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S\ ALASKA
STEAMSHIP
COMPANY
Fast and commodions steamers sailing between Seattle, Ketehikan,
Wrangell, Juneau, Skagway, Cordova, Valdez and Seward.
Leave Seattle Arrive Seward
. MARCH 9 .ALAMEDA. MARCH 16
MARCH 16 .NORTHWESTERN.MARCH 23
MARCH 23 .ALAMEDA. MARCH 29
MARCH 30..ALASKA.APRIL 6
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
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ALASKAN SAILING DATES
Leave Seattle Leave Seward
Veb. 25 .. WATSON .. Mar. 4
Mar. 2.EVANS.Mar. 9
Mar. 9. .FARRAGUT. .Mar. 16
Mar. 19 ..WATSON.. Mar. 26
Mar. 26 .. .EVANS... April 3
sailings trom Seattle to
CALIFORNIA
Mondays, Fridays & Saturdays
Steamers
President, Governor, Qneen,
Senator, Umatilla, Admiral
Schley and Admiral Dewey.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ROUTE.
a San Francisco to Los Angeles, daily except Sunday.
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STEAMERS HARVARD, YALE, PRESIDENT, GOVERNOR,
ADMIRAL SCHLEY AND ADMIRAL DEWEY.
Schedule Subject to Change Without Notice.
j For Full Particulars, T. B. WATSON, Agent, Anchorage, Alaska.
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Alaska Men
Going Outside This Winter Outfit at
CHEASTY’S
The Specialty Men's Shop
in Seattle.
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Men’s uid Young Men’s Wear
Sandwiches, coffee and pastry lunch
;s served at the North Pole Bakery.
Best music and entertainers at Pe
terson’s. 399
Fifteen hundred barrels of salt
herring were taken aboard the steam
er Admiral Evans at Seldovia recent
ly, consigned to Seattle.
The grand jury recently in session
at Juneau, recommended that the pay
of jurors in the first division be rais
ed from $3 to $5 per day.
The Northwestern Fisheries com
pany, which recently purchased the
Seldovia cannery, are making a num
ber of improvements in the plant.
Charles Gay is reported to have re
cently sold out his interests in a lay
on Willow creek, in the Marshal dis
trict, to Joe Darling for $15,000.
At a recent meeting of the city
council at Petersburg, Jacob Altness
was chosen to fill the vacancy in the
body caused by the prolonged absence
of Councilman Gauffin.
The Nome city council, at a recent
meeting, pledged the city to spend
$2,500 a year on the upkeep of the
Snake River harbor which is project
ed by the government.
W. D. Murray and W. Muncaster
arrived at Ketchikan recently and pro
ceeded to Nakat inlet, where they
will superintend the construction of
a new cannery to replace the one de
stroyed by fire last season.
In addition to lynx and other fur
bearing animals being abundant in
the Kougarok section, timber wolves
have recently shown up there. This
is the first time they have ever been
reported in that section.
Advices from Dime creek, in the
Nome district, state that Valentine &
Co., working on the second tier bench
es, have got down with a working
shaft and have uncovered good pay.
Under the auspices of the bureau of
education, the Indian schools at Matla
kahtla, Hydaburg and Klawock will
combine and hold an industrial exhibit
and fair at Metlakahtla. The fair will
consist of an exhibiton of the work
of the native scholars.
The residents of Skagway and the
commercial club of that place, are
planning on constructing a wire sus
pension bridge across the Skagway
river near tidewater, that will connect
with the trail leading over to Smug
gler cove.
The Arctic Lumber company, of
Cordova has recently disposed of all
its holdings in that city to the Cordo
va Mill & Lumber company, a local
corporation which has recently instal
led a modern saw and planing mill at
that place.
A fire of unknown origin destroyed j
the cabin of Tom Armstrong on Dun- 1
can creek in the Ruby district, recent
ly, entailing a loss of more than $1,
000. Provisions to that amount had
just been laid in by Armstrong and
he also lost a fine fox-skin robe.
Advices received at Nome from
Unalaklik state that much illness pre
vails there, especially among the
children, and the bureau of education
is asked to erect a hospital at this
place. The nearest doctor is located
130 miles away.
According to a representative of the
land office many ranchers in the vi
cinity of Fairbanks will be unable to
obtain free titles to their land when
they attempt to prove up unless they
get busy and fulfill the terms of the
homestead law which provides that
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BAGLEY’S APPLE JUICE.28-OUNCE CAN 20c
GOLD SHIELD COFFEE..16-OUNCE CAN 40c
PRICES REASONABLE
PHONES: STORE 7-R
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one-eighth of the entire homestead
must be under cultivation after the
second year.
Enoch John, a Nenana native, con
victed of embezzlement by bailee be
fore the native council and sentenced
to 34 days in the native jail, refused
to remain put, so the natives appealed
to the commissioner and as a result
John got eight months in the federal
jail at Fairbanks.
A crew of men has started to move
the bunkhouse from the Niggerhead
association claim near Olnes to the
town to be used by Peter Buckholtz,
as a hotel and bar in place of the
building recently destroyed by fire.
The bunkhouse will be renovated and
made over into a first-class hotel.
While tending traps on the upper
Copper river a man by the name of
Morris was attacked by a wolverine
and narrowly escaped with his life,
the animal jumping on his shoulders
from behind and scratching and biting
him seriously before he was able to
reach his axe and kill it.
A Chena trapper has a lynx trained
to hunt for him, and claims that the
animal has caught and brought home
to him dozens of rabbits and ptarmi
gan. He states that the lynx can go in
snow so deep it would be impossible for
a dog to travel and that the animal is
worth its weight in gold to him as a
game provider.
War News
Rumors and facts at Peterson’s. 444
F. Olrikat, the fur buyer, will be
back in Anchorage on or about the
15th. See Brown & Hawkins. 565
For a Solo game come to Peterson’s.
Phone 43-Y for car, day or night.
Wood and coal a specialty. Universal
Taxi and Transfer. 126
Trial—It was only a trial but I’m
still eating at Cameron’s Cafe. 354
Maps of Alaska for Sale. Robarts.
FRATERNAL ORDERS.
MASONS
Anchorage Masonic Club
meets first and third Thursday
in month. G.C.HAMMOND, Sec.
L. 0. 0. M. 1534
Regular meeting every Wed
nesday night at 8 o’clock,
at A. L. U. Hall.
JAS. L. CORT, Sec.
BILL’S CLUB.
J. T. WESTERMANN, Secy.
Meets at Club Rooms every
Tuesday evening at 8 o’clock.
EAGLES CLUB
Meets every Friday night
at the Anchor club. Lathrop
Block. C. G. GANTY, Secy.
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j Alaska Pool Roo:
Fourth Ave., Near D.
| Cigars, Tobaccos, Candies, Soft Drinks, Fruits, Concord
Grape Juice.
MUSIC
JOSEPH SCHMITBAUER. - . Proprietor.
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BANKING BY MAIL
It makes no difference where you are located, you
can send us your gold dust or checks and we will place
them to your credit, acknowledging receipt and furnish
ing you with a check book so you can draw money when
needed; or, if you prefer, we will place the money on de
posit in our Savings Department where it will earn 4 per
cent interest.
We will be pleased to attend to any business you
wish transacted anywhere.
German-American Mercantile Bank
SEATTLE
WASHINGTON.
Hotel Anchorage
NEWEST AND MOST MODERN IN THE CITY
SUNNY ROOMS ELECTRIC LIGHTS
HOT AND COLD WATER.
REASONABLE RATES
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Dohrmann-Herning & Co.
BUILDERS' HARDWARE
TOOLS AND SPORTING GOODS.
HOUSEHOLD FURNISHINGS.
New Matanuska Hotel
MATANUSKA JUNCTION.
M. J. ROCHE, Prop.
CAFE IN CONNECTION
A. LYALL, Prop.
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LEARN TO DANCE.
Latest Lances Taught. Begin
ners given special attention. For ap
pointment call at third house from
C on 6th Ave.
WM. BUNTING.
Cotton felt mattresses, bed springs
and linoleum, at Crocker’s. 459
C. HENNING
TAILOR.
Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s
Suits Cleaned, Pressed and
Repaired. 4th Aire, and D St
Pies, fancy cakes, staple bakery
goods at North Pole Bakery. 567
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BANK OF ANCHORAGE
THE BANK OF ANCHORAGE HAS JUST RECEIVED A SUPPLY OF RUSSION PAPER ROUBLES WHICH ARE SELLING AT $33.00; THIS PRICE IS OF
COURSE TEMPORARY, AS THE VALUE OF THIS PAPER IS GOING UP STEADILY, AND FORMS IN OUR OPINION A SAFE AND PROFITABLE INVESTMENT.
THE PRICE OF $33.00 AT PRESENT OBTAINING, IS AN ADVANCE OF $2.00 IN THIRTY DAYS IN THE VALUE OF THIS PAPER, AN INDEX TO THE MERIT OF
THE INVESTMENT, AND A GUARANTEE OF ITS STEAD Y AND RAPID INCREASE IN VALUE.
ESTABLISHED 1916
TERRITORIAL DEPOSITORY FOREIGN EXCHANGE
, RESOURCES OVER HALF A MILLION.
THE BANK OF SERVICE