Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-01
END OF YEAR
SHOWS CHANGE
FOR TEACHERS
SEATTLE TRIP CONTEST NOV
ON WITH VIM
SANTA PAULANS ENTER TWO
MORE FAVoRITEs
Alaska Display at Exposition Will In
cIude Remains of Largest Mas
todon Ever Uncovered,
Glacial Relic

With the end of the year number OF
teacher contestants in the trip to Seat
tie contest have made changes in the
| numerical order of their votes.
The revised standing of the contest
ants last night shows that many are
at work to gain the twelve trips to
Seattle and back, with the compliment
airy hospitality attached, ali this the
offering of The Herald to the winners
OF the contest.
Yesterday Santa Paula was heard
from, 100 votes each being entered for
Miss Anita Williams and Miss Jessie
Mahan.
Mrs. Clara Harding, whose vote
stands at 1923, is one OF the typical
cases where hard work by friends of
the contestants is making the race in
teresting. Mrs. Harding teaches in
CASTELAR, school and has been in Cali
fornia so long that her old home in
Illinois seems far away indeed.
Mrs. Harding confesses a desire to
see the big show at Seattle, and her
we'll wishers, who have known her dur
ing her ten years teaching experience,
are anxious that this wish be gratified.
The CASTELAR, school is in a district
where there are many former foreign
ing what they can for their favorite
teacher.
Mrs. Harding was formerly president
Of the Philomathean society and is a
charter member of Emmanuel Presby-
terrain church.
Giant Mastodon on View
The remains of the largest mastodon
ever discovered have been unearthed
by John Trolling of Tacoma, near Cir
Gle City, Alaska. Mr. Trolling, who
has spent several years in the north
land, on recent trip out brought the
news of the discovery of vast field of
buried mammoths. Through corre-
spondence with the Smithsonian insti-
tuition it was ascertained that the
specimen is the largest that has ever
been found, where the discovery was
made known to science.
Miners engaged in tFawing frozen
ground with steam points came into
contact with the foreign substance and
uncovered the remains Of the giant
mastodon All the bones were intact,
and Mr.. Trolling has arranged to have
the bones exhibited with the Alaska
curios at the Alaska Yukon-Pacific ex-
position.
Everything points to the fact that
several thousand years ago the Alaska,
climate was mild,'' said Mr.. Trolling.
land it was then the mammoth roamed
in vast numbers through the forests.
At that time Alaska and Siberia were
connected by an iSthmus, where the
Aleutian chain Of mountains now ap-
pears.
"Some CONFUSION of nature took
place that altered the climate and
swept away much Of the vegetation.
Possibly this was the descent Of the
ice, the recurrence of the glacial period.
At any rate, the mastodons took refuge
in the valleys, where 1t was more shell
tered and warmer. Here they must
have lived for time, for we frequent
ly find evidence of great fights. Mann
moths have been found with the tusk
of another maStodon penetrating the
skin and even breaking the bones.
1.-THE climatic change was permanent
and one by one the great animals died.
Their remains have been found in the
deeper valleys in almost every part of
Alaska. That the cold descended al
most at once is shown by the state OF
preservation of the bones and skin,
and in some instances pieces Of the
flesh. In all probability the bodies
Were frozen at once and covered with
snow and ice, and the washing of the
streams gradually covered the graves
with earth and rocks"
Every section of the Pacific coast has
taken a great interest in the exposition
floral display. Recently the exposition
held a geranium day for the purpose
of securing $4,000 geranium plants.
Many were sent to the grounds in adj
vance of the day and for several days
following Something like 10000 plants
were given altogether. Donations were
received from points in Oregon and
California and from all over the state
of Washington.
Already acres of green lawns have
been laid out and many of the more
hardy plants are being set out about
the grounds. The climatic conditions
of the Puget sound country are such
that the lawns will remain green all
winter.