A CARLOAD
OR A SACK
L_C-O-A-L-1
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 ARCADE BLDG.
H. V- HOBEN A- F. DAVIS
CHRIS’ PLACE
Cigars and Tobaccos
Soft Drinks and Candies
CARD TABLES
Phone Madison 54
CHRIST LARSEN, Prop.
N6Xt Door to Liberty Theatre
THE PALACE
John Mattich, Prop.
POOL, SOFT DRINKS AND
CIGARS
Furnished Rooms
Phone Main 55
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CHOP SUEY, NOODLES.
OYSTERS AND SHELL
FISH—
Open Day and Night
Private Dialog Rooms
SEWARD GRILL
AMY’S EXPRESS
MEETS ALL BOATS AND
TRAINS
Prompt and Reliable Service
Phone Madison 143
SMILE
and theworld smiles with you.
LAUGH
and you make too much noise.
When this spring weather makes
us feel as sleepy as we do we can’t
get enthusiastic over baseball and
fishing.
This is said to be the season of the
year when the married man decides
his house needs a little morepaint
and his wife a little less.
Pedestrians like to have the law
on their side, but not autos.
"Take your time in making love
and it will last longer,” is a motto
which does not find favor with the
modern young ones.
0. K. BARBER SHOP
Clean, Santiary Baths, Expert
Barbers and Reasonable Prces
Keep Us Busy. ^
Thomas Jasper, Propr.
Let Morrison Fix it for you
Next to Crawford’s Shop
ARONERICSON
Painter and Decorator
SIGNS WALL PAPER
THE SURROUNDINGS
Service and Food are the best at
FISHERS’ CAFE
PRIVATE BOOTHS DANCE ROOM
CHARLES FISHER, Prop.
Batcher Shop Remedies.
If you’re troubled with, the Gout
Just spend two-bits for Saur Kraut
Then if you think you’re feeling worse
Spend two-bits for Weiner Werse
Or if your heart is all a quiver
Take home a couple pounds of Liver
Then if you still feel kind of Bum
Then we might prescribe a nice Beef Tongue
But if you’re troubled with sharp pains
Try Meadowbrook Eggs & Scrambles Brains
If this don’t make the world look brighter
Just tell your troubles to the writer
And anything he might suggest
Is guaranteed to be the best.
CARSTEN’S PACKING COMPANY
Isolated Islanders Ask
for Mail Once a Year
SOUTHAMPTON, Eng., May 15.—
(>P)—Natives of Tristan da Cunha in
the South Atlantic, known as the
loneliest island in the British Em
pire, petitioned the government re
cently to arrange an annual mail
boat for them, declaring that if this
were brought about they would be,
perfectly contented; otherwise they
threatened to emigrate.
News of the settlement was brot
hre recently by the Rev. H. M. Rog
ers, who for three years has been
a missionary and schoolmaster to
the islanders. Mr. Rogers made up
his mind more than a year ago to
return to England, but he was com
pelled to wait 12 months for a ship.
He was accompanied by his wife and
baby "who was born on Trisan da
Cunha two years ago. During the
family’s stay on the island there wras
but one mail ship.
There are 140 persons on the’ isl
and, the sexes being about equally
divided. The natives are half-caste,
are law abiding and industrious, and
live by barter among themselves.
There is no crime whatever on Tris
an da Cunha, according to Rev. Rog
ers, and no immorality. The inhab
itants are Socialistic in their view’s,
everybody being equal, and the isl
and itself is owned among members
of tiie various families.
Mrs. Rogers, who acted as physi
cian and nurse to the natives, said
there were no infectious sicknesses
among the people, but that they suf
fered from stomach complaints brot
about by the lack of suitable foods.
There was not enough variety in the
green-etuffs they ate, she said. The
men fish for half the year and raise
crops during the other seasons.
Shippers Deeply Grieved
Over American Laws
ROTTERDAM, Holland, May 15.—
(;p)—American immigration restric
tions are the bugbear of most Euro
pean transatlantic shipping compa
nies and to them the Holland-Amer
ica Line, attributes to a great ex
tent the unfavorable aspect of its
financial year.
“Although no mitigation of the
American immigration laws is to be
expected for a few years to come,”
the financial report of the company
says, “we believe that this restric
tive policy cannot endure, because
the continued development of the
vast territory of the United States
must ultimately bring about a short
age of labor, and it is plain that in
the end American industries, under
the pressure of high wages, will not
be in a position to compete with a
reorganized Europe.
In view of the American restric
tions, the special Polish emigrant
service from Danzig to Rotterdam
had to be discontinued, the report
says, but against this diminished em
igrant traffic the company sets an
increased traveling impetus among
well-to-do Americans, and it is upon
the development of the high-class
passenger traffic that the efforts of
all transatlantic lines must now be
concentrated.
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Experts Give Attention
To Rubber from Haiti
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 15.—
(/P)—It may not be forever that Am
ericans will have to depend chiefly
upon far off Java for rubber tires.
The Bureau of Standards has just
received 25 pounds of smoked sheet
rubber from an experimental planta
tion which the agricultural depart
ment has been operating in Haiti
The shipment is to be tested in a
variety of ways, over a long period
of time, to determine whether the
gum from the Haitian trees will do
the work which now is performed
by the products of the islands of
the Indian Ocean and the Amazon
basin.
The island of Haiti is 15 degrees
further north of the equator than
any other spot upon which rubber
cultivation has been attempted pre
viously and the rubber trees are of a
different species from those in the
East Indian tropical gardens.
If you don't get your paper before
six o'clock please phone us and one
will be sent by special messenger.
OGLES GARAGE & FILLING STATION
GASOLINE OILS GREASES VULCANIZING
Agent for Overland and Willys-Knights
Machine Shop in Connection
DAY AND NIGHT TAXI SERVICE
HUDSON AND STUDEBAKER CARS
HUSSEY & BOLAM, Mechanics
ELLIS BALL
CHILI MILL
The mill that takes the pros
pector off the labor market.
Cheaper than an trastra, more
efficient than a stamp mill.
MADE IN SIZES FROM
TWO TO FIFTY TONS
DAILY CAPACITY
Priced $150 to $1989
Investigate the Ellis Mill First
NELS HAGEN
ALASKA AGENT*
P. O. Box 1105
SEWARD, ALASKA
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Dan T. Kennedy, manager of the
Mount McKinley Transportation and
Tourist company, left on the Admiral
Evans for Kodiak to get his pack
animals which were turned loose
last fall to winter on the island.
It is reported the animals went thru
the winter in good shape coming
out rolling fat, with nothing but isl
and grass for food. Mr. Kennedy
will return on the Evans shipping
the horses to the park by rail.
,0. H. Huesby, of Kanatak, who
has been visiting in the states the
past five weeks returned on the Ad
miral Evans, leaving for the oil
camp on the same boat.
Will Clayson, well known cloth
ies of Anchorage, is a returning pas
senger on the steamship Yukon, from
a buying trip to the states.
Parties killing geese and ducks are
liable to get into trouble as under
the Federal bird act spring shoot
ing is illegal.
Attorney Frank Foster was a pas
senger on the Admiral Evans for
westward points.
Cradle robbers are meeting witn
shrift in Cordova, a number of clam
diggers who have trifled with young
and immature bivalves being fined
$25 and costs this week. Under the
new regulations clams must be a
certain length before they may be
canned.
Mrs. J. H. Flickenger, wife of the
local agent of the Alaska Steamship
company, will arrive in Seward on
the Yukon tomorrow night, return
ing from a short visit to the states.
It is reported that the schooner
Olive, Captain Johnson, will ply on
Cook Inlet this year from Anchorage
to Illaimna and way points. The
Olive is schooner rigged with a die
sel engine, and is about 40 tons bur
den. She was wrecked at Kabatak
last year but was pulled off the
beach and repaired. She is a staunch
sea craft.
Sam Dubon, the well known Koyu
kuk merchant and trader, arrived
from the states on the Evans and
left on today’s train on his long
trek to his interior home. Mr. Du
bon owns a chain of stores in the
Kovukuk section.
Brunswick Phonographs and Re
cords. The Alaska Shop. tf
Join the Chamber of Commerce.
HOTEL OVERLAND
GORDON SHEA, Propr.
SPECIAL RATES BY WEEK
OR MONTH
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New Heating Plant Just Installed
K-»
PIONEER CLUB
John Nash, propr.
SOFT DRINKS, CANDY
CIGARS AND FRUITS
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