CALIFORNIA ,<
QUICKLY REACHED
via
SEATTLE-PORTLAND-SAN FRANCISCO
On the ALL RAIL
Scenic Shasta Route
THREE DAILY TRAINS
SHASTA LIMITED — CALIFORNIA EXPRESS
—SAN FRANCISCO EXPRESS—
Through Standard Sleeping Cars from Seattle and Port
land to San Francisco and Los Angeles. Dining
and Observation Cars.
ARE YOU GOING EAST?
The cost via California is practicaly the same as on the
Northern Routes.
Call or write for information
C. M. ANDREWS, D. F. & P. A.
712 Second Avenue. SEATTLE, WASH.
SOUTHERN
PACIFIC LINES
Make It a Smokeless, Dustless,
Gasless, Trip East This Year
In addition to the cleaner conditions due to
Electrification, you’ll enjoy the comfortable
accommodations and you’ll like the little
courtesies incident to “Milwaukee” service.
Both Steamship Co.’s act as Milwaukee agents in Anchorage.
A. E. HARRIS, Traveling Passenger Agent, Juneau.
Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul Railway
Going East
Through Rates from Anchorage to
Eastern Destinations Are in Effect
via the
ALASKA STEAMSHIP COMPANY
THE ADMIRAL LINE
To California and the South via Portland and the mag
nificent steamships “Great Northern” and “Northern
Pacific.”
A. S. DAUTRICK .Traveling Freight and Passenger Agent, Room 18,
Valentine Building.
T. J. MOORE, City Passenger Agent, Second and Columbia, Seattle
Wash.
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP
COMPANY__
Fast and commodious steamers sailing between Seattle, Ketchikan,
Wrangell, Juneau, Skagway, Cordova, Valdez and Seward.
J-ieave L,eave
Seattle Seward
Dec. 1 Mariposa .Dec. 8
Dec. 8 Alameda .Dec. 15
. Dec. 16, Mariposa.Dec. 23
,*4)ec. 24, Alameda .... gfe
, Leave Leave
| Seattle Seward
Jan. 1, Mariposa .Jan. 8
Jan. 8, Alameda .Jon. 15
!Jan. 16, Mariposa.Jan 23
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inis company reserves tne 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.
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_ PACIFIC STEAMSHIP CO.
1 ADMIRAL LINE
Sailings from Seward to
Seattle and Alaskan Ports
Date Steamers
Dec. 7 . WATSON
Dec. 17.EVANS
Dec. 27.WATSON
Sailings Seattle to Seward
10th, 20th, and 30th each Month
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. jjj i
San Francisco to Los Angeles, daily except Sunday. yj
San Francisco to San Diego, Monday, Thursday and Saturday. uj
STEAMERS HARVARD, YALE, PRESIDENT, GOVERNOR, {fi I
ADMIRAL SCHLEY AND ADMIRAL DEWEY. X i
Schedule Subject to Change Without Notice. jjj |
For Full Particulars, T. B. WATSON, Agent, Anchorage, Alaska. SB I
TRY A “WANT” AD. IN THE TIMES FOR RESULTS.!
□lilLNuL NUTE5
One mile of a country road in Ore
gon is surfaced with borax.
Columbia is rapidly becoming an
important platinum producing country,
j Rubber rings have been invented to
! prevent thimbles slipping from ling
ers.
I There are telephones enough in the
United States for every ten persons to
have one.
The streets of one English city are
watered entirely by electric sprinkling
wagons.
Folding paper tees have been in
vented for- golfers, bound in book
for easy carrying.
In normal times the annual German
consumption of fruit amounts to
about 100 pounds per capita.
Missouri has joined the list of
states which maintain night schools
for adults in rural regions.
After many failures Italian army
engineers have bored the first success
ful artesian well in Tripoli.
A lemon squeezer operated by a
small electric motor is a novelty de
signed chiefly for public places.
A new attachment for beam scales
permits articles to be automatically
counted as they are being weighed.
freshly caught sea fish are said to
be the principal ingredient of an arti
ficial rubber of Dutch invention.
For writing at night there has been
invented a fountain pen that carries a
tiny electric lamp and dry battery.
Breweries in Japan produce about
210,000,000 gallons of sake, the na
tional alcoholic drink, from rice an-!
nually.
In a new electrical toy a tiny hu
man figure dances in response to tunes
whistled or sung into a telephone re
ceiver.
Electricity is the only agent that
will thaw frozen water pipes without
distrubing the ground in which they j
are buried.
In a welding process of German in
vention magnetism is employed to de
posit all of the molten metal at the
desired place.
In the first nine months this year j
pounds of sugar beet seeds, mainly'
from Russia. J
Great Britain has coal fields that!
have been operated more than 700
years, yielding every kind of coal ex- ]
cept anthracite.
Gyroscopic mountings for aviators’I
telescopes have been invented by a
Frenchman to keep them pointed in
the same direction irrespective of tin
angle of an aeroplane’s flight.
ror mgnt fishing an Ohio inventor
has patented tackle that has incan-1
descent lamps at the end of the rod
and on the float, supplied with cur-'
rent by batteries enclosed in the rod.
The British parliament has taken |
steps to establish uniform time
throughout the United Kingdom and
abolish the time used in Ireland, which
differs from England’s by 25 minutes.
To photograph wild birds in thtir
natural haunts or in flight a Louisi
ana man has invented a long range
camera, mounted on wheels and with
a long sighting tube that resembles a i
cannon.
Electricity is supplied to a new
flashlight that an Austrian has in
vented by a small generator contained
within it that is driven by the pressure
of the user’s thumb on a projecting
knob.
To lessen the moisture that skirts
accumulate in rainy weather a woman j
has invented a panel of waterproof
material to be fastened within them,
provided with cuffs to slip over aj
wearer’s ankles.
For many years thrown into the sea
as worthless, a low grade Cuban mo
lasses is being exported to the United
States in increasing quantities for use;
in road building, distilling and other1
purposes.
Operated by current from a light1
socket, a two-fan electric ventilator ’
has been invented for offices and resi
dences that, when set in a window,
draws in fresh air and exples that al
ready in a room.
A British’ patent has been granted!
for a leather substitute made of can- i
vas impregnated with a paste made
from rosin dissolved in linseed oil
varnish and kneaded with milk curd
and a little slaked lime.
For blowing whistles or ringing
bells at set times there has been in
vented an electrical device that makes \
contacts by the use of a punched pa- j
per ribbon, easily replaced when a1
schedule is to be changed.
New French automobile wheels are;
equipped with both pneumatic and!
solid tires, the latter being slightly j
smaller and arranged to share the bur-1
den when heavy loads depress the for
mer or they are punctured.
As an improvement on the old-style j
sling seat used by painters and stee
ple jacks, a New York electrician has ;
patented a form fitting pressed steel
affair suspended from four points by
chains to insure balance.
Utilizing a galvanometer, a French
scientist has invented apparatus for
measuring vibrations of human bones
and tissues with which abong other
things, he reads a person’s pulse more
accurately than by hand.
STOCKHOLM IS
WORLD CENTER
OF INTRICUE
STOCKHOLM, Nov. 18.—(Gy Mail)
j —This is the spy-center of the world
Here foe meets foe—but with his fin
gers crossed. It is neutral ground
j and the spy plays his ungrateful
game in perfect safety.
“See that chap over there?’’ a
friend asked, pointing across the iob
by of one of the prettiest hotels in
the world. “That is an Austrian mili
tary attache. The man he is talking
to is a Russian from Petrograd. I
know them both.”
There they were playing their
games. Each trying to trick the other
to some end, only heaven knew what.
“Never mind about locking your
chest of drawers, or your bags or
trunks,” an acquaintance told me the
day I landed in Stockholm. “Locks
are no good here. If anybody wants
to see what you have hidden away
they will manage to do so. And they
usually want to see.”
There is perhaps no more fascinat
ing spot anywhere than a certain
great hotel here. In the world’s most
beautiful dining room under a sort of
colonade ranging alongside a formal
garden where a superb lawn grows
under a lofty glass dome, where huge
palms and flowers grow in profusion,
and the tinkle of a fountain in the
Venetian court is not much softer
than the music of a hidden stringed
orchestra, Germans and English, Aus
trians and French, Russians and Bul
gurs, Italians and Turks, Belgians ami
Hungarians and all the rest mingle
at table. Not that they sit at the
same table, but their elbows some
times literally touch at adjoining
boards.
Stockholm is easily accessible to
all the warring countries. At the Cen
tral railway station every night, on
adjoining tracks, are three trains.
One goes north to Tornea, the Russian
Irontier town; one to Bergen whence
me takes the boat for England and
I'ranee; the third goes to Gothenburg,
ave hours by boat from Denmark
.vhence an express whirls one to Ber
m. The Russian train leaves first—
‘bout !) p. m., the German train sec- j
>nd, at 920. So on the platform one j
;ees mingling and jostling, German j
ind British, French and Prussian and 1
ill the rest.
in t,ne noteis one nas the impression
hat each column conceals a spy and
■ach palm two or three. And one is
;early right in this impression for
hey are as thick as fl^as everywhere:
cpies spying on unsuspecting persons,
>pies spying on spies and spies spy
ng on spies set to catch spies. It is
>. great game. There is on record at
east one case of one spy doing nearly
til of these things at one and the
:ame time, being simultaneously in
:he employ of France, England and
Germany.
There are of course big games be
ng played by men not ordinarily cal
ed spies: Diplomatic agents is the
more dignified term. These are edu
cated, cultivated men. And they do
the finer, larger work. Smaller fry
keep track of shipments to Russia, of
the movement, via. Sweden of govern
ment agents., etc. Or in the case of
the allies—of the shipments of mate
rials to Germany by boat, etc. Of
course there are free-lances who scur
ry around picking up scraps of infor
mation and selling the same for what
ever the interested parties feel like
paying . These are the ragpickers of
the profession.
Of course there are women spies or
women agents. These are not always
used as Oppenheim and other roman
cers lead one to imagine, but there is
just enough of truth in such stories
to make these women interesting.
Their great utility comes through be
irtfr able "to mingle' in1 high circles
where they can listen to the gossip.
“Listen, my dear,” says one lady to
mother. “Here is some great scan
dal. I promised not to tell but I must
tell it to you, knowing you’ll not
breathe it to a soul.”
And so it goes.
Hotels are packed. Only by reserv
ing a room days in advance can one
find accommodation save by rare good
luck. At tea time, at dinner and
again at supper, the splendid restau
rants here are jammed and tables are
at a premium. Champagne corks are
popping like machine-guns. Every
body seems to have plenty of money
and nobody appears to be stingy with
it.
One sees many German people here.
Here and there in dining rooms are
German diplomats, army officers in
mufti or evening clothes, and fre
quently they have their women-folks
with them. These are wearing skirts
quite as short as any seen in Paris
and the cut of their gowns is proof
that though Frenchmen and Germans
are killing each other, Rue de la Paix
styles have found their way “Unter
Peterson’s Billiard and
Solo Parlors
Fourth Ave.
Between C and D
The Matanuska Cafe
In the New Matanuska Hotel.
THE PLACE TO EAT AT THE JUNCTION
Alex (Blondy) Anderson
SPEED SERVICE
The Royal Cafe
The new eating house on Fourth Avenue
Caterers to first-class trade.
Boxes for private parties.
Lunch Counter.
ATHANS & PAPPADOPOLOS
I
304 Rooms All Outside Rooms
Absolutely Fire-Proof
BEST IN THE CITY
New Richmond
Hotel
SEATTLE
BATES—Rooms with private bath,
$1.50 psr flay and upwards. Rooms
without Bath, 91.00 per day and up
wards. —A FBEE AUTO BUS.
R. C. McCORMICK, Prop.
M. K. MacRAE, Mgr.
Ihe Lang Stove, bom in
Alaska.
Is the Stove for Alaskans.
Body made of Armco Rust
Resisting Iron.
Polished Cooking Surface.
Will hold fire overnight with
wood or coal.
' Will burn green wood.
Ask your dealer for a Lang
Stove.
If he cannot supply you write us
Our line is complete from the small
est camp stove to the largest hotel
range.
Any sourdough will tell you about the
Lang Stove. They all know h.
F. S. LANG MFG. CO.
SEATTLE. WN.
’FRISCO CAFE
Everything in Season and Service the Very Best.
Private Boxes for Large or Small Parties.
ONCE A PATRON ALWAYS A PATRON
OPEN DAY AND NIOHT.
When at the Junction stay at the
New Matanuska Hotel
Cafe, Barber shop, News-stand and Cigar Store in Con
nection
Just opened M. J. ROCHE, Prop.
den Linden.”
This is the great cross roads, the
meeting place of the folks of the
warring nations. Tonight, in the
lovely supper room, at adjoining ta
bles, two men, their wives and daught
ers, all faultlessly dressed in evening
clothes, hear each other talk, though
in different languages. Tomorrow
these two men may be leading charges
at each other, over rainsoaked, shell
pitted ground. One may slaughter the
other, and leave the bloody, muddy
corpse to be trodden on by a regiment
of iron-shod men, leaving a woman
without a husband, a family without
a father.
But tonight they dine elbow to el
bow.
To detect gas in mines there has
been invented apparatus wherein a
rat operates a treadmill to furnish
power for a small incandescent lamp,
the dimming of the light indicating
that the rat is affected by gas.
Bracelet Watches in beautiful de
signs. Lord, Jeweler. 103
In granting concessions for develop
ment of its recently discovered potash
deposits Spain is requiring concession
aires to reserve for national consump
tion such parts of the salts as the gov
ernment deems advisable.
DANCE.
Under new management. Extra
good music. Admission free at Ro
barts’ hall Saturday night.
BRENNEN’S DANCING ACADEMY
Diamonds, Lord Jeweler. 103
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