The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 26, 1915, Page 14

ool ardens last summer roted the gchool child in & potato eyes, pading L ing, raking, thinning, wee ~ ” ansplanting, waterty n fact, yas necessary for suc INS AND OUTS is::ss2s OF FARM LIFE : One-third an acre he set apart Youngsters, model garden; on this he ex mented with different products and eventually obtained a good sup of vegetables for use in cook Radishes, turnips ana Gardening in . tabagas, carrots, beets, cab of Shadow of Arctic Circle h eee ee eae | 3 Surprise U. S. Bureau. parsnips and a few other vegetabe i» ~ tld well this Arctic garden , 100 NATIVE SCHOOLS Kids Cultivate Farm 3 — In Unalaska the school farm at) 4 Aa first contained only a few plats of Training Them to Live Better ('"' vend ‘name? Kiaahoat des Lives — Girls Taught t last summer a more t of ambitious experiment was made} t i Household: Arts The children not only worked al met eee school garden in whieh each had al Refore the recent winter patch of bis own, but also cultivat bel cl { down on the United |e ® larger farm at some neat, na “ie o a5 er from the school 4 Me States the United States’ Although the season is short tn] vi h/t Alaska settloments, the vege-| th bureau of education at Was! Hye momsypi sagem Aha lh ey 8 a 4 ington received a surpr Kwan the temperature ranges eve 1 in summer to 27 | basket ate hy At KI pwoek the | 4 Tt was a big basket and it were able to begin preparing their was full of pot s, turnips, sfound by the first of April and rT elsewhere many of the vegetables €arrots and. other vegetables were in by May t hool gardening |i ‘ » boys and girls The work in sc rown. by the y ; a g lustrates the general principle on : the native school at Kluk-| Wich the government Is working nm, Alaska in the schools of Alaska—that edu The United States bureau of ed Reation maintains about Bebools for natives in Alaska and lening is taught in many of Gardening in the shadow of Arctic cirele! cation shall be something more than mere schooling; that it shall be preparation for the life the na tives have to lead. and carpentry are prominent sub- This shows that jects in the schools. 100 public | than that of Alaska, During these months the Tanana | The schoo! at Kiukwan is one of valley has three-fourths of the public schools for natives. year's sunshine—has more sunshine The teacher at Shungnak, within than any Arctic circle, reported to the|face south of Dureau that he supervised the mak-|than California, ‘dmg of 17 native gardens and four Florida point on the earth's sur more sunshine Ohio, Georgia or J. 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On March 22 the sun is shin ) hae penetrated Alask From [ing 12 hours. “the school at Klukwan, in 22 Hours of Sunshine { Southern Alaska, comes a bai On June 21 the Tanana valley ‘ket of potatoes, turnips, carrots has from 2! to 22 hours of direct, consigned vigorous sunshine and heat, and . bureau of [such crops as wheat, rye, barley } @ducation. Several of the prod- | oats and potatoes are grown, ma ip Mets are of a size and weight (tured and harvested in the four that would be remarkable in a | months of constant sunshine and Hi far more propitious climate peat ly STAR—SATURDAY, JUNE 26, 1915, Alaska’s School Gardens Developing Future Farmers to Till Her Vast Acres . BIGGER, BETTER ONIONS CAN BE GROWN IN | Feoovens pony ALASKA THAN IN ‘THE STATES’; REASON IS, Boots and breech in Alaska. Mra. Evelyn Whitehead. onion expert of | just about to variety she grows, Y E. 0. SAWYER SEWARD, Alaska, Mail to The Star.) ceived a and the June 19. I have just re letter from “the States writer ways “it's all to talk about the agricultural sibilities of Alaska, but can Brow onions that far north? Here my answer Onions can be grown in Alaska. My nearest neighbor is an onion expert. Her name is Mrs. Evelyn Whitehead, She does her gardening in overalis. Other women gar- deners do the same. "Tell me how to grow aeked her. “‘Ontons are raised in Alaska just like other onions are raised in Ohio or California,” she anewered. right pos. you onions,” 1 asked for additional explana tions, Here's How It's Done “Well, it's this way. After the snow goes, you take a spade and turn the ground over in which you intend to plant your onton seed. After the ground ts spaded you t a rake and clean off all the twigs and rocks from the soll, which is a nice sandy loam, the kind that doesn’t stick and get one all dirty. Then you sow the onion seed in rows 15 inches apart and cover with half an inch of earth. ALASKA LAND OF WELL-KEPT CITIES TODAY |Good Government Has Re- placed Lawlessness of Early Saniyede Days. SPLENDOR REMAINS Glory of “Mountains Still Thrills Tourist, Tho Viewed From Train. But a few years since men were struggling over the Alask- an mountains marking out trails. The mad rush for the “Klondike” caught the country entirely unprepared. Those early pioneers, spurred on by the greed for gold, endured ter- rific hardships, They shot the rapids of rushing torrents in frail, ill-built boats. The man who drove a pig over the trail and brought ft safe into the Interior was rewarded with a fabulous price. Crude tent towns sprang up over night For tunes in gold were torn from the earth, only to be gambled away in a night at the roulette wheel Lawlessness Gone Now But today—all is changed. Peace and plenty are evident on every hand, The towns are quiet, weil kept, perfectly regulated. Lawless ness is gone way to order been abando Turbulence bas given The dog sledge has A for the of a safeguarded railroad and the| bly and expeditiously we churning wheels of swiftly plying} COUld travel from New York to steamers | ieee. And there is the ity of thial,.. Ve bave come by rail 112 miles land for the tourist—it is, a NEW |{f0M the tidewater terminal of the land, newly made accessible—made | Wh'te Pass & Yukon route to this comfortable. ‘The drawbacks of| ty ,sution at White Horse City Alaska*and the Yukon have van-|{)0 (ead of steamer navigation on | Ished—but still remain the splen.| the Yukon n White | dor and the glory of her towering | Horse to Dawson we have for high mountains, her glittering glacters,|“®Y the great, rapid-gaving river, her rushing mountain torrents, her sunshine and flowers and foreats, | her peace and the warmth of her| incomparable summers New Thrills for Tourists These await the tourist. A new land—a land of new experiences new ghrills. No matter whege you| may have traveled—if you have seen the grandeur of the Him ‘ and the Andes—if you have elimbed Mt. Blane and seen all the glories of the Mediterranean—still, Alaska and the Yukon will reward you| with new beauties, new splendors And to those who have ney tray. for women jeward, working in her truck garden, and also shown at one of the prize (By } or a steer | steel trail, ; THERE'S 18 TO 20 HOURS SUNLIGHT DAILY pat it down firmly and with water You Just Wait! the to sprinkle it j not df irrigating. wait till the Aft worry about All you have to do Im nions and the weeds get big enough to tell one from the other and then clean out the weeds, The onions take care of hemsel vex Yes, we are getting onions from the first bed already and today I'm fixing another so we can have them late in the fall. They Grow Larger After further investigation I find }that there is just one error in my |neighbor's statement that growing onions here ‘# just the same as growing (hem in Ohto. Onions grow to a larger size in a given length of time than they do in the States. This holds true In the case of rad- ishes, turnips and carrots, also —there is a reason “Back home,” as we say, you have from 13 to 14 hours of sun-| Meht in summer and it's pretty dim! the first hour in the morning and) the last at night Up here we have from 18 to 20] hours and it is pretty bright twi light the rest of the night So here ie a reason why ontons| can be ri 4 in Alask 1,000 TENTS UP AT ANCHORAGE SEWARD, June 26.—That more | |than a thousand tents and other |sorts of dwellings have been erect ed at Anchorage, the new rafiroad city, and that the population of the place now In about 2.200, is the statement of Capt J. W. Porter, who returned last night after some time spent over there making ob. servations for the engineering com: jmission, The gangs are working now all the way to Eagle river, 16 lor 18 miles eled at all, the Inexpressible gran jdeur of this vast, silent “North jland” will give an experience not |to be priced in gold Mr. E. Burton Holmes, America’s | famous traveler and lecturer, said| in one of bis lectures, after he had visited Alaska and the Kiond{ke “Alaska and the Klondike as they are today are amongst the most amazing facts of our new century; yesterday a wilder. with heroes fighting epic battles with the elements; to- day a land with towns and y homes and thriving business enterprises. * * Where the pioneers dragged their bleeding feet up the icy stairways of the White Fase or the Chilcoot we rolled in all the luxury of railway care and within sight of the death. dealing rapids thru which their boats were steered with the fear of death for pilot, we glid- ed smoothly over rails of steel coming from Skaguay on the coast to White Horse City, on the Upper Yukon, as comfort and for conveyance the @mfortable Yukon steamers that ply all sum |mer up and down the stream,” ‘START “GROCETERIA”) | . LOS ANGELES, June 26. “Groceteria” is the newest thing in the Santa Monica Bay | district, When you go into a “groceteria,” you fill your bas ket with what you finds you need, then go to the cashier's desk and have your purchase checked up. first watering you do} further) PAGE 14, ‘KIDS GET COLD 'GOBLINS’LL GET BUG; DISAPPEAR BROWN BEARS IF j THEY DON'T QUIT OF HER HUSBAND WITH FISH HOOK 4 ‘ (By Mall to The Star) Pr : KET CAN, June 19.—Carl fp OAKLAND, Cal, June 26.—Lured Cropper, « watchman at the on by visions of Alaskan gold bunt U tle are destroyed every ear by : Mount Andrew mine for yearn, ing, aequired by steady attendanes Bandhan att Lay te ot | brows be ors ar the i mals i dove from a rowboat in front of || @t the movies, Wilhelmina Tanner, the brawn beare o Alagus 0 | Sun | lettiven out of Alaska." : hin residence to take a bath and | 4&4 13, and Victoria Fowler, aged| those tarnation animals don "Kodiak Hates Them hever came up. 12, who have been missing from| look out! “uD paces agent feeriie , His wife wan watching him |) their homes for four or five days They have failed utterly to IB es artmest, aan uae and thought at first he was fool. | "re belleved to be on their) grasp the spirit of progress. | agricultural department, and mab, ing. She finally recovered the |, W4Y to the frozen North Ane. 4 Shey conhnue thelr. 1s ak, the Kodiak diatrict body with # halibut hook and The children before leaving Pee eee ere ee ace haw Dig poobinitites: ax ae : rowed three miles against the || CUred about $40 from the sale of| going te get themesives inte | Nas OS I { the brown tide to get assistance toys, Jewelr ond other aluablen & peck of trouble t sere etite ' for tton chops She had never rowed a boat J)!" their pasion, The author Every year they are killing ca ain pt i be guided before. ities are endeavoring to trace them,| great numbers of sheep, cattle | and sirl S cathe of rehtaeeaal Decessed leaves a widow and i eng a gi Ae ber ge pirat ali : four children, the youngest be erated cattle and sheep ants and lane wile the govern. ing 1 y nid and the oldest 4 CHEEKY EAGLES pe fe wade wl de pa aa~eped sre thin Gane , ne eo omen have decided that Brown Bruin | ment man declares, the pests | STEAL FROM TRAPS either must turn over a new | killed two-thirds of all the sheep | leaf or get out at the station, and that they keep The residents of Sand ot,| G. T. B t. a pioneer of Ka-| right on killing ONLY A REPORT anit, eee NGarsnset' a peritin tala, votces the nentiment of the | it is probale that « towsty wil to Gov, Strong asking him to growing enmity toward the mar-| be placed on thelr heads soon. It r ted that the colored "** his influence to a bounty auders ’ oO Lady (com passionately)— itizens of Nome were not allowed |O" eagles They declare the she Seeks: brows 8 ee | Poor fellow! 1 suppose your blinds to vote on the liquor question be are so bold that during the most dengerous and truct ness ja incurable,” Have Sac cause the law reade “white citl gy: one ag onl EM gh bed bem ge A a eM MR pel are destroyed by the eagles here shou be @ price on ‘dl hae es a nene,” i. | sting animals which’ are coceht |bead, instead of a. bag limit of two| Biied Man (sighing)—-Yeq aa | ‘They also say that in the mat-| bears a year, as 1 understand the but not often, ‘Taint many as iikes Out-of-town people! 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