COAL
Bird Creek Lumber Co.
PHONE 52Y.
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP
COMPANY
1 Fast and commodious steamers sailing between Seattle, Ketchikan,
Wrangell, Juneau, Skagway, Cordova, Valdez and Seward.
Sails Seattle Arrives Anehorage
APRIL 28 . MARIPOSA MAY 5
MAY 4 .NORTHWESTERN MAY 11
MAY 10 ALAMEDA MAY 17
MAY 15. ALASKA MAY 22
This company reserves the right to change schedule of steamers with
out notice. Tickets on sale at up-town office. Empress Building.
I PACIFIC STEAMSHIP CO.
; ADMIRAL LINE
ALASKAN SAILING DATES
L*. Seattle Ar. Anchorage
April 25..FARRAGUT... May 5
May 3 ...WATSON ..May 11
May 11 ...EVANS... May 19
May 19 ..FARRAGUT ..May 27
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Sailings from Seattle to
CALIFORNIA
Mondays, Fridays & Saturdays
Steamers
President, Governor, Queen,
Senator, Umatilla, Admiral
Schley and Admiral Dewey.
Schedule Subject to Change Without Notice.
I .For Full Particulars. T. B. WATSON. Agent, Anchorage, Alaska. !
I Launch Wilhemina j
JOHNSON AND THOMPSON \
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3 Twice a week trips to all points on Turuagaiu Arm. 5
J See bulletin boards for schedule. 1
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» For information call City Auto Service. PHONE 89R. ;
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I LAUNCH “SWAN” j
I C'apt. N. J. Gaikema. S
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| Daily Trips to Knik and Goose Bay from Govern- jj
f; ment Dock No. 1. i
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fi See Bulletin Boards for Schedule jj
|* Ticket Agencies at Baxter’s and City Auto Service, jj
fi Phone 89-R. j
Power Schr. Lina K.
“SAFETY AND SERVICE”
Will Make Regular Trips to
All Turnagain Arm Points.
PARKER & EATON
Wood Undertaking Co.. The Electric Bath Rouse' K and
fourth, is now under the management
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
of a graduate masseur and chiropo
LICENSED EMBALMEHS (list. Electric and Turkish baths. Open
Anchorage Matanuska day and night. 862
A reindeer at the fair recently giv
en near Bethel pulled 3252 pounds dead
weight.
The ladies of Juneau have organized
a Red Cross society with a large mem
bership.
The Alaska Women’s Patriotic
league was ercently formed at Ju
neau with Mrs. J. F. A. Strong as
president.
The Granby company at Valdez has
electrified its big copper proposition
with power from the Prince William
Sound company’s plant.
A lighted cigarette thrown into a
sawdust cuspidor started a fire in the
store of Captain Jinks of Vrangel,
recently causing a loss of $150.
Native experts at Nome state that
not for many years have the fox skins
been of such fine quality as those
caught this year. The fur is very long
and even.
A large amount of prospecting is
reported to have been done in the
I Candle district, near Nome, during
the past winter and with satisfactory
results.
A report from Immachuck states
that everybody in that section has
been busy this winter and that the
miners are greatly encouraged by the
developments.
Dr. Albert VV. Phillips, a dentist,
one of the few suvirvors ofthe steam
er Islander, which was wrecked near
Juneau many years ago, died in Se
attle recently.
The Cordova fire department has re
cently received a Brower life-saving
net, the first every brought to Alaska.
It was given a tryout recently and
pronounced a great success.
A perusal of the enrollment lists
in the Seward militia company show
that so far most of the men to sign
are from the ranks of the professions
and business men. But few working
men have signed.
Will H. Clayson, a prominent Cor
dova merchant, with his wife, recently
left on the Alameda for a protracted
visit in the states. Mr. Clayson’s son
was killed this winter in a coasting
accident at Cordova and his parents
TIDE TABLE FOR ANCHORAGE.
Saturday, May 5.
High Water . 5:07 a. m. 29.5 feet
Low Water .11:38 a. in. -1.1 feet
High Water . 6:06 p. m. 29.6 feet
Low Water .11:51 p. in. 3.2 feet
Sunday, May 6.
High Water . 5:38 a. m. 30.4 feet
Low Water .12:12 p. in. 2.4 feet
High Water . 6:40 p. ni. 30.1 feet
TRAIN SCHEDULE.
Effective 12:01 a. m.. Monday, April
23, 1917, a mixed passenger and freight
train will be run between \nehonge
and Matanuska, Matanuska and King,
end between Anchorage anti Rabbit on
the following schedule:
Main Bine.
Northbound Southbound
Daily ex. Daily ex.
Sunday Sunday
Leave Arrive
7:30a.m... 0.0 Anchorage .. 9:15p.m.
7:55a.m... 4.8 Whitney .... 8:50p.m.
8:25 a. m... 12.3 Kuney . 8:30 p.m.
9:10 a. m.. .21.8 Birchwood ... 7:50 p.m.
9:40 a. m... 27.6 Eklutna . 7:20 p.m.
Arrive Leave
10:10 a. m..36.4 Matanuska .. 6:45 p.m.
Matanuska Branch
Northbound Southbound
J Daily ex. Daily Ex.
j Sunday Sunday
: Leave Arrive
11:00 a. m.. 36.4 Matanuska .. 6:20 p.m.
11:30 a. m.. 42.9 Palmer . 5:55 p.m.
12:20 p. m.. 49.5 Moose Creek. 5:25 p.m.
Arrive Leave
12:40 p. m.. 55.0 Eska . 4:50 p.m.
Leave Arrive
12:50 p. m..55.0 Eska . 3:08 p. m.
1:10 p. m.. 58.7 Granite . 2:53 p.m.
Arrive Leave
1:25 p. m.. 60.6 King . 2:45 p.m.
Main Xilns
Southbound Northbound
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday only.
Leave Arrive
9:00 a.m... 0.0 Anchorage .. 10:45 a.m.
9:20a.m... 5.0 Campbell ... 10:25a.m.
Arrive Leave
9:45 a. m... 10.4 Rabbit . 10:00 a.m.
Mixed train leaving Anchorage north
bound will stop Just north of road cross
ing, Terminal Yard. Anchorage
Trade Where Your Dollar Has More Cents. WE ARE AGENTS For Style Plus and
Hirch-Wickwire Clothes; Duchess Trousers; Filson Forestry Cloth Outing Suits; Gor
don Hats; Hanson Gloves; Robert- Johnson^ Rand, Nettle ton and Walk-Over Shoes.
PRICES REASONABLE— PROMPT DELIVERY— —COURTEOUS TREATMENT
PHONES: STORE 7-R OFFICE 20-R
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have been so overcome with grief they
have decided to take a long vacation
in search of their health.
William Haines, a special surveyor
for the navy department, arrived at
Seward recently for the purpose of
surveying the site for the naval radio
station to be erected there.
J. D. Jefferson returned from a trip
to his fox ranch at Bald-Head, Chris
i island this week and reports that the
j waters in the vicinity of the island
were alive with wild geese.
Miss May Vance, a recent arrival
| at McCarthy, committed suicide at
that place by drinking a quantity of
lye. Despondency is said to have been
the cause of the rash act. She was
24 years old.
According to the Wrangell Sentinel
the citizens of that town have organ
ized a home guard. At the organiza
tion meeting 117 signed the roster,
the first man, Fred Lynch, being 82
years of age.
The city council of Cordova has ap
pointed a committee consisting of the;
prominent business men of the com- j
munity, for the purpose of making j
| that town of clams and salmon the
“City Beautiful” of Alaska.
Anton Krahulik, the machinist for
the Northwestern Fisheries company
cannery at Uyak, is authority for the
statement thaat the company expects
to put up 60,000 cases of salmon at
that plant this season.
Linemen on snowshoes recently
completed the stringing of the tele
graph and telephone line for the gov
ernment railroad across a section of
swamp in the Susitna valley and
opened connections between Seward
and Talkeetna.
Reports from Candle state that a
number of valuable furs have been
sent out from there by mail this win- !
ter and that lynxes have been unu
sually numerous in that district. Red,
white and cross foxes have furnished 1
a majority of the winter catch of
furs.
I The Marconi wireless staation at j
Ketchikan has been re-opened for j
business in charge of the government,'
after having ben closed for a week, j
Lieutenant Clark of Bremerton arrived j
there recently and swore the operators ;
into the service of the government for
for four years.
Joseph T. Fields of Petersburg, who .
entered the Pioneers’ home at Sitka
about two months ago, died there re
cently from valvular heart trouble.
He was a little over 70 years of age,
and had ^>een a resident of Alaska for
nearly 30 years, 15 years of which
he resided at Petersburg.
Doc McKinney of the Petersburg
shingle mill had his left hand so bad
ly lacerated by a saw recently that one
of his fingers had to be amputated.
Wolves are becoming unusually
bold near Katalla and the citizens of
the little oil center are forced to keep
their children within the city limtis.
A trial lunch at the North Pole Bak
ery is convincing of its superiority.
JUNEAU LAWYER IS CITED
IN MONEY CONTROVERSY
JUNEAU, Aaska, April 20.—A. C.
Y'oung, a local attorney, who has been
more or less in the limelight since
coming here about a year ago, was
cited by Judge Robert W. Jennings to
appear in court next Monday morn
ing and answer a charge preferred
by Harry Againsky of taking more
than $1,000 from him and refusing to
return it. Young was attorney for
Againsky in his recent trial on a
Mann act violation charge. Informa
tion has been laid before Judge Jen
nings to the effect that Young was
disbarred in both New York and New
Jersey courts. Young recently .start
ed a weekly newspaper devoted pri
marily to the assistance of the oppres
sed and downtrodden.
Best music at Peterson's. 444
Sydney Laurence
Members Photographers’ Association of America,
Washington, D. C.
High Class Portrait Work
Artistic and Pictorial Photography.
EXPERT KODAK FINISHING.
FRAMES MADE TO ORDER
Just Arrived
COMPLETE STOCK OF UP TO DATE
MOULDINGS.
LARGE ASSORTMENT OF HAND MADE FRAMES i
SYDNEY LAURENCE.
Masonic Building.
If You Go Outside
You probably will want to get Clothes
which, while serviceable, are up to the
minute in Style and ( ut.
Everybody in Alaska realizes that
the place to go for quality and value is
Cheasty’s
2nd Avenue Seattle
They do what no
other cigarette
ever did before:
they Satisfy—
and yet they’re
MILD!
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OUR NATIONAL STRENGTH
THE NATION’S MIGHT! IS INFLUENCED BY ITS EVERY CITIZEN. PATRIOTISM IS FOR ALL, AND ONE OF ITS PRACTICAL FORMS IS IN
TELLIGENT, INDIVIDUAL EFFORT THAT DEVELOPS COLLECTIVE FINANCIAL STRENGTH—SO IMPORTANT A FACTOR IN NATIONAL SUPREMACY.
CONSERVATION UPON THE PART OF THE INDIVIDUAL—THE BUILDING OF A SURPLUS—IS ESSENTIAL TO BOTH NATIONAL AND PERSON
AL PROTECTION.
THE OFFICERS OF THIS INSTITUTION STAND FOR AMERICA FIRST—AND ALL THE TIME.
BANK OF ANCHORAGE
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA.
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