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Bird Creek Lumber Co.
Phone 52-Y
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ALASKA
STEAMSHIP
COMPANY
Fast and commodious steamers sailing between Seattle, Ketchikan,
Wrangell, Juneau, Skagway, Cordova, Valdez and Seward.
Leave Seattle Arrive Seward
MARCH 9.ALAMEDA. MARCH 16
MARCH 16.NORTHWESTERN MARCH 23
MARCH 23.ALAMEDA._. MARCH 29
MARCH 30.ALASKA.APRIL 6
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
Mar. 9. .FABRAGUT. .Mar. 16
Mar. 19 ..WATSON.. Mar. 26
Lv. Seattle Ar. Anchorage
Mar. 26 ...EVANS... April 3
Apr. 1 ..FARRAGUT.. Apr. 9
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.
Sa^ Francisco to San Diego, Monday, Thursday and Saturday.
STEAMERS HARVARD, YALE, PRESIDENT, GOVERNOR,
ADMIRAL RCHLEY 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*
/'■’TTT? A PWC Inn °- c- GRAVES, Pres,
V -.11 1 I J IHu. 2a Av. and Spring
Men’s and Young Men’s Wear
Sundberg’s Grocery
PLANT EARLY. WE HAVE THE SEEDS.
BOOTH’S SARDINES AND TUNA FISH.
SWIFT’S PREMIUM HAMS AND BACON, THE BEST
TEAS—Folger’s, Reliance, Crescent and Blue Ribbon.
Sandwiches, coffee and pastry lunch
es served at the North Pole Bakery.
Best music and entertainers at Pe
terson’s. 399
James J. Fallon, an engineer in em
ploy of the Alaskan Engineering com
mission at Fairbanks, has resigned his
position with the commission.
H. McAlernan, an employe of the
240 mill at Treadwell, dropped dead
recently while on his way from the
mess house to the mill to go to work.
Whitehorse is rapidly becoming the
center of a great copper mining in
dustry, the mines of that vicinity hav
ing become regular shippers of ore.
An unusual amount of mining ac
tivity is reported from the creeks of
the Tolovana section, and a number
of winter dumps are being taken out.
Bob Sheldon has started an auto
line from Fairbanks to the railroad
town of Nenana. He has been run
ning his cars all winter between Chit
ina and Fairbanks.
Miss Margaret Keenan, superin
tendent of the Fairbanks public
school, has been appointed by Gov.
Strong as representative of the ter
ritory at a national convention of
teachers to be held at Indianapolis
next summer'.
Fred Ayer won the Borden cup in
the Marathon dog race at Nome last
week in the record time of one hour
and 54 minutes. All records for the
distance between Fort Davis, Has
tings and the cape were broken.
A slight difficulty occurred recent
ly between the miners and the man
agement of the Mother Lode mine
near McCarthy, with the result that a
number of the men quit work. A
compromise was effected whereby the
men received a raise of 50 cents per
day, and all returned to work.
The Icy Straits Packing company
is the name of a new $100,000 corpo
ration recently organized at Juneau
of following the fishing and packing
business in the waters of Alaska. The
officers of the new corporation are J.
C. McBride, president; Herman T.
Tripp, vice-president; and H. L. Fulk
l.er, secretary and treasurer.
The body of W. T. Riordan, a miner
at Treadwell, about 45 years of age,
was found in the Golden North room
ing house at Juneau a few days ago.
He had taken a room the night be
fore and was somewhat intoxicated
when he went to the room. Failing
to appear in the morning a visit to
his room showed that he had expired
during the night.
The Juneau city council, at a re
cent meeting, unanimously voted to
enforce the curfew ordinance to the
letter. Children under the age of 16
found on the streets after 9 o’clock
at night unaccompanied by parents
or older people, will be taken home
by the police on the first offense, but
will be arrested for the second of
fense. „
The Fairbanks News-Miner says it
has positive information that the
government has had a special agent
in that town for months, whose dutj
it is to report rabid utterances or
the war question, and the names of
persons who showed an unneutral in
terest in the war. The editor of the
News-Miner must think the govern
ment is much concerned in the utter
ances of the Fairbanksans or else he
is seeing things.
Walter Shields, of the department
The Store For All the People.
SPECIAL FOR THIS WEEK
BAGLEY’S APPLE JUICE ~
GOLD SHIELD COFFEE.
ONLY.
.28-OUNCE CAN 20c
.16-OUNCE CAN 40c
PRICES REASONABLE
PHONES: STORE 7-R
PROMPT DELIVERY—
—COURTEOUS TREATMENT
OFFICE 20-R
SEWARD
of education, returned to Nome re
cently from a trip to Cape Prince of
Wales. He reports the natives are
having a prosperous year, as foxes
and lynxes are very plentiful. Most
of the foxes caught are of the white
variety. The natives, he says, explain
the shortage of ptarmigan by saying
they got buried in the snow last win
ter and were unable to scratch their
way to the surface because of the
drifts packing hard from the winds.
At a recent meeting of the Fair- j
banks Igloo of the Women’s Auxiliary
of the Pioneers of Alaska, Mrs. Wal
ter Gould was installed as president,
Mrs. R. J. Geis as vice-president, Mrs.
W. W. Archibald as second vice-pres
ident, Mrs. E. M. Stroecker as sec
retary, Mrs. Thomas Foster as ser- j
geant-at-arms, and Mrs. F. G. Passy
as guard. The retiring president,
Mrs. J. H. Caskey, was presented with
a handsome bracelet watch by the
members of the igloo.
While hunting near Copper Center
recently R. Macaulay was attacked;
by a large wolverine, and severely
bitten and scratched. The animal j
had killed a rabbit and was sitting
over his prey when Macaulay stepped
around a rock directly onto him. Be
fore he could shoot the wolverine!
leaped for him, and for a time it look
ed as if the man would get the worst
of it, but he beat the animal off with
his gun and shot it. Macaulay had
scratches ten inches long and half an
inch deep on one side.
Anchor Club Dance Tonight.
St. Patrick has arrived and the boys
have turned out in full force decorat
ing the Labor Temple in honor of St.
Patrick. This will prove to be one of
the greatest events of the season. The
committee in charge of the door re
serves the right to refuse admission to
any person without giving reasons |
for such action. * 6261
FRATERNAL ORDERS.
MASONS
Anchorage Masonic Club
meets first and third Thursday
in month. G.C.HAMMOND, Sec.
L. 0. 0. M. 1534
Regular meeting every Wed
nesday night at 8 o’clock,
at A. L. U. Hall.
JAS. L. CORT, Sec.
BILL’S CLUB.
J. T. WESTERMANN, Secy.
Meets at Club Rooms every
Tuesday evening at 8 o’clock.
EAGLES CLUB
Meets every Friday night
at the Anchor club. Lathrop
Block. C. G. GANTY, Secy.
HOTZOE
To all Carpenters: United Broth
erhood of Carpenters and Jolliers of
America, Local No. 1476 meets at the
Anchor Club rooms, 4th and H St. ev
ery Tuesday evening; at 7:30 p. m.
J. S. BALDWIN, Sec.
Alaska Pool Room
_Fourth Ave., Near D.
Cigars, Tobaccos, Candies, Soft Drinks, Fruits, Concord
Grape Juice.
MUSIC
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.
Hotel Anchorage
NEWEST AND MOST MODERN IN THE CITY
SUNNY ROOMS
HOT AND COLD WATER.
ELECTRIC LIGHTS
REASONABLE RATES
Dohrmann—Herning & Co.
BUILDERS’ HARDWARE
TOOLS AND SPORTING GOODS.
HOUSEHOLD FURNISHINGS.
PHONE 76R.
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New Matanuska Hotel
MATANUSKA JUNCTION.
M. J. ROCHE, Prop.
CAFE IN CONNECTION
A. LYALL, Prop.
LEARN TO DANCE.
I.atest Dances Taught. Begin
ners fiven special attention. For ap
pointment call at third house from
C on 6tti Ave.
WM. BUNTING.
Cotton felt mattresses, bed springs
and linoleum, at Crocker’s. 459 g
0. HENNING
TAILOR.
Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s
Suits Cleaned, Pressed and
Repaired. 4th Ave. and D St.
Pies, fancy cakes, staple bakery
sods at North Pole Bakery. 567
BANK OF ANCHORAGE
THE BANK OF ANCHORAGE HAS JUST RECEIVED A SUPPLY OF RUSSION PAPER ROUBLES WHICH ARE SELLING AT $33.00; THIS PRICE IS OF
COURSE TEMPORARY, AS THE VALUE OF THIS PAPER IS GOING UP STEADILY, AND FORMS IN OUR OPINION A SAFE AND PROFITABLE INVESTMENT.
THE PRICE OF $33.00 AT PRESENT OBTAINING, IS AN ADVANCE OF $2.00 IN THIRTY DAYS IN THE VALUE OF THIS PAPER, AN INDEX TO THE MERIT OF
THE INVESTMENT, AND A GUARANTEE OF ITS STEAD Y AND RAPID INCREASE IN VALUE.
ESTABLISHED 1916
TERRITORIAL DEPOSITORY FOREIGN EXCHANGE
RESOURCES OVER HALF A MILLION.
THE BANK OF SERVICE