Doherty Coal Co.
Hand-Picked
COAL
$8.00 PER TON
Corner 1st and C St.
TELEPHONE 46-K
CARL W. BOLTE
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Hardware, Glass Ware and
China Ware
Flashlights of All Descriptions.
PRICES REASONABLE Fourth Avenue.
EDW. T. McNALLY
WM. MAITLAND
M’Nally & Maitland
Lumber
Wood
We carry a complete stock of common dimension. Fin- |
ish that is CLEAR and properly kiln-dried.
SALES AGENTS
ESKA CREEK COAL CO.
COAL $8.00 PER TON
Yard and Office Foot of G St.
Phone 41R
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
THE HOUSE OF CLEAN
SPORT.
TheB.BC.Co.
I MONARCH
II WORLDS
BEST
ROBARTS’ BILLIARD
AND BOWLING
PARLORS.
P. O. Opposite.
SERVICE BARBER
SHOP.
ROBARTS BUILDING
Shampooing and Face Massage
A Specialty.
CHOVIN SUPPLY
i
5th nnd C.
Carries Everything in Electri
cal Supplies and Fixtures
to make a happy Home
Agent for
FRISCO STANDARD
GAS ENGINES.
Kitak Show Case Co.
Furniture, r'abinets.
Bank and Office Fixtures
Made To Order
' Kiln Dried & Seasoned Lumber
Factory Opposite White House
NOTICE.
The Auditorium of the Labor Tem
ple may be rented for social affairs
and entertainments, also club rooms
and offices on the upper floor. Call on
the secretary or phone for particu
lars. 512
COUNT BALLOTS
DURING VOTING
NEW YORK, March 6.—Indies
! lions that one of the greatest obsta
cles to the prompt announcement of
e'.oction results, such as handicapped
the newspapers in the last presiden
tial election may be removed before
another presidential year are re
flected in the action of the West Vir
ginia legislature, following the exam
pie set by Kansas, in the creation of
what is called “A Double Election
Board."
'1 he measure is hailed by West Vir
ginia newspapers as one that will he
appreciated by the general public to
a greater extent than is realised by
those not famiar with the present
encumbrances which surround ballot
counting. They declare that the suc
cess of the experiment in Kansas last
fall should attract attention in other
stales as a possible relief from such
uncertainty as the whole country la
bored under for several years after
the last election.
Kansas, considering its difference
in time compared with the eastern
states, was the first of all states to
t agin to return figures on its election
last November 7th. This was a sur
prise generally to other states until
it was discovered that the secret of
Kansas promptness was a system
known as the double election board.
This system does not in any sense
revolutionize present methods of
voting, but simply makes it poss'blr
that the ballots may be counted al
most simultaneously with the cast
ing of them, with the result that the
vote is known immediately upon the
closing of the polls.
The Kansas law provides that at
ai! general elections the national and
state tickets shall be printed upon
one ballot and the district, county
and township tickets shall be printed
upon another ballot, and that at each
voting precinct five separate ballot
boxes shall be provided, two boxes in
duplicate for the state and national
ballots, and that there shall be two
boards of election officers, one to be I
k; own as the receiving board—to
receive ballots and guard their prop
er placement in the boxes—and the ,
other to be a counting board.
A few hours after the opening of
the polls the national and state ballot
boxes are removed from their desig
nated places, and duplicate boxes
placed in their stead, while the count
ing board retires under proper safe
guards, empties the first set of boxes
and counts the ballots. After anoth
er interval the boxes are exchanged
again, and the counting proceeded
vith in this manner of simple relay
throughout the day.
(Continued from page 2)
McKinley had a beautiful day for
his first inauguration but a rainy one
for his second. When Roosevelt as
sumed the presidency after the as
sassination of McKinley, he took the
oath of office without ceremony in the
home of Ansley Wilcox, in Buffalo, N.
y.
Roosevelt’s inauguration to his sec
ond term brought a new standard for
a great demonstration. It is esti
mated that more than a hundred
thousand persons were crowded on
the Plaza before the inaugural stand
and that hundreds of thousands
thronged the city.
President Taft came in with a
howling blizzard that threw all the
plans for inauguration ceremonies
awry and cut the capitol off from
communication with the country for
hours at a time. Mr. Taft took the
oath of office in the senate chamber,
but rode to the white house at the
head of the procession with Mrs.
Taft, the first time a wife of a pres
ident has accompanied him in the cer
emonies.
President Wilson’s first inaugura
tion day was cloudy and threatening,
but mild, and the ceremonies were
carried on without interruption.
The Merchants Cafe will be closed
all day Sunday, one day only, for re
pairs. 670
THE BEST OF IT
EL PASO, Texas, March 5.—Cat
tlemen familiar with the country' be
low the southwestern corner of New
Mexico, where three American Mor
mons were recently murdered by
Mexican bandits, say that an im
promptu punitive expediton, such as
was suggested by the cowboys along
that part of the border, would not be
as simply as appears to the stran
ger in the distance. It would be a
still less simple matter to rush over
an American expedition.
There are few parts of the south
west, say the cattlemen, bettter de
signed to protect just such raids as
that carried out on Corner Ranch.
The country itself is broken up with
deep arroyos and canyons with cliff
like sides, mountains that present
vertical faces of rock, washes cover
ed with boulders and sun-baked earth.
To traverse this country, it is neces
sary to have as guides men who know
every trail.
Rough, broken country is not the
only handicap. Nature has filled
these areas with the “Spanish bano
net,” a spike-tipped plant whose
name is not an exaggeration, ana
spine covered cactus. Only range
bred ponies can be used in this land,
and only the most skillful rider can
stick to the native pony as it darts
through this growth, jumping from
side to side. The American cavalry
horses would suffer terribl.v from
these plant daggers and go larrm on
the riders. Sand storms blow up and
obliterate the trails. Water holes
are few and must be known by the
guides. The days are blazing hot
and nights bitter cold, which means
the men must travel with heavy
equipment.
The main drawback is the small
chance of ever trailing the bandits
fo their lairs. In a country so brok
en that opportunities for concealment
tire offered at every turn, it would
be next to impossible. As there are
re landing places, aeroplanes could
not be utilized. To clear such coun
try of bandits would mean endless
toil and patience.
AT THE EMPRESS.
Four Wonderful Metro Productions.
Wonderful Mine. Petrova, whose
marvelous powers of pantomime and
emotional expression have so often
thrilled and delighted audiences
throughout the country in her many
successes, will appear on the silent
stage in motion pictures at the Em
press theatre Sunday and Monday,
March 25 and 26, in a Metro wonder
play of supreme appeal entitled “The
Scarlet Woman.” The play is in five
exquisite acts and portrays with ar
tistic fidelity the life of a noble
hearted woman, who after making a
supreme sacrifice for her weakling
husband, when he is in the shadow
of the gallows, is cast ofF by him on
the expiration of the short term of
imprisonment which her sacrifice had
won for him. Mme. Petrova has vis
ualized how, spurned by the world
she had known, she becomes a woman
without a heart or conscience with a
a vividness which cannot fail to im
press, not only by its realism, but by
be beauty of its presentation. Fol
lowing “The Scarlet Woman,” Mr.
and Mrs. Sidney Drew appear in a
pleasing comedy, “Their Quiet Little
Honeymoon.”
This Saturday evening, March 24,
Edmund Breese, the i distinguished
dramatic actor, wil appear in “The
Spell of the Yukon,” a vivid drama
of Alaskan life in five superb acts,
to be followed by Mr. and Mrs. Sidney
Drew in a charming comedy, “The
Swooners.”
“The Spell of the Yukon” is per
haps the best known work of Mr.
Robert W. Service. At any rate, it
is the poem that he selected above all
others to put in first place in his fa
mous collection. Mr. Service 'has of
ten been referred to as “The Kipling
of the North.”
This presentation reaches a high
mark for the Metro pictures, and is
one which, in its remarkable and un
FRISCO CAFE
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT.
Everything in Season and Service the Very Best.
Private Boxes for Large or Small Parties.
ONCE A PATRON ALWAYS A PATRON
RECREATION
Bowling Alleys and Pool Parlors
YOUNG VIKING H. HEGSTROM
Next to Harmony Theatre.
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'• expected climax, will thrill every one !
who is fortunate enough to see it. 661*
CAMPAIGN IN ITALY
FOR NEW WAR LOAN
ROME, March 6.—The new Italian
loan, subscriptions to which began
February 5, is Italy’s fourth one for
j war preparation. The third loan,
subscriptions to which were begun a
year ago, was the largest of the three ;
former loans, the total amount ob
tained from banks and by popular
subscription reaching to more than
$626,000,000. or more than twice the
amount the government expected to
obtain. The total of the three loans
amounted to upwards of $700,000,000
counting exchange on New Y’ork at
8tj lire to the dollar, the exchange
prevailing when the last loan was
completed.
The new loan is issued at 90 (face
value of the bonds being 100), and
will return an interest of 5.55 per
cent on Italian money thus invested.
The holder is guaranteed that the
loan will not be redeemed before
1931. The bonds of the previous
short-term loans may be converted in
to the present loan.
The campaign for the new loan is
being conducted along the same lines
as a political campaign in the United
States. The newspapers are full of
speeches by government officials and
of bank advertisements explaining
the nature of the loan and calling on
every patriot to invest. The bill
boards of all Italy are plastered with
human-interest placards showing the
valiant soldier at the front fighting
for his country and appealing to the
civilian at home to support this sol
dier by subscribing to the loan.
While no direct appeal is made to
foreigners in the country to sub
scribe, many Americans consider the
loan a good buy, since, given the high
rate of exchange, they can get a bond
at $13, whereas the Italian must pay
his equivalent of $18.
Phone 43-Y for car, day or night.
Wood and coal a specialty. Universal
Taxi and Transfer. 126
Best tables at Peterson’s.
444
QUINN BOARDING
HOUSE.
Board by the Day or Week.
Corner 3rd and C St.
ANCHORAGE CABINET
WORKS.
JOE CASALI, Prop
Furniture and Fixtures
BUILDING CONTRACTOB
Estimates Furnished.
TOOL GRINDING AND
SAW FILING.
5th and D.
Tex Jones R. C. Jeffery
The Panhandle
CIGARS
CANDIES
TOBACCOS
FRUIT
NUTS
4th AVE. NEAR C STREET
Palace of Sweets
Next to Empress Theatre.
Ice Cream,
Light Lunches
And—
Home-Made Candies.
ALL CREAM MADE
FROM FRESH MILK
Palace of Sweets
THE COOK INLET
TRANSFER CO,
WOOD AND ICE
A SPECIALTY.
MARIUS BENSON
Mgr.
Sanitary Market
III*1 only i old storage plunt in con
nection with market in Anchorage.
Home-made Sausages. Fruits. Veg
etables, Rutter and Kggs, at whole
sale. Restaurants and roadhouses,
sperlu' attention.
Itb Ave.. Ret II and I Sts. *
E. E. KURTZ & CO.
I
FREDERICK*NELSO\'
SEATTLE
Invite you to send to them for
such items in FURNITURE and
DRY GOODS as cannot be readily
supplied by the merchants in your
own community
All such orders received by
FREDERICK & NELSON receive
the prompt, personal attention of
an expert shopper, and Parcel Post
shipments are sent POSTAGE
PAID to any point in Alaska.
Inlet Soda Works
W. A. TAYLOR, Proprietor
Manufacturers of all kinds of
MINERAL WATERS, SODA
CIDER, SYRUPS.
AOENTS FOR GRAPE JUICE
Anchorage - - Alaska
PRICE & BENNETT
Plumbing and Sheet Metal
Works
PHONE 29-Y
5th, near G.
Anchorage