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The daily Alaskan., 1912-05-24
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The daily Alaskan., 1912-05-24
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The daily Alaskan., 1912-05-24

foundations of many other towns ru the great interior Of Alaska. Thry arc men of strength. courage and daring They are the best young blood of tho East.
 What They Have Done
 This migratory character Of the Alaskan prospcctor and placer miner is a strong. manly virtue It has found and extracted more than S1ooooo.u0o in virgin gold from the Srayols of Alaska. In the communit- JOS embracing the incorporated towns there has been an increase of popu- lauon in the decade. as well as iu uuicorporatad communities. The census oi 1910 shows total in- crease in thirty-rour communities of lN.2G2. The figures show fur thor that Alaska has now more school children in actual attendance in public schools within her borders than Mississippi. Indiana. Michigan or Dakota had white settlers when they were each organized into ter rjtory and given an elective leEisla- five assembly.
 Vast And Fertile Valley.
 The agricultural capacity Of AL aska is surprisingly large to those who have never considered it I have seen farmers blowing in the Panama valley as late as October 24. The valley is 50 miles wide and 200 miles long The agricultural de- partment has made careful eN- animation of the area Of arabic land there and has announced that there is more agricultural land in that one valley than there is az riCulturaI land under cultivation in
The daily Alaskan., 1912-05-24
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Harmon 31; Wilson ~.

Columbus. O. May 24-The to- tai returns from the presidential primary election gives Harmon 3l delegates and Woodrow Wilson II
The daily Alaskan., 1912-05-24
HOST OFFICE CLERK
 ARRESTED IN LOS ANGELES

Los Angeles, Cal, May 24-Frank Woodcock. one of the registry Jerks in tne central post office in this city. was arrested late last night on the charge Of cmbezzlins letters from the mails which he knew contained money.
 In default of S3.o0o bail he was taken Co jail where he will remain until his hearing
 Woodcock was formerly post master at Sttka. Alaska, where he was considered a man of exemplary habits. being a great friend of Bish- op R r Rowe. Episcopal Bishop of Alaska
 The post officials hero arc great iy puzzled over the arrest Of the man. as he has a splendid record.
The daily Alaskan., 1912-05-24

operated in the grain fields Of the Fairbanks station in 1911
 The Rampant station Is located in the Yukon valley In latitude 56 de grees, 30 degrees north. Thirty acres of land are at present under the plow. all Of which is devoted to eN- perimentIng with grains and forage plants which give promise of being successful. The fourth experiment station is at Kodiak, on an island Of that name. It is devoted eN- clusively to cattle breeding and they have s5 head of pure-bred Gal loway cattle of all ages. and flock of Iong-wooI sheep which appear re- markabIy we'll adapted to the cli- mate. A special homestead law for Alaska allows citizens of the Unit cd States with homestead rights to take up 320 acres of unsurveyed land from homestead purposes, the locator to pay the cost of the sur yav
The daily Alaskan., 1912-05-24
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The daily Alaskan., 1912-05-24
SHOWS ALASKA
 REAL ELOORADO
WICKERSHNM OPENS EYES
 OF LEGISLATORS TO ALASKA
Resources Arc StupcndoUs. Gold Minerals, Fisheries And FurS ot Far North Land Have Yielded Nearly SI5O.OOO.0Oo.

Washington. n C. May II Ia the fight that Delegate James Wick orsham Of Alaska. has been making to secure home rule for that vast territory in the Northwest Con gross has had many an oyc-opencr as To Alaska's resources, its cli- mate. irs possibilities in alI lines of industry activity, and the fact that when the United States gov erumont in l>t7 paid 10 tho Rus sian Emnirr the sam of S1.2oo.noo for all uueNpIorcd tract nearly one Hrh as large as the United states itself. U made one Of tho bes, iu- yes,mcuts on record. One of the first bills that Nr Wtckorsham in- t~oducai when hn came to Wosn- fnc-ar three wears ago as tho Al aska delegate to Congress was a measure providing that Congress should create a legislative Assembly for Alaska and confer on he~ o1'l- -eus the power oG home ruIr His 'nGrortS hayr borne partial fruit tn Tho fac, rrrt tho House recently passed tho bill. and it is now up to rro Srnat. to take rho urN step r, eiyjue f~ approval There is #rIa doubt that 1T win ho acted ug- .u s.ro~ahlg by rhe President if ho is afrrn an ounortu-.', rn sign '. His m.~saeo to rh. last Dongroe~ stated .at r'n n~ns..' an."~"m.n a. Alaska WAS .madana.t" n. oHah.o r.ar Territory .a nn n~ou-.E q"
 ..GonuE and settled
 A' t.a. time n. recommended n. establishment O. a EoNurnm 2 by commission. to h. .~notw'ud nN The executive. with limited l.gtsIa- .s, run.us su.n,rm0. broad To meet tho laraI roy's. aua jj is be- flowed ina, n, will sign tao pres .-t nrl should the Senate s"i th. seal of it's anrro,al upon tg
The daily Alaskan., 1912-05-24
Facts About The Climate.

Nr Wickersham presented some very interesting figures as 10 tho Alaska climate On the 22nd day of December" ." he said. we have two hours of sunshine at Fair banks: on the 22nd day Of March we have twelve hours of sunshine and twelve hours darkness; on the 22nd day of June we have twenty two hours of sunshine and but two hours when the sun ia beneath the horizon in the north: on September 22 we again have twelve hours sun shine and twelve hours darkness. We have more sunshine in Panama
The daily Alaskan., 1912-05-24

Norway, Sweden, Finland and the three northern provinces of Russia. "
 Prof C. C Gorgeson, who has charge of the four agricultural eV- pertinent stations in Alaska, was in Washington to make a report on his work. He shows that agriculture is practiced on an extended scale. Winter wheat and rye. he says. can be successfully grown in interior AL aska whenever tho snowfall Is deep enough 10 protect the grain against severe winter temperature, say from 2I5 to 3la feet. Rye is harder than wheat and is therefore the more successful of the two grains; but it is expected that experiments will develop varieties suited 10 Cli- matic conditions
The daily Alaskan., 1912-05-24
Fruits Can Be Grown.

Experiment stations are located al Sitka. Fairbanks. Rampant and Kodiak Al Si,ka. tho headquarters they have eyporimcuted chiefly with horticulture. and have shown that not only can strawberries be sue ccssfuIly produced there. but five varieties of apples were matur"d in the summer of 1911 in a test or chard planted in 1903
 The Fairbanks station has ninety acres under cultivation Grain-Erow- ing and the cultivation Of vegetables particularly potatoes. are tho lines ot work followed there. Thirty tons were raised on seven acres the past season. which if sold at the low av- craze price Of cents per pound, would bo worth 23,00o Last year the station sold several tons of po- tatoes at the rate of SIS0 per ton. The first self-binder in Alaska vss
The daily Alaskan., 1912-05-24
Men Who Build Ur Country.

An objection has h.ru male acairs, cnur Alaska home rule.
 said M- WicA,r-nam. Ion th, r-ouna t..t h,s population IS mi c-ato-y It k a mistake to sup- pose that tho r~osrr,tors and min CTS are entirely transient. uomadio, or migra'o-y Tro~~ who crossed The plains m l>Fa remaiuca and built San Francisco and Sarramon- to. laid tho foundation or a hun d~cd cities in California. and in l>5u. within one year after their arrival. erected tho noble super structure of the State of California
 Their kind ,rajIed through the mountain passes Of Nevada. Mon taua. Colorado. Idaho. Oregon and Washington. and when miners luck and hard labor led them to the nav streak they built Virginia City, Helena. Butte. Auaconda. Denver
 Boise. Portland. Spokane and Seat te Those who went to Alaska built Circle. Panama. Nome. Fair banks and Idfrarod. and laid the
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Continued on page three.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-12-06

An interesting table, isn't it? The farmer supplied
the land did the work. picked the melons and hauled them
to the railroad For doing this he received $500 The
middlemen and the railroad earned $780, or eleven|
times much But the railroads share relatively
significant The big end of the expense the of the
service performed by the middlemen-by the buyer nI
Oklahoma and the commission and retailer in st
Paul.
This incident is cited by B. F. Yoakum chairman of
the board OF the Frisco railroad in his article in series
1.-The High Cost OF Living in the current issue of the
Worlds Work. He calls this article ''The High Cost of
Selling, and he arrives at amazing estimates of the
expense of the modern system of distribution
For instance he cites the result of investigation by al
New York state commission which found that the cost oil
the food supply of New York city at the terminals was
$35OOOOOOO But the cost to the put $780,
100000 The expense believed to be chiefly in the cost
OF handling. The profits small.
Mr. Yoakum IS only one OF many witnesses this sub
Ject The system of distribution excessively wastef
high class dairy in Missouri that sold milk in Kansas
City proved unsuccessful Its manager explained that i'll
ne could have obtained compact delivery route so that
ne could have delivered from door to door, he would have
been able to sell milk produced under the best santaryl
conditions at 10 cents quart for profit But with his
customers scattered he figured that cost Is cents
would have been required.
In Rochester, n Y was found that % milk peddlers
travelled up and down street to 70 homes Onl
another route 81 mkmen travelled 80 miles to serve 363
homes One man could have served them all by travelling
two miles. =
Investigations by the department of agriculture have
developed the facts about the wastefuness of
button In Is cities the milk producer got only half the
price paid by the The railroads got per cent
OF the final price, and the distributors 43 per cent The
consumers price for beef proved be nearly 40 per cent?
higher than the wholesale price Duplication of butchers
shops and expensive system of delivery was
sible for the extravaganza |
better organization of the distribution system Of the
United States would result in marked reduction in thel
cost OF living The New York commission already men,
toned remarks in it's report that if the handling of food
products was in the hands of single agency the
wholesale plant would, with two exceptions be thrown
into the scrap heap.
The truth is that the United States is the only country
IN the world rich enough to afford such wasteful
In Europe the of hard necessity has forced he
organization of cooperative institutions on large scs
g that part OF the of repeated handling go
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-12-06

permitted the outrages funds poured ia for the re-
lief Of those left destitute An American who had charge
of the distribution Of several thousand dollars Of relief
funds met personally hundreds Of persons whose houses
had been burned by Turkish soldiers and whose relatives
had been killed. Most Of those who for help
widows He sckened by the details of crueltes that
he heard from many witnesses. Typical the in
stances for example, Of babies mpaed bayonets and
flung into burning houses.
It was merely repetition q smaller scale of the
Bulgarian atrocities Of the 0s which shocked Europe
and led to the Russian war that liberated Bulgaria
Through the experience of than five weary CEN
turtles the Turks have proved their incompetence to
European peoples In address at Washington
years ago Ambassador Bryce summed up the situation
correctly when he said:
have unfortunately
civilized
Of
Turkey
partoned
Europe had permitted Russia to expel Turkey from
Europe the proposed at the end of the Russo
sh 80 years ago. all the trouble and disturbance
Macedonia OF the last generation would have been avoided
But ealouses caused Intervention which kept the sick
man of Europe alive
The Balkan allies may be expected to insist doing
thorough job this time. Constantnope they have not
sought to hold But the will have been in vain if vr
tualy all Of European Turkey is not freed from moslem
rule Unless the Turks driven back into Asia the Bal
kan question will continue to threaten the peace of Europe
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-12-06

will murmur some vague excuse, in
stead Of calling her bluff by saying,
You never really asked me-"
Now. do use my automobile any
time you like" is the favorite remark
of a friend of mine. 1t sounds good,
but being armed with the knowledge
that any time is usually no time, !
don't make the mistake Of taking her
at her word.
II wish you would come in some day
and help yourself to some of our
grapes" was another kind friends way
of showing her generosity. but some
how she never suggested that we do It
today, or even tomorrow.
Indefinite. meaningless Invitations
and promises are the counterfeit coin
of hospitality and generosity. Fortu-
nately. however. they deceive few. The
only great harm they do is to those who
try to use them for the real thing.
No sensible person resents 1t when
any of their acquaintance do not
choose to invite them to dinner or loan
them their automobiles, but any sensi-
BILE person does dislike to have their
acquaintance ply them with counter
felt cordially and hospitality.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-12-06
Only IS More
Shopping Days
Before Christmas

Mamma. look through the ads in the
Capital News and find the best place
to buy me that Watch you promised
me for Christmas" said the young
miss to her mamma. "And why SO
much hurry and why consult the Capt.
tai News?" asked her mamma. Be
cause" answered the daughter, this
ad man says the clerks are now will
ing to assist you in selecting the right
gifts now and that only the merchants
VINO advertise can buy in large
enough quantities to sell to you at the
right price"
And the moral IL: Be as wise as
the young miss and coax papa or
mamma to get busy while the as.
sortment is large and the clerks are
smiling and willing to help you.
Remember, Only IS More Shopping
Days!
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-12-06

'he AhA oNSi Fyou
would certainly say SO. But
you-and all the people who really
know her-know better. You know
just how big a discount to make in
reckoning the value Of her effusions
And you invariably make it,. And
who is she, you ask? What, did for
get to tell you? Why. she is the lady
Of the indefinite invitations.
She is the person who always wants
her friends to visit her some day.
but never invites them Monday or
Tuesday or Wednesday, or any OF the
rest of the seven definite days.
She is so glad to see you. she was
thinking about you this very morning.
and she does wish you would come
out and see her some day. It's so
lovely out where she lives and she
knows you would enjoy the view from
her veranda. You certainly must
come some day. she says. and then
she squeezes your hand and bids you
goodbye and flutters away, evident
ly vastly delighted with herself and
the impression OF cordially and hos
pitality that she has given.
But If you are acquainted with her
type, she hasn't left 1t.
You know that her vague invitations
mean just about as much as her pro-
testations of affection, and you would
as soon think of acting on one as the
other
Probably the next time she sees yon
she will tell you again how glad she
Is to see you and how she was think
ing of you that very morning. and will
ask plaintively, "Why haven't you
ever come out to see me? I'm always
asking and you never come"
And probably. being a coward. you
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-12-06

plen thougplo when they came to the
business Of seating delegaaee. They
were moved by base thoughts. And the
work that they did was base.
But they did have the courage t. do
bad things in q braxen way. They
bilked the convention OF the right to
name Z candidate who would be &C.
ceptable to the people ana they did the
job openly.
They were against the new order;
they were for the old order; ana they
chose political death with the old order
rather than political life with the new
order.
And that was the end Of the old Re.
publicanism.
But the Democratic party lodged
Destiny at Baltimore. 1t made . truce
with Fate.
Had II followed the logic Of the pri-
maries It would have nominated Champ
Clark. Had 1t followed the sentiments
OF the New Democracy 1t would have
nominated Mr.. Bryan.
The present speaker IL . stalwart
Democrat Of the old order. just a. Pres
ident Taft IL stalwart Republican q
the old order.
The speaker believes In states rights
He believes in what II called "organi-
zation." He believes that. politically, a
man should stand by his friends
And Mr.. Bryan doesn't.
Mr.. Bryan believes, first Of all, in
anything Of hopeful. uplifting kind
that will get votes. But he believes In
| more than that. He believes that It Il
the business Of government to give
every man an even start in life and to
| see that no fouling goes on during the
race.
And belief in things Of that kind
has made for Mr.. Bryan about six mil
lion friends amongst the voting popu-
lation of this country. Which is q
| mighty impressive achievement.
But the Baltimore convention lacked
the sincerity to nominate Mr. Bryan
! and 1t lacked the courage to nominate
Champ Clark, 80 1t compromised by
naming Woodrow Wilson, who was too
| conservative for the Bryan Democrats
and too doubtful" for the Clark DEM
ocrats.
And the result of that compromise
when compared with some related facts
10 interesting.
In the campaign Of 1900 Mckinley
was opposed by Bryan and three other
candidates Of more or less Importance.
But the popular vote for Mckinley
was half million greater than the
popular vote Of those other candidates
combined.
In the campaign of 1904 Roosevelt
| was opposed by Parker and two other
candidates OF more or less Importance.
But the popular vote for Roosevelt
was 1,SS4.756 greater than the popular
vote Of all the other candidates COM
bined
In the campaign Of 1908 Taft was op-
posed by Bryan and two other candi-
dates Of some Importance,
And the popular vote for Taft was
over half a million greater than than
the popular vote Of all the other can
didates combined.
In the campaign of this year Wilson
was opposed by Roosevelt and TAFT and
two other candidates Of some import
ance.
And the total vote for Wilson was
1,9s2,31S less than the popular vote of
the other candidates combined.
Which suggests that he'Armageddon
of the Democratic party is overdue and
that the Baltimore convention didn't
dodge destiny very successfully after
all.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-12-06
PRESS COMMENT
Trying to Dodge Destiny.
(Washington Times)

The difference between the Demo-
cratic party and the Republican party
today is that the Republican party
knows where 1t Is and the Democratic
party doesn't
When the Republican convention met
in Chicago 1t was faced by a square is
sue. And 1t met 1t squarely
We don't mean to suggest that the
Republican managers were moved by
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-12-06

You are fortunate. ana pleasant days
with friends and general prosperity are
In store for you. Cupid will influence
you strongly.
Those born today will be fortunate
IN many ways. They will gain by in
heritance, and influential friends will
help them forward. Added to this. y
restless ambition will carry many Of
them to the crest Of success.
Phone 81 TO- Poultry Supplies. Ida
no Coal & Seed Co.. A. L. Lee, Mgr, sth
& Grove. "One Block South Of Over
land Corner" Adv. Il
hurry. Peasley Transfer q Storage Co.
Phone No. "a. Adv.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-12-06
The Eue11i,,g Ch;t-Chat

APPARENTLY she Is the most
N cordial person in the world. A
nj stranger who heard her gush-
p = ing and effusing over you
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-12-06
THE HIGH COST OF SELLING.

A farmer was loading watermelons car at Rock
Island station in Oklahoma They to be shipped to
been in ST. Paul and knew that melons retailing there
at from sixty to seventyve cents apiece The farmer
told him he getting only five cents apiece and that it
took him all day with two teams to haul the melons to the
railroad With the melon buyer who along just then
to check the load they made computation Of the
pense of getting the carload of 1850 melons the Paul
n @bo;r %ol1
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-12-06

Sound.
(From Judges Library
It's your husband a sound sleeper"
Sound? l should say so! The sound
he makes can be heard for half q
block"
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-12-06
Touching Suggestion.

(From Judges Library
Departing guest-"rd gladly give you
a tip. waiter. but find I've only cab
fare left"
Waiter (benisnly)-"Ah, sir. you
don't appreciate the beneficial effect
Of a good. after-dinner walk"
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-12-06
THE RAIDERS FROM ASIA.

There was revolt against Turkish misrule in Mace
donna few years ago. 1t suppressed with the Gus
tomary Turkish cruelty From Christian nations that had
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-12-06
Modern Mother Coos,

Modern Mother Gooss.
(From Judges Library
Little Bo Peep began to weep,
And this was the only reason:
She missed her guess on a new fall
dress,
And found 1t was out of season.