Phone 52-Y
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP
COMPANY
Fast and commodious steamers sailing between Seattle, Ketchikan,
Wrangell, Juneau, Skagway, Cordova, Valdez and Seward.
Sails Seattle
MARCH 23 .
MARCH 30
APRIL 5 ....
Arrives Anchorage
ALAMEDA MARCH 31
... ALASKA . APRIL 6
MARIPOSA .APRIL 12
APRIL 11 . NORTHWESTERN
APRIL 19
This company reserves the right to change schedule of steamers with
out notice. Tickets on sale at up-town office, Empress Building.
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LANKIN, Agent.
F. B. TRACY, General Agent.
PACIFIC STEAMSHIP CO
* ADMIRAL LINE
ALASKAN SAILING DATES
LeaVe Seattle Leave Seward
Maif. 19 . .WATSON.. Mar. 26
Lv.j Seattle Ar. Anchorage
Malr. 26 .. .EVANS... April 3
Aprj. 1 ..FARRAGUT.. Apr. 9
Apr. 9 . .WATSON .. Apr. 17
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 Frakpcisco to San Diego, Monday, Thursday and Saturday.
STEAMERS HARVARD, VALE, PRESIDENT, GOVERNOR,
' ADMIRAL SCHLEY AND ADMIRAL DEWEY.
Schedule Subject to Change Without Notice.
Fv Full Particulars, T. B. WATSON, Agent, Anchorage. Alaska.
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LAUNCH “SWAN”
Capt. N. J. Gaikema.
Daily Trips to Knik and Goose Bay from Govern
ment Dock No. 1.
See Bulletin Boards for Schedule
Ticket Agencies at Baxter’s and City Auto Service,
Phone 89-R.
p 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
Sandwiches, coffee and pastry lunch
33 served at the North Pole Bakery.
Best music and entertainers at Pe
terson’s.
399
Paul Woodhouse, U. S. deputy mar
shal at Tenakee, has resigned his posi
tion and Jack Egan of Juneau has
been appointed to fill the position.
Libby, McNeil and Libby today
placed a contract with a Portland
Oregon, concern for a 240-motorship
for the Alaska cannery service.
Frank Grace, an old-timer in the
north, at one time assistant auditor
and later manager for the N. C. Co.
at Tanana, died in San Francisco re
cently from pneumonia.
A heavy Taku breeze recently
played havoc with the snowsheds over
the track leading from the mine to
the mill at Thane, demolishing about
1,500 feet of the structure.
J. J. McGrath, editor and proprietor
of the All-Alaska Review, formerly of
Seward, has taken a position with the
Juneau Empire, and announces that
the Review will be issued from that
city in the future.
The Fairbanks Igloo, Pioneers of!
Alaska, is boosting Cecil H. Clegg, a
member of that igloo, for the presi
dency of the grand igloo, which is to
meet in Juneau Thursday.
Arrivals from the Tolovana country
are authority for the statement that
considerable prospecting is in prog1
ress this winter on Brook’s creek, a
stream of considerable size about 18
miles back to West Fork.
Charles Lind, operating on a bench
back of the town of Livengood while
attempting to reach bedrock with a
drill, lost the bit and stem and was
compelled to sink an 80-foot shaft j
recover the string of tools.
It is reported that the Alaskan En-1
gineering commission has recom-!
mended the purchase, of the Tanana
valley railway at Fairbanks, as a con
necting link for the government1
scheme of railroads in Alaska.
Advices have been received in Ju-;
neau that Capt. H. B. Joyce, former I
commander of the cableship Bum- j
side, which has been in the Alaska ca- j
ble repair service for years, died on j
board a train leaving Seattle. The j
end came suddenly from heart failure. |
Mayor Stewart, of Juneau, has just |
returned from a visit to the east and
brings an offer of $20,000 from the
Carnegie Library fund for a public li
brary for Juneau provided the city
would furnish, a site and guarantee
the sum of $2,000 a year for the main
tenance of the institution.
While driving a four-horse team
with a big load of cordwood across a
slough near Iditarod, Felix Riley re
ceived a thorough ducking and the
horses nearly lost their lives when
the ice broke and precipitated them
into the water. Another team suc
ceeded in dragging them to safety.
By the collapse of two main string
ers under the dock of the Juneau Fer
ry & Navigation Co., Martin Oleson,
the lessee of the dock, lost about 200
tons of coal which was precipitated
into the bay. He expects to salvage
a portion of the fuel, but his loss will
amount to more than $1,000.
The motor ship Kuskokwim River,
which was built last year for service
between Seattle and Alaska, has been
purchased by the Oregon - Alaska
Steamship company, and will be op
erated between Portland and Alaska
ports. The semi-Die3el engines will
ANCHORAGE
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IS ACHIEVED BY STRICT ADHERENCE TO YOUR CUSTOMER'S WANTS
__ OUR MOTTO—EQUALITY!
SEWARD
PRICES REASOHABLE—
PHONES: STORE 7R
PROMPT DELIVERY—
—COURTEOUS TREATMENT
OFFICE 20-R
be taken out and steam engines sub
stituted.
Joe Britton, a Kuskokwim mining
man, says that section contains gold,
lead, tungsten, cinnabar and other
minerals in paying quantities.
Plans and specifications for a new
Episcopal rectory at Seward have
been received by Rev. G. J. Zinn, and
an effort will be made to have the
structure built this summer.
The Hospital association, of Peters
burg has organized a stock company,
with a capitalization of $2,000, for
the purpose of financing a plan to
erect a hospital building at that place.
Four hundred shares of stock have al
ready been subscribed for.
The governor’s office has been noti
fied that John Forsland, committed to
the Morningside sanitarium from
Fairbanks in December, 1912, was dis
charged from the institution on Feb
ruary 17 and was taken by relatives
to Lovelock, Nevada.
Fred E. Bradley, formerly agent
for the Standard Oil company at Ju
neau, who was recently arrested for
embezzling money from the company
and released on bonds, has been sur- <
rendered by his bondsmen, and his at- i
torney has withdrawn from the case. I
Jim Blaine, a Yakutat native, who i
was recently brought up for trial at |
Juneau, on the charge of cutting two ■
other natives, was found guilty by the !
jury of cutting wjth intent to kill.
One of his victims, a woman, died re
cently from the effects of her wounds.
Mrs. Darling, of Nome, has receiv-;
ed a letter from J. J. Underwood, of I
Seattle, stating that Mary Roberts!
Rinehart, the well-known author, and
Samuel G. Blythe, the famous writer!
for the Saturday Evening Post, will i
both visit Alaska during the coming j
summer. I
Emil Johnson died at Candle, near
Nome, recently from the effects of
shotgun wounds, self-inflicted. John
son had been acting queerly for sev
eral days before the deed was com
mitted, and his friends had been
quietly keeping watch of him but he
eluded their vigilance.
Elmer Lindquist is dead and Chas.
Nelson is in the hospital at Juneau
as the result of entering a drift too
soon after a round of shots had been
fired, both being overcome by the pow
der fumes. The men were at work in
the mine of the Alaska Juneau com
pany.
Cotton felt mattresses, bed springs i
and linoleum, at Crocker’s. 459 !
5th, near G.
Anchorage
YOU’LL BE ADMIRED
And oft envied in one of our swell
form fitting suits. Suit of fully
shrunken, pure woolen cloth. There’s
a dash and class to our tailoring that
sets off your figure to the best ad
vantage. And another thing, the suit
will hold its shape and wear well.
BJORNSON & CANTON
Corner Fourth and I St.
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George Anderson
PIANO EXPERT AND FACTORY REPRESENTATIVE.
I* or high-grade pianos and player pianos will be in An
chorage this summer. Expert work on pianos, player
pianos and organs guaranteed. For prices on new and
used pianos and organs, also pianos for rent, address Box
991, Juneau, Alaska.
Alaska Pool Roo:
_ Fourth Ave., Near D.
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Cigars. Tobaccos, Candies, Soft Drinks, Fruits, Concord
Grape .Juice.
MUSIC
JOSEPH SCHMITBAUER.
Proprietor.
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Hotel Anchorage
NEWEST AND MOST MODERN IN THE CITY
SUNNY KOOMS 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 Hotel
MATANUSKA JUNCTION.
M. J. ROCHE, Prop.
CAFE IN CONNECTION
A. LYALL, Prop.
LEARN TO DANCE.
Latest Dances Taught. Begin
ners given special attention. For ap
pointment call at third house from
C on 6th Ave.
WM. BUNTING.
C. HENNING
TAILOR.
Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s
Suits Cleaned, Pressed and
Repaired. 4th Ave. and D St.
OUR COMPLETE FACILITIES, together with a thorough knowledge
of the INDIVIDUAL REQUIREMENTS of our customers, make
our service distinctively profitable and satisfactory to those
who deal with us
DIRECTORS:
Leopold David Chas. E. Brown
Sidney Anderson Geo. W. Palmer
Harry V. Hoben J. E. O’Reilly
BANK OF ANCHORAGE
RESOURCES OVER $500,000.00
ESTABLISHED MAY 20th, 1916