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COLD WEATHER ^
.js REQUISITES
CLOTHING
Get a high-grade suit at a reasonable price at Carrol &
Co.’s. We will guarantee you satisfaction in every
particular.
WHILE this real cold snap is on, don’t overlook the little
necessities to keep you protected from the onslaughts
of the fierce weather.
IT IS our business to keep in stock all that is required to
make you comfortable when the thermometer is way
below zero.
SCOTCH wool white gloves, light buckskin slip-overs,
Eisendrath’s mammoth mitts, light avooI mitts—
white and gray, full assortment of toques, and gloves
of all styles and varieties.
BEDDING for coldest weather—you ffeed an extra com
forter or blanket or quilt. Do not miss the chance to
avail of the bargains we offer in these goods—heavy
for the season’s demand.
HEADQUARTERS FOR STETSON HATS AND
PACKARD SHOES.
CARROL & CO.
CARROL BLDG.
FOURTH AND E STS.
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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German-American Mercantile Bank
SEATTLE - - WASHINGTON.
NOTICE.
Until further notice the headquar
ters of the United Brotherhood of
Carpenters & Joiners of America will
be at 429 L street, house on rear of
lot. Meetings every Tuesday evening
it 7:30 o’clock.
131 O. J. MEEHAN, Sec.
Inlet Soda Works
W. A. TAYLOR, Proprietor
Manufacturers of all kinds of
MINERAL WATERS, SODA
CIDER, SYRUPS.
AGENTS FOR GRAPE JUICE
Anchorage - - Alaska
LEARN TO DANCE.
Latest Dances "Taught. Begin
ners given special attention. For ap
pointment call at third house from
C on 6th Ave.
WM. HUNTING.
MASONS
Anchorage Masonic Club
meets first and third Monday in
month. G. C. HAMMOND, Sec.
Don’t Forget to get your Norwe
gian Stock Fish in time to prepare
it for Christmas. Sundberg’s Gro
cery, corner 4th and C. ’ 106
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AIRTIGHT HOT BLAST
___ HEATERS
Are the best on the market;
they use less fuel, and have
more heating surface than
any other heater of the same
size. The firebox is sectional
with an air space between
outer shell and fire pot.
NO BUILDING OF FIRES
IN THE MORNING.
All you do is to shake the
grate, fill stove with coal,
open draft and yon have a
red hot stove.
We have in stock from the
smallest No. 12 size to the
No. 24 for store room,
Come in and let us show you
k how they work.
NEW YORK DAY BY DAY!
(By J. M. Allison, Special Corre
spondent of The Times.)
NEW YORK, Nov. 22.—In one of
the “Used car” emporiums on upper
Broadway there is offered for sale a!
finely equipped limousine car of one|
of the standard makes. There isi
nothing in its appearance to disting-!
uish it from a good many other cars
waiting in the place for purchasers
seeking bargains, but the especial sig
nificance which attaches to it’s advent
in the salesroom is one which strains
the average imagination. It is the
last, vanishing vestige of the grue
some greatness of Hannah Elias, the
mulatto woman—octoroon if you wish
to adopt the word of writers who
painted her sordid career in the colors
of romance—who disrupted a dozen
families, had murder done for her
favor beneath her very eyes, and suc
cessfully resisted in the courts the ef
forts of one of the prominent men she
had deluded to regain from her, when
he had become penniless, the hun
dreds of thousands of dollars he had
which she retained in the famous suit,
in which the late John R. Platt was
the petitioner against her, have been
wrested from her, one by one.
Twelve years ago she owned stocks
and bonds and New York real estate
worth nearly a million dollars. To
day, she is all but penniless, a lodger
in a small room of one of the many
houses she used to own. She kept
her automobile and her white chauf
feur to the very last possible day. Fin
ally, not having the means to main
tain. this last appendage of her form
er luxury she sent the car to the auc
tion block.
All of her shrewdness was inborn.
She had rather less of education than
the average laundress or kitchen
maid. Yet she enslaved men of wealth
and brains and position in an inex
plicable way.
At the beginning of her career,
something like thirty years ago, she
had little to distinguish her from any
other good-looking colored girl of
eighteen. She had the kinky hair of
her race and skin of a hue which could
never have been mistaken for that of
a Caucasian. Yet, within her, she pos
sessed some mysterious force which
carried her to heights almost unbeliev
able in her nefarious profession.
At the time when John R. Platt
sued to recover the fortune he had
given her, in 1905, she lived in a mag
nificent residence at 236 Central Park
West, with a retinue of twenty serv
ants, all whites or Japanese. Her
horses and carriages and her gowns
and jewels were as fine as those of
any millionaire’s wife. She owned
apartment houses and business build
ings which at one time were appraised
in court at a valuation of $761,000.
She had a “cottage” at Long Branch,
with a famous wine cellar and grounds
which made it one of the show places
of the resort. In the gorgeous house
in Central Park West, which was one
of the gifts which Platt made her,
Cornelius .Williams, one of her col
ored admirers, shot and killed An
drew H. Green, father of the law
which created New York, mistaking
him for still another of her victims, a
rich glass manufacturer, of whom the
colored man was insanely jealous.
After the Platt suit, though she suc
cessfully retained productive prop
erties worth a million dollars, she man
aged to spend large portions of the
principal of her fortune each year. It
is said that she was preyed upon by
scores of sharpers and that these loss
es together with the cost of her lux
urious mode of living made a drain
sufficient to sweep away her great
wealth in just twelve years. A month
ago, the title to her last piece of real
estate, the house in Central Park
West, was transferred to Herman Lub
etkin, a Park Row lawyer, “for money
advanced.” The lawyer rented the
place to a lodging house keeper and
the Elias woman took a room as a
tenant. She kept her motor car and
her white chauffeur until last week.
Mr. Stewart Brown, who has just
been re-elected president of the Unit
'd Real Estate Owners’ association
of New York city, starts off his new
administration with some remarks
which are unmistakably clear and spe
eifically definite. He says that New
Ifork wastes twenty-five million dol
ars a year in paying the salaries of
superfluous and unnecessary munici
pay employees. He declares that
sconomy is utterly unconsidered in
;he management of New York and
that its finances are controlled by pot
ties. He says that the application of
he ordinary rules of common sense to
the affairs of the city would result in
i saving of fifty million dollars a
,-ear.
“There was no necessity for in
creasing the budget of the board of
education one dollar, this year,” he
says, “but an increase of $2,5000,000
was allowed for no other reason than
that there is a mayor to elect next
year, and votes must be made for an
administration candidate in any way
that is possible.”
For 25 years, since the death of
Abraham Backer, a private banker,
lawyers and court commissions and
referees have been getting fees of
greater or less fatness out of the es
tate of the decedent, whose affairs
were in much confusion at the time of
his sudden passing. He owed so many
debts and his property was so widely
scattered and difficult of appraise
ment as to value that the creditors
formed an association and hired a
special lot of lawyers to represent
them jointly. Many complicated cas
es in which there were fewer lawyers,
or happily none at all, have been more
or less satisfactorily settled in the
quarter of a century which has
elapsed since Banker Backer’s death.
Apparently, however, in the case of
Banker Backer’s Estate such highly
developed and interesting litigation
was evolved by conditions which in
cluded funds of large amount availa
ble for fees and lawyers in large num
ber to collect them that it was all but
impossible to bring the thing to an
end at all. And the end having final
ly been reached, the result must be
admitted to be picturesque. The final
report and court order provides that
the long«leparted banker’s creditors
shall receive five one-hundredths of
one per cent of their claims. That
is, the principal claimant, who proved
ifhat he had $15,000 coming to him,
will get $7.50.
In numerous instances during the
history of the long litigation fees of
$1,000 and thereabouts have been al
lowed to lawyers and court referees.
Bracelet Watches in beautiful de
signs. Lord, Jeweler. 103
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
IN THK UNITED STATES COMMIS
SIONER’S COURT, THIRD DIVI
SION COOK INLET PRECINCT, TER
RITORY OK ALASKA, SUS1TNA.
In the Mattel* of the Estate of Henry
Sorenson, deceased. In Probate.
Notice i.s hereby given by the under
signed administrator, of the estate of
Henry Sorenson deceased, to the Credit
ors of, that all persons having claims
against the said deceased, to exhibit
them, with the necessary vouchers with
in six months after the publication of
this notice to the said administrator
Jack Kares, at the town of Susitna in
the above-named precinct and Territory.
JACK KARES.
Administrator of tlie estate of
Henry Sorenson, deceased,
l'lrst Publication Dec. 6, 1916.
Hast Publication, Dec. 27, 1916.
118
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Anchorage, 'Alaska
Wood and coal delivered to any
part of the city. Phone 43-Y. Uni
versal Taxi and Transfer. 125
Cotton (elt mattresses, bed springs
and linoleum, at Crocker's.
Phone 43-Y for car, day or night.
Wood and coal a specialty. Universal
Taxi and Transfer. 126
IT’S A REAL PLEASURE
to view the new wall decorations on i
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
CITY AUTO SERVICE.
Phone 89-R.
FOR AUTOMOBILE
Any hour of the Day or
Night.
OFFICE—Next door to New
Labor Hall.
Tex Jones R. C. Jeffery
The Panhandle
CIGARS
CANDIES
TOBACCOS
FRUIT
NUTS
4th AVE. NEAR C STREET
cxo:o:o:o:q
NEW CABINET SHOP
Furniture Made to Order. AH
Kinds Cabinet Work, Show
Cases, Etc.
JOE KITAK.
4th and K Sts.
WsSXs>@®®®<sXsXs^
ODD FELLOWS
Odd Fellows Club meets
every Monday evening,
Peterson Building, 8 p. m.
GEO. OSBORNE
THE LEADING JEWELER AND OPTK TAN
^ XMAS GIFTS
ror elegant and artistic Xmas Gifts,, come and inspect our
large and complete line of Gorham’s exclusive silver ware
in table and toilet articles in the most up-to-date patterns.
We also represent Hawkes Cut Glass, the most artistic and
original patterns on the market.
Also the largest and most complete line of up-to-date Jewelry
in the city.
We manufacture and design anything desired in the line of
jewelry aud nugget work.
All watch and repair work guaranteed and promptly returned.
GEO. OSBORNE
C STREET JEWELER