THE IMG OF
MROEN TRUCK
Washington, D. C. March 2—
Uarcen truck, the second largest
crop. .11 tile point of value, grown
in the I'li:ted States, is raised ou
but two per cent of tut land espec
ially adaptable lor that purpose
and most of the remaluing 98 per
cent is idle. Dr. F. K. Cameron,
: io u of soils, who knows
wort about dirt t'lan any other
man in the country, has reached
i is i • .o.ou uud he says that the
it i ved is not for more ex
:.-!is:vo gardening l>ut for better I
. tllaes at te minals. The
tarn-r heiw eeu tee city dweller |
an! a m.-Sc cf greeu pens is to be
r. m vou b\ fiuauce rather than by
farming.
■" i ho finest garden soil in the
worlu U a sandy loam, usually not
vi.-ry jrvoil for gentr»i farming,"
s.;:d the expert recently in discuss
:: t.:e question, "and laud of this
atui-o sketches all the way from
Xtu K uiand to Texas. Transporta
'ion to maiket is the biggest prob
lem. In New York, Chicago, St.
Louis and other big c'.*ies, the prob
lem is much more the same and it
is being attackde from two angles. |
The cuv people are turning back I
to the so'l and engineers are devis
ing new a' thods of qukk transpor
tation. "
Dr. Cameron was moved to this
comment in view of a recent story
from New York that aa agricultur
lst tiiere had devised a new meth
od of fori'ug vegetable growth by
applying rbouic acid gas" di
rect to ih- eartn. The government
'.as made several experiments of
this uatuie but has produced no
unusual- tesults. Certain other
■uethod*. however, result in abnor
larg? vegetables but these
.^!y without any economic
"Pig v.^etables do not save any
thing. because there is plenty of j
room to gi-ow truck," explained the j
•. xpe-t. "The best land for this
purpose is a sandy loam, because
it rr. i bo controlled °asy and work
ed nice'.v. A soil analysis will j
•- o\ : e :>;oper fertilizer, and land, :
like must'U'. improves in strength j
and .'TO ivity when properly us- ■
od."
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PHAT'" ~ d give your liver a shake.
... Keller Bros. Drug Co.
t rior passengers, one for
se and the other t'or Daw
it out ou this morning s
JOST A FEW NECESSITIES:
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! Just a few of the Needful Articles *
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' 8 and 12 inch Rubber Packs—Hip Boots *
Miners' Leather Shoes *
Large Size Heavy Wool Blankets +
' Heavy Wool Sox Sheep Lined Moccasins J
Fur, Wool, and Leather Lined Mitts *
| Heavy Wool Underwear===Blanket Lin 3d J
Coats and Pants and Sweaters *
Fur and Cloth Caps +
I 7 x 9 and 8x10=3 ft- Wall 10 oz. Duck Tents +
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, IN FACT, WE HAVE EVERYTHING *
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J CEPTION of Groceries and Hardware *
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H. J. LYNCH J
The Up To Date Haberdasher
and Ladies' Furnisher
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Provides For $35,000,000 Ap
propriation, With No Bond
Issue. Up to House.
Washington, March 'i—The Alas
ka bill conference committee is to ;
report today and it is expected that i
which will give President Wilson ;
an opportunity to consider the bill
tomorrow.
Washington, March 3—Late this
afternoon the senate passed the
conference report of t;ie Alaska bill,
which provides for a JOp.OOO.OUO ap
propriation, with no bond issue.it I
llso provides that the interstate |
commerce commission has no juris
diction over any railway line which
the government operates, but does
if the road is leased.
It also provides for land for a
right of way and for terminal pur
poses.
The bill now roes to the house
i'or concurrence.
AVER WINS THE
SOLOMON DERBV
Nome, Alaska, March 3—Fred
Ayer's dog team todav won the Sol
omon d^rby in six hours, thirtj
minutes and four seconds. John
Johnson, the winner of last year's
race, came in second.
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Washiugton, March. 3—Col. G.
W. Goeihals, of the Panama Canal,
and Secretary of the Interior Frank
lin K. Lane held a long confer
ence yesterday over the method of
construction and the preparation
of final drafts of tentative agree
ments.
Washington, March 3—President
Wilson said today that he believes
the country's power warrants peace,
and thus, although the Mexican
situation is serious, he did not
want intervention.
New York, March 3—Thirty three
members of the deniocratio state
committee und many Tammany men
unanimously, voted 'oday to put in
to effect Governor Glynn's reor
ganization plans.
coins
Tiie smallest and most compact
cooking outfit is a combination elec
trict set which consists or an elec
tric stove, a chafing dish, a tea sam
over, a coffee percolator, and a
nursery outfit.
Tiie six-inch electric stove serves
for all tht devices which are made
espclally 'o fit it. This stove is
connected to the ordinary electric
light socket by a long flexible cord.
When the electricity is snapped on
the stove gets hot. This heat is
caused by a resistance grid conceal
ed within the base cf the stove.
The passage of electric current thru
this grid produces the heat.
With this cfltnbination stove an
entire meal, and a lr.rge one at
that, can be cooked right on the
dining room table. The coffee pot,
tea pot, cooker, stove, etc., all roll
ed into one. This device can be
operated from the lamp socket and
consumes no more current than an
ordinary incandescent lamp.
Dortero & Son, gents furnishers,
expect to get moved onto their new
quarters on the eastside of Broad
way, between Fourth and Fifth
streets, by the 15*li of the present
month.
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JV£W GARDEN SkEDS
We handle FERRY'S and MAN
DEVILLE & KING seeds; the seeds
that helped make Skagway justly
famous for its flowers and vege
tables. For the convenience of
those wishing to plant indoors,
we will place these seeds on sale
beginning Friday morning Feb. 20th.
An extra ten cent package given
with every dollar purchase.
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WILL BUILD WINGDANI I
10 PROTECT THE TOWN
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Town Council Takes Action In
Matter That Has Long
Needed Attention
The Skagway town council held
its regular meeting last night, May
or Ganty and all the couucilmen be
ing present.
Roll call.
Minutes of previous meeting read
and approved.
A resolution was adopted desig
nating the town hall a3 the polling
place at the coming town election
on April 7th.
The report of the special com
mittee appointed to inspect the wa
ter supplv of the Home Power com
pany was read and on motion ac
cepted and ordered placed on file.
Report of city treasurer, showing
a balance of $8,847 cash on hand,
was read, approved and ordered
filed.
On motion the town marshal was
instructed to prepare a list of all
business places in towu which are •
carried on without a merchandise
license and to turn '• over to the
city clerk, who was in turn instruct
ed to forward the same to the clerk
of the district court at Juneau.
On motion the judiciary commit- j
tee was instructed to take the nec- I
essary steps to dissolve the in-!
junction case brought against the j
town several years ago by the |
North Pacific Wharvc-s & Trading j
Co., and which is still pending on ;
the records, although the complain-'
ant campany is no longer In ex- I
istence.
NHS COUPLE!
IIS STOCK IB
New York, N. Y., March 3—
The Playground and Recreation
Association of America has just
completed its annual stock taking.
Blanks to be filled out to give an
adequate idea of recreation activ
ities were sent to every community
of 5,000 or over in the United State
and Canada and to every city un
der 5,000, which had indicated to
the Association that some effort
towards public recreation had been
made. Ten hundred and fifty cities
responded and the result is a com
prehensiv survey of recreation in
America today.
There was a full attendance of
members last night a* the regular
weekly practice of the Skagway
brass band. By next week it is
hoped to have a lot of new books
on hand.
Subscribe for the Daily Alaskan.
The following bills were read, ap
>roved and ordered paid:
Home Power Co $279.90
Daily Alaskan 7.80
Wm. Britt 25
Alaska Gen. Elec.Co 9.00
John Johnson (assigned to
5*. Page) 3.75
Alaska Transfer Co. .. .. 1.50
Martin Itjeu 10.89
Frye Rruhn Co 11.25
i W. P. & Y. Ry 2.50
The matter of constructing a wing
lam across the valle- at 18th St.,
o turn the waters of the river
icross the valley to the west side
;vas taken up and tho committee j
>n public works instructed to pro
;eed at once 'o get the work un
ler way.
The committee on public works
was also instructed to repair the
wagon bridge across the river at
16th St., to put in now piers and
o renew the superstructure where j
* was deemed necessary.
Upon motion the fire and water
x>mmlttee was instructed to lay a
>ipe connecting the spring owned by
;he city with the water mains, a
iistance of about 100 feet, for the
purpose of testing the flow
Hid - pressure 'from tfte spring
In case of an emergency. As the
ground is now frozen it was de
sided to lay the pipe en the sur
face at present, and later to ex
cavate and place it in the ground
it the same depth as the iftains.
New York, March 3 —There is no
ibatemeut today in the blizzard
which has been ragin? here for the
>ast 24 hours. Ten deaths have
jeen reoorted so far and a food
amine threatens.
Step Up
And Get
Real Tailoring!
You particular fellows who don't care
to pay high prices should take time to
investigate our custom-tailoring de
partment. If you want
Thoroughly High-Grade
Made-To-Measure Clothes
we can satisfy you in style, pattern
and price, for we'll send % your meas
urements and description to
C J \ / DC P Merchant Tailors
hd. V. rrice & Lo. Chicago, u. s. a.
and get the cream of custom-tailoring. Ask to see our book of
Spring Samples for 1914
WILL CLAYSON—Clothier
Washington, D. C., March 2—The
'back to the soil" movement'still
las plenty of room to grow accord
ng to figures just made public by
lie Department of Agriculture which
ihow that there are today 833,000,
)00 acres of tillable land in the
Unite' States which iis never been
urned bv a plow, in fact, only
wenty seven per cen» of the land
>f this country capable of being
'armed is now • under cultivation
fho remaining 73 per cent does
lot include 61,000,000 acres which
ire non-tillable but valuable for
mature or fruit growing.
The most thoroughly cultivated
states are Illinois and Iowa where
'or every acre tilled there is 1-6
intilled. Indiana is next with 'a
ratio of one to 1.8; in New York
t is one acre tilled to 2.4 untill
?d, and that proportion is general
Lhroughout New England. Arizona
has *he greatest proportion of un
billed land, having 76.7 available
icres idle for every acre on which
:rops are now raised. Iun Nev.r
Mexico it is one to 31.2; in Nevada
Jne to 28.3 and in Montana one to
25. California's rating shows one
o 6.1.
The entire United States, ex
cluding foreign territory contains
ibout 1,900,000,000 acres. Of this
about 60 per cent or 1,114,000,000
icres is estimated to be tillable
including that which, though not till
able at present, may be made so
L»y clearing, irrigating or draining.
About nineteen per cent is fit on
ly for fruit or forage crops.and 21
per cent will probably never bo of
my use from an agricultural stand
point.
GILL lOM
Seattle, Wash., March 3—The
city election is being held here to
lay and although cold and rainy
voters appear to be turning out up
to the average. Predictions are
being made that Hi Gill will bo
Dlected.
Philadelphia, March 3—Thirteen
ieaths have been reported hare
since the present blizzard commenc
ed, and in nearby sections thous
ands are suffering from the ex
treme cold.