The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-03-20


 Finn Peterson returned from tho Hot Springs on Friday. W. H. Webb left yesterday morn ing on a spin with his fast string to Safety.
 Grant Jackson with his fast bird dogs went out on practice mush yesterday.
 The Crowley delivery auto was in evidence yesterday and had quite a pleasant time on the ideally hard trails that prevail.
 The registered mail leaves on Tuesday next and closes tomorrow afternoon. The last regular mall leaves a week later.
 Election politics are warming up The number of candidates increases Probably all the present councilmen will run again with the exception of A. c. Blake whose professional Il labors demand more of his time.
 So much and so urgent is tho bus siness of the Chamber of Commerce under the efficient and tactfu! presidency of Antonio Polet that an- other meeting is to be held on Sur- day next.
 The miners are kicking because the law (Chap. 39) relating to re- cording of proofs of labor is not en- forced and why the government or ficials do not see that it is enforced. The matter was taken up at the meeting of the Chamber of Com merce yesterday. We believe there's Gn assistant counsel for the territory here in the person of Geo. E Grigsby whose duty this would seem to be.
 The mail arrived yesterday, after noon shortly after four o'clock. It was practically all second class and included a goodly number of con gressional records. Guess those civil servants in charge of the mail to be forwarded feel that it would insub ordination if they kept back the wise books of the law makers.
 
 The republican district convention held in the Huntc.. Hall on Saturda" night was we'll attended and the republican delegates were brimful of confidence as they transacted the business of the meeting.
 The convention instructed the sending of the proxies of delegates to Messrs Schofield and Gilmore and endorsed William A. Gilmore as delegate to the national convention at Chicago The delegates instructed their proxies to vote es unit for this division on all questions coming Def re the territorial convention
 The proxies will be immediately dispatched to delegates Gilmore and Schofield.
 The Vernal Equinox, hamburger or spring, occurs today at 11:47 a. m., and as if to give, tho lie to the old of equinoctical stories, Old Sol is outdoing himself trying to make an impression on the snow drifts, At the Vernal Equinox the sun crosses the equator from south towards north and the earth is soI situated in it's orbit that the plane of the equator passes through the sun. This causes the day and night to be of equal length, but this is modified to certain extent by the refraction of light which makes l the interval from sunrise to sunset about IT minutes longer than the interval from sunset to sunrise.
 Today tho sun rises at 6:01 a. m. and sets at SIS p. m. and the suns height above the horizon at noon is 25 deg. 30 min.
 Due to the fact that 1916 is a leap | year, the equinox is sct back a whole day in the calendar and comes earlier than usual. As tho interval | from equinox to equinox is nearly IA of day longer than S65, the equinox would occur at later date every year if 1t were not set back by the intercalation of leap years.
 The sun is said to enter the 20. diac sign Aries, but owing to the known as the Procession of the Equinoxes 1t is at this time c&<x1I Iaf{ f{<.vs