Character
The standing of a financial institution is re
flected in the character of those with whom it
We are proud to number among our corres
pondents the leading banks and trust companies
both here and abroad.
In choosing a Bank choose strength, service
—and character.
does business.
Established 1905
RESOURCES $400,000.00
FISH CATCH NEW ENGLAND
SAID SHOW BIC INCREASE
GLOUCESTER, Mass., Oct. 22. (JP)
—American fishing vessels in Septem
ber landed at Boston and Gloucester,
Mass., and at Portland, Maine, 24,045,
9SS pounds of fresh fish, valued at
SS90.423, representing an increase of
22.55 per cent in quantity and 7.68
per cent in value of fresh fish as com
pared with the same month of 1925,
according to the Bureau of Fisheries
of the department of commerce.
The average price received for the
fresh fish in July, 1926, was 3.7 cents
per pound as compared with 4.21
cents per pound in July, 1925, a de
crease of 12.11 per cent. There were
also 2,085,940 pounds of salted fish,
valued at $94,187, as compared to 768,
149 pounds, valued at $51,459 in the
same month the previous year.
BEAR HUNJERS ATTENTION
I am fully equipped to conduct hunt
ing parties of all kinds. Three year-s
experience as licensed guide. Fine
hunting along the Alaska peninsula.
NICK KRISTENSEN,
False Pass, Alaska.
Call and inspect our new line of
personal Christmas cards. Schaller
er’s Alaska Shop.
Take in the Liberty tonight.
Hardware, Stoves and Ranges,
Powder—Caps—Fuse—Miners* Supplies
Ship Chandlery and Ship Linoleum
Anchors, Rope, Oil $nd Twine
Halibut Lines ana Hooks
Sheet Metal—Plumbing Shop—Gun Repair
Seward Alaska.
J. L. GRAEF
Phone Madison 87 Seward, Alaska
For Better Rubbers
Don’t ask for “Pacs” but ask for
THE “BALL-BAND” YUKON
especially designed and built
for the men of Alaska.
Only the best quality of pure gum rubber is used and the
shoe is vulcanized by Special Process^ thoroughly uniting
all parts of the upper, the sole, the stays and linings into
a one-piece construction that defies hard wear. The
sturdy rubber bottom is well reinforced where other
rubbers soon wear through.
Rubbers built like these will stand freezing, scuffing,
stubbing and the daily grind of working in rock or wet
gravel.
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Set a pair of “Ball-Band” Yu
kons beside a pair of any other
brand—compare the finish and
the workmanship — you can
easily see that the “Ball-Band”
shoe is superior.
Then remember that “Ball
Band” footwear is worn by nine
and one-half million people, who
have learned by experience that
the Red Ball trade-mark stands
for the utmost in quality,
service, and satisfaction.
More days wear
in every pair
Leon Urbach
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HR RETURNS
TO ALASKA DUTIES
SAFETY FIRST INSTRUCTOR RE
' TURNS FORM PITTSBURGH
WHERE BEEN YEAR
R. G. Thornberg, foreman miner,
and in charge of the safety first ser
vice in Alaska who was sent to Pitts
i burgh last spring to study and be
come familiar with the new safety ex
tension service, which is to be ex
tended to Alaska, arrived in Seward
last evening on the S. S. Yukon. This
is a comparatively new service in the
states but has proved so necessary
and helpful that, through the efforts
of the territorial bureau of mines will
be extended to Alaska.
While Mr Thornburg "was in Pitts
burgh, there occurred an explosion in
mine No. 1. of the Clearfield Bitu
minous Coal corporation and he par
ticipated in the recovery work follow
ing the disaster. Forty-four lives
were lost in the explosion.
Mr. Thornburg spent much time in
Wallace, Idaho, the Cour d’Alene dis
trict, and was in Butte, Montana, in
connection with the mine safety tour
nament at which he acted as one of ,
the judges. He was at Pittsburgh!
about a month in connection with the j
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central experiment station which is ,
| located there. While Mr. Thornburg ;
has been in the east he has visited;
all of the principal coal mines of j
Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
He leaves for Anchorage on the
first train where he will meet and con
fer with B. D. Stewart, head of the |
Alaska Bureau of Mines department.
Mr. Thornberg is a guest at the Van
Gilder hotel.
L. J. Mercati of New York, who has
;been hunitng in Kenai peninsula for
'the last few weeks and previous to
| that to the Westward, returned yes
terday with guide Alex Bolam.
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Constance Wanamaker, well known
Anchorage resident who has been at
tending the Valdez term of court as
juror, returned yesterday on the S. S.
Yukon, en route home.
Assistant U. S. District Attorney
Ellis, accompanied by his family,
were among the local arrivals yester
day. They are guests at the Sexton
hotel.
J. J. Meherin and A. A. Humfrey,
two of the best known traveling sales
men in the Territory, are back in Sew
ard from the South paying their num
erous customers^another call.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19. (^—Con
sul Harold Shantz, at Hongkong, in
a mail report received in the Depart
ment of Commerce, states that accord
ing to press reports in China valu
able discoveries of jade and chalce
dony have been made in the new Ter
ritories, on the mainland, and in a
part of the Crown Colony of Hong
kong.
These discoveries, it was stated, in
cluded four extensive deposits of pink,
gray, purple, green and rose jade, and
also Han jade.
The deposits have not been worked
extensively. As some of them are be
low sea level, recovery is difficult,
according to Consul Shantz.
8eattle lee Cream at Schallerer’a
Alaska Shop. tf
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Garment
protection
America's Finest
This Trade Mark
is found on all
WHEARY
CUSHIONED TOP
Wardrobes
PRICED FROM $75.00 TO $165.00
TRAVELING BAGS —SUIT CASES
FITTED CASES
AUTO ROBES and STEAMER ROBES
Everything to make traveling enjoyable
ED. V. PRICE
TAHORED-TO-MEASURE CLOTHES
KUPPENHEIMER GOOD CLOTHES
Patrick All-Wool Top Coats and Mackinaws
Nettleton and Florsheim Dress Shoes
ALL WOOL KNIT TOQUES ..Special $1.00
AVIATION CAPS ..._.Special $1.00
FRESH FRUITS AND VEGETABLES
AT ALL TIMES
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Extra Fancy Jonathon Apples $3.00 a Box
Freshly Ground Coffee, 50 Cents per Pound
Extra Fine, Large 1926 Matjes Herring
SALT SALMON — SALMON BELLIES
and MACKEREL
Hollyhurst Ranch Eggs — Sunlight Butter
Swift’s Premium Hams and Bacon
Special inducements on Coal Heating
Stoves for the balance of the month
ALASKA NATIVE-MADE SNOW SHOES
$9.00 to $11.00 PER PAIR
Special Prices on Quantity Lots
NORTHLAND SKIIS—ICE SKATES—PISTOLS
RIFLES — SHOTGUNS and AMMUNITION
COLEMAN QUICK-LITE
i LAMPS and LANTERNS
“QUALITY FIRST”
BROWN & HAWKINS CORP.
Seward Alaska
JOHN C. WHITE
& CO.
High Grade Line of
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CANDIES