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?????????????????????????????????????????????????free* JUNEAU LIQUOR COMPANY, Inc. f ? <? J We have for the table the < > I CRESTA BLANC A AND EL DORADO WINES i! FINE OLD BRANDY AND SCOTCH | TeL 9-4 RYE AND BOURBON Front St. j! j OPERA LIQUOR CO., inc. I Y Thos. II. Ashby. Pres. A. G. Bays. Sec.-Treas. <' ? ;; COR. SEWARD AND SECOND STREETS ;; | | ? Finest Straight Whiskies Cigars That Fverybody Likes to Smoke ? t A RESORT FOR GENTLEMEN | ? tMMIIMIMMMMMM ALASKA MEAT COMPANY John Reck. Mgr. Wholesale and Retail Butchers Manufacturers of all Kinds of Sausages Our Hams and Bacon Are Home-Smoked OLYMPIA BEER "IT'S THE WATER" FOR SALE AT ALL FIRST-CLASS BARS AND CAFES ? Juneau Transfer Co. ? i ? : COAL WOOD | STORAGE J ? Moving Carefully Done ? ^ HaRvrajre Our Long Suit ? ? FRONT STREET | ^ Next tiour to Raymond Co. j ? Watkins S Gerdon ? ? EXPERT BLACKSMITHS ? } and IRON WORKERS { ? General Blacksmithing. Horse- X ? Shoeing. Iron and Marine Work * t Estimates Furnished and J ? Work Guaranteed ? ? ? ? FRANKLIN STREET ? T Near Alaska Steam Laundry J ? ? ? ? ? ? : j ? ? | McCloskeys | : =: i i i i 111111 i 11111 i i; 11 i 111 n i jj The Louvre Bar :: ] | A1 Carlson. Prop. ? . j . , Imported andjDomcstic ? ? :: LIQUORS AND CIGARS " RAINIER BEEK ON DRAUGHT II I) Phone3-3-5 Juneau .. II I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I 1 I I I I I 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 LADIES' GOODS Arriving on Every Boat for Every Occasion i M I < I 11111111 Ml i I I I 111 I > : The Alaska Grill j! !. The^Beri Appointed Place in Town f ;; Best ;of Everything Served " ii at Moderate Prices i 111111111111111111 ii 11111 i I THE BEST LOAF OF ? I BREAD | _____ i It Sold At X ? ? ? San Francisco Bakery \ ? G. MESSERSCHMIDT, Prop, t I 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. Vice-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 1 Mr. Beegle Tells Some Truths About Alaska J. R. Becglc, formerly deputy col lector of customs at Ketchikan, was in Portland, Ore, recently, and he told the Oregonian a number of truths, about the dense ignorance of outsid ers us to Alaska and Alaska condi tions. He stated that the Nome dele gation to the Teritorlal legislature were chosen from citizens of the dis trict who happened to be in Seattle on election day, because the members elect could not reach Juneau in time for the session which convenes in March. If Mr. Beegle was correctly report ed. he himself, was laboring under a ! mistake, as three of the men elected are now enroute here, having left Nome on Jan. 7. These are Senator | Freeding and Representatives Gaff ney and Aldrich. And as a matter of fact, for many years people from Nome have made the overland trip, both ways, during the winter. The Oregonian says: "Mr. Beegle went from Portland to Dvea during the rush of '9S under ap pointment as deputy collector of cus toms under J. W. Ivy, collector for Alaska. He was at Dyea a year and a half and was then transferred to Mary island, then first port of entry for the territory. The office was moved to Ketchikan, and Mr. Beegle continued in the government service at that point until last December, when he resigned to go into the sal mon canning business. Ketchikan was a mere village, with hut three white women at that time. It is now a town or L',500. "Mr. and Mrs. Beegle came to Port land from San Francisco, where they went on business. Illustrating the gen eral lack of knowledge of Alaska he tells of trying to mail a registered package for Ketchikan while in San Francisco. The postal clerk at first re fused to accept the package, saying that it would be impossible to deliver it at this time of the year. Mr. Beegle had some difficulty in explaining that Ketchikan is an open port, with a cli mate that seldom knows zero weather. "Mr. and Mrs. Beegle intend some time to make their permanent home in Portland. Mr. Beegle came to Ore gon in 1877, was editor of the St. Hel en's Mist and the Ilillsboro Independ ent, and did newspaper work in Port land. He was president of the State Press Association in 1895-6. Plan to Prevent Stock Exchange Gambling WASHINGTON, Jan. 2S.?A plan to prevent gambling 011 stock exchanges, by use of the Federal taxing power, has been formulated by Senator Cum mins. He will introduce a bill em bodying his theories within a few days. It is his belief that the evil can be era dicated by the impositions of a prohib itive fee 011 transactions that are un desirable. The bill will levy a tax of 10 per cent on all stock exchange or board of trade transactions where sales are made by parties not owning the com modity they prose to transfer. This will cover all dealings in "futures" and include cotton and all agricul tural products. As an illustration, the 10 per cent would be imposed on transactions where stock Is sold "short." or where agricultural products are sold for fu ture delivery by persons not then owning the products to he sold. Previous proposals aimed to ac complish the same purpose have been based on the right of Congress to refi ll late interstate commerce or to de termine what shall be sent through the mails. As precedents for his pro- , posal to place a prohibitory tax on ' gambling transactions, Senator Cum- ? mins will point to the tux on State ! bank circulation. Proper exceptions are to be made in the bill to allow a farmer to sell his growing crops or a packer or can nor to contract for the sale of his products, and for similar transactions considered legitimate. During the last session of Congress a certain kind of match was taxed 1 out of existence. A Federal levy was imposed to the entire sum at which ilie product could be sold. It was intended to prevent future manufac ture of the match, which caused a pe culiar disease known as "phossy jaw." At that time Senator Bailey protested against the legislation, say- 1 ing it formed a precedent under which < any objectionable industry could be < taxed out of existence. < < YOUNG LADY INSISTED ON A TAFT KISS Wyoming Mi6s at Four Got it, Too, and Was Satisfied. WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.?On Presi dent Tuft's appointment list recent ly was this brief entry: "Phylis Wistrand, Lander, Wyo., (to be kissed.)" When that item caught the Presi dent's eye as he sat down at his desk he looked about his ollice and over in one corner saw a little girl, with blonde curls, looking eagerly at him. Besides her was a woman, evidently her mother. "Well, Phylis," he said as he rose from his chair to shake hands, "so you want to be kissed by the Presi dent of the United States?" "Yes, Sir," she lisped. "Well," said the President, as he raised her high in his arms and kissed her fairly on the cheek, "I hope you will remember that." Phylis is four years old. She went through the White House recently with her mother and some friends, and anounced then that she would never leave Washington until she had been kissed by the President. She was so insistent that her mother wrote to the White House, and final ly made an appointment with Mr. Taft. Phylis left for her home in Wy oming this afternoon quite satisfied. CHEMICAL COMBINATIONS MAKE MEN INVISIBLE Owing to a new material discovered in the government laboratories by av iation officials, it will soon be possible to make both the occupant and the aeroplane invisible to those on the ground, after rising a short distance above the earth, says a Washington dispatch. The discovery has been known for several weeks but it was only after a thorough investigation that the se cret has been made public. It is said to be simple and at the same time one of the most marvelous chemical in ventions of the age. WANTED?To rent furnished house in good locality. Address X.Y.Z. Em pire office. SEAL SHIPT OYSTERS?Fresh at the local agency?CHAS. GOLDSTEIN GUANTANAMO WILL GUARD CANAL GATE WASHINGTON. Jan. 28.?Guantan ;i mo, Cuba, is to be made an Impreg nable fortified harbor by the United States for the United States, if Cuba changes her mind and ratifies the treaty now pending. It is to be fortified as an outpost of the Panama Canal defenses on the Atlantic Caribbean side. The plan has been announced at the War Department as the decision of the joint board of army and navy of I ficers appointed by the Secretaries of War and Navy at the direction of the President to perfect the Panama Canal fortifications scheme. The orders necessary to inaugurate the charge and work in the present naval station at Guantanamo will be given as soon as the treaty rights can be adjusted. The whole scheme has been worked out upon the premises that for a foreign army to make a suc cessful attack on the defenses of the Panama Canal, an army of invasion first would have to be landed in Cuba. INTERNATIONAL BODY TO CONSIDER PANAMA CANAL PARIS, Jan. 28.?The International committe for the study of the ques tion of neutralizing straits and mari time canals met here yesterday, Count da Penha-Carcia of Portugal presld | ing. It decided, in view of the special im portance at the present time of ques tions relating to the Dardanelles, and the Panama Canal, to submit to the in ternational conference at The Hague in September a report embodying what the committee considers should be the principle governing all such questions. After the conference lias discussed this report, the committee w!.' draw up a treaty to be submitted to the i governments. REFUSED $20,000 OFFER The old revenue cutter Rush, fa miliar to many pioneer Alaskans was sold recently for the sum of $8,500. The purchasers, the Alaska Junk Co., of Seattle, a few days later, were of fered $20,000 for the vessel. The of fer was refused and the price boosted to $25,000. Job Printing at The Empire Office. BRICKS THAT WILL LAST I THROUGH UNTOLD AGES Home, Jan. 27.?Giuseppe Giovan netti, a young Roman, who had al ready discovered a pigment for fres coes whose resisting power surpasses that of the ancients, has now dis covered the lost art of brlckmaking as practised by the Romans 2,000 years ago. This is the opinion of experts who have tested bricks made by the Giovannettl system, which resists fire damp, excessive cold and every other destructive element, and apparently' would last unimpaired for endless! ages. The secret has been given to the Italian government. Experiments be ing made with the new bricks tend rather to conflrn than shake the most exaggerated reports of their durabil ity. building experts declare that a new era has dawned in the construc tion of large buildings. Contracts be ing made for all the new dwellings in Tripoli contain a clause stipulating that these bricks must be used. CHAMBERLAIN OBJECTS LONDON, Jan. 28.?Austen Cham berlain announced at Birmingham last night that he cannot accept responsi bility for the Unionists' decision to abandon the proposition to impose - taxes on food imported into the I3rit- ~ ish Isles. He cannot turn back, he said, on the cause he has championed, * and while he will continue loyally to ? serve his leaders and his party he ! fears the decision will prove calami- [ tous. The Dally Empire delivered in Ju- 1 neau. Douglas and Tread well for $1.00 | a month. FOR RENT?Large furnished room, bath connecting. Inquire Empire of fice. 1-16-tf. ?I 1 1 1 I I I I I I I I I I-1 I I I I H i; The Unique Millinery | :: SPECIAL SALE EANCY GOODS | !! Suitable for Christmas Gifts 4 + l-I-l-I-I -I-I-t-l-l-l-l-l-I-l--I-??-I- K-M-H C. F. CHEEK THE TAXIDERMIST THAT KNOWS Game Heads, Fleh and Birds Mounted. SKINS AND FURS TANNED Rug Work a Specialty Prices Reasonable i E. Wolland I ? 4 Tailor | Phone 66 SECOND ST. j I C W. YOUNG COMPANY Dealers in Mining, Fishing, Plumbing and Building Supplies Front Street Juneau JMWnOJWMMMWaMMMBMBWMBMfcgaBaMMBMW??BBMBB llll?1 PETERSBURG FISH CO. All Kinds of FRESH AND SALT FISH CLAMS AND CRABS All Orders Promptly Filled PETERSBURG ALASKA THE CIRCLE CITY HOTEL MRS. M. E. BERGMANN, Prop. ;; : HEADQUARTERS for PROSPECTORS AND MINING MEN ? ELECTRIC LIGHTED STEAM HEATED | " THIRD STREET JUNEAU. ALASKA + "America's Finest FLOU* i KG Mills" Plant and Product one and inseparable f / Pronounced by expert ". Imcrica's Finest Flouring / Mills." the plant of the Fishkr Flouring Mills / Company, was design-! nr. ! constructed to produce America's Most Efficient Hrcadstuflf, Fisher s Blend Flour Separate machinery is provided f >r grinding hard and soft wheat. F.very grain is v bed in the famou 'ly pure Cedar River water and thoroughly dried before being ground. ti i* no i tic boast to sav that this I>.'. ,?!?t is the clcanot, most ncicn tii" .illy 1? :idcd, most economical flour oiTcp- ! for sale today. Combin ing it ilocs Eastern Hard Wheat n:n: Wv -trrn Soft Wheat, it gives to public and private bakeries a ma terial wlii.li has all the advantages of both h: rd and soft wheat tlours, is !? ,-r than either, and decidedly super r to any other blend hereto ___ fore produced. One price at nil Jailers j Fisher's BLEND ' FLOUR DO YOU TAKE IT? The Daily Empire publishes all the news, all the time IT IS CLEAN, UP-TO-DATE, PROGRESSIVE One Dollar per Month Delivered by Carrier in Juneau, Douglas and Tread well TRY IT AND YOU WILL KEEP IT