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OFFER TO YOU
Overcoats
GENERAL CLEAN-UP of all Overcoats. We will sacri
fice the remaining stock at a most seductive price,
that is
$15.00
For this whole line of Overcoats.
HERE IS a chance seldom offered to secure a garment of
this kind, at this time of the season and for a small
piece of money, the quality considered.
1 DRESS GLOVES—We carry a varied line of these goods
—all of the leading brands and manufacturers.
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I DRESS TIES—Christmas ties in a bewildering display
] .and great variety to select from.
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J HEADQUARTERS FOR STETSON HATS AND
PACKARD SHOES.
CARROL & CO.
CARROL BLDG. FOURTH AND E STS.
BANKING BY MAIL
It makes no difference where yon 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.
Inlet Soda Works
W. A. TAYLOR, Proprietor
Manufacturers of all kinds of
MINERAL WATERS, SODA
CIDER, SYRUPS.
AGENTS FOR GRAPE JUICE
» Anchorage - - Alaska
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LEARN TO DANCE.
Latest Dauces Taught. Begin
ners given special attention. For ap
pointment call at third house from
C on 6th Ave.
WM. BUNTING.
For Billiards and Pool try Peter
son’s. 46
Rogers 1847 Silver at Loussac’s. 154
Don’t forget the Grand Masquerade
1 Dance. Alaska Labor Union HalL 189
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All kinds harness repair work done
by Bartholf, between 5th and 6th, near
C St. £0
C St. £0
Parisian Ivory at Loussac’s. 155
Have you a costume? 159
Xmas Gifts of Stationery at Law
sac's. 154
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AIRTIGHT HOT BLAST
HEATERS
Are the best on the market;
they use less fuel, and have
more heating surface than
any other heater of the same
size. The firebox is sectional
with an air space between
outer shell and fire pot.
NO BUILDING OF FIRES
IN THE MORNING.
All you do is to shake the
grate, fill stove with coal,
open draft and you have a
red hot stove.
We have in stock from the
smallest No. 12 size to the
No. 24 for store room.
Come in and let us show you
how they work.
WHW
ALASKA NEWS
The University of Valdez has an
enrollment of about 40, and is meet
ing with great success.
Dirt equalling thfe Bonanza ground
of Dawson days is reported to have
been uncovered by the Cook plant of
the Tolovana.
According to recent reports valua
ble deposits of tungsten-bearing min
erals have been found to occur in sev
eral localities in Yukon territory.
The financial statement recently is
sued by the Bank of Petersburg shows
the deposits to be $43,938.20, a gain
of $27,042.59 since the last quarter.
While coming down Tonsina hill re
cently Ernie Bryson, a driver for the
Northern Commercial company, was
severely injured when the wagon ov
erturned on a sharp turn.
At a recent election held in Juneau
the people by a vote of 109 to 22 voted
in favor of taking the adjacent tide
lands into the city. Forty or fifty
families occupy the lands to be taken
in.
Lieut. Riggs of the Alaskan Engi
neering commission at Fairbanks, is
expected to make a trip outside this
winter and will come over the rail
roud rouLe from the interior to An
chorage and Seward.
Ray D. Clarke reached Nome re
cently from his graphite property in
the Imurak basin. He has a large de
posit of high grade graphite, and dur
ing the past summer has mined about
100 tons of the mineral.
Father La Fortune, a missionary at
Nome, has translated the prayer
book of his church into the Eskimo
tongue for the benefit of the natives.
The booklet containing the prayers
were printed by the natives at Nome.
Simon David, of Circle, was recent
ly convicted in the commissioner’s
court at that place of selling liquor
without a license and sentenced to
serve six months in the Fairbanks
jail.
Last Thnaksgiving at this place a
50-mile gale was blowing with the
mercury standing at 4 below zero and
four feet of snow on the ground. This
year the mercury stands at 20 to 10
above and about 7 inches of snow has
fallen.—Valdez Prospector.
The Nome Chamber of Commerce
has received a petition signed by
about 100 citizens of Candle asking
for the establishment of the project
ed Pioneers’ Home at Kruzgamapa
springs on the site offered by George
D. Schofield.
T. E. P. Keegan, Henry Brie and
G. D. McDonald, of southeastern
Alaska have formed the Alaska Coast
Fisheries company and will engage in
a general fishing industry. The com
pany will make a specialty of putting
up salmon in glass cans.
It has been figured by a Seward
mathematician that if all the subjects
of military age of the belligerent na
tion now working on the government
railroad went home to fight, they
would. make more than a l egiment,
but would be fighting against each
other.
It is reported that Ben Norvil has
made an important strike of antimony
and silver at the head of Forty mile
river. Samples sent to the states for
assay gave returns of $125 per ton
of antimony and r good percentage
of silver. The lesd is said to be 18
feet in width.
The Fairbanks News-Miner states
that no camp in the interior has a
brighter future than the ToloVana.
five miles of pay is said to have been
located and the mining men are con
fident that great uncovered areas of
rich, gold-bearing ground will be un
covered next year. v
The new salt water fire mains at
Juneau are being laid under the side
walks instead of under the streets.
The ladies of Treadwell have form
ed an organization to raise funds for
the starving women and children of
Serbia.
Moose; caribou and other game is
reported to be plentiful in the vieiniv
ty of Chicken creek in the Fortymile
district.
It. is reported that the Nome brew
ery is going out of business. This
decision was arrived at before the
vote on the wet and dry question was
decided.
The Seward Post says that city is
to become the halibut center for
southwestern Alaska and the great
banks between Middleton island and
Kodiak.
Because he designted Attorney de
Journel as a d- liar during the
progress of the trial of the First Na
tional bank vs. F. G. Noyes, at Fair
banks, Attorney John L. McGinn was
fined $100 for contempt of court by
rfuuge nunnen. Alter court adjourn
ed the two attorneys started in to mix
vigorously but were separated by by
standers.
By a decision of the secretary of
the interior, upholding the decision of
the Juneau land office, a patent will
be issued to Captain Harry E. Revelle
for his homestead near Seward.
Engineer Estes estimates that there
are 50,000 yards of snow in the big
slide which recently blocked the
tracks of the government railroad at
Mile 52. The slide will be allowed to
remain until spring.
Ground running $17 to the square
foot of bedrock is reported to have
been uncovered at Chatham creek, the
well known tributary of Cleary creek
in the Fairbanks district. The extent
of the pay is not known.
The operators at the Summit re
port that the cut has drifted in un
til there is about 15 feet of snow at
the present time, ft is packed hard
and horses and men have no difficulty
in crossing over the divide.
A carload of rutabagas raised on
the farm of “Sailor” Roley at Wil
liam Henry bay, was recently ship
ped to Seattle to the J, B. Powles
company, commission men of that
city, by Harvey Nicholson, their Alas
kan representative.
W. G. Jack, mining engineer for the
Hughes-Timmins-Lewis interests, an
nounces that he has secured options
on most of the claims on Goldstream,
near Fairbanks, and will prospect the
ground next season with the idea of
installing a dredge.
By the explosion of a gasoline lan
tern in the railroad mess house at Ne
nana, the building had a narrow es
cape from serious fire. S. E. Nelson,
an electrician in the employ of the
commission, wrapped the lamp in his
coat and carried it out of doors.
The ordinance granting a franchise
for a gas plant at Juneau to George
Irving, has passed its second reading
and will undoubtedly pass shortly. As
an evidence of good faith Irving has
offered to deposit a bond with the
council for the faithful performance
of the terms of the ordinance.
Wood for Sale!
Dry wood, seasoned wood, any
length, any kind. Anchorage Supply
Co. Phone 46-R or 25-R. 133
Grand Masquerade Carnival, New
Labor Temple, Saturday Evening, De
cember 30. Elegant prizes. 165
Leather Novelties at Loussac’s. 153
When You
Buy Fruit
Look for this Trademark
Discriminating Housewives serve
only Hunt’s Quality Fruits in
their homes. They are the choicest
of sunny California's tree ripened
fruits, packed with scientific and
clean methods, and come to you
fresh as when picked, every day
in the year.
We carry a full line of
Hunt’s Quality California
Fruits
"Tha Kind That Is NOT Lre-Pselod” g
IVt tell and recommend them |
POLLEY BROS.
Anchorage, Alaska
Wood and coal delivered to any
part of the city. Phone 43-Y. Uni
versal Taxi and Transfer. 125
Cotton felt mattresses, bed springs
and linoleum, at Crocker’s.
Phone 43-Y for car, day or night.
Wood and coal a specialty. Universal
Taxi and Transfer. 126
CITY AUTO SERVICE.
Phone 89-R.
FOR AUTOMOBILE
Any hour of the Day or
Night.
OFFICE!—Next door to New
Labor Hall.
Tex Jones R. C. Jeffery
The Panhandle
CIGARS
CANDIES
TOBACCOS
FRUIT
NUTS
4th AVE. NEAR C STREET
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Caseroles, Pie Plates, Tea Balls,
Tea Pots and Hand Painted China
ware for Xmas Gifts, at Dohrmann
Heming & Co. 137
Don’t Forget to get your Norwe
gian Stock Fish in time to prepare
it for Christmas. Sundberg's Gro
cery, corner 4th and C. 106
MASONS
Anchorage Masonic Club
meets first and third Monday in
month. G. C. HAMMOND, Sec.
ODD FELLOWS
Odd Fellows Club meets
every Monday evening,
Peterson Building, 8 p. m.
IT’S A REAL PLEASURE
to view the new wall decorations on
view here exclusively. They are so
unconventional, so out of the common
and so unusually artistically attrac
tive. If you plan to repaper you
should by all means see these new
papers. To decide without doing so
is apt to result in regret later.
EVANS & FRANTZEN
GEO. OSBORNE
THE LEADING JEWELER AND OPTICIAN
* XMAS GIFTS *
For elegant and artistic Xmas Gifts, come and inspect our
large and complete line of Gorham’s exclusive silver ware
in table and toilet articles in the most up-to-date patterns.
We also represent Hawkes Cut Glass, the most artistic and
original patterns on the market.
Also the largest and most complete line of up-to-date Jewelry
in the city.
We manufacture and design anything desired in the line of
jewelry and nugget work.
All watch and repair work guaranteed and promptly returned.
GEO. OSBORNE
C STREET JEWELER