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| Bank of Seward |
— Established 1905 EE
| Depository for j
| Territorial Funds 1
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| Seward, - Alaska |
WHOLESALE
Our Goods will Be Found Reliable
Anchorage
Alaska
The Herning Family
Continue to Dispense
General Merchandise
At the Old Stand in Knik
Whatever You Want We Have
Whatever We Have You Want
KnP* Trading Com’y
0. G. Her hnjr. Manager
. Nu Bone Corset
1 Shop
MRS. T. R. NEEDHAM
General Representative
for Alaska
LADIES
i would lie pleased to have you
call pad examine these Corsets
FIFTH :TRI.HT NEAR H
ANCHORAGE
Fifth Ave. near H St.
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Pacific Alaska Mieation Co
T1 I K A ! >.M I HA I, IA N K ”
Steamers sail from Seattle on the .sth, 15th and 25th,
at 5 o’clock p. m.
Steamers sail from Anchorage on or about the 3rd, 13th
and 23rd for Seattle, Tacoma, Seward, Prince William Sound
Ports and Juneau.
CALIFORNIA -Steamers leave Seattle Wednesdays and
Sundays for San Francisco and Southern California ports.
Right reserved to change sailings without notice.
P. J. Pint,wood,
Manager.
Chas. S. Rt„ack,
Agent
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PIONEER HOTEL
F. B. Cannon,-Propr.
NO BAR
Accommodations for Ninety Guests
Large General Lobby. Pri
vate Lobby for Ladies
Best Rates Best Treatment
Best Accommodations
Y\ N I K’S
Lead i n g
Hotel
KUROPEAN
PLAN
CRAWFORD & BUSH
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Contractors and Builders
Dealers In
BUILDING MATERIAL
Anchorage, Alaska
A Woman, a Dog and a Walnut Tree
By Pat O’Cotter, of Seward, Alaska
This land is the Orphan Kiddie
Of the group with their stars in the flag,
And she’s looked on hack home as an alien
Where her treatment makes honest men gag.
She’s treated the same as a harlot
Who barters her body for pelf
And carries it home to her master,
And is told to look after herself.
Of course we’re an orphan adopted,
When cast off by the great Russian Bear
And our lot’s been the lot of an orphan,
And we've had a stage orphan’s care.
Our coal land was grabbed by our Uncle,
Our copper and furs by the Jews,
While another gang grabbed all the salmon
And corrupted our natives with booze.
Our Uncle took all of our town sites.
Each harbor’s a naval reserve.
And thu water that runs down the hillsides
Has been gobbled by statesmen with nerve,
Our gold goes to pay off Sam’s taxes
Till there’s damned little left here, you bet.
And after the gang get their rake-oif.
Pray, what does the poor orphan get?
Sam gave us an army commission
And told it to build us a trail,
But all that he gave was permission,
Sam didn’t come through with the “kale.”
Now a trail in Alaska costs money.
And when Dick tries to get a bill through,
Some jackass from Maine reads his figures
And “moves the amount cut in two.”
Our Uncle Sam owns all the cables,
And the prices he gets are a sin.
It costs more for a word to Seattle
than it does from Salt Lake to Berlin.
Our coast lines are rugged and broken,
A menace to each ship that sails,
Vet Sam has no money for coast lights.
They get the same treatment as trails.
And Alaska is some husky orphan,
We could reach from the Gulf to B. C.
We could stand with one foot in Kansas
While the other was washed by the sea.
Yet we’ve only one voice there in Congress,
And that one’s bereft of a vote,
And has to get one’s permission
Ere he loose the protest from Ins throat.
• Sam gave us a group legislative
But barred them the making of laws;
They could only “memorialize Congress.’
And give it the reasons and cause.
The cry of the world is for Home Rule,
Yet imported fools crowd our bench.
And some of their mining decisions
Send up to high Heaven, their stench.
You made us quit gambling that’s all right.
But one thing nobody knows,
Is why Sam let a bone-head from Georgia
Hang the crepe on our own picture shows.
Wj^’re all hedged in with restrictions,
And Sam, won’t you in us confide
Why some of your damphool ideas
Are not tried on someone Outside?
This land’s not the land of the weakling,
And the men up here know what we need,
We’re sick of your bunch from the Outside,
Whose only incentive is greed.
We’ve stood for Pinchot’s Conservation,
We’ve stood for your carpet bag horde.
Who have grabbed off the jobs in Alaska
As a sort of politic reward.
But Sam, take a tip from a roughneck.
Go slow now, and don’t crowd your hand.
Or some day you’ll find that the orphan
Has cpiit creeping, and learned how to stand.
Don’t make us the goat for the theories
Advanced by some government cog,
And don’t use this land for a station
For trying things out on the dog.
We gaze o’er the line of the Yukon,
When we’re watching our neighbors at play,
And we wonder why our Uncle Sammy
Don’t treat his Alaskans that way.
We look at their broad, graded highways,
Then gaze at our own half-blazed trails.
And, Sam, it comes damned near to envy
When we think of their thrice a week mails.
They don’t know the word conservation;
Their resources, all theirs to use,
When they ask their Uncle to help them,
Their Uncle don’t often refuse.
Their Uncle has helped them develop,
Furnished work for men who were broke,
And Sam, when it comes to coast lights
They make ours look like a joke.
But in spite of it all, Sam, we love you,
We love every thread in the Flag,
We love every stream in Alaska,
We love every cliff, every craig.
We’re not like the woman, or dog, Sam,
And we’re not like the walnut tree,
’Cause we want to be loved in return, Sam,
And Sam, you are blind, or you’d see.
One insane Chinaman arrived
in town the other day in charge
of the deputy U. S. marshal.
Said Chinaman sails under the
name of Arthur V. James. This
unusual name for a Chinaman is
due to his calling Tacoma his
home town. He has been work
ing in Kenai at the cannery and
for some unknown reason decid
ed that people of questionable
character and war spies were
after him, so the jury in Judge
David’s court adjudged him of
unbalanced mind, and ordered
that one “blue ticket” for the
outside be given him so that he
would have proper care at the
hospital for the insane at Morn
ingside, Oregon.
Since the arrival of the last
boat. Newt. Pilger’s is “shirt
enly” the shirt headquarters for
Cook Inlet. J x
The
Pioneer Office
for
Job Work of
ALL KINDS
A GOOD PIACF
Newt. V
Near Corner 4th art H streets
Ship Cr
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Andpi son it
Fresh Meats and Provision
Wholesale and Retail
Cold Storage Plant in Connectioi
Special Attention Given to Restaurant, Mine and Camp i .
Fourth ave, between I) and K sts AnchorSfifC, Al<isli0.
Anchorage
Sash and Door Co.
Dealers in All Kinds of
GLASS
PLATE GLASS MOSS GI \SS
SHEET GLASS MIRRORS WIRE GLAS.
Fifth and K sts. RAY C. LARSON, Mgr.
Northern Drug Company, In
Cordova and Anchorage, Alaska
Drugs, Chemicals,
Cigars and Tobaccos,
Confectionery and Stationery,
Talking FVIachines,
Photo Supplies, Etc.
Cor. 4th and H sis. Anchora
CARROL 8c CO.
Men’s Outfitter
Main Store: Seattle
BRANCHES: SEWARD AND ANCHOk.M
CTA5
Price & Bennett
SHEET METAL
WORKING
PLUMBING
BLACKSMIT H1N G
Try us for oour Safety Flues,
Sheet Iron Stoves, Roofing
or Horseshoeing
THE CRESCENT
F. W. REDWOOD & 00., Fioprs.
Clean Private Rooms. Comfort
able Beds. Moderate Rates.
Bathroom in Connection.
Cor. Fourth and C. Anchorage
We design and build
HOUSES or BOATS
Consult with us.
NEKLASON BROS.
Carpenters and Architects
Wasilla Ranch
Matanuska, - Alaska
KOR SALE -Fine robe. In
quire thi9 office.
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Choice Confections
Cigars and Tobaccos
Soft Drinks
Ice Cream
Etc,, Etc.. Etc.
KNIK. - - ALASKA
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Diedrick & Tavior, IYo
W. A. Ta
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Manufacturet.s of all kind- < .
Mineral Wat*.
Soda, Cider
Syrups
Agents for Gr pe Juice
Anchorage, - - Alaska
Frank Korth
SHEET METAL. PLUMBING
HEATING. VENTILATING
Yukon and Tank Stoves
Air-tight Heaters.
Corner Fourth ave. and I street