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EDW. T. McNALLY WM. MAITLAND
M’Nally & Maitland
Lumber
Wood
We carry a complete stock of common dimension. Fin
ish that is CLEAR and properly kiln-dried.
SALES AGENTS
ESKA CREEK COAL CO.
COAL $8.00 PER TON
Yard and Office Foot of 6 St.
Phone 41R
The Art Palace of Anchorage.
The First Building in Anchorage.
Carrying a high grade line of cigars, cigarettes, to
baccos. Strongest Fruit Department in the city.
Classical music rendered every aft* moon and even
ing. Piano and violin. You will like i
Have your mail sent to Montana Pool Hoorn. You
can get it any time.
You are welcome ! ! Let’s get acquainted this winter.
A. CHIMENTO and ALEX TSAKUMIS, Proprietors.
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.
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German-American Mercantile Bank
SEATTLE
WASHINGTON.
THE HOUSE OF CLEAN
SPORT.
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WORLD'S
BEST
ROB ARTS’ BILLIARD
AND BOWLING
PARLORS.
P. 0. Opposite.
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SERVICE BARBER
SHOP.
ROBARTS BUILDING
Shampooing and Face Massage
A Specialty.
UNION CIGAR STORE
4th Ave. Bet. C and B Sts.
Choice line of Cigars and
Tobaccos,
Confectionery and
Soft Drinks.
Meet Your Friends at the
UNION CIGAR STORE
GUS STIPOVICH and
OTTO GUSTOSON, Props.
Cotton felt mattresses, bed springs
and linoleum, at Crocker’s. 459
Read The Daily Times and be an
Anchorage booster.
CHOVIN SUPPLY
5th and C.
Carries Everything in Electri
cal Supplies and Fixtures
to make a happy Home
Agent for
FRISCO STANDARD
GAS ENGINES.
Central Barber Shop
Modern Equipment Throughout
New Sanitary Bathroom in
Connection.
417 4th Avenue.
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1 Kitak Show Case Co.
Furniture, Cabinets.
§ Bank and Office Fixtures
Made To Order
£> Kiln Dried & Seasoned Lumber
§ Factory Opposite White House
THE FAIRBANKS
4th and D
MEN’S CLOTHIERS
ROY FAIRBANKS, Prop.
Phone 48-Y for car, day or night.
Wood and coal a specialty. Universal
Taxi and Transfer. 126
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* LAST FRONTIER GOES DRY
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Alaska, Where, According to Beach
and London, They Took Their *
, Whiskey Straight, Pins
On a Ribbon.
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A bunch of the boys were whooping it
up in the Malamute saloon,
The kid that handles the music box
was hitting a jag-time tune;
Back of the bar in a solo game sat
Dangerous Dan McGrew,
And watching his luck was his light-o'
love, the lady that’s known as Lue.
—From “The Shooting of Dan Mc
Grew,” by Robert W. Service.
-The ballots had all been counted,
and the dry states were holding a re
ception to welcome the addition to
their society. Prim Miss Maine head
ed the receiving line, which included
a brilliant representation of southern
aristocracy, such fine old families as
the Carolinas, Alabama, Georgia, Vir
ginia and Tennessee, as well as a gen
erous sprinkling of western and mid
dle-western names, states lacking in
the time-hallowed traditions, but wel
come to the cause, nevertheless.
Looking somewhat self-conscious in
their newly-acquired virtue, prosper
ous Michigan, rangy Montana, the
cattleman, and the well known wheat
ranchers, Messrs. South Dakota and
Nebraska, were passing down the line
shaking hands and expressing pleas
ure in their redeemed state.
Of course this was a reception
somewhat different from the rather
exclusive affairs of former years.
There was probably a feeling among
the elder states that “society isn’t
what it used to be, with all these
strange newly rich persons from the
west being recognized,” but it was a
very successful and happy occasion.
Then, at a late hour, the door open
ed to admit a stranger. A sudden
hush came over the room. There was
an uneasv constraint at the intrusion.
“Dear me, sister,” gasped handsome
Miss South Carolina, to her sister,
Miss North, “who is that person?”
“I’m sure it must be some mistake,”
chimed in sweet Miss Virginia; “it
can’t be any of our people.”
So the stranger stood hesitatingly
by the door a moment, obviously em
barrassed in the company of so many
beautiful ladies and prosperous gen
tlemen. He was a handsome young
stranger, for all that his tawny beard
was broken stiff to his parka hood,
and pools of melting snow collected
about his mukluks. His skin was
bronzed and toughened by many a
broiling sun and biting frost, but his
eyes were clear blue, with a merry
twinkle that was infectious. He was
tall and lithe and trail-hardened, and,
in his innocence of polite society, he
had brought his dogs to the reception,
a band of half wild, wolfish creatures
As he stood waiting recognition he
glanced with a sort of sheepish pride
at the new white ribbon badge pinned
to the lapel of his flaming Mackinaw.
And thus he hesitated.
It remained for young Washington,
himself a newcomer in this fast-grow
ing society, to recognize the stranger.
“Well, by the eternal!” quoth Wash
ington—“it is—no, it can’t be—yes,
sir, Alaska! Klahowya, tillicum?”
“Why, you doggoned old salmon
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to find a friendly face in a strange
land. “Put her there!”
Then the young western state in
troduced the lusty young northern ter
ritory to the rest of the assembly, and
the world learned that the last fron
tier is gone, that the rip-roaring, dev
il-may-care Alaska, beloved of all
fiction writers, is as dead as the Tar
Flat and Roaring Camp familiar to
the last generation of readers.
Alaska voted dry? Alaska, the
place where, according to popular be
lief, ably seconded by the “movies”,
all men had hair on their chest and
gulped their “hootch” neat, paying for
it with fistfuls of dust; Alaska, where
business consisted of finding new
Klondikes, and where pleasure meant
squandering their wealth in a night;
of all'places, Alaska turned against
the Demon Rum, sicking the mala
mutes onto old John Barleycorn and
chasing him off the lot! Shades of
Soapy Smith and Swiftwater Bill!
“Why, don’t you remember this? If
you don’t you have read something
like it:
“It was a quiet night at the Tivoli.
At the bar, which ranged along one
side of the large chinked log room,
leaned a half dozen men, two of whom
were discussing the relative merits of
spruce tea and lime juice as remedies
for scurvy. * * * Come up, you all,
and drink. Come up, you unburied
dead, and name your poison. Come
up, everybody! This is my night and
I’m going to ride it. Tomorrow I’m
30 and then I’ll be an old man. * *
* Surge along, you siwashes and sal
mon eaters. * * * I’m the mangy
old he-wolf. Listen to me howl.”
Fortunes have been made selling
that line of talk to magazine editors.
All of us love action stories, and most
all of us do, have believed for years,
that such as that was Alaska.
And after we all had been carefully
educated to believe in that, Alaska
pins on a white ribbon, takes the
pledge and restocks all the Tivolis and
Nuggets and Klondike bars with
grape juice and chocolate ice cream
sodas.
We know that this will be a shock
to many believers in the wild west. It
must have been a shock to them when
the famous Barbary coast of San
Francisco reformed, and when Seattle
converted the old joints on Washing
ton and King streets, where Skookum
Jim and Swiftwater Bill, and many
another new-made millionaire gloried
and drank deep, into pool parlors and
soft drink saloons.
But some thoughtful observers who
have paid a little attention to Alaska
saw the change coming years ago.
Even before they held a world’s fair
at Seattle, in 1909, to celebrate the
discovery of gold on the Klondike ten
years before, the frontier days of
Alaska were coming to an end- Big
business had discovered Alaska. Rail
roads were being built, and more have
followed. Huge gold dredges began
to work the Nome sands. Vast for
tunes in copper were discovered, but
copper is not mined with a sluice box
that a man can knock together op
the spot and the development of these
new riches brought armies of laboring
men and costly machinery. Powerful
companies took over the great fisher
ies.
Towns and cities grew up and or
ganized chambers of commerce, and
the Tanana valley got into friendly ri
valry with the southeastern section
over the size of the rutabagas and
cabbages that could be produced from
the fields. Why, federal school teach
ers say, even out on the lonely Dio
medes and on the snowy deserts above
the Arctic circle, the traveler will find
the simple Eskimos and Indians crank
ing up their Victrolas on a winter’s
night.
In Juneau, Skagway, Whitehorse,
Fairbanks, Circle or Nome they are
reading the same world news today
that we read in Kansas City.
Yep, some years ago Alaska shed
his mackinaw and mukluks for a bus
iness sack coat and the latest model
shoes. In place of the chamois poke
out of which he used to shake gold
dust, he bought a dime savings bank.
He will no longer greet you in that
quaint dialect beloved of the Rex
Beach-Jack London school, but he’s
very apt to bore you to death with sta
tistics on temperature and rainfall,
and the possibilities of four crops of
alfalfa off Tanana valley land. His
pockets are filled with booster litera
ture instead of nuggets.
But still we couldn’t quite believe
the old days—the red days, the roar
ing days—were gone until we saw that
white ribbon pinned to his lapel.
And just a few years ago we be
lieved with the poet:
There’s never a law of God or man
runs north of 53.
Funny, isn’t it?—Kansas City Star.
GEORGE OSBORNE
The Leading Jeweler and Optician.
We are closing out our entire line of
Gorham’s Sterling silver ware. We
have on hand a complete line in the
two most up-to-date and artistic pat
terns. Don’t fail to take advantage of
the big sale in Gorham’s sterling sil
ver ware. Our stock is complete and
up-to-date. Closing out at cost. 391
Lunches, sandwiches and coffee at
the North Pole Bakery. 429
THE SYDNEY
LAURENCE CO.
COMMERCIAL AND
PICTORIAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Interior, Flashlight Work a
Specialty.
Kodak Developing and Printing
HARMONY THEATRE.
BAXTER’S
MAGAZINES
PERIODICALS
NEWSPAPERS
Panorama Photographs
Anchorage and
Mount McKinley
Pioneer Sheet
Metal Works
YUKON STOVES
— AND —
HEATERS
Corner Fifth and C Sts.
Anchorage - - Alaska
B. C. NICHOLS
WATCH MAKER AND
JEWELER.
s
Anchorage, Alaska.
CARROL & CO.
Fourth St., near E
MEN’S OUTFITTERS
Complete stock of Clothing,
Shoes and furnishings.
For Sale—Coal oil at Hotel Morri
son, H bet. 3rd and 4th. 515
Wood—Phone 40-R.
186
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Union Laundry
and Bath House
Fourth Are., Between H and I,
Anchorage %
OUR WORK IS GUARANTEE^
—and—
SANITARY
THE LARGEST AND CLEANEST
BATH TUBS IN ANCHORAGE
Sanitary Market
The only told storage plant in con
nection with market In Anchorage.
Home-made Sausages. Fruits. Veg
etables. Butter and Eggs, at whole
sale. Restaurants and roadhouses,
specie: attention.
Ith Ave.. Bet. H and I Sts.
E. E. KURTZ & CO.
FREDERICfeNELSON
SEATTLE
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Invite you to send to them for
such items in FURNITURE and
DRY GOODS as cannot be readily
supplied by the merchants in your
own community.
All such orders received by
FREDERICK & NELSON receive
the prompt, personal attention of
an expert shopper, and Parcel Post
shipments are sent POSTAGE
PAID to any point in Alaska.
Trial—It was only a trial but I’m
still eating at Cameron’s Cafe. 354 '1
Stop at Peterson’s Hotel. 399
STORE CLOSED
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