PROFESSIONAL CARDS
JOHN M. REID
Attorney and Counselor at Law
Notary Public.
Peterson Building. Phone 61-R
L>. David
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
NOTARY PUBLIC
Office, Corner 5th and E.
Anchorage : : Alaska
ARTHUR FRAME
Lawyer
Office Robarts
Block
WALLER & DUGGAN
Attorneys-«t-Law.
Alaska Building Anchorage
CHAS. G. GANTY
Lawyer
Hewitt Building
Anchorage Alaska
C. H. Sundmacher
LAWYER
Bolte Bldg. : Anchorage
M. J. CONROY
Attorney-at-Law
NOTARY PUBLIC.
Anchorage
: Alaska
R. C. MATHIS
Dentist
Alaska Building
DR. E. F. GERMAN
DENTISTRY
Hewitt Building Fourth Ave.
Phone 7-Y.
i DR. F. A. ROSS
i
J Dentist
! Alger Block - Anchorage
Dr. J. H. McCALLIE
Dentist
Cor. 4th and C St. Anchorage
DR. M. S. COBLE
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Alaska Building,
Corner of 4th and G Streets
DR. K. A. KYVIG
Physician and Surgeon
CITY DRUG STORE
Anchorage - Alaska
E. ELVERA SWANSON
Stenography, Typewriting, Dic
tation.
Peterson Building Phone 61-R
H. W. NAGLEY
General Merchandise
SUSITNA, ALASKA
Branch Stores:
McDOUGALL
TALKEETNA
Wood for Said!
Dry wood, seasoned wood,. any
length, any kind. Anchorage Supply
Co. Phone 46-R or 25-R. 133
Read The Dally Times and be an
Anchorage booster.
TEM1911!
NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—Thundering
through a season of the tightest base
ball the two big leagues had seen for
many a season, winding up their play
with pennants cinched only a few days
before the bell rang for the curtain,
the two big leagues fliwered and slip
ped in 1916 into the strangest world’s
series the country has seen in many a
day.
Differences between two big leagues
never were more strongly brought out
than in the world’s series which result
ed in another tilt for the trophy chest
of the Boston Red Sox.
Brooklyn, fighting its way through
a gauntlet that stretched almost from
last place to first, held its lead nearly
all season, playing phenomenal base
ball at times, and at other times show
ing very bad. A pitching staff that
overtopped every other club in the
league, backed by the heaviest hitting
in the league enabled the Dodgers to
hold their lead.
The oft-stated assertion that the
American league brand of pitching
and hitting is far superior to that pro
duced in the National league was giv
en quite a boost when the Dodgers am
bled into Boston to tilt with the Red
Sox. They fought, credit must be giv
en for that quality—but their fighting
was a woeful asset when compared to
the finely working machine built up
by Bill Carrigan.
With one good game out of their
systems the Dodgers were unable to
do much else. They did snake one
game out of the mixup, just enough to
prevent the Red Sox from ending it in
four games instead of five. The most
brilliant part of the Dodger’s work
was the great pitching displayed by
Sherrod Smith in the second game,
when he battled Babe Ittfth tft a stand
till in a fourteen-inning contest that
went to the Red Sox.
The old dope bucket was filled con
siderably, too, when Hal Chase, never
more than a good hitter in the Ameri
can league, stepped over into Gov.
Tener’s circuit and pasted the pill with
such consistency for Cincinnati that lie
attained the leadership of the major
organization.
On the other hand, Ty Cobb, the Ti
ger star, relinquished the batting
championshp of the American league
for the first time in eleven years. The
laurel was lodged on the brow of Tris
Speaker, who was sold to the Cleve
land club by the Red Sox.
The failure of the Yankees to at
tain a top place in the American
league, due to injuries, was one of the
upsets of the season. The New York
ers got away to a fine start, stepping
out in front early and holding their
lead for some time. Injury after in
jury then began to strike the club and
the skids soon were greased for Bill
Donovan’s entry.
Three new managers have stepped
out for approval since 1916 blossomed
a year ago. Christy Matthewson has
become manager of the Reds, Frerl
Mitchell will lead the Cubs next sea
son, and Jimmy Callahah is piloting
the Pirates.
The coming season should be a much
more profitable one for the National
league than a year ago. If the well
known dope bucket isn’t kicked into a
cocked hat again the Giants should be
there or thereabouts when the time
comes for the playing of the world's
series next fall, and indications are
they will make more of a success of it
than the Dodgers did.
It has been evident for some time
that something would have to be dene
to strengthen the western end of the
National league circuit. In view of
this it is almost a certainty that some
trades will be pulled off early.
Bread, pies, pastry and all bakery
goods of superior quality at the North
Pole bakery. 242
NOTICE.
All accounts payable to N. W. Pil
ger should be paid to T. N. McCain, at
comer 3rd and H. 273
TACOMA, Dec. 16.—(Special)—“I
guess I’m what you call a murderer,
partner. You’re the first living soul
besides myself that knows it. I ain’t
never been suspected, but you’re a
talkin’ now to the man that shot Dia
mond Dutch cold one summer’s night
about 18 years ago on the old sand
bar at Nome. My God, partner, but
this has been a’preyin’ and a’eatin, on
my mind all these long years, finally
today I just couldn’t stand it no more
so I come up to this court house to
give myself up.”
Giving his name as James Foley,
wrinkled, hair streaked with gray,
dressed in overalls, tattered overcoat
and a weather-beaten hat, a man of
55 years calmly walked into the of
fice of Night Jailer Jim Leak last
night and made this startling confes
sion. While his face seemed to bear
traces of northern rigors endured dur
ing Nome’s early gold rush the man
was still fairly sound of body.
Tried to Forget in Vain.
“You ain’t a’doubtin’ my story, are
you, pal?” he asked in surprise when
he thought the jailer was hesitating
as to the truth of his story . “I ain’t
crazy, I’m not feeble-minded and I’m
not drunk, God knows I drink enough,
I’ve been a-tryin’ to drown my mem
ory for years, but today, well I ain’t
touched a drop ’cause I knowed as how
I was goin’ to come up here tonight.
It’s been eatin’ my brains out I told
you what I done, now take me. They
know me down at the station. I think
maybe they could tell something
there.”
Jailer Leak turned to City Detect
ives Teale and Anderson and Deputy
United States Marshal J. P. Secrist,
who had just brought a prisoner up
; from the city jail, and told them that
perhaps they had better take Foley
back with them, as he had no way of i
verifying the old man’s story, while
the city might be able to trace him
through their records.
Will Cable to Nome.
Taken to the police station, Foley
was turned over to Capt. Kincaid, who
for more than an hour helped by Dep
uty Secrist, an old Alaskan, cross-ex
amined the old man. After hearing
the story, the names and dates of
which were declared absolutely accur
ate by Secrist, Capt. Kincaid ordered
the old man locked up, allowing no
one to see him. This morning a cable
will be sent to Nome in hopes of get
ting accurate details of the alleged
crime.
Brings Back .>our(lougn memories.
The full confession of James Foley,
told while sitting, bent and pathetic,
huddled in a chair in the captain’s of
fice, brought with it a picture of the
old sourdough days in Nome, the days
that Robert Service writes about,
full of red blood, drinking and fights.
Foley appeared to be relieved the mo
ment he started to.make the confes
sion and wove into it the names of
characters and scenes that were fa
miliar to old-timers in Nome.
“In the summer of 1898 or 1899, I
don’t remember which, myself and my
partner, Dublin Mickey, and Diamond
Dutch was a-workin’ the old boats Ro
anoke, Portland and Alliance, a long
shoring them when they broke though
the ice up from Seattle. Myself and
Dublin Mickey was a-batching it there
in a tent on the old sand bar off Nome.
“On the night of the killing, early
in the evening, we made the rounds of
the town. We hung considerable round
Eryp’s bar room and ended up at Mur
phy’s place, where Denver Ed Smith,
a good friend of our’n was a-tending
bar. He was doing a little boxing too
at that time. It was getting kind of
late and we three, all being pals, we
decided to mush it back to camp.
“I don’t know whether the moon was
a-shining that night or not, but when
we got to camp, it being a decent
night we started to talk. We finally
got into an argument, I don’t remem
ber what it was about, but after a
while it got kind of hot like, and be
fore I knew what was a-going on,
Diamond Dutch disappeared into our
tent, comes out with his rifle and be
fore I realized what is going to come
off, he ups and shoots Dublin Mickey
as he was a-r. landing there on the
beach in front of cur tent.
Left for Seattle.
“I then goes suddenly blind with
rage, and having my .38 revolver with
me. I shot Diamond Dutch cold, and
he dropped in his tracks. My partner,
poor old Dublin Mickey, holds on, a
suffering for a couple of months, and
then dies. I made my get-away the
next day on a boat for Seattle and
nobody then or over since has tried to
get me.
“When Jack Jolley, marshal at
Nome in them days, looked over the
remains the next day I suppose he
just naturally thought there was noth
ing more to it than that them two boys
was lit up and had just tried to fill
each other up with lead.
“Since the day I landed in Seattle
I ain’t never left the northwest. I
have just been beating it around work
ing some and drinking a whole lot. I
had to drink, boys. Murder is an aw
ful thing for a human to have to car
ry around in his mind. I’ve been ar
rested six or seven times for being
drunk in Portland and was picked up
here in Tacoma six years ago for va
grancy. That’s my story, gentlemen,”
said Jim Foley, as he concluded in a
soft voice: “and, gentlemen, I Del 100
years younger. Take me back and
lock me up.”
He rose to his feet with the sir of a
man who felt that once more he could
look another in the eye.
Wood—Phone 40-E. 186
FRATERNAL ORDERS.
MASONS
Anchorage Masonic Club
meets first and third Monday in
month. G. C. HAMMOND, Sec.
L. 0. 0. M. 1534
Regular meeting every Wed
nesday night at 8 o’clock,
Moose hall. Initiations twice
each month.
Where Do You
*
Keep Your
Meyer Daniels had been accumulating
money for three years. It amounted to $1,700.
Instead of putting it in a Bank, where it would
be safe, he kept it in his house. His house was
destroyed by fire, and this $1,700 in paper
money, representing three years’ economy, was
consumed.
If you are keeping money in your house, you
are running the risk of its loss by fire. Your
insurance policy does not cover money de
stroyed by fire.
Open an account with us and your money will be secure from fire
and theft.
Money?
BANK OF ALASKA
Skagway ANCHORAGE Wrangell
ALASKA
NEXT DOOR TO HARMONY THEATRE
LUMBER
LUMBER
LUMBER
LUMBER
LUMBER
LUMBER
LUMBER
LUMBER
LUMBER
LUMBER
LUMBER
LUMBER
LUMBER
LUMBER
LUMBER
LUMBER
Anchorage Supply Co
FIRST AND C ST.
aistchoragii:
Doors Shingles
Windows Roofing Paper
Building Paper Lath
LUMBER LUMBER LUMBER LUMBER!
LUMBER LUMBER LUMBER LUMBER!
LUMBER LUMBER LUMBER LUMBER!
3 in 1 Laundry and Baths
Now Reopened on the New Premises.
Bet. G and H on 5th Ave., Next to Harry Cribb.
P. H. RINGSTAD, Prop. -
THE BON MARCHE
(
(
Opp. Postoffice
OUR BIG 1
CLEARANCE SALE
(
(
Is the Talk of the Town
(
--—— —-(
—-—--——
(
EVERY DAY WE ARE PILING UP ALL KINDS OF BARGAINS ON OUR BAR- j
GAIN TABLES. YOU’D BETTER COME AND LOOK THEM OVER. \
Our Prices on heavy Cloth Coats, Fur
Coats and Plush Coats are below Cost.
Don’t forget we are agents for the
Big Ben Clock and Pocket Ben Watches.
We sell them at outside prices.
Big Ben Alarm Clocks .$2.50
Baby Ben Alarm Clocks.$2.50
Pocket Beil Watches.$1.00
Men’s Fur Caps.$4.00 and $5.00
Men’s 4-Buckle Arctics.$2.50 <
(
Men’s Leather Mammoth Mitts.$1.00
Men’s Cloth Caps, Fur Lined.$1.00 <
Men’s Light Felt Shoes.$2.00 «
Men’s Woolen Sweaters.$2.50
Men’s Woolen Pants .$2.50 (
Men’s Mackinaw Coats .$6.00 |
Men’s Fur Coats, Extra Long.$25.00 j
(
The BON MARCHE
Opp. Postoffice
@®®®®Sx9®csx9®®®®^^
o:o^cjDjojmo:o:o:o:o:o:o:o:o;