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.
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 at up-town office, Empress Building.
J. J. LANKIN,
Agent.
F. B. TRACY.
General Agent.
PACIFIC STEAMSHIP CO.
ADMIRAL LINE
ALASKAN SAILING DATES
Leave Seattle Leave Seward
Jan. 24 ...EVANS ... Feb. 3
Feb. 3 .. WATSON .. Feb. 10
Feb. 15 .. EVANS .. Feb. 22
Feb. 25 .. WATSON .. Mar. 4
Mar. 2 . .FARR A GUT.. 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.
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.
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.
A Inn 0. C. GRAVES, Pres.
V^TiJIUrVO 1X0 IIIU. 2a Av. and Spring]
Men’s and Young Men’s Wear
Fred Carlquist who is a graduate
optician from San Francisco is perma
nently established with Georgs 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 Came, Riffle’s
278
Trial—It was only a trial but I’m
still eating at Cameron’s Cafe. 364
' 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
Seward now has a school of music,
both instrumental and vocal, with a
corps of three instructors.
Stream tin, antimony and tungsten
ores to the value of about $100,000
have been produced on the Seward
peninsula during the past season.
In a shipment of the Kennecott
Tjosevig ore to the smelter recently
it was found that the ore ran 42 per
cent copper and $18 per ton silver.
Thirty inches of snow fell during
a recent storm at Seward. The heavy
fall of snow delayed operations of
trains on the railroad for some time.
The city council of Nome, at a re
cent meeting, elected H. H. Moller as
mayor of the city to fill the unex
pired term of Mayor Blake, who re
cently resigned the position.
It is reported at Seward that a
movement is on foot to open the
Skeen-Lechner mine near there next
spring. This is said to be an excep
tionally promising gold property.
Wm. Longley has taken a contract
to handle the freight of the Dan
Creek Mining company this spring
and will begin to move the supplies
from McCarthy late this month.
Material for the completion of the
new Methodist church has been re
ceived at Seward and the structure
will soon be ready for occupancy.
Ralph Ewing, a former Dominion
telegraph operator at Carcross, was
recently killed on the Somme front
in France, while fighting with the
Canadian troops against the Germans.
A. J. Callow, who was admitted to
the Morningside sanitarium from
Valdez, in November, 1914, was re
cently discharged from the institu
tion and given over to the keeping
of friends who took him to Russia.
The doctors and carpenters for the
new government hospital at Aniak
failed to arrive before the close of
navigation, only the nursfes and teach
ers reaching there, so the building
will not be erected for another year.
With the thermometer 35 degrees
below zero the Dawson fire depart
ment on December 21 fought a blaze
that destroyed a portion of the boiler
house and 70 tons of hay of the
Northern Commercial company. The
loss was estimated at about $20,000.
Carles Benson, a station worker,
who was blinded in one eye and
badly mangled by the premature ex
plosion of a blast at Tumagain Arm
and brought to Seward, had his right
arm amputated at the elbow and it is
feared will also lose his left eye,
which is badly injured.
Henning Anderson, a member of
the station crew in the employ of the
Alaskan Engineering Commission at
Potter creek, was caught in a slide re
cently and carried into a loading trap
90 feet below. His right leg was frac
tured at the knee .and hip and he re
ceived internal injuries.
In the district court for the First di
vision Judge Jennings recently handed
down a decision to the effect that a
homesteader had no right to claim the
water frontage or tideland section ad
jacent to their ground unless they
actually needed the same as a means
of egress or ingress.
For Billiards and Pool, Peterson’s.
'Pry a Times Want Ad for results.
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SPECIAL SALE FOR THIS WEEK ONLY
Big Reduction in Coal and Wood Heaters
SOLE AGENTS FOR PREFERRED STOCK CANNED GOODS
TWO BASKETBALL GAMES
ARE SCHEDULED F9R SUNDAY
At a meeting of the managers of the
basketball teams with President Lous
sac yesterday afternoon it was decided
to cut the price of general admission
to 25 cents for all future basketball
games played on Tuesday nights. The
managers have also decided to do
away with the informal dance and the
nominal price of two bits entitles the
purchaser to any seat in the hall.
A double-header has been arranged
for Sunday afternoon and the general
admission will be 50 cents. A practice
schedule has been arranged for as fol
lows: Commission team to practice
on th" court every Monday and Fri
day f.-o.n the hours of 5:30 to 7:00
p. m. a d the City team on the same
dates . om 7:00 to 8:30 p. m. The
players are requested to abide by this
ruling. Sundays games will be be
tween the City and Commission young
ladies to be followed by the regular
league game between the City and
Commission fives.
From reliable sources it was learn
ed yesterday that the captain of the
young ladies basketball team repre
sentng the Alaskan Engineering Com
mission has materially strengthened
her team that are practising behind
closed doors. Hazel Brittain is the
latest acquisition to the team and will
play one' of the forwards in Sunday’s
game versus their City ssters. Miss
Brttan is a veteran at the game and
it is understood she has introduced
several intricate geometrical plays
that will be difficult for the opponents
to fathom. Captain Polley also has
been proselyting and has recently
signed a star center who is showing;
up in great form. Both teams are |
practising daily and under the ablej
coaching of Veach and Wilford are j
rapidly developing into shape to give !
the fans an exceptionally exciting and
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
IJj/HEN 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 RENINO YOU
-of
Union Pacific System
Through Cars
between SEATTLE and Chicago
Kansas City. Deliver
San Francisco. Los Angeles
Piract Connactloae for all
Mints East via the Famous
COLUMBIA RIVER ROUTE.
Trains protected all the way
—all the time—by Automatic
Electric "Safety’' Signals.
H. L. HUDSON. A. G. F. & P. A,
SEATTLE
Wood and coal delivered to any
part of the city. Phone 43-Y. Uni
versal Taxi and Transfer. 125
Stop at Peterson’s Hotel.
399
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. O. 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.
Wood—Phone 40-R. 186
BANK OF ANCHORAGE
Territorial Depository Foreign Exchange
SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES FOR RENT
ESTABLISHED 1916 RESOURCES OVER $600,000.00