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: JUNEAU LIQUOR COMPANY, Inc. 'i ? O ? We have for the table the \ \ J CRESTA BLANCA AND EL DORADO WINES ? ? FINE OLD BRANDY AND SCOTCH ? J Tel. 9-1 RYE AND BOURBON F:??tst. 1 I OPERA LIQUOR CO., inc. I ? Thos. H. Ashby. Pres. A. G. Bays, Sec.-Treas. J COR. SEWARD AND SECOND STREETS J I I ? finest Straight Whiskies Cigars That Everybody Likes to Smoke f ? ? | A RESORT FOR GENTLEMEN t ALASKA MEAT COMPANY John lieck. Mgr. Wholesale and Retail Butchers Manufacturers of all Kinds of Sausajres 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. f : COAL WOOD | STORAGE t x t X Moving: Carefully Done ? X l?ai;ir;ijrt? Our Lour Suit ? ? FRONT STREET ? i Next door to Raymond Co. ? Watkins S Gerdon ? ? EXPERT BLACKSMITHS ? t and IRON WORKERS X ? ? ? General Blacksmithing. Horse- ? + Shoeing. Iron and Marine Work X X Estimates Furnished and J ? Work Guaranteed ? ? ? X FRANKLIN STREET ? 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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 I Latest Novelties in Tobacco Jars and Pipe Racks at Burford's An Eastern View of the Alaska Coal Question The Chicago later-Ocean discusses i' Alaska matters in the following edi torial strain: "D. M. Stewart, of Seward, Alaska, writes informingly in a recent issue of the San Francisco Call of the needs of that territory, whose material devel i opuient has practically stood still for seven years because Mr. Roosevelt had bad dreams about 'Guggenheims,' j and the 'conservationists' have never since been willing to give Alaska a chance to grow unless they could pre scribe the pattern. "The proof of Alaska's industrial and commercial stagnation is seen when figures are compared. Alaska's trade with the mainland in 1011 was $55,924,404,000. Her average trade for the years 1004-1011 was $55,802,077. When a country of Alaska's enormous natural resources fails to show any more increase of business than- the fig ures of 1011 show when compared with the eight-year average it is evident that somo exterior force Is holding that country back. "What has caused Alaska's recent troubles, according to Mr. Stewart, was the circulation and wide-spread acceptance of a yarn to the effect that there were just two good coal fields in Alaska, which 'certain grasping, greedy 'malefactors' of New York had conspired to gobble up. to tlje ever lasting Injury of the shivering resi dents of Alaska and the eternal im poverishment of the American peo pie.' Most of us remember the cry of alarm that was raised and how Mr. Roosevelt responded by withdrawing from entry every inch of coal land in Alaska. "The residents of Seward are now paying $17 a ton for British Columbia coal when within 150 miles of them are enormous supplies of better coal which could be laid down at their doors at a good profit at $5 to $6 per ton, if they were only allowed to mine it. Such a situation Is beyond even the imagination of a comic playright. It had to happen in jrder to be be lieved, even on t he farce-comedy stage. "It Is quite possibly true that cer tain men of great wealth sought to gain possession of valuable coal de posits in Alaska. But in stopping bo called 'malefactors' to whom he hap pened to have a particular aversion, Mr. Roosevelt forgot all about the thousands of men of very Hmall means in Alaska who wanted and needed Alaska coal. "Mr. Stewart says that public senti ment in Alaska favors a rational leas ing system of coal lands as the ex pedient course under present condi tions. Alaska should certainly be per mitted to mine and use her own coal. The further continuance of the dead lock of the past seven years would be i simply idiotic. No wonder that born Americans in Alaska openly advocate j secession and annexation to Canada." The Seal Islands and How ! 1 They Were Despoiled The acquisition ol" the seal islands? or rather the leasing ot' the real rook eries by the Alaska Commercial Co., reads like a romance. The 1'riby lov islands, which compose the fain , ous seal rookeries, were discovered by a Russian man-of-war, during the Rus sian occupation of Alaska. When the United States took over Alaska from the Russians, an officer in the Russian navy, who was on board the warship which found the seal rookeries, thought he saw an opportunity to make some money, and he did. He is now living on the fat of the land in I San Francisco. The officer left his warship and pro ceeded to the Golden Gate city. To the Slosses he told of the seal rooker ies. saying that if they would declare him in on the profits which might be gained through the sale of seal skins, he would pilot one of their vessels to the scene. The offer was readily ac cepted by the Slosses. In 1S69 a vessel left San Francisco harbor, ostensibly enroute to the Sand wich islands, but in reality bound for the seal rookeries. The Itiissinn naval o.'llcer was aboard. The Pribylov isl ands were reached in due time, and the rookeries were there, as the Rus sian had claimed. The Alaska Commercial company was formed by San Francisco people, and by the aid of the Califoria dele gation in Congress, a twenty-year lease was obtained by it to the seal isl ands. The company was allowed to kill as many seal as it wished, for which it paid the government $2 per skin royalty. Of course no attention was paid to the matter in Congress, as Alaska was considered of no importance anyway. , TREASURY PAYS FOR BURNT MONEY ? The last .Mariposa brought a pack | age containing $300 in bills for James I ? Fish, jr., savs the Valdez Prospector. * I I ? The money was to replace that lost I by him at the time of the destruction ? I of his home by fire last December. ? The bills were all rolled up and in ' Mr. Fish's deck, and after the fire the mass of charred mazuma was care ' fully gathered tip. placed in a tin box, surrounded by cotton-batting and sent to the Treasury at Washington, D. C. It required only a few days for the department to decide to reimburse Mr. Fish for his loss. BRIQUETTES FROM ALASKA LIGNITE COAL A company has been formed with a capital of $235,000 for the purpose of manufacturing briquettes from the vast Alaska deposits of lignite coal. The incorporators of the company are Henry Sundermeier. a wealthy Ger man capitalist of St. Paul, Minn., and Willie Summerville Royle, of London, representing English capital. CLAIM PIG SERUM CURES TUBERCULOSIS MINNEAPOLIS. Feb. 19?After thir teen years of research work. Dr. J. H. Burgan, of Minneapolis, has discov ered a tuberculosis cure which a news paper, the Daily News, today claims rivals that recently announced by Dr. Frederick Franz Friedmann of Ber lin. Healthy pigs furnish the serum pro vided in Dr. Burgan's alleged cure. - This is injected in such a way, he as serts, as to strengthen the resistance of the cells in the body. Dr. Burgan asserts that the real cause for lung disease is weak resist ance of the body and insists that the only cure is to strengthen the resist ance so germs cannot live. Finest line of Calabash pipes in Alaska at BURFORD'S FOR SALE?Sled dog. young, well broken. Inquire Empire office. 2-17-3t. THE NEW YORK SLAVE MARKET NEW YORK, Feb. 11.?The exist once of a "white slave" gang thai sells girls for $25 or $.10 each tl owners or keepers of resorts in Chi cago was described to Judge Han& in Federal Court today by Assistant United States District Attorney Walk er, who moved for heavy sentences foi Frank Filasto, a wine merchant, and Joseph Ribuffo, a barber, of Pater, son, N. J., convicted of forcing a young woman to enter a resort in Paterson. Sentences were deferred pending decision on motions for a ne\t trial. According to Federal counsel, moi> ey order receipts are in the Govern ment's possession showing that "whit* slavers" here have received $12,000 for girls sent to Chicago. Telegram* mentioning names of victims, price* paid for them and agents who accom panied them West also are said to have been seized. Urigng the maximum penalty fol Filasto and Ribuffo, iMr. Walker told the court that a member of the gang has been arrested in Chicago and held in $3,000 bail there. The telegram* passed between the Chicago man and Filasto, Mr. Walker said, and he men tioned a West Side druggist, a physl cian and Joseph Mirno, now serving eight years as a "white slaver," as other members of the "ring." The Federal attorney told of a par ticular case where a 14-year-old girl was kidnaped, sent to Chicago and re covered a year later, when relatives signed a contract to pay $300 for her return. A copy of this contract is in the Government's hands, he said. Indictments will be sought against members of the gang who appeared in Federal Court at the trial of Filasto and Ribuffo and made "death signs" to Government witnesses. AN AFFAIR OF NATIONS SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 19.?Peter Pappas, Greek, and "Bob" Pasish, Turk, were discussing the Balkan sit uation. "You both bane crazy," said Hans Bundel, a Swede. Greek and Turk attacked the Swede. Case up j tomorrow. REGISTRATION NOTICE ! NOTICE is hereby given that the ! registration hooks for the Municipal - and School Election, to be held on the | first Tuesday in April, 1913, are now . open at the office of Sowerby & Hell, ? on Second street, between Seward \ and Main streets, between the hours , of 9 and 4 each business day. The ? books will be closed on Saturday the j 29th day of March, 1913. . J. W. BELL, Registration Officer. ) NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS I H NOTICE is hereby given that the de linquent tax list for year 1912-1913 will be published on or about Feb. 24, 1913. A. W. FOX, City Clerk. SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION CASE NO. 972-A IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE TERRITORY OF ALASKA, D.V. NO. 1, AT JUNEAU Charles Goldstein, Plaintiff, vs. Mrs. F. Lyons, also known as. Blanche Lyons, Defendant. TO Mrs. F. Lyons, also known as Blanche Lyons, defendant: In the name of the United States, and in ac-j COrdance with an order directing ser-j vice of summons In the above enti tled cause by publication mad< by' the above entitled court on the fourth day of February, 1913, you are hereby > summoned to appear and answer, in the above entitled court holden at Ju- ? neau, in said Division and Territory, within thirty (30) days after the 22nd day of March, 1913, the complaint of | Charles Goldstein, wherein he de mands Judgment against you in the sum of seventy-one dollnrs and nine ty-two cents ($71.92): with interest and ! costs incurred herein, and for want of an answer In the time above men tioned the plaintiff will take judg ment against you for the above amounts. IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the above entitled court this 4th day of Feb. 1913. E. W. PETTIT, Clerk. First publication Feb. 8tli, 1913; last publication March 22. 1913. 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The an alysis ranked Fisher's Blend Flour higher in Gen eral Average, Gluten Quality, Water Absorption and Loaf Value than the best Dakota alMJard Wheat Pat ent Flour, which is the recognized standard for bread stuff efficiency. Fisher's Blend Flour is a scientific combination of Eastern 1 lard Wheat and Western Soft Wheat, preserving the best qualities of each. It costs you from 20 to 25% less than a straight Eastern Hard Wheat Flour?does Fisher's Blend Flour For Sale by /III Dealers DO YOU TAKE IT? : . The Daily Empire publishes all the news, all the time ? I * t rr. '?? ? ? IT IS CLEAN, UP-TO-DATE, PROGRESSIVE t nf > ? One Dollar per Month Delivered by Carrier in Juneau, Douglas and Treadwell J i' TRY IT AND YOU WILL KEEP IT