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NOTICE OF ELECTION
\ lice is lieivby giv. n that <>n Tu-^day.
Nt \ ember ;.!■!' in the hall, w .I!
hr held an ai for the purpose of
ell • fi'ig a delr-ap- 11» e ngrrs-. t e r m I ■ •! i a I
xillorney general. < :v senator and r-- jr ivp
n‘seniativi s i.i the Me>ka legislature l'rom
* lie Fourth il i \ i- i * e i.
Ml citizens •; ik t'nited states 01 years
age ' r iavr. wii are actual and bona
jiiv r- -1111 tils of .Ma.'ka. and \va - have bo n
Mi'-ii i-i -:di nts o mimioiisly during the • u
iryi-ar immediately pr*‘o>ding the elor
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u ■ -1 y r »r thirty (lays in \ t j'-ro-a-ding the
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“ALASKA’S POET LAUREATE”
WILL WRITE WAR POEMS
Robert W. Service, Alaska’s poet laureate,
who for several months has been busy heav
ing bombs from French to German trenches
with a lacrosse racquet, is going to write
a book on “Ballads of Battle" as soon as
he can find time. This story came in a
private letter from a publisher, says the
Juneau Empire.
Frank Dodd, of Dodd, Meade A Co.,
went to France last April in an effort to
find Service and induce him to write some
poetry dealing with the war. Service was
at the front, and Dodd was unable to get
a pass permitting him to visit the trenches.
He was not particularly anxious about milk
ing the trip, anyway, as the point at which
Service was stationed was not very health
ful, there being a superfluity of German
bullets and piece? of shrapnel whistling
through the atmosphere. He left a letter
for Son ice and returned to the United
states. A few day - ago Dodd received an
i newer, which he forwarded to a friend of
Seri ice.
"Tve been on the front for nearly a
year." the Alaska pool writes, “and have
r!e\ eloped considerable proficiency as a
bomb-thrower. If 1 ever get back to Amer
ica the anarchists will be sure to vHmt to
hire me. Lately I have been driving am
munition automobile trucks and doing am
bulance work, which is not quite as nerve
racking as is bomb-throwing. But at that
niv nerves are becoming somewhat frazzled.
I guess it must be the noise. I'll have to
quit before, long, and when 1 get back to
where it’s quieter I'll see what 1 can do
about writing something on the war.”
A story is told to the effect that some
time ago Service rescued a wounded Tri-b
in an. The man died before he reached a
l a o hospital. Service, who. although he i
a poet, has good business sense, found in
ill - n aids pockets a c-py of a poem on
•‘War." written in 1 ng hand. Service read
it and thought it a masterpiece. He t. I 1
newspaper correspondents of the great
tragedy. Here had been di-covered an t:n
kiw wn geniu- who died on the eve • f gain
ing public recognition. The newspaper <. a
respondents printed the story of the poem
and then it was discovered that the verse |
had been written nearly sixty year- ago
>>v an author of international reputation.
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|: MANY FORMER ALASKANS
GAINED FAME OUTSIDE
—
Charles E. Herron, publisher of the An
chorage Times, gives the following li<t of
former Alaskans who have reached fame
: on the' Outside:
Rev. Raymond Robbins, who was the
1 permanent chairman of the Progressive na
tional convention at Chicago, and a recog
nized leader among the Progressives, in the
days of ’99 preached the gospel to crowded
houses in the little Congregational church
at Nome, and old Nomoites remember him
as an exceptionally gifted and eloquent
I pleader. Albert l ink, the former Nome at
j torney, gained a national reputation as the
chief counsel in the Senator Lorimcr bribery
case, which he won. l ink is not only a
deep and logical thinker, but he i< a speaker
of great power and eloquence.
United States Senator Harry Lane of Ore
gon 0 a former sourdough, and mushed
| over the Pyca trail cn route to the Klon
j ilike geld fields.
i Mayor Hi Gill of Seattle is a former
' Nomeite, having joined the 1901) stampeders
! to that point.
()f course everybody knows Rex Beach,
the popular novelist, who sprang into im
mediate fame as the author of “The Spoil
ers.” Beach is wc’l remembered by the
Nome crowd. In local minstrel shows he
was always one of the end men, and for
I a time served as a mail carrier, which is
! some job in this country.
| Mr. and Mrs. \ ernon l abile, Known Ml
! over the United States as exponents of ilie
I art of fancy dancing, formerly resided at
Nome, and probably attended the delight
j fid functions given there in the good old
! days. Although at that time they were
not recognized as exceptional in this line
of endeavor so far as any Nomeite here
remembers.
The redoubtable Frank Kleinschmidt,
I sourdough Alaskan, whose* moving pictures
I of Arctic animal life have been shown in
i about every city, village and hamlet in the
States, has been with General Yon Hinden
burg’s army in Russia, where he served as
a special correspondent for a Berlin news
paper. As a side issue (it probably will be
the main issue> he secured moving pic
tures of war scenes, and has returned to
New York. Anchorage may have an op
portunity to view flie result of his efforts.
Jack Hines, former Nomeite. is making
a very decent living in New York city, on
! gaged in writing short stories for t,-p maga
zines. No one ever suspected Hines of
possessing literary nhdiiy, but he de iver ■
the goods in the metrop'di- and gets well
paid for his writing, mostly Ala kail stories.
Wil-en Mi'/nrr, t laywright and author, i
mi (di-time sourm.ugh of Daw-mu and
N me. Milner may not h.:"c rained much
fane in his present ac ion ic- , but he
achieved nati< n-vvide notoriety because he
married the wealthy widow of Yerkes. the
Chicago tractic n m.agnate.
V:]*s brother of a former light
weight pugilist, used lo live at Nome, and
was cmj loved as a reporter on one of the
nr.vsr.: pers there. \Yi lis. who managed
V- brother’s pi g l stic affairs, is known in
: 11 snorting circles.
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CHANGE IN THE WEATHER
BRINGS AIR OF ACTIVITY
A welcome change in the we ther took
: i eo on Saturday l i t. whi n, after a light
f: 11 of snow, the thermometer began {(
drop, end doling the night is snid t<.
registered 18 degrees be! nv zero. Tie- tlow
f ice in the river was stopped, and by
morning the stream wt;s inei -'••i in an icy
covering in many places. By Monday
morning the area had be n considerably in
creased, but a channel remained open in
front of the city until Wednesday m ?niiir/.
Not enough snow fell to make good .Ted
ding, but it was a vast improvement over
the mud and Tush who h had effectually
tied un traffic for some days. The roads
are rough and uneven, but in spite of this
there has been conTderaM" traveling.
A decided air of activity was noticeable
from the inception of the cold weather. Dog j
1 arness was being put to rights, and dogs j
' ere rounded up and put to work after
their season of lading. Trips were bung
' 1 aimed, and a movement of those intending
to go Outside was in evidence. It is said
that between twenty and thirty persons will
start out over the Seward trail as soon as
the conditions permit.
On Tuesday the weather moderated to
ome extent, and the river continued to
rise.
GERMAN MILITARY SHAKE-UP
CAUSED BY VERDUN BLUNDER
A Rotterdam dispatch of centemW o
'i-eussing the then recent military crisis in
Germany, states that it is reported on ex
cellent authority that it was the climax of a I
hitter conflict between Von Falkenheyn and
Von Hindenburg over the Verdun offensive.
Von Hindenburg was utterly opposed to
any offensive in France, but wanted to
strike immediately another blow at Russia.
For this he was prepared, not only with
a plan of campaign, but with preparations
actually’ made behind the front in Cour
land.
He made a demand on the general staff
for additional forces to carry out this en
terprise, but they were refused him by Von
Falkenheyn and Von Hindenburg’s plan was
overruled in favor of the offensive against
Verdun.
Behind Von Falkenheyn in this disas
trous decision was the German crown prince,
who is held by well-informed persons to be
really responsible for the colossal blunder
of Verdun.
The fall of Von Falkenheyn is regarded
as of the greatest significance, even imperil
ing the Hohenzollern dynasty.
It was the intervention of Roumania that
caused the kaiser to side with Von Hinden
burg. The change in the leadership of the
general staff has resulted in a widespread
shake-up of the German army.
The most interesting of Von Hindenburg’s
new appointments is that of General Von
Bernhardi, the famous military author, to
the command of the army corps defending
'he Kovel section of the Volhynian front.
Von Bernhardi’s book, “Germany in the
Next War,” published in 1912, has been
widely quoted as proof that. Germany had
long contemplated the launching of a great
European war. The book has proved pro
phetic of the present conflict in many im
I portant particulars. The kaiser has just
bestowed upon its author, now in the field,
the Order Pour le Merite. General Von
Bernhardi’s promotion was effected by Field
j Marshal Von Hindenburg at the expense of
; the Austrian, Major General Pulhuallo,
i whom he relieved of the Kovel command.
PORTLAND CITIZENS WONDER
AT NORTHERN PHENOMENON
Late in August the residents of Portland
were treated to a display of the aurora bo
realis, or northern lights. The phenomenon
was vis: 1 ! al-o in oilier poilions of north
ern and western Oregon, and caused con
siderable speculation, as it is a sight not
often witnessed in such latitudes. An Ore
gonian reporter commented most interest
ingly on the unusual event as follows:
“The sky was scanned Sunday night by
| many Portland residents who hoped to see
a repetition of the display of Saturday
night, but they were disappointed. The
aurora borealis, or the ‘Merry Dancers,’
| never come to order, and it is the aurora
that most of the Saturday night observers
think they saw.
“The flashes that danced across the Ore
gon sky, from the north country to the
southeast, seeming to disappear in the ('as
cades, were a phenomena not often seen in
Portland. Kvcn when nocturil phenomena
do appear the folk of the city, unaccus
tomed to gusing upward, frequently miss
them. Saturday night’s spectuch1 was wit
loosed by comparatively few, and ye-terdav
| many regrets were uttered by those who
| had not been observant.
Professor Gives Views
“Pr. Willi am Conger Morgan, pr •fessor
! of chemi.-try at Reed College, did not ob
i serve the di play, and from accounts is uu
I certain whether the aurora borealis was on
; | arade or whether sheet lightning was
mil lly in evidence as the offspring of an ex
i ccssivcly warm day. Pr. Morgan said he
i had seen only one showy dis| lay of the
aurora in a latitude so far ‘snith as North
ern Oregon. This was the calibrate-1 ima
in the early ’90s, when the sky scintillated
nightly for weeks above the northeast part
-f the Untied States md above Eastern
Canada. ‘Pr ibsbly n >t three tint ■- in lb’1
j years is there so magnitment a speeta -0 of
the curt ra as was that,' said Pr. Mnrgi-tn
“‘It's the corona of the sun,’ 1-arn. ly
pronounerd some Pertlattd obserters. it s
i lectrotis,’ said others, although the major
ity clung to the more familiar explanations
of the aurora borealis and siwt lightning.
; Yet the corona, the electron and the aurora
i motions may all have been right, according
| ‘o Pr. Morgan, who said:
“ 'The n r. na of the sun is believed to
! t)C. finely divided matter sen! out from the
on to a great distance and ordinarily itt
| idle because it is overwhelmed by tlm
va:tly greater lieht of the parent body and
f the moon. When the sun is far in the
south the competition of its light sometimes
(- eras to a degree that permits the ct rum
to be seen, when other ennditi-ns are right.
There has h«en much talk in recent years
of electrons also, and it is a res.-or.ably no
c - ! theory, though not an cstal ! si 1
fin! that the phen -mcna of the corona, of
electrons, and <f the aurora b Tealis are
i ne end the same.
Cause Mot Definitely Known
■■ T question whether last night s bril
i;■ iy wa- that of the aurora K.realis. A
mibl"electrical display, due to ihe unwonted
'omit, is more probably what it was. The
. ut.ri ,,f generation of el 'clrictty and of the
: a lt ant visible evidences of it under suc h
r’rcunXrnces is not definitely known by
scientists.’
“ ‘drier.1,ists differ somewhat upon the
van at if :i in heights of the aurora. Dr.
'p" Wp'yener. a ■ mtributor to astronom
ical discussions, estimates the range to ha
from 43 to 250 miles, while Paulsen s esti
mate of flip ranee is from ihe earth’s sur
face up to 300 miles. The aurora, accord
ing to Paulsen. :.t times appears below
mountain summits and I w lying clouds,
and at others is above the lofty cirrus clouds
ii far northern lai d titles. Saturday night s
■ays are believed to h.ave been lofty. An
ororal drapery that i- so high as to srem
, nly a few yards wide may really be 150 j
miles cr more in width.
Sky’s Appearance Sketched
“George A. Dowling, one of the staff
artists for the Oregonian, witnessed the ee- j
b.-tisl illumination, anti was quick to pro- l
nounce ii a rare manifestation of the north- j
ern fghts, which he had seen on several
occasions from the Canadian woods and j
from Minnesota and North Dakota. Front
an eminence in Piedmont Saturday night
Mr. Dowling watched the lights play across
lire sky for almost an hour, and he made J
a rough sketch of the appearance of the j
sky during that time.
“ ‘The effect (f the display was such that
the mountains, especially St. Helens, could
be seen in a sharp silhouette,’ Mr. Dowling
said. T have watched the northern lights j
and also the more beautiful aurora borealis j
from places in Canada and Northern Min
nesota and Norih Dakota, and I feel cer
•ain the phenomena Saturday night was j
a rare manifestation of the northern lights, j
I had never witnessed them in Oregon nor
it this season of the year, however. From
•vr re-icler.ee the lights Saturday night
bathed the entire northwestern sky in yel
1 >w light and sent brilliant shafts far into
the east and southeast at times.
“A notable aurora was seen in Omaha,
Neb., in September, 1908. It came after a
five weeks’ rain'ess period and directly pre
ceding were high temperature, strong winds
and a dust storm, which were followed by I
a sudden drop in temperature from SO to 42
degrees.
“A luminosity of an auroral nature is
sometimes mistaken for the aurora bo
'realis. Strips and patches of luminous haze
appear in no particular part of the sky at
no particular hour, with a slow drifting
motion among the stars that is comparable
with the drift of the hazy, streaky clouds
often seen by day.”
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MEANING GF TOTEM POLES
EXPLAINED BY EDUCATOR
The Verstovian, published by the pupils
of the Sheldon Jackson school at Sitka,
bays:
i “The following paragraphs an* excerpts
from ‘The Origin and Meaning of the T«?tem
Poles in Southeastern Alaska,’ by 1. E.
ITobese, formerly curator of tin* Sin Mon
Jackson Museum, These statements apply
to the Ilydah tribe, the inverilMs of the
totem :
“ ‘There are three different kind, of totem
poles. One kind is usually erected in front
of houses, showing different animal figures
representing the totems of a family and
their relatives, and is celled the family
totem. . . . Another totem pole is-called
lhe death totem, a post in which the ashes
of the dead are gathered. The third and
1 a>t class of totem poles was erected by the
Hydahs to illustrate any remarkable event
that had taken place.. . . .
“‘Exactly like the old Romans, the My
nahs were divided into three classes, the
rich, the middle class and slaves. The la-t
were never allowed to erect pclps in front
>f their houses. When a Ilydah girl mar
ried it was done with much ceremony,
i N< w the totems of a married coii| ! * are of
! course different. l or example, we wdl say
the woman has the lotpm of a raven while
j the man has that of the eagle. Fin mid the
| family decide to erect a totem pole in
, front of their home, which was always an
expensive luxury, illustrating the wealth
I and rank rf the family, the carving on thi
j nest would be a< fell nvs: The uppermost
figure, the totem of ihe wife, a raven; the
j second that of the man, tin? image of an
1 eagle; after that any totems belonging to
' relatives of the family may be represented
n tl i< pole, namely, beaver, bear, frog.
I wolf, s: 1 w n. whale, seal shark.
" in ii certain i lace, sometimes a small
; uninhabited i land, a death pole was erected
| with the totems of the deceased carved on
hp same, and in the hack of the post a
cavity had been cut. in which the remains
were deposited; tT-o the lie! ngim's of toe
person when alive were buried with hi
a.-he in the pile. The lei - or cavey e a
neatly covered with an origin;! slab taken
from the mull pole.
“ ‘We now come to the third class of totem
poles. These illustrate events, legends and
other stories. The carvings may be a tit
resemblance to the ancient picture writings
of the old Teutons. The Hydah name for
the latter columns is Ce-at-lang lac-lee, and
the correct translation of this into English
is -Jury maker. A story-maker i- a- much
a mystery to the pre-ent native generation
as to the white inhabitant. The carvings
■if old are practically the same as those
made at present, and an easily be recog
r.:: ed as to what particular i uintal, bird nr
‘eh is meant by the general outlines the
figures repre-ent; but ti e combinations oi
-any of the figures, as they are represented
i m- above another on these long poles, what
story they till, and why such a pole was
creeled, will forever remain a mystery, and
was probfblv only known to the man or
family to which it belonged. Natives on
being asked to tell the story about such
a totem pole will readily do so. but the
t one story is never corroborated.'
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