MONDAY
Ml. JOHNSON ANNOUNCES
CANDIDACY FOR PRES.
W^ASH, Deo. 15—Senator Hiram
Johnson Saturday night announced
formally his candidacy for the repub
lican nomination for president.
Johnson stated he would make a
personal campaign in ever>* state In
the union.
CHARGES MILLIONS SPENT
ILLEGALLY BY WAR DEPT
WASH., Dec. 15—Charges that mil
lions of dollars have been spent ille
gally by the War Department were
made today by Representative An
thony of Kansas, In a report from a
subcommittee of the House Military
Affairs committee on the purchase of
land for army posts.
SENATE PASSES SUGAR
CONTROL MEASURE
WASH.. Dee. 15—The Me Nary bill. 1
under which government control of
sugar will l>e continued for about a
year, was passed today by the senate
WILSON HOLDING CONGRESS
RESPONSIBLE FOR
PEACE DELAY
WASH. Dec. 15—President Wilson
dilemna to the extent of announcing
that he has no compromise or conces
sion of any kind In mind and will
disposition. Mr. Wilson also declar
ed lie will continue to hold the House
of Representatives and the opposing
members of the senate responsible for
all results and conditions attending
Peace Resolution Introduced in Senate
WASH . Dee. 15—A resolution pro
claiming that a state of peace with
Cermany be declared while the treaty
of Versailles is held in abeyance was
introduced in the senate ^Saturday
night by Senator Knox. Immediate
consideration of the resolution was
blocked by Senator Hitchcock.
DANNUNZIO AGREES TO
EVACUATE FIUME ENDING
^£R*I^ED RELATIONS
TRIESTE. Dec. 15—C.enersl Cavig
1 in. former Minister of War. arrived in
mand of Fiuine. which D'Annunzio has
Italian Army to Occup Fiume
FTP MB. Dec. 15—Preparations un
dee way for the evacuation of Flume
by D’Annunzio and the occupation of
D'Annunzio to Confer With Italian
ROME. Dec. 15—The newspapers
today announced that Clabrielle D'An
nunzio. accompanied by (ieneral Rag
dolio. the chief of staff of the Italian
army, will come to Rome Tuesday to
confer with the Premier on the Fiume
evacuation. It is expected that the
premier will be able to make a pre
cise declaration regarding Fiume to
the Chamber of Deputies on the same
SENATE DECLINES ACTION ON
ASHURST RESOLUTION
WASH., Dec. 15—The Senate Mili
tary committee today declined to take
action on tlie Ashuist resolution di
recting the Secretary of War to em
ploy the army to protect American
citizens on United States soil from
Mexican bandit;*. loiter the senate
reply to the solution of the Mexican
Muestion offered by the Foreign Re
lations committee was adopted with
ORGANIZED LABOR TO REOR
GANIZE POLITICALLY
WASH.. Dec. 15—A reorganizatlos
of the politics of organized laboi Is
being undertaken at a series if con
ferences beginning here today under
the direction of GSompcrs. The fram
ers apd leaders from all big unions
and .tjie four mil read brotherhoods
are represented at the conferences.
STEEL WORKERS VOTE TO
CONTINUE STRIKE
WtASH. Dec. 15—A continuation
of the nation-wide steel strike of steel
workers was v<*ted today by the twen
ty four presidents of the union* con
nected with steel authority.
NOTED SCHOLAR AUTO VICTIM.
SEATTLE. Dec. 15—Joel Marcus
Johnnson. assistant professor of Eng
lish at the University of California,
was killed in an auto accident here to
day. Johanyon was the first Rhodes
scholar from the Northwest.
WHEN THE WORLD WABBLES
.Most of us recall that last winter
was very mild. Most of us are aware
iLso that winters in genera! in this day
tnd generation are mild indeed in
comparison with those .»f a remote
geological period when a gigantic glac
ier covered the entity northeril part o|
WILSON PERMITTED TO DO
LITTLE WALKING
WASH.. Dec. IB—The president is
gaining health#;) It ho slowly. At pre
sent Mr Wilson is permitted to walk
nl»out. his room and along the adjoin
ing hull for a short time each day.
according to an announcement by Dr.
Grayson today. The doctor .said Mr.
Wilson dresses himself and walks un
attended with the aid of a can**.
LABOR DECLARES AGAINST
GOVT BY INJUNCTION
t WASH . Dec. 15th—Two. hundred
labor loaders Saturday night ratified a
new declaration of independence writ
ten by the American Federation of
I»-ibor and urging resistance by all or
ganized labor to “government by in
K C RAOICALS
CONVICTED IN BODY
Kansas City. Dec. 18—Thirty one 1.
W. W. were found guilty of violating
the Espionage Act here this afternoon.
FEDERATED CHURCH SERVICES
Sunday School . 11 A. M
Preaching Service. X P. M.
You are cordially invited to attend
Tlie Church with a Welcome.
RICHARD DECKER, Pastor.
INDOOR PICNIC
DATE ADVANCED
The discovery that the date origin
ally fixed for the unniyjl Indoor Picnic
of the Women of Moosehenrt Region
falls within the Lenten period this
year has caused the Moose ladies to
adopt a somewhat earlier date for
bolding that popular entertainment.
February 14th is the$d;»ic now selected
A committee is hard at work on the
preliminary arrangements and pro
gram and many pleasing surprises are
promised when the doors are'npencd.
The decorative effects will be even
more elaborate than in earlier years,
the Nugget is informed, and will in
clude not only tlie features of earlier
years but also a number of new ones
concerning which considerable secrecj
Is manifested. It Is whispered, how
ev^\ that the ladies are planning that
one of the surprises shall be an arti
ficial lake, which will be worked, into
ner known only to the committee.
There will also be the usual “Lovers
Lane," with its verdant g»a«sy walks
the full orbed n oon with i‘s ;n<How
glow casting flitting shadows over the
whirling dancers, as well as all the re
maining scenical effects which have
made the Indoor Picnic the most uni
que winter entertainments of the past
INFLUENZA TOLL NEARLY
HALF MILLION
Statistics compiled by the Metropol
itan Life Insurance Company, disclose
that the death toll resulting from the
Influenza epidemic amounted in round
figures to 450,000 persons. The cost
to the various life insurance compan
ies aggregated $240,000,000. Approxi
mately 90 millions of this sum was
sustained by the so called "old line"
insurance companies and about 150
millions by the War Risk insurance
Bureau.
Hey Know TktCvticma
WflSoofe And Heal
Whether it is an itching, burning
skin trouble, an annoying rash, irri
tation, cut, wound or bum Cuticura
will soothe and in most cases heal.
First bathe with Cuticura Soap and
hot water. Dry and anoint with
Cuticura Ointment The Cuticura
Talcum is also excellent for little
ones, it is delicately medicated and
exquisitely perfumed.
our continent and was gradually me tr
od away af about the latitude of New
York and Chicago, leaving its reminis
cent finger prints, so to speak, in the
form of grunite boulders scattered'
more or less freely over the landscape
to puzzle the geologist—until Agassiz
guessed the secret of their presence—
and to harass the would-be tiller of the
soil. But perhaps it is not so well
known that the men of science have
|never been very fully agreed ns to the
direct cause that led in the past to
such disturbed climatic conditions—
causing not merely one ice age but a
succession of ice ages with interven
ing benign periods.
It would bo too much to assert that
the full solution has been found even
now: but a hypothesis that at least
seems plausible has been put forward
by Maj »r-<»cnernl Drayson, of the Brit
ish Service, who bases his argument on
the alleged discovery that our world,
which has long been known to gabble
about like a top. is wabbling in a
somewhat different fasl^mi from what
has been supposed. The departure in
question, according to (Jeneral Dray
son. Is due to the fact that the center
of tire imaginary circle off in space,
described by the projected (equally
imaginary) pole of the earth, does not
lie at the axis of the Ecliptic—that is
to say. the point at right angles to the
imaginary plane in which the earth
rotates about the sun. In point of
fact, according to (Jeneral Drayson. the
two points in question— the center of
the polar circle and tiro pole of tlie
Ecliptic—are six degrees apart.
This means that the circle described
by the polar axis is a much bigger
circle than had been supposed; stated
otherwise, that our earth with its top
like spinning makes a bigger wabble
than had hitherto been credited to it—
or charged against it. Technically
stated, the difference is such that,
whereas the earth’s p le at present
points about twenty-three and one
half degrees from tire axis of the Ec
liptic, at another period it diverges by
about thirty live and one half degrees.
The total Circle described in the
earth's big wabble is so much greater
than has been supposed that tire tyno
of polar rotation is alleged to be
hitherto computed.
This difference in time \yould be of
no consequence were it not that there
is a coincident modification of climatic
conditions. Everyone knows that the
difference between our present sum
mer and winter climate Is due to the
inclination of the earth'd axis. If a
tip of 23 V4 degrees causes the differ
ence at present observed between July
weather and January weather, it will 1
readily be understood thut a tip of 35H
degrees must produce stlU'greaier con
trasts. A difference of 12 degrees
covers the 5up between New York and
Hudson Bay; so when the pole is tip
ped fartherst’ from the Kcliptic New
York cannot hope to escape the cli
mate of Athabasca.
Granting General Druyson's thesis,
it is of course possible to calculate the
successive periods of astronomical
time when the polar .axis reaches its
most divergent position as it sweeps
about the great circles. This last oc
curred about fourteen or fifteen thou
As an interesting sidelight on the
new calculations. It may be observed
that the period when th£ vast accum
ulations of snow and ice or the most
recent glacial epoch were melted away,
as the pole straightened * up and
brought the sun into more favorable
position, occurred about five thousand
or six thousand years B. (*.; and that
it is surmised that this great melting
gave rise to the tradition of a univer
sal flood which is a familiar part of the
folk lore of many ancient nations. It
may he added that the melting process
ir. still going on—witness the observed
regression of the antarctic Ice gap
within the past eenturyj and the sim
ilar regressions of such minor rem
iniscences of the ice age as Muir Glac
ier up it} Alaska, which has retreatel
at least twenty miles during the past
century, and which is said to he still
let renting at the rate of about one mile
every three years.
Things that happened fourteen or ;
fifteen thousand years ago, or that are
to happen fourteen or fifteen thousnnd |
years in the future, do not seem very)
personal to most of us, but at least It
may be of interest to note that our
world-top is now standing ns straight
as it ever stands. That is why busi
ness can go on in New York for the com
lug winter, and for a few thousand
subsequent winters, before being1
transferred to the regions of the Gulf
of Mexico, as it apparently must be i
(by gradual stages) as the inevitable
glacial epoch that will culminate about
tlie year 9,000 A. D. approaches.—by
Henry Ki/iith Williams, M. IX, I.. L D
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Three flavors.
J S not enough to make
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Hence the sealed package
—impurity-proof -guarding,
preserving the delicious con
tents—the beneficial coody.
The Flavor Lasts
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KEPT RIGHT
Effective December let. 1919, the price of Wellington Coal will
bo forty dollars per ton in the yards of the Alaska Lighterage He Com
mercial Company—terms STRICTLY CASH. All coni purchns.fi
prior to December 1st, 1919, must be hauled from yards by that date.
Commencing November 18. 1919 and continuing until further
notice, delivery hours at yards and warehouses will be as follows:
COAL, PEARL OIL, GA80LINE, ETC.,
(From 9 a. in. to 12 Noon, Daily.)
CRUDE OIL—(Associated Tanka)
MONDAYS—WEDNESDAYS, and SATURDAYS
(From 1 p. m. to 4 p m.
ALL. DEPARTMENTS AND OFFICES CLOSED
Between 12:00 and 1:00 p# m.
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