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PIANO EXPERT AND FACTORY REPRESENTATIVE.
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Wood—Phone 40-R.
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Best tables at Peterson’s. 444
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Anchorage booster.
Peterson’s Billiard Parlor for latest
war bulletins. 400
Joe Kisling, watchmaker, near Har
mony theatre. 433
H. SEIDENVERG
Have Reduced Prices on All
Winter Footwear and Clothing
OPPOSITE HARMONY THEATRE.
DAILY DOINGS
AROUND TOWN
Max Nelson is registered at the Ho
tel Anchorage.
The Alaska Labor Union held its
weekly meeting last night and several
important matters were brought up
for discussion.
Mr. and Mrs. G. Danielson and son,
of Matanuska, are spending a few
days in Anchorage and are registered
at the Crescent.
The merchants are advertising the
fact that it is time to get ready for
the spring garden and have their
goods on display.
The enthusiasm in Sunday’s skiing
race is growing and the contestants
are practicing daily and will be in
good physical shape for the big race.
Secretary Henry reports that many
new members are joining the Alaska
Labor Union and the old members arc
rapidly paying up their back dues.
Jack Sutherland returned last night
from a trail trip to Seward and left
this afternoon for Mile 40 with Art
Shonbeck, who is on his way to the
outside.
J. A. Kissel, a prominent commission
man from Juneau, is registered at the
Hotel Anchorage and will be in the
city the balance of the week on busi
ness.
Judge Leopold David has sufficient
ly recovered from his recent illness to
be up and take moderate exercise. He
will be able to resume his official du
ties within a few days.
Real estate men report that they
are receiving many inquiries in regard
to Anchorage property and conditions
from all parts of the country and sev
eral local deals are pending.
Captain Magrius will spring a sur
prise tonight at the basketball game
against the 14th and will have a
change in the line-up. The series has
now simmered down to a fight for sec
ond place between these two teams
and each is out to win tonight’s game.
Billy Nourse, formerly connected
with the local office of the Pacific
Navigation company, has accepted
the position of purser with the com
pany and made his initial trip on the
Admiral Farragut that arrived in
Seward last Saturday.
Wm. Gerig accompanied Commis
sioner Mears on his trip to Anchorage
and is stopping at the Crescent. Mr.
Gerig is prominently connected with
the government and was formerly en
gineer in charge of dredging opera
tions on the Panama canal.
George Purvis is superintending the
work of remodeling the new bank
quarters for the Bank of Anchorage
in the Fowler building on the comer
of Fourth avenue and H street and has
the reinforced, burglar proof bank
vault about completed.
Captain Tom Neely claims the win
ter trail record from the end of steel
on the Seward end to Anchorage. Cap
tain Tom made the trip with J. A. "Kis
sel as passenger in 14 hours and 5
minutes. He reports the trail In splen
did shape and more travel than in
previous years.
Mayor J. G. Watts notifies The
Times that the water department is
making some needed changes in the
sump tank and the water will be col
ored for the next few' days. However,
he says there will be no cause for the
water users to worry as the water is
properly filtered and perfectly pure,
i Mayor Watts has wisely suggested
j to the owners of vacant lots in An
j chorage that they plant potatoes or
I otherw ise put the ground to some use
I this spring by planting a crop of some
nature. He suggests that this will not
only enhance the value of the prop
erty but will materially help the ap
pearance of the city in general.
W. J. Cassdiy, president of the An
chorage Willow Creek Mine & Devel
opment company, has an interesting
interview in the January issue of the
Alaska and Northwest Mining Journal
published at Seattle. Mr. Cassidy
dw«ells impartially on the merits of the
different producers of the Willow
creek district and predicts great devel
opments in the district for the coming
season.
Todays Sourdough Limited will
bring in 26 cars of coal from the Eska
and Doherty coal mines this afternoon.
This is the record shipment and the
managers of the coal companies say
that they could ship this many more
if they could get the cars from the
Alaskan Engineering Commission.
Authorities of the commission report
that they have a number of cars ord
ered for the coal trade and will do
everything possible to increase the
tonnage. Most of the coal on today’s
train is billed to the government but
there will be several cars for local
trade.
COMMISSIONER MEARS
ON THE JOB AGAIN
Commissioner F. Mears and party,
who left Seward at 8 o’clock Sunday
momipg, arrived in Anchorage at 8
o’clock last night. The party left
Seward on a special train and were
met at the end of steel by teams and
driven to Rabbit creek, where the An
chorage special met them and brought
them to Anchorage. Mr. Mears re
sumed his duties with the Alaskan En
gineering Commission this morning
and will spend the next few days in
going over affairs with his associates
before entering into details of the
season’s important work of the con
struction of the Great Alaska railroad.
Mr. Mears stated to a Times repre
sentative this morning that he had a
delightful trip that was satisfactory
in the extreme. He said that he ex
tremely glad to return to his family
and Anchorage and would give a de
tailed interview in tomorrow’s issue of
The Daily Times.
MRS. WILSON’S SISTER DIES.
ROANOKE, Va., Feb. 27.—Mrs.
Matthew Maury, a sister of Mrs.
Woodrow Wilson, wife of the presi
dent, died here last night, following an
operation for peritonitis.
BUD WHITNEY CLAIMS
OWNERSHIP OF HEN *
THAT LAYS FROZEN EGGS
In Miles City and on the Powder
rier range among the cow boys he
was considered truthful almost to a
fault, especially when it came co tes
tifying to blotted brands. In fact he
was known as “Truthful Bud" and his
word was the last one appealed to
and he was equally able to back up
his assertions both by word of mouth
and other ways customary to the man
ners of the country at that time. It
is passing strange what a wonderful
difference a change of pasture makes
in some men; not only in regard to
manners and customs but in the
sterling characteristics, supposed to
be planted firmly in their innermost
soul. The climate of Alaska is not
surpassingly different from Montana
as regards heat and cold. The days
may be longer, but it is nothing un
common for the mercury to register
fl'l below and the plains to be buried
under several feet of snow. So it can
not be laid to the climatic conditions.
His associates are of the same ilk and
society is on a par and the moral
laws of the land are taken from the
same book of circumstances but there
is certainly some bona fide reason fur
the change.
It may revert back to the old cry
that “he has been in the country too
long.” - •
It is sad to see a man whom you
have been tried and tested fail in the
deeliring years of life. It is hard to
realize that this man who was por
trayed in several of Frederick Rem
ington’s virile short stories as “Truth
ful Bud” and who was given several
pages of prominence in the states his
tory of “Men With the Bark On”
should ignominiously stumble at the
crucial moment and his veracity be
questioned and his statements placed
in the same category with the sour
dough who single-handed and alone
packed a ton of loose hay across
Chilkoot pass and never lost’a straw.
To make the sting more bitter he de
liberately sat down in the manager’s
swivel chair, rolled the inevitable cig
arette, spat, and deliberately began
to augur.
There was no preface; there was no
previous story to beat and fishing was
not the subject. He topped a few
bad ones; he spoke feelingly of his
cutting horse and he even mentioned
the silver mounted saddle when he de
liberately switched the subject and i
the scene of action from the cattle of I
Montana’s wind-swept plains to the
hens of Alaska’s rugged mountains.
It was deliberate and evidently pre
meditated for he blocked the door
and cut off any avenue of escape and
commenced something like this: “I
have heard tell of the accommodating
breed of hens that frequent Yellow
stone park and upon signal lay their
eggs in the boiling waters of the hot
springs for the benefit and sustenance
of the tourists. I have heard tell of
the Orpington hen who knew when
leap year came and made it 366 eggs
for the year, beating all previous rec
ords by one egg. Hens that lay eggs
with double yolks are not uncommon
and it is a fact about the hen fronts
the far east that lays the Easter
eggs. Everybody has heard tell of
the golden egg and been cautioned
about putting all of their eggs in one
basket. You have all heard the story
of the apt remark of Roscoe Conkling
to the young lady who dropped her
egg at the English breakfast, of
‘cackle my dear, cackle,’ but I’ll bet
none of you ever heard of a hen who
insists on laying frozen eggs.”
Silence reigned supreme and Bud
noticing the incredulous expressions
hastened to continue. “A friend of
my wife’s, and one of Anchorage’s
most popular and charming women,
gave us a pedigreed Rhode Island
Red hen for Christmas. We have a
very warm and comfortable hen house
and the hens are all doing well and on
state occasions drop an egg. We were
proud of our new hen and her healthy
red comb and were particular to keep
her housed up in the warm hen house.
She was certainly contrary and every
morning would find some way of es
caping and get busy scratching
around in the cold gravel in the bug
gy shed. Being told that she was a
layer we naturally looked for her dai
ly offering and after a w'eek’s search
found her nest in an old box partially
filed with gravel and there were sev
en eggs, frozen solid.”
There was nothing strange about
this, and no commend was made, and
Bud proceeded. “Well, you can be
lieve it or not but that "fool hen is
some productive animal and insists on
using that cold box for her storage
plant and every day since the 25th of
December has laid a frozen egg and
if you don’t believe it you can ask
Mrs. Whitney."
Bud said he had a hard time in
pawning frozen eggs off on his city
customers and the statement that
they were hard-boiled didn't go even
with the elite. He was sad when he
touchingly .referred to her frozen
comb and frosted feet but brightened
up when he said that the hen was ap
parently happy and guessed he could
make some arrangements with the ice
man for her summer home.
TRAIN WRECKED; 19 KILLED.
ALTOONA, Pa., Feb. 27.—Nineteen
occupants of the sleeper on the Mer
cantile express train on the Pennsyl
vania system were killed when the
train flew the track and was wrecked
near Altoona at an ,early hour, this
morning.
Fresh Ranch Eggs at the Mint. 472
Fresh-killed veal and pork at Mint.
518
HARMONY
SCREENOGRAPHS
In the play “The Three of
Us,” the ending is much differ
ent than the usual “fade out”
with the hero and heroine in a
clinch. The picture ends with a
terrific explosion. Tonight and
tomorrow.
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SHF UK MEAT CO.
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DINNER
with confidence if the roast
came from this market. For,
properly cooked, there is no fin
er meat to be had than the kind
we sell exclusively. Tender,
sweet and juicy, it both stimu
lates and satisfies the appetite.
Yet this choice meat will cost
you no more than you pay now.
SPECIAL
COMPOUND, 10 lb. Pail. $1.60
COMPOUND, 5 lb. Pail. 75
COMPOUND, 3 lb. Pail. .50
LINK PORK SAUSAGE. 20c lb.
SEAL TIGHT BACON.25c lb.
Dried Salt Pork..18c lb.
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