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Show i J THE PROVO POST FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1922 ALASKA LITTLE. 1 Let a Dollar Keep You Young! . By CLAIRE SMITH ! Week Clean-u- p By SCOTT C. BONE, Governor of Alaska. QZSZSZSZScSZSZSZSZSHStSZSESHSHSZsS Copyright, 1&21, Western Newspaper Union A beautiful young girl sat at an open window gazing out upon a gar- Editor s Note Scott C. Bone, governor of Alaska, loves his northern home with a great passion. He believes in it and, what is more to the point for the reader, he knows it. In the following he tells of many things in connection with his homeland that are unknown to the average man and i ng $1 DOWN AND, $5 A MONTH ARE YOU PREPARED? V - i brings you the Superb, New Everything: you need for Spring is now in Stock 1 1 LET SUGGEST THE FOLLOWING OCedar for your, floors and OCedar for your furniture and floors ... to OCedar Dry walls and woodwork OCedar Floor Dusters, push broom shape Golden Star Polish, Liquid Veneer Polish, .,30c to . 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The Norton family rose or fell on the number, have seen little of Alaska. final decision upon that noted litiga- Eight out of ten of them have glimpsed only small sections of the tion. w It was natural on account ; of this territory. The average citizen of the populous that Agnes and Wade should meet. communities along the coast thinks It was just as natural that they of Alaska in terms of Ketchkan, Jushould love. neau, Cordova, Valdez and Seward. House-Cleanin- g The Norton case would not come To him this average Alaska citizen Alaska as a whole is almost as unup for a year. Wade had an offer ,p,' r from a publication to invade central known as it is to the average citizen China and bring back something new of the outside world. US The tourist who visits these shores from fen and pencil to give to the is overwhelmed with' the scenic beauworld. Success in this effort meant, ties to the eye on every Mops $1.00 $1.50 further, a recognition by the Academy side, presented from Dixons Entrance through of Design. It was a great commission the Oil panoramic Inside Passage to 30c $3.00 for a young man and Wade ambitious- Skagway at the head of Lynn Canal . ly understood its execution. and, perchance, on over the White Mops foy-$1.50 A year had nearly gone by. Agnes Pass, in the Yukon to Territory, -had not heard from her lover for near- Whitehorse. But, if his journey ends .$1.50 ly three months. The will case came there, he does not know Alaska. He seen has only the beginning of up in thirty days. $3.00 She pictured him among great tem- Alaska. Alaska lies beyond. ples, far extending mountain chains, amid splendid pageants f richly OF GREAT MAGNITUDE. The mgnitude of Alaska 600,000 garbed mandarins only the glare and Old vast a of square miles, or nearly one-fift- h filled the her mind. glitter empire At that very hour he man she loved dimensions of the American Union . was at tht crisis of his life a lone precludes in the unopened stage of 75c; $1.40; the the a of genterritory possibility figure amid a lonely, lonely seeAe. He eral and intimate knowledge of $2.25 crouched behind t lie figure of an i'dol Alaska. in a Chinese burial ground, pale. Illustrative of the prevailing misThousands of miles from civilization, information'" is the instance of the a friendless hunted .fugitive, he was fine young soldier, returning lurking in this forlorn retreat, cling- from overseas, visited a school friend in Boston a at and. a social natural love of life to a ing with gathering, pointed out as hailing from mere thread of hope. Does he speak English? He (hew further into the shad nv of Alaska. Miss asked Highbrow--, adjusting her his efuge as he made out two forms ; glasses and inspecting him interestThen at a glance he edly. approaching. made out friends, and spoke to them. ilhjalmur Stefansson, college-bred- , Both the new comers were Mongoli- is an illuminating discussion of The ans. )m poorly dressed adanced, North That Never Was, gives apkotowed humbly to Wah, and een proval to the idea of a ('ambridge THE BIG DEPARTMENT STORE kissed his feet reerent!y, graft fully. preacher lli.it tin- country needs a I I RMTl RE VMi See, lie said, arising ami waving! National University ot Polite Un('ARRET !'KPRTMENT Sielansson himself would liis companion forward as though lit learning. fit tiie into SIMM) to lie (ii en Ayay Ju! 5th Alaskan chair of the inwere some supreme person it is the 5ith Anmu'rsarv Or, equally so, I)r. Alfred high one of our family Kwang Lo. stitution. the eminent Brooks, Fork Spanish Provo geologist, or Wade welcomed the lithe, erect Major J. eg Eureka road practical young man introduced. TUere was a builder, who Gotwals, mushed tl,o and knows-i- t from A to Z. dignity tfiai attracted. tory I mn tfie sacrifice, fie said simply. So profound a statesman as Daniel Tlu aci i lice 7 repeated Wade in Webster, who visioned Americas future greatness, could see nothing wonderment. It worthy- of consideration west weof the It is so, was the quiet reply. mountains. Therefore, may- gain a foothold; by unlocking its reis 5 ou who a month since found the Rocky be patient with a twentieth century sources and freeing the territory from' mandarin at the home of my kins- denseness that still ignorantly visumilman. lie was about to he beheaded alizes Alaska as a country- - of ice and red tape rule; by unreserving for an infringement of the law. It snow, its mountains and hills laden lions of acres of lands senselessly rewas that or the payment of 1,100 with precious metals and its glacial served; by silencing and shunting den Nothing destroys your health and vitality of youth so quickly as the drudgery of cleaning be entirely tree from this work ! back-breaki- T(f NATION KNOWN FOR YOUR LINOLEUM English Linoleum Wax,. a liquid wax, easy to apply;, gives a lasting luster Pint, Quart, Half Gallon, HOOVER SWEEPERS, IIUGRO SWEEPERS, BISSELL SWEEPERS, PREMIER CLEANERS I DOLLAR. w-h- 'X w-u-s UTAH POWER & LIGHT Tayloir Bros. Co 1 CO. - Efficient Public Service j j - SAVE WIONEY-BU- Samuel Kopp Y FOR CASH 450 w- - Center taels. Phone 446 Wade well remembered the circumstances. Sheer pity for the unfortunate family had, indeed, induced him to part with nearly all his surplus stock of money. Since then, continued Kwang Lo, "the evil mandarins, thinking you had money, have imprisoned you in the hopes of winning the bribe ransom Last night my you could net pay. enabled here you to escape kinsman from jail. They will seek you everywhere. They have sent for me, the high one of the family, to get you beyond peril, and because for some great reason that is not our affair you must be in your native land speedily. 'But I have no means to pursue my journey from Beiro to Canton, suggested Wade. They shall he provided, quietly assured Kwang Lo. True to his promise Kwang Lo reappeared shortly with a pushcart holding a close wicker box top. Across this was a broad sheet of bamboo hearing some Chinese letters in bright vermilion. In an instant Wade knew what this meant. The royal sign manual was always written with a vermilion pen- Lowest Prices. Cash and Carry System. THE MOST COMPLETE LINE WEEK ENDING APRIL 29 10 10 10 10 70c 65c lbs. Sugar lbs. Navy Beans lbs. 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Sutton Phone West Center Street. 184 I That no other one thing adds more to the value of and harmonious outbuildings ? property than good, well-bui- lt Although located apart from the main building, they reflect largely the character of the. place and are a big fac- tor in determining its value. f We carry a complete line of material especially adapted for the construction of outbuildings. v Call at our yard , Our suggestions will help you. Mutual Coal & Lumber Co., PHONE 357 I Corner Second West and Fifth South. sa Sw-ede- n . - Dd You Know? r, Within that wicker covert Wade Latham was conveyed to Beiro. When it was opened he found himself in the rear room of a- Chinese pawnshop. Kwang Lo had disrobed to the waist. Encircling him was a hand of gold, heavy and unbroken, hearing native s characters. There was some talk between him and the keeper of the shop Then money passed, and Kwang Lo came forward and placed in Wades hand a sum equal to two hundred American dollars. I have agreed to remain here the slave of the shop keeper until I am The said Kwang Lo. redeemed. sacred for circlet, generations family surely my family will not allow it to pass to others at my death! But that If $ FARMING LANDS. Alaska possesses 100,000 square is naught to you. I am the sacrifice I glory in thus doing for the man who miles of agricultural lands and today numbers hundreds of occupied homesaved my kinsman! under successful cultivation. steads in That sublime sacrifice was first of the estimated value Farm products the thoughts of Wade Latham when. a 0,0 0 0 were grown and sold m $2 lot he landed on American soil. As quick- the Tanana valley alone the past sealy as he could reach his friends more son. Year after year there j inthan the amount necessal-- to redeem creasing cultivation. How are these and kindred truths Kwang Lo and his family talisman was transmitted to Beiro to make of about Alaska to be firmly planted in the popular mind and the untruths him a free man. forever eradiIn time to act as a witness in the and the half-truth- s ? cated great lawsuit and to see it won for How is the real Alaska t.o be reGeneral Norton, honored and famous moved from the realm of fancy and through his contributions to science established upon a fixed foundaand literature, Wade Latham gained a tion of fact? still richer prize after all his perilous By opening Alaska to settlement; the hand of loyal, happy by inviting capital and people to come adventure; in and making it easy-fo- r them to Agnes Norton. - West Center St., Provo. scenery unsurpassed, but really fitted aside the visionaries and theorists for habitation only by polar bears. up succeeded in bottling who THOSE MISCONCEPTIONS. Alaska and whose ideas have been Something more potential with the expensively-- tried and clearly found masses thafi a National University of wanting; by proceeding with the dePolite Unlearning Hs required to cor- velopment of Alaska as a big busirect and dispel these ridiculous popu- ness proposition; by dismissing the lar misconceptions about Alaska and foolish, demagogical fear that any force upon the public mind a fair and ever can or predatory interest accurate knowledge of this great ever will so huge a land as gobble up northlaiul. a 'material section thereof; or Alaska Alaska is not a monumental ice- and finally, by tardily realizing that berg or glacier. It is not snowbound unfettered and given an honand in the grip of bitter, biting ele- Alaska, will populate itself and est chance, ments. It is not cut off from the go ahead and wax opulent and deIts ports, save those in the velop grandly and luxuriously, just region of the Arctic circle, are open as the western domain of the union, in the year around. Its temperature in spite of' Daniel Websters obscure is no vision the interior, in dark foreboing, progressmore severe'than in the northern and ed and and, and grew into states prospered far western states. Its climate on and added bright stars to Old Glory. the coast is generally mild and equaThen, and not until then, will much rainfall, but compar- Alaska ble, become known to the world, able to the climate of Portland and and the truths about Alaska prevail Seattle. Blizzards such as rage in undisputed and endure for all time. Minnesota, the Dakotas and Montana toward all this UnAs a first and occasionally, in New York and cle Sam has step completed the conthe east, are sometimes experienced struction of ajust railroad from the coast in the northernmost part of the ter- line into the interior, from Seward to milritory, but are uncommon, if not un- Fairbanks, at a cost of fifty-od- d known, to coastal Alaska and Alaska lions, and he has been spending adas a whole. ditional millions in the building of Millions of people live happily and roads and trails. This means the and in thrive in Norway and up of Alaska- - that it is no sec tions of our own country under opening to be hermetically sealed. climatic conditions no more favor- longer Uncle Sam is proposing, Moreover, able, if not more severe, than the through oohgress, to substitute a general climatic conditions of Alaska. workable system of administration in Alaskas summers are ideally pleas- Alaska for the cumbersome, unworkant and delightful on the coast and able, halting, inefficient and utterly gloriously bright and beautiful, and impossible system of bureaucratic often hot, in the interior. Tempera- government. ture ranging from SO to 9 0 degrees is frequently- encountered in the Arctic circle. Throughout' the territory-flowerand berries grow in profusion. Long days and warm sunshine BED FOR give sturdy growth to plant life. Fairbanks is a veritable floral bower in June. July and August. 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Nothing has such concentrated, penetrating heat as red peppers, and when heat penetrates right down into colds, congestion, aching muscles and sore, stiff joints relief comes at once. The moment you apply Red Pepper Rub you feel the tingling heat. In three minutes thfe congested spot is warmed through and through. When you are suffering from a cold, rheumatism, backache, stiff neck or sore muscles, just get a jar of Rowles Red Pepper Rub, made from red peppers, at any drug store. You will have the quickest relief known. is thejoaf that makes you want twice as much, because twice as delicious. Always fresh. Ask your Neigh-borhoGrocer for Royal Bread, the loaf kept sweet and' moisUin its nice wax wrapper. its od ROYAL BAKING CO. j Uses $100,000 Utah County Flour Annually. ? |