CALIFORNIA *
QUICKLY REACHED
via
SEATTLE-PORTLAND-SAN FRANCISCO
On the ALL RAIL
Scenic Shasta Route
THREE DAILY TRAINS
SHASTA LIMITED — CALIFORNIA EXPRESS
—SAN FRANCISCO EXPRESS—
Through Standard Sleeping Cars from Seattle and Port
land to San Francisco and Los Angeles. Dining
and Observation Cars.
ARE YOU GOING EAST?
The cost via California is practiealy the same as on the
Northern Routes.
Call or write for information
C. M. ANDREWS,
712 Second Avenue;
D. F. & P. A.
SEATTLE, WASH.
SOUTHERN
PACIFIC LINES
Make It a Smokeless, Dustless,
Gasless, Trip East This Year
In addition to the cleaner conditions due to
Electrification, you ’ll enjoy the comfortable
accommodations and you’ll like the little
courtesies incident to “Milwaukee” service.
Both Steamship Co.’s act as Milwaukee agents in Anchorage.
A. E. HARRIS, Traveling Passenger Agent, Juneau.
Chicagot Milwaukee & St Paul Railway
Going East
Through Rates from Anchorage to
Eastern Destinations Are in Effect
via the
ALASKA STEAMSHIP COMPANY
THE ADMIRAL LINE
To California and the South via Portland and the mag
nificent steamships “Great Northern” and “Northern
Pacific.”
A. S. DAUTRICK .Traveling Freight and Passenger Agent, Room 18,
Valentine Building.
T. J. MOORE, City Passenger Agent, Second and Columbia, Seattle;
Wash.
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP
COMPANY
Fast and commodious steamers sailing between Seattle, Ketchikan,
Wrangell, Juneau, Skagway, Cordova, Valdez and Seward.
Leave Leave
Seattle Seward
Dec. 1 Mariposa .Dec. 8
Dec. 8 Alameda .Dec. 15
Dec. 16, Mariposa.Dec. 23
Dec. 24, Alameda .Dec. 31
j Leave Leave
| Seattle Seward
Jan. 1, Mariposa .Jan. 8
Jan. 8, Alameda .Jon. 15
Jan. 16, Mariposa.Jan 23
Jan. 24, Alameda.Jan. 31
iius company reserves tne 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
Sailings from Seward to
Seattle and Alaskan Ports
Date Steamers
Dec. 17.EVANS
Dec. 27 .WATSON
Jan. 7 . EVANS
Sailings Seattle to Seward
10th, 20th, and 30th each Month
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.
TRY A “WANT" AD. IN THE TIMES FOR RESULTS.
| NEW YORK, Novi 20.—Bringing a
tale of a land where gold is more plen
tiful than it is in Alaska, Christin Led
en, a young Swedish explorer, has re
turned to this city after three years
spent in the Arctic. As evidence of
the truth of his story he has a har
poon head hammered out of gold by
natives of a camp since wiped out by
disease. He has also several speci
mens of gold-bearing quartz brought
to him by Eskimos, who dared many
dangers in order to get them. Leden
| said he had visited a land where the
ground was so full of oil that in the
warm, months the smell of it filled the
air.
Mr. Leden’s explorations carried
him over thousands of miles in the
country northwest of Hudson bay. He I
went alone and lived and traveled
with the natives and as one of them, i
He visited the Iglukiks, near Fury and
Hecla straits, the Kinipetus, between
the Great Fjsh river and Chesterfield
inlet; the Netchiliks, near Bootha, and
the magnetic pole, and the Eivisliks,
near the Waver river. His outfit was
shipped by boat to Fort Churchill, in
Hudson bay, which was the starting
point of his travels.
Just where the gold and oil are Mr.
Lteden, who is now> at the Waldorf
Astoria, will not say. The place where
the gold is to be found he did not
visit because to have done so, he
said, would have meant another two
years in the far north. The territory
was described to him by some Eski
mos, who told him of a great hill that
had been so split that the different
stratas were uncovered. Here the red
dish-yellow metal could be seen. Mr.
Leden persuaded some of those jour
neying north to search out the place.
“The Eskimos that went in to find
it had a terrible time,” he said. “Their
dogs died and they had to win their
way back to the place where I was
staying through terrific weather. They
attempted to bring back several large
specimens of the gold, but conditions!
became so bad they had to throw them i
away.
“One very old man told how his
grandfather, the possessor of an
old-fashioned big bore gun, had
found a yellow metal that he had ham
mered out to make bullets. The stor- j
ies of the Eskimos would indicate that
gold is up north in greater abundance
than in Alaska. The natives, of
course, have no idea of its value."
Mr. Leden’s expedition was planned
with the idea of making a scientific
survey of the country and its people:
He said he believes the Eskimo had a
common ancestor with the American
Indian. He bases his opinion chiefly
on their folk lore and their music. He
took a phonographic outfit into the
far north, and he brought back many
records of Eskimo music.
“The Eskimo have a wonderful lan
guage,” he said. “It is hard to master
because the same word will express so
many different things depending upon
the inflection, the pronounciation and
the relative position. It is much the
same as the Indian language. There
is the same similarity in their myths
and in their poetry.
“Each individual composes his own
songs, and by them gives expression
to his feeling. Their instrumental
music is entirely confined to the
drum.”
Traveling with the natives, he said,
was not only full of peril, but requir
ed the utmost diplomacy. The natives
are superstitious and they have a firm
belief in good and bad spirits. A
white man is considered more of a bail
spirit than a good one, and this Mr.
Leden said, makes him at all times
a sort of a Jonah in the camp. If the
weather is bad, if an accident hap
pens or if sickness comes, it is al
ways the white man who is regarded
as the cause. If he becomes very sick
they are sure it is another manifesta
tion of the anger of the good spirit,
and so they never lack for an excuse
to abandon him.
xriues uving wiuihi it lew mues 01
each other he found had no words in
common, but the roots of their words
were the same. Their common blood
is also shown, he said, by the struc
ture of their music and their manner
of delivery and it is by these means
that he hopes to prove to the scien
tific world that 'the Eskimos are re
lated by blood to the Indians and not
to the Mongol.
Although he is only thirty-five
years old Mr. Leden has made five
trips into the unknown regions of the
far north. He is commissioned by the
University of Norway at Christiana,
and he also collected for the Geologi-!
cal Survey of Canada.
Everybody gets their lunch at the
North Pole Bakery. 141
Reproductions of famous Paintings
at Loussac’s. 154
MUST HAVE LARGER
TIPS. WHY? ON
ACCOUNT OF THE WAR
ST. PAUL, Minn., Nov. 23.—The
ten-cent tip in St. Paul was officially
tabooed, by resolutions of the Hotel
Bellmen of St. Paul today. At the
intermission between the icewater
glide and the suitcase shuffle, at the
annual bellmen’s ball, resolutions were
passed urging that tips be raised to
15 cents on account of the war. Dur
ing the ball, the orchestra director
was under orders to ring no bells with i
the music, and no water pitchers were
allowed in sight. “What’s the use of
taking the joy out of life,” E. J. Ryan,
president of the club, said.
Chafing Dishes at Loussac’s. 153
Prepare for Grand Masquerade
Dance, Alaska Labor Union Hall. 139
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Rooms $1.00 Special
With Bath $1.50 Weekly Rates
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v! Tobaccos,
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LAURENCE CO.
COMMERCIAL AND
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Interior, Flashlight Work a
Specialty.
Kodak Developing and Printing
HARMONY THEATRE.
Peterson’s Billiard and.
Solo Parlors
T
Fourth Ave.
Between C and D
The Matanuska Cafe
In the New Matanuska Hotel.
THE PLACE TO EAT AT THE JUNCTION
Alex (Blondy) Anderson
SPEED SERVICE
The Royal Cafe
The new eating house on Fourth Avenue
Caterers to first-class trade.
Boxes for private parties.
Lunch Counter.
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[ without Bath, 31.00 per day and up
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M. K. MacRAE, Mgr.
The Lang Stove, born in
Alaska.
Is the Stove for Alaskans.
Body made of Armco Rust
Resisting Iron.
Polished Cooking Surface.
Will hold fire overnight with
wood or coal.
' Will burn green wood.
Ask your dealer for a Lang
Stove.
If he cannot supply you write us.
Our line is complete from the small
est camp stove to the largest hotel
range.
Any sourdough will tell you about the
Lang Stove. They all know it.
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SEATTLE. WN.
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Everything in Season and Service the Very Best.
Private' Boxes for Large or Small Parties.
ONCE A PATRON ALWAYS A PATRON
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT.
TRY A “WANT” AD. IN THE TIMES FOR RESULTS.
ANNOUNCEMENT!!
THE ALASKA LABOR UNION Will Open Its
Auditorium and Main Floor Complete with
BIG DANCE
SATURDAY, DEC. 23rd
SUNDAY, DEC 24th
A CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL
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CHRISTMAS DAY
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Wrestling
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