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COALITE
Phone your orders for Happy Valley coal to Nort-li
ern Transfer office. Prompt delivery to anv part of
town.
THE WILCOX GRILL
Makes a specialty of 35c Breakfast, Lunch and Din
ner. Quick Service and Hot Meals.
Fourth Ave., at C st.
REILLY’S CAFE
THE HOUSE
OP QUALITY
Still in the Lead
Everything in Season and the Best the
Market Affords
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT
G. W. PALMER
KMK, ALASKA
Distribute General Merchandise, Hardware, Boots and
Shoes, Lumber. Shingles, Gasoline, Kerosene,
Paints and Oil, Pumps, Pipe and Fit
tings, Tents and Tarpaulins.
Sperry’s Flour, Sold Under Absolute Guarantee
From the Company.
Recleaned Oats, $55.00 per ton.
Hay, $35.00 per ton.
Red and Grey Rosin Building Paper, $1.00.
D. G. Berry Sugar, $8.25 per sack, 100s.
Carnation Milk, $4-25 case.
Red Clover Butter, $40.00 Bbl, 110 lbs.
The “Lucy” Does It
KN1K, ALASKA
City Drug Store
Cor. 5th and C
THE REXALL STORE
Dr. K. A. Ivyvig, Prop.
We buy for cash— We pay no rent—
And give our customers the benefit in low pnices.
Give us a trial and become convinced.
Stefansson Will
Not Come Out of
Arctic This Year
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NOME, Alaska, August 25.—Vilh
jalmur Stefansson, the Canadian
I Arctic explorer who went into the
polar regions in the summer of 1913,
probably will not return to civiliza
tion during the present season, but
will continue his work of exploring
newly-discovered land north of Prince
Patrick land. This news was brought
here by members of the Stefansson
j party who returned today on the
power schooner Alaska.
The party aboard the Alaska was
: the southern party, under Dr. Ru
dolph Anderson, Stefansson’s chief
subordinate, who had been exploring
and charting the coast line bordering
Union and Dolphin straits and the
Coronation gulf region, far to the
east of the mouth of the MacKenzie
river.
All of the little party which left
here on the Alaska in July, 1915, re
turned, with the exception of Daniel
Blue, engineer, who died on Bailey
island in May, 1915.
Members of the Party.
The members of the bronzed crew
which reached here today were Dr.
Anderson; J. J. O’Neill, geologist;
John R. Cox, surveyor; D. Jenness,
anthropologist; J. Johansen, ocean
ographer and entomologist, and Geo.
Wilkins, photographer.
The schooner was under the com
! mand of Capt. Sweeney, who joined
; the expedition while it was in Arc
1 tic waters. The entire party was in
‘ good physical condition.
Most of the time since the spring
I of 1914 the party has been in quar
! i ters at Bernard harbor on Corona
tion gulf, east of the MacKenzie riv
er, one of the least known sections of
the habitable eartth.
With Stefansson Last Winter.
The last member of the party to
see Stefansson was the photographer,
Wilkins, who was one of those who
departed before that ill-fated vessel
was carried away in the grip of the
northern ice in the fall of 1913, and
later crushed near Herald island.
Wilkins was with Stefansson last
winter, having rejoined him last year.
After spending some time with the
Stefansson party, Wilkins made the
trip over the ice to Coronation gulf
and joined the Anderson party.
The first winter after leaving Nome
tthe party spent at Manning point,
near Camden bay, after having fail
ed to find a passage through the
heavy ice to the eastward. The fol
lowing spring Dr. Anderson proceed
ed to the east and reached Corona
tion gulf during the summer of 1914.
Quarters were established at Ber
nard harbor, which became the base
for the expedition’s work. The sum
mer and winter of 1915 were spent
in scientific labors around Corona
tion gulf.
Left Coronation Gulf in June.
The party left Coronation gulf for
Bering sea in June of this year. The
southward passage was beset by no
difficulties. Although traveling in
the track of the Teddie Bear and the
Challenge, Dr. Anderson saw nothing
of these vessels.
Mr. Wilkins learned from Stefan
sson that the new lands which the ex
plorer discovered may be described
as a second Greenland. Up to the
time that Stefansson left the new
land after his memorable trip across
the frozen sea with Storker Storker
son and Ole Anderson, the explorer
traced about 200 miles of its shore
line ^nd found high mountains upon
it. Mr. Wilkins says that it was
Stefansson’s intention to return to
the new land last spring to continue
the work of exploration.
Brings Thirty Tons of Specimens.
The Alaska brings about thirty tons
of specimens gathered during the
year spent in the north, in addition
to a mass of data of inestimable val
ue from a scientific standpoint. They
will later be shipped to Ottawa,
where the final results of the expe
dition will be comleted.
Most of the Alaska’s party will
proceed outside, but it is possible that
Dr. Anderson may return north to
continue his investigations.
I CREEK MAN IS SUICIDE;
DRINK WAS THE CAUSE
FAIRBANKS — Despondent over
his inability to quit drinking, accord
ing to the story told by some of his
friends, Dan Shaw has ended it all by
blowing out his brains. His body was
j found in a bam on the upper end of
Engineer creek Thursday night. The
i face and upper part of the head of the
corpse was almost entirely blown
away. The weapon used was a 39-30
rifle, which was found close by the
corpse.—Ex.
If you want an automobile, night or
day, telephone the Reo Service. Num
ber 56-Y. 8-llif
W’atch the business center around
Robarts’. 8-18-tf
Government
Aids Settlers in
Tanana Valley
(Fairbanks Times)
One of the beneficial uses of the
i United States agricultural experi
mental stations in Alaska was exem
plified this year at Fairbanks when
| the station there loaned to farmers in
the Fairbanks district several hundred
I bushels of grain for seed purposes.
This spring the Fairbanks farmers
found themselves short of seed for
; sowing. Dr. C. C. Georgeson, head
of the service in Alaska, took the
matter up with the department of
justice and arranged for co-operation
between the service and the farmers
through which seed was furnished the
I farmers and the latter are required
to return the quantity of seed furnish
ed in the fall.
It is said that this action of the
United States experimental station
has allayed some feeling that had
previously existed against the serv
ice on account of alleged competition
with the farmers in agricultural prod
ucts because the surplus products of
the station in Fairbanks, as else
where in the United States, were
sometimes sold in the markets.
Many Farmers in the District.
One of the significant things con
nected with the seed transaction was
that 42 farmers borrowed seed from
the experimental station. That so
many farmers were engaged in rais
ing cereals in the Fairbanks district
was not generally known.
The Fairbanks experimental station
is making some wonderfully success
ful experiments in the development of
cereals that are both suitable for
Alaska’s short summers and prolific.
Grains that are suitable to the short
summers of Siberia have been import
ed by Dr. Georgeson and crossed with
the great producing cereals of the
United States, and a hybrid has re
sulted that meets the demands in
Alaska. This experimentation began
with barley, but is now being chiefly
carried on with wheat.
Dr. Georgeson to Visit .'■jitetion.
Dr. C. C. Georgeson, head of the
United States agricultural experiment
stations in Alaska, is now in Juneau,
and will leave for the interior soon,
probably on the steamer Alaska, due
to sail for Skagway Sunday. He will
sail from Whitehorse on the White
Pass steamer Casca, leaving for Daw- j
son August flC and connecting at the 1
latter place with the lower river i
steamer Yukon August 11. He will
visit the stations at Rampart and
Fairbanks. It will be his first visit to
the interior for two years.
NEW VALDEZ BANKING
COMPANY IS ORGANIZED |
VALDEZ — The Reynolds-Alaska I
| bank, with headquarters at Valdez, is
. in contemplation by Henry D. Rey
nolds and his New York and Alaska
associates.
There is great need of independent
banking facilities in Valdez and
around the Prince William Sound sec
: tion. During the past few days a
| movement has been started to open an
a I independent bank in Valdez in a suit
' able location and to establish branch
agencies at several points around the
j sound and in the near-by interior. Mr.
Reynolds has conferred with his New
York bankers and within the next few
days he expects to announce the per
fected plan in detail.
; The Tolovana river is reported to
i be alive with small boats carrying
j supplies to Brooks since navigation
J' opened.
Wood Undertaking Co..
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Anchorage Matanuska
Enjoy your Sundays bathing and
dancing at Lake Spenard. 8-12tf
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Turkish baths $1-50. Tub baths
and furnished rooms. Lady attend
ant for ladies at Electric Bath Hous9
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Just received—A large consignment
of Victrolas and latest Records—
the Northern Drug Co. 7-28-6?
Cotton felt mattresses, bed springs
and linoleum, at Crocker’s.
Susitna and Talkeetna
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