Smart H^ts
FOR FAT,I.
Burberry, London, Coats
Double service; weather proof. Largest line of
Burberries ever shown in Seattle.
PRICES $30 TO $35.
“VALUES TELL”
r’T-TJT A CTV^ Inp °- C- GRAVES. 1>res,
1 I J Mlb. 2(1 Av. and Spring
Men’s and Young Men’s Wear
THROUGH SERVICE
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.
Seattle—Chicago, < )maha, Kansas
intermediate. Direct connections
to the Atlantic coast
Information, t; k<ts, reservations and
travel service upon application to
T. E. WATSON. Admiral Dine, Anchorage,
r. E. Tracy, Alaska S. S. Co., Anchorage.
Or Write H. A. LAWRENCE,
Traveling1 Freight and Passenger Agent,
P. O. Box 403 : 111 Seward Street
JUNEAU.
Denver,
IF YOU • CLEAN AY TO
TRAVEL .'A doOD ..'AY TO GO.
TAKE . i MILWAUKEE”
Soot., smoke an It.. i.;lv ihav b.-. 1 eliminated
through the ele i'.l f I: . ain <!i- i ions.
A. E. HARRIS, i rai lia.; Passenger Agent, Juneau.
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
Going East
See America First
NfiSf*'
Through Rates from Anchorage to
Eastern Destinations Are in Effect
via the
Daily—The Oriental Limited to St. Paul and Chicago.
Daily—The Glacier Park Limited to St. Paul and Chicago.
Daily—The Southeast Express to Denver, Kansas City
and St. Louis.
Full Information and Tickets From
F. B. TRACY, Alaska Steamship Co.
T. B. WATSON, Admiral Line.
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.
BAXTER'S
M VGAZI NES
PERIODICALS
NEWSPAPERS
Panorama Photographs
Anchorage and
Mount McKinley
ROBARTS’
BILLIARD
AND
BOWLING
PARLORS
Postoffice Opposite.
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Butts’ Parlor I
CLEAN COOL REFRESHING ®
$
Ice Cream, Fresh Candies, Soft •
Drinks, Fruits and Nuts
FOURTH AVE., BET. G and H £
Svea Waffle and
Lunch Room
HOME COOKING.
We Bake Our Own Pastry.
REASONABLE PRICES. '
Mrs. Victoria H. Winters
Miss Hulda Olson
Cor. 4th and C. Opp. Crescent
B. C. NICHOLS
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WATCH MAKER AND
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JEWELER.
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Anchorage, Alaska.
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Conklin & Fitzgerald
PAINTERS AND
DECORATORS.
WALL PAPER, PAINT AND
GLASS.
We Paint SIGNS That Are
Business-Getters.
832 4th AVE. W.
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.
L. M. BARRETT, Prop.
The Woodland Inn
and
BAKERY
Next to Talkeetna Hotel
Open All Hours
TALKEETNA - ALASKA
Alaska News in
Brief Culled From
Alaska Papers
George Favolic, an Austrian em
ploye of the Treadwell mine, had his
arm practically torn from its socket
recently while working in the Mexi
can mine, presumably from a fall of
rock. He was taken to the hospital
and his arm amputated.
Arrivals at McCarthy from the Chi
sana, report sluicing in progress in
the camp, and the outlook good for a
big clean-up, although the operators
i were handicapped somewhat by lack
of water.
The people of the new railroad town
of Nenana have made a protest
against the granting of a permit to
cut all the timber on the government
reservation, as it will leave them with
out firewood.
While the steamer Spokane was
swinging out from the dock at Juneau
recently her spring line parted and
the steamer crashed into the fishing
boat Xanthus, smashing it badly and
sending it to the bottom.
ISishop Thillip is the name of the
new head of the Russian church in
Alaska, recently appointed to suc
J ceed Bishop Alexander. His headquar
ters will be at Sitka, instead of in
Russia, as was formerly the case.
A new bell, one of the largest ever
imported into Alaska, has been re
ceived at Fairbanks for the Catholic
church. The blessing of the bell wall
take place in September on the arrival
o' t e Rev. Father Crimont, prefect
apostolic, of Alaska.
fhe Fairbanks Commercial club,
which several months ago started a
campaign to secure a reduction in in
surance rates in that city, has receiv
ed a wire from the underwriters re
fusing to make any reduction.
A. G. Henning, a mining man of At
lin, is authority for the statement that
the Atlin district would become one of
the greatest gold producing camps in
the world if given reasonable trans
portation facilities.
n. itov vitfciuufj mam; un v^uiiiy IV
Gideon’s ground on No. 11 below
j Dome, shows that their block of
ground will go approximately $4 to
the square foot, according to K. F.
Roth, who attended the cleanup.
Louis Gouette, of Fairbanks, who
recently shot his mining partner, Dick |
Creighton, and fired several shots at i
i Martin Smith, was given a prelimi
nary hearing and bound over under
bonds of $5,000 to the grand jury.
Judge John Ford, of New York, who
came all the way to Seward to hunt
I on Kenai peninsula, got ready to start
; out when he discovered he had forgot
i ton to secure a li e and had to got
1 one by telegraph from Juneau.
A Douglas councilman says there j:
ore 2,000 dogs in that town and only :!
82 licenses for canines have so far ]1
[been issued. As a result the uiy au j
j thorities are looking out for a man ;;
[ willing to accept the job as dog'
catcher.
Fred Vaughn had his right .' in
bone broken in two places and the
flesh of one of his legs badly crushed
by a boulder falling on him while
working for McDonill & Beavin, on
Candle creek, in the Kuskokwim dis
trict.
Herbert Stewart, a young miner
who was injured a few days ago by a
cavein on No. 12 below, Cleary creek,
is in the hospital at Fairbanks with
both legs paralyzed from injuries to
his back. His legs are also badly
crushed.
Capt. B. O. Lenoir, formerly officer
in charge of the military cable and
telegraph lines at Valdez, but now of
ficer in charge at Seattle, was taken
suddenly ill in his office and was tak
en to a hospital, where he underwent
an operation.
A concern known as the Spokane
Alaska Exploration & Mining compa
ny, in which Jack Nelson and several
other Koyukuk men are interested,
has taken a large drill into the Koy
ukuk and will prospect on a large
scale.
The Kimball Flume Dredge Co. has
acquired further holdings on Yankee
| creek in the Innoko, and is doing ex
tensive prospecting with a new gaso
! line drill on lower Yankee, where they
| have two miles of ground under op
| tion.
A Seward paper says there is ev
ery reason to believe that Hugh Wal
lace, a warm personal friend of Pres
ident Wilson, has purchased with
! Banker Ankeny and others no less
j than six hundred lots in Seward as a
speculation.
G. E. Beraud, of Fairbanks, tried to
I climb a telephone pole in that city
i with his Ford. The machine would
I have reached the top but got a wire
tangled in one of the wheels. No in
jury was sustained by either the ma
chine or the driver.
A McCarthy booster says: There is
an opening in McCarthy for one
church, one steam laundry, one assay
office and several other enterprises.
With the present high price of gaso
! line an electric light plant would make
i big money.
Peterson’s Billiard and
Solo Parlors
Fourth Ave. Between C and D
First-Class Restaurant
Just Opened
In the Matanuska Hotel. Everything In Season
Matanuska Hotel, Matanuska, BLONDY, Prop.
The Royal Cafe
The new eating house on Fourth Avenue
Caterers to first-class trade.
Boxes for private jiarties.
Lunch Counter.
ATHANS & PAPPADOPOLOS - - - - Props.
ADMIRAL LINE
Pacific Alaska Navigation Company
Regular Weekly Sailings each Sunday, 11 a. m. Calling at
Ketchikan, Petersburg, Juneau and all Southwestern Alaska
Ports. Vessels scheduled as follows:
Sailed From Seattle
ADMIRAL WATSON
Sept. 3.
Sailing From Seattle
ADMIRAL EVANS
Sept. 10.
The company reserves me right to change schedule of steamers
without »oo<ce.
Tickets and 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 IX THE CITY
New Richmond
Hotel
SEATTLE
RATES—Rooms with private bath,
$1.50 per day and upwards. Rooms
without Bath, $1.00 per clay and up
wards. —A FREE AUTO BUS.
n. c. McCormick. Prop.
M. K. MaeRAE, Mgr.
I
STEAMSHIP
COMPANY!
l ast anil eniiimndiniis steamer* *. i<■... jtween Seattle, Ketchi
kan, Wrangell, Juneau, Si; "gwiij • ntlovu, Valdez, Seward
and AM BORAGE, via I'.si I 1‘ISSACB.
Tills company reserves the right to change schedule of steam
ers without notice.
Tickets on sale at up-town office. Empress Building. Bag
gage or freight will not be received at the dock later than one
hour before sailing time.
Sails I'rum Seattle
Arrive Anchorage
SEPT 11
SEPT. 4
ALASKA
.1. J. LANKIN,
Agent.
F. B. TRACT.
General Agent.
The Lang Stove, born in
Alaska.
Is the Stove for Alaskans.
Body made of Armco Rust
Resisting Iron.
Polished Cooking Surface.
Will hold fire overnight with
wood or coal.
Will burn green wood.
Ask your dealer for a Lang
Stove.
If he cannot supply you write us.
Our line is complete from the small
est camp stove to the largest hotel
range.
Any sourdough will tell you about the
Lang Stove. They all know it.
F. S. LANG MFG. CO.
SEATTLE, WN.
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STEAM HEATED
HOT AND COLD BATHS j
LOCK HOTEL
Valdez, Alaska.
“The House of Comfort”
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