w BANKING BY MAIL
Jt makes no difference where you are located, you
knd us your gold dust or checks and we will place
"rtttfra to your credit, acknowledging receipt and furnish
inig you with a <?keck book so you can draw money wlieg I
deeded; or, if you prefer, we will place the money on de
posit in our Savings Department where it will earn 4 per
i£ent interest.
V We will be pleased to attend to any business you
w-jsh transacted anywhere.
German-American Mercantile Bank
S I SEATTLE . . WASHINGTON.
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP
COMPANY
Fast and commodious steamers sailing between Seattle, Ketchikan,
Wrangell, Juneau, Skagway, Cordova, Valdez and Seward.
Leave Leave
Seattle Seward
Dec. 1 Mariposa .Dec. 8
Dec. 8 Alameda .Dec. 15
Dec. 24, Alameda .Jan. 2
Jan. 2, Mariposa .Jan. 9
! Leave Leave
Seattle Seward
Jan. 1, Mariposa .Jan. 8
Jan. 8, Alameda .Jon. 15
Jan. 18, Mariposa.Jan 23
Jan. 21, Alameda.Jan. 31
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. 1
ADMIRAL LINE S
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Sailings from Seward to ]
Seattle and Alaskan Ports
Date Steamers !
Jan. 7 .EVANS ■
Jan. 17.WATSON
Jan. 27 .EVANS I
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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j! SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ROUTE. jjj
U San Francisco to Los Angeles, daily except Sunday.
U San Francisco to San Diego, Monday, Thursday and Saturday. jfl
fi STEAMERS HARVARD, YALE, PRESIDENT, GOVERNOR, *
n ADMIRAL SCHLEY AND ADMIRAL DEWEY. !R
U Schedule Subject to Change Without Notice. S
R For Full Particulars, T. B. WATSON, Agent, Anchorage, Alaska. £
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Going East
Through Rates from Anchorage to
Eastern Destinations Are in Effect
via the
fTScc America First”
ALASKA STEAMSHIP COMPANY
THE ADMIRAL LINE
To California and tlie 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,
f Wash.
| ANNOUNCEMENT!!
| Of the taking over of the Wible & St. Clair Stock by
g . Boy Fairbanks.
| New heavy Wool Malone Pants, Summit Leather Vests.
Also tine high-grade Sweaters, and Stag Shirts.
Closing out complete line of high grade Suits from
!G $7 -50 lip- ~ *“
Bills payable to the firm of Wible & St. Clair are
now payable to me.
| ROY FAIRBANKS Cor. 4th and D St. fjj
FRY A “WANT” AD. IN THE TIMES FOR RESULTS.
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(Seattle P.-I.)
Seth Mann, attorney and manager
| of the transportation bureau of the
San Francisco Chamber of Commerce,
i addressing the members of the Alaska
bureau or the aenttie Chamber of
; Commerce, whose guest he was at a
luncheon held in the Arctic Club on
Monday, argued for a larger measlii'e
of home rule for the northland, a cen
tralized administration of its affairs,
he said, that shall remove It from the
j officialdom and bureauacy to which it
I is now subjected at Washington.
Judge Thomas Burke and Judge
| Fred M. Brown, of the Third judicial
J division of Alaska, also spoke. Scott
j C. Bone, former chairman of the bu
l reau, presided.
j Mr. Mann, who was President Wil
| son’s personal representative on the
j Seattle Chamber of Commerce’s trip
| to Alaska three years ago, said that
trip served to emphasize the impor
tance of Alaska to the nation at large,
so that Alaska and its development is
something to which we can give our
attention.
i “In my report to President Wilson
made after the trip,” said Mr. Mann.
“I said that Alaska could not be de
veloped without a railroad, and that
no such road could he built by private
capital, and that there was a prece
dent for the government undertaking
the building of such a road in its
building of a railroad across the Isth
mus of Panama.
Development Method Important.
“That project having been launch
ed the question which now remains to
be determined is: What is the best
method by which to develop its coal
fields, and you here are better capable
of advising as to that than anybody
else.
“We may expect a great commerce
with that territory as a result of the
development of that great territory’s
J resources, so I regard it as a day of
I congratulation for the people of Alas
ka and Seattle, and in fact of the en
‘.T. e world that Alaska’s commerce has
already increased upward of 30 per
cent., and that 40 per cent, would be
•a net lea measuie of the commerce be
tween Seattle and Alaska in the short
time since the national government
has evinced an interest in land whose
treasures have been too long kept
locked up.
“The activity of the federal govern
ment is a demonstration of the gov
ernment’s interest in the territory and
its people, and the confidence its ac
tion has inspired throughout the coun
try, and on the coast as well as in the
interior of Alaska has vouchsafed and
guaranteed its future.
“The congratulations we feel that
the development of Alaska is assured
have become mutual. The problems
of details are now in your hands as to
schools, fisheries and land laws, and
the responsibility concerning these is
now largely yours.”
Lane for Local Government.
Mr. Mann then said that the idea
had already been advanced by Secre
tary of the Interior Franklin K. Lane
for a local administration of Alaska
through a branch government located
in the territory and which would make
unnecessary the delays in the settle
ment of questions now required be
cause they must be referred to the
various bureaus in Washington.
“In the old day of the Russian gov
ernment of Alaska the cry used to be
‘St. Petersburg and heaven are a long
| way apart,’ ” said Mr. Mann, smiling
| ly, “but in our day it has been and is
| ‘Washington and Alaska are a long
| way apart, and with but little of heav
en until recently.’ ”
Mr. Mann, after declaring for a
larger measure of home rule for Alas
ka, an administration, he said,
through which its government shall
not be left to the officialdom of Wash
ington, D. C., said thata poetic touch
was to be found in the great north
land, that people did not go there
merely to make money and return to
their former abodes any more than \
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the early pioneers went to Calfornia.
tor, as in the latter case, those who
dM go merely for gain and who ex
pected to return when they had made
I their fortunes found the country so
1 agreeable that they remained.
; “And such has been the case with
j the hardy pioneer of Alaska,” said
I Mr. Mann. “They have grown to love
: the territory’s vastnesses, its rivers
i and mountains, and delight in its ad
vancement.”
Judge Thomas Burke, president of
the Seattle Chamber of Commerce,
who followed Mr. Mann, expressed the
sense of obligation the members of
that body felt for the work done by
Mr. Mann in behalf of Alaska.
“Mr. Mann added a neighborly act
to a national act, anti we are indeed
his debtors,” said Judge Burke. “We
recognize also the good work of Sec
tary Lane in forwarding the interests
of Alaska.”
Restrictions Hamper Development.
Judge Burke, continuing, said that
it was useless to expect settlers to go
to Alaska upon limited or restricted
leases of its coal lands, and that while
a monopoly was not wanted develop
ment could not be obtained through a
safe deposit vault; nor could a coun
try’s resources be kept locked up.
“The people of the west do not want
monopoly in Alaska, but a develop
ment of that territory’s resources
which is consistent with the country’s
present need,” concluded Judge Burke.
Judge Fred M. Brown, of the Third
judicial division of Alaska, was the
closing speaker. He said that the
Alaska bureau’s trip to Alaska had
done more for that territory in three
years than all that had been done for
it n any perod prior to that event;
that the few friends able to speak in
telligently for it had been increased
to substantial proportions, and that
Alaska has at last reached a point
when its great resources are about to
be developed.
Among others who attended the
luncheon were:
William G. Thomas, United States
commissioner, Wrangell, Alaska; Wil
liam A. Gilmore, Nome; S. Blum, Val
dez and Cordova; E. G. Anderson, .
S. Brace, E. B. Burwell, J. E. Boyer,
Asahel Curtis, L. R. Dawson, J. H. Ed
wards, J. C. Ford, C. C. Filson, Her
man Goetz, James A. Haight, Charles
G. Heifner, W. H. Hanns, H. B. Ken
nedy, M. D. Leehey, C. H. Lane,
George M. McClellan, J. L. McPher
son, S. Normile, L. B. Feeples, C. K.
Sturtevant, H. A. Shroader, R. H.
Stretch, A. S. Taylor and S. J. Wet
trick.
THE SYDNEY
LAURENCE CO.
COMMERCIAL AND
PICTORIAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Interior, Flashlight Work a
Specialty.
Kodak Developing and Printing
HARMONY THEATRE.
Peterson’s Billiard Parlors
And
PETERSON HOTEL
324-326 4th Ave.
C. F. PETERSON, Prop.
I The Matanuska Cafe
I
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Jn the New Matanuska Hotel.
*at AT THE JUNCTION
THE PLACE Tu
Alex (Blondv) Anderson
SPEED SERVICE
The Royal Cafe
Special Arrangements Made for Entertaining Private
Parties.
1 he place ot real service. Boxes, Lunch Counter.
Try Some of Our Special Dishes.
Northern Transfer Company
COAL AND WOOD.
GENERAL TRANSFER BUSINESS.
PHONE 47-Y.
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4th and D C. P. PEDERSEN, Mgr.
The Lang Stove, born in
Alaska. v
Is the Stove for Alaskans.
Body made of Arrneo Rust
Resisting Iron.
Polished Cooking Surface.
AVill hold fire overnight with
wood or coal.
■' AVill 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 it.
k 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 NIGHT.
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WHEN you come to Seattle, remember the
Hotel Savoy extends you a hearty welcome.
All the Alaskans who have made their headquar
ters with us in the past, and those who are con
templating coming to Seattle in the future will
tion and at the right price. It goes without say
ing, if you come once, you will come again.
Our hotel is in the very heart of the city,
most convenient to the shopping district, thea
tres, churches and public buildings, absolutely
fire-proof. Rates: $1.00 per day and up, without
bath; $1.50 per day and up with bath.
Don’t forget the place—the Savoy Hotel.
W. G. KING, Manager.
TRY A “WANT” AD. IN THE TIMES FOR RESULTS.
DlOlOlOlOlOlQjQES
BANK OF ANCHORAGE
Territorial Depository Foreign Exchange
SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES FOR RENT
ESTABLISHED 1916 RESOURCES OVER $600,000.00