ALASKA STATIONS MAKING
GOOD; SOIL PRODUCTIVE
Washington.—The popular concep-i
tion of Alaska as a frozen, inhospita
ble wilderness for agricultural pur
poses is giving way to a more favor
able view as the result of experi
ments carried on by the agricultural
experiment stations of the Territory,
says the United States Department of
Agriculture, which has supervision of
the stations. Even as late as 1899 it
was considered,: an impossibility for
cereals to grow so' far north, .accord
ing to I Ruitetin No- l, “Cereal Grow
ing in Alaska,'’•■ky C. ('. Georgeson
..and G. W. tJ; acser, start' officials of
the Alaska experiment stations.
The. Yukon. Tanam. anti Matanuska
valley s.have fully demonstrated their
j.!-ap,lability to grain growing, and it
s probable.that the Si -.m and Kus
: >Vw'm -valleys'also'ea e suited for
gra' . cultivation-mi.! -b»rg e scale. By
using hardy,- early-mate: ing varieties
of barley, oats and spring wheat - a
considerable quantity hi' these grains
s now produced. On th- other hand,
Southeastern Alaska, as*, a -whcde, is
not suited to grain growing because
heavy precipitation in date summer
and fail renders it difficult to harvest
the crops in good conidtion. Further
more, there aTe no extensive areas in
this part of the Territory which can
be cleared and cultivated at a mod
erate cosi
Hybridization work with barley and
oats has developed varieties superior
' to those formerly grown. Hybrid
■wheats obtained by crossing Siberian '
No. 1, the earliest wheat so far dis
covered, wnth vigorous varieties are
expected to be better yielders than
the Siberian parent and almost as1
early. As yet there has. been devel
oped no winter whtai sufficiently
hardy to withstand the severity of
Alaskan winters.
A copy of tha bulletin may lie ob
‘ tained free,’ us long as the supply
i lasts, by writing to the United States
Department i>f Agriculture, Washing-1
ton, D. O. (Office of Exp. Stations.)
MONEY RAISED FOR RESTORA
TION OF “OLD IRONSIDES”
Boston.—Half the money needed for
restoration of “Old Ironsides” has
t>een assured, according to Rear Ad
miral Philip'..Andrews^ chairman of
the national committee conducting the
campaign to rebuild the historic fri
gate, U» f>; S.TConstitution.
A Anally S202,.>10.30 has been de
ed with the national treasurer.
Aim New York-committee, however,
has on deposit $20,COO collected from
school children in that cit}. Wash-|
ingtori has $3,000.04, San Francisco i
$3,500, Evanston, 111., SI,500, and Los;
Angeles. $4,000 ,n.- more. From vari-!
- other sourc. s the committee has j
. t-oii- assured .of. amounts that will
bring the total up to just over $250,
000.
1 sPv the opposition of the
- i3 disappearing. The
. .ji.ool board is the latest
an exception in the case of i
: cic'es,”. and suspended their
»> : aase they believe in its patri
ahd educational value.
’ d, St. Louis, Kansas City,
I dianapolis, Atlanta, Chi
.1; Lake, B’ Ealo and many
aces have . ■ - to have their
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Pool Hallj
Fresh Fruits
Gandiesj
-Tobaccos
Pipes |
Cigarettes
Soft Drinks |
Cigarette Holders j
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Geo. Mutchler
Proprietor
campaigns among the children. Ad
miral Andrews hopes that before the
snow flies the “Old Ironsides” move
ment will be in full swing in those
cities.
With the exception of Boston, New
York and Philadelphia, no appeal has
been made to the adult population. It
has been essentially a children’s af
fair, and it is the desire <.f the Navy
Department to ultimately offer each
child in the nation the opportunity to
do its bit in saving this historic trea
sure.
GUARDING UNITED STATES
PRESIDENTS NOT EASY TASK
Indianapolis. — Guard > g United
States Presidents is no y task, and
one of the reasons is that some of the
chief executives elude their escorts.
So states Thomas E. 11 alls, chief of
the Indianapolis district, who after (55
years in the secret service will retire
next month, at the at of 82. The
Captain was body guai ti six Presi
dents.
President Wilson wa - wholly indif
ferent as to .-his safe.. Roosevelt
scoffed -at danger, and frequently
eluded his guard for the pleasure of
being alone. On one occasion his
body guard, after a frantic search,
found him walkin unattended
through a Washington tenemr .it dis
trict.
Harrison, Cleveland. McKinley and
laft were the other Pi sklents whom
Halls served as body guard. Taft was
the easiest of the six to guard be
cause he followed roll' - mapped out
by the secret service ; i schedules of
public appearance. McKinley, like
Wilson, was indifferei ' to danger,
while Harrison, and (T eland some
times chafed under i. • om. taut at
tendance.of secret sec re ojiwratives.
Because of illness Halls was unable
to make the trip to P ilfalu with the
Presidential party on the fateful oc
casion when McKinb was shot to
death by Czolgosz. (' ilgosz was in a
queue of visitors.shaking hands with
ihe President, and as ame his turn
to greet. McKinley, tir 1 from a pistol
hidden in a kerchief L Hind around his
hand.
“Had I been there 1 ! Mieve my pre
cautions would have averted the. trag
edy,” Halls reminesced. He explained
that instead of one guard at the Pres
ident’s elbow then . should have been
two, one on eithei ski..
As it was, Mit assassin, screened
by a large mail in-front of him, was
abreast of the President before he
came under the eyes of the operative
standing on McKinley’s left. A guard
to the right would have seen the hand
kerchief-wrapped hand before Czol
gosz was near McKinley, Halls said.
Always during his years as guard.
; Halls watched for persons with ban
; daged hands, or others carrying any
thing in their hands. Suspicious per
: sons were searched without their
! knowledge. An operative would brush
. against them and run his hands swift
ly over their pockets.
Once in Kokomo, Ind., Taft was en
: lering the speaker’s stand when a
man broke through the crowd and
, rushed toward the President. Halls
dove at his legs, and with a football
| tackle carried him off the platform.
! Both tumbled on the ground. It de
| veloped that the man was a personal
friend of Taft.
Halls became a memoer of the se
\ cret service in 18(11, and with the ex
ception of a term as United States
; marshal in Illinois has been continu
! ously in the work. After joining the
| Union army at 17 he was assigned to
i secret service operation because of his
‘ youthful appearance.
A resident of thelditarod district
i recently paid an airplane company
I seven hundred dollars for transporta
i tion for himself and wdfe between
j Flat and Fairbanks, from which lat
j ter place they came to Anchorage by
\ rail, at a cost of nearly another hun
j dred dollars, and two days’ additional
! time. Which is just a reminder of
the opportunity Anchorage is over
looking in not having direct air com
munication with points in the In
terior. Those residents of remote in
terior districts who desire to come to
Anchorage and who are willing to pay
; for aerial transportation, shoult not
be compelled to make the journey by
a circuitous and time-consuming
route.—Anchorage Times.
Two Birds \\ ilh One Stone.
Larry—Do you get a vacation this
year ?
Les—Yes, the wife’s going away for
a month.—Alistop Recorder.
PROFESSIONAL
Mrs. Jean McLean
Notary Public
Tokotna, Alaska
i Du Rand’s !
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! Cafe and j
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Flat City i
ALASKA’S FUR PRODUCTION
NEARLY HUNDRED MILLION
Seattle.—Furs shipped from Alaska
to the United States since its pur
chase, in 1807, have been appraised at
: $98,000,000. The value of last year’s
‘ output was $3,000,000
Ninety per cent of the world’s fur
seal, are in a herd owned hy the
United States Governm* nt in the Pri
bilof islands, off the coast of Alaska.
The herd numbers.approximately 700 -
000. Government sales of fur skin?
during the fiscal year ended June. 30,
1924, totaled $528,823.
Doping the Moron
“I don't know what's got into that
young clerk of mine these days. 1
can’t get any work out of him.”
‘‘That’s no! surprising. Spring may
quicken the sap in the trees, but ir
slows up the sap in the office.”—Bos
ton Transcript.
DAUGHTERS LOST FlfWT FOf
SHARE OF CLARK ESTA37
Boise.—A district court just: -re
turned a verdict today in favor of th<
estate of tne late Senate* W. -A
Clark, in tiu contest instituted b>
j three women who claimed they wer<
; daughters and entitled to u share o'
the $-17,000,000 estate.
The jury found that, there had beer
no marring, between Clark and Ta
hatha C. Brooks, mother of the three
claimants, and declared itself satisfied
with evidence- of -the marriages of
Clark to Kate Stauffer and to Anne
Laehapoll*', arid of the blood reiation
: ship between Clark and his five chil
i dren resuitring from tnese marriages
The contc-tnnts have .announced
that they will appeal.
A-e you a subscriber to The Kuskr
Times? Why not?
VOTE FOP
Thomas A. Marguam'
Independent Candidate for Delegate
to Congresp *
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If elected, he will sr» t something for Alaska besides unfavorable j
and I also notoriety by the public press of the United States, £
Paid Ad\ t. j:
ALASKA RIVERS NAVIGATION
COMPANY
Operating: Light Draught Steam ei*
On the Kuskokwim.
Capt. Wallace Langley, Manager.
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Candidate for Re-electior
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Thrice elected, he has served vo,, ' u rms,
faithfully, const.ic ' ord
proves him an Alaskan wno works for
Alaska. Keep him there. Show your
appreciation of h Torts—do this
Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 2,1926
Paid Advt.
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