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The Alaska citizen., 1916-10-16

cincr be established. as they found .t difficult To send their instruments lu koyukuk for record.
 ipon his appointment as judge ul the Fourth Judicial Division Judge B4nnen discovered that the commis s:uner for Chandlar had been absent for two years from the district. and any account of records from the pre- aingt could not be secured. hence he joined the precinct to that of Koyu ,uk.
 Acting on the complains of th- miners and the.. recommendation. Judge NuuneH set out the district He included m it Beaver as il is nearer .' Caro-. the new precinct head than .s Wiseman.
The Alaska citizen., 1916-10-16
The Mammoth Cave
 Gets Yearly Breath

Mammoth Cave breathes once q year. That is to say, in summer, when the temperature of the external air is above that of the cave, the current sets from the latter to the former In fact, the cave is the en- tire summer making an expiration.
 On the other hand, when the odor is reserved or the outer atmosphere is below 54 degrees, the cave makes an inspiration, or draws in its breath, This is accomplished during the win ter.
 Charles w. Wright, in describing the respiratory mechanism of Nam moth Cave says this mechanism ceas- es to operate, or in everyday Ian guage, the cave holds it's breath, when the temperature stands at 54 degrees in the outer air; that is the average temperature of all parts of the cave, winter and summer. Hence it is frequently observed in the spring and fall that there is no motion of air in either direction at the mouth of the cave.
 In summer, when the temperature is near 100 degrees, the air rushes out at the entrance to the cave with such force as frequently to extin-
The Alaska citizen., 1916-10-16
WEST MAKES
 FINAL PROOF

In the local land oiiicey csteEda> James Daniel Wejst made final proof 5n his homestead The papers vii. now have to be sent to Washington D C.. for the consideration Of the commissioner of the general land of flee with the expectation that the pat vnt will issue. Which patent will give Mr Weist the complete posses si n of his land and his home.
 MT. Weist's ranch is located on the Cinema river about five miles above Fairbanks. He has consistent ly worked the ground for d number of years past, having made merE in plovements,
The Alaska citizen., 1916-10-16

Yesterday afternoon John A. Davis. representative of the United States bureau of mines, arrived in Fairbanks on the Northern Commercial com pany's stage from the coast. He comes to make a preliminary survey of conditions in order to determine what apparatus it will be necessary to send here next spring for the es- tablishment oF a mining experimental station here.
 No equipment Nill be sent in this fall or winter, according to MT. Da- wis It will first be necessary for a representative from the bureau, or MT. Davis himself, to make study of the existing conditions. Then the whole matter will be planned out this station will be shipped on the first boats in the spring.
 The institution VIII De hnO"H as the Alaska Mining Experiment Sta ton. It's general work will be that of experimenting with the minerals of Alaska, in order to learn their values, methods of extraction, saving of waste, and the cost of mining. One work that the department wish es to study especially is that of the use of lignites, for. according to the expert, they vary exceedingly in their values as commercial products. The bureau plans to be of as much ser vice as possible to the miner in de- termining the best use to make of his ground.
The Alaska citizen., 1916-10-16
Town Gossip and Stories
By The TattIer.

TRUE LOVE Down at Nenana NEVER RUNS they don't have any SMOOTHLY. booze. In Fairbanks
 it is plentiful But booze isn't part of this story, al though it is one of it's essential ele- ments. For if it hadn't been for booze a certain well known business man formerly of Fairbanks, but now of Nenana, would not be short $150, while a woman well known in the tenderloin district would also have $50 in addition to the supply she keeps in the proverbial "woman's national bank"
 It seems that the starting of this romance, for such it was thought to be at first, took place at Nenana. There it was that the couple fell in love with each other and decided that they could not live apart. There fore, when MT Business Man started for Fairbanks the lady" in the case came along with him.
 Now this business man still re- tains property in Fairbanks. So af- ter the couple arrived here from Ne mana they proceeded to the place he calls home and started in to live the life" And live they certainly did, according to all reports. Wine and chicken was taken to them in abun- dance by delivery boys of the vari ous mercantile establishments of Fair banks. They took their meals at home. The only thing lacking was wood with which to build the kitchen fire. This was supplied by nightly trips of the business man to his neighbors' woodpiles, one of the neighbors in particular. But the neighbor "got wise" and moved all of the wood into wood shed, where it would be out of the way of temp tation. What the couple did for
The Alaska citizen., 1916-10-16

guish the lanterns carried by visitors This condition prevails, however, for only a few yards At a distance of about half mile from the entrance the motion of air is hardly percep tible at any time from the fact that the main avenue enlarges so rapidly that it plays the part of a reservoir, where a current of air from any di- rection is speedily peutralized.
 If the current of air blows from without inward and is below 54 de grees, it does not pass more than quarter of mile before it is brought up to that point. Air above the average temperature of the cave never blows into it.
 The element of change inevitably entwined with the passage of time above ground is singularly absent in the passage of time underground. In Mammoth Cave, where there is no variation of temperature, no water and no light, the three great forces of geological transformation cease to operate, and even Father Time must perforce pass through some parts of Mammoth Cave and leave not the slightest imprint of his journey. A change of sessions is unknown: day and night, morning and evening. have no existence in this subterranean world. In fact, there is an external sameness here which has no known parallel.
The Alaska citizen., 1916-10-16

For the present the station in Fair banks will have no connection with the contemplated school of mines, as lhe station here will bear somewhat the same relation to the miner as the agricultural station bears to the farmers of the district However, the station will probably later be con nected with the school in much the same way as the Bureau of Mines station in Colorado was moved from Denver to Golden. Colorado, in or der to be near the school of mines there.
 MT. Davis will be here for several weeks, and will then go Outside and report The officials in the bureau of mines. acting upon his report, will determine what it will be best to send in. While he is here he will may also go to Nenana. He wishes especially to look at the quartz prop critics, as they are of interest to the department.
 The Fairbanks Commercial club has already made known the fact that it intends to furnish quarters for the experimental station here. It is probable that the officers of the club will meet with MT. Davis today.
 The visit of MT. Davis to Fairbanks makes the mining experiment sta lion here a practical certainty, Which II cans that a considerable sum of lnoacy will be spent here each year in is maintenance.
The Alaska citizen., 1916-10-16

q state could be living. l exclaimed aloud 10 the nearest surgeon, Why did you not free him from suffering Q" (meaning Why did you not kill him?' And he knew what meant) His re ply was, We have freed him from his suffering And do you know will you believe it-that very man that apparent wreck, every feature of whose face was indistinguishabl eyes closed, lips and parts of his face burned to the bone, teeth all exposed like a grinning mask, whose hands were too dreadful for me to describe talked with Mrs. T. the other day. only ten days after? That the features of his face are not only plainl distinguishable, but that the deep wounds are filling up, the flesh fast healing over the new white skin, but one place not yet fully recovered, and that there will not be, within another week even a scar? More over, he told me with his own lips i that he had not suffered at all after i they began to treat him by this new method
 i You will have been asked all along, | What is this wonderful thing?' The mixture is wax, paraffln and resin. It is heated to 12O degrees C., when it becomes like water and of the i color of honey. Drawn off from the reservoir in which it is heated, it is ready to use. If you dip your fingers into it at almost 120 degrees, as did it has only comfortable warmth and dries at once about incasing every fold or crease with an elastic covering through which you can see. All air is kept out and there is no moisture; and, you know, air and moisture are the greatest cause of suffering to burned people If the flesh is not too fright fully sensitive the wax Cor ambrlne, as the surgeon has named iO can be painted on with a brush. If it is, the liquid is sprayed on with a small pump. The member is then wrapped in cotton and gauge to keep the waxy covering from breaking, or as in the case of faces, with a mask of gauge only In the beginning the wax covering is removed every 12 hours and new one painted on pain As the days go on the wax is removed only once in 24 hours.
 ITO my surprised inquiry if that were really all that produced such marvellous, such miraculous results the surgeon replied: 'Mademoiselle, We do nothing. Nature, left alone does it all. It is as if We covered the man as one covers a plant in a conservatory, away from all harm ful influences, and there the skin grows again, untouched as a plant sun That is all But it has been the work of a lifetime: research which has taken all his private in . come"
The Alaska citizen., 1916-10-16

It is reported that Mike Larson, John Demos, and M T. Robinson ap- peared before Commissioner J. c. Moody, of Hot Springs, and plead guilty to the charge of gambling. They were fined and paid their fines.
 The men were arrested recently at Woodchopper by Deputy Marshal J. l.. finders, and were taken to Hot Springs for trial.
The Alaska citizen., 1916-10-16
New Cure for Frost-Bite and Burns

A remarkable new cure for burns and frost-bite. the discovery of French surgeon who dissipated his private fortune in research. is deS- cribed by a young New England hospitals of the allies in France, in q recent letter to the Outlook The name of the surgeon is Dr. Barthe de Sandfort. Hospital St Nicholas. Issy- le MoulineauX, Press de Paris, and up to the time of the discovery, the author of the letter declares, he had devoted virtually all of his time to the one problem. An extract from the letter, telling of the cure fol lows:
 "I have been to a hospital, (not here, but in Paris, before my return here) where saw the most re markab ble cures wrought on suffer ing men that l have ever seen in my life saw eleven men (there were more) who had burned tar played upon them by the most re gently perfected device by their SO called civilized enemy When they reached the hospital the tar was ct n burned off
 We went first to see the dressing done upon those whose feet and hands had been frozen at Verdun- men who had been lying on watch, immobile for days, moving neither hands nor feet for fear of being dis covered by the enemy, along a part of the lines where trenches are i'm Have you ever seen gangrenous feet or hands? Do you know what things of horror they can become? Do you know what the Odor of gangrene is? And do you know that almost always 1 the foot or hand, if not the whole limb, must be amputated? Then you will know something of the wonder when I tell you that of all the doz- ems and dozens sent to this surgeon only one had to have his legs ampu- i tated, and of the others only a few lost their toes, and these because | they had been first treated in other ways at other hospitals, and time i had been lost before they reached his Ordinary wounds are nothing to these But not man flinched or cried out, because not one suffered any pain
 "One man talked to me in English. 1 He had been a waiter in New York hotel. He talked calmly and smiling | ly while his dreadful feet were be- i ing painted with a white, waxy l IIluIu 4tllolHtl Idy oH d lletSllti rolling bandage unconcernedly while they dressed his stumps. l Does it hurt? l asked. Not at all, i he replied; but before I reached here'-- There were others and others all with the same sort of l hands and tall cheerful and in- terested in their own cases all wit messing to the fact that they felt no 1 pain-all fast recovering
 And then we came to the burning tar cases. One doctor told me that it was considered the most terrible form of suffering. When l caught sight of the first of them I could not believe that any man in such
The Alaska citizen., 1916-10-16
Chandlar Precinct
 Again Established

Yesterday in the district court Judge c. E. Bunnell signed an order re-establishing recording precinct in the Chandlar country and named John Barker as commissioner. The miners of the region requested that the pre-
The Alaska citizen., 1916-10-16
GIDEON HAS NEW
 QUARTERMASTER

Lieut. A. M Jones. of the United States army, who arrived recently on the Sheldon automobile, goes to Gib- bon to act as quartermaster. He re- lieves Lieut. Harry Twaddle, who is the present quartermaster there. It return to the States by way of Fair banks.
The Alaska citizen., 1916-10-16

wood after that is not known, but he chances are that some other neighbor's woodpile suffered.
 Everything seemed to be going along serenely. All was calm. The couple could be heard by the neigh bors every night and sometimes in the day time, as sounds of hilarity issued forth from the cabin
 Suddenly there was change And one morning the woman in the case came forth from the cabin in a very battered and bruised condition Just who made the complaint is not stat ed, but her condition was evidently enough to convince Judge Buckley that he should show no mercy on the man who beat Ter up," judging from the amount of fine he paid. Just why the girlie should get fifty" after getting beat up" is not known.
 
 WORKING A drunken man stag ON THE gered along Second STREET.. avenue yesterday
 morning. He was in a state of inebriation such as would make one think that he would be incapable of recognizing anybody. But the fact of the matter is that he wasn't so full" but that he could ejaculate an "eXcushmemadtham' when, upon rounding the corner on Cushman. he ran plump into a lady who is one of the prominent prohi bition workers of the town.
 The lady told the man he was ex- cusable, and then noticed that he was slightly under the weather" so to speak But she evide ntly thought that he would be a good subject for a prohibition lecture. For she start ed to work. Just what good she ac- complished has not been learned.
 It's a shame poor Carries dead.
The Alaska citizen., 1916-10-16
Her Preference.

Judge Gin divorce easel Whom do you prefer to live with, my child your father or your mother?
 Child-1f you please, sir, which ever gets the motor car.
The Alaska citizen., 1916-10-16
OF MINES
 MAN ARRIVES HERE

JOHN A. DAVIS COMES TO ESTABLISH BUREAU OF MINES EXPERIMENTAL STATION IN FAIR BANkS-WIII, MAKE STUDY OF GENERAL. CONDITIONS HERE AND REPORT TO DEPART
 MENT-EOUIPMENT WILL, ARRIVE IN SPRING.
Evening journal., 1916-05-10
PIONEER MINSTRELS.

The final rehearsal Of the Pioneer
minstrel troupe at the rooms of the
association will be held Thursday
night. The next two are TO be held
at the Garrick Theatre. The troupe
consists Of IS members. each giving
his services gratis, and no expense
has been spared TO make this show
greater than any yet given. The needs
of preparedness are outlined in Wake
Up. America" and "The Spirit Of 1875
and 1916" The closing sketch in
troduces real military action and
camp life. Those taking part are:
Buglers J. Leo Curran and Francis
]. Marian; officers and soldiers,
Charles A. Burns. John II. Boyle
James ]. Gallagher. James H. Har-
kins. James A. McDonough, James B.
McVey. Maurice J. White and Will
liam A. White.
Evening journal., 1916-05-10
RAILROADS TO FIGHT
advances IN WAGES
Managers OF Lines Meet TO
Organize for Conferences
Starting June |
WILLING TO
ARBITRATE QUESTION

NEW YORK, May 10.--The national
conference committee OF railroad man
ayers, appointed by the fifty-two rail-
roads affected by the wage demands
of the four great train service unions
Of the country. met in the Grand Cen
trail station yesterday TO organize.
This committee will have charge Of
negotiations carried on with the union
representatives. Elisha Lee. assist
ant general manager of the Pennsyl-
rania Lines east. was chosen 10 head
he committee.
Conferences between the managers
committee and the representatives Of
.he train service employees Will begin
IN New York on June l. Upon these
conferences will depend the outcome
Of the mems wage demands. How long
they will last or what the result will
De no one is predicting. but the rail-
road managers, who are working in
Unison for the first time. say they are
preparing to stand their ground.
Meetings will probably be held in
the Engineering Societies Building.
The managers estimate that there
will be present about 500 delegates
from the employees Of the roads max
ing demands. although the heads OF
the four train service unions-con-
ductors engineers. firemen and train
men-will meet directly with the
railroad managers.
The situation as outlined yester-
day is that the four unions agreed
10 meet the railroad representatives
here or I'm Chicago to talk over the
opening Of the wage schedules ne
cessitated by the employees demands.
The railroads are prepared to resist
advances in wages, but will agree 10
arbitration II will therefore be de-
termned at the conferences whether
the differences will be arhitrated.
whether the union heads return TO
their men 10 take a strike vote or
whether the whole matter will be
throshed out and settled by con-
'orees.
The members Of the committee
which met yesterday are:
Western Railroads.. W. Kouns
general manager Eastern lines OF Atchi-
son, Topeka and Santa Fe; G.. n. Emer-
SON. general manager Great Northern
a. $. Creig. assistant TO receivers 81
Louis and san Francisco; James Rus.
sell. general manager Denver and Rio
Grandc; =. u. Morrissey, assistant To
vice-president Chicago Burlington and
Quincy; $. f.. Cotter, general manager
Wabash.
Eastern Ruilruads--Elisha Lee. assist
ant general manager Pennsylvania; p
+. Crowley. assistant vice-presideni
New York Ccntmli a. 2. Stone, vice
president Eric: II. T.. McNlaster general
manager Wheeling and Lake Erie; c. l.
Bardo, general manager New York New
Haven and Hartford.
Southeastern Railroads.. II. Coap.
man. vicc-pcsidcut and general man
ager Southern; y. d. Alahcr. vice-pre.i-
dent Norfolk and Western; l.. NJ. Bald.
win, general manager Central Of Geor-
gia: Lyman Delano. vice-president At.
lantic Coast Line; W. l.. Seddon. vice.
president Seahoard Air Line: C. W
Grice. assistant superintendent Of trans.
portation Chesapeake and Ohio.
Evening journal., 1916-05-10

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Evening journal., 1916-05-10
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FAIRFAX LODGE NOTEs.

Fairfax degree staff. I. o. o. f., con-
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Of 30 candidates last Friday night, in
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The members are already laying
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The degree social met at the home
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street. last Wednesday night All had
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home OF Harlan Taylor, No. sos South
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Degree Master William Maxwell ap-
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out.
Leslie Beezine, orchestra leader
was agreeably surprised to have so
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The degree staff will confer the
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candidates on Friday night. The team
will be busy every meeting night this
month.
Evening journal., 1916-05-10

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