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.
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP
COMPANY
Fast and commodious steamers sailing between Seattle, Ketchikan,
Wrangell, Juneau, Skagway, Cordova, Valdez and Seward.
Leave Seattle Leave Seward
JAN. 26 ALASKA ..FEB. 1
FEB. 1 ..NORTHWESTERN FEB. 8
FEB. 8.MARIPOSA.FEB. 14
This company reserves the right to change schedule of steamers with
out notice. Tickets on sale at up-town office, Empress Building.
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J. J. LANKIN,
Agent.
F. B. TRACT.
General Agent.
PACIFIC STEAMSHIP CO.
ADMIRAL LINE
ALASKAN SAILING DATES
Leave Seattle Leave Seward
Jan. 24 ...EVANS ... Feb. 2
Feb. 3 .FARRAGUT. Feb. 10
Feb. 15 .. EVANS .. Feb. 22
Feb. 25 .. WATSON .. Mar. 4
Mar. 2 . .FARRAGUT.. Mar. 0
Sailings from Seattle to
CALIFORNIA
Mondays, Fridays & Saturdays
Steamers
President, Governor, Queen,
Senator, Umatilla, Admiral
Schley and Admiral Dewey.
SOUTHERN UALilr UKJNIA KUUTE.
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 SubjectAj*-Change Without Notice. "
For Full Particulars, T. B. WATSON, Agent, Anchorage, Alaska.
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Alaska Men
Going Outside This Winter Outfit at
CHEASTY’S
The Specialty Men's Shop
in Seattle.
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S^TJT? A CHTV'Q Inn °- c- GRAVES. Pres
LtlEinO 1 I *3 llll. 2a Av. and Spring]
JJ3 Men’s and Young Men’s Wear
Fred Carlquist who is a graduate
L optician from San Francisco is perma
nently established with George Os
born the C St. Jeweler, and will ex
amine eyes free. 260
SERVICE BARBER
SHOP.
ROBARTS BUILDING
Shampooing and Face Massage
A Specialty.
Zero is what you get at most places
but hot meals are served at Camer
on’s Cafe. 354
Get your eyes examined free at
George Osborn’s, the leading jeweler
by Fred Carlquist, graduate optician.
Satisfaction guaranteed. 260
Ham and cheese sandwiches at the
North Pole Bakery. 328
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(Bill Nye)
There seems *to be a kind of one
horse effort now being made by the
enemies of the jury system to do away
with it, and thus leave us with the
national fabric tottering to its very
foundation. There can be nothing in
the whole mechanism of a free repub
lic more important and necessary to
I the success of a national security than
I the jury system, which not only gives
| every American citizen the right to
j submit his grievances to a panel of
| twelve enlightened peers, but which in
| sures to each juror $2 a day and board
with a period of mental calm and in
tellectual rest which is priceless as a
soother and tranquillizer to the invalid
who generally sits on a jury by advice
of his physician instead of filling his
system full of opiates. Sea air and a
change of scene, of courseware good,
but give us the sweet, unruffled sleep
of the juryman as a health promoter
by all means in place of the expensive
sea voyage and the high-priced foreign
hotel.
William H. Root was giving us his
experience this morning on a Chicago
jury, showing how the free, unfettered
love of even-handed justice is ever
burning in the breast of the true
American juror, even in Chicago.
“I was empaneled,” said William,
sadly, “in a damage case there one
time. 1 ’most always fixed it so as to
be drawn on a jury when other aven
ues of employment seemed closed, and
sometimes I could make $35 or $40 a
day, according to the nature -of the
case. People have widely different
notions about the about the market
value of substantial justice. Some
are willing to pay a fair commission
j,to the poor juror, and others are
timid and reserved about putting up.
“This was a case where a kid had
stuck his foot through a defective
sidewalk, and injured the sciatic nerve
so that the leg was paralyzed, and the
boy a sure-enough cripple for life.
“Suit was brought for $18,000, and
it was proved up all right and a good
case, but we had the blankety blank
edest cosmopolitan jury you ever saw.
“We had a Polander that couldn’t
speak a word of English, a deaf man
from Oshkosh, and a half-witted cuss
from Blue Island. Then there was al
so a Norwegian on the jury who
hadn’t been in the country very long,
and didn’t know a verdict from a por
ous plaster.
“The whole mob was about the most
ornery and tiifling aggregation of un
prejudiced intellect you ever saw. The
first thinf that we did was to disagree.
“It was the afternoon before Christ
mas that they locked us in with two
overworked spittoons, a volume of
‘Greenleaf.on Evidence,’ and a work on
medical jurisprudence. We looked at
the pictures in the medical work, read
aloud a few pages on the rule regulat
ing the verdict in cases of manslaugh
ter and malicious tape-worm, and then
took a ballot.
“It stood all the way from $60 to
$10,000. We voted till about 3 o’clock
Christmas morning, and then I got
mad. We had exhausted all the stor
ies we knew, and argued and cussed
and swore, but the vote* stood the
same every pop. Finally I took the
‘Colonel’ to one side and made a prop
osition to him. The ‘Colonel’ was the
only man on the jury (except me)
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that seemed to know what the jury i
was for. Most of the outfit seemed to
think a jury was empaneled mostly to
disagree, and draw their pay per
diem.
“The ‘Colonel’ nodded, and said that
was all right when I conferred with
him, and I arose to address the free,
enlightened, unprejudiced and illiter
ate jury of my country.
“I said: ‘Now, gentlemen, you are!
aware that we seem to be divided con-1
siderably on this question. We are
noAV beginning on the Christmas holi
days with about $9,000 between the
| two extremities of this jury. I see no
way of arriving at a conclusion until
after the usual Christmas festivities ]
are over.' In a few hours the court
will b-' raking hot stuffing out of the
open <•' intenance of a baked turkey,
and :: k ng the various guests whether
they will take some of the light or the
dark meat, while we are here eating
Bologna sausage a!nd Rip Van Winkle
cheese. Before night the counsel on
both sides will be so drunk that they
can’t get home without a directory
and a posse comitatus, while we are
drinking cistern water and ruining our
health. I propose we put on our bal
lots the amount of damage we are in
dividually in favor of, and then we will
add the whole gosh blasted thing up
and divide it by twelve. That will be
the measure of damages and the ver
dict.’ '
“They greeted my proposition with
applause.
, “When the votes were examined,
they found the Polander had voted as
i usual, and so had everybody but the
j ‘Colonel’ and me. We voted $40,000
! apiece. That brought the average up
to $9,000 for the cripple.
“We made out a Verdict, signed her,
called in the bailiff, submitted our de
cision, wished each other a merry ]
Christmas and went home.
“Oh, I tell you, you can’t abolish I
the jury system. It’s one of the abut
ments upon which rests the structure
of freedom and equity, and all those
things. If you bust the jury system
you’ll also have to abolish three-card
monte and other games of chance. I
tell you Americans will not be denied
this kind of mental relaxation. It’s
about all the fun we have."
No enterprising young man needs
any preliminary training in palmistry
in order to secure membership in the
Hand-holders’ union.
Mexican Chili Con Came, Riffle’s
Kitchen. 278
JUST RECEIVED.
Fresh Crab and Celery.
TWO GIRLS CAFE. 349
Storm or no storm I eat at Camer
on’s Cafe. 354
Bread, Pies, Cakes, all the best at
the North Pole Bakery. 328
Phone 43-Y for car, day or night.
Wood and coal a specialty. Universal
Taxi and Transfer. 126
Wood—Phone 40-R.
186
FRISCO CAFE
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT.
Everything in Season and Xervioe the Very Best.
Private Boxes for Large or Small Parties.
ONCE A PATRON ALWAYS A PATRON
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Peterson’s Billiard Parlors
And
PETERSON HOTEL
324-326 4th Ave. C. F. PETERSON, Prop.
The Lang Stove, horn in
Alaska.
Is the Stove for Alaskans.
Body made of Armco Rust
Resisting Iron.
Polished Cooking Surface.
Will hold tire overnight with
r" 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.
F. S. LANG MFG. CO.
wood or coal
SEATTLE. WN.
WHEN you come to Seattle, remember the
Hotel Savoy extends you a hearty welcome.
All the. Alaskans who have made their headquar
ters with us in the past, and those who are con
templating coming to Seattle in the future will
find the Savoy the right hotel in the right loca
tion and at the right price. It goes without say
ing, if you come once, you will come again.
Our hotel is in the very heart of the city,
most convenient to the shopping district, thea
tres, churches and public buildings, absolutely
fire-proof. Rates: $1.00 per day and up, without
bath; $1.50 per day and up with bath.
Don’t forget the place—the Savoy Hotel.
W. G. KING, Manager.
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