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I HAPPY CHRISTMAS FOR EVERYBODY I { A HOLIDAY STOCK" f $ That Is First in Variety and Quality and \\ ? Fairest in Price ;: ? My beautiful display of gifts meets all requirements from FIRST J J ? to LAST. New and beautiful desigus In cut glass, mahogany and <> ? chime clocks, gold handled umbrellas, gold mounted fountain pens. <' ? Silverware of endless variety, all sorts of nugget Jewelry, hundreds J J ? of first class watches In beautifully engraved cases, and the dis- ? > ? play of diaD.onds and other precious stones is unusually large. Get <, J one of these if you can't think of anything else. * J ? My store is old. (having been established in Juneau for twen- <? ? ty-seven years) but the stock is fresh and new, and when you get <> J it at Valentine's you know it is right \ > | E. VALENTINE jj ? FRONT STREET JUNEAU, ALASKA i: - --aaaaaaaaaaaa????????????????? ! JUNEAU LIQUOR COMPANY, Inc. I ? ? J We have for the table the J ! CRESTA BLANCA AND EL DORADO WINES t ? ? FINE OLD BRANDY AND SCOTCH | ? Tel 9-4 . RYE AND BOURBON Front St. 1 ? ? OLYMPIA BEER "IT'S THE WATER" FOR SALE AT ALL FIRST-CLASS BARS AND CAFES i Juneau Transfer Co. f j coal wood i j storage : ? ? X Moving Carefully Done ? X Baggage Our Long Suit ? ? FRONT STREET J i Next door to Raymond Co. ? J Ferro Engines Now carried in stock. Call I and inspect samples Alaska Supply Co. ? Sale Agents JUNEAU ALASKA I ?????????????????????????a : j I McCloskeys \ I ! j I i; i i 11111111111111111:1111 + ? The Louvre Bar :: \ * A1 Carlson. Prop. ? ? ~ Imported and Domestic ?? :: LIQUORS AND CIGARS ? ? ;; RAINIER BEER ON DRAUGHT ' ? ? \ \ Phono 3-3-5 Juneau ? ? ?H-H-H-I 1 1 I III ! I I 1 I III I HI I J. W. DORAN DRUGS PHONE 3 104 Second St Juneau, Alaska R. P. NELSON Wholesale and Retail Dealer in All Kinds STATIONERY Typewriting Supplies. Blank Books, Office Supplies, Sporting Goods, Huyler's Candies, Gun ther's Candies, Toys, Notions, Books, Magazines, Waterman's Fountain Pens, Conklln Pens, Etc. Cor. 2nd. and Seward Sts. Juneau, Alaska Berry's Store Christmas Gifts Arriving on Every Boat for Everybody hi ?I I I I I I I 11 n I I I I I I I I 111 The Alaska Grill The Beit Appointed !! Place in Town^] ;; Best of Everything Served ! at Moderate Prices Tu 11111111111111111111111 t THE BEST LOAF OF I BREAD | X Is Sold At ? I San Francisco Bakery ? | G. MESSERSCHMIDT. Prop. 1 First National Bank OF JUNEAU CAPITAL $50,000 SURPLUS $10,000 UNDIVIDED PROFITS $15,000 DEPOSITS OVER $400,000 Complete facilities for the transaction of any banking business. OFFICERS T. F. KENNEDY, Pres. JOHN RECK, Vlce-Pres. A. A. GABBS, Cashier DIRECTORS F. W. BRADLEY E. P. KENNEDY GEO. F. MILLER T. F. KENNEDY JOHN RECK P. H. FOX A. A. GABBS M. J. O'CONNOR ? Latest Novelties in Tobacco Jars and Pipe Racks at Burford's ! AMERICANS TRY TO BREAK THE BANK AT MONTE CARLO PARIS, Dec. 30.?With the opening of tho season the long-waited winter stream of American money hns begun to flow to Monte Carlo, to the generul satisfaction of tho Casino's sharehold ers. hotel keepers, and tho rest of the principality's population. Coincident with the season's start, the usual stories are incirculation as to the huge amounts won by players at the tables, and as usual none has been fully verified. Several Ameri cans have been doing their best in this direction, however, and with vary ing SUCC088. Although at present confirmation is lacking, the opinion is strong in cer tain quarters at Monaca that that the agitation in France for higher taxa tion of casinos is being directed from there. The Monte Carlo authorities care very little about attempts to break the bank. What they really dread Is Increased competition from Nice and other French gambling centers?Aix Anghlcn, Vichy and Biarritz?and it is obvious that if the proposod law is adopted, the French casinos will be greatly hampered, while the smaller ones will be frozen out altogether, all of which will bo to the great bonoflt of the principality. Camlllo Blanc and his associates, who at present profit to the extent of $16,000,000 annually by persons who imagine that the law of averages can be temporarily suspended in their fav or, will-be tbe big gainers. Another prospect, far from pleasing to the Monagasques is the now amend ment to tho French gambling law. providing that roulette shall be per mitted in France. At present the wheel, which is regarded as one of tho attractive forms of gambling from the variety of its combinations and the comparatively high odds in favor of tho player, has boon played in Mon aca only, and if authorized at French resorts it would strike a severe blow at the prosperity of the principality. Mil H I K I H 1 1 1 1 III II 1 I III | ALASKA NEWS NOTES | I 1 1 l I I 1 I 11 IiItH1 I I I I I 1 I M A through trull Ib now open from Fairbanks to the Koyukuk, by way of Chatanlka, Beaver and the Chand lar. There are good roadhouses at various points along the trail. A roundtrip can be made in the time that it formerly took to go one way. ? ? ? A. A. Lyden, formerly Interested lu quartz mining in Southwestern Alas ka, is now engaged in placer mining on Dome creek, Fairbanks district. ? ? ? Fairbanks has a ladies' hockey club. It's instructor is F. M. Dunham, a local druggist there. ? ? ? Fairbanks' municipal tax levy for 1912 was one and a half percent of the assessed valuation of the taxable property of the town. ? ? * Angus McDonald, a Fairbanks man, paid $50 for the privilege of using profane language and $100 for resist ing an officer. ? ? ? When Senator-elect Henry Roden, of Iditarod, came up to Fairbanks re cently he was received with "the blare of brass, rattle of drums and the din of cymbals," according to the Alaska citizen. The welcome was given by the Harmonle Society, of Fairbanks. ' * * "Waterfront" Brown, a well known Fairbanks character, has been indict ed on a charge of embezzlement. Brown, it is alleged, collected $2,000 for Denny Goheen and failed to give him any part of It. ? ? ? Oscar Glatz, of Fairbanks, will servo a sentence for stealing plumes from a milliner's packing case. ? ? ? The terra of United States Marshal H. K. Love of the Fourth judicial di vision, will expire about the middle of January. Three Fairbanksans, L. T. Erwin, John Ronan and Dan Cal lahan. are applicants for the place under the next administration. ? ? * It is said that the government had three secret service men in Valdez all last summer getting acquainted with the people and the probable jur ors In the Washington-Alaska bank cases, in the effort to see that nothing was done by the defense to buy its freedom by corrupting jurors. It is also alleged that Captain Barnette had detectives there watching his in terests and that they spotted the gov ernment detectives. Also, it is al leged, that Barnette had a Seattle Times writer hired to give him a "shade the best of it in the news of the trital that went to outside news papers." ? ? ? "Scotty" Allen, winner of the Nome Sweepstakes of last winter, added an other victory to his list on Thanksgiv ing Day. The race was a dash to Fort Davis and return, about ten miles. There were nine teams enter ed, including practically all of the best dogs in the camp. The next race will take place tomorrow, Carnival Day, as it is known. The teams will run to Solomon and return, 70 miles, for a purse of $500. In addition to having retained near ly all tho Valdez lawyers, Barnette and his co-defendants In tho Washington Alaska bank cases, Ostrander & Dono hue, of Cordova, John L. McGuinn, Le roy Tozler and A. R. Holllg, of Fair banks; T, C. West, of San Francisco, and Albert Fink, of Nome and San Francisco. Fink took tho leading part in the cases. ? ? * The Iditarod City Council will sup port L. L. James, of Fairbanks, as the Alaska representative at the Pan ama-Pacific Exposition. ? ? * The Outside mail from Iditarod fell through the ice in tho Yrkon on Dec. 2, between Holy Cross and Nulate, and Mail Carrier Lawrence had a narrow escape from drowning. ? ? ? L. Frank Shaw, editor of the Seward Gateway is being urged by his friends 'to become an applicant for the office of Surveyor-General of Alas ka, under the Democratic administra tion. Shaw has always been a staunch Democrat and has a strong following at Seward. . . . William Acheson, manager of the Pacific Cold Storage Company, at Idit arod, was thrown from a double endcr sled and suffered a double frac ture of his nose. z m * ? Mrs. Prat secured a divorce from her husband at Fairbanks in the morning and at 12:30 the same day married Lewis B. Horton, who had spent a year in Jail at Idltarod on a charge of unlawful cohabitation with the woman he married. ? * ? John Ronan has purchased the lease of John Letterman on the Reliance Mining Company's property, togeth er with a one-third interest in a lease of the Wild Rose property, Fair banks district, paying $30,000 there fore, $10,000 of which was cash. ? ? * An underground dredge will be op erated next year by Cox and Rose burg on their ground at Chatanika. ? ?? ? J. F. Emmett has been indicted at Fairbanks on a charge of robbing sluice b xcs belonging to Julius Gius, on Pedro creek. ? ? ? An explosion of muck in a shaft being worked by John Beck, a Cleary creek operator, hurled him a consid erable distance, his face being severe ly burned. The muck was being thawed by a steam pipe. TO LET?Two furnished rooms, with bath. Inquire Osborne House, 48 Franklin street Hot chili beans all the time at Lockie McKinnon's Mayflower. tf Remember your Christmas attire. It pays to patron ize borne Industry. Besides you get up-to-date clothes. Plenty of patterns to select from. F. WOLLAND 2nd St Phono 6-6 ALASKA MEAT COMPANY John Reck, Mgr. Wholesale and Retail Butchers Manufacturers of all Kinds of Sausages Our Hams and Bacon Arc Home-Smoked I OPERA LIQUOR CO., inc. j O < > < J Thos. H. Ashby, Pres. A. (?. Bays, Scc.-Treas, J J ? COR. SEWARD AND SECOND STREETS O <1 o <' <? <1 ; | Finest Straight Whiskies Cigars That Everybody Likes to Smoke j; A RESORT FOR GENTLEMEN \\ Absolutely Fresh Eggs n i Why pay 60 cents for ordinary eggs? Get the very best, non-fertile fresh ranch eggs, at 45c a dozen ' W. R. Wills, general Merchandise I j Phone 4-9 FRANKLIN STREET DESIRE NEW COIN j or SMALL VALUE: LONDON, Dec. 30.?One of the dl- | rect results of the insurance act Is the ; suggestion, welcomed heartily by ? lai-ge employers of labor, thai an j elghtpenny (16-cent) piece be struck | by the Mint as a solution of the cop- ? per famine caused by the act. J Take, for instance, the weekly wage |j of 30s., ($7.50) which is a good aver age wage for the British workman. He . formerly received a gold sovereign and a gold half sovereign. Now ho ? gets 298. and 8d. This has caused t. . great increase in the demand for cop per, and now that the holiday trade | has been going on, when thousands of < small articles are purchased, the trou- ! ble has become more acute. . \ One objection raised is that the sug-j ? gested new coin will be very similar ! to the sixpence and will lead to con- j fusion and mistakes, but the Mint of- ? ficials advocate the issue of a coin with a lower percentage of silver than J the ordinary silver coin?a piece not ? too closely resembling the shilling . and the" sixpence. The question will 1 be raised in Parliament shortly. The Daily Empire delivered in Ju neau. Douglas and Tread well for $1.00 a month. Diamonds, always a wise invest ment, are unusually so at this time. Ours are imported under auspices so favorable as to enable us to offer you better values than we believe you'll obtain elsewhere. *** I. J. SHARRICK. C. F. CHEEK I THE TAXIDERMIST THAT KNOWS Game Heads, Fish and Birds Mounted. SKINS AND FURS TANNED Rug Work a Specialty Prices Reasonable ==================== | MOOSE Masquerade New Year's Eve. ? ?/ .A.* ; *-h->h :c 1111111111111 i i h i I I111 i n i n 11111111 I 11111 ii WHEN YOU NEED '' i Furniture, Mattresses, Stoves, Ranges:i Cooking Utensils or Crockery ; and you want full value for your money go to ;! :JOHN P. BENSON, the Furniture Dealer;: Cor. Third and Seward Streets, Juneau ? ? ! Tons upon tons of new and up-to-date jjoods arrive at our store every week - ? !+ti-i 11111 i 11111 i 111111 n 111111111111111 ii 111 ii 111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 n 111 ri ii ; THE LATEST AMERICAN INVENTION ii MAZDA LAMPS ; AND ALL OTHER KINDS OF j' ELECTRIC LIGHTING GOODS ) Can be obtained from the ! : ALASKA ELECTRIC LIGHT & POWER CO. ! Third and Franklin Streets Juneau ? ? -H-i n I I H H ? I III I I H t > I I I I I I II I I III I II I I I I I I H II CfJ/^yrC for the wet weather j OJilV/llskJ and for all occasions j NEW GOODS CONSTANTLY ARRIVINC SANDSTROM & HEIDORN Seward Street j In A Class Itself IMPARTIAL tests made by The Columbus Labo ratories of Chicago give Fisher's Blend Flour a higher rating than that of the Dakota all-Hard Wheat Patent Flour. Considering that this scientific combination of East ern Hard Wheat and Western Soft Wheat costs you from 20 to 25% less than what has always been con sidered the highest grade of breadstuff, you can readily see that it will pay you to insist on having Fisher's Blend Flour For Sale by All Dealers DO YOU TAKE IT? The Daily Empire publishes all the news, all the time IT IS CLEAN, UP-TO-DATE, PROGRESSIVE On6 Dollar per Month Delivered by Carrier in Juneau, Douglas and Treadwell TRY IT AND YOU WILL KEEP IT