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Fast and commodious steamers sailing between Seattle, Ketchikan,
Wrangell, Juneau, Skagway, Cordova, Valdez and Seward.
Sails Seattle Arrives Anchorage
MAY 10.ALAMEDA.MAY 17
MAY 15.ALASKA.MAY 22
MAY 21.MARIPOSA MAY 28
MAY 27 .NORTHWESTERN. JUNE 3
This company reserves the right to change schedule of steamers with
out notice. Tickets on sale at up-town office. Empress Building.
PACIFIC STEAMSHIP CO.
ADMIRAL LINE
ALASKA SAILING DATES
Lv. Seattle Ar. Anchorage
i May 11 EVANS May 19
May 19 FARRAGUT May 27
May 28 WATSON June 4
June 4 EVANS June 12
Subject to change without
notice.
SAILINGS FROM SEATTLE
TO CALIFORNIA
Monday, Friday and Saturday
STEAMERS
President Governor Queen
Senator Umatilla
Admiral Dewey Admiral Schley
(Through Tickets to All Eastern Destinations in United States and
Canada. Information cheerfully furnished and rates quoted.
T. B. WATSON, Agent, ANCHORAGE, ALASKA
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“SAFETY AND SERVICE”
Will Malte Regular Trips to
All Turnagain Arm Points.
F ASKER & EATON
The Beatson mine at Latouche is
still adding to its force and recently
sent to Cordova for fifty more men.
The laymen on No. 23 Livingood are
reported to have struck pay and are
taking out pans as high as forty cents.
A plan is on foot to consolidate the
schools of Douglas and Treadwell for
the purpose of cutting down the cost.
The public school at Juneau closed
on April 27 for a five months vacation
while the new school building is be
ing constructed.
Valdez is experiencing a building
boom, property owners starting to re
place the buildings destroyed by the
January fire.
McCarthy is experiencing a decided
real estate boom. Lots which sold
there a year ago for $150 are now be
ing held at $1000.
Good pay is reported to have been
uncovered on Nos. 16, 18 and ID, l ight
limit bench, Livingood, the pay-streak
being very wide.
The G. T. P. steamer Prince Rupert
which went ashore at Lawyer island
some time since, has been floated and
is on her way south for repairs.
George Adams, a Seward musher,
arrived at Seward recently from a trip
to Iditarod over the winter trial. He
made the round trip in the record
time of 27 days.
It is reported that there was a
stampede on to Peters creek last
month in search of quartz, rick speci
mens having ben discovered not only
there but on adjacent creeks.
William Holley, better known as
“Banjo Bill” met with a serious acci
dent at Seward recently. While low
ering a heavy keg into a basement he
TIDE TABLE FOR ANCHORAGE.
Wednesday, May 16.
High Water . 2:21 a. m. 20.5 feet
Low Water . 8:16 a. m. 1.8 feet
High Water . 2:52 p. m. 27.2 feet
Low Water . 8:51 p. m. 2.7 feet
Thursday, May 17.
High Water . 3:15 a. m. 30.7 feet
Low Water . 9:44 a. m. -0.2 feet
High Water . 3.57 p. m. 28.3 feet
Low Water . 9:47 p. nt. 2.5 feet
TRAIN SCHEDULE.
Effective 12:01 a. m.( Monday, April
23, 1917, a mixed passenger and freight
train will be run between Anchorage
and Matanuska, Matanuska and King,
end between Anchorage and Rabbit on
the following schedule:
Main Line.
Northbound Southbound
Daily ex. Daily ex.
Sunday Sunday
Leave Arrive
7:30 a.m... 0.0 Anchorage .. 9:15 p. m.
7:55a.m... 4.8 Whitney .... 8:50p.m.
8:25 a. m... 12.3 Kuney . 8:30 p.m.
9:10 a. m.. .21.8 Birchwood ... 7:50 p.m.
9:40 a. m... 27.6 Eklutna . 7:20 p.m.
Arrive „ Leave
10:10 a. m.. 36.4 Matanuska .. 6:45 p.m.
Matanuska Branch
Northbound Southbound
Daily ex. Daily Ex.
Sunday Sunday
Leave Arrive
11:00 a. m.. 36.4 Matanuska .. 6:20 p.m.
11:30 a. m. .42.9 Palmer . 5:55 p.m.
12:20 p. m.. 49.5 Moose Creek. 5:25 p.m.
Arrive Leave
12:40 p. m..55.0 Eska . 4:50 p.m.
Leave Arrive
12:50 p. m.. 55.0 Eska . 3:08 p.m.
1:10 p. ra.. 58.7 Granite . 2:53 p.m.
Arrive Leave
1:25 p. m..60.6 King . 2:45 p.m.
Main Lias
Southbound Northbound
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday only.
Leave Arrive
9:00 a.m... 0.0 Anchorage .. 10:45 a.m.
9:20a.m... 5.0 Campbell ... 10:25a.m.
Arrive Leave
9:45 a. m.. . 10.4 Rabbit . 10:00 a.m.
Mixed train leaving Anchorage north
bound will stop Just north of road cross
; Ing, Terminal Yard, Anchorage.
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lost his hold and the keg fell onto his
foot, crushing the bones so badly that
amputation of the foot near the ankle
was necessary.
The Loyal Order of Moose has the
distinction of organizing the first
lodge in the new railroad town of Ne
nana. The new lodge starts off with
a membership of more than thirty.
Cache creek, northwest of Anchor
age, claims the honor of being the
most extensive placer field south of
the Alaska range, in the territory, and
to. have the largest output.
I). H. McDonald and a party of six
arrived in Seward recently with
equipment and supplies for working
the Joe Wilson mining property at
Moose creek. A sawmill is part of
the equipment.
Displaying their patriotism the La
dies of Haines recently met in the
Arctic Brotherhood hall at that place
and organized a local chapter of the
American Red Cross. Sixteen women
were enrolled.
A. E. Berry, who recently acquired
the Dick Dawson mining property on
Crow creek near Seward, arrived at
that place recently with a complete
outfit for working the property this
! season.
The Chitina bridge, on the Copper
River & Northwestern railroad, went
out recently, several bents having
been carried away by the ice. This is
an almost annual occurrence and de
lays traffic but a few days.
During the thirty years during
which the Treadwell, Mexican and
Seven Hundred mines, recently flood
ed when the workings under the chan
nel cave in, were in operation, more
than 17,000,000 tons of ore have been
i taken out and milled by that company.
The Seward Gateway is now vigor
ously urging the people of that place
to go after a smelter for that place,
setting forth that with the coal fields
of the Matanuska will soon be opened
and that Seward has every advantage
to offer for a site.
| Mrs. K. U. W oocl, wire ot the presi
dent of the First National Bank of
Fairbanks, filed a suit for divorce re
cently at that place aleging cruelty.
The case was filed and disposed of
within fifteen minutes. The property
rights of the parties were adjusted
out of court.
Jack Underwood, long a member of
the Seattle Times staff and specialist
on things Alaskan, has quit newspa
per work and is now associated with
famous mining interests in the north
country. He is a stockholder and di
rector of the American Drdege Build
ing & Construction company which
operates five dredges in Alaska.
The auto bus of the Dewey House
at Skagway had a narrow escape from
demolition recently and several pas
sengers from possibly serious injury.
While going up the wharf with a load
of passengers the driver was compell
ed to turn suddenly to escape collision
with another auto with the result that
the front wheels of the car went off
the wharf, spilling some of the bag
gage off into the water below, but the
sudden stoppage of the car by the
driver prevente d the car from fol
lowing.
NEW FRENCH BALLOON
SHAPED LIKE TADPOLE
Among the latest triumphs of the
French aerial service is a new obser
vation balloon, known as Le Caquot.
At the beginning of the war observers
other than those in aeroplanes utilized
kite ballons of the German Drachean
type, called by the French soldiers
“sausages.” There are still some of
these at the front but Le Caquot is
much preferred.
In shape it resembles a great tad
pole. Whereas the Drachean is incon
venienced by a wind of from 50 to 55
feet a second Le Caquot can remain
in the air unless the wind exceeds 65
to 75 feet a second.
It takes fifty experienced men to
maneuver it, for as soon as it leaves
the shed great attention must be paid
to the wind currents so as to save thc\
envelope from being torn.
Attached to the balloon is a wicker
car, in which the observer is installed
with is maps, charts, arms, barome
ters and telephone, the later fixed ov
er his ears, so as to leave his hands j
free. He also is provided with glasses,
and a white silk parachute for an em- j
ergency.
When the balloon attains an alti
tude of from 2,000 to 3,000 feet the
windlass to which the cable is fixed is
drawn by horses or motor car at a
moderate pace to a point near the en
emy lines,w here a refuge excavated
in the soil has been prepared. This
accomplished, the observer transmits
his instructions by telephone.
Two anti-aircraft posts are estab
lished near by to keep off the German
| airplanes. If the balloon is menced
the crew brings it downf 10m 5,000
feet in seven to ten minutes.
Observers frequently pass from fif
teen to eighteen hours in the restrict
ed space of the ballons cars, commun
icating with the batteries by telephone
but even tsomg men are unable to
pass more than three days at a time
at this exhausting occupation, con
stantly exposed to the enemy’s fire.
Full Dress and Semi-Dress Shirts
at exceptionally reasonable prices.
At Brown & Hawkins 41
Fred Carlqulst, wno is a graduate
optician from San Francisco, is per
manently established with George Os
born, the C. St. Jeweler, and will ex
amine eyes free. 260
ALUMINUM SOLE FOR SHOE.
In some parts of the country there
has been received with favor a shoe
partly made of aluminum.
The use of leather is not dispensed
with entirely, but the sole and coun
ter, the parts most subject to wear,
are made of the metal. The hard us
age of shoes comes on the heel and
sole, and in the case of aluminum the
wearer walks on the heel and a rock
er. across the sole of the shoe, which
parts are renewable and may be read
ily replaced without sending the shoes
to a shoemaker.
The new shoes are no heavier than
those of leather, and are said to be
much more economical on account of
the increased service secured.
WILKIE WAS KNOWN HERE.
The other day The Times printed
a dispatch from Seattle telling of the
death, by a suicide pact, of Mr. and
Mrs. A. J. Wilkie. Both were known
here. Wilkie will be recalled as the
man who led the labor strike at Sew
ard, and later he and his wife came
to Anchorage, where they remained
until last fall.
The Electric Gath Rouse, K and
Fourth, is now under the management
of a graduate masseur and chiropo
dist, Electric and Turkish baths. Open
day and night. 862
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FUNERAL DIRECTORS
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Anchorage Matanuska
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ANCHORAGE ABSTRACT
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Abstracts of Title Furnished
to Any Lots and Tracts in
Townsite of Anchorage
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Money Loaned. Mining Property,
Stocks, Bonds, Bills Discounted.
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© were 367 savings accounts to every 1,000 of population in Germany, 379 out of 1,000 in France, 342 out of 1,000 in the United Kingdom, but only 218 ©
© out of 1,000 in the United States. In other words, there were nearly twice as many savers, in a given number, among the people of these European ©
® powers, as there were in the United States! No wonder they have been able to astonish the United States by the way they have financed the more ®
© than forty billion dollars already invested in the war. THEY WERE BETTER SAVERS THAN WE. We can well learn from their example and @
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