Max Simel, the pioneer trader,
well known along the Yukon, win
take a large supply of goods to the
mouth of the Ditna as soon as pos
sible after the river is open.
P. H, McCue, general superin
tendent of the Northwestern Fisher
ies Company, is making arrange
ments to rebuild the cannery de
stroyed by fire at Kenai.
E. S. tVilsos and party, who
worked the Sliseovich antimony
property near Nome during the lat
ter part of 1915, will again resume
operations on a large scale this sum
mer.
W. G. Stevens, who has a farm
about four miles above Matanuska
Junction, on the government rail
road, is experimenting with the rais
isg of watermelons and canteloupes.
'Abbie” Abendroth, well known in
Nome, Iditarod and other camps, re
cently committed suicide in the
states, according to word received in
Seward.
At the celebration in honor of the
birthday of the king, held recently
at Whitehorse, Juneau won the base,
ball honors, with Skagway is on sec
ond money.
The Nome Chamber of Commerce
is making preparations for the en
tertainment of a large number of
tourists who are expected to visit
that place during the summer.
Ruby has launched upon a clean
up crusade.
The Cordova Daily Times will
issue a prosperity edition sometime
between August 1st and 15th.
E. J. Liddicoat, a pioneer resident
of Skagway, died recently from con
vulsions, after a brief illness.
H. D. Clark, homesteader at Skag
way, will receive full title to his
homestead claim of 4 4 acres.
Residents of the Casey-Shattuck
addition to Juneau have formed a
tennis club and constructed a court.
When You Go Outside
You Are Invited to Call On
L. W. SUTER
Seattle’s Leading Jeweler
1115 SECOND AVENUE
He will attend to your wants. Best goods at reason
able prices.
A graduate optician can also be consulted.
■
A Miss Wallace, of Walla Walla,
Wash., has been chosen principal of
the public school at Seward.
The Seward common council is
costemplating the addition of two
rooms to its present public school
building.
The Alaska Packers Association
has been granted a patent to ten
acres of land at Laddie station, near
' Tyonic, for a canning factory site.
Henry Steinfeld. a Cordova fisher
I man, has been arrested for violation
i of the fisheries law for netting in
i Mountain slough on Sunday.
By a vote of 183 for wet to 61 for
j dry, the people of Petersburg sig
1 nified their willingness to grant li
| censes in the town, at the recent elec
i tion.
A small stampede is reported to
have occurred to some creeks on the
south side of the Koyukuk, where
prospects are said To have been
found.
Sam T. Kincaid, bailiff of the dis
trict court at Fairbanks, and Hank
O'Neill, of Ruby, will open up a rich
silver-lead mine in the Kiyu moun
tains, about 60 miles from Ruby. The
ore is said to be extremely rich.
James E. Estes has been appointed
deputy marshal at Yakutat by Mar
shal Harry A. Bishop. The appoint
ment is to take effect on July 1st. at
which time Albert E. Luck will take
over his new- dufTes with the Libby,
McNeill & Libby Company.
Prince Arthur, declared to be the
largest dog in the world, is now in
Juneau. He is 3 feet, 1 inch in
height and weighs 210 pounds. He
is the property of John S. Barnes.
John Shanks and Gus Wonzel had
a narrow escape from death in the
Tanana river recently, when the boat
in which they were rowing as sucked
under the steamer Shushanna. The
boat and occupants traveled under
the water for the complete length
of the steamer.
V. A. SCHMITZ
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OPTICIAN
OFFICE
Northern Drug Company. Empress
Block, Corner H and Fourth.
North Side
Lumber Company
We have a Big Complete stock in every detail,
including Doors, Windows, Roofing
and Building Paper.
I
We Appreciate Your Business
Geo. M. Campbell
Yard: Old Town
Office: Cor. 4th and F Street
BRUSSELS SPIES
MASTRICHT, June 22.—Russia
at its worst or Constantinople under
Abdul Hamid never have been so
overrun with spies as Brussels is at
the present time. Everlasting es
pionage has made life a burden for
the Belgians, and nowhere in the
country are conditions so terrible as
in the capital, according to reliable
information smuggled across the
frontier, despite all the vigilance of
the kaisers’ secret agents. The spies
are declared to be well paid—but
only according to results. They do
not draw regular salaries, but get
their rewards on the strength or
their reports’ volume and supposed
value. Consequently, if they have
no genuine information to turn in
to their superiors it is charged that
they manufacture it. To be accused
by them means arrest and much dif
ficulty at the best. It is more likely
to mean prolonged imprisonment. It
may mean a firing squad. A reign
of terror has resulted. Nobody feels
safe, even in the privacy of his own
home. The people live in a constant
state of nervous dread. A tap on the
shoulder, prison and perhaps death
may came at any instant.
In Brussels alone it is declared
there are 1,500 spies. How busy
they are is proved by the extrava
gant style in which they live. When
ever funds run short fresh victims
must be found. Women are numer
ous among the secret agents. They
may be found all up and down the
social scale, from the relative of
General von Bissing, who took ad
vantage of her position to keep an
eye on the most fashionable func
tions in the most exclusive resi
dences, down to the humblest seams
tress or domestic servant.
There are officers’ and professors’
wives, who keep watch in middle
middle class service.
There are demimondaines, who
send in reports from the theatres,
restaurants and boulevards.
There are men formerly promi
nent in business, of which now, prac
tically, there is none, who use their
former connections and acquaint
ances to keep the German authori
ties posted concerning doings in
financial and industrial circles.
Even the most ordinary working
man is carefully watched. A case is
reported from the Rue de Flandre,
in Brussels, where the driver of a
brewery wagon and his assistant
were arrested because, after they |
had unloaded a heavy barrel of
beer, one of them remarked: The
kaiser himself could not have done
it so neatly.”
ALASKA S. S. CO. OPERATORS
(JET INCREASED SALARY
Wireless operators employed on
fifteen of the Alaska Steamship Com
pany's vessels have received an in
crease of $5 a month in salary, the
news being sprung on them as a sur
prise. Combinaticn men—wireless
operators who do certain clerical
work aboard ship—were advanced
$10 a month. All told, thirty men
had their pay boosted.
The Alaska Steamship Company
has its own wireless department. In
contradistinction to many other big
steamship companies, it owns the ap
paratus and has its own wireless op
erators. Most of the other com
panies lease their wireless apparatus
with the necessary operators, the lat
ter receiving the salaries from the
large concern owning the equipment.
The Alaska Steamship Company ac
quired its own equipment a year ago
and organized a radio department,
with C. B. Cooper, a well known
wireless expert, as superintendent.
The increase in salary means the
combination men are advanced from
$65 to $75 a month; first wireless
operators, from $55 to $60; and sec
ond wireless operators, from $50 to
$55.
Stephen Birch, who is to marry
Miss Mary Rand, of St. Foul, June
24, has announced that he will ar
rive in Seattle June 27, and sail for
Cordova on the steamship Mariposa
July 5.
Mrs. Dan Sutherland, wife of the
well-known Alaska senator and min
ing man, is on the way from the
states to join her husband, who is
operating on Poorman creek, near
Ruby.
Two big busy brown bears were
seen by the side of the track at
Mile Eight by the train crew on the
Alaska Northern. It is needless to
say they did not get off and shoo
them off the right-of-way.
Cotton felt mattresses, bed springs
and linoleum, at Crocker’s.
MRS. QUINN’S
Family . Boarding . House
51.00 per day First Class
Cor. 4th and B
»
Kootenai Inn Cigar Store
Cigars, Tobaccos, Confectionery
MRS. ALFRED DUNLAP Fourth, between C and D
TRY TONY’S CAFE
Opposite Empress Theatre
*
Open Day and Night
Let There Be Light
We Can Furnish It
PRICE & BENNETT
Plumbing Our Specialty
Fifth St., bet. G&H
Sheet Metal Works and
Gasoline Lighting
Ppo Antn St>rvirp passengers and baggage
lyCU mu» *^ci Vice STORAGE FIVE DAYS FREE
Night and Day Service
Stand: Front of F. J. Cotter’s Store. HERMAN L,. GENTSCH, Mgr.
Notice to the Public:
We Have Completed Our Line of
CLOTHING
Which has just arrived and we are ready to dress you
up with a
PRESS SHRUNK KAUFFMAN SUIT,
JOHN B. STETSON HAT, AND PACKARD SHOES.
CARROLL & CO.
Fourth and E Sts.
Carrol Building Anchorage, Alaska
Carstens Packing Company
MARKET
Fourth Street, Near C
Just Received==a consignment of
Fresh Chickens for your
Sunday Dinner.
A Big Special for a few days:
Our Washington brand Hams
20c per lb.
Our Washington brand Picnic
Hams, 15c per lb.
Our Washington brand Break
fast Bacon, sugar cured, 25c lb.
Washington Brand Pure
Lard.
Snow Cap Compound Lard
No. 5s .75c
No. 3s .50c
t
No. 10s
No. 5s
No. 3s
$1.75
.90
.60
7
Fine Dry Salt Pork, fresh cured,
15c per lb.
Summer Sausage and Salami,
50c per lb.
Boiled Hams. 30c per lb.
We sell all fresh Meats as cheap as any firm in town,
quality considered.
Extra fine Sugar-cured Corned Beef
J. J. KALES,
Manager Anchorage Branch.