ALASKA
STEAMSHIP
COMPANY
Fast and commodious steamers sailing between Seattle, Ketchikan,
Wrangell, Juneau, Skagway, Cordova, Valdez and Seward.
Leave Seattle
Arrive Seward
MARCH 9 .ALAMEDA. MARCH 16
MARCH 16.NORTHWESTERN.MARCH 23
MARCH 23 .ALAMEDA. MARCH 29
, MARCH 30.ALASKA.APRIL 6
This company reserves the right to change schedule of steamers with
out notice. Tickets on sale at up-town office, Empress Building.
J. j/RANKIN, Agent. F. B. TRACY, General Agent.
Pacific steamship co.
! ADMIRAL LINE
\ ALASKAN SAILING DATES
Leave Seattle Leave Seward
iMar. 0. .FARRAGUT. .Mar. 16
Mar. 19 ..WATSON.. Mar. 26
I^Iar. 26 ...EVANS... April 3
} First Anchorage Sailing
A$>r. 1 ..FARRAGUT.. Apr. 9
Sailings from Seattle to
CALIFORNIA
Mondays, Fridays & Saturdays
Steamers
President, Governor, Queen,
Senator, Umatilla, Admiral
Schley and Admiral Dewey.
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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ROUTE.
San Francisco to Los Angeles, daily except Sunday.
San Francisco to S«n Diego, Mondgy, Thursday and Saturday.
STEAMERS HARVARD, YALE, PRESIDENT, GOVERNOR,
ADMIRAL SCHLEY AND ADMIRAL DEWEY.
Schedule Subject to Change Without Notice.
For Fall Particulars, T. B. WATSON, Agent, Anchorage, Alaska.
Alaska Men
Going Outside This Winter Outfit at
CHEASTY’S
v The Specialty Men's Shop
in Seattle*
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Men’s and Young Men’s Wear
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1 Sundberg’s Grocery
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I PLANT EARLY. WE HAVE THE SEEDS,
t BOOTH’S SARDINES AND TUNA FISH.
| SWIFT’S PREMIUM HAMS AND BACON, THE BEST ;;
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| TEAS—Folger’s, Reliance, Crescent and Blue Ribbon.
Sandwiches, coffee and pastry lunch
es served at the North Pole Bakery.
Best music and entertainers at Pe
terson’s. 399
Reece L. Brewer, of Juneau, has
been appointed representative in that
city of the Seattle Star.
On the night of February 2 the
thermometer at McCarthy dropped to
58 below zero, the coldest weather
experienced this year.
"Bitter Root Bill” left Chitina re
cently with three tons of steel bridge
material for the Alaska road commis
sion bridge at Chena.
The Kennecott Mines company is
now operating a moving picture the
atre for the benefit of the miners and
other residents of the town.
The coal lands in the Matanuska
coal fields embraced within the limits
of leasing area No. 12, has been set
aside for the use of the Alaskan En
gineering commission.
Lyman D. Adsit, a homesteader on
the Salmon creek road, near Juneau,
has received notice from the land of
fice that a final receipt has been issued
for his homestead, and that a patent
would soon follow.
The first clean-up of the Cube mine,
at Valdez, which recently installed a
mill and other machinery, will occur
on March 5. It is expected that a
large amount of gold will be secured
as the ore is exceptionally rich.
Robert McC. Becker, better known
as “Daddy” Becker, for 34 years a
resident of Alaska, most of the time
at Skagway, died recently at Litch
field, Minnesota, at the age of 84
years. He left Skagway but a short
time ago.
P. E. Harris, proprietor of the
Hawk Inlet cannery, and lessee of the
Metlakahtla cannery, which was de
stroyed by fire last year, has com
menced work of rebuilding the can
nery at the latter place; and expects
to have it in readiness for operation
during the coming season.
The death sentence was pronounc
ed last week by Judge Jennings at
Juneau against Edward Krause, con
victed by a jury several months ago,
of the murder of James O. Plunkett.
Krause’s attorney gave notice of ap
peal of the case. Krause was sen
tenced to be hanged on the 11th day
of May.
jacoD Meiers, wno owns a tungsten
property on the head of Steel creek
in the Fairbanks district, is arranging
for the erection of a miir on the prop
erty as soon as the weather conditions
permit. The ledge has been cut for a
distance of six feet, and in some plac
es the ore is nearly pure scheelite.
The Ruby Silver and Silver Queen
mine at Pavey, in the Lake Bennett
district, has been closed down tem
porarily on account of the depletion
of the funds set aside for develop
ment. P. H. Ganty, of Skagway, a
large stockholder in the company,
says the company will be reorganized
with sufficient capital to put the mine
on a shipping basis.
George Hinton Henry, a socialist
editor of Fairbanks, who was arrest
ed on the charge of criminally libel
ing Mrs. J. H. Caskey, of that city,*
was acquitted by the jury at the trial
of the case. He testified that the al
leged defamatory article did not in
any way refer to the complainant and
on the contrary he knew nothing but
good of her.
The Copper River & Northwestern
railroad is planning on extensive im
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^ “Quality First”
The Store—For All the People.
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SPECIAL FOR THIS WEEK ONLY.
GOL^SHIELD* COFFEE®.28-OUNCE CAN 20c
GOLD SHIELD COFFEE..16-OUNCE CAN 40c
PRICES REASONABLE
PHONES: STORE 7-R
PROMPT DELIVERY—
—COURTEOUS TREATMENT
OFFICE 20-R
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provements during the coming sum
mer. Additions will be built to the
roundhouse and shops at Cordova, ad
ditions will be made to the snowsheds
out the line. Fifty-five miles of the
road will be relaid with new ties of
Douglas fir, and large orders for new
equipment have been placed.
An official of the land office at Fair
banks states that the mining clams
recently staked wtihin the townsite of
Chena, the scene of the latest reported
strike, are void, as this tract of land
has been withdrawn from entry and
reserved for townsite purposes in an
order signed June 23, 1917. The find
of gold in the bottom of a well being
dug is responsible for the staking.
Manuel Valejo, a resident of Doug- j
las from the land Mananna, with a |
jail record as long as the pedigree of j
a prize-winning Airedale, is in the i
toils again because of his gallantry
in assuaging the thirst of one “Black
Mary,” a native daughter. Mary was
confined in the city jail for a period
of 20 days for having become intoxi
cated, contrary to the iaw, but her
thirst still prevailed, and Valejo, who
had occupied an adjoining cell, as soon
as he got out secured a couple of bot
tles of booze and passed them through
the bars to Mary. The jailer found
Mary very much under the weather
and as a result of her confession Va
lejo is now facing a long term of con
finement after an interview with the
hated jefe politico of the cursed grin
goes.
War News
Rumors and facts at Peterson’s. 444
North Pole Bakery serves lunches
after the show. 567
Phone 43-Y for car, day or night.
Wood and coal a specialty. Universal
Taxi and Transfer. 126
FRATERNAL ORDERS.
MASONS
Anchorage Masonic Club
meets first and third Thursday
in month. G.C.HAMMOND, Sec.
L. O. 0. 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. C. G. GANTY, Secy.
HOTXCE
To all Carpenters: United Broth
erhood of Carpenters and Joiners of
America, Local No. 1475 meets at the
Anchor Club rooms, 4th and H St. ev
ery Tuesday evening' at 7:30 p. m.
J. S. BALDWIN. Sec.
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Alaska Pool Room
_Fourth Ave., Near D.
Cigars, Tobaccos, Candies, Soft Drinks, Fruits, Concord
Grape Juice.
MUSIC
JOSEPH SCHMITBAUER. - . Proprietor. ;
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Hotel Anchorage
NEWEST AND MOST MODERN IN THE CITY
SUNNY ROOMS
HOT AND COLD WATER.
ELECTRIC LIGHTS
REASONABLE RATES
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Dohrmann - - Herning & Co.
BUILDERS’ HARDWARE
TOOLS AND SPORTING GOODS.
HOUSEHOLD FURNISHINGS.
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New Malanuska Hotel
MATANUSKA JUNCTION.
M.J. ROCHE, Prop.
CAFE IN CONNECTION
A. LYALL, Prop.
LEARN TO DANCE.
Latest Dances Taught. Begin
ners given special attention. For ap
pointment call at third house from
C on 6 th Ave.
WM. BUNTING.
Cotton felt mattresses, bed springs
rnd linoleum, at Crocker’s. 459
C. HENNING
TAILOR.
Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s
Suits Cleaned, Pressed and
Repaired. 4th Ave. and D St.
Pies, fancy cakes, staple bakery
foods at North Pole Bakery. 567
BANK OF ANCHORAGE
THE BANK OF ANCHORAGE HAS JUST RECEIVED A SUPPLY OF RUSSION PAPER ROUBLES WHICH ARE SELLING AT $33.00; THIS PRICE IS OF
COURSE TEMPORARY, AS THE VALUE OF THIS PAPER IS GOING UP STEADILY, AND FORMS IN OUR OPINION A SAFE AND PROFITABLE INVESTMENT.
THE PRICE OF $33.00 AT PRESENT OBTAINING, IS AN ADVANCE OF $2.00 IN THIRTY DAYS IN THE VALUE OF THIS PAPER, AN INDEX TO THE MERIT OF
THE INVESTMENT, AND A GUARANTEE OF ITS STEAD Y AND RAPID INCREASE IN VALUE.
ESTABLISHED 1916 T^rXl,uJorSHUM THE BANK OF SERVICE