MATANUSKA STORE
We have just opened our brancn store at
the now town of Matanuska, formerly known as
Matanuska Junction.
This store is stocked with a complete line
of groceries, provisions, feed, hardware and
building materials.
We are also agents at Matanuska for Mc
Nally & Maitland’s lumber, and operate in con
nection with the store a completely stocked
LUMBER YARD.
A. A. SHONBECK
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
FORD AGENCY
Fourth at C Street
RAY C. LARSON
Dealer in
SASH, DOORS, GLASS
MIRRORS
Window Glass
Plate
Wire
Moss
Ribb
Building Paper
Roofing “
Sashweights
Sash Rail
jCopper cm Bars
STORE FRONTS MADE TO ORDER
Fifth Ave. and K St.
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::04 Rooms All Outside Rooms
Absolutely Fire-Proof
BEST IN THE CITY
New Richmond
Hotel
SEATTLE
RATES—Rooms with private bath,
SI.50 per day and upwards. Rooms
without Bath, 81.00 per day and up
wards. —A FREE AUTO BUS.
It. C. McCORMICK, Prop.
M. K. Mac It AM, Mgr.
Let There Be Light
We^Can Furnish It
PRICE & BENNETT
PLUMBING OUR SPECIALTY
Sheet Metal Works and
Gasoline Lighting tilth ut.f DCt. (j & ti
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Housefurnishings of All
Kinds
Johnson Tent Factory
Tents, Tarpaulins, Bunks, Mosquito Bed Nets and
Hat Veils, Blankets, Comforters, Pillows, Sheets, Pil
low Cases, Bed Springs, Mattresses, Brussel and Grass
Rugs, Window Shades, A Fine Line of Mirrors, Chairs
and Rockers.
Newsy Items
About Town
Gus Hunter, of Seattle, was a pas
senger on the Admiral Farragut and
will locate in the city.
D. Marcus, representative for the
; Hi Press Boot Co., will be an outgo
ing passenger on the Farragut.
Miss Edith Bartholf has returned
to Anchorage, after spending a de
lightful week with friends in Knik.
Miss Lera Bennett will leave tonight
on the Farragut for a two months’ vis
it with her parents at Uyak.
Miss R. Anstett, of Seattle, was an
Anchorage passenger on the Admiral .
Farragut this morning, and will re
main in the city indefinitely.
Fred Laubner, who just came down
from Willow creek, where he has
been spending the past month, will be
an outgoing passenger on the Farra- 1
igut.
I. C. Frame, of Seattle, arived in'
Anchorage on the Admiral Farragut, |
to accept a position with his father, ;
Jno. W. Frame, of the Forty-Ninth •
Star. j ]
Rev. Jno. Corbett, of Valdez, was a J
round trip passenger on the Admiral | ^
Farragut and spent a few hours on
shore in conference with Father Shep- ‘
perd.
E. W. Smith, Cudahy’s man, arrived \
in Anchorage on the Admiral Farra- (
gut and will be in the city and vicin- ]
ity for several days in the interest of (
his company. <
R. F. Rich, representing S. F. Bow- *
ser & Co., Inc., of San Francisco, is
calling on the Anchorage trade and
stopping at the Anchorage hotel dur- ‘
ing his stay in the city. ,• - f
E. T. McNally, of the lumber firm (
of McNally and Maitland, was an out- j
going passenger on the Admiral Far- j
ragut for Seattle, where he will spend ,
a few days on business.
Arthur Jett, the mining expert, re- ‘
turned with the baseball party from -
Seward on the Farragut and will t
leave tonight to visit Dick Dawson, i
who is operating on Crow creek. 1
Roy Ketcham, who came down on 1
i the launch Marathon from Talkeetna,
i left on the launch Swan for Knik,
where he will spend a few days visit
| ing friends.
* H. G. Morse, of New York, repre- j
senting the Royal Baking Powder Co., I
who has been spending several days
in our city, reports a very good bus
iness. Mr. Morse will be an outgoing
passenger on the Farragut.
R. Foster Stone, representative of
! W. K. Gresh and Sons’ cigars through
the West Coast Grocery Co., is high- j
ly pleased with Anchorage. Mr. Stone
says he has done a remarkable busi
ness since arriving in our city.
The Admiral Faragut unloaded 100
tons of freight for local merchants
this morning and later went to Goose
Bay with freight for the Deep Sea
Salmon company and will leave for j
the outside at 10 o’clock tonight.
Mrs. G. E. Millar, accompanied by
her son Ralph, of Seattle, were pas
sengers on the Admiral Farragut,
coming to Anchorage to join her hus
bank, who is in the employ of the
Alaskan Engineering Commission.
“Slim” Linn, the southpaw who won
the only game for Anchorage in the
Seward series remained in Seward to
accept a position with Harry Hoben
- of the Alaska Transfer Co., and inci
dentally to play baseball with Seward
the balance of the season.
W. H. Bowman, a retired capitalist,
of Louisville, and one of the tourists
aboard the Farragut, made The Daily
i Times office a pleasant call this morn
ing and further added to the estab
lished reputation of The Daily Times
by saying to the publisher that “you
get out the best paper 1 have seen in
Alaska.”
“Sport” Smith stayed over in Seward
. until the next steamer in connection
with a big mining law suit that will
have a hearing before Judge Brown
the 22nd of this month in Anchorage.
Mr. Smith is one of the principal wit
nesses for the defense and will re
turn to Anchorage in company with
Attorney L. V. Ray.
The Admiral Farragut reached port
at 3 o’clock this morning with the
| following first class passengers for
Anchorage. Ben Edinger, H. C. Mun
ro, E. W. Smith, H. J. Bye, J. Laiz, H.
V. Kinney, Mrs. P. A. Nicholson, B. G.
Eaton, R. L. Rich, Olof Hogan, Mrs.
G. E. Millar, Ralph Millar, Mrs. Ben
nett and three children, Miss R. Ans
tett, Gus Hunter and I. C. Frame.
J. B. Garver, who recently made a
big strike on Peterson creek, in the
Willow creek district, arrived in An
chorage yesterday. Relative to his
claims, Mr. Garver said: “We have
uncovered eight different leads, aver
aging from four to eight feet, and
Hi assays have shown $35 returns. These
n leads all seem to be fissure veins, in
^ stead of the blanket kind.” Mr. Gar
ver and associates has started exten
sive development work on the big
showing.
Mrs. C. H. Bennett, wife of C. H.
Bennett, superintendent of construc
tion of the Talkeetna district, accom
panied by her three daughters, Mar
ian, Edna Madaline and Mary Kather
ine, were passengers on the Admiral
Farragut and will be in Anchorage a
few days before leaving for Talkeet
na where they will spend the balance
of the summer.
The Admiral Faragut had in her
passenger list 41 pleasure-seekers who
made the round-trip voyage to An
chorage. This is the largest number
of pleasure seekers to make this trip
so far this season and is composed of
many capitalists and their families.
Representative men from many states
are represented among the tourists
who spent the day on shore visiting
Anchorage and meeting the people.
B. G. Eaton arrived in Anchorage
this morning on the Admiral Farra
gut. Mr. Eaton is representing Geo.
A. Brooke, of Seattle, and will leave
in a few days for Bear creek, near
Hope, to superintend the shipment of
the ten-stamp quartz mill of the Gold
Stamp Mining company to Port Wells,
where it will be installed on the Her
man-Eaton property.
W. J. Roberts, who is engaged in
the commercial business at Talkeetna,
arrived in Anchorage yesterday. Mr.
Roberts came down for a large stock
of goods that will carry him through
the winter. He says business is ex
ceedingly good at present, and that a
large number of people are building
cabins for the winter. He expects to
see a lively little town there through
the long dark months.
Among the prominent tourists who
came ashore from the Admiral Farra
gut were D. A. Moss, vice-president
of the First National Bank, of Seat
tle, Dr. W. L. Fisher, pastor of the
First Christian church, of Seattle, and
H. B. Brett, a capitalist of Mexico,
Mo.
The First National Bank is the Se
attle correspondent for the Bank of
Anchorage and Mr. Moss is one of
the best known financiers of the
northwest and in speaking of his im
pressions of Anchorage Mr. Moss
made the remark that while his con
nections with Anchorage were of such
a nature as to keep him well posted
on conditions, that he was agreeably
surprised at the substantial and re
markable growth of this city.
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Best and Largest
Are terms we do not care to use.
It has been abused so badly, that it represents nothing.
We handle good reliable merchandise, and our reputa
tion of 18 years in business in Alaska is back of
everything we sell, (jur motto is a dollar’s worth
of merchandise for every dollar spent in our store.
Every boat is bringing in our fall stock and a visit toe
our store will convince you that we have the
goods.
Jaffe & Bayles
Home of Hart Scliaffner & Marx Good Clothes.
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The infant son of Mr. and Mrs.
Mears was christened Frederick
Mears, Jr,, at the home of his parents
on Government hill yesterday by Bish
op P. T. Rowe.
Mrs. L. S. Robe and daughter Hel
en, who have been spending the past
few weeks at .he Independence Mine
in the Willow creek district, arrived
from Knik last night and will leave
on the Admiral Farragut for their
home in Seattle.
The Loyal Order of Moose held
their regular meeting in Robarts’ hall
last night and the following officers
were elected: Dictator, F. A. Martin;
vice, Jack Sutherland; prelate, C. E.
Graham; secretary, J. L. Cort; treas
urer, Jas. Turner; inner guard, Geo.
M. Denton; outer guard, Chas. DeMo
rien; trustees, Leopold David, A. G.
Dickinson and H. C. Bennett.
Daily Times Want Ads bring quick
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Mr. W. H. Oppenheimer, a promi
nent attorney of St. Paul, accompa
nied by his mother, Mrs. I. Oppea
heimer, were among the tourisfjp to
take advantage of the courtesy of the
Admiral line and spent yesterday tak
ing in the sights of Anchorage.
Larry P. Byrne, one of the most
likable men that ever came to Alaska
and prominently connected in Anchor
age in a business and social way will
leave on the Farragut tonight for Se- I
attle to be with his wife, who will |
probably have to undergo an opera- |
tion in the very near future. Larry
has a host of friends in Anchorage
who with The Daily Times sincerely
trust that the operation will prove
successful and that both he and Mrs.
Byrne and family will return to An
chorage for the winter.
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Announcement!!
We take pleasure in informing the public that the Mata
nuska Hardware Co. and the Knik Hardware Co. have consol
idated.
The business hereafter will be conducted under the name of
Dohrmann-Heming
& Company
With the combined stocks of the two stores and the en
larged buying power the new firm will be enabled to offer in
Anchorage the most complete and up-to-date stock of hard
ware in Alaska.
Knik Ha Iware Co,
Mata ska Hardware Co,
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