PROFESSIONAL CARDS
JOHN M. REID
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT
LAW NOTARY PUBLIC
Peterson Building Anchorage
L. David
Attorney -at-La w
Notary Public
Office, corner 5th and E
Anchorage, - . - Alaska
ARTHUR FRAME,
Lawyer
Office: Robart Block
MURPHY * AliMY
Attorneys at Law
Next Door Times OfUce
ANCHORAGE
Practice all courts. Surety bonds
WALLER & DUGGAN,
Attorneys at I .aw.
Alaska Bldg. Anchorage
C. H. Sundmacher
LAWYER
Bolte Bldg. - - Anchorage
CHAS. G. GANTY
Lawyer
Hewitt Building
Anchorage - - - - Alaska
L. V. RAY .
Attomey-at-Law
Seward
M. J. CONROY,
Attorney at Law.
NOTARY PUBLIC
Anchorage : : : Alaska
R. C. MATHIS
Dentist
Alaska Building
j Anchorage, Alaska
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DR. E. F. GERMAN
DENTISTRY.
Hewitt Bldg. Fourth Ave. Phone 7-Y ;
Dr. K. A. Kyvig
Physician and Surgeon
CITY DRUG STORE
Anchorage, - - A.aska
DR. M. S. COBLE—
Physician and Surgeon
Alaska Building,
Corner of 4tli and Ci.
II. E. ELLSWORTH
Established 1905.
Assayer and Chemist
Ores Treated, Ton and Car
Lots.
SEWARD - - - ALASKA
Phil, The Barber
O. K. Bath House and Barber
Shop.
Fourth, Between D and E.
Phil J. Eckert, Proprietor.
C. HENNING,
TAILOR
Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s Suits
Cleaned, Pressed and Repaired. 4th
Ave. and D St.
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BOB SMALL
Horseshoeing a Specialty
Oxy-Acetylene Welding
Cor. C and Second Anchorage
(Nome Nugget.)
W. C. Leak, the well known old
timer of Alaska and the Yukon valley,
is quoted in a recent interview as say
ing that there is little likelihood of
any big strikes being made in the
north again. He said: “Too many
good prospectors have gone over the
country for anything of great value
to have been overlooked. Any where
you want to travel in the back coun
try you will find ancient prospect
holes and rough log cabins."
In this interview Billy Leak typi
fies the attitude of many who seem
inclined to extol the old days and de
cry the possibilities of a brighter fu
ture. Billy himself is referred to in
the interview as a prospector of 30
years experience. Well, well. That’s
about as near the mark as nine-tenths
of the reviewers of past days ever hit.
He was engaged in business ventures
to put it euphemistically, and had
very little to do with mining until the
first Dawson winter when, because of
his successful business ventures, he
had enough money to buy one. of the
richest claims on Eldorado.
Now Mr. Leak is one of the finest
and squarest fellows one can meet on
the frontier or elsewhere, but we
question his judgment regarding fu
ture new diggings in Alaska. His
own memories of Alaska camps should
show him' the baselessness of his
prophecy. When he went down to
Fortymile and Circle on his ventures he
passed a dozen creeks that had been
“prospected” by good men. Especi
ally interesting is the fact that hun
dreds of men went by the Klondike.
Some few prospected up that stream.
But in spite of the richness of the
first tributaries and even of the lower
part of the river itself, they failed to
find any coarse colors. Later, Car
mack found his rich prospect on a
bench about nine feet high and the
Dawson stampede began.
So it was with Fortymile. In the
early nineties, practically all the min
ers in the interior were centering on
Fortymile river. There were many
“good” men among them, too. They
went all over the basin of the river
and found some rich bar diggings and
some poor creek diggings, such as
Poker creek. New l-iches have beea
uncovered in that basin ever since
with the result that Fortymile river
has produced more gold each year for
the past twenty years than it ever did
in the palmy days of the first pioneers.
The history of Fairbanks has been
the same to a certain extent. There
are two kinds of prospectors, those
who go in to the virgin wilderness to
look for new diggings, and those who
prospect in the vicinity of diggings al
ready discovered. The first class have
a hard time of it and probably don’t
stand one chance in a hundred of find
ing anything in the placer line worth
staking. The second class of men who
sink holes near known gold deposits
have a much greater chance of finding
pay dirt. Men of this class working
on their own ground or on a lay for
others, have kept on up to this present
season opening up ney pay dirt in the
Fairbanks country. And the same
thing is bound to happen on the Tolo
vana, Baker creek and other Tanana
tributaries.
In the early history of Nome, thous
sanads left the camp in 1902 and 1903
declaring that the camp had been
worked out. A hopeful man did some
prospecting on what is now known as
the third beach line with results
known to all. Then after a few rich
years, more people went away and
some new ones came. The prospect
ing zone has continually widened and
more new cam^s have been from time
to time found. And more will be found
if we judge the future by the past.
Not only will pay be found in sections
not yet prospected but it will be found
in regions that are supposed to have
been thoroughly “prospected.”
Down in California, which was over
run with prospectors 60 years ago and
where mining has been in progress
ever since, new diggings, both placer
and quartz, are even now being found.
New diggings, mark you. Only the
other day we read of a foolish, of
course, and enthusiastic prospector
who started out with a jackass or two
to hunt a fortune in the hills. He
journeyed aloong a turnpike which has
been traveled by stage coaches for
half a century. Seeing a streak of
different colored dust in the road
ahead and not knowing much about
prospecting any way, he stopped to
examine the pinkish dust. It felt grit
ty and there was a dyke of rock visi
ble on the hill side of the same color.
So he took a pan full of the dirt down
to the creek and washed it. He
found a lot of fine colors. His investi
gations ended by his staking a quartz
ledge that he sold for $400,000 cash.
And this rich ledge ran across a road
that had been traveled by tens of
thousands of prospectors, miners and
mining experts in previous years.
No, we can’t agree with Mr. Ler.k
that nothing of value remains to be
discovered in Alaska. Rather ve
would agree, with the government ex
perts and thousands of hopeful, hust
ling Alaskans, that the country has as
yet only been scratched on the surface
anad that new diggings will be found
for many years to come.
NEW YORK, Nov. 1.—Dave Tibbott
who drop-kicked a victory over the
Tufts goal in the recent meeting be
tween Princeton and Tufts, turned in
the best kick of his somewhat bril
liant kicking career that afternoon.
Tibbott has been a member of the
Princeton team as a substitute back
field man since last season and has
been used with great regularity as a
drop-kicker when critical periods
showed up.
In the Tufts game he had made
several ineffectual attempts to put
over a field goal, but had failed from
distances which appeared compara
tively easy, with just two minutes left
before time would be called Tibbott
again was called on, and delivered
wtih a perfect drive, from the forty
six yard line sending the ball at least
three feet above the cross-bar. It
was the longest goal he ever made.
The kick was just two yards more
of a boot than one of his registered
a year ago in the contest with Dart
mouth.
Last year Tibbott showed up
mighty well as a kicker. Besides turn
ing in the goal in the Dartmouth game
Tibbott booted two goals in the game
with Syracuse which won the game,
one from the 43-yard line and one
from the 30-yard line. He also drop
ped one from the 33-yard line in the
struggle with Rutgers.
In the Princeton-Harvard game he
drop-kicked two goals, one from the
30-yard line, the second from the 25.
Tibbott is strictly a drop-kicker, not
a single .goal from placement . being
credited to him.
TIDE TABLE
Saturday, November 18.
Low Water . 6:32 a. m. 2.0 ft..
High Water.12:53 p. m. 28.0 ft.
I ow Water . 7:33 p. m. o.C ft.
Sunday, November 19.
High Water. 0:11 a. m. 27.4 ft.
Low Water . 7:28 a. m. 3.3 ft.
High Water. 1:42 p. m. 28.5 ft.
Low Water . 8:56 p. m. 4.2 ft.
Monday, November 20.
High Water_ 1:38 a. m. 27.3 ft.
Low Water . 8:23 a. m. 3..- ft.
High Water. 2:22 p. m.. 20.1 ft.
Low Wate" . ... 9:50 p. m. 3.2 ft.
AT THE EMPRESS.
Armstrong’s Masterpiece Sunday and
Monday—Drama and Comedy
Tonight.
Sunday and Monday, November 19
and 20, the Empress theatre will pre
sent Paul Armstrong’s masterpiece,
“Alias Jimmy Valentine,” featuring
Robert Warwick as “Alias Jimmy
Valentine.” ,
The story is convincing and logical,
and offers opportunities for strong,
natural acting and sincere emotional
ism. Robert Warwick in the charac
ter of Jimmy Valentine has one of the
strongest acting parts ever presented
oon the screen. Pathe News of. im
portant events, always a pleasing
offering, will be shown first.
As the Empress has an inexhaust
ible supply of “Fun-for-All” films, you
may come tonight prepared to enjoy
yourself to the limit. We have two
comedies and two dramas to offer, as
follows, “By Might of His Right,”
“The Spell of the Poppy,” “Tinkering
with Trouble” and “Spark from the
Embers.”
These features are excellent in man
ner of production, and decidedly pleas
ing in every respect.
Wood for Sale!
""Seasoned birch wood cut and split
in 16-inch length. Phone 46-R.
ANCHORAGE SUPPLY CO. Phone
46-R. 11
See the Thanksgiving special ad
vertisement of Felix Brown & Co.,
this paper. 33
Hot, cold and mixed drinks at Peter
son’s. 19
ROME, Italy, Oct. 14.—(By Mail)
—“This is the life.” This is the joy
ful song of Italy’s Austrian prisoners.
At any rate, today’s Italian newspa
pers are saying so emphatically. .
“Treat our captives less like our
guests,” the journals urge on the au
thorities. As a result, the govern
ment shortly will begin the systemat
ic working of its prisoners.
The more than 100,000 Austrians,
who are imprisoned in Italy’s camps,
live on the fat of the land, it is charg
ed. Generally they are passing lives
of sunny idleness, living in what is
really luxury for wartime.
Recently the newspapers discover
ed that Austrian officers under Ital
lan escort were visiting gay resorts
almost weekly. Then and not until
then did the editors cry “halt.” They
had borne with the enemies who had
burned the Italian flag in their Gor
izie internment camp. Thev had
even kept silent when the colors op
posite the camp, were removed be
cause they were an “eyesore” to the j
Austrians.
But the limit has been reached at
last. So they declare that the Itali
ans must lose their proverbial soft
heartedness. Poverty-stricken moth
ers of Italy are sending $2 a month
and more to feed their starving pris
oner sons in Austria, it is alleged.
“An eye for an eye and a tooth for
a tooth,” the papers demand.
ANNOUNCEMENT.
The barbers of Anchorage have
formed a union, known as the .Anchor
age Barbers’ Union and commencing
with Monday, Nov. 20th, will open
and close at the following hours:
Week days from 8 a. m. to 8 p. m.,
except Saturday, which will be from
8 a. m. to 11 p. m., 'closing all day
Sundays. .
All barbers are requested to ob
serve the preceding hours, and there
by uphold the union.
We feel that shorter hours is only
justice to us, especially closing Sun
days, and hope the people of Anchor
age will help us to observe this move
ment. CLAUDE E. WOOD,
Organizer.
All kinds harness repair work dope
by Bartholf, between 5th and 6th, near
C St. 20
He Had No Bank Account
He had some money—but he had no Bank Ac- .
count. He could not see the need of one. He
had a splendid chance to enlarge his business
and make big money. He had not enougli cash
on hand. He was unable to borrow any from a
Bank, because as he kept no Bank Account the
Bank knew nothing about his financial respon
sibility.
Does This Mean You?
OUR TOTAL DEPOSITS ARE NOW OVER $413,000.00
We Are Growing Daily; Why Not Open An
Account and Grow With Us!
BANK OF ALASKA
skw ANCHORAGE .
ALASKA
NEXT DOOR TO HARMONY THEATRE
ALASKA TRANSFER
Express and Heavy Hauling Storage in Connection
COAL AND WOOD
OFFICE LATHROP BLDG.
ALFRED BENSON, Prop.
THE PLACE where restful hours can be spent with all
your friends.
CIGARS, FRUITS, CANDY AND SOFT DRINKS OF
ALL KINDS.
The ARCADE
City Drug Store
THE REXALL STORE Dr. K. A. Kyvig, Prop.
We carry a large assortment of imported French and
domestic Perfumes, Soaps and Toilet Articles. A full
stock of the great Rexall line. Rubber goods and Station
ery the best in the world. All at .surprisingly low prices.
IT PAYS TO TRADE HERE.
THE BON MARCHE
•_Opp. Postoffice __
FUR COATS!
Just opened up a big line of
Men’s Fur Coats, Sheepskin
and Teamsters’ Coats
OUR PRICES TALK
Men’s Canadian Wool Underwear, .
Suit...$3.00
Men’s Woolen Underwear, Suit.$2.00
Men’s Woolen Pants, all sizes.$2.50
Men’s 4-Buckle Arctics.$2.50
Men’s Cloth Top Rubber’s.$1.00
Men’s Heavy Woolen Sthg Shirts ..$3.00
Men’s Gray Flannel Shirts.$1.00
Men’s Lined Heavy Winter Caps ....$1.00
Men’s Mammoth Leather Mitts .75c
Men’s Light Woolen Mittens .25c
Men’s Felt Shoes, sizes to 8 only ... $2.00
President Suspenders ..35c
Heavy Pure Wool White Sox, 3 pair
for.$1 00
Heavy Woolen Blankets, pair .$5.00
Oregon City Heavy Flannel Over
shirts . $2.50
MASKS—MASKS—We have the larg
est assortment in town to
select from.
The BON MARCHE,
Opp. Postoffics