The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-26
AT The CAPITAL.
kansan Looking After Agricul-
ture in Alaska.
C. c. GeOrgesOn Says That 1t Is
a Great Country.
CROPS THAT FLOURISH
Hay and Garden Truck in the
List.
CROPS THAT FLOURISH
Expense of Transportation the
Greatest Drawback.

Washington, July 26.-The area Of
Alaska is so great that the United
States government maintains five agri-
cultural experiment stations in the ter
! ritory, so situated that crops may be
tested under all the climatic conditions.
! Sitka, on the strip of coast projecting
southeast, has a fairly mild climate,
| while the station at Rampant is close to
| the Arctic circle. 1t is a Kansas man
who is in charge of all of these sta
tons. He is c. c. Georgeson, of Man
| haitian.
In his annual report to the depart
| ment of agriculture he declares I'M
! qualif1edly that Alaska is an agricul-
| tural country" that good hay can be
| produced lin any quantity for fead-
| ing. while the native grasses "can
| ton in summer" Prof. Georgeson
| says also that potatoes, cabbage,
caulif1ower, rhubarb, turnips. lettuce,
| and, in short. all the hardy vegetables
| can be grown to perfection up to even
within the Arctic circle, as has been
proven by thousands of Settlers But,
| before Alaska can be largely settled,
railroads and wagon roads must be
| built Under present conditions, he
says, few farmers can afford to go to
Alaska with their families live st ;ck,
and equipment" The expense of Craus-
port ation would equal the cost of a
farm In the states.
The Kansas man believes that Alaska
has undeveloped resources sufficient
for the support of a large population.
But there as he says, Mature is stern
and uncOmpromising, and we must
submit to the conditions she imposes"
Rural letter carriers appointed for
service in Kansas: Raleigh G. Hach-
stadt and Mabel Hachstadt at Madi-
son; Ernest L. Edge and Martin H
90 n n hon hn7-
and Ralph A. Feather at Minneapolis;
William L. Davidson and Lester w.
Briery at Hoxie.
The Fredonia postoffice will have a
city delivery service established an
october 1.
Echoes of the rules fight of last
March in the house have not yet died
away. They are to be heard frequent
ly. It is evident that the supporters of
the rules expect the struggle for
change to be renewed at the first OPP
portunity. At any rate, they are
losing no chance to defend the exist
ing rules and to seek to justify them
selves in the eyes of the country in
standing by Speaker Cannon when the
house was organized.
Congressman Olmstead of Pennsyl-
vania has just had inserted in the
Congressional Record a mass of ma
terial in defense of the speaker of the
house and the rules. This matter in
cludes a discussion of the rules in a
leading monthly by Congressman F. G.
Stevens of Minnesota, who comes to
their defense; a defense of the rules
by Asher c. Kinds, clerk at the speak
er's table and the right hand man of
Speaker Cannon in ruling on all vexed
parliamentary questions; an interview
with the speaker in a leading news
paper, lambasting the fault finders;
and an article by the speaker in a re-
cent magazine, tending to make light
of the Lamentations of the minority"
Politicians about the capitol see
much significance in these defenses
of the rules and of the speaker. They
believe that Mr.. Cannon and the rules
will be widely discussed in the coming
congressional campaign. It is we'll
members who are seeking renomina-
ton and reelection are finding one of
their chief sources of trouble in their
record in standing by the existing rules
In other words, Cannon, Cannonism
and the rules will be one of, the con-
gressional campaign issues. Mr.. Can
mons friends perceive this and they
are setting out early to meet the issue.
Under the caption of kansas Pro-
hibition Is Worse Than Names" the
Journal of Lewis, Maine, published
the following editorial:
speaking of prohibition, the Maine
brand is a mild article compared with
the new Kansas law which has just
gone into effect.
There was a report a few weeks
ago that this law was SO severe that it
made it a crime for a man to drink
his own liquor from his own bottle. It
is not quite so harsh as that, but it
comes near. He may drink in the
privacy of his home, so far as appears,