BANKING BY MAIL
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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
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SEATTLE - - WASHINGTON.
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP
COMPANY
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 aVup-town office, Empress Building.
J. J. LANKIN,
Agent.
P. B. TRACY.
General Agent.
PACIFIC STEAMSHIP CO.
ADMIRAL LINE
| j ALASKAN SAILING
|! Leave Seattle Leave
■ | Jan. 24 ...EVANS ...
SI Feb. 3 .. WATSON ..
!! Feb. 15 .. EVANS ..
11 Feb. 25 .. WATSON ..
! Mar. 2 ..FARRAGUT.
DATES
Seward
Feb. 3
Feb. 10
Feb. 22
Mar. 4
. Mar. 9
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 Sp iect Change Without Notice.
For Full Particulars, T. B. WATSON, Agent, Anchorage, Alaska.
Alaska Men
Going Outside This Winter Outfit at
CHEASTY’S
The Specialty Men's Shop
in Seattle.
CHEASTY'S Inc.
Men’s and Young Men’s Wear
0. C. GRAVES, Pres.
2a Av. and Spring)
raaaaBSfflaagss
P. 0. SUNBERG
[BERG j |
GROCERIES AND GENERAL
MERCHANDISE
Reasonable Prices and a
Square deal to Everybody.
Umjerene ciene 1 dobra
podvorba svakomu jednako.
Fred Carlquist who is a graduate
optician from San Francisco is perma
nently established with George Os
born the C St. Jeweler, and will ex
amine eyes free. 260
SERVICE BARBER
SHOP.
ROBARTS BUILDING
Shampooing and Face Massage
A Specialty.
Mexican Chili
Kitchen.
Con
Canto, Riffle’s
278
After the movies a nice lunch at the
North Pole Bakery. 328
Get your eyes examined free at
George Osborn’s, the leading Jeweler
by Fred Carlquist, graduate optician.
Satisfaction guaranteed. 260
Wood—Phone 40-R. 186
ARMENIANS ARE
i
NEW YORK, N. Y.—The Ameri
can Committee for Armenian and Syr
ian Relief, with headquarters at 70
Fifth avenue, New York, has just re
ceived a statement from an eye-wit
ness of the experiences of the Arme
nian refugees exiled to northern Syria
and Arabia.
The writer is neither an American
nor a native of Turkey, but belongs to
a neutral country. He has traveled
extensively through the regions along
the Euphrates river and into the in
terior of the country. This report, in
part, is as follows:
“It is impossible to give an account
of the impression of horror which my
journey across the Armenian encamp
ments scattered all along the Eu
phrates has given me, especially those
on the right bank, between. Meskene
and Der-i-Zor. These can hardly be
called encampments, because of the
fact that the majority of these unfor
tunate people, brutally dragged out
of their native land, torn from their
homes and families, robbed of their
effects upon their departure or en
route, are penned up in the open like
cattle, without shelter, almost no
clothing and irregularly fed with food
altogether insufficient.
“Enfeebled already by privations
and the long marches, the bad treat
ment, the most severe tortures and
the daily pangs, the less feeble have
succeded in digging holes for them
selves on the banks of the river.
The management which has been
intrusted to transport these people
through the desert has no intention of
feeding them. Even it appears to be
a governmental aim to allow them to
perish of hunger,
“The remainder of the Armenian
nation disseminated on the border of
the Euphrates is composed of aged
people and of women and children.
The middle-aged and young men who
have not yet been massacred are scat
tered on the roads of the empire,
where they break stones requisitioned
for the needs of the army and are oc
cupied in works for the state. The
young girls have become the booty of
the Mussulmans. Many of them have
been thrown into the harems or into
the domesticity of their executioners.
“At present nearly 4,500 Armenians
are kept between the town of Meskene
and the Euphrates. Their superin
tendents distribute to them sparingly
and very irregularly a piece of bread.
Sometimes three or four days pass
when these people have absolutely
nothing.
“I saw under a tent of five or six
square meters about 450 orphans.
These poor children receive 150 grams
of bread per day. However, at times,
and this is more often the case, they
remains two days without eating any
thing.
“Nearly 1,800 Armenians are en
camped at Zierrat. They suffer more
than anywhere else of hunger, be
cause Zierrat is altogether desert.
“I believe there are some 15,000
Armenians scattered about all along
the Euphrates between Meskene and
Der-i-Zor. passing through Rekka.
Winter is approaching; cold and
dampness will add their victims to
that of famine. They can always find
something to eat—although very dear
—if they have money to pay for it.
“Dout£less there are many obsta
imam
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SPECIAL SALE FOR THIS WEEK ONLY
Big Reduction in Coal and Wood Heaters
SOLE AGENTS FOR PREFERRED STOCK CANNED GOODS
cles to sending money, of which the
principal is the ilj will of the authori
ties; but one could, nevertheless,
through indirect ways, succeed in
transmitting to them pecuniary as
sistance which might be divided
among the various encampments for
an equitable and sufficient distribu-.
tion of flour.
“If these funds are not sent, these
unfortunate people are doomed; if, on
the contrary, the funds are fairly sub
stantial, it is believed that many
among them can survive until peace
is concluded, which will decide their
fate.”
FATE SH0I1TLF
TACOMA, Jan. 11.—James Foley,
self-confessed murderer, now in the
county jail with a formal charge of
murder against him, either will be
made a free man this week or will be
prosecuted for his alleged crime, ac
cording to the nature of the informa
tion which is daily expected from
Nome, said Assistant District Attor
ney Fishbume last night.
A cablegram was sent to the gov
ernment officials at Nome a week ago,
said Mr. Fishbume, asking them to
use every effort to establish the fact
that such a crime as Foley confessed
to was committed, and also to endeav
or to find witnesses whose testimony
could aid in substantiating the cir
cumstances and incidents that Foley
included in his confession of the mur
der of “Diamond Dutch” during a
drinking brawl on the beach of Nome
18 years ago. Foley shot “Diamond
Dutch” he confessed, following the,
latter’s killing of “Dublin Mickey,”
Foley’s pal.
That it will be hard ever to bring
Foley to trial is the opinion of Mr.
Fishbume, owing to his belief that the
officials at Nome will be unable to
trace anything definite against Foley.
In Nome 18 years ago, said Mr. Fish
bume, on an average of one man a
day was murdered and no record kept
of the crimes.
AT THE EMPRESS.
Tonight, Romantic Farce; Sunday
and Monday, Exciting Drama.
Sunday and Monday, February 4
and 6 the Empress theatre will offer
another Pathe Gold Rooster play in
five parts entitled “The House of
Fear," featuring the favorite screen
Btar, Arnold Daly, as Ashton-Kirk in
vestigator. In this play Mr. Daly is
ably supported by Jeanne Eagels and
Sheldon Lewis, both well-known art
ists in film plays.
Mr. Daly’s keen mind in “The
House of Fear” delights in those mys
teries which have proven too shad
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
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Peterson’s Billiard Parlors
And
PETERSON HOTEL
324-326 4th Ave.
C. F. PETERSON, Prop.
HOTEL SAVOY, Seattle
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 dty,
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.
owy for the police. He finds joy in
hunting and matching his intelligence
against the craft of the cool calculat
ing criminal. There is a mystery in
“The House of Fear," but Ashton
Kirk (Arnold Daly) solves it, bring
ing the play to a very thriving and
exciting climax.
This Saturday evening only, Edward
Abeles, of “Brewster’s Millions” fame
will be featured in the exciting and
romantic farce, “The Million.”
This famous melodramatic farcical
production has won the distinction of
possessing more laughter and whole
some fun than any comedy of recent
years. Of Edward Abeles it need be
said only that he fulfills every re
quirement of a difficult role, and that
his series of performances place him
in the foremost rank of American
character-actors. 388
WAR ODDITIES.
LONDON, Jan. 24. — “Amateur
night" methods are used to decide the
ndnners of singing competitions be
hind the lines in France. The ranks
comprise hundreds of mellow voices
ind the man greeted by the loudest
uid longest applause gets the money.
Phone 43-Y for car, day or night.
Wood and coal a specialty. Universal
faxi and Transfer. 126
| Wood Undertaking Co..
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
LICENSED EMBALMERS
Anchorage Matanuska
FRATERNAL ORDERS.
MASONS
Anchorage Masonic Club
meets first and third Monday in
month. G. C. HAMMOND, Sec.
L. 0. 0. M. 1534
Regular meeting every Wed
nesday night at 8 o’clock,
Moose hall. Initiations twice
each month.
BILL'S CLUB.
J. T. WESTERMANN, Secy.
Meets at Club Rooms every
Tuesday evening at 8 o’clock.
EAGLES CLUB
Meets every Thursday night
at the Anchor club, Lathrop
Block.
Lost—My appetite until I had a
meal at Cameron’s Cafe. 364
BANK OF ANCHORAGE
Territorial Depository
Foreign Exchange
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ESTABLISHED 1916
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