CALIFORNIA ^
QUICKLY REACHED
SEATTLE-PORTLAND-SAN FRANCISCO
On the ALL RAIL
Scenic Shasta Route
THREE DAILY TRAINS
SHASTA LIMITED — CALIFORNIA EXPRESS
—SAN FRANCISCO EXPRESS—
Through Standard Sleeping Cars from Seattle and Port
land to San Francisco and Los Angeles. Dining
and Observation Cars.
ARE YOU GOING EAST?
The cost via California is practical}' the same as on the
Northern Routes.
Call or write for information
C. M. ANDREWS, I). F. & P. A.
712 Second Avenue. SEATTLE, WASH.
SOUTHERN
PACIFIC LINES
Make It a Smokeless, Dustless,
Gasless, Trip East This Year
In addition to the cleaner conditions due to
Electrification, you’ll enjoy the comfortable
accommodations and you’ll like the little
courtesies incident to “Milwaukee” service.
Both Steamship Co.’s act as Milwaukee agents in Anchorage.
A. E. HARRIS, Traveling Passenger Agent, Juneau.
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
America First"
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Going East
Through Rates from Anchorage to
Eastern Destinations Are in Effect
via the
ALASKA STEAMSHIP COMPANY
THE ADMIRAL LINE
To California and the South via Portland and the mag
nificent steamships “Great Northern” and “Northern
Pacific. ’ ’
A.. S. DAUTRICK .Traveling Freight and Passenger Agent, Room 18,
Valentine Building.
T. J. MOORE, City Passenger Agent, Second and Columbia, Seattle,
Wash.
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ALASKA
STEAMSHIP
COMPANY
Fast and commodious steamers sailing between Seattle, Ketchikan,
Wrangell, Juneau, Skagway, Cordova, Valdez and Seward.
Leave Leave
Seattle Seward
Dec. 1 Mariposa .Dec. 8
Dec. 8 Alameda .Dec. 15
Dec. 24, Alameda .Jan. 2
Jan. 2, Mariposa .Jan. 9
I Leave Leave
! Seattle Seward
Jan. 1, Mariposa .Jan. 8
'Jan. 8, Alameda .Jon. 15
Jan. 16, Mariposa .Jan 23
Jan. 24, Alameda.Jan. 31
inis 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.
ADMIRAL LINE
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Sailings from Seward to
Seattle and Alaskan Ports
Date Steamers
Dec. 27 .WATSON
Jan. 7 .EVANS
Jan. 17.WATSON
Sailings Seattle to Seward
10th, 20th, and 30th each Month
Sailings from Seattle to
CALIFORNIA
Mondays, Fridays & Saturdays
Steamers
President, Governor, Queen,
Senator, Umatilla, Admiral
Schley and Admiral Dewey.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ROUTE. j*
San Francisco to Los Angeles, daily except Sunday. jj
San Francisco to San Diego, Monday, Thursday and Saturday. u
STEAMERS HARVARD, YALE, PRESIDENT, GOVERNOR, if
ADMIRAL SCHLEY AND ADMIRAL DEWEY. 9
Schedule Subject to Change Without Notice. *
For Full Particulars, T. B. WATSON, Agent, Anchorage, Alaska.
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TRY A “WANT” AD. IN THE TIMES FOR RESULTS.
Fairbanks athletes have formed a
basketball team.
The last steamer for the 1916 sea
son left Dawson for Whitehorse on
the evening of October 7.
The city council of Petersburg is
making arrangements to secure from
the government a patent for the
townsite.
Exports from the territory of Alas
ka during the month of November
amounted to $9,320,276, according to
a report issued by the customs office.
The Moose lodge of Valdez have
hung an elegant pair of moose ant
lers outside their hall, the old pair
having been too badly weatherbeaten
to be attractive.
A petition has been signed by
practically every resident of Nome for
a trunk highway from Nome to Can
I die, and forwarded to the Alaska
| Road Commission.
| A rock slide on the White Pass &
J Yukon road took out a bridge just
| south of Clifton station recently
completely blocking the road for sev
| eral days until the bridge was re
| placed.
The halibut schooners Tyee and
Venue arrived at Ketchikan recently
and reported very stormy weather
on the banks. The Tyee lost two
large anchors and 250 feet of wire
cable.
Harry Hoben, of thp Alaska Trans
fer company at Seward, was stabbed
in the left hand and in the back by
William BulTum, a messenger, re
cently. Hoben’s wounds were not se
rious.
Tom Gaffney, a well known Nome
ite, w'ho has been traveling over the
territory this summer, arrived home
recently with the story that the mos
quitoes were so thick on the Yukon
that they would lift a man oil his
feet.
The Baranoff Packing company,
organized by Dr. A. W. Wilson and
others, has selected a cannery site at
Bed Bluff bay, and work on a can
nery at that place will start at once.
One line of machinery will be operated
next season but the buildings will be
constructed with a view to enlarg
ing the plant.
Max Endleman, a Juneau demo
crat, is reported to have stolen a
march on the other aspirants for the
marshalship of the First division and
has hurried east to solicit the nomin
ation. Among the other aspirants for
the office are Si Tanner and Jack Bay
liss. Marshal Bishop also exhibits a
| desire to hold on for another term..
| The first arrest for violation of the
I liquor law at Skagway since the town
i went dry occurred a few days ago
when Jack Anderson, proprietor of
| the Pantheon saloon, now being oper
ated as a soft drink emporium, was
taken into custody charged iwth
selling sherry wine to a detective. On
trial he was convicted and fined. He
will appeal.
A gasoline tank connected with a
| coffee urn at the Alaska Grill in Cor
dova, exploded a few days ago and
threatened the destruction of the
building by the ensuing fire. A fire
extinguisher in the hands of one of
the citizens held the flames in check
until the fire department arrived and
extinguished the blaze.
Pat Hegan, while working in the
warehouse of the Dominion Commer
cial company at Hot Springs had his
skull injured by a bale of hay strik
ing him on the head. As he failed
to recover from the wound doctors at
Fairbanks recently opened the skull
and removed a gathering and he is
now rapidly recovering.
Donald Sinclair, a Wrangell mer
chant, while visiting Seattle recently
declared his home town to be the old
est in the territory, and that it had
but one industry aside from fishing
and that was a sawmill. The saw
mill owned a horse, the only one in
the town, and this was pointed out
to tourists as a curiosity ranking sec
ond only to the totem poles.
MASQUERADE CARNIVAL.
Saturday, December 30. Men in
mask $1.00. Ladies in mask free.
Spectators 50 cents. 214
Cotton felt mattresses, bed springs
and linoleum, at Crocker’s. /
Phone 43-Y for car, day or night.
Wood and coal a specialty. Universal
Taxi and Transfer. 126
Anchorage General Hospital
Corner 6th & K Sts.
Private Rooms and Wards, Sani
tary and Thoroughly Equipped.
When you are sick it’s CARE
you want.
BAXTER’S
MAGAZINES
PERIODICALS
NEWSPAPERS
Panorama Photographs
Anchorage and
Mount McKinley
LADIES
Try Excelsior Cream for the
hands. On sale for 85' cts. at
the Gift Shop, F Street.
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GROCERIES AND GENERAL j
MERCHANDISE
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Reasonable Prices and a
Square deal to Everybody.
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E. ELVER A SWANSON
Stenography, Typewriting, Dic
tation.
Peterson Building Phone 61-R
Wood Undertaking Co..
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
LICENSED EMBALMERS
Anchorage Matanuska
PERSONAL SHOPPING BY MAIL
THE items in Women’s and Chil
* dven’s Wear, and Men’s Haber
dashery, that cannot be obtained from
your home merchant may be ordered
from us, and will be sent POSTAGE
PAID to any Alaska address reached
by U. S. Mail.
During the Holiday Season, as at all
times, we shall be glad to study voiy:
wishes in the selecting of Gifts, and m
properly packing and mailing them to
your friends. Let us send you the lat
est issue of our Mail Order News.
Address Mail Order Department “A”
FREDERICfeNELSON
SEATTLE
Union Laundry
and Bath House
Fourth Ave., Between H and I,
Anchorage
OUR WORK IS GUARANTEED
—and—
SANITARY
THE LARGEST AND CLEANEST
BATH TUBS IN ANCHORAGE
HOTEL SEWARD
511 THIRD AVE.
Arctic Club Bldg., SEATTLE, WASH.
ZBINDEN BROS., Props.
| Rooms $1.00 Special
With Bath $1.50 Weekly Rates
Central Barber Shop
Modern Equipment Throughout
New Sanitary Bathroom in
Connection.
417 4th Avenue.
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THE COOK INLET
TRANSFER CO.
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WOOD AND ICE
A SPECIALTY.
| MARIUS BENSON
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NEW CABINET SHOP
Peterson’s Billiard and
Solo Parlors
Fourth Ave. Between C and D
The Matanuska Cafe
In the New Matanuska Hotel.
THE PLAGE TO EAT AT THE JUNCTION
Alex (Blondy) Anderson
SPEED SERVICE
The Royal Cafe
The new eating house on Fourth Avenue
Caterers to first-class trade.
Boxes for private parties.
Lunch Counter.
ATHANS & PAPPADOPOLOS - . - - Props.
304 Rooms All Outside Rooms
Absolutely Fire-Proof
BEST IN THE CITY
New Richmond
Hotel
SEATTLE
BATES—Rooms with private bath,
$1.50 per day and upwards. Rooms
without Bath, $1.00 per day and up
wards. —A FREE AUTO BUS.
' R. C. McCORMICK, Prop.
M. K. MacRAE, Mgr.
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The Lang Stove, born in
Alaska.
Is the Stove for Alaskans.
Body made of Armco Rust
Resisting Iron.
Polished Cooking Surface.
Will hold fire overnight with
wood or coal.
r" Will burn green wood.
Ask your dealer for a Lang
Stove.
If he cannot supply you write us.
Our line is complete from the small
est camp stove to the largest hotel
range.
Any sourdough will tell you about the
Lang Stove. They all know it.
1 F. S. LANG MFG. CO.
SEATTLE. WN.
’FRISCO CAFE
Everything in Season and Service the Very Best.
Private Boxes for Large or Small Parties.
ONCE A PATRON ALWAYS A PATRON 9
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT.
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WHEN you come to Seattle, remember the
Hotel Savoy extends you a hearty welcome.
<■ All the Alaskans who have made their beadquar
1! ters with us in the past, and those who are con
'' templating coming to Seattle in the future will
i<> find the Savoy the right hotel in the right loca
■ • • tion and at the right price. It goes without say
” ing, if you come once, you will come again.
!! Our hotel is in the very heart of the city,
• • most convenient to the shopping district, thea
11 tres, churches and public buildings, absolutely
.. fire-proof. Rates: $1.00 per day and up, without
•• bath; $1.50 per day and up with bath.
|’ Don’t forget the place—the Savoy Hotel.
;; W. G. KING, Manager.
ANNOUNCEMENT!!
Of the taking over of the Wible & St. Clair Stock by
Roy Fairbanks.
Have just opened case of 50 Smart Winter Suits,
which will be sold at a great reduction. Also fine high
grade sweaters and Stag Shirts.
General reduction on all other goods. y
Bills payable to the firm of Wible & St. Clair are jj|
now payable to me.
ROY FAIRBANKS, Prop.
TRY A “WANT” AD. IN THE TIMES FOR RESULTS.