ALASKA
STEAMSHIP
COMPANY
4
Fast and commodious steamers sailing between Seattle, Ketchikan,
Wrangell, Juneau, Skagway, Cordova, Valdez and Seward.
Leave Seattle Leave Seward
JAN. 26.ALASKA.FEB. 1
FEB. 1 .NORTHWESTERN FEB. 8
FEB. 8 .MARIPOSA.FEB. 14
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
Leave Seattle Leave
Jan. 24 ...EVANS ...
Feb. 3 .. WATSON ..
Feb. 15 .. EVANS ..
Feb. 25 .. WATSON ..
Mar. 2 . .FARRAGUT.
DATES
Seward
Feb. 3
Feb. 10
Feb. 22
Mar. 4
. Mar. 0
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,
yj San Francisco to San Diego, Monday, Thursday and Saturday.
H STEAMERS HARVARD, YALE, PRESIDENT, GOVERNOR,
jn ADMIRAL SCHLEY AND ADMIRAL DEWEY,
a | Schedule Subject to Change Without Notice,
i; For Full Particulars, T. B. WATSON, Agent, Anchorage, Alaska.
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Alaska Men
Going Outside This Winter Outfit at
CHEASTY'S
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in Seattle.
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Men's and Young Men's Wear
Sundberg’s Grocery
BIO CUT IN TEA PRICES.
85c Grade..60c
60c Grade .50c
50c Grade. 35c
Folger’s, Reliance, Crescent and Blue Ribbon.
Staple and fancy pastry at the
North P61e Bakery. 429
Best music and entertainers at Pe
terson’s. f 399
ALASKA LICENSE
TAX WILL YIELD
HALF II MILLION
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.—Alaska
territorial license tax laws upon fish
ing and mining corporations were put
into effect by a supreme court ruling
today. Appeals in test suits from the
lower courts decrees upholding the
territorial legislature’s tax acts were
dismissed.
The decision of the supreme court
in upholding the territorial courts in
the taxation cases generally pleases
Alaskans, because of the fact that it
means a guarantee of an additional
income to the territory of nearly
$500,000 annually. This income from
the cannery tax of from 1 to 4 cents
a case on salmon, a saltery tax of 2Vi
cents per 100 pounds of fish, a fish
trap tax of $100 per year and a gill
net tax of $1 for each 100 feet, as well
as a mining tax of 1 per cent of the
net income in excess of $5,000.
Contested by Miners and Fishermen.
The suit was commenced by repre
sentatives of mining and fishing in
terests at Juneau, following the de
mand of the territorial officials for
taxes as imposed by the legislatures
of 1913 and 1915. The companies ad
mitted the facts and the amounts dua
in the test cases, and the territory
agreed to accept taxes and accrued in
terest at the rate of 8 per cent per
year and waive enforcements of the
penalties provided by law, in case the
decision resulted favorably to the ter
ritory.
Penalties in the statutes for non
payment of taxes include a 10 per
cent interest charge as a fine, with
each month a separate offense.
Claimed It Additional Tax.
Fish packers and raining men who
objected to the payment of the terri
torial tax did so on the ground that
it was an additional tax, as they were
already paying a federal tax. Then
point was that the organic act which
was passed by congress in 1912, and
which gave Alaska her territorial
form of government, specifically pro
vided that the territory should not
legislate on fish or fur laws. The act
of 1906, which exempted the salmon
canneries from the federal tax of 4
cents a case, by the release of salmon
fry from private hatcheries, also was
brought into the case, because it spe
cified that the federal tax “shall be
in lieu of all other license fees and
taxes.”
Contention of Territory.
The territory contends that the or
ganic act, passed in 1912, should “not
operate to prevent the legislature
from imposing other and additional
licenses and taxes.” The territorial
point of view was that this section of
the law repealed the act of 1906 and
made the canneries and mining com
panies liable for a territorial tax
which would be “other and additional”
to the federal tax.
The first territorial tax imposed in
1913 on the fisheries provided for 7 '
cents a case on sockeye and king sal- |
mon, and Vi cent a case on humpback,
cohoe and chum salmon. The tax law
of 1915, which superseded that of
1913, provided for 4 cents a case on
king, sockeye or red salmon, 2 cents
a case on medium reds and 1 cent a
case on all others, besides ^he saltery,
fish trap and gill net taxes.
Will Yield Half a Million.
Estimates of the income from the
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SOLE AGENTS FOR PREFERRED STOCK CANNED GOODS
tax to the territory place the reve
nue from the mines at about $250,000
per year, with $175,000 from the fish
eries and about $75,000 from all other
business and manufacturing plants
taxable under the territorial law.
The appeal of the cases from the
district court of the First division of ‘
Alaska to the circuit court of appeals I
at San Francisco was taken by John
Cobb, territorial counsel, last year.
The cases were continued and fought
out in the supreme court by George B.
Grigsby, attorney-general elect and
present counsel for the territory.
SAYS MINERS WERE NOT
OPPOSED TO THE TAX
SEATTLE, Jan. 16.—B. L. Thane,
gener 1 manager of the Alaska-Gas
tineau Mining company, who is in Se
attle . n his way to Juneau, after
spending two months’ vacation in Cal
ifornia, said Monday that the mining
interests in general had not opposed
to the territorial tax, says the Post
Intelligencer.
“We felt that the members of the
territorial legislature recognized the
importance of the mining industry in
Alaska,” he said, “and were sure that
they would treat us fairly. The fish
ing interests however, felt that they
were being doubly taxed. The taxa
tion laws had certain faults. The
matter was appealed to the supreme
court by the fishing interests more in
order to find out ‘where they were at’
than for any other reason.”
L. O. O. M.
Our next regular meeting will be
Wednesday night at 8 o’clock at our
new quarters in the Labor Temple.
Initiations. A social gathering for
members only after the regular meet
ing. The new social club is open to
all members in good standing.
440 JAS. L. CORT, Sec.
All the good things in the baking j
line at the North Pole. 420
Phone 43-Y for car, day or night.
Wood and coal a specialty. Universal
Taxi and Transfer. 126
Found—The best meals in Anchor
age at Cameron’s Cafe. 354
Mexican Chili Con Came, Riffle’s
Kitchen. 278
Fred Carlquist who is a graduate
optician from San Francisco is perma
aently established with George Os
tom the C St. Jeweler, and will ex
amine eyes free. 260
Read The Deity Times and be an
Inchorage booster.
MESSENGERS, TRANSFER
PHONE 89R.
CITY AUTO SERVICE. i
Office: Next to Labor Temple ^
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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
Peterson’s Billiard Parlors
And
PETERSON HOTEL
324-326 4th Ave.
C. F. PETERSON, Prop.
HOTEL SAVOY, Seattle
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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
find the Savoy the right hotel in the right loca
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.
Tex Jones R. C. Jeffery
The Panhandle
CIGARS
CANDIES
TOBACCOS
FRUIT
NUTS
4th AVE. NEAR C STREET
JUST TO REMIND YOU
.... .....—
Union Pacific System
Through Cars
between SEATTLE and Chicago
Kansas City. Denver
San Francisco. Los Aneeles
Direct Connections for aM
Mints East via the Famous
COLUMBIA MVER ROUTE.
Trains protected all the way
—all the tlme-by Automatic
Electric “Safety’' Signals.
H. L. HUDSON. A. G.F.*P.A.
Wood and coal delivered to any
•art of the city. Phone 43-Y. Uni
ersal Taxi and Transfer. 125
Stop at Peterson’s Hotel. 399
{ Wood Undertaking Co..
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
LICENSED KMBALMERS
Anchorage : Matanuska
FRATERNAL ORDERS.
BANK OF ANCHORAGE
Territorial Depository Foreign Exchange
SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES FOR RENT
ESTABLISHED 1916 RESOURCES OVER $600,000.00
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