ALASKA
STEAMSHIP.
COMPANY
Fast and commodious steamers sailing between Seattle, Ketchikan,
Wrangell, Juneau, Skagway, Cordova, Valdez and Seward.
Leave Seattle Arrive Seward
MARCH 9.ALAMEDA. MARCH 16
MARCH 16..NORTHWESTERN.MARCH 23
MARCH 23 .ALAMEDA.. MARCH 29
MARCH 30.ALASKA.APRIL 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.
PACIFIC STEAMSHIP CO.
ADMIRAL LINE
ALASKAN SAILING DATES
Leave Seattle Leave Seward
Feb. 25 .. WATSON .. Mar. 4
Mar. 2.EVANS.Mar. 9
Mar. 9. .FARRAGUT. .Mar. 16
Mar. 19 ..WATSON.. Mar. 26
Mar. 26 ...EVANS... April 3
Sailings from Seattle to
CALIFORNIA
Mondays, Fridays & Saturdays
Steamers
President, Governor, Queen,
Senator, Umatilla, Admiral
Schley and Admiral Dewey.
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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ROUTE.
San Francisco to Los Angles, daily except Sunday. j
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.
Sandwiches, coffee and pastry lunch
es served at the North Pole Bakery.
Best music and entertainers at Pe
terson’s. , 399
DUNEDIN, New Zealand, Feb. 16.
—The fate of Captain Aeneas A.
Mackintosh and nine of the crew of
the Aurora, one of the vessels of the
Shackleton expedition, who have not
been heard from since May 6, 1916,
will soon be known. Sir Ernest Shack
leton who sailed from Port Chalmers
on December 21, said he was hopeful
of finding the members of the maroon
ed Mackintosh party all well, but he
realized that they have been exposed
to grave dangers and he could not
conceal his anxiety about them.
Sir Ernest is proceeding to the res
cue of the Aurora, the same vessel
from which Mackintosh and his men
were separated when the steamer
broke from her moorings in a blizzard
in Ross sea two years ago. These men
have no means of knowing that Sir
Ernest’s part of the expedition which
was to have crossed the southern ice
cape from the Weddell sea, failed be
cause their ship, the Endurance, was
crushed in the ice. Ignorant of this, it
is possible that the Mackintosh party
divided, and some of its members pro
ceeded toward the pole to cache pro
visions for Shackleton’s party, or have
gone on in search of him because of
anxiety over his non-appearance.
If there has been a division of the
Mackintosh party in this manner it
will render the rescue much more dif
ficult, for it will mean that the Aurora
will not only have to get through the
ice in Ross sea and reach the spot
where the men were last seen, but Sir
Ernest will probably have to under
take a sledge journey as far at least
as the foot of Beardmore glacier.
Provided the ice conditions are good,
and it is now mid-summer in the Ant
arctic, Sir Ernest believed the Aurora
would reach Ross sea by January 5.
Sir Ernest could not make further'
plans until he knew the circumstances,
but if he found the marooned party
intact at its original base he believed
he would be back in New Zealand
with the men not later than March.
The stranded men, in addition to
Captain Mackintosh are: H. E. Wild,
in charge of stores; E. Joyce, in
charge of dogs; J. L. Cope, surgeon;
A. Stevens, chief of the scientific staff;
the Rev. A. P. Spencer-Smith, chap
lain; R. W. Richards and A. K. Jack,
scientific staff; V. G. Hayward, sec
retary; and^I. O. Glaze, commissariat
officer.
Man Has Gold Locater.
CENTRALIA, Wash., Feb. 11.—A
letter was received here yesterday
from Charles D. Smith, of San Jose,
Cal., who says he has invented an in
strument, working like a compass,
that will locate the half-gallon of bur
ied gold coin mentioned in a will made
out by W. F. Bryan in 1888, and re
cently found.
Smith, who gives the San Jose may
or and treasurer as references, says he
will come here with his invention for
a round dtrip ticket and one-quarter of
the treasure.
War News
Rumors and facts at Peterson's. 444
Trial—It was only a trial but I’m
still eating at Cameron's Cafe. 354
North Pole Bakery serves lunches
after the show. 567
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The Store For All the People.
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WHY BE WITHOUT EGOS?
25c CAN EGIS EQUAL TO 3 DOZEN EGGS
MERRILL & SON POWDERED EGGS. KEITH'S DRIED GRANULATED EGGS
PRICES REASONABLE
PROMPT DELIVERY— —COURTEOUS TREATMENT
IB PHONES: STORE 7-R OFFICE 20-R
(Juneau Dispatch).
Who said grasshoppers never could
thrive in Alaska? Well they do and
in abundant quantities, the genuine,
red-legged, multi-colored, slender,
leaping, orthopterous insects. Their
presence along the Taku river indi
cates a land of fertility and occasional
sunshine, and not a perpetual laby
rinth of icebergs and snow.
Our fellow townsman, James Rus
sell, brought into the Dispatch office
yesterday a fine specimen of the leap
ing grasshopper. It had been caught
in the Taku valley and preserved by
sticking a pin through its back and
fastening the insect to a piece of card
board. Russell stated that while he
had heard the grasshopper lived in
Alaska, he had never seen one in cap
tivity before which had been caught
in this section. The grasshopper is on
exhibition at Russell’s gun shop on
lower Front street.
This little grasshopper means much
to this section. It means that where
he lives, along Taku river, there will
be, some day, countless fertile farms
under cultivation and a great agricul
tural section developing, along which
will run the road to be built from the
mouth of the river to the boundary
line which will connect with the road
to be built out from the Atlin country.
F. Olrikat, the fur buyer, will be
back in Anchorage on or about the
15th. See Brown & Hawkins. 565
Phone 43-Y for car, day or night.
Wood and coal a specialty. Universal
Taxi and Transfer. 126
Best music at Peterson’s. 444
FRATERNAL ORDERS.
MASONS
Anchorage Masonic Club
meets first and third Thursday
in month. G.C.HAMMOND, Sec.
L. 0. 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. C. G. GANTY, Secy.
Alaska Pool Room
_Fourth Ave., Near D.
| Cigars, Tobaccos, Candies, Soft Drinks, Fruits, Concord
Grape Juice.
MUSIC
: JOSEPH SCHMITBAUER. - . Proprietor.
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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.
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Hotel Anchorage
- NEWEST AND MOST MODERN IN THE CITY
SUNNY ROOMS ELECTRIC LIGHTS
HOT AND COLD WATER.
REASONABLE RATES
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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 Dances 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
ind linoleum, at Crocker’s. 459
C. HENNING
TAILOR.
Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s
Suits Cleaned, Pressed and
Repaired. 4th Ave. and D St.
Pies, fancy cakes, staple bakery
goods at North Pole Bakery. 567
BANK
ANCHORAG E
WE WILL MOVE FROM OUR PRESENT LOCATION TO OUR NEW QUARTERS IN THE ALASKA
BUILDING ON SATURDAY, MARCH 10TH. WE WILL NOT BE OPEN FOR BUSINESS FROM 7 TO 8 SATUR
DAY EVENING.
ESTABLISHED 1916
THE BANK OF SERVICE