THE CRESCENT
F. K. KMD 8 CO., Pops.
Clean Private Rooms. Comfort
able Beds. Moderate Rates.
Bathroom in Connection.
Cor. Fourth and C. Anchorage
Central Barber Shop
Modern Equipment Throughout
New Sanitary Bathroom in
Connection.
417 4th Avenue.
ALASKANS—
We Pay the Postage
Oil 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 Goods, Women’s and Chil- »
dren's Apparel and Dress Acces
sories, Boys’ Clothing and Men’s
Furnishings, Complete House
Furnishing Dines.
ADDRESS MAID ORDER
DEPARTMENT.
FREDERICK & NELSON
SEATTLE
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 Are., Between H and I,
Anchorage
OUR WORK IS GUARANTEED
—and—
SANITARY
THE UARGEST AND CLEANEST
BATH TUBS IN ANCHORAGE
The Sydney Laurence Company
Commercial and Pictorial Photography
Post Cards and Local Views
Kodak Developing and Printing
TOWN CENTER
Harmony Theatre - Fourth Avenue
Dr. J. L. Hawes
DENTIST
Crown and Bridge Work. Gold
Inlays.
All work guaranteed.
Fourth avenue and E street.
Dr. K. A. Kyvig
Physician and Surgeon ]
CITY DRUG STORE
Anchorage, - - A.aska
DR. M. S_ COBLE—
Physician and Surgeon
Alaska Building,
Corner of 4th and G.
DR. E. F. GERMAN
DENTISTRY.
Hewitt Bldg. Fourth Ave. Phone 71
DR. C. L. PEARSON
DENTIST
Alaska Fowler Bldg.
Anchorage : : : Alaska
H. E. ELLSWORTH
Established 1905.
■ Assayer and Chemist
Ores Treated, Ton and Car
Lots.
SEWARD - ALASKA
Phil, The Barber
O. K. Bath House and Barber
Shop.
Fourth, Between D and E.
Phil J. Eckert, Proprietor.
Wood Undertaking Co..
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
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PROFESSIONAL CARDS
John 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
ARTHUR FRAME,
Lawyer
Office: Robart Block
MURPHY & ALMY
Attorneys at Law
Next Door Times Office
ANCHORAGE
Practice All Courts
Surety Bonds
WALLER & DUGGAN,
Attorneys at I.aw.
Alaska Bldg. Anchorage
L. V. RAY
Attomey-at-Law
Seward
CHAS. G. GANTY
Lawyer
Hewitt Building
Anchorage .... Alaska
M. J. CONROY,
Attorney at Law.
NOTARY PUBLIC
Anchorage : : : Alaska
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| UNION CIGAR STORE I
i? 4th Ave. Bet. C and B Sts. j||
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Choice line of Cigars ana ' ^
Tobaccos, ||
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OTTO GUSTOSON, Props. |jg
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This is one of our machines
which just arrived. With the
installation of our new equip*
ment we have the best equipped
cleaning and pressing establish
ment in Alaska. We invite your
inspection and respectfully so
licit your patronage.
Cleaning, Pressing, Repairing.
4th Avenue Near Empress.
Blanton & Murray.
PHONE 38-Y
Inlet Soda Co.
Diedrick & Taylor, Proprietors
W. A. Taylor, Manager
Manufacturers of all kinds of
Mineral Waters, Soda, Cider
Syrups.
Agents for Grape Juice.
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Horseshoeing a Specialty
Oxy-Acetylene Welding
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White Slaver
Makes Shocking
Revelations
NEW YORK, Sept. 19.—On previ
, ous days District Attorney Swann had
! given out some of the information
gathered from the confessions of the
admitted white slaver, Yushe Botwin.
These confessions started the present
investigation, which already has re
vealed the existence of a clique of
white slavers who lured away from
public schools girls so young that they
were classed as children, and who
traded in degraded women on a whole
sale scale, handling thousands a year.
In one instance, at an “auction,” girls
were put up at “a dollar a pound.”
Yesterday, instead of telling what
Botwin and others had told him, Dis
trict Attorney Swann sent for Botwin
himself. The interview that ensued
sounded more like some wild stage
production than like a serious talk in
a real court building.
Botwin, small of stature, 57 years
of age, a gray, hard-visaged man, with
a tobacco-colored, little mustache,
dressed in an old, gray suit, and
speaking with an accent sometimes
confusing, for he lived in Galicia un
til he was 30, was not abashed. He
is already awaiting sentence as a
white slaver.
As though reciting details of any
commonplace business he told of the
way in which the white slave traffic
is conducted in New York, including
the settled scale of percentages of in
come that went to each person con
nected with the business of selling
girls. He styled simself a “Zuschik
er,” and translated the term to mean,
“the man who delivers the girl.” His
own share, he said, had been ten per
cent. The girl, he said complacently,
frequently got “a black eye,” instead
of her percentage. Botwin said he
had been engaged in business during
practically all of the 27 years he had
been in this country.
A man employed in the district at
torney’s office, who had been present
during the interview and had heard
Botwin, finally said:
“For heaven’s sake, didn’t it ever
occur to you that you were doing any
thing wrong?”
“Wrong!” exclaimed Botwin. “That
hasn’t anything to do with it. I knew
that I made money.”
The answer somehow seemed to
amaze the questioner.
“Then money was your God,” he
said to Botwin. Botwin flared up.
“Well what of it?” Botwin almost
shouted. “What other God do you
know?”
Botwin became a little angry at this
unusual sort of questioning and, be
coming angry, became a more inter
esting study.
“An interesting case for Warden
Osborne and his welfare league to
experiment with after a while,” com
mented District Attorney Swann.
Assistant District Attorney James
E. Smith, who has been relieved of all
other duty to conduct the white slave
investigation interrupted Botwin to
say:
“Yushe Botwin is a strange sort of
combination. The guard sent to ac
company him when he went to a res
taurant for a meal today said that
while they were there Botwin noticed
a particularly pretty waitress, studied
her for a while, and then announced
that he could spend 50 cents a day on
that particular woman and that in five
days she would be ‘his.’ ”
“Is that right Botwin?” Mr. Smith
asked, turning to the man.
Botwin did not grin as he had at
other times during the talk.
“Certainly it’s right,” he said.
“Was it the way she acted or the
i way she looked ?” District Attorney
Swann asked.
“My dear man,” was the white slav
er’s response as he turned to Mr.
S Swann. “I could tell how much would
have to be spent from the way she
acted. Some cost more; some less.
But they’re all alike.”
He had a stump of a cigar in his
i hand and he puffed it vigorously.
Aside, Mr. Swann again observed:
| “Quite an interesting little job for
j Warden Thomas Mott Osborne, 1 be
j lieve.”
Botwin was asked how much his
commissions in the white slave traffic
amounted to last year. He shrugged
his shoulders, swore at his luck, and
said he didn’t know, as he had lost
his money on the races. He has ad
mitted, however, that he sold several
hundred girls a year, and has given
information with which the district
attorney is running down other ring
leaders in the crime here who handled
numbers a great deal larger.
“Botwin is actually indignant that
we haven’t yet arrested some of the
persons who were in the game deeper
than he was,” Mr. Smith said after
the man had been taken out of the
district attorney's office. “He can’t
understand our viewpoint in the mat
ter of right and wrong. He is actual
ly convinced that we have done him a
great- mjwafe-g by
-Mr Smith,
card” that had been found in Rot-'
win’s pocet when he was arrested. It
read: “J. Botwin, Real Estate and
Business Broker. Business placed in
my hands receives immediate atten
tion and treated strictly confidential.”
Beneath this was what Botwin, when
asked about it, said was a fake ad
dress, and a telephone number which
he said was at a cigar store where he
was known.
There were rapid developments in
the white slave investigation earlier
in the day yesterday. For several
days Mr. Smith had Jjeen preparing
his case to go before the grand jury
and at the same time conducting the
investigation into the new phases of
the situation. Yesterday he went be
fore the grand jury with six of the
many witnesses who were originally
reached through Botwin’s confessions
and who have themselves given start
ling information since. Two of these
were women, and the other four men.
When they were brought in the fol
lowing designation was written on the
records as the title of the proceedings
then starting:
“Investigation as to the existence
in the county of New York of orga
nized traffic in women for immoral
purposes.”
Mr. Smith said that it would take
some time to lay the entire case be
fore the grand jury, but that he ex
pected the first indictment today, and
others in short order thereafter.
Phone 43-Y for car, Day or Night.
Universal Taxi and Transfer. 9-6tf
Matt Button Buys, Sells, Leases,
Rents. 9-14tf
Phone 89-R for a taxi.
9-20-tf.
SUMMONS FOB PUBLICATION
IN JUSTICES COURT FOR THE TER- j
ritory of Alaska. Third Judicial Di- j
vision, Knik Prec*inct, before Leopold !
David, Commissioner and ex-officio)
Justice of the Peace.
Pacific Grocery Company, a Corpora- ,
tion. Plaintiff, vs. J. M. Sheehan, De- i
fendant. No. 52.
T11E T ERR 1 TORY OF A LA SK A to j
J. M. Sheehan, the above named defend
ant:
You are hereby summoned to appear
before the undersigned Commissioner
and ex officio Justice of the Peace, in
Knik Precinct, in said Division and Ter
ritory within thirty (30) days after1
the completion of publication of this !
summons, at the office of said commis
sioner in said precinct, at Anchorage,
and answer the complaint of the plain
tiff founded upon a sale of goods, wares
and merchandise by plaintiff to the de
fendant of the reasonable value of
$137.33 which is now due and no part
of which has been paid, and in case of
your failure to appear and answer the
plaintiff’s complaint at the time and
place aforesaid, judgment will he en
tered against you for the sum of $137.33,
together with the costs and disburse
ments of this action.
Given under my hand this 13th dav
of September, 193 6.
LEOPOLD DAVID,
Commissioner and ex-officio Justice
of the Peace.
Date of first publication Sept. 14, 1916
Date of last publication Oct. 26, 1916.
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Bank of Alaska
Hktt^vay ANCHORAGE Wrangell
ALASKA
CAPITAL . $50,000
SURPLUS.$10,000
OFFICERS
President—Andrew Stevenson.
Vice-President—J. T. Westemiann
Cashier—W. H. Warren.
Teller—M. McVean.
CORRESPONDENTS
Seattle National Bank, Seattle.
Wells Fargo Nevada National Bank, San Francisco.
Liberty National Bank, New York.
Guaranty Trust Company, New York.
GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS
CORNER E AND FOURTH.
ALASKA TRANSFER CO.
Express and Heavy Hauling
Storage in Connection
Office:
Lathrop Building A. E. LATHROP, Mgr.
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SUCCESSOR TO FAIRBANKS STORE.
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“WRITE US.”
ANCHORAGE, - - - MATANUSKA
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We wish to apologize on ac
count of our immense stock
that we purchased outside
not having arrived complete
we are obliged to postpone
this Large Cash Buying Sale
for Monday, September 25th.
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At this Cash Buying Sale you
will make your dollars talk,
for we have the goods you
need for this winter
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