% LENNON'S
Bakery and Coffee House
Bread, Pies, Cakes, Cookies, Etc.
-a Specialty
Fourth avenue west.
NEW
Sanitary Market
Fresh Beef, Pork and Mutton
i Home-Made Sausage
Made Every Day
Frutts and Vegetables
' All Kinds
One Block West of Postotfice
£. £. KURTZ & CO.
4
P. 0. Sundberg
GROCERIES
Dodging and Baths
On C St., Bet. 4th and 5th.
H. W. NAGLEY
Susitna, Alaska
Complete Stock of
GENERAL
MERCHANDISE
OUTFITTING
A. SPECIALTY |
INSURE NOW
In Reliable Company
and Protect Your Family
in the
EQUITABLE LIFE
ASSURANCE SOCIETY
Of the United States
A. FRODENBERG,
District Agent, at The News
Stand, 4th Ave., Bet. G and H
I
The Sydney Laurence Company
Commercial and Pictorial Photography
Post Cards and Local Views
Kodak Developing and Printing
Town Center
Carrol Building, Fourth Avenue
Eventually We Will Do Your
Cleaning and Pressing.
START WITH IS TODAY.
“CLEANING AS IT SHOULD
BE DONE."
Blanton & Murry
1 Block from P. O. 5 t.h and G sts.
Scotty Watson
Conducts a Comfortable Lodging
House at Matanuska Landing.
When at Matanusfea Kat at the
PLACE CAFE
Mrs. Hatton, Prop.
Phil, The Barber
O. K. Bath House and Barber
Shop.
Fourth, Between I> and E.
Phil J. Eckert, Propidetor.
$1 PER DAY
Corner 4th Ave. and C
MKS. QUINN, Prop.
CACHE CREEK OPERATOR WILL
SOON ST ART SEASON'S WORK
George Eberhardt arrived on one '
of the last boats from Seattle and
will leave os the Sea Lion is a fgw
days for McDougal. Mr. Eberhardt
ha* a hydraulic plant on Falls creek,
in the Cache creek district, and has
been operating in this district since
1903. Mr. Eberhardt employs ten
men and expects to start work at
once and like the balance of .the
Cache creek operators is optimistic
in regard to the season’s output.
RIG CELEBRATION PLANNED
ON ALASKA’S BIRTHDAY
Secretary Koch is in receipt of a
letter under date of May 19th, from
the Alaska Bureau of Seattle as
knowledging receipt of a copy of
resolutions adopted at a recent meet
ing of the Anchorage Chamber of
Commerce setting forth the inten
tion of celebrating the fiftieth anni
versary of Alaska by a two-day’s
celebration and add that they will
lend all possible aid to make this
j event great success.
When Smalz Loves. It ends in a
general rough-house never to be for
gotten. At Movies tonight. 8-1 -fit
tf
Doc buys everything.
Union Transfer Co.
ROBERT SPECK
Manager
I will do a General Transfer
Business.
5th, Between C and B.
NuBONE
1916 MODELS
For Style, Health, Comfort
and Durability, try
NuBone
and be convinced.
Xu BONE THE WINNER
All sizes and all prices
MRS. T. R. NEEDHAM,
Fifth Ave., near H St.
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WHOLESALE
BRANDS:
Everbest, Libby,
Del Monte, Quality
4'
The Only Wholesale House in Alaska
Try our Hams and Bacons
Fresh Smoked Every Day
WOULD PURCHASE
DANISH ISLANDS
President Said to Be Nego
tiating hor West Indies,
PRICE IS PUT AT $5,000,000
Consist of 138 Square Miles and Have
Population of 27,086 Persons, Mostly
Negroes—Previous Efforts to Buy Is
lands Balked—Of Great Strategic
Importance.
President Wilson Is said to be nego
tinting for the purchase of the Danish
West Indies. The price tentatively
agreed upon is $5,000,000.
A treaty between Denmark and the
United States providing for the trans
fer of the three little islands in the
Antilles has been drafted by Secretary
of State Lansing and Constantin Brun.
the Danish minister here.
Extraordinary measures have been
adopted to guarantee consummation of
the deal, which twice before has been
frustrated by the opposition of the Ger
man government to acquisition of the
islands by the United States. The plan
is to put through the scheme at once
while Germany is too busy fighting the
allies to interfere.
The utmost secrecy regarding the
negotiations is being observed, and it is
Intended to seek simultaneous ratifica
tion of the treaty by the American
senate and the Danish parliament at a
single sitting.
If the cession of the islands be ef
fected President Wilson will have bro
ken all records in the last fifty years
for the peaceful extension of American
dominion and influence. He already
has established a protectorate over
Haiti and acquired a powerful influ
ence over Nicaragua by purchase of
the interoceanic canal right of way.
Strategic Importance.
The Danish West Indies consist of
the three small Islands of St. Croix, St.
Thomas and St John, aggregating 138
square miles and possessing a popula
tion of 27,080 persons, mainly free ne
groes engaged In the cultivation of
sugar cane. The Islands, however, are
of strategic Importance, particularly In
relation to the Panama canal.
Acquisition of the Islands by an
overseas power would tie regarded by
the United States as a violation of the
Monroe doctrine. This menace will be
removed by cession of the Islands to
the t’nited States.
Seward negotiated the purchase of
the islands In 1807 for $7.."00.000, but
the treaty failed of ratification by the
senate. Germany once sought to buy
the islands, and the United States
warned Denmark against making the
sale. In 1902 Secretary of State Hay
; negotiated the purchase for $5,000,000,
but the treaty was rejected by the
Danish parliament.
Within the last few years a Ger
man corporation built Immense docks
at St. Thomas, and It was reported
that Germany was Intent on gaining a
foothold in the group.
MOUNTAIN TOP BLCWN UP.
Younger Garibaldi Devised Exploit.
Tunnel Dug Underneath.
According to the Milan correspond
; ent of the I-ondon Chronicle, it was the
I younger Garibaldi, now serving as an
I officer in the Alpini, who originated
i the Idea of capturing the summit of
; Col di Lana, the lofty mountain har
| ring the Italian advance into the Cor
devole valley in the Dolomites, by tun
neiing under It and blowing the whole
i top off the mountain, an enterprise
which the Italian troops recently ac
complished.
The task began on Christmas day,
the dispatch says, of boring a gallery
; 23(i feet long through solid rock. The
I tunnel was made large enough for two
men to rush up.it abreast to the as
sault after the explosion, and the mine
charge consisted of teu tons of blast
ing gelatin and dynamite, while the
shaft was closed with a massive shield
j of steel armor plate to protect the
shaft and also permit it to lie promptly
! opened for a charge after the explosion.
The mine was sot off at 11:30 the oth
er night and more than 200 Austrians
: killed In the explosion, while the posi
tion wus swiftly rushed by the Italians.
TO SPEND $1,250,000,000.
Congress tc Break All Record* In Mak
ing Appropriation*.
Tlie first session of the Sixty-fourth
congress will appropriate for the next |
fiscal year $1,250,000,000 — a record.
Here are the estimates:
Sundry civil bill, $230,000,000; post
office, $323,000,000; navy, $220,000,000:
army, $180,000,000; fortifications, $43,
| 000.000: legislative and executive, $38,
I 000.000: rivers and harbors. $40,000;000;
! Indians, $12,0003100; agriculture, $24,
I 000,000: District af Columbia, $12,000,
: 000; pensions, $105,000,000; three de
ficiency bills already passed, $25,000.
000.
Appropriations for the Mississippi
flood district, Alaska, nitrate plants,
the shipping bill and other minor
things rnuke up the balance. The ap
propriations last year amounted to a
little more than $1,000,000,000.
Now They’re Sorry.
New York pessimists are out $9 each.
They had a man pinched who was try
ing to sell sure enough ten dollar bills
for $1 apiece.
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| Bank of Seward |
Established 1905 EE
| Depository for j
| Territorial Funds |
| Seward, - Alaska |
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Alaska Packing Company
SAUSAGE MADE TODAY
Bologna Liver Weiners Frankfurters
Liver Loaf Chili Tomato
. Pork Garlic Ham
GET IT TOMORROW AT
Larson & Wendler’s M. Sheehan N. Pilger’s
Yukon Grocery Brown & Hawkins’
Scandinavian Grocery I. Kimball’s
Eat Fresh Sausage—It’s the Real Kind v
Once Tasted None Wasted
G. W. PALMER
KMK, ALASKA
Some of Our Specialties:
Wellman Canned Goods
Tip Top Eggs
Red Clover Butter
Sperry’s Flour
Marshfield Cheese
Also a Full Line of
HARDWARE. STOVES, HAY
AND FEED
No Better Goods Can be |
Boug’Jit at Any Price 1
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ALASKA POOL ROOM
FOURTH AVE., NEAR D ST.
CIGARS. TOBACCOS, CANDIES,
SOFT DRINKS, FRUITS,
CONCORD GRADE JUICE
MUSIC JOSEPH SCHMITBAUER
- PROPRIETOR
Eastern Trips by Western People
ARE MADE WITH THE GREATEST COMFORT
- via -—
Great Northern R’y
To St. Paul, Chicago and the East
To Denver, Kansas City, St. Louis and the South
rHltOUGH STANDARD A M> TOVRIST SLEEPERS, DINING AM)
COMPARTMENT OUSERVATIOX CARS.
To Portland and California by Rail and Ocean
Steamships “Great Northern and “Northern Pacihc”
Compl ete Information from Local Steamship Agents, or
A S. DAl'TRICK, Traveling f reight and Passenger Agent,
Room IK, Valentine Building, Juneau.
T. J. Moore, City Passenger Agu Second and Columbia, Seattle
BARKER & FELTHAM
Carry a Complete Line of
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
McDougal, Alaska
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