"Alaska Soda Fountain"
ALL KINDS OF MIXED D KINKS
CIGAKS CIGARETTES ' CANDIES
BILLIARDS
Ice Cream and Ice Cream Sodas
Copper River
and Northwestern Railway
THROUGH SERVICE TO CORDOVA TWICE WEEKLY
CALEB CORSER Supt.
C. E. PUGH.
A^ent
Kennecott Laundry
i akes
Care of ike .Fa mil y
F. H. FOSTER
ATTORNEY
N’otary Public Real Estate |
Transactions of all Kinds
Leg silly arrar^ec?
Cordova,
Alaska
ASA C. BALDWIN
U. S. Mineral Surveyor
SEATTLE, WASH
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CIGARETTi S, (’IGA!IS
TOBACCO and SOFT DRINKS
Neat—Clean—Newly Furnished — Rooms
For All Guests. Charley Cliont? Pro.]*
McCarthy Stag
WINTER SCHEDULE.
Leaves McCarthy For Kennecott
Daily at 4 P.M.
Liel in ns From Keunecott to
McCarthy at 6. 40 P.M.
Leaves McCarthy for Kennecott
11 P.M.
Returns from Kennecott to Me
L irthy at 12 midnight.
Sunday & Wednesday even
ngs stage leaves McCarthy for
Kennecott at 7 and returns a
10.30 P.M.
Jill Berry Props Henry Olsen
Here tnci There
Sn Alaska
Of a distinguished Alaskan nr
tist a:i Eastern company who
purchased a number oi' his pic
tures for reproduction on calen.
ders, said recently:
. . Sidney Laurence, who
painted Mt. McKinley, studied in
I lie famous schools of New York,
London and Paris. But no school
alone can make any man a great
painter. In 1904 he went to that
country, so early that they qua
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Messenger and Annunciator Service
lified Laurence for membership
in the Arctic Brotherhood and
the Pioneers of Alaska His great
series of Alaskan pictures were
made after he had lived in the
land lor years, after he had come
to know it winter and summer,
in cloud and sunshine, in storm
and at peace. All the training of
1 the schools and seventeen years
of a mature man's life went into
! the making; of the picture re pro
! duced for this calender.”
Recent issues of the Seward
I i
Gateway carried some very well
! Written and convincing editorials j
Jon the Soldiers’ Ron us Rill, writtj
mi by students of the Seward
schools. Th“ plan is to print, from i
time to time, editorials written !
by the students on current top
ics. It is to be commended as
the h< st wry to and intesest to |
the stud\ of English, which!
should be the best taught and
most interesting subject on the
| curriculum; but is generally the
poorest taught and least interest!
mg.
Uobert Stafford, hostler for;
tlie Alaska railroad at Nenana
was recently burnea to death in
a tire which destroyed his cabin.
According to Emil Johnson, the
only witness, he and Staffond
had been drinking heavily in the
ntilding before it caught tire
and lie noticed the flames barely
in time to escape with his life.
Col. Lee H. Landis, general
manager of the Alaska railroad
has made the announcement that
two large freight sheds will be
constructed as soon as the wea
ther permits at points on the
railroad, to faciltate the ship
merit of supplies into mining re
gioim contiguous to those points
These are Dunba:, the gateway
to the Tolovana district and Cant
well, the gateway to the Valdez
creek placers district.
With so many coal mines aoces
sable to Fairbanks, cod is fast,
taking the place of wood as the
chief fuel in that city*
Duringthe past year sixty fiv<*
new residents, thirty-nine of
them belonging to the conquer
ing sex and twenty-six to the
gentler sex. arrived in Anchor
age via the stork express.
Scotch investors have been
looking over the land near Prince
Rupert B. C.,wiiha view to sheep
raising.
Antosthat jump are common;
but autos that climb telegraph
poles are not so common. The
only one on record in Alaska be1
long's to Axel Os burg, of the Ket
chi Kan Cabinet Works’ When
crowded in a slippery place, the
car chose a leaning pole as the
oath of least resistance’ and pro
ceeded 90 feet up before stopp
ing. Both machine and rider lan
ded back on the street uninjured
E. Lester Jones, Director of
the Coast and Geodeiip Survey,
has recommended that Dutch
Harbor, on the Aleution Islands
be purchased by the Federal gov
eminent from the North Ameri
jean Commercial Co., to be used
as a fuel and supply base. He
! points out that with the increas
ing demands in western territo
rial waters, the purchase of sup
plies and fuel from private con
cerns is not only expensive, but
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