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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-01-14

It is a sort OF introduction from
distance. It is the first thing you
see when you approach home at night
and the last thing you see upon Ieav
ing in the morning.
A good roof has good deal to do
with the real value as well as she
sentimental value Of a dwelling. Some
roofs are 80 made that snow piles mp
in the corners TO melt and freeze and
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-01-14

ever built It is easy to look at a
stair when finished and admire it, but
only architects realize how difficult il
is to start with naked plan and
build a stair that will connect all
parts Of the house, including the eel
lar and the attic, in neat, eonven-
tent combination that viii not eat into
the cubic space unnecessarily.
This stairway is the product of the
inventive genius of several genera
tions of architects and 1t deserves
very careful consideration on the part
of the owner when he starts to build.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-01-14

Fort Smith. Ark.-Dr. Mccoy, an co.
centric bachelor, who died few DAYS
ago at Coaldale, has left the larger
part of his modest estate to his dog.
When the dog dies the estate win 20
to charity. So far as known he had no
relative living.
He often said his old dog was the
only friend he had He was an honov.
airy member Of the AEiRe Workers
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-21
Gas Victims Still at Hospital.

William McLanahan of 1886 9th street
northwest. who was overcome by gas yes
terday morning while occupying a room
at COB Pennsylvania avenue, is still under
treatment at the Emergency Hospital.
His condition is much improved and he
will probably be able to leave the hospital
in a day or two. William Johnson, thir-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-21

to Washington today $1,000 contributed
by the New York Daughters for the New
York monolith for the south portico of
Continental Hall. There are to be thir-
teen pillars in this portico, representing
the thirteen original colonies. According
to present plans the portico will be COM
pleted by April l.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-21

At the annual meeting of the Equitable
Life Insurance Company the fol'owins
trustees were elected: William A. Ben
nett, George j. Bsssler. Henry +. Blair.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-21
Funeral of T. j. o'Connell.

The funeral OF Timothy j. y Conneli,
Iong-time citizen and merchant OF the
District, will take place from St Aloysius
Church. where mass will be said at
o'clock tomorrow morning. Mr.. O'Conneil,
who has been in the grocery business at
1Ai Est street. died suddenly Tuesday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-21

August Burgdorf, Allen C. Clark, A. p.
Clark. jr., H. S. Cummings. w. Gwynn
Gardiner, j. A. Luttrell, Edward E. Rap
ley, William H. Rapley, n. II. Shea. l.. c.
Strder j. S. Swormstedt and Henry A.
Willard. The trustees elected the follow
ing officers: j. S. SwOrmstedt, president:
Henry p Blair, vice president; Allen {.
Clark. secretary: William A. Bennett.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-21

ty-two years of age, living at $40 G. street
northwest was overcome by gas yester-
day afternoon while making a gas con-
nection at 1929 10Th street. He Is also
under treatment at the Emergency Hos
pital.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-21
Money for D. A. R. Monolith.

general superintendent; Gilbert A. Clark,
actuary; William F. Mattingly. attorney.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-21
EQUITABLE Life Election.

He was popular in wide circle OF
friends.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-21

If you want work read the want col-
umns of The Star
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-21

Mrs. Donald Mclean of New York,
president general of the Daughters of the
American Revolution, and Mrs. Charles
A. Terry. vice president general. brought
The daily Alaskan., 1909-10-28
SERIAL No. Os57.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
 PATENT TO HOMESTEAD.

NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
 PATENT TO HOMESTEAD. U. S. Land Office at Juneau, Alaska,
 Oct, 2, 1909 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that CHARLIE II. ANYWAY, a citizen of the United States over twenty-one years, residing in the District of AL aska, near the town of Haines, in said District, has applied to make entry, under Section 2289, Revised Statutes of the United States, and the act of March 3, 1903, of the lands embrace in U. s. Non-Mineral Survey No. 2O6, situate near Haines, Alaska, and more particularly de- scribed as follows, yIz:-
 Beg. at Cor. No. 1, identical with Cor. No. 1 Sur. No. POT, a stone set in ground marked IS 2O6 c r, from whence U. S. L. M. No. 573 bears S. G7 deg. 17 min. E. SO.7G chs; thence West 15.94 chs. to center of creek 4 ks. wide, 21.1S chs. center of creek ks. wide, 23.19 chs. center Of creek . ks. wide, 3O.63 chs. center of Government Road, 35.O2 chs. to Cor. No. 2, Sur No. 2O5, 4O.OO chs. to Cor. No. 2, a stone set in ground marked IS 2O6 c 2"; thence North S.93 chs. center Government Road, lG.OO chs. center of creek 1 ks. wide, 3O.4O chs. to Cor. No. 8, a stone marked IS 200 c g.; thence East G.S9 chs. center of creek ks. wide, 1889 chs. center creek ks. wide, 15.Oj chs. to center creek 3 ks. wide, .2I1O center creek 12 ks. wide, 39.9S chs. to Cor. No. 4, @ stone marked IS 200 c 4"; thence south S.5 chs. to Cor. No. ,ur. No. 2O7, 3O,4O chs. to Cor. No 1, the place of beginning. Area I21.57 acres. Magnetic Variation 3l deg. % min. East.
 Any and all persons claiming ad- versely any portion of the above de- scribed tract are required to file with the Register and Receiver of the U. S. Land Office at Juneau, AL aska. their adverse claim thereto, under oath, during the period of pub lication, or within thirty days there after, or they will be barred by pro visions of the Statute.
 John w. Dudley,
 Register. It is hereby ordered that the fore going Notice be published for the statutory period in the Daily Alaskan, daily newspaper printed at skagwa. Alaska.
 John w. Dudley, Register. First publication Oct. 9th, 1909.
 Last publication Dec. 16th 19O9
The daily Alaskan., 1909-10-28

ing with ever increasing speed as it hears the sun, but there Is where 1t Is now.
 Travelled Many Millions of Miles.
 Now the question is raised, Where has this comet been for seyeuy-dve years. and where does it come from now? We answer that iJ has been away beyond the orbit Of Neptune, the most distant world of our solar family of which We have amy Knowledge. We are stagEered by the carlhs distance of g3.010CJ0 miles from the sun, but HaIIcy's comet has been thirty-fve times as far as that and from that dis taucc is returning to a point only G5,- 100000 miles from the sun, nearer than the planet Venus At it's great est distance. known as "aDhclion." the sun would appear only as a bright star and Che cold would be so intense that possibly air itself would freeze into liquid form. At its nearest approach to the sun that umiuary would appear immensely greater than seen from the earth. and the heat would dry up all water courses and destroy all life, both vegetable aud animal
 Now. although the comet can be aC- tuaUy seen over only a very small part of It's course of thousands of mil lions or miles. such is the nature of its curve that the wonderful science of mathematics enables us to track 1t per fcctlv. Let us therefore follow 1t in imagination, just as We do a railway train by studying the time table. About last January the comet crossed the or bit or Jupiter and was 4JOOOOOOO miles from us. Next February it will cross the orbit of Mars and will have taken 4OO,O0OO00 miles from its dis tauce About the last of March it is expected to cross the orbit of the earth. About ten days later it will cross the orbit of Venus. It will then swing about the sun, reaching its pcrihellon, or point of nearest approach to the sun, May 10. according to one calculation, though according to another it may be there some time in April. It then be- gins to push back into space again, and in so doing 1t again crosses the or bits of the planets about as follows: Venus. May 2S; earth. June 10; Mars, July 2S; Jupiter, nearly a year later.
 If the comet twice crosses the orbit of the earth 1t becomes a question of the utmost interest whether our globe is liable to )e run into. It is reassur- ing to be told that the earth will be at
The daily Alaskan., 1909-10-28
Rr I'd rDrRIc cANIpRrLL.

President Of Che department Of ostrono-
 my. Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sci-
 Cuces.I
 CFTER an absence Of seventy.
 E3 five years that monster of the F3 sky, Uauey's comet, is close to
 its return. Already it is sight cd and photographed after being waited for for years and looked for for months. On Sept. n Professor Woln of Heidelberg observatory, Germany got his great telescope on the wan dcving son of the solar family and wired au che principal obscryatories to prepare Co welcome the prodigOl home.
 They are few who have access to the great telescopes, but those who do may BOW sight this celestial marvel in advance of che rest of mankind, who will have Co wait .ul December to gaze upon the woudrous spectacle, Even without a telescope it is of in- tcrest to know just where the comet now is. Most people who understand anything about the heavens are iamil- far with the curlously shade and bril- Uanuy studded winter constellation known as Orion. This now rises soon after midnight and by 9 o'clock in the morning Is well above those mists that hang about Che horizon. The bright whdsh star gt the west of the rectangular Igurc is Rigcl The bright reddish one at the eHst is BctelgeuN, Looking oU to the east of BctolgeuX another bright star Is seen. This Is Procyor. in tbc constellation Canis Nil nor. A brighter staT than either is seen southward - that is. sirius bright est of an the fixed stars. Draw imaginary lines connecting Bc,clgcuN, Procyon and Sirius and you have a great cgulIutcraI triangle Oue-third the distance along the line from Be telgcaux to procyou stands the comet. It will not remain tbcrc for iJ Is nov
The daily Alaskan., 1909-10-28

the two crossing points about Nov. and May l. It will thus be seen that We make a good escape, though a little narrow in the latter case, Inasmuch as there is a margin of only about Q month and a half at that point But even 1T the earth were at the crossing points at the same time with the comet nothing could happen for the reason that the two bodies do not travel in the same plane or on the same level, At the first crossing the comet goes over and at the second 1t goes under the earth, so that there is no danger of collision at either point any more than there Is of collision between surface car and an elevated train on the one hand or between a surface car and a subway train On the other. It has been calculated that the nearest possible approach of the comet to the earth would be G,OOOOOO miles, but we shall be millions of miles farther sep aratcd than that even when nearest
 Source Of Comets Unknown.
 It used to be believed that comets were entirely irresponsible bodies, not under the control of the same forces that control the planets. It was not perceived that the law of gravltatiOn has them in its grip, Us well as earth, Jupiter and Saturn, and that they fol- low definite and well known curves. A comet originally comes from we know not where. Something has shot 1t through infinite space, and 1t hap pens to pass within the range of our suns gravitating power. At once it i8 attracted toward the sun and compel led to sweep down out of space and around the sun before ir is released. Indeed. whether 1t shall be released is altogether a question. If the curve on which the comet approaches is what ls known as parabola or a hyperbOla 1t stands wide open at the farther end, and the comet, having paid us a single
The daily Alaskan., 1909-10-28
FRArgRNAL ORDER OF EAGLES

Regular meetings of Skagway Aerie No. 20, Fraternal Order of Eagles first and third Wednesdays in each month, in their hall on Fifth Avenue, ct 8:3O D. m. sharp.
 All members are requested to be present and visiting brothers are in- yited to attend.
 HENRY A. RHODE, Worthy Pres.
 J. Nj. Keller, Worthy Secy.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-10-28

visit. sweeps back lnrO space and never again appears in our sky. But f 1t be au eTipse 1t is closed at both ends, and, after a certain period of absence, back 1t comes as certainly as tomOrrow'8 sunrise.
 The truth is that all the planets, including the earth, are travelling about the sun, not on circles, but on ellipses, but their paths are only slightly eccentric, while that of the periodical comet is extremely 80. A boys round hoop when pressed out of shape becomes an ellipse, and the harder the pressure the more clip teal it becomes. Such is the path of the periodical comet. When the comet is as near the sun as the earth is, # its speed be more than twenty-slE miles a second 1t will describe a para bola or a hyperbola and will never come back. If 1t be less than the same 1t will describe an ellipse and will return at regular intervals.
 How Comets Are Captured.
 The periodical comets are believed to have been captured by some of the planets. A comet comes journeying through space under the influence of the sun, intending to pay us but a single visit. It passes SO near great Jupiter for example, that its speed is slowed down below the critical point It Is thereby compelled to change its orbit to an ellipse and stays with us for the rest of It's life. Nep- tune is credited with capturing six comets, including Haley's; Uranus three, Saturn two, Jupiter about thlr- ty One reason for believing that there is yet another undiscovered planet beyond Neptune is that O cor- tain comet shows @ curve which reach es out to a distant point where a planet ought to be in order to account for its introduction into our system.
 Naming of the Comet,
 It has been ascertained that the period of Halley's comet is in general about seventy-fve years, though it Is sometimes a little less and sometimes several years more, the differences be- ing due to the influence of the planets which it passes in going and coming. This is therefore a historic comet and by no means an upstart, for it has recently been traced back to more than 200 years before Christ.
 Considering how young the science of astronomy is, think of being able to
The daily Alaskan., 1909-10-28
FREE AND ACCEPTED MAsoNs

Regular meetings of White Pass Lodge, No. l13, Free and Accepted Masons, second and fourth Fridays of each month, at D. m. sharp, at Ma sonic hall, 225 Fourth avenue.
 SOjOurning and visiting members are requested to meet with us.
 A. P. DRAPES Secy.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-10-28

north pole and shackleton at the south pole would each be cheered by Its radiance, and seyenty-hve years hence a very few very old men will trem. bllngly point to the heavens and say that in their youth they saw yonder spectacle once before.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-10-28

Identify appearances of this same com ot 10 all the following years: B. 0, 24O, A. D. 45l, 76O, 1O88, 1145, 1929, 1901, 1878, l456, l53l, 16O7, 1882, 1759, 1885, 1910 In 1O88 William the ConquerOr was terrifying England, and the comet was looked upon as an omen of terri ble disaster ID 1456 all Europe was moved to terror by this enormous sword of light held alOft nightly in the sky, and the pope directed that to the Ave Maria should be added the prayer, "LOrd, save us from the Turk, the comet and the devil" It was at this time that the monday call to prayer by the ringing of church bells was in- trOduced, which has never been aban- doned. In 1759 the comet first came back according to prediction of the great Sir Edmund Haley, the friend of Newton, and it henceforth took upon itself his name.
 There always has been and still is much of mystery as to the nature of comets. Where they came from no one knows, but they are in the uni verse journeylng through space. When first sighted n comet looks only like faint nebula changing its position among the fixed stars. AS 1t draws nearer the sun 1t becomes brighter and begins to shoot out a tall. Yet nearer, the head can be recognized as quite distant from the tail and a bright core at the center of the head called the nucleus. Great comets like Hulley's are described as presenting a head as large as the moon, shining with the brightness of Venus and stretching out the taiI over one-thlrd of the sky. Hal ley's comet has shown a tail forty-fve degrees long, which is equal to a pro- cesslon of ninety full moons. As 1t does not always appear the same, 1t Is likely. on the present occasion to have a length either greater or less.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-10-28
Peril In Its Head.

HaeA e@Ae ~@NN
 The head of a comet is the dangerous part consisting probably of a mass of particles like stones, held together by their mutual Eravitation. The increas- Ing heat of thesun as 1t approaches that body develops vapors, which envelop the nucleus and are driven back into space in the form of the tall It is note worthy that the tail always streams away from the sun, going before the head when the sun retires into space, This, 60 long a mystery, Is now be. lleved to be due to the pressure of light from the sun, so great a force that not less than 10000 tons of 1t ever rest upon the earth's surface. The tail is extremely thin, so that the faintest stars can be seen through a million miles of its thickness. The earth has once or twice passed through comets tan and suffered no harm. If, how ever, there should occur a head-On col lislon with the nucleus 1t would not only be the end of the comet, but might seriously damage if not ruin the earth. If nothing more, 1t would be likely to introduce noxious gases into our at- mosphere, which would as swiftly pro duce death as the descending fumes of Mont Pelec. We have already shown that no collision is possible with Hal ley's comet, nor as long as we believe that human history Is yet to be con- summated and that a divine plan lies back Of the universe can we indulge in now antiuuated fears, Nothing is less probable, even astronomically, than a cometary collision. However, there is come ground for believing that in that strange curiosity of the plains, Coon Butte, Arlz, we have the evidence that just once a comet struck the earth, but lf 80. whether before or after the ad- vent of man, we have no means of knowing.
 HalIey's comet win not be an appari- hon of a moment, like a meteor, nor of a week or two, like the moon. On its last appearance 1t was visible the larger part of a year, and certainly for months We shall have our sky, partly at night and partly in the morning, transformed by the presence of this not unwelcome stranger, It will be seen the world over. Peary at- the
The daily Alaskan., 1909-10-28
BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE
 ORDER OF ELKs.

skagway Lodge No. 431, B. P. o. Elks, holds its regular sessions at 8:3O D. m. every Thursday evening at its hall on Sixth avenue.
 A cordial invitation is extended t" all visiting brothers.
 FRED. CALLARMAN, secy.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-10-28

AGENTS wanted for a high class beautifully printed and Illustrated dol Iar-a-ycar womau's magazine. Com mission fifty cents on each dollar subscription. Write for agents Free outfit American Home Monthly 2I Spruce Street. New York. eos l8t,
The daily Alaskan., 1909-10-28
LAulEs OF THE MAccAeEEs.

Regular reviews of Hive No. 2, La dies of the Maccabees will be held the first and third Tuesdays in the month at p. m. sharp, in their hall on Sixth avenue.
 All visiting members are cordially Invited.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-10-28
DIRECTORY OF FRHTERHlL SOCIETIES
ARCTIC BROTHERHOOD.

Regular meetings of Camp skag- way, No. 1, every Tuesday at S:SO o'clock sharp, in A. B. hall, Broad way.
 Visiting brothers are cordially in- VIted.
 J. W. Grashel, A. C. F. J. Rosenberg, A. R.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-10-28

QUICK DELIVERY PHONE 90. Baggage, coal and wood delivered upon shortest notice day and night
 H. PRUDENTIAL, General Expressing Bonded Car rier.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-10-28

Historic Celestial Marvel, With a Head as LarEe as tNe Moon, Recently Sighted a, Heidelberg, Germany, Will Soon Be Yisibleto the Naked Eye the World Over.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-10-28
LOOK OUTI

Beginning 18th inst. I shall have some A.-y.-P. special at the Pack Train. Finest in the Land. Yours as ever, Herman Grimm If.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-10-28
NOTICE.

Beginning Monday, Nov. 1, l9o9' We will close our market at 6 D. mr Saturdays excepted.
 A. Frye-BruhU Co.,.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-10-28
ThoApDroach gf Haley s Comet

Has Travelled ThOuuaNdu of Elil- lions of Miles In To Journey Toward the Sun - Astronomi"al Expert Tslls Why There To No Collision Po6sibls With h 2
The daily Alaskan., 1909-10-28

TPrcaIdrut or Che department Of ostro my. Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Cucea.I
The daily Alaskan., 1909-10-28

ing with ever increasing speed as it hears the sun, but there Is where it Is now.
Bisbee daily review., 1909-04-10
COMMITTEE WILL
 GALL ON POWELL
Matter of Building Ball Park To Be Taken Up
 Today

Tncre WIS meeting Of the base ball enfausi8~ts last night at the Ccp~cr Queen hotel. with a fairly good attendance Roy Mcr'o~t was made chairInan and '. E. Dorr secre- tary.
 Tre list Of the names Of those sub scribimg fer stock was read. showing that more th1n Si20O had been sub 2crbied
 AIr. Stevens. seeretary of Colonel L. ". Powell. gas present and the matter was taken up at length re- garGing the budding of the baseball park A committee cf five was ap- TO Dfed 10 call upon Mr. Powell today at 2 s'clcck to ny the plan of the assoc 'ation beFcre him and to get h's finite etatemelt as building the rark.
 Tae location of the park is not yet decided upon. but t is the hope of tfe business men that the park wil1 be erected at Warren.
 The me ing was ad burned until tonight. when the committee VIII ro pert the result of the meeting with Colonel Powell and the. organization will be perfected. The committee ap pointed consists of Mes-rs. Gage COhu, Dcrr. Aorfoot and Morse.
Bisbee daily review., 1909-04-10
ROAD UP SOUTH
 SIDE SOF CANYON
No Action on Matter Of Water Works Superintendent
 Taken By Council

The road up Tombstone Canyon will take the south side cf the canyon. as originally planned The property owners on that side have practically agreed to give a first mortgage on their property to guarantee that the city shall be free from exDense in taking care of any wash that may come down. No acton was taken on the matter of the appointing a super intendent of water works. other than to instruct Tom Conlon of Tucson that the city dads wished to confer with him in regard 10 taking that position with the city
 Some lively controversy was induig- ed in last night by the partisans oi the north and side routes for the can yon. Both sides were there in force Finity was chief champion for the north side of the creek, while r. keat- ing was advocate in ordinary to the south side artisans. On the roll call Barkdoii voted against the south side proposition. all the others for it.
 The council went into caucus or the water superintendent proposition There are many applications and the couueiImen were divided in theil o-5nicn as to the best man. No definite action was taken. but Ton Conlon. who was once superintendent of tke water works at Tu~son. was wired to come here for conference.
Bisbee daily review., 1909-04-10
PolARIS HAS PosToFFicE

WASHINGTON. April 9.-(Specia to Review.)-On the recommendation of Delegate Cameron a postoffice was established at Polaris, Yuma cou1ty 4. B. Rogers being appointed post master sEd,p vyoe