The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 8, 1926, Page 2

Let Us Wrap Your Packages For Mailing SPECIAL CHRISL Coals=Dresses =Accessories= THE DAILY ALASKA EMPl ™ i 4 ¥ * WEDNESDAY, DEC. 8, Rl Ao ' aAS SALES 1926. Let Us Wrap Your Packages For Mailing Gift Suggestions COSY LOUNGIN BEUTIFULLY COATS AT DECEMBER sale that is a Christmas gift in itself —including all our Coats. and resent hig savings please her more than mas. Many colors tailored styles. DRESSES You will be delighted with the models immense Holiday range in ~l\lu from pretty home Frocks we are offering at tions during this to llw street costume Dress in the house. GLOVES line of Kid Gloves We are showing in small sizes only. $1.00 A STYLED SWEATERS looking Sweaters. Blue, Orange, REDUCTIO! $12.50 EACH NEW BAGS You will not go wrong as far as All prices rep- nothing would a Coat for Christ- fur trimmed and gift if you choose one of the new bags. $4.00 to $6.75 UMBRELLAS reduc- They price Sale. : in all colors. and include every short handl .75 to $20.00 BOUTONIERS In very bright colors 50 cents and 75 cents CHRISTMAS BOXES PAIR 5¢—10¢—15¢—20c TOYS B. M. BEHRENDS CO.,, Inc. I s S S ALASKA FOR PULP R R D D USSR How States, plo many people of the United let alone pulp and, paper peo * the Southeastern por v shows an average nowinter warmer, and sler, than the low.s tue state of New Wil Lot even venture to guess. Alas kan exhibits of Natives in furs National and International Fairs, in the Movies of the Notrhland, no doubt responsible in large meas ure for this incorrect understanding How many people in the Pulp and Paper Manufacturing business know that there is enough pulp wood in Alaska to perpetually supply the ton nage of newsprint now m,ulv iu erican mills? Who says Government of the United \Idl:-n of | America has issued Bulletins on this subject, and the Forestry of your Uncle Sam's business ha complete records of the Government owned timber in Alaska to prove this. And the Good Lord seems to have it all figured out that newsprint should some day be made in Alaska for He provided, in addition to the pulp wood, water powers of hizh de gree with which to produce the pulp Uncle Sam’s employes have kept a record of the run-off at many points for the past ten years and, same instances, complete topographical maps are available, the results of many months of rveys, to prove that these powers really exist - hui- dreds of thousands of continuous horgepower. Alaska is not a perpetual refriger ator, as many think. It gets coole in winter than in summer, of course. It does this everywhere the world | over, almost, but the Ocean passages and inlets never freeze, and trans. portation to all Southeastern kan ports is open the year around. In winter, the days are short, the nights long, on account of being #0 far North, but this sam econdition applies everywhere in this same lati- tude the world over. However, the sar'e Japan Current that keeps the t~mperature of Portland, Oregon, Se- atile, Washigton, and Vancouver, Bri tish Columbia, ahove zero during th: also York? I} Am-| The | Department | Alas- | ¢ and | JUNEAU Just received a shipment of very good and Lavender plaids in Silk and Wool. ing the very latest style and a practical Tan, Brown, Grey and Black. Just received a shipment of Umbrellas Ten and sixteen ribs and Green ciate for and good wear. Satin—in Blue, select- Hand- Every woman v pair of - Silk colors and a ver what you want. sl $1.35 to $3.50 Rose. hand embroidered. I[ll.\'i‘. ROBES A gift that every woman will appre- izs comfort, warmth, usefullness They are of a quilted Pink and Red—also All sizes. $20 and $25 SILK HOSE vill be delighted with a A wide variety of y desirable price range which makes it easier for you to find just HANDKERCHIEFS Handkerchiefs ¢ whole Tamily 35 cents LEADING DEPARTMENT STOREL either per acre, or section or And, the climate is so| far ahead of Ontario and Quebec | that they cannot he considered in | the same class The distance from the large paper consuming markets of the United | States, is not so great as one might think. It is only a day or two far-| ther away by steamer, than the far- the th Puly d Paper mill now ope ing at Ocean Falls, B. (', now shipping paper to all countries of the world. It is a day farther v from Powell River, than from Ocean Falls. | lumbia Alaska is probably three weeks to But the summers are cool, and the|® month away from New York by [days are long. The longest day in| Steamer. and a shorter distance from i the Southern States, many of which the year not so many miles north of | | Juneau, the sun shines full 24 hours,| 2'€ oW being supplied from British {and the people do not know when m‘ Columbia 20 to bed. They work by the clock,] "' more can [ say? eat by the clock, but then seem.!erested in a perpetual wood should laok “to forget the clock, and seem never|PulR sleep. and. move quickly. Wildflowe TP *T | work overtime. 1 never saw prettier SEN M’KlNLEY N : wildflowers anywhere, nor ate better sirawberries, even in Oregon where PASSES AWAY; \ | | they are supreme. . The sunsets when there are any, wre heautiful to say the least. I have ot command of words to paint their Senator from Illinois Dies in| Sanitarium—20 Years in Congress. with this Alaska npulp wood in quantity in quality. o | winier, touches on this lower Alaska lcoast as well, to the end that from [the Notrthern British Columbia lin= to and North of Juneau, Alaska, the [winter is mild and with the exception lof occasional snows and a few hovering above zera, the climate about the same as in British Co Those in supply of into Alaska to in fact all vegetation, | beauty Of course, too but t i wonderful ke the power: of all needed plant food, trees— pulp wood. Not all kinds of trees. but lots of them. Only two kinds of pulp woor gro win Alaska—spruce and hem- lock. and practically no other khuls" of tred e to be found. Probably over the Mississippi mver at St. ‘not aver 2 per cent of the total are | Louis, one of thé most costly electric | of other species, chiefly cedar, no fir ! railway structures in the world. but a little scrub pine, { “Uncle Joe" Cannon and his broth- it rains—and some rain, what keeps up the| and rivers, feeding| A4 supplying that most moisture for (Continuea trom Pnge One) Roosevelt | — Trees from 12 inches to 36 inches|er, William, also bankers, owned the t th cstump, and 100 to 200 feet|Danville street railways which they itall, on a fringe of 1000 feet to 3 sold to the McKinley interests and riiles from the wataer's edge, and the!which eventually were chiefly dis- snow line is probably 1000 feet above | pased of to the Studebaker and other the water. It is easy to log, easy \ullllflhun. interests. - aft or load on barge or scow. Easy Worked for Taft {to tow and easy to look upon. Be-| Always a regular Republican, from ides, the Government will be easy|“standpatter” times to “farm bloc” on the first people who umdertake days, McKinley directed the adminis- 1to go into business in the Territory.. tration campaign far the re-nomina- to use this wonderful product of the tion of President William Howard | Northland l'rnn in 1912 when the Rooseveltians | 1 have been over many sectiong of|split the Republican party. British Columbia, Qutario, and Qua-| McKinley idsued a statement de- | hec provinces. There is nothing that|scribing Roosevelt as an “Ajax def! {1 have seen up that way to compareling the lightning,” and denied the ) charges of stolen conve tion seats. He challenged Rooseveit to come from his Oyster Bay, N. Y home to the storm cent Chicago, and predicted an unsuc sful bolt from the Republican part Roose velt accepted the challenge and soon after his arrival in Chicago, hi herents left the party jand organized the Progressiv Bull Moos convention and nomin ated Roosevelt for the presidency The defeat of both Roosevelt and Taft by Woodrow Wilson, the Demo- cratic nominee, took McKinley down to defeat in his home district and he was out of Congresst in 1913 and 1914, He was again elected house, however, and in 1921 w elected to the Senate by a few thous and votes—the votes of women—over Col. Smith, who finally defeated him in 1926. Beside owning transportation lines. McKinley believed that he was the greatest traveler in the United States. Great Traveler He had traveled 1,500,000 miles in twenty-five years——more than a mil- 4 to the | ire the ideal gift for the White and all colors. to $2.75 a box lion miles of the total in nine years including thirty trips across the lantic, th journeys around world, seve VOYAES across Pacific ocean and to South Amer N a dozen trips to Cuba and Panama, and had visited every country in the world except Russia and Turkey Senator McKinley was born in Pel- ersburg, 1, Sept. 6, 1856, the of a Preshyterian min He ed on the farm and spent two yea at the Univer: he became a trustee in 1902, At the age of 25, after he had gone into the banki and mortgage loan business with uncle, he began his public career by buildidg a water- stem in his home city of Champaign The Senator the g an supported President Coolidge’s advocacy of. and voted for. adherence of the United States to the world court Dublin - had a successful Baby | Week in which all parties cooperated in devising measures for improving the health of Irish children. —— - Lewls's Hats are newost. adv. i LT ALASKA MEAT CO. Wholesale and PHONE 39 Retail Butchers SEWARD STREET WINTER 1S IIERE BE PREPARED FOR WARM QUARTERS We are at your service always. Ask us for our winter rates, make arrangements and then call us up and we will move you and your baggage free of charge. HOTEL G ASTINEAU —_— e ) HERE HE COMES Now is the.time to order coal. We also carry a full line of Feed —and our motto is to buy the best. This is our secret of so many sat- isfied customs. If you have been using ivst ordivary coal then we invii~ you to give our’'s a trial. And ur transfer service O G O My D. B. FFMMFR Phone 114 Ask any boy what kind of a sled he wants, he will FLEXIBLE FLYER and nothing else ALSO A COMPLETE STOCK OF say a Snow Skates — Ski Ice Creepers Shovels— Snow s—Skate Straps—Yulkon Sleds—Side Walk Scrapers— Skate Sharpeners Juneau-Young Hardware Co. PHONE 12 “IT IT'S HARDWARE WE HAVE IT” (h,. H son work- | | ty of Illinois, of which | | H Juneau Lumber Mills, Inc. VERTICAL GRAIN HEMLOCK FLOORING VERTICAL GRAIN SPRUCE BOAT LUMBER LUMBER—MOULDINGS—LIME—CEMENT FIRE CLAY—SHINGLES ARE YOUR RECORDS PROTECTED? J.B.Burford MPKINS CO. PRINTING anp STATIONERY ~ # See us for FANCY STATIONERY, FOUNTAINS PENS, [ EVERSHARP PENCILS . OFFICE SUPPLIES Phone 244 Front Street Juneau, Alaska CONFECTIONS Candles, Ice Creams, Sherbets, Punch. Made in Juneau, Alaska. Flmer E. Smith Factory, Phone No. 16. Candy Maker, T. E. Hall, Phone No. b637. | ROCK FILL Let us give you an estimate on a Rock Fill for your Water- front Property. We are now making a Rock Fill of 6,000 yards under the Standard 0il Wharf at a price which is far cheaper than repiling. The addition of a Mack 21, ton truck, automatic dump to our equipment enable us to do this. We maintain an efficient and prompt delivery service of Coal, Baggage and General Dray Work. Kindling—75 cents per sack delivered, We have a quantity of empty boxes and barrels which are ideal for Packing, No job too small or too large but will rcceive our prompt attention. SWEET—FRESH COLE TRANSFER “WE MOVE ANYTHING LOOSE AT ONE END” PHONE 3442 ALASKAN HOTEL MODERN REASONABLE RATES Dave HouseL, prop. l THE ALASKA RAILROAD throughout the year operates regutrar passenger and freight train service from Seward on the Coast to Fairbanks in the Interior, and over the Chickaloon and Chatanika branches. During the winter months there are two passenger trains each way, weckly, between Seward and Fairbanks. For timetables and other. in- formation inquire of any steamship or railroad agent, or write Dept. of the Inmterior THE ALASKA RAILROAD [§ ¢ lclmlcy ru-k Route) Anchorage