
Minnesota . 12
Mississippi . 10
Missouri . 18
Montana . 4
Nebraska . 8
Nevada . 3
New Hampshire . 4
New Jersey . 14
New Mexico . 3
New York. 45
North Carolina . 12
North Dakota . 5
Ohio . 24
Oklahoma . 10
Oregon . 5
Pennsylvania ....'. 38
Rhode Island . 5
South Carolina . 9
South Dakota . 5
Tennessee . 12
Texas . 20
Utah . 4
Vermont . 4
Virginia . 12
Washington . 7
West Virginia . 8
Wisconsin . 13
Wyoming . 3
Total ...531
The electors meet in each state and
ballot for president and vice-president
according to the conditions laid down
in Article XII of the constitution,
which are as follows:
“The electors shall meet in their
respective states, and vote by ballot
for president and vice-president, one
of whom at least, shall not be an in
habitant of the same state with them
selves. They shall name in their bal
lots the person voted for as president,
and in distinct ballots, the person vot
ed for as vice-president; and they
shall make distinct lists of all persons
voted for as vice-president, and of the
number of votes for each, which lists
they shall sign and certify, and trans
mit, sealed to the seat of the govern
ment of the United States, directed to
the president of the senate.”
The same article prescribes the
manner in which the ballots shall be
counted and the result announced by
congress as follows:
“The president of the senate shall,
in the presence of the senate and
house of representatives, open all the
crtificates, and the votes shall then be
counted; the person having the great
est number of votes for president
shall be president; if such a number
be a majority of the whole number of
electors appointed; and if no person
has such majority, then from the per
sons having the highest numbers, not
■xceeding three, on the list of those
.-oted for ts president, the house of
representatives shall choose immedi
itely by ballot, the president. But in
•hoosing the president, the votes shall
ie taken by states, the representation
irom each state having one vote; a
juorum for this purpose shall consist
of a member or members from two
thirds of the states, and a majority of
all the states shall be necessary for a
choice. And if the house of represen
tatives shall not choose a president,
whenever the right of choice shall de
volve upon them, before the fourth
day of March next following, then the
vice-president shall act as president,
as in the case of the death, or other
constitutional disablement of the
president. The person having the
greatest number of votes as vice-pres
ident, if such number be a majority
of the whole number of electors ap
pointed; and if no person have a ma
jority, then from the two highest
number on the list the senate shall
choose the vice-president; a quorum
for the purpose shall consist of two
thirds of the whole number of sena
tors, and a majority of the whole
number shall be necessary to a
choice.”
When the tellers in the hall of the
house of representatives announce the
result of their count, duly certified to,
their announcement will close with
these words:
“This announcement of the state of
the vote by the president of the sen
ate shall be deemed a sufficient decla
ration of the persons elected president
and vice-president of the United
States each for the term beginning
March 4, 1917, and shall be entered to
gether with a list of the votes, on the
journals of the senate, and the house
of representatives.”
FATE OF OPPRESSED
NATIONS TO BE CONSIDERED
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.—The fate
of oppressed and dependent nationali
ties of the world, at the close of the
war was to be taken up here today
at the opening session of the Ameri
can delegation to the International
Committee of Women for Permanent
peace.
Because the United States “is the
logical nation to open the discussion
of the rights of oppressed and depend
ent nationalities,” an attempt will be
inaugurated to enlist American pub
lic opinion in the government, it is
announced. The delegation believes
the many-sided citizenship of this
country should impel it to act as
spokesman in the final re-distribution
after the war.
Delegates to the Woman’s National
Peace Party in session here, have
been asked to attend the meetings.
Bread, pies, pastry and all bakery
goods of superior quality at the North
Pole bakery. 242
George Harvey
will recover $2,250 out of $3,250 which he took to the city
wrapped in a salt sack and pinned to a trouser’s leg. He
lost it walking along the streets, and his unique “safe
depository” indirectly leaves him short exactly $1,000.
How much money is lost each year because people
will not deposit in hanks can never be ascertained. If
you have saved up some money, don’t take chances with
it. Bring it to our Bank.
WE HANDLE GOLD DUST AND BULLION.
BANK OF ALASKA
Skagway
ANCHORAGE
ALASKA
NEXT DOOR TO HARMONY THEATRE
Wrangell
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FIRST AND C ST.
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Windows Roofing Paper
Building Paper Lath
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|> Now Reopened on the New Premises.
§ Bet. G and H on 5th Ave., Next to Harry Cribb.
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THE BON MARCHE
Opp. Postoffice
OUR CLEARANCE
SALE
I Is a Great Success. Every
body Helped Themselves
at Our Bargain
Counter
I REMEMBER—ALL THIS WEEK IS BARGAIN WEEK AT OUR STORE.
1 YOU’D BETTER HURRY BEFORE ALL THE BARGAINS ARE GONE.
I EXTRA SPECIAL SALE—MEN’S ALL WOOLEN PANTS, REGULARLY $5
I VALUES—SALE PRICE $2.00.
BOYS’ AND GIRLS’ SWEATER COATS—$2.00 VALUES. SALE PRICE 75c.
The BON MARCHE
1 Opp. Postoffice