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A CARLOAD
OR A SACK
_C-O-A-L
HEALY LUMP, NUT OR MINE RUN,
BAXTER NUT OR MINE RUN
EVAN JONES LUMP OR MINE RUN
NANAIMO RANGE COAL
IN SACK OR BULK
THE ALASKA TRANSFER
WOOD, ICE, HAY AND GRAIN,
TRANSFERRING AND TEAMING
TEL MAIN 17
H. V HOBEN
ARCADE BLDG.
A F. DAVIS
CHRIS’ PLACE
Cigars and Tobaccos
Soft Drinks and Candies
CARD TABLES
Phone Madison 54
CHRIST LARSEN, Prop.
Next Door to Liberty Theatre
THE PALACE
John Mattich, Prop.
POOL, SOFT DRINKS AND
» CIGARS
Furnished Rooms
Phone Main 55
CHOP SUEY, NOODLES,
OYSTERS AND SHELL
FISH—
Open Day and Night
Private Dining Rooms
SEWARD GRILL
ANDY’S EXPRESS
MEETS ALL BOATS AND
TRAINS
Prompt and Reliable Service
Phone Madison 143
The Alaska Shop
When you have any work in
Plumbing or Steam
Fitting
NEW OR REPAIRS, AND
SHEET METAL WORK
R. F. TILLMAN.
Back of Brown & Hawkins
PHONE ADAMS 80
ARONERICSON
Painter and Decorator
SIGNS WALL PAPER
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Ice Cream
MADE DAILY
HIGH GRADE
Candies
FRAMED PICTURES, CURIOS
AND PHOTOGRAPHS
SYLVIA’S
Phone Adams 128
THE SURROUNDINGS
Service and Food are the best at
FISHERS’ CAFE
PRIVATE BOOTHS DANCE ROOM
CHARLES FISHER, Prop.
Meat Buying
:*•*, Made a Pleasure
OUR MEAT remains at its us
ual high standards. The only
g ' thing cut about it is the price
—and that's so interestingly
done that you'll surely come
here.
CARSTENS PACKING COMPANY
E. KURTZ, Mgr.
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RUSSIA HAS FEW FARM
SCIENTISTS
LENINGRAD, August 20. (/P)—A
census undertaken by the Leningrad
Academy of Science shows that there
are 4,265 acknowledged scientists in
Leningrad, while in Moscow there
are only 2,740. The majority of the
scientists are mathmeticians and na
tural scientists. Agriculturist form
only four per cent of the above fig
ures. The percentage of women in
Moscow and Leningrad circles is four
teen per cent and 22 per cent respec
tively.
Miss Vada Watson, champion Kan
sas wheat girl, recently led a parade
held under the auspices of the state
agricultural college.
Miss Verna Holmes of London is a
prominent engineer and has invented
a new device useful in home treat
ment of tuberculosis.
Mrs. M. C. Van Winkle, chief of
Washington policewomen, asked the
commissioners to allow her force to
slap mashers on the streets.
LOOK UP
Cameron’s Cafe
WHEN YOU ARE IN
ANCHORAGE
Good Coffee, Good Food
Good Service
CHAS. CAMERON
PROPRIETOR
Get This dSRk
Point, It’s fl! B
Important
—the point of a Parker A Duofold
is made of genuine Jn native
Tasmanian Iridium f*y which costs
over three times as / f much as the
iridium used in I / ordinary
fountain pen // points. That’s
why the Parker If Duofold is
called the 25- fl y e a r point.
That's why it /fj is the cheapest
penonearth fij at $7—because its
usefulness is everlasting.
Lady DooCeld or Doofoltf Jr., ts
Gold Ring or Gold Pocket-clip
Included free.
Pack along a Dnoiold
on your vacation
Ask To See It At
ORLANDER, the Jeweler
FOUR HUNDRED
BLUE FOXES ON
SATHER RANCH
CONSIDERED ONE OF THE LARG
EST BLUE FOX RANCHES
IN THE TcKKlTORY
NUKA ISLAND FOX FARM
One Hundred Foxes Will Be Killed
this Fall—Have Killed But
Thirty-Five to Date
One of the largest fox raising in
dustries in the Territory, unbeknown
to many residents of Seward, lies but
a few miles from this port, that of
Mr. and Mrs. Pete Sather at Nuka
Island. It is estimated that there are
over 400 blue foxes on the island.
During the four and a half years the
owners have been on the ranch but
30 have been killed, but, according to
Mr. Sather it is planned to kill at
least 100 foxes this year. The skins
bringing an average price of $90 per
skin in London will make a neat lit
tle bankroll.
Charles Dustin, former master me
chanic of the Copper River & North
western Railroad at Cordova, who un
til recently was employed at port en
gineer by the Alaska Steamship Co.,
but is now employed by a large dredg
ing concern at Nome, was a former
partner in the ranch, but disposed of
his interest this year.
Fine Equipment on the Island
The island is complete, probably
one of the most modern of its kind,
for everything for the convenience of
the owners and the foxes has been
constructed. A two-story, three-room
house, nicely furnished, is Mr. and
Mrs. Sather’s castle. There is a lit
tle warehouse close to the wharf and
a 150-foot float; a cook house where
the fox feed is made; two fish houses;
SEWARD CLUB
Under New
MANAGEMENT
OLD AND NEW '
FRIENDS INVITED
ED ERICKSON
I
OGLES GARAGE & FILLING STATION
Phone Madison 66
GASOLINE OILS GREASES VULCANIZING
Agent for Overland and Willys-Knights
Machine Shop in Connection
DAY AND NIGHT TAXI SERVICE
HUDSON AND STUDEBAKER CARS
Nattschei & Bolam, Machinists
Hardware --Stoves-Ranges
POWDER—CAPS—FUSE—MINERS’ SUPPLIES
SHIP CHANDLERY AND SHIP LINOLEUM
ANCHORS, ROPE AND TWINE
HALIBUT LINES AND HOOKS
Sheet Metal — Plumbing Shop — Gun Repair
J. L. GRAEF
PAINTS AND BRUSHES
BECK & WHITE
High Grade Line of
CIGARS, TOBACCOS, &
CANDIES
FINEST BILLIARD HALL IN ALASKA
one breeding corral; and 13 feed
houses scattered about the island.
There Is also a chicken yard with
about 50 chickens scratching about.
The truck garden near the dwelling
house is planted to potatoes and oth
er truck, including strawberries.
Operates Three Boats
Mr. Sather owns and operates three
boats from Seward to Nuka Bay,
which is four miles from his island.
The island itself is nine miles long
by live miles wide. These boats are
the Rolfe I, Rolfe 11, and the Nuka.
The Rolfe I is 34 feet long and pow
ered with a 16 horse power Standard
marine engine; Rolfe II is 34 feet in
length and is powered with a five
horsepower Atlas; the gas boat Nuka
is 26 feet long and has a six horse
power Corliss marine engine. Capt.
John Smith is skipper of the Rolfe
II, while Mr. Sather himself operates
the Rolfe I.
At least one round trip a week is
made to Nuka Bay from this port
by one of the above named boats,
sometimes more often. The Rolfe I
left port yesterday morning for the
quartz camp and will return the lat
ter part of the week. A large quan
tity of general freight was carried
down yesterday on the craft. With
respect to fuel on the fox island and
for the cook stoves on board the gas
boats, when the coal bin runs dow’n
a bit, Capt. Sather or Smith, run over
to Cook Inlet, just a few hours run
from Nuka Bay, where they pick up
any number of tons of lignite coal
from the beach.
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PHOTOGRAPHS OF
COLUMBIA GLACIER
TAKEN, ALASKA SHOP
OTTO SCHALLERER RETURNS
FROM SEA VOYAGE IN SMALL
CRAFT WITH VIEWS
Something new in the way of gla
cier photographs were taken last
week by O. C. Schallerer, of the Al
aska Shop, during his trip to the
.beautiful Columbia glacier. Six views,
never before taken, revealing the
magnificent and tremendously sized,
biue colored glacier, were obtained
by Mr. Schallerer, and will be put
on exhibition at the popular store
this week. On? of the photographs,
°f large size, was finished in the
dark room yesterday and is certainly
a splendid bit of work of the pho
tographer’s art. In gleaming bril
liancy the majestic glacier stands out
against a background of trees and
summer foliage, remarkable in its
detail.
Other pictures of Prince William
Sound, in which are included sunset
scenes, were also taken by the ex
pert photographer. The trip from
Seward to the g-tner required two
day? in a sriu ! power dory For
six days Mr. ScmuV’er and Charles
Ciegg, who accompanied r.i-m cn the
trip, endeavored to wait the rain and
bad weather out, viui one day’s suc
cess at which time all of the photos
were shot. A liitle longer s’ay would
have been made but the grub sack
began to get a little thin around the
edges so the two day trip back to
town -was started.
In France a new bottle blowing ma
chine enables one operator to equal
the output of three mouth blowers,
besides obtaining a better product.
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Gas Launch
KENAI
FISHING AND HUNTING
PARTIES CARRIED DOWN
LAKE KENAI FOR THE
DAY OR TRIP. TELE
PHONE ARRANGEMENTS
TO MILE TWENTY
Louis Bell, owner
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Address
21 COLMAN DOCK
Seattle, Wash.