McCarthy Mercantile Co.
General Outfitters
McCarthy Alaska
“Alaska Soda Fountain^
ALL KINDS OF MIXED DRINKS
CIGARS CIGARETTES CANDIES
BILLIARDS
Ice Cream and Ice Cream Sodaf
Cigars and Tobacco
Furnished Rooms
“THE GOLDEN’
THE PLACE WHERE FRIENDS MEET
POOL SOFT DRINKS CANDY
JAMES HUSSEY
"THE HOME OF GOOD EATS”
THE ALASKA HOUSE & CAFE
ROY F. BURNS
RENOVATED AND UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT
TWENTY NICELY FURNISHED ROOMS
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED _ PRICES REASONABLE
Kennecott Laundry
Family Work A Specialty
Mrs. Pete Johnson’s
ROOMS — MEALS - BATHS
McCarthy, Alaska
LARGE SEIZURE OE GEMS
Mow York. An intornational
plot to smuggle valuable stones
into the United States was be
lieved by the customs officials
to habeen uncovered with
the siezure recently of two pack
ages of diamonds valued at more
than $100,000.
The stones were taken from a
purser’s clerk giving the name
of Ernest Potwin, as he was
leaving the. steamship Zeeland
| which had arrived fr m Ant
jwerP- A bulky package in
; his coat pocket attracted the at
tention o> the customs guard;
I who was told it contained gov
ernment bonds to be delivered
at a Brooklyn address fora fee
I Examination of the package
j disclosed 4,547 cut diamonds,
carefully wrapped in oilpaper.
The address of the man to
| whom they were consigned is in
possession of customs officials,
who assf rt that lie is connected
with a jewelry firm.
The clerk, believed by the
authorities to be an innocent
messenger, is being held as a
material witness, pendingan in
vestigation which is expected to
result in several arrests.
I
!
| Chas, J. Minor, of Valdez, is a
Icanditate for tlie newly (treated
position of federal prohibition
enforcement office)- for Alaska.
His application is fully endors
ed by the Third Division, though
there are other candidates who
hail from Juneau, The proposed
prohibition organization for A1
■iskm, wili consist of: one federal
director, four agents,one clerk.
R. J, Sommers,formerly Sur
ve.vor General for the Territory
of Alaska, has leased the Gast
ineau Hotel at Tiineau for a per
iod of ten years from the own
ers. E. R. Jae^ger and Claude
Ericson, and will give his per
sonal attention to the hotel busin
ess.
One million letters have been
carried in ten months by Eddie
Hubbard, United States aerial
piiot operating between Victor
ia and Seattle.
This service was inaugurated
to speed up delivery of Austra
lian and Oriental mails, with the
particular object of assisting the
business houses of the Pacific
Coast.
GOLDEN CAFE
UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT
of MORRISON BROS.
OPEN SEVEN A. M- TILL. ONE A M
_ McCarthy