ALASKA
STEAMSHIP
COMPANY
Fast and commodious steamers sailing between Seattle, Ketchikan,
Wrangell, Juneau, Skagway, Cordova, Valdez, and Seward.
Sails Seattle Arrives Anchorage
APRIL 5 . MARIPOSA APRIL 12
APRIL 11 NORTHWESTERN APRIL 19
APRIL 17 ALAMEDA APRIL 24
APRIL 22 ALASKA APRIL 29
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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PACIFIC STEAMSHIP CO.
ADMIRAL LINE
ALASKAN SAILING DATES I
Lv. Seattle Ar. Anchorage
Apr. 2 . .FARRAGUT. Apr. 10
Apr. 9 ..WATSON .. Apr. 17
Apr. 17 .. .EVANS... Apr. 25
Apr. 25. .FARRAGUT. . May 3
Sailings from Seattle to
CALIFORNIA
Mondays, Fridays & Saturdays
Steamers
President. Governor, Queen,
Senator. Umatilla, Admiral
Schley and Admiral Dewey.
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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ROUTE.
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 Subject to Change Without Notice.
For Full Particulars. T. B. WATSON, Agent, Anchorage, Alaska.
| LAUNCH “SWAN”
g ('apt. N. J. Gaiketna.
§ Daily Trips to Knik and Goose Bay from
| ment Dock No. 1.
i; See Bulletin Boards for Schedule
6 Ticket Agencies at Baxter’s and City Auto
jL Phone 89-R.
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Service,
Correct Clothes
FOR
MEN
THE VERY LATEST IN STYLES, COLORS AND
FABRICS SHOWN AT
CHEASTY'S Inc.
SEATTLE, WASH.
0. C. GRAVES, Pres. 2d Ave. and Spring
Men’s and Young Men’s Wear.
Sandwiches, coffee and pastry lunch
es served at the North Pole Bakery.
Best music and entertainers at Pe
terson’s. 399
In a recent issue of the Fairbanks
Citizen, a precocious youth of the
interior metropolis, gives his impres
sions of Alaska generally and Fair
banks in particular, as follows:
Alaska is a vast territory of snow
and ice and wild animals, of bear and
game and fish.
It is sparsely populated, only a few J
of the most hardy and vigorous being
able to withstand the severe winters.
In many places the thermometer reg
isters as much as 80 degrees below,
and in such weather it often happens
that horses drop dead on the trail
from the cold. (I copied this part
out of the geography, so I know it’s
true.
The chief occupation is fightin’
mosquitoes in the summer, which are
very vicious, and trying to keep from
freezin' to death in the winter.
Fairbanks is where I live in; it is
situated in Alaska, on a branch of the
Tanana river called the Chena slough.
I’a says it is called Fairbanks because
its prospects is so fair.
There’s bears in the woods. That’s
why you never see a man crossing
the trail without a loaded gun on his
shoulder. There’s Indians, too, and
if you come near them they hold out
baskets to you which they want you
to fill with money and probably if
you don’t do what they like, they
might scalp you, but pa says they
won’t hurt, for they’re kept down by
the missionaries who “peddle” to
them.
reople are very kina to eacn otner
in Fairbanks. F’a says especially the
business man. He is always tryin’ to
help someone. Pa says the pros
pector is his “hobby.” If some fel
low feels like he got a ‘ hunch” that
there’s somethin’ out in the hills for
him, but he’s “dead broke” all he’s
got to do is go to a business man and
tell him about it, and pa says the lat
ter pats him on the back and wishes
him “God speed!”
The prospector is the developer of
the country. He goes out in the
hills and lives on moose and beans for
months and months and months, and
then he comes back lookin’ like a
wild man.
About every three months a clean
up is brought into the camp from
somewhere; then that party has a big
celebration. 1 guess pa means he
gets drunk. Pretty soon, though,
there ain’t goin' to be any more cel
ebrations, for Fairbanks is goin’ on
the “water wagon.” The womens put
it there.
In the winter the dogs are the main
bodies of conveyances (Pa told me;
how to spell all these big words).
Men are very good to their dogs. In
severe weather they put blankets over
them and moecusins on their feet.
They are never cruel to their dogs,
for the dogs are very faithful ani
mals. (Pa says most of them has
got more sense than their master).
The drivers carry long black snakes,
but they never strike the poor ani
mals with these. They speak kindly
and the dogs love them and obey
them. They know that a dog cannot
travel well if he has not had the prop
er care, so they provide him with
good food, water and shelter. I love
dogs, and I am always going to be j
good to my dogs.
The camp of Fairbanks has many
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SPRING CLEARANCE OF DRESS SHIRTS—$1.50 AND $2 SHIRTS NOW $1 00
PRICES REASONABLE— PROMPT DELIVERY
PHONES: STORE 7-R
—COURTEOUS TREATMENT
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organizations for both men and
men.
There’s a dub called the Civics club
in Fairbanks, and only womens is al- j
lowed to be in it. Pa says it sifts
all the evil out of the camp and sends
it outside.
There are more men in the camp
than womens, therefore a woman is
treated like a queen. If she is mar
ried the man is always afraid of losin’
her, and if she is single, she needs
only smile and dozens of men are
ready to fall at her feet any moment.
A woman never has to work in
Alaska unless she wants to; her wa
ter is fetched to her in large tanks,
and brought into her house and emp
tied into her water barrel. Her wood
is hauled and sawed and piled into
caches by u- kids. Caches is sheds
where all the old “junk” of the fam
ily is stored. Most of the women
keeps themselves busy by goin’ around
to bridge parties and by doin' em
broidery work. (Ma is showing me
how to embroider a pillow top).
Potatoes is awful high in Alaska
diis winter. We only eat them once
a day. Pa says the farmers is store’n
them for souvenirs, so’s the people
will send Outside next year for their
spud-.
Many of the men of Fairban -. arc j
looking out for odd jobs.
Lots of folks in Fairbanks has
stomach trouble, all those who can
afford it get sick and go out to Mayo
Bros, for an operation. I wish I
could get sick, but shawl Pm a Chris
tian Science boy, so I guess there
ain’t no chance for me.
The camp is lighted up by electric
lights. It is very cheap and illumi
nating. (I guess that’s what you’d
call it).
There’s five churches in Fairbanks
and one anti a half movin’ picture
shows. Everybody goes to movin'
picture shows.
There’s two kinds of Alaskan—the
Sourdough and the Cheechaco. The j
“Sourdough” is the hot cake eater. !
Pa says he’s the one who knows it j
all.
The Cheechaco is the now-comer,
and I tell you he’s got lots to learn.
All the people in Fairbanks is
anxious waitin’ for the railroad to
come, so as some day they will all get
a chance to go outside.
This is all 1 know about Alaska
ami Fairbanks, and if I’ve forgot
somethin’ please let me know.
Yours,
BILLY JINKINS.
RECRUITING STATION
Should be at Robarts. 778
NOTICE.
The executive board of the Anchor
age Woman’s club will meet Thursday
afternoon, April 13, at 2:30 p. m., in
the Chamber of Commerce room.
Please be prompt.
MRS. E. S. REEDY, Cor. Sec.
All night service. North Pole Bak
ery. 716
CARL W. BOLTE
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Hardware, Glass Ware and
China Ware
Flashlights of All Descriptions.
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Alaska Pool Room
Fourth Ave., Near D.
Cigars, Tobaccos, Candies, Soft Drinks, Fruits, Concord
Grape Juice.
MUSIC
JOSEPH SCHMITBAUER
Pronrietor.
Hotel Anchorage
NEWEST AND MOST MODERN IN THE CITY
SUNNY ROOMS
HOT AND COLD WATER.
REASONABLE RATES
ELECTRIC LIGHTS
Hegg & Laurence
• Members Photographers' Association of America,
> Washington, D. C,
! High Class Portrait Work
I Artistic and Pictorial Photography.
EXPERT KODAK FINISHING.
) We do not finish work in the shortest possible time,
> hut in tile best possible manner.
Our prices are not the eheapest in town, BI T OUR
| WORK IS.
! We have the best labor -saving equipment that money
! can buy, hence our claim to superior work.
HEGG & LAURENCE,
Masonic Building.
Rich Willow Creek Mining Claims for Sale
One-half interest in four claims, 80 acres.
Fissure vein, free milling:, one assaying from $:*
Joins the Mohawk Mine.
00 to $60 00 per ton
PRICE $15,000.00.
Three claims. 60 acres, joining the Matanuska mining property
where a mill is now being installed The Matanuska Mine is considered one
of the richest in camp and was sold a few years ago for $60,000.00.
On these three claims is a strong fissure vein from two to four feet in
width, and crops on the surface for 600 feet assays 20 per cent molubden
ium and several dollars in gold.
There is also a parallel vein that pans gold. Over $500,000.00 worth
of mineral in sight. Price 9175,000.00. Will sell on terms, with a sub
stantial payment down.
One claim of 20 acres, showing a good vein of free milling ore, id
joining the Mohawk mine. Price $5,000.00.
One claim of 20 aere-s adjoining the Webfoot claim, ground well lo
cated; the vein can easily be found by doing a little digging. Price $1,000.
Samples of ore can be seen at my office.
GEORGE ANDERSON
4th and F Street, Campbell Bldg-. Anchorage, Alaska
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FRANCE WAS SAVED—
INDIRECTLY THOUGH NONE THE LESS SURELY, THROUGH THE THRIFTY HABITS OF THE FRENCH PEOPLE, AS MUCH AS BY THEIR UNEXAMPLED
HEROISM- MILLIONS OF DOLLARS WERE AVAILABLE FOR THE PROSECUTION OF THE WAR, MONEY SAVED BY THE PEOPLE, LITTLE BY LITTLE,
UNTIL THE SUM BROUGHT FORTH AT A CRITICAL TIME WAS IN THE AGGREGATE, STAGGERING.
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE—THE MOST EXTRAVAGANT ON EARTH—MIGHT AT THIS CRUCIAL MOMENT IN TIIE AFFAIRS OF THE NA
TION ASK THEMSELVES IF EACH PERSON IS DOING HIS “BIT” AND BY SO MUCH AS HE IS ABLE TO PUT AWAY FOR A POSSIBLE NA
TIONAL NEED, HELPING TO PAY HIS DEBT TO HIS COUNTRY.
OPEN AN ACCOUNT TODAY. A BANK ACCOUNT IS THE GREATEST INCENTIVE TO PRACTICAL ECONOMY._
BANK OF ANCHORAGE
RESOURCES OVER $500,000.