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ALASKA
STEAMSHIP
COMPANY
Fast and commodious steamers sailing between Seattle, Ketchikan,
Wrangell, Juneaa, Skagway, Cordova, Valdez and Seward.
Sail Seattle Arrive Seward
FEB. 16 .ALAMEDA FEB. 22
FEB. 24 .ALASKA. MAR. 2
MAR. 1 .MARIPOSA. MAR. 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,
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F. B. TRACY.
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PACIFIC STEAMSHIP CO.
ADMIRAL LINE
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ALASKAN SAILING DATES
Leave Seattle Leave Seward
! | Feb. 16 .FARRAGUT. Feb 22
J Feb. 25 .. WATSON .. Mar. 4
} | Mar. 2.EVANS.Mar. 9
Mar. 9..FARRAGUT..Mar. 16
Mar. 19 ..WATSON.. Mar. 26
Sailings from Seattle to
CALIFORNIA
Mondays, Fridays & Saturdays
Steamers
President, Governor, Queen,
Senator, Umatilla, Admiral
Schley mid 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,
y; 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 and Young Men’s Wear
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Sundberg’s Grocery jj
PLANT EARLY. WE HAVE THE SEEDS.
EAT GOOD EGGS. WE HAVE THEM.
:: SWIFT’S PREMIUM HAMS AND BACON, THE BEST ::
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Folger’s, Reliance, Crescent and Blue Ribbon.
Staple and fancy pastry at the
North Pole Bakery. 429
Best music and entertainers at Pe
terson’s. 399
SANTA FE, N. M.—Five thousand
homestead filings have been made in
the six United States land orfice dis
tricts in New Mexico under the Ferris
640-acre grazing homestead law since
Jan. 4, when the interior department
announced that conditional filings
would be received, pending formula
tion and publication of the regulations
for the operation of the law, and des
ignation of lands subject to entry un
der it. The total area included in
these filings is in excess of 3,000,000
acres, according to estimates given by
land office officials.
The rush for land under the new
law rivals the movement to New Mex
ico homestead areas in the years from
1907 to 1910, when homesteaders
added almost 40 per cent to the popu
lation. Not only has the number of
early filings been large, but that of the
next two or three months promises to
be proportionately larger. The first
filings have been made largely by
those already citizens of New Mexico,
who have filed on additional lands un
der the contiguous land clause of the
new law, extending their holdings
from 160 or 320 acres to the full 640
acres now permitted to be held by an
individual.
Railroads, automobiles and the fam
iliar covered wagon are bringing peo
ple from all directions. The great in
flux is from the East—Texas, Okla
homa and Southern Kansas—but the
applicants are being drawn from every
state in the Union.
Exclusive of land filings made since
Jan. 4, New Mexico has approximately
16.000. 000 acres of surveyed public do
mani and 13,000,000 acres of unsur
veyed federal land. Practically every
acre of this remaining public land is
available for entry unde the 640-acre
law, being non-mineral so far as is
'known, untimbered and non-irrigable
from any known source of water sup
pluy, and unsuited to any form of gen
eral farming without irrigation; in
other words, chiefly useful for grazing.
The open lands are found in almost
every county in the state, and all the
counties are receiving a share of the
new homestead movement, the most
active districts being in the eastern
tier of counties along the Texas
boundary. Careful observers believe,
unless some special and unlooked-for
provisions are included in the opera
tion of the Ferris act, that every acre
of the public domain in this state will
have been filed on under the new law
within two or, at the outside, three
years.
The total area of New Mexico is 78,
000,000 acres, or approximately 122,
000 square miles, and the present
population is somewhat less than three
to the square mile. Of the total area
9.000. 000 acres are within national for
ests, covering all timbered areas in
the public domain. About 5,000,000
acres are held in Indian and military
reservations, and there are 7,000,000
acres in the boundaries of the several
hundred private land grants made to
individuals and communities by the
Spanish and Mexican governments
during their occupancies, and later
confirmed to the heirs of the original
grantees by the United States court of
private land claims. The state owns
12,157,000 acres under grants by con
gress made for the support of schools
and other public institutions, for irri
gation development and to pay certain
The Store For All the People.
LARGE ASSORTMENT
Barden Tools BARDEN SEEDS Bet Them Now
SOLE AGENTS FOR PREFERRED STOCK CANNED GOODS
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of the bonded indebtedness incurred
during the period of the territorial
government.
Do you figure on building a home?
If so, why not buy 2 full acres adjoin
ing the city limits, with 60-foot streets
on three sides, and where you can
have all the advantages of the city
without the city expenses and pay no
more for the two acres than you will
pay for a lot on 6th ave ? There is no
argument. We have the two acres
for sale. Call today. Anchorage
Realty Company, 325 4th Ave.
493 LYNCH & EMARD.
Tony's Cafe
OPPOSITE EMPRESS
THEATRE.
TABLES FOR LADIES—
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Kitak Show Case Co.
Furniture, Cabinet*.
Bank and Office Fixtures
Made To Order
Kiln Dried & Seasoned Lumber
Factory Opposite White House
3 IN 1 LAUNDRY
AND BATHS
Now Reopened on the New
Premises.
Between G and H on 5th Ave.
Next to Harry Cribb.
P. H. RINGSTAD - Prop.
FRATERNAL ORDERS.
MASONS
Anchorage Masonic Club
meets first and third Thursday
j in month. G.C.HAMMOND, Sec.
L# O. 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.
WOOD SAWING
Also Wood, Any Lengths, for Sale.
Leave Orders at Robarts.
BOB PETERSON
320 K Street
LAU RITZ
THE SIGN MAN
PAINTING AND PAPERHANGING.
DESIGNING DECORATING
5th and D Street.
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IT’S A REAL PLEASURE
to view the new wall decorations on
view here exclusively. They are so
unconventional, so out of the common
and so unusually artistically attrac
tive. If you plan to repaper you
should by all means see these new
papers. To decide without doing so
is apt to result in regret later.
EVANS & FRANTZEN
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.
PHONE 76R.
.$
New Matanuska H otel
MATANUSKA JUNCTION.
M.J. ROCHE, Prop.
CAFE IN CONNECTION
A. LYALL, Prop.
LEARN TO DANCE.
Latest Dauces Taught. Begin
ners given special attention. For ap
pointment call at third house from
C on 6th Ave.
WM. BUNTING.
Brown wheat straw cigarette papers
it Robarts. 445
C. HENNING
TAILOR.
Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s
Suits Cleaned, Pressed and
Repaired. 4th Ave. and D St
Fancy cakes to order at the North
Pole Bakery. 429
BANK OF ANCHORAGE
Territorial Depository Foreign Exchange
SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES FOR RENT
ESTABLISHED 1916 THE BANK OF SERVICE
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