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.
German-American Mercantile Bank
SEATTLE - - WASHINGTON.
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
Leave Leave
Seattle Seward
Jan. 1, Mariposa .Jan. 8
Jan. 8, Alameda .Jon. 15
Jan. 16, Mariposa.Jan 23
Jan. 24, Alameda.Jan. 31
This company reserves the right to change schedule of steamers with
out notice. Tickets on sale at up-town office, Empress Building.
J. J. I.ANKIN,
Agent.
F. B. TRACY.
General Agent.
PACIFIC STEAMSHIP CO.
ADMIRAL LINE
Sailings from Seward to
Seattle and Alaskan Ports
Date Steamers
Jan. 9 .SPOKANE
Jan. 17.WATSON
Jan. 27 .EVANS
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 I
Schley and Admiral Dewey.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ROUTE.
San Francisco to Los Angeles, daily except Sunday.
San Francisco to San Diego, Monday, Thursday and Saturday.
STEAMERS HARVARD, YALE, PRESIDENT, GOVERNOR,
ADMIRAL SCHLEY AND ADMIRAL DEWEY.
Schedule Subject to Change Without Notice.
For Full Particulars, T. B. WATSON, Agent, Anchorage, Ain ha,
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.
ANNOUNCEMENT!!
Of the taking over of the Wible & St. Clair Stock by
Roy Fairbanks.
New heavy Wool Malone Pants, Summit Leather Vests.
Also fine high-grade Sweaters, and Stag Shirts.
Closing out complete line of high grade Suits from
$7.50 up.
Bills payable to the firm of Wible & St. Clair are
now payable to me.
ROY FAIRBANKS
Cor. 4th and D St.
TRY A “WANT” AD. IN THE TIMES FOR RESULTS.
Charles E. Gordon, of Juneau,
writes the following interesting arti
cle on the origin of the Eskimo:
“There has been considerable dis
cussion at different times as to the
origin of the inhabitants of this coun
try, known as Eskimos. The general
theory is that these people have de
scended from some Asiatic race. I
have given this question some little
study. I find that three theories as
to the origin of the Eskimos are ex
tant. First, that they are descended
from an Asiatic people. Second, that
along with the Indians of North Am
erica they sprang from the Aztecs
of Mexico, emigrating northward.
Third, that they originated in this
country. This last theory appears to
me to be the most plausible, and I
shall proceed to state my reasons.
“Let us consider first the theory of
the origin of man. Evolution teaches
that man is the product of ages; per
haps aeons, of the operation of the
law of natural selection on organic
life. Like conditions will produce like
results. It is reasonable then that
man can have come into existence in
different parts of the world, wherever
the conditions were right. There can
be no question that Alaska was at
one time a tropical clime. Hence these
deposits of coal and cobonous substan
ces that can follow once a great vege
table life, on what other grounds can
the presence of mastodons be explain
ed, than that this was a warm climate
where plant and animal life developed
very highly? Why is it not possible
then, that animal life developed to
the human stage in this land.
“Again, let us look at the habits of
the Eskimos themselves. They are
not naturally adapied to the life in
the barren frozen land. The food they
eat gives them viie disease. They
have practically no conception of how
to prepare their food to make it eith
er palatable or healthful. Their
abodes have been of the very poorest
until improved upon by more intelli
gent people, who have come among
them. Now a people coming either
from Asia or Mexico would have ad
vanced only as they were able to con
cept with conditions.
“They would have adapted them
selves to existing climatic conditions.
The Eskimos are primitive people or
iginating in their country, when it
was a tropical climate and where con
cept by the geological or meteorologi
cal changes that of Arctic conditions.”
ANNOUNCEMENT.
The auditorium of the Alaska La
bor Temple may be rented for social
affairs and entertainment. Make your
bookings now at office in Labor Tem
ple.
ENTERTAINMENT.
Saturday, January 13, 8 p. m. Ro
barts’ hall. Songs, games, dancing.
Punch and light lunch served. Best
of music. Admission $1.00. Ladies
free. Auspices of Scandinavian soci
ety of Anchorage. 272
Fred Carlquist who is a graduate
optician from San Francisco is perma
nently established with George Os
born the C St. Jeweler, and will ex
amine eyes free. 260
Phone 43-Y for car, day or night.
Wood and coal a specialty. Universal
Taxi and Transfer. 126
BAXTER’S
MAGAZINES
PERIODICALS
NEWSPAPERS
Panorama Photographs
Anchorage and
Mount McKinley
BIRTH II VICE
OR A VIRTUE
NEW YORK, Dec. 26.—John S.
Sumner, Anthony Comstock's succes
sor as arbiter of Gotham’s morals,
can’t decide whether birth control is
a vice or a virtue.
Sumner has put it up to the New
York County Medical society, which is
itself divided three ways on the point
and promises'to stage a lively fight at
today’s discussion of the subject that
Mrs. Margaret Sanger made famous.
If the disagreeing doctor men don’t
tell Mr. Sumner whether he is Mrs.
Sanger’s friend or her enemy today,
New York’s Comstockian vice censor
just won’t know what to do.
It is Mr. Sumner’s desire not to be
directly quoted in the matter, but it
has been discreetly and modestly in
timated that the attitude of the So
ciety for the Prevention of Vice to
ward birth control will be influenced
by what the doctors say.
The medical society has been pull
ing and hauling around the subject for
a year, taking it up and dropping it
suddenly several times.
The situation today reveals one fac
tion of the society favoring a resolu
tion advocating the right for physi
cians to give advice to married men
on the subject of birth control and to
amend the state law that prohibits
dissemination of such information.
Another faction is opposed to having
j anything to do with the subject, while
a third is opposed to the society tak
ing any action as a society regarding
the change in the law.
Should the society declare in favor
of birth control education by physi
cians it would present several unique
situations. Probably it would be the
first medical society to take such a
radical step. It would be a big boost
for Mrs. Sanger, who has been of
fically howled down all over the coun
try; and it would, if Sumner does as
he has intimated he will do, link the
New York anti-vicers hand in hand
with Mrs. Sanger, whose activities
have been denounced by many courts,
including the U. S. federal court of the
New York district, as not at all proper
or virtuous.
The outcome of today’s meeting is
being watched closely by the pros and
antis of birth control throughout the
country; and particularly by Mrs.
Sanger and her lieutenants, inas
much as Mrs. Sanger’s trial on the
charge of operating a “nuisance” in
her birth control clinic, which comes
up early in January, is more or less
looked upon as a battle royal between
the two factions.
Where did you get those lovely
doughnuts? At the North Pole bak
ery, of course. 242
The Matanuska Cafe
In the New Matanuska Hotel.
THE PLApE TO EAT AT THE JUNCTION
Alex (Blondy) Anderson
SPEED SERVICE
The Royal Cafe
Special Arrangements Made for Entertaining Private
Parties. *
The place of real service. Boxes, Lunch Counter.
Try Some of Our Special Dishes.
£j
Northern Transfer Company
COAL AND WOOD.
GENERAL TRANSFER BUSINESS.
PHONE 47-Y.
4th and D
C. P. PEDERSEN, Mgr.
The Lang Stove, born in
Alaska.
Is the Stove fox* Alaskans.
Body made of Armco Rust
Resisting Iron.
Polished Cooking Surface.
Will hold fire overnight with
wood or coal.
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 tbe
Lang Stove. They all know it.
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
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT.
WHEN you come to Seattle, remember the
Hotel Savoy extends you a hearty welcome.
All the Alaskans who have made their headquar
ters with us in the past, and those who are con
templating coming to Seattle in the future will
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
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. 6. KING, Manager.
TRY A “WANT” AD. IN THE TIMES FOR RESULTS.
BANK OF ANCHORAGE
Territorial Depository Foreign Exchange
SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES FOR RENT
ESTABLISHED 1916 RESOURCES OVER $600,000.00