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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 Arrive Seward
FEB. 16 . ALAMEDA. FEB. 22
FEB. 24 .ALASKA. MAR. 2
MAR. 1 .MARIPOSA.MAR. 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. LANKIN,
Agent.
F. B. TRACY,
General Agent.
IMUUUUI:
PACIFIC STEAMSHIP CO.
/ v ADMIRAL LINE
| ALASKAN SAILING DATES
I Leave Seattle Leave Seward
I IPeb. 25 .. WATSON .. Mar. 4
I Mar. 2.EVANS.Mar. 9
I Mar. 9. .FARRAGUT. .Mar. 16
I Mar. 19 ..WATSON.. Mar. 26
I Mar. 26 .. .EVANS... April 3.
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 Angelos,-daily exsept. 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.
Alaska Men
Going Outside This Winter Outfit at
CHEASTY’S
The Specialty Men's Shop
in Seattle,
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Vjli.Elil.lJ i 1 tJ II Its. 2a Av. and Spring
Men’s and Young Men’s Wear
Sundberg’s Grocery
PLANT EARLY. WE HAVE THE SEEDS.
EAT GOOD EGGS. WE HAVE THEM.
SWIFT’S PREMIUM HAMS AND BACON, THE BEST
TEAS—Folger’s, Reliance, Crescent and Blue Ribbon.
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Staple and fancy pastry at the
North Pole Bakery. 429
Best music and entertainers at Pe
terson’s.
399
First Officer Newlands of the steam
er Cordova, has been promoted to the
position of master of the steamer
Dora to succeed Captain Swanson.
The launch Buffalo arrived in Sew
ard recently from Cook Inlet with
about two tons of fat herring for the
local market.
Dr. William P. Baker arrived at
Sulzer recently from the states to take
a position as mine physician made va
cant by the. resignation of Dr. Buck
ley.
Sitka has an epidemic of measles,
there being 102 cases of the disease
in that city, and all schools have been
closed. The disease is raging among
both the natives and the whites.
Glen Winship, who for the past
year has acted as cashier and wharf
agent for the Pacific Steamship Co.
at Juneau, is now In charge of the
uptown office of that company.
N. P. Sias and wife, B. F. Cordell,
H. E. Smart and George Kent of the
Valdez Creek Mining company arrived
at Cordova on the Alaska from the
states and will leave for the interior
in a couple of days.
The Barrett-Kennecott Copper com
pany has arranged to begin operations
on the developemnt of its property un
der the superintendency of John E.
Barrett. Supplies are now being haul
ed from McCarthy to the property.
The basketball team at Nenana de
feated the Fairbanks team at that
place recently in two hard-fought
games. They will now go to Fair
banks and meet that team on its own
grounds, in a series of two games.
Louis Dahl, a pioneer of the Koy
ukuk country, was adjudged insane by
a jury in the commissioner's court at
JBuby recently. The physician testi
fied that Dahl was suffering from se
nile dementia, brought on by over
work and alcoholic excesses.
Robert McChesney, one of the best
known newspaper men in Alaska and
a pioneer in the publishing business
in Dawson, Fairbanks, Cordova and
Valdez, has taken a position with the
Juneau Empire in charge of the me
chanical department.
The New England halibut schooner
Prospector and the Knickerbocker ar
rived at Ketchikan recently after a
stormy experience of three weeks on
the fishing banks, with a light catch.
The Prospector reported a loss of 12
skates of gear.
A largely signed petition has been
sent out by the residents of the Ta
kotna district to the Alaska Road
Commission asking that a summer
road be constructed between Ophir
and Takotna, a summer trail staked
between Ophir and Iditarod, and build
a trunk road from Ruby to Seward.
It is reported that John Noon and
Ward James of the Kenai Fishing &
Trading company of Seward, who are
now in Seattle, have completed ar
rangements for all the fish . caught
during the coming summer. The
company will operate a saltery at Sun
ny Bay near Seward and a cannery on
Prince William sound.
Cecil H. Clegg, the well known at
torney of Fairbanks, is notv president
of the Grand Igloo of Pioneers of
Alaska. Mr. Clegg, who was chosen
vice president of the Grand Igloo at
the last election of officers, succeeds
the late John G. Heid, of Juneau, who
The Store For All the People.
WHY BE WITHOUT EGOS?
25c CAN EGIS EQUAL TO 3 DOZEN EGGS
MERRILL & SON POWDERED EGGS. KEITH’S DRIED GRANULATED EGGS
PRICES REASONABLE
PHONES: STORE 7-R
PROMPT DELIVERY—
—COURTEOUS TREATMENT
OFFICE 20-R
was elected president at the same
time.
Pete Jepson, a Ruby merchant,
states that the coming season prom
ises to be one of the most profitable
in the history of the camp.
G. L. Armstrong, special agent of
the General Land office, reports that
many homesteads have been staked
recently by residents of the new rail
road town.
The report of the grand jury re
cently in session at Juneau, recom
mends the provision of a fund for the
detection and prosecution of crime in
the territory.
City Councilman Ross, of Nome,
jumped on a spike protruding from a
plank, in his shop, with the result
that the spike went clear through his
boot and his foot.
Percy Sholto Douglas, Marquis of
Queensbury, of Dumfries, Scotland,
recently arrived in Ketchikan. He is
interested in mining property in that
vicinity.
The new railroad town of Nenana
is suffering from a shortage df pota
toes, the supply of the tuber in that
town being practically exhausted, and
the residents are looking to Fairbanks
to supply their needs.
Kilky Robinson, the storekeeper at
Candle, has increased his plant by the
erection of a cold storage plant which
is calculated to preserve from 60 to j
70 reindeer carcasses for use by the J
miners next summer.
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Fresh-killed veal and pork at Mint.!
518 i
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Zero is what you get at most places I
but hot meals are served at Camer- i
on’s Cafe. 354 ^
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Daily War Bulletins- at Peterson’s, i
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 Co..
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
LICENSED EMBALMERS
Anchorage
Matanuska
Alaska 1P00I Room
_Fourth Ave., Near D.
Cigars, Tobaccos, Candies, Soft Dnnks, Fruits, Concord
Grape Juice.
MUSIC
JOSEPH SCHMITBAUER. . . Proprietor.
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.
Hotel Anchorage
NEWEST AND MOST MODERN IN THE CITY
SUNNY ROOMS ELECTRIC LIGHTS
HOT AND COLD WATER.
REASONABLE RATES
Dohrmann - ■ Herning & Co.
BUILDERS’ HARDWARE
TOOLS AND SPORTING GOODS.
HOUSEHOLD FURNISHINGS.
PHONE 76R.
New Matanuska Hotel
MATANUSKA JUNCTION.
M. J. ROCHE, Prop.
CAFE IN CONNECTION
A. LYALL, Prop.
LEARN TO DANCE.
Latest Daucea Taught. Begin
ners given special attention. For ap
pointment call at third house from
C on 6th Ave.
WM. BUNTING.
Cotton felt mattresses, bed springs
and linoleum, at Crocker’s. 469
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
ESTABLISHED 1916
THE BANK OF SERVICE