THE CRESCENT
F. ». REDWOOD S CO., Prop.
Clean Private Rooms. Comfort
able Beds. Moderate Rates.
Bathroom in Connection.
Cor. Fourth and C. Anchorage
Central Barber Shop
Modem Equipment Throughout
New Sanitary Bathroom in
Connection.
Opposite Dream Theatre.
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Talkeetna Hotel
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BEDS AN J BUNKS
Large and Roomy
Bob Matheson, Prop.
|gj Talkeetna,
Alaska, ffij
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ALASKANS
We Pay’the Postage
On your orders for Dry Goods
of every description, mailable un
der Parcel Post Regulation.
Send us your orders for such
goods as cannot be supplied by
your home merchants and we
'will fill them carefully and
promptly.
Dry Goode, Women’s and Chil
dren’s Apparel and Dress Acces
sories, Boys’ Clothing and Men’s
I Purnisliings, Complete House
} Furnishing Dines.
ADDRESS MAID ORDER
DEPARTMENT.
! FREDERICK S NELSON
SEATTLE
When At 'l'alkeetna
Stop At the
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Birch Road House
Table Board and Lodging
Dog Houses
Mrs. Kane, >Prop., l'alkeetna
" THE
White House
Mrs. Martha White, Propr.
Up-to-Date in Every Way
Nice Comfortable Beds
Rates Moderate
Fourth Ave. near K street.
Union Laundry!
and Bath House
Fourth Ave., Between H and I,
Anchorage
OUR WORK IS GUARANTEED
—and—
SANITARY
THE LARGEST AND CLEANEST
BATH TUBS IN ANCHORAGE
The Sydney Laurence Company
Commercial and Pictorial Photography
Post Cards and Local Views
Kodak Developing and Printing
I' 1 Town Center
Carrol Building, Fourth Avenue
Imperial Cigar
Store
Cigars, Candies and Soft
Drinks.
All Late Papers.
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ROBERT MclNTOSH
Talkeetna, - - Alaska.
DELICATESSEN
FANCY GROCERIES
Alaska Building
Next to Admiral Line Office
Imported Olive Oil, Caviar,
Pate de Fois Gras, Sardines,
Swiss, Cam nLert, Chili, 1 r
mesan, Oh are. Olivas, ''“-aple
Goods.
JOHN FHNNL1R.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
J dm M Reid
Attorney and Counselor at Law
Notary Public
Office: Bolte Bldg Anchorage
C. H. Sundmacher
LAWYER
Bolte Bldg. - - Anchorage
L. David
Attorney-at-Law
Notary Public
Office, corner 5th and E
Anchorage, - - Alaska
A. F. STOWE
Attorney at Law,
E St. Near 4th Ave.
Anchorage ... Alaska
J. F. COFFEY
Attorney at Law.
Alaska Realty Bldg.
CORNER 4th AND F STREETS
Anchorage ... Alaska
ARTHUR FRAME,
Lawyer
Office: Robart Block
MURPHY & ALMY
Attorneys at Law
Next Door Times Office
ANCHORAGE
Practice All Courts
Surety Ronds
WALLER & DUGGAN,
Attorneys at Taw.
Alaska Bldg. Anchorage
L. V. RAY
Attorney-at-Law
Seward
CHAS. G. GANTY
Lawyer
Hewitt Building
Anchorage .... Alaska
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Dr. J. L. Hawes
DENTIST
Crown and Bridge Work. Gold
Inlays.
All work guaranteed.
Fourth avenue and E street.
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Dr. K. A. Kyvig
Physician and Surgeon
CITY DRUG STORE
Anchorage, - - Alaska
DR. M. a, COBLE—
Physician and Surgeon
Alaska Building,
Corner of 4th and G.
DR. E. F. GERMAN
DENTISTRY
Bolte Building, Fourth Ave.
ANCHOR/(?' - - - AL
History of the
Great Hudson
Bay Company
Two hundred and forty-six years
ago this month, King Charles II gra
ciously granted to Prince Rupert and
seventeen other Noblemen and Gentle
men a charter incorporating them as
the “Governor and Company of Ad
venturers of England Trading into
Hudson’s Bay,” and securing tr^ them
“the sole trade and commerce of all
those seas, straits, bays, rivers, lakes,
creeks and sounds in whatsoever lat
itude they shall be, that lie within the
entrance of the straits, commonly cal
led Hudson’s straits, together with ali
the^ lands and territories upon the
countries, coasts and confines of the
seas, bays, etc., aforesaid, that are
not already actually possessed by the
subjects of any other Christian prince
or state.” No modern aspirants for
commercial exclusiveness and monop
oly could ask for a franchise more
liberal than this. But this was not
all that went with the charter. The
Hudson’s Bay company was given
lordship and judicial authority over
the territory and “the whole and en
tire trade and traffic to and from ali
havens, bays, creeks, rivers, lakes and
seas into which they shall find en
trance and passage by water or land
out of the territories, limits or places
aforesaid.”
With this capital and these assets,
the company entered upon a career
that constitutes one of the greatest
romances combined with one of the
greatest business ventures recorded in
history. The enterprise had only to
have existence in order to be success
ful, but it had to be maintained for
some yeai» as a sovereignty on the
defensive, for French adventurers and
traders were constantly striving to
drive out competition and establish a
monopoly of their own. A sum
amounting to £3,000,000 was lost or
expended in obtaining a secure foot
hold. Following the cession to Cana
da to Great Britain, numerous fur
traders’ spread over the country and
trespassed frequently upon the do
main of the Hudson’s Bay company,
but through a process strikingly sim
ilar to that known in the United
States nearly two and a half centuries
later, that is through the process of
merging, absorption and combination,
the larger became possessor of the
smaller.
Some changes, some restrictions
and some extensions in its charter
rights were obtained from time to
time. Later, in 1821, when other and
more powerful competition sprang up,
and after the original and the rival
■ompanies were almost exhausted
from the bitter and prolonged strug
gled, the latter received from the
former a license to trade for 21 years
over a vast territory lying to the west
and northwest of the older company’s
grant. Still later the territory was
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mruwn open to ail.
No change of this character, how
ever, affected the original possessions
of the Hudson’s Bay company. It al
ways up to 1869 held tight to its gift.
In that year under the terms of a
“Deed of Surrender” it passed “to
the Queen’s Most Gracious Majesty,
all the rights of government, and oth
er rights, privileges, franchises, pow
ers and authorities, granted or pur
ported to be granted to the said gov
ernment and company by the said re
cited Letters Patent of His Late Maj
esty King Charles II; and also similar
rights which may have been exercised
or assumed by the said governor and
company in any parts of British
North America, not forming parts of
Rupert’s Land or of Canada, or of
British Columbia, and all lands and
territories within Rupert’s Land,—
granted or purported to be granted
to the said Governor and Company by i
the said Letters Patent,” subject to (
the terms and conditions set out in the c
deed of surrender, including the pay- t
ment to the company of £300,000 ster- £
ling on the transfer of Rupert’s Land c
to the Dominion of Canada. In this t
compact the company was permitted I
to retain its posts and stations with a c
block of land for each, and these are
scattered throughout the territory to i t
this day. t
The immensity of the holdings of t
the Hudson’s Bay company may be t
best expressed, perhaps, in giving the t
boundaries of the surrendered terri- (
tory. These are: ]
On the south by the United States (
boundary; on the west by the Rocky' 1
mountains; on the north by the north- j 1
era branch of the Saskatchewan; on1 (
the east by Lake Winnipeg, the Lake t
of the Woods, and the waters connect- ]
ing them.
One of the most fertile areas in the
world—an empire, if you please, rich
in all the things that make for an em
pire, if you please, rich in all the
things that make for an empire’s ma
terial greatness. Here we have a pri- *
vate company that has carried on bus- J
incss for 246 years, that has seen the
nuo of the world changed time and
hat has seen n:iti> na exting- «
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THE BON MARCHE
Opp. Postoffice
In the Men’s Wear Department
Fall and Winter Line of
Mackinaw Coats .from $4.50 up
Mackinaw Pants .from $4.50 up
Medlicott and Cooper’s Woolen Under
wear.
Fine Woolen and Dress Shirts.
Boss of the Road Overalls, Plain and Bih.
Boy’s Suits, Pants and Overalls.
.7. B. Stetson Hats, Latest Fall Models.
Wool Sox, 25c and 35c per pair.
Shoes
Just unpacked 20 cases of Ladies’,
Men’s and Children’s Shoes, Fancy Lace
High Kid, Fnglish Lace Kid Blutchers,
Satin and Bronze Dancing Pumps.
Silk and Ready-to-Wear Garments
A large assortment of Taffetas, Messa
line and Georgette Crepe. Closing out
Silk and Crepe de Chine waists,
sale price, $1.75.
China Silk Waist, sale price.$1.00
Lingerie Embroidered Waist, sale prioe75c
Sport Skirts
NEW GOODS ARRIVING ON EVERY BOAT.
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Opp. Postoffice
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’Frisco Cafe!
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THE PLACE OF GOOD
EATS FOR LADIES '
AND GENTLEMEN
Open Day and Night
EVERYTHING IN SEA
SON AND SERVICE
THE VERY BEST
Once a Patron Always
a Patron
PRIVATE BOXES FOR
LARGE OR SMALL
PARTIES
ished and nations born; that has
ealt in millions and millions’ worth
f merchandise; that has owned terri
ory larger than that possessed by
ome modern governments of the first
lass; that has been able to surrender
erritory which has been carved into
rosperous provinces and that is still
oing business at the old stand.
Hudson’s Bay, from which the char
ered company of Noblemen and Gen
lemen took its name, has in these lat
er days taken on a freih interest, in
hat it bids fair in a short time to be
link in the new transatlantic route
etween the Donfinion and Europe,
t is only necessary that the war shall
ease in order that other Hudson’s
lay companies shall arise and, per
haps, attain importance and wealth
ven beyond anything dreamed of by
he adventurers of the time of Charles
I.
Be with the crowd at Peterson’s.
8-28-4t
If you want an automobile, night or
lay, telephone the Reo Service. Num
ber 66-Y. 8-lltf
Enjoy your Sundays bathing and
lancing at Lake Spenard. 8-12tf
SOFT DRINKS OF ALL KINDS.
CIGARS : TOBACCOS : FRUITS
D. ZARELLI, Propr.
Fourth Ave., bet. C and D
Snabdieven raznim cigari, cigarete duhanom i candy. Cdena voaa
na counteru uvjek. Preporuca se slavenlma.
...THE FAIRBANKS...
Headquarters for Surveyors,
Engineers and Mining Men
Full Line of Clothing, Hats and Shoes
THE FAIRBANKS CORNER
CORNER FOURTH AND D.
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ii Alaska Pool Room
Fourth Ave., Near D.
;; Cigars, Tobaccos, Candies, Soft Drinks, Fruits, Concord ;;
Grape Juice.
MUSIC
: JOSEPH SCMITBAUER, - - Proprietor. :
RUSSIAN BUSINESS
We transmit Russian Money Orders to the Imperial
Russian Savings Banks, by the best, safest, quickest and
most convenient method of handling money orders to
that Country.
Money Transfers to Russia by Cable.
Full particulars will be furnished on application.
AMERICAN-SIBERIAN TRADING CO., INC.
205 Lyon Bldg., Seattle, Wash.
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