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land to San Francisco and Los Angeles. Dining
and Observation Cars.
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The cost via California is practicaly the same as on the
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Take the “MILWAUKEE”
On your next trip to tlie East
Electrification of its main line over the backbone
of the Continent has eliminated all soot, smoke and cinders per
mitting an unobstructed view of the magnificent panoramas
through the Bitter Roots and Rockies.
Both Steamship Co.’s act as Milwaukee agents in Anchorage.
A. E. HARRIS, Traveling Passenger Agent, Juneau.
Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul Railway
’FRISCO CAFE
Everything in Season and Service the Very Best.
Private Boxes for Large or Small Parties.
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OPEN DAY AND NIGHT.
BANKING BY MAIL
It makes no difference where you are located, you
can send us your gold dust or checks and we will place
them to your credit, acknowledging receipt and furnish
ing you with a check book so you can draw money when
needed; or, if you prefer, we will place the money on de
posit in our Savings Department where it will earn 4 per
cent interest.
We will be pleased to attend to any business you
wish transacted anywhere.
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SEATTLE - - WASHINGTON.
i Going East
; Through Rates from Anchorage to
Eastern Destinations Are in Effect
via the
ALASKA STEAMSHIP COMPANY
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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.
REGAIN SECOND
PLACE IN LIST
WASHINGTON—(By Mail.)—The
United States navy is assured, by its
present naval program, of its future
position as the second naval power of
the world. The general board of the
navy, headed by Admiral Dewey, has
prepared some data as to the relative
rank of our navy at the present time
and in recent years.
“There is no known method," sayB
the board, “of measuring accurately
the relative power of two navies, as all
elements must be considered, such as
displacement, number and size of guns,
muzzle energy of battery, thickness
and distribution of armor and speed
and endurance. Displacement, how
ever, is a simple and convenient meas
ure. Personnel is also a convenient
measure. Using these, the fol
lowing figures show when the U. S.
navy became second in size and
strength and when the United States
lost the second position:
(a) Considering displacement of
ships built, the United States ad
vanced from third to second place in
1907 and dropped to third place in
1911.
“(b) Considering displacement of
ships built and building, the United
States advanced from third to second
place in 1909, held this place for a
short time only, and dropped to third
place again in the same year, 1909.
“(c) Considering active personnel,
the United States advanced from third
to second place in 1908, dropped to
third place in 1911 and to fourth place
in 1913. The United States advanced
again to third place in the first part
of 1914 and later that year dropped to
sixth place, owing to the expansion of
the naval personnel of belligerent na
tions.”
! now tne European war awakened
the American nation to the necesitty
for increased national defense and
how the present administration has re
sponded to this demand is best indi
| cated by comparing the total increases
| authorized for the navy in the three
and a half years of the Wilson admin
istration with the increases in the
navy authorized under the two previ
ous administrations. Here are the
figures:
Scout cruisers .— — 4
Auxiliaries . 6 11 14
Roosevelt Taft Wilson
1905- 1909- 1913
1909 1913 1916
Dreadnaughts ... 6 6 9
Battle cruiser... — — 4
Destroyers . 23 26 32
Submarines .... 20 20 57
Gunboats. — 2 1
Total... 55 65 121
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BERKELEY, Cal.—Unknown tribes
of people who had never seen a white
man and who are living 10,000 years
in civilization behind the white races
were discovered in New Guinea by
Dr. Richard Thurnwald.Ph.D., who
has been exploring in the center of
New Guinea along the Sepik (Kaiser
in Augusta) river as the representa
tive of the University of Berlin, the
Berlin Anthropological museum and
the Berlin Academy of Science. Dr.
Thurnwald is here preparing his data
and revising maps of the island while
in wait for the close of the war. He
had not finished his explorations Arhen
the British captured him and took his
collections. However, his release was
secured by the United States through
its foreign office in Great Britain and
part of his collections were restored.
Dr. Thurnwald, who explored the
Salomo islands from 1906 to 1909,
went to New Guinea in 1912. After
securing a number of native boys to
carry his materials and to act as in
terpreters, he started up the Sepik
river. He found the people' to be
small, about an average of five feet
high, and rather thin. The people
J are Papuans, being related with the
Australian aboriginals. They are
all cannibals, and are oak color with
brown grizzly hair, brown eyes and
brown beard.
In the West Range mountains,
which was the farthest in the interior
that Dr. Thurnwald reached, the ex
plorer found the people living on
taro, which resembles the potato, and
yams, a vegetable root full of starch,
and sugar cane. They are vegetari
ans, though they raise pigs, which
are used only on festival occasions.
1 Along the banks of the river the
| people live on. sage, biddlenut, cocoa
nut and whole corn. One big village
house supplies the home for the fam
ily of from 50 to 60 people. The na
tives wear very few clothes. They
are the largest in the middle Sepik,
where the climate is warmest and
the most food is to be had, and there
are but 10 or 15 in a family.
When Dr. Thurnwald first went in
to this unexplored region the children
ran away and cried and the people
were all afraid. Some tribes took him
to be the moon. He succeeded in get
ting in touch with them by offering
gifts of various kinds, trinkets,
knives, etc., which the people had nev
er seen before. He stayed with some
tribes several months to learn their
habits and customs. They often felt
his clothes to see what they were
like, as they had never seen anything
like them before.
A queer social system was uncover
ed bythe explorer. This consists of
an exchange system of marriage.
Three men and three women are mar
ried and then each exchange wives
and husbands. Thus each husband
has three wives and each wife has
three husbands.
The tribes fight continually with
bows and arrows and have never seen
a gun. Dr. Thurnwald estimates that
there are 15,000 people in the central
forests, 6,000 in the west mountains,
10,000 in the upper Sepik, 20,000 in
the middle Sepik and 5,000 in the low
er Sepik region.
In connection with the explorer’s
capture, it is stated that the British
had heard in Australia that there was
a German army in New Guinea. This
report was confirmed by the signs of
the natives along the entrance to the
Sepik. Five gunboats were sailed up
the river, and the professor’s tent was
located and confiscated. He was then
in the mountains making surveys and
was not captured until he went down
stream in a canoe.
TIDE TABLE
Monday, November 27.
Low Water . 1:68 a. m. -1.0 ft.
High Water .... 7:40 a. m. 28.7 ft.
Low Water . 1:30 p. m. 3.7 ft.
High Water .... 6:57 p. m. 32.2 ft.
Tuesday, November 28.
Low Water . 2:45 a. m. -0.9 ft.
High Water .... 8:28 a. m. 28.7 ft.
Low Water . 2:20 p. m. 3.8 ft.
High Water _ 7:46 p. m. 31.8 ft.
BEATTIE IN THE PAY
(Iditarod Pioneer)
J. E. Beattie and Harry Meehan ar
rived from the Tolstoi on Tuesday
last, and will return there within a
day or so. It has been currently re
ported since their arrival that Beattie
and associates, operating a lay on No.
2 above, Boob creek, have struck rich
pay in two holes sunk. Good reports
are also current with reference to the
outlook on Discovery, which is he*nf?
prospected by Frank Dawson and
Lars Ostness.
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Date Steamers
Dec. 1 . EVANS
Dec. 7 . WATSON
Dec. 17 . EVANS
Sailings Seattle to Seward
10th, 20th, and 30th each Month
Sailings from Seattle to
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Steamers
President, Governor, Queen,
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San Francisco to Los Angeles, daily except Sunday. 1
San Francisco to San Diego, Monday, Thursday and Saturday. *
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ADMIRAL SCHLEY AND ADMIRAL DEWEY.
Schedule Subject to Change Mahout Notice.
For Full Particulars, T. B. WATSON, Agent, Anchorage, Alaska.
Fast and commodious steamers sailing between Seattle, Ketchikan,
Wrangell, Juneau, Skagway, Cordova, Valdez and Seward.
Leave
Seattle
Nov. 15 Northwestern
Nov. 22 Alameda
Nov. 29 Mariposa
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Nov. 23
Nov. 29
Dec. 6
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Seattle
Dec. 7
Dec. 14
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out notice. Tickets on sale at up-town office, Empress Building.
Jf. J. LANKIN, F. B. TRACY
Agent. General Agent.
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Alaska. * *'
Is the Stove for Alaskans.
Body made of Armco Bust
Resisting Iron.
Polished Cooking Surface.
Will hold fire overnight with
wood or coal.
P* Will burn green wood.
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Our line is complete from the small
| est camp stove to the largest hotel
j range. .
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Cafe, Barber shop, News-stand and Cigar Store in Con
nection
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The bakery goods at the North
Pole Bakery have that “home” fla
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