Doherty Coal Co.
Hand-Picked
COAL
$8.00 PER TON
Corner 1st and C St.
TELEPHONE 46-K
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CARL W. BOLTE
Hardware, Glass Ware and
China Ware
Flashlights of All Descriptions.
PRICES REASONABLE Fourth Avenue.
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
Phone 41R
Yard and Office Foot of G St.
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
THE HOUSE OF CLEAN
SPORT.
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MONARCH
WORLDS
BEST
KUBAK1S DiLLlAHU
AND BOWLING
PARLORS.
P. O. Opposite.'
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CHOVIN SUPPLY
5th and C.
Carries Everything in Electri
cal Supplies and Fixtures
to make a happy Home
Agent for
FRISCO STANDARD
GAS ENGINES.
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Kitak Show Case Co.
Furniture, Cabinets.
Bank and Office Fixtures
Made To Order
Kiln Dried & Seasoned Lumber
Factory Opposite White House
NOTICE.
The Auditorium of the Labor Tem
! pie may be rented for social affair
j and entertainments, also club room
I and offices on the upper floor. Call 01
| the secretary or phone for particu
lars. 612
SHORTAGE OF
FISH, IF CARE
IS NOT TAKEN
(Juneau Dispatch)
James Robertson, general manager
of the Tenakee Fisheries company, is
a strong advocate of protection of fish
in Alaska. To the Dispatch yesterday
he said:
“From observations made during a
close association with the cannery
business for the last 12 years in Alas
ka, I believe it to be unquestionably
true that the salmon packers will soon
face a fish shortage that will not only
prove serious but absolutely ruinous
to many of them and demoralizing to
them as a whole.
“I believe it also to be unquestion
ably true that many of the cannery
men are now, not only careless and
indifferent in their attitude toward
the obeying of laws, but deliberately
break them in their mad scramble to
fill the cans.
“In any season that the supply of
fish is at all scarce and every season
during the periods preliminary- and
subsequent to the heavy run, most
packers encourage their seiners to
fish on Sundays and to go up into the
streams. The idea is to “get the fish”
regardless of law or the fitness of the
fish for food.
‘Such practices are utterly unsound
from a business standpoint and penal
ize the honest cannery man to the
point of ruin. Unless the quality of
the fish is extremely bad, no differ
ence is made between the clear, bright
product of a trap that has operated
out in the main channels, and the thin,
black skinned, bony wrecks that have
been chased out of the grass on the
banks of some stream where they
were spawning. A man may put up
a pack of the latter during a poor
season, while his competitor who re
fuses to break the law comes home
with a short pack.
“If such conditions are allowed to
continue, the canned salmon business
is no business for a self-respecting
man to engage in.
“It is a notorious fact that organi
zation for mutual benefit has never
been a howling success among salmon
packers, although at present some
good work is being done along this
line.
“The writer believes that the evils
under which we now labor should not
be made to wait correction from the
slow and uncertain action of any or
ganization, and I know of several can
nery men who feel strongly regarding
the practice of sending seirte crews
up the streams after fish; so strong
ly in fact that they intend to inde
pendently secure evidence against
such crews and to press prosecution
to the limit next season. This may
work a hardship upon some packer
whose crews have disobeyed the laws
in spite of his instructions, but that
is his trouble.
“The writer believes that the per
centage of return from the egg de
posit of a salmon is . entirely too
small. It will continue to be very
small until some way is found to
eliminate the trout and sea gulls. But
there are other easy, practical ways to
help. Most streams in southeastern
Alaska are so choked and dammed
with brush and windfalls that thou
sands of fish are unable to' reach suit
able spawning grounds.
“If each packer or cannery super
intendent would undertake to clear
out the mouths of the creeks in the
vicinity of his cannery and to do
what he could to render the ascent of
the salmon more easy and to roughly
construct some pools and basins suit
able for spawning, the number of ma
tured fry could be increased by mil
lions.
“But many superintendents and
owners maintain that it would not be
just for them to bear the expense of
improving several streams for the
benefit of anyone who cared to come
along and fish in this vicinity.
“ ‘If the government would give me
an exclusive concession, etc.’
“Exclusive government concessions
are a very remote possibility although
such a method is probably the only
sound way to deal with an industry in
which the raw material is so limited.
So it seems that the only way for any
thing to be accomplished along this
Union Laundry
and Bath House
Fourth Ave., Between H and I,
Anchorage
OUR WORK IS GUARANTEED
i —and—
; SANITARY
THE LARGEST AND CLEANEST
BATH TUBS IN ANCHORAGE
line is for each canner to “do hi9 bit”
and stand the gaff a little if it is ne
cessary.
‘Another source of serious anxiety
to the cannery men is the trap situa
tion. The decisions of Judge Jennings
last summer, make it plain that any
enterprising pirate could take a cou
ple of pile drivers north early in the
spring and utterly ruin several com
panies whose business, amounting to
millions, is dependent j>n traps; com
panies which have paid thousands of
dollars into the public treasuries for
the privilege of operating. The ter
ritory of Alaska exacts a fee of $100
annually for operating a fish trap. In
return the canner receives absolutely
nothing—neither title nor protection.
Such a situation is intolerable.
“Some people advocate the entire
abolition of fish traps. This move
ment has considerable support. Such
a movement and its support cannot
possibly arise from an unprejudiced
and unselfish source as it is obviously
true to anyone who cares to inquire
into the matter that trap fish are in
every way superior to seine fish, due
both to their being caught mostly in
main channels where the fish are
fresher from the ocean and also to
the process through which the fish
must go from the water to the butcher
room. No one seriously advocates
the abolition of seines.
From the present inert and dead
locked situation only the briskest kind
of action from the combined Alaska
canners can bring relief and it will
require considerable time to arouse
the action and considerably more to
get results after it is aroused. Mean
time those who really believe that the
business should be operated on busi
ness principles can help a lot by clear
ing out the spawning streams and
forcing the seiners to keep outside of
the legal limits. I repeat that nu
merous confiscations of fishing gear
and convictions of fishermen will
probably occur in southeastern Alas
ka this summer.”
Wood and coal delivered to any
part of the city. • Phone 43-Y. Uni
versal Taxi and Transfer. 125
Hear Mrs. Lewis next Friday night
on “The Passing of the Institution of
Private Property.” • 62?)
Latest War News at Peterson’s. 399
Get your eyes examined free at
George Osborn’s, the leading jeweler,
by Fred Carlquist, graduate optician.
Satisfaction guaranteed. 260
Tasty, appetizing lunches at the
North Pole Bakery. 567
Best music at Peterson’s. 444
JUST TO REMIND YOU
■ of
Union Pacific System
Through Cars
between SEATTLE and Chicago
Kansas City. Denver
San Francisco. Los Angeles
Direct Connections lor all
points East via the Famous
COLUMBIA RIVER ROUTE.
Trains protected all the way
—all the time -by Automatic
Electric “Safety” Signals.
H. L. HUDSON. A. C. F. 8c P. A.
SEATTLE
UNION CIGAR STORE
4th Ave. Bet. C and B Sts.
Choice line of Cigars and
Tobaccos, x
Confectionery and
Soft Drinks.
Meet Your Friends at the
UNION CIGAR STORE
GUS STIPOVICH and
OTTO GUSTOSON, Props.
City Auto Service
TAXI AND TRANSFER
PHONE 89R.
LAUNCHES FOR CHARTER
CITY AUTO SERVICE.
Office: Next to Labor Temple
:: Tony’s Cafe
OPPOSITE EMPRESS
THEATRE.
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—NEWLY REMODELED
♦♦♦♦♦♦
FRISCO CAFE
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT.
Everything in Season and Service the Very Best.
Private Boxes for Large or Small Parties.
ONCE A PATRON ALWAYS A PATRON
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RECREATION
Bowling Alleys and Pool Parlors
YOUNG VIKING H. HEGSTROM
Next to Harmony Theatre.
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War News
Rumors and facts at Peterson’s. 444
Watch A. L. U. space. Something
brewing. 548 j
Wedding, birthday and fine cakes to;
order. North Pole Bakery. 567
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WOOD COAL
YUKON TRANSFER CO.
General Expressing.
: F. A. ACKLES Phone 89-R
740 Fourth St.
Anvisning For Arbeitere
Svenska Arbeiteres
Hjem
EUREKA HOUSE
| A. P. RASMUSSEN, - Prop.
Aviser og Boker fran Hjemlandet
Hdqts. for Cooks, Bakers and Waiters
«Wood Undertaking Co..
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
LICENSED KMBALMERS
Anchorage Matanuska
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FOR SALE
CRESCENT
HOTEL
COR. FOURTH AND C.
ALSO 24 x 130 FEET
ADJOININGr HOTEL.
SEE OWNERS
F. W. Redwood & Co.
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PRICE & BENNETT
Plumbing and Sheet Metal
Works
PHONE 29-Y
ANCHORAGE CABINET
WORKS.
JOE CASALI, Prop
Furniture and Fixtures
BUILDING CONTRACTOR
Estimates Furnished.
TOOL GRINDING AND
SAW FILING.
5th and D.
Tex Jones R. C. Jeffery
The Panhandle
CIGARS
CANDIES
TOBACCOS
FRUIT
NUTS
4th AVE. NEAR C STREET
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Sanitary Market'
The only told storage plant iia con
nection with market in AnchnJrage.
Home-made Sausages. Fr uits. Veg
etables, nutter and Eggtii,' at whole
sale. Itestanrants and l roadhouses,
sperm: attention.
Itb Ave.. Bet H and I SVs.
E. E. KURTZ & CO.
FREDERICK&NELSON
SEATTLE
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, a>id Parcel Post
shipments are sent POSTAGE
PAID to any point in Alaska.
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Inlet Soda Works
W. A. TAYLOR, Proprietor
Manufacturers of all kinds of
MINERAL WATERS, SODA
CIDER, SYRUPS.
AGENTS FOR GRAPE JUIClf
Anchorage - - Alaska
QUINN BOARDING
HOUSE.
Board by the Day or Week.
Corner 3rd and C St.
Hegg & Laurence
COMMERCIAL AND
PICTORIAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Interior, Flashlight Work a
Specialty.
Kodak Developing and Printing
HARMONY THEATRE.
CARROL & CO.
Fourth St., near E
MEN’S OUTFITTERS
Complete stock of Clothing,
Shoes and furnishings.
*
Phone 43-Y for car, day or night.
Wood and coal a specialty. Universal
Taxi and Transfer.
Fine Job Printing at Times Uttlce.