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SPECIAL SALE*
Fancy Vases
AND
Chinaware
At 75 Cents on the Dollar
C. W. ASK & SONS .
GENTLEMEN^
w
There is a Spe
cial Sale on PIPES
only for this Month.
Now BOYS there is
a show for you to
come and get
your pipe
COME IN UNO SEE THE OLD MAN
Tony Dortero's
it
f =^l
Kodaks
and Films
Developing and Fin
ishing a specialty
DRAPER & G0.
Skagwav, Alaska
PMQN^aa^^^p^^Box as2 ^ (
L. A. HARRISON CO."*
SKATING ON
Lake Dewey
GET YOUR SKATES
FROM US
$I.I5and$|.50
Per Pair
I
Stores Open Evenings
Phones 4 &155
@IL
Having completed reliable arrange
ments for an adequate supply of the
best
British Columbia Coal
for the criming winter we offer for
Ska?way Coal Consumers, Coals at
following prices; ?
Wellington (Departure Bay)
Run of Mine $12 per ton
Welllniton (Lviysmith)
Selected Lumps (13 per ton
Anthracite (Banff B. C.)
Chestnut Size J20 per too
Prices abovd arc on wharf and In bulk
or racked and for cash. Delivery 11.00
per ton extra.
SHAW & JOHNSON
Phones 11 or 109 Skagway, Alaska
Puikn Rouse
Foot ot Sixth Avaou*
Most elegantly furnished house
In Alaaka
Every modern convenience
Electric lights? Hot and cold
water? Telephonei
Porcelain baths on every floor
Board and room by the dry, week
or month
Table supplied with cream and
butter from our own Jersey
Dairy
rnrs. fi. 5. PulUn
Proprietress
Established 1897
Real Estate
BROKER
Collections
NOTARY PUBLIC
S2 FOURTH AVE., SKAGWAY
PHONE lO
HAROLD
FRANK
BEN
HERB
H. P. TAYLOR. MGR. B
CUSTOM BROKERS AND BONDED
CARRIERS
Baggage, Freight, Safe and
Piano Moving
COALandBWOOD
Hack and Butnry Nleht or
Day Scrrlce
Good Work Guaranteed and Prices
Reasonable
^ Office R. R. DepotJ
Warm Ijr a
Goods for 1 1 1 1
Cold
"Weather
! a Warm
It; Goods tor
Blankets and Comforters weather
An opportunity to purchase your winter supply of bedding when the cold weather is just
starting in, is a chance you don't get very often. We have to reduce our stock as much as
possible this month, hence the reason for this sale.
BLANKETS
Regular Price $1-25 Sale Price
Regular Price 1.50
1.75
Regular Price
Regular Price 2.00
Regular Price 5.00
Regular Price 5.50
Regular Price 6 00
Regular Price 7-50
Regular Price 8.00
Regu]ar Price 8.50
Regular Price 9.00
Sale Price
Sale Price
Sale Price
Sale Price
Sale Price
Sale Price
Sale Prioe
Sale Price
Sale Price
Sale Price
$ .85
1.15
1.35
165
375
400
4.50
5,75
6.25
6.75
7.00
COMFORTERS
Regular Price $ 2.00 Sale Price $ 1.50
Regular Price
Regular Price
Regular Price
Regular Price
Regular Price
Regular Price
Regular Price
Regular Price
Regular Price
Regular Price
2.75 Sale Price 2.25
3 50 Sale Price 2.65
4,00 Sale Price 3.25
4.50 Sale Price 3.50
5.00 Sale Price 3.75
6.00 Sale Price 4.50
9.00 Sale Price 7 00
10.00 Sale Price 8.00
32.50 Sale Price 10.00
13.50 Sale Price 11.00
i STORE
OPEN
EVENINGS
B.M. Behrends Mercantile Company
Geo. Blanchard, Manager
STORE
OPEN
EVENING-SI
| ILL ALASKA III t LINE OR TWO |!
i:m?m8s?n?ni?n?m?n?iiini?B8m
The Northwestern Development Co.
has now ready the Hum of $1120,000
for use in developing its properties
lu the Kougarok and for improve
ments in the Seward Peninsula rail
road.
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More work is being done on old
Dominion creek this winter than any
time during the last two winters.
Many lays are being worked and a
large number of the owners are par
ticipating in the opening of the
ground.
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P. Darlington spent some time at
Nome last summer looking over the
grounds with a view of installing an
electric plant to supply power to ali
tt>?* principal mining sections of that
couutry. He found the conditions
favorable and says be proposes to
Install an extensive plant.
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A report comes from Cordova that
three steamers will be operated on
the Copper river from Abnrcromble
canyon to the Chitllna next year,
and railroad work In the Copper river
country will be concentrated up the
Chittina to the Bonanza mines. A
townsite has been located at the
mouth of the Chittina.
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There is more work being doue on
lower Quartz creek, in the Klondike
this year than has ever been at
tempted before. Nearly every claim
from No. 15 down to the forties is be
ing worked; there are quite a hun
dred men working in this part of
the creek, and are finding good pay
on the hillsides on the right limit.
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It. H. Campbell of the Ottumwa
Ditch company, who has arrived In
Nome from the scene of his work,
states that he believes the country
which includes the Port Clarence,
Kougarok and Good Hope districts
is one of the finest mining sections
in Alaska and that it only needs a
proper prospecting to prove its great
worth.
CHRISTMAS ORDERS TIMELY.
Order now for Christmas If you J
are going to have a Born Suit or
Overcoat. You can't get better value
In low priced clothing. Every gar- ,
inent Is made to your measure, and ]
the fit, style and workmanship can- '
not be excelled.
Mowl & Ehrlich are the agents
in Skagway and will show samples.
In their custom department they
are showing the latest in suitings, <
and their personal guarantee goes 1
with every garment that they turn '
out of their shop.
HOW'S THIS?
We offer One Hundred dollars Re
ward for any case of Catarrh tliat
cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh
Cure. P. J. CHENEY & CO.. To
ledo, O.
We, the undersigned, have known
F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years,
and believe him perfectly honorable
in all business transactions and fi
nancially able to carry out any ob
ligations made by his firm.
WALDING, KINNAN & MARVIN,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken intern
ally, acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfacc of the system.
Testimonials sent free. Price, 75c.
per bottle. Sold by all Druggists.
Take Hall's Family Pills for con
stipation.
A circulating library places within
the means of everybody, the best
reading of the day. I have 500 vol
umes of the latest copyright fiction
and general reading. W. W. Bough
ton.
PREMIUM BRAND BUTTER.
By far the best butter we have
ever had and it is gaining favor with
our patrons every day. Try a pound
brick.
FRYE & BRUHN CO.
Why not put a few crisp readers
in The Alaskan, advertising your
long stock, and get rid of it?
The Fifth Avenue hotel has plenty
of rooms today. Have several rooms
with private bath, if you are not suit
ed with your room come and see us.
Rates $1 and up.
Winter evenings made delightful
by good reading. All the best and
latest books to be found in my cir
culating llabrary. W. W. Boughton.
If you have something you don't
need, why not advertise it for sale
or exchange in The Alaskan?
RELIABLE ALL THE TIME.
The Pack Train Restaurant will
serve wine with dinner orders, free
in place of tea or coffee. Come on
boys.
All the delicacies of the season at
the Pack Train Restaurant.
LOST ? Pair gold bowed eye
glasses. Return to this offloe and
receive reward. 4t
I have 500 volumes of copyright
novels and general reading ? the
last and best ? In my circulating li
brary. W. W. Boughton.
NOTICE
Notice Is hereby Riven, that the
Home Power company respectfully re
quests that all persons refrain from
iiratlDg on Lake Dewey, ai this body
of water mast not be contaminated.
Home Power company.
18S lw Phil Abrahams, Sec. i
QUICK DELIVERY PHONE 90.
Baggage, coal and wood delivered
upon shortest notice day and night.
H. FREIDENTIIAL,
General Expressing Bonded Car
rier.
BETTER PREPARED THAN EVER.
Having put in a steam boiler and
other machinery we are better pre
pared than ever to do first-class work
on short notice.
SKAGWAY LAUNDRY.
PORTLAND HOUSE.
First, class rooms at the Portland
House. Skagway's medium priced
house. Baths and all conveniences.
Centrally located, Fifth avenue, oppo
site Poatoffice.
If you want to buy anything adver
tise for it lu The Alaskan.
NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given, that the
assessment book of taxable property
In the Town of Skagway, for the
year 1908, is now in my hands, and
the taxes levied upon same are due
and payable at the office of the
Town Treasurer, on Fifth avenue, be
tween the hours of 10 and 12 a. in.
1 and 5 p. m.
Unpaid taxes upon real property
will become delinquent at C o'clock
p. m. on the last day of February,
1909, and unless paid prior thereto
twenty per cent penalty and interest
at the rate of 8 per cent per annum
will bo charged from the date of de
linquency until paid.
Unpaid taxes upon personal prop
erty will become delinquent on No
vember 30, 1908, and unless paid
prior thereto twenty per cent penalty
and interest at the rate of 8 per cent
per annum will be charged from date
of delinquency until paid; and that
thereafter if said delinquent personal
property taxes, together with penalty
and interest, are not paid on demand
from the Chief of Police, sufficient of
the personal property belonging to
the person to whom the property was
assessed, will be immediately seized
and sold to satisfy said taxes, penalty
and interest, in accordance with Ordi
nance No. 69.
M. H. McLELLAN,
Town Treasurer.
DIRECTORY OF FRATERNAL SOCIETIES
ARCTIC BROTHERHOOD.
Regular meetings of Camp Skag
way, No. 1, every Tuesday at 8:30
o'clock sharp, in A. B. ball, Broad
way.
Visiting brothers are cordially In
vited.
H. H. DRAPER, A. C.
E. R. Stivers, A. R.
BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE
ORDER OF ELKS.
Regular meetings of Skagway
Lodge, No. 431, Benevolent and Pro
tective Order of Elks, every Thurs
day at 8 p. m. sharp, in their hall on
Sixth Avenue.
FRED. CALLARMAN, Secy.
FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES.
Regular meetings of Skagway Aerie
No. -'5, Fraternal Order of Eagles
first and third Wednesdays in each
month, in their bull on Fifth Avenue,
at 8 p. m. sharp.
All members are requested to be
present and visiting brothers are in
vited to attend.
.1 P. BRAWAND, Worthy Pres
J. M. Keller, Worthy Secy.
FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS.
Regular meetings of White Pass
Lodge, No. 113, Free and Accepted
Masons, second and fourth Fridays of
each month, at 8 p. in. sharp, at Ma
sonic hall, 225 Fourth avenue.
Sojourning and visiting members
are requested to meet with us.
T. J. STAND1SH, Secy.
LADIES OF THE MACCABEES.
Regular reviews of Hive No, 2, La
dies of the Maccabees will be held
the first and third Tuesdays in the
month at 8 p. m. sharp. In their hall
on Sixth avenue.
All visiting members are cordially
Invited.
Yes. we have the proper sizes of
calling cards in the crash finish bris
tol. The proper type, too. The
Daily Alaskan Job Dept.
0N==
NOVEMBER 15 '08
The Eleventh Annual
Drawing Will Begin
at KIKMSE'S 5KT/5