The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 29, 1931, Page 5

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDA\\,, J: \\l 29, 1934. By (‘EOR(,E \[("\II\NUQ BRINGING UP*FATHER \ COAXED YOUR FATHER TO CALL ON)-DR-CUTTUR HES A SOCIAL LION - THEY'VE GOT TO BE FRIENDS - THE DOCTOR 15 QIVING A PARTY NEXT WEEK ANO 'M HORING To BE INWITED - Vs MOTHER - WHAT ARE YOL SO HAPPY HERE HE COMES NOW! HE LOOKS ANGRY - THAT SHOWS HE CALLED ON THE DOCTOR ANY \WAY - DID YOU HAVE A ] | DD AN NICE VIS\T WITH || VLU TELL THE DOCTOR ? THE \WORLD HoW DID HE HE DION'T | IS | ; DO ANY THE VISVT - TREATIN'- DECOTINT THE NEW HOT OR COLD WATER SANITARY WALL FINISH Decotint is an ideal wall coating for the decoration of all interiors. It gives that SOFT, VELVETY, WATER-COLOR effect so essential to refined sur- roundings, and can be applied on plaster v&all« wood, or any of the various wall boards. 55¢ per 5 pound package B Y Thomas Hardware Co. :ALBERTS TELLS Alds Desniu‘e ‘“MTTHEW WIISON lS AL L1V N SEATTLE where has been since last fall ! FUR FARMER IN TOWN 2 = = ) { They will not return North until Stk [ R P = : * | GUILTY OF ASSAULT| s = . Burke and tw [ next May M. J. Marrett, plonzer Alaskan, . : it e | ters expect to live most of the time R Fsindo W AN who has a fur farm on Lynn ABUUT ALAsKAN Matthew Wilson; said to be about|in the future in Seattle. They| JACK KEARNEY IN CHARGE | Canal, in Juneau on business. ! {15 yeasr old, was today found guil-|are passengers on the Queen. Mr. He is staying at the Alaskan Hotel. FARMING LANDS | ty of an assault with intent to|Burke, proprietor 1 ¢| Jack Kearney is acting resident L commit rape. The victim of the|Hotel at tka and |8 the Pacific Steamsh TRAVELiNG BACK ! attack was said to be eight years|will confinu ms his head- I in the absence of Ag John F. Chamb , “raveling | e y The trial of the case was started | frequent vi g i on nship Queen for % Monday. The Government com-| month'’s on in the States. pleted its case yesterday morning| ° H old. Both are Indians. quarters the ut he will take | Bri rd, who left last night|*’ , returned here on the !and the defense, conducted by R.| W. P. MILLS ship Queen last night, form on customers at Haines, Skag- way and Sitka ————— § | C. Hurley, completed its side early W. P. M i i yesterday afternoon. The jury re-| man of Sitka, senger on ] let, Dan Belain a | |tired at 4:20 pm. and returned| the southbound steamship Queen. mong the r {0, Beatils. Sho | Head comoee- its verdict at 10 a.m. today. He will meet Mrs. Mills in Seattle, ) rivals laska tel. a pas on the Queen. ARNOLD’S BOOTERY GOLDSTEIN BUILDING Head of Experiment Serv- iee Says About 65,000 Square Miles Arable About 65,000 square miles of land | in Alaska is suitable for agricul-| ture, the United States Depart- | ment of Agriculture estimates. Not more than 364 square miles of this | has been brought under the plow. | of the land remains under | ment owhership and, except t in National Forests, is avail- i e for homesteaders. \ 3 x ’ pRw s Heat Purifies Alaska Agricultural Expcriment’ Aayor W. O. Williams, England | MILK or CREAM LUCKIES are always on, has written Circular 1-C, 7Tk, directing relief. work among . The Mendenhall Dairy kind to your throat formation for Prospective Settlers 898titute of his community, read TELEPHONE 985 “The Latest Styles in Women’s Shoes ALWAYS” WOMAN ON BU ey [ PSS i THE HOTEL OF ALASKAN HOTELS THE GASTINEAU Our Services to You Begin and End at the Gang Plank of Every Passenger-Carrying Boat AT . 4 . ing one of the thousands of Ictte in which he discusses pffering money, sympathy and a atic characteristics and ag- yice that he has received. tural adaptations of this north- ern Territory of the United States. Three Climatic Belts i wheat, ., with her 59,278 residents, barley, 20 to 30 hushe]: an acre; | en the same parallels of and potatoes, 200 to 300 bushels an | Norway, Sweden, Fin- acre. Garden vegetables grow well, the upper third of Rus- do canning peas. Dairy cows, | have a population of hogs, and chickens are profitable. an 10,000,000. Alaska has Areas in Southeast Alaska, South- e climatic belts, known as the west Alaska, and on the Alaska Everyone knows that sun- § : : 3 % 25 £ - e o s region, the interior, and the and Kenai Peninsulas are suitable| & 3 The Territory extends from for agriculture. One of the larg- chine mellows=that's why, the FOR INS URANCE t 52 degrees morth latitude est potential farming areas lies be-| “TQASTING” process inciudes rthward about 1,000 miles to tween the Tanana and Fortymile W2y the use of the Uitra Viole? See H. R. SHEPARD & SON Telephone 409 t Barrow, well above the Arc-‘m\'ers. tic Circle. Naturally it has a var-|{ Director Alberts points out that » AT fed climate, with the warm Japan | living expenses are generally high- Rays. LUCKY STRIKE—tho finest t on the south and the frigid er in Alaska than in the States, e ic Ocean on the north exerting /but that farm products sell for cigarette you ever smoked, The advice of your physicianis: Keep out of doors, in the open air, breathe deeply; Valentine Building their opposing influences. The Gov- ernment agricultural exp e riment stations and hundreds of settlers have demonstrated that diverse ag- ricultural commodities can be pro- duced there. The coastal belt begins at the itheastern corner of the Terri- t and extends irregularly about 700 miles northward to Bering Strait. Winter minimum tempera- tures range from 5 degrees above zero at Dutch Harbor to 54 degrees, below at Dillingham. Summer. maximum temperatures vary from 80 to 96 degrees. Rainfall varies widely—from 14 to 157 inches an- nually. The interior region has long winters with temperatures. ranging down to minimums of 34 to 76 de- grees below zero and short sum- more. A"Settler on new land in Alaska should have not less than $2,500 for the first year’s living. However, developed farms with a quarter-section of land and some ib\uldmgs can be bought from old settlers for $1,000 to $2,000. The newcomer can obtain a quarter- section for a homestead for slightly more than $1.25 an acre. Circular 1-C is available free, so long as the supply lasts, to those requesting tion, U. S. Department of Agri- | culture, Washington, D. C. \ IFORMER JUNEAU GIRL fi IN BEAUTY CONTEST Dorothy Mahone, former Juneau it from the Office of Informa-' mers with temperatures up to from |girl and daughter of Dr. P. J. Ma- 84 to 97 degrees: Most of the in-| hone, is one of the seven leading terior receives only 9 to 12 inches 'entrants in the University of of precipitation, although some|Washington coed beauty contest. places precipitation is as high as Their bid for pulchritude will be 16 to 20 inches. !passed on by Florenze Ziegfeld, The Arctic region is unfavorable |theatrical producer of New York to crop production except in a few | Clty In recent issues of the Sun- isolated places, where hardy vege- day newspapers, Miss Mahone is tables grow well on the southern shown with the other six entrants, slopes. The region is covered with and appears to be a sure winner. mosses and lichens on which ca.n~] 2V, P T bou feed. Farming Regions Named The Matanuska Valley in South DR. 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He will % : from 40 to 75 bushels an acre; be gone three weeks. 3 . v [ - . | NOTE: Juneau and Douglas, Alaska your radio tubes in our shop free of charge i Overhauling Season During the winter months is a good time to have your automobile thorough]y inspected and put in good repair. —— = Stationery, Diaries, Autograph Books, Photo ‘l Albums, Candles, Tillicum Boats and Autos Geo. M. Simpkins Co. Printing and Stationery We are equipped to make any repair whether it is a general ‘overhauling or a minor ad- l en Evenin l justment and will be pleased to. give you a Op g8 flat-rate on any job. Connors Motor Company, Inc. Service Rendered by Experts The disastrous fire which destroyed a concrete warehouse af Salem, Ore., gave a convincing demonstration of the fact thath wood-shingled roofs are not the fire risk that the advocates o&, competing- materials so often represent them to be. This warehouse contained 6,000 bales of hops and 1,000 tom& of paper. 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