King River Coal
Bird Creek Lumber Co.
PHONE 52Y.
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP
COMPANY
Fast and commodious steamers sailing between Seattle, Ketchikan,
Wrangell, Juneau, Skagway, Cordova. Valdez and Seward.
Hails Seattle Arrives Anchorage j
APRIL 5 MARIPOSA APRIL 12
APRIL 11 NORTHWESTERN APRIL 19
APRIL 17 .ALAMEDA APRIL 24
APRIL 22 ALASKA APRIL 29
This company reserves the right to change schedule of steamers with
out notice. Tickets on sale at up-town office. Empress Ituilding.
iaV3l3l7iai3l3l3iai3131313l3iai31313t313l31313V31313131
PACIFIC STEAMSHIP CO. I
ADMIRAL LINE
*
tc
.
■;
:
V
'
?,
■.
?!
ALASKAN SAILING DATES j
Lv. Seattle Ar. Anchorage
Apr. 2 . .FARRAGUT.. Apr. 10
Apr. 9 ..WATSON .. Apr. 17
Apr. 17 ...EVANS... Apr. 25
Apr. 25. .FARRAGUT.. May 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 Angeles, daily except 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.
*»
LAUNCH “SWAN
Capt. N. J. Gaikema.
Daily Trips to Knik and Goose Bay from Govern
ment Dock No. 1.
See Bulletin Boards for Schedule
Ticket Agencies at Baxter’s and City Auto Service,
4 Phone 89-R.
Correct Clothes
FOR MEN
THE VERY LATEST IN STYLES, COLORS AND
FABRICS SHOWN AT
CHEASTY’S Inc.
SEATTLE, WASH.
0. C. GRAVES, Pres. 2d Ave. and Spring
Men’s and Young Men’s Wear.
Sandwiches, coffee and pastry lunch
es served at the North Pole Bakery.
#
Best music and entertainers at Pe
terson’s. 399
John King, a well known taxider
mist of Cordova, died suddenly at that
place recently.
J. J. Rath, a homesteader at Haines,
has received from the general land of
fice certificate of final proof on his
claim.
Twenty-two cases ar eon the calen
dar for investigation by the grand
jury for the term of court which con
vened recently at Fairbanks.
The Glacier Mining company is mak
ing preparations to work its property
near Haines on a large scale during
the coming summer.
A number of residents of Chata
nika recently presented the school at
that place with a fine Victrola and an
excellent selection of records.
The Cordova public school has an
enrollment of 75 pupils, 18 boys and
27 girls, and with a 94 per cent at
tendance.
In the Fortuna ledge district a man
by the name of Edgar is reported to
have struck pay five feet wide on Dis
appointment creek, which is said to be
rich.
The work of stringing the telephone
line between Fairbanks and Nenana is
rapidly progressing and it is expect
ed will be completed within a short
time.
While no liquor license has ever
been issued in the town of Tolstoi it
is said there is no difficulty in obtain
ing hootch there, and the authorities
are looking into the matter.
It is reported in Fairbanks that the
Wells-Fargo Express company will es
tablish an express line between Fair
banks and the Tolovana country dur
ing the coming summer.
Considerable prospecting is reported
at Dime creek near Nome, but a short
age of wood and insufficient teams to
do the hauling is hampering opera
tions. Several dumps are being taken
out.
Advices received at Cordova recent
ly state that Thomas Barclay, a broth
er of James Barclay, who was recent
ly killed by a snowslide near McCar
thy, was killed at the Jumbo mine a
short time ago.
The body of the man who was re
cently found dead on the beach at
Mitkoff island, has been identified as
that of David Morrison, an old-timer
ofthat section, who was better known
as “Happy.”
'The government is loser by about
$600 through the destruction of the
postoffice at Chena by fire recently.
The loss is confined to postoffice fix
tureif'and equipment, the stamps hav
ing been saved.
The Ketchikan Rifle club, a branch
of the National Rifle association, has
located an excellent rifle range near
the city, and have applied to the war
department to have it made a military
reservation.
Judge C. E. Bunnell of the Fourth
division, who had been at Juneau on
a combined business and pleasure trip,
arrived at his home in Fairbanks re
cently, and is now holding a term of
court at that place.
Robert Nolan, superintendent for
Col. W. L. Stevenson, is making ar
rangements for freighting in a quan
tity of tools and supplies to Porcu
pine and Rainy Hollow for Colonel
w
a
<
PS
o
a
o
55
<
THE STRONGEST OVERALL HOUSE IN ALASKA
(BOSS OF THE ROAD, BLACK BEAR AND FINCK* DETROIT SPECIAL
SPRING CLEARANCE OF DRESS SHIRTS—$1.50 AND $2 SHIRTS NOW $1.00
PRICKS REASONABLE— PROMPT DELIVERY
PHONES: STORE 7-R
—COURTEOUS TREATMENT
OFFICE 20-R
Stevenson. who will develop the prop
erties recently purchased there on a
large scale.
Forty years ago. on March 10,
Judge William G. Thomas arrived in
Wrangell and has made that city his
home ever since. He has held a fed
eral position under every administra
tion since that of President Cleveland.
During the years 1915 and 1916,
there were 1662 birth, 1164 deaths and
1025 marriages in the territory of
Alaska, according to the vital statis
tics recorded in the office of the secre
tary of the territory.
The city council of Seward recently
passed a resolution declaring the rail
road and other powder houses located
at San Juan point were a menace to
the city and ordered their removal
within thirty days.
James Dixon, an old-timer, forty
years of age, and unmarried, was ser
iously injured a few days ago when he
fell off the basement floor in the power
house into the pumping pit, striking
upon an iron wheelbarrow.
On ground owned by J. W. VV'il
lison on Midway creek, Tolstoi district,
pay running 30 to GO cents to the foot
is reported to have been found. Geo.
Blanusha of Iditarod is said to have
purchased the ground.
1
Three Shetland ponies were recent
ly brought to Fairbanks from the out
side and made the trip in good shape.
The owners will experiment to see if
they can be used to replace dogs in
many instances where light loads are
hauled.
—
FEDERAL AGRICULTURAL
EXPERIMENT MAN HERE
M. D. Snodgrass, superintendent of
agriculture, with headquarters at Ko
diak, arrived in the city on the Admi
ral Farragut and is registered at the
Hotel Anchorage. Mr. Snodgrass will
be in Anchorage and vicinity for the
next thirty days in the interest of the
department of agriculture, and is pre
paring an article for tomorrow’s issue
of The Daily Times in regard to his
work in this vicinity.
Mr. Snodgrass is a graduate of the
state agricultural college at Manhat
tan, Kansas, and has been very suc
cessful in his management of the Ko
diak station, and is especially well
qualified for the important work he
has under his jurisdiction.
An effort will be made to have Mr.
Snodgrass present at next Tuesday’s
luncheon of the Chamber of Commerce
and make a short talk to the members
in behalf of co-operation in his en
deavors to assist the farmers in this
vicinity.
Cooks’ and waiters’ coats and aprons
at C. Me Felix. 793
Fresh nuts, Robarts. 769
RECRUITING STATION
Should be at Robarts. 778
After the movies a nice dairy lunch
at the North Pole Bakery. 797
• a a ■
Our New Stock of CUT GLASS, CROCKERY, CHINA
GRANITE AND ALUMINUM WARE.
OIL CLOTH, Builders’ and Heavy Hardware.
STOVES AND RANGES.
C. W. BOLTE
726 4th Avenue. Anchorage, Alaska.
c= irsnipn rs=n t^JO r.=J!i (?«o cpnwn
Alaska Pool Room
Fourtli Ave., Near D.
Cigars. Tobaccos, Candies, Soft Drinks, Fruits, Concord
Grape .Juice.
MUSIC
JOSEPH SCHMtTBAUER
Proprietor.
Hotel Anchorage
NEWEST AND MOST MODERN IN THE CITY
SUNNY ROOMS ELECTRIC LIGHTS
HOT AND COLD WATER.
REASONABLE RATES
Hegg & Laurence
Members Photographers’ Association of America,
Washington, D C.
High Class Portrait Work
Artistic and Pictorial Photography.
EXPERT KODAK FINISHING.
We do not finish work in the shortest possible time,
hut in the best possible manner.
Our prices are not tin* cheapest in town, BUT OUR
WORK IS.
We have the best labor saving equipment that money
can buy, hence our claim t<> superior work.
HEGG & LAURENCE,
Masonic Building.
Rich Willow Creek Mining’ Claims for Sale
One-half interest in tour claims, 80 acres. jj
Fissure vein, free milling, one assaying from $35.00 to $60.00 per ton. s
Joins the Mohawk Mine.
PRICE $15,000.00.
Three claims, 60 acres, joining the Matanuska mining property fi
where a mill is now being installed. The Matanusfc Mine is considered one S
of the richest in camp and was sold a few years ago for $60,000.00. «
On these three claims is a strong fissure vein from two to four feet in f
width, and crops on the surface for 600 feet assays 20 per cent molubden- I
ium and several dollars in gold. s
There is also a parallel vein that pans gold. Over $500,000.00 worth «
of mineral in sight. Price 9175,000.00. Will sell on terms, with a sub- "
stantial payment down. 0
One claim of 20 acres, showing a good vein of free milling ore, ad- a
joining the Mohawk mine. Price 95,000.00. ^
One claim of 20 acre* adjoining the Webfoot claim, ground well io- l
cated; the vein can easily be found by doing a little digging. Price 91,000. G
Samples of ore can be seen at my office. B
GEORGE ANDERSON
4th and F Street, Campbell Bids'. Anchorage, Alaska ■
isiB>gaBaEtsaBasagagiiB8SMg«igns«aEiBfegtgn«aieiEMstE^uEtieiijeua»ig»gM»gMguEuJ
FRANCE WAS SAVED—
INDIRECTLY THOUGH NONE THE LESS SURELY, THROUGH THE THRIFTY HABITS OF THE FRENCH PEOPLE, AS MUCH AS BY THEIR UNEXAMPLED
HEROISM; MILLIONS OF DOLLARS WERE AVAILABLE FOR THE PROSECUTION OF THE WAR, MONEY SAVED BY THE PEOPLE, LITTLE BY LITTLE,
UNTIL THE SUM BROUGHT FORTH AT A CRITICAL TIME WAS IN THE AGGREGATE, STAGGERING.
.THE AMERICAN PEOPLE—THE MOST EXTRAVAGANT ON EARTH—MIGHT AT THIS CRUCIAL MOMENT IN THE AFFAIRS OF THE NA
TION, ASK THEMSELVES IF EACH PERSON IS DOING HIS “BIT” AND BY SO MUCH AS HE IS ABLE TO PUT AWAY FOR A POSSIBLE NA
TIONAL NEED, HELPING TO PAY HIS DEBT TO HIS COUNTRY.
OPEN AN ACCOUNT TODAY. A BANK ACCOUNT IS THE GREATEST INCENTIVE TO PRACTICAL ECONOMY.
BANK OF ANCHORAGE
RESOURCES OVER $500,000.