Smart Hats
FOR FALL
Burberry, London, Coats
Double-service; weather proof. Largest line of
Burberries ever shown in Seattle.
PRICES $30 TO $35.
"“VALUES TELL”
a inn °- c- graves, pres,
V .n 1 I o IIlb. 2d Av. and Spring
Men’s and Young Men’s Wear
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GO EAST
UNION PACIFIC SYSTEM
SECOND-TO-NONE SERVICE
LOW ROUND-TRIP FARES.
SEATTLE
—DENVER.$55.00
—OMAHA or KANSAS CITY 60.00
—CHICAGO.72.00
—NEW YORK.110.70
Similar Fares to Main Eastern Cities.
THROUGH SERVICE
Seattle—Chicago, Omaha, Kansas City, Denver, and
intermediate. Direct connections
to the Atlantic coast
Information, tickets, reservations and
travel service upon application to
T. E. WATSON, Admiral Line, Anchorage.
F. B. Tracy, Alaska S. S. Co., Ancliorag'e.
Or Write H. A. LA WHENCE,
Traveling* Freight and Passenger Agent,
F. O. Box 403 : 111 Seward Street
JUNEAU.
UNION
PACIFIC
SYSTEM
Hit The ELECTRIC Trill'
Across the Continent
IF YOU \\ ANT A CLEAN WAY TO
TRAVEL AND A GOOD WAY TO GO.
TAKE THE “MILWAUKEE”
Soot, smoke and cinders have now been eliminated
through the electrification of its mountain divisions.
A. E. HARRIS, Traveling Passenger Agent, Juneau.
Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul Railway
Going East
Through Rates from Anchorage to
Eastern Destinations Are in Effect
via the
ALASKA STEAMSHIP COMPANY
THE ADMIRAL LINE
To California and the South via Portland and the mag
nificent steamships “Great Northern” and “Northern
Pacific. ’ ’
A. S. DAUTRICK .Traveling Freight and Passenger Agent, Room 18,
Valentine Building.
T. J. MOORE, City Passenger Agent, Second and Columbia, Seattle,
Wash.
BANKING BY MAIL
It makes no difference where you are located, you
can send us your gold dust or checks and we will place
them to your credit, acknowledging receipt and furnish
ing you with a check book so you can draw money when
needed; or, if you prefer, we will place the money on de
posit in our Savings Department where it will earn 4 per
cent interest.
We will be pleased to attend to any business you
wish transacted anywhere.
German-American Mercantile Bank
SEATTLE - - WASHINGTON.
Svea Waffle and
Lunch Room 2
HOME COOKING.
We Bake Our Own Pastry.
REASONABLE PRICES.
Mrs. Victoria H. Winters
Miss Hulda Olson
Cor. 4th and C. Opp. Crescent
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B. C. NICHOLS
WATCH MAKER AND
JEWELER.
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Conklin & Fitzgerald
Pioneer Sheet
Metal Works
YUKON STOVES
— AND —
HEATERS
Corner Fifth and C Sts.
Anchorage - - Alaska
WILLOW CREEK
AUTO STAGE
Meets all trains at Matanuska
Valley. Headquarters at
Matanuska Hotel.
lable Prices and a
-re deal to Everybody.
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Alaska News in
Brief Culled From
Alaska Papers
A big plate of ripe strawberries are
on display in a drug store window at
Valdez. They tvere raised by Geo.
Butler, of Valdez, and are as fully ma
tured and as fine looking as any ship
ped in from the states.
A. J. Achison, the Skagway laun
dryman, while repairing the floor in
his building, fell through and a wash
ing machine toppled over on top of
him. He sustained four broken ribs
and a number of bruises.
“Daddy” Mowl, proprietor of the
moving picture theatre at Skagway,
recently celebrated his 76th birthday
by extending an invitation to the
school children at that place to at
tend the theatre free of charge.
The question of a public pumping
plant at Nome is proving a difficult
problem for the city council. A re
cent .session of that body, while con
sidering the project, lasted until mid
night, and was exceedingly warm.
Capt. Joe Bernard, with the power
schooner Teddy Bear, left Nome re
cently with supplies for two years
and will attempt to make the passage
to the Atlantic through the Northwest
Passage. He cleared for Montreal.
Robert E. Straus, the Juneau boy
who was sentenced to death for kill
inga guard ih the Leavenworth peni
tentiary, has appealed the case. It is
alleged that he stabbed the guard to
j save himself from a brutal beating.
Ole Nashlund, watchman on the
wharf at Peter sburg which was knock
ed down recently by the Admiral Ev
ans, was seriously injured in the
wreckage and has been taken to Ju
neau for treatment.
Owing to the disability of Commis
sioner Wachenheimer, of the Kovu
kuk precinct, that precinct has been
temporarily suspended and consolidat
ed with the Candle precinct, to which
it formerly belonged.
Twenty thousand or more dollars
will be spent this summer at Seward
by the Engineering commission in
furnishing a water supply for the ter
minal tract. The sale of lots there oc
cured September 11.
Dan Noonan the chief steward of
the steamer Admiral Watson, was re
cently married in Seattle to Miss Mar
garet Teresa Ryan, of Rosemont, Pa.
The couple have been sweethearts for
ten years and the lady came across
the continent to wed him.
The recently announced raise in
the price of timber by the forest serv
ice from $1 to $1.50 per thousand feet,
is applicable to the Chugachand other
forests in Alaska, as well as the Ton
gass, according to recent announce
ment by Forest Supervisor Weigle.
The excellent time made by the Val
dez-Fairbanks mail stageshave spur
red the Fairbanks Commercial club to
fight for an all the year around serv
ice over this route. The mail from Se
attle to the interior reaches Fair
banks two days earlier by this route
than by the Cordova route, and ten
days earlier than via Whitehorse.
Many tourists have brought in their
own autos this year and are taking
the trip over the government trail to
Fairbanks from Valdez. It is said to
be one of the finest scenic routes in
Alaska—370 miles of glaciers, moun
tain torrents, waterfalls and lofty
mountains. The road house cuisine is
most excellent, and fishing and hunt
ing along the trail is good.
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Restoration to Entry of Lands ill
National Forest. Notice is hereby gtv
on that the lands described below, em
bracing 320 acres, within the Chugach
National Forest? Alaska, will be sub
ject to settlement and entry under the
provisions of the homestead laws of
tlie United States and the act of June
11 ,1906 (34 Stat.. 233), at the United
States land office at Juneau, Alaska, on
October 31, 1916. Any settler who was
actually and in good faith claiming any
of said lands for agricultural purposes
prior to January 1,1906. and 1ms not
abandoned same, has a preference right
to make a homestead entry for the
lands actually occupied. Said lands
were listed upon the applications of the
persons mentioned below, who
have a preference right subject to the
prior right of any such settler, provid
ed such settler or applicant is quali
fied to make homestead entry and the
preference right is exercised prior to
October 31, 1916, on which date the
lands will be subject to settlement and
entry by any qualified person. The
lands are as follows: The SE*4 Sec.
5, T. 15 N„ R. 1 W., S. M„ 160 acres,
application of Joseph Kastner, Anchor
age, Alaska: List 6-1906.
The lands embrace a tract of 160
acres, described as follows: Beginning
at Corner No. 1, at mean high tide line
on east shore of Cook Inlet, a spruce
post marked H-l whence Forest Serv
ice Monument hereinafter described
bears N. 60 deg. I0„ platted distance of
192.00 chains extending thence mean
dering the east bank of Cook Inlet S.
60 deg. \V., 24 cits., S. 25 deg. \V., 12
chs., S. 35 deg. E. 4 chs., to Corner No.
2; thence E. 67.1S chs.; .hence N. 26.15
chs; thence W. 43.62 chs., to the place
of beginning. Forest Service Monu
ment consists of it hard rock boulder in
place at foot of steep brush-covered
slope on south bank of Miller Creek,
marked F. S. M. II., whence Apex Moose
Point bears S. 62 deg. \V., and Apex
Redoubt Volcano bears S. 65 deg. W.,
application of C. McManus,1 Anchorage,
Alaska; List 6-1913. July 25, 1916, C. M.
NUCE, Assistant Commissioner of the
General Land Office. 8-31-9-7-14-21
C. HENNING,
TAILOR
Ladies' and Gentlemen’s Suits
Cleaned, Pressed and Repaired. 4th
Ave. and D St.
Peterson’s Billiard and
Solo Parlors
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Fourth Ave.
Between C and D
The Matanuska Cafe
In the New Matanuska Hotel.
THE PLACE TO EAT THE JUNCTION
Alex (Blondy) Anderson
SPEED SERVICE
The Royal Cafe
The new eating house on Fourth Avenue
Caterers to first-class trade.
Boxes for private parties.
Lunch Counter.
ATHANS & PAPPADOPOLOS .... Props.
ADMIRAL LINE
Pacific Alaska Navigation Company
Regular Weekly Sailings each Sunday, 11 a. m. Calling at
Ketchikan, Petersburg, J uneau and all Southwestern Alaska
Ports. Vessels scheduled as follows:
Sailed From Seattle
ADMIRAL WATSON
Sept, f
Sailing From Seattl
ADMIRAL EVANS
Sept. 15.
The company reserves me right to cnange schedule of steamers
without notice.
Tickets aud Information to be had at Office, Fowler Building, on
G St., between Fourth and Fifth Sts T. B. WATSON, Agent.
304 Rooms All Outside Rooms
Absolutely Fire-Proof
BEST IN THE CITY
New Richmond
Hotel
SEATTLE
BATES—Rooms with private bath,
$1.50 per day and upwards. Rooms
5, without Bath, SI.00 per day and“T[p
wards. —A FREE AUTO BUS.
& R. C. McCORMICK, Prop.
M. K. MacRAE, Mgr.
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ALASKA
STEAMSHIP
COMPANY
l-'ast mihI commodious steamers sailing 1 etween Seattle, Ketchi
kan. Wrangell. Juneau, Skagway. (orJova, Valdez, Seward
and ANCHOKAGE. viu INSIIH. I > ASS AGE
Sails from Seattle Arrive Anchorage
SEPT 7.MARIPOSA .SEPT. 15
SEPT. 15 . ALAMEDA . SEPT. 23
This company reserves the right to chunge schedule of steam
ers without notice.
Tickets on sale at up-town office, Empress Huilding. Bag
gage or freight will not be received at the dock later than
hour before sailing time.
J. J. LANKIN, P. B. TRACT.
Agent. General Agent.
The Lang Stove, born in
Alaska.
Is the Stove for Alaskans.
Body made of Armeo Rust
Resisting Iron.
Polished Cooking Surface.
Will hold fire overnight wit]
wood or coal.
Will burn green wood.
Ask your dealer for a Lan
Stove.
If he cannot supply you write u
Our line i3 complete from the smal
est camp stove to the largest hot
range.
Any sourdough will tell you about t
Lang Stove. They all know it.
F. S. LANG MFG. CC
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SEATTLE. WN.
When at the Junction stay at the
New Matanuska Hotel
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Cafe, Barber shop, News-stand and Cigar Store in Con- *
nection
Just opened " M. J. ROCHE, Propj
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Inquire of Nordyke & Markle, Sel
dovia, Alaska, for 1st class DOG
FEED. Samples forwarded. 9-1-lmo
Cotton felt mauresse*. bed springs
\ud linoleum, at Crocket’*.
; Nu Bone
All prices and all sizes. Flttllj
In your own home It so desir
Cali or address: i
MRS. T. R. NEEDHAM
817 Fifth Av. Near X. Phone 91