WOOD!
Bird Creek Lumber Co.
Phone 52-Y
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP
COMPANY
Fast and commodious steamers sailing between Seattle, Ketchikan,
Wrangell, Juneau, Skagway, Cordova, Valdez and Seward.
Sail Seattle
FEB. 16 .
FEB. 24 ....
MAR. 1 .
ALAMEDA
...ALASKA
MARIPOSA
Arrive Seward
. FEB. 22
. MAR. 2
. MAR. 0
This company reserves the right to change schedule of steamers with
out notice. Tickets on sale at up-town office, Empress Building.
J. J. LANKIN, F. B. TRACT.
Agent. General Agent.
PACIFIC STEAMSHIP CO.
ADMIRAL LINE
ALASKAN SAILING DATES
Leave Seattle Leave Seward
Feb. 15 .FARRAGUT. Feb 22
Feb. 25 .. WATSON .. Mar. 4
Mar. 2.EVANS.Mar. 9
Mar. 9..FARRAGUT..Mar. 16
Mar. 19 ..WATSON.. Mar. 26
Sailings from Seattle to
CALIFORNIA
Mondays, Fridays & Saturdays
Steamers
President, Governor, Queen,
Senator, Umatilla, Admiral
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, Alaska.
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Alaska Men
Going Outside This Winter Outfit at
CHEASTY’S
The Specialty Men's Shop
in Seattle.
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wl lUl/iO JL I O lilli. 2a Av. and Spring
Men’s and Young Men’s Wear
| Sundberg’s Grocery
l PLANT EARLY. WE HAVE THE SEEDS.
1 EAT GOOD EGGS. WE HAVE THEM.
I SWIFT’S PREMIUM HAMS AND BACON, THE BEST
| Folger’s, Reliance, Crescent and Blue Ribbon.
Staple and fancy pastry at the
North Pole Bakery. 429
Best music and entertainers at Pe
terson’s. 399
A. J. Donnerline has been appoint
ed by President Wilson to the posi
tion as postmaster at Haines.
U. S. Deputy Marshal Healey of
Talkeetna and Miss Anna Nessit were
recently married at that place by
Judge Wolff.
A. C. Allingham, who is taking a
flock of sheep to Western Alaska for
experimental purposes, sailed on the
Dora for Coal Harbor.
Louis Levy, a well known Alaska
fur buyer, is authority for the state
ment that furs are going up and that
the prices of mink are soaring.
The Alaska pageant, given by the
Douglas Island Woman’s club to
raise funds for the domestic science
department of the public school,
netted the sum of $175.
W. D. Elliott, proprietor of the
roadhouse at Eklutna. has had
a trail cut across the Arm from his
place to Knik which shortens the dis
tance about 19 miles.
Stassford, McCandish & Co. of the
town of Brooks, have purchased a
large plant and will thoroughly pros
pect Lucky Gulch, a tributary of Liv
ingood.
Hjalmer Nordale has been endorsed
by the democratic divisional commit
tee of the Fofarth division for the po
sition of game warden, made vacant
by the resignation of Andy Hoey.
J. S. M. Nelson, agent at Chitina
for the Ford car, will open a garage
and repair shop at that place in an
ticipation of a great rush of tourists
during the coming summer.
J. R. Lamb, foreman on the pile
driver at Nenana, for the Alaskan En
gineering Commission, suffered a frac
tured leg recently by falling while at
work on the driver.
The Cordova Co-operative Grocery
store, which has been operated in
that city for the past two years, has
sold out its stock to Finkelstein & Sa
piro and retired from the commercial
field.
The office of the Pacific Steamship
company at Juneau, which for many
years has been located on Main street,
has been moved to the new Pacific
Coast company’s dock below Ferry
Way.
The Border Line Transportation
company operating the steamer Al-Ki
between Southeastern Alaska points
and Seattle, has called off its agree
ment with the other companies and
has announced a reduction in rates.
Craig Miller and A. J. McGowan
have purchased the Swift- Armour
Crosby company salmon cannery and
will double its capacity. The new
machinery will be installed this
spring before the run of fish com
mences. The cannery is situated on
Hecate island in southeastern Alaska.
Herds of caribou have been seen re
cently near Talkeetna crossing the Su
sitna river on the ice, just at the verge
of the settlement.
J. G. K. Toussaint of Fairbanks has
received notice of his appointment as
land agent to handle cases before the
United States land office.
It is stated that the Blum, O’Neill
Co. of Cordova, will open a general
merchandise store at McCarthy in the
near future.
For the first time since the shut
down of the old Alaska Northern
railroad the big rotary snowplow was
put in operation on the line recently
between Seward and Mile 9.
H. Vandenabelle, a Treadwell min
er, was made happy recently by the
arrival of his wife and child, who had
come all the way from war stricken
Belgium.
While cutting wood the other day
L. C. Bates of Seward made a mis
stroke and cut off the end of his
thumb on the left hand, making a nice
clean job of it.
The Lighthouse Packing company,
which was one of the first concerns to
erect a clam cannery at Cordova, is
enlarging its plant to a capacity of
from 800 to 1000 cases per day.
A Juneau attorney recently drew
upon himself a most scathing re
buke from the court when he asked
a prospective juryman if it was not
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a fact that he was what is known in
the community as a company man.
The court declared the question was
not only an insult to the juror but to
the court as well.
Charged with an offense against
Lile Linke, a 14-year-old girl, C. W.
Knutson of Fairbanks, 40 years of
age, and married, has been placed un
der arrest for a statutory crime.
J. P. Anderson, a former assistant
to Prof. Georgeson, head of the gov
ernment agriculaural experimental
station in Alaska, will operate a floral
hot house in Juneau.
The various fire companies of
Douglas having failed to agree upon
a candidate for chief of the depart
ment, the city council has named
City Marshal W. A. Shafer for the
position.
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OPPOSITE EMPRESS
THEATRE.
4
3 IN 1 LAUNDRY
AND BATHS
Now Reopened on the New
Premises.
Between G and H on 5th Ave.
Next to Harry Cribb.
P. H. RINGSTAD - Prop.
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.
Wood Undertaking Go..
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
LICENSED EMBALMERS
Anchorage
Matanuska
WOOD SAWING
Also Wood, Any Lengths, for Sale.
Leave Orders at Robarts.
BOB PETERSON. 320 K Street
LAU RITZ
_“THE SIGN MAN ’’
PAINTING AND PAPERHANGING.
DESIGNING DECORATING
5th and D Street.
IT’S A REAL PLEASURE
to view the new wall decorations on
view here exclusively. They are so
unconventional, so out of the common
and so unusually artistically attrac
tive. If you plan to repaper you
should by all means see these new
papers. To decide without doing so
is apt to result in regret later.
EVANS & FRANTZEN
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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.
PHONE 76R.
New Matanuska H otel
MATANUSKA JUNCTION.
M. J. ROCHE, Prop.
CAFE IN CONNECTION
A. LYALL, Prop.
LEARN TO DANCE.
Latent Dauc.es Taught. Begin
ners given special attention. For ap
pointment call at third house from
C on 6th Ave.
WM. BUNTING.
Lost—My appetite until I had a
meal at. Cameron’s Cafe. 354
C. HENNING
TAILOR.
Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s
Suits Cleaned, Pressed and
Repaired. 4th Ave. and D St.
Fancy cakes to order at the North
Pole Bakery. 429
BANK OF ANCHORAGE
Territorial Depository Foreign Exchange
SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES FOR RENT
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ESTABLISHED 1916 THE BANK OF SERVICE