RIGGS NOMINATED FOR GOVERNOR OF ALASKA
WASHINGTON, March 6.—Thomas Riggs, jr., member of the Alaskan Engineering Commission, with headquarters at Nenana, was nominated today as governor of Alaska, to
succeed Governor J. F. A. Strong, whose term expired some time ago. $ JOISMM'
Mr. Riggs, whose name was sent to the senate by President Wilscn, claims residence in Alaska since 1897, having been made a member of the United States survey party that
marked the northern boundary between the United States and Canada. Ee has been a member of the Alaskan Engineering Commission since its organization in 1914.
DANIEL L. H AZARD, FEDERALj
OFFICIAL SLUM ITS REPORT
ON SUBJECT.
RESULTS OF OBSERVATIONS.
Tables and Charts Have Been Issued
from Time to Time in View of Long
Period Required to Come to Final
i Conclusions.
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 6.—
“Terrestrial Magnetism, United
States Magnetic Tables and Charts
for 1!>15,’’ is the title of a publication
prepared by Daniel L. Hazard, chief
of the division of terrestrial magnet
ism of the coast and geodetic survey,
%/fcpartment of commerce, and made
I UUllt lUlicl \ .
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This publication contains the re
sults < f observations made in the
prosec tion of the magnetic survey of
the U ted States to the end of 1916,
with corresponding values for Janu
ary 1, 1915, the collected results of
i .-cations at repeat stations used
determining the change of the
iv vnetie elemnts with lapse of time,
t e secular change tables used in re
tiucing the observed values to the
common epoch January 1, 1915, and
live magnetic charts showing graph
ically the distribution of the magnetic
declination, dip, horizontal intensity,
vertical intensity, and total intensty
in the United States on January 1,
1915. On the declination, dip, and
horizontal intensity charts there are
also lines showing the annual change
of those elements in 1915. In addi
tion to the results obtained by the
coast and geodetic survey the collec
tion includes all available results of
hig-h grade from observations made
by others in th ■ United States and
’adjacent land and water areas, includ- j
r tb.ro at stations in Mexico, Cen
' . 1 a d South America used in the
■n -traction of the isogonic chart of
the West Indies published in 1914.
First Edition of Chart.
The first edition of the declination
chart, with accompanying secular
change tables, was published in 1915
-as special publication No. 33.
The plan for the magnetic survey
of the United States as laid down in
1899 provided for a first general sur
vey, with stations 30 to 40 miles apart
to be followed by a more detailed in
vestigation of magnetically disturbed
areas. Following this general plan,
the distribution of stations lias been
based largely upon the county subdi
vision of states, the idea being to
lave at least one magnetic station in
each county, so that the necessary
data may be available for the use of
county surveyors in testing their
compasses. Observations have now
been made at ail but a few of the
county seats and a -number of areas
of marked local disturbance have
^been examined in detail.
In view of the necessarily long pe
riod occupied in the execution of the
survey it has been deemed desirable
to publish the accumulated results in
the form of magnetic tables and mag
netic charts at various times before
its completion. The last complete
publication prior to this one was for
1905 and contained the results of ob
servations to the end of June, 1907.
• Results Have Increased.
Since that publication was prepared
the number of available results has
increased about 50 per cent. In the
construction of the 1915 charts thei'e
have been used about 6,500 declina
•wiy^on results, 5,800 dip results, and 5,
'00 horizontal intensity results. The
density of distribution of the stations
corresponds in a general way the den
sity of population, being greatest in
the eastern part of the country and
least in the Rocky mountain section.
The graphical method was used in
the construction of the charts. In
the case of declination, for instance,
the reduced values were plotted on
a large base map of the United States,
and the lines of equal declination
were drawn free hand, for intervals of
one degree, to conform with the plot
ted values, the aim being to make a
minimum the average difference be
tween the plotted values and corre
sponding values obtained by interpo
lating between the lines.
After the lines of equal declination,
dip, and horizontal intensity had
been drawn, values of these three
elements were scaled off for each de
gree of latitude and longitude for the
whole area covered by the lines. Cor
responding value of vertical intensity
and total intensity were then com
puted and these computed values were
used in the construction of the verti
cal intensity and total intensity
charts.
ROY BARTO, FORMER FORESTER
AT KETCHIKAN. BATTLES
WITH PHILIPPINE SNAKE.
USES KNIFE AND REVOLVER.
Huge Reptile First Attacks With His
Tail and When Five Feet of That
Is Cut Off He Changes Ends in
Order to Strangle Victim.
Roy Barto, who for several years
was a forest ranger at Ketchikan, hart
a narrow escape from death :n the
Philippines according to a letter re
ceived by W. H. Babbitt, forest ran
ge]-, now stationed at Ketchikan, ac
cording to the Ketchikan newspaper.
Barto’s experience consisted of a
battle with a python in which he was
awarded the decision. His account
says:
“I was going along sizing up a
bunch of extra fine mahogany timber
when 1 suddenly found myself in the
embrace of a huge snake, which be
gan drawing me swiftly into a large
cavity under the roots of a tree. With
out stopping to consider which end I
was slicing on, I got busy with my
bolo and sliced off what proved to be
about five feet of the tail end.
“But my troubles were not over;
the snake changed ends, and I thought
it was all off. But by that time one
of the native boys came up and hand
ed me my 35 automatic, which he had
been carrying for me through the
brush. On putting the two ends to
gether we found the snake to be thirty
feet long in the clear.”
LETTERS FROM AMERICA.
Epistles Were Written by Thomas
Jefferson and General Lafayette.
LONDON, March 6.—Two lettei’s,
one written by Thomas Jefferson and
dated Monticello, April 17, 1821, and
the other by General Lafayette and
dated Lagrange, June 28, 1827, have
been presented to Consul-General
Skinner in London as a gift to the
American government. The donor was
H. B. Gross, a Philadelphia manufact
urer, who until recently had a home
here. The first concerns certain books
which the correspondent recommended
to Jefferson and which he declared he
was endeavoring to obtain, while the
letter written by Lafayette speaks of
the indention of a bee hive and of his
interst in agricultural development
generally. There is nothing to disclose
the identity of the persons to whom
the letters were addressed.
PRECIPITATE ACTION OF AUTHORITIES AND MILI
TARY IS REGARDED AS INDICATIVE OF FACT THAT
GERMAN TROOPS ARE RAPIDLY CONTINUING
ADVANCE INTO NORTHERN TERRITORY.
PROPOSE!) PEACE MEETS WITH OPPOSITION
Council of Soldier and Workmen’s Delegates, Which Will Con
sider Proposed Muscovite and Teuton Agreement Next
Week Is Expected to Reject It and This Course in All
Likelihood Will Lead to Downfall of Premier Lenine and
Foreign Minister Trotzky.
LONDON, March 6.—Officials of
the Maximilist government and many
residents of Petrograd are leaving
| Petrograd for Moscow, and Maximil
; ist troops are evacuating the Petro
grad garrison, according to advices
I received in London from Petrograd.
Just before concluding to move the
. capital of Russia to Moscow, the Max
| imilist cabinet issued a decree pro
claiming Petrograd a free port.
Reports from Moscow are to the ef
fect that the council of ministers in
j control of Moscow are opposed to
the plans of Premier Lenine and For
eign Minister Trotzky for a separate
peace with the Germans. It is also
stated that the council of workmen
I and soldiers representative of all Rus
sia, which will assemble in Moscow
next week to consider the tentative
peace agreement concluded recently
at Brest, in southwestern Russia, will
not accept the harsh terms that have
been imposed by Germany.
The rejection of the terms by the
national soldier and workmen’s coun
cil at Moscow probably would mean
the downfall of Premier Lenine and
Foreign Minister Trotzky.
STATION AGENT OF
INMENT’S
LINE AT MATANUSKA PASSES
L. G. JACKSON. AGED 44 YEARS,
SUCCUMBS TO HEART FAIL
URE AM) REMAINS ARE
BROUGHT HERE FOR BURIAL.
L. G. Jackson, an employe of the
, Alaskan Engineering commission in
i charge of the depot at Matanuska,
died at t> o’clock last night of heart
disease. The body was brought to An
chorage on the train today and is at
j the undertaking parlors of D. H. Will
iams and company.
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Mr. Jackson has been in the employ
of the commission since June 4, 1915.
From 1905 to 1908 he was empolyed as
trainmaster on the Alaska Central.
From 1908 until 1912 in the telephone
and telegraph service of the govern
ment in the Philippines.
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Mr. Jackson was 44 years of age.
He was born in Pleasant City, Ohio
and was married about a year ago.
Arrangemnts for the funeral are
being made.
FORESTRY MEN WILL THANK
PRESIDENT WILSON FOR HIS
M\MI EST INTEREST IN THEIR
FIGHT I OR EIGHT-HOUR DAY.
SEATTLE, Wash., March 5.—Log
gers and timber workers of the states
of Oregon and Washington met in
convention here today and the first
important action of the delegates
FRENCH PRESS CAN
ABUSE OFFICIALS
PARIS, March 4.—“The right of a
newspaper to abuse members of the
government is unquestioned and must
be observed,” says an official state
ment announcing that a provincial
censor had been disciplined for sup
pressing an article which, according
to the statement, “did not allude to
military or diplomatic affairs, but
merely contained the usual insults
i concerning M. Clfcmenceau.”
! CARELESS WITH REVOLVERS.
—
LONDON, March 6.—Clubs fre
quented by military men home on
leave have been troubled by officers
carelessly depositing loaded revolvers
in the cloak rooms, and several of the
clubs now display a notice reading,
“Members and visitors returning from
the fomt are requested to unload their
rifles or pistols before leaving them
with the attendant.”
I was to oust from membership in their
organization all persons affiliated
with the Industrial Workers of the
World.
The convention will adopt resolu
tions thanking President Wilson for
the manifest interest of the adminis
tration in the fight of loggers and
timber workers for an eight-hour day,
which recently was granted by Pacific
coast lumbermen.
| CAMPAIGN TO STRENGTHEN
| CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ENDS
WITH GREAT SUCCESS.
LARSON’S TEAM IS WINNER.
Business Men’s Organization of This
City Will Hold Meeting This Even
ing to Elect Officers for Ensuing
i Six Months.
! One hundred and eighteen members
; have been added to the membership
j roll of the Anchorage Chamber of
Commerce as the result of a mem
bership drive conducted during the
last seven days by the business men’s
organization, according to the an
nouncement at the regular weekly
luncheon meeting this noon at the
Mint Grill.
Two teams were appointed a week
ago, under the captaincies of Ray C.
Larson and Danilo Vucetich, for the
purpose of getting new members.
The team under the guidance of Mr.
Larson reported sixty-four names,
while Mr. Vucetich’s team obtained
fifty-four.
The addition of the 118 new names
brings the membership of the cham
ber to 180.
The losing team must give a dinner
to the new as well as the old members
of the chamber and then entertain
the entire membership at a motion
picturS' show.
An election of officers of the cham
ber will be held at 8 o’clock tonight in
the club rooms of the Empress thea
tre. The offices to be filled are presi
dent, vice-president, secretary and
treasurer and twelve members of an
executive committee.
ART FIGURES TO STIMULATE
INTEREST IN DRIVE ARE
ERECTED AT CITY HALL.
REPRESENTATION OF SOLDIER.
Large Imitation of Statue of Liberty
Is Put in Place and Buyers of Se
curities Will Encase it in Iron by
Driving Nails Into It.
PHILADELPHIA, March 6.—Prob
ably no other section of the country
has made more elaborate preparations
for the third Liberty Loan campaign
than the Third Federal Ilesereve dis
tinct which embraces two-thirds of
Pennsylvania, New Jersey south of
Trenton and all of Delaware. Phila
delphia, as the headquarters of this
territory, will be the focal point ot
spectacular interest during the new
drive.
Four are figures in heroic mold have
been installed over the four archways
of the city hall here to stimulate inter
est in the campaign. Notable among
these is a reproduction, in all but the
dimensions, of Bartholdi’s statue o'
the Goddess of Liberty in New York
harbor. Surmounting the other en
trances of the municipal buildings are
respectively ,a gigantic representation
of a khaki-clad soldier going over the
top; a tank on the advance and a
portrayal of an American battleship
destroying a German submarine.
The statute of Liberty, including
the torch, is twenty-nine feet high and,
with the pedestal, towers aloft aboujj
fifty' feet. It is the largest imitation
of the bronze presented by" America
by the French nation ever made and
it is expected that it will be entirely
veneered with a coating of medals and
nails, the later to be driven in by
uunu-suuscnuexs.
In the base of the statue there is a
large room with two entrances. From
this a ladder leads to the figure of the
goddess. Bond-buyers will bo furnish
ed with medals on which their initials
will be stamped and^ with these they
e>pect to welt a complete coat of mail
for “Liberty” long before the cam
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paign is completed.
Delegations from all over the third
federal reserve district have planned
pilgrimages to the city to take part
in this novel pledge of patriotism.
Mrs. Lillian Stander has been
granted a decree of divorce in Seattle
from Anton F. Stander, old-time Se
attle and recent Anchorage resident,
and foi^ner owner of the Stander ho
tel in Seattle. Mrs. Stander was giv
en the custody of the two children, a
share of the property of the couple,
and $250 to pay the costs of her suit.
MASSES OF GRAVEL GROOVED
ROCKS FACES IN INDIA PROVE
GREAT ANTIQUITY.
EROSION WEARS MOUNTAINS.
Evidence Is Obtained From All Con
tinents by Scientists Who Have
Been Conducting Investigations for
More Than Fifty Years.
WASHINGTON, D. C„ March 6.—
Everyone with intelligent interest in
the history of the world on which he
lives has heard of “the glacial epoch,”
or the ice age. It is, however, not
strictly correct to speak of the “ice
age” or the “glacial epoch,” for there
have been many of them. It is now
known that even this lateA or Pleisto
cene glacial epoch had several import
ant subdivisions, and it appears that
in the Rocky mountain region the
time between the glacial subepochs
was so long as to permit great
changes in the form and height of *
the mountains, due to a wearing down
by erosion.
Masses of Gravel.
More than fifty years ago English
geologists recognized the fact that
certain masses of gravel and breccia
and certain planed and grooved rock
surfaces in ricks of Permian age in
India indicated a glacial epoch vastly
older than that of the North Ameri
can ice sheets, but only within the
last thirty years have geologists
learned that glacial conditions have
recurred at many different times in
the earth’s history.
The evidence of this fact has been
found in all continents—in Europe,
Asia, Africa, Australia, South Amer
ica, and North America. Great ice
sheets were formed at different peri
ods in the larger divisions of geologic
time back to the proterozoic—that is,
to the age of the oldest known sedi
mentary rocks, a great many million
years ago.
One of the most recent discoveries
of old glacial deposits is that made
by Prof. W. W. Atwood, of the United
States geological survey, department
of the interior, near Ridgway, in
southwestern Colorado.
Prof. Atwood there found typical
glacial “till,” containing pebbles and
boulders showing well-presrved
scratches, and other markings, lying
beneath tertiary lavas of the San
Juan mountains and resting upon up
■ per cretaceous beds. The conditions
of the occurence show that these
gravels are of early eocene age.
Professor Atwood’s report of this
! discovery was issued by the United
States geological survey, department
of the interior, as part B of Profes
sional Paper 95, under the title “Eo
cene glacial deposits in southwestern
Colorado.”
YOUNGEST PEER IS FOUR.
Difference of 91 Years Between Ex
tremes in House of Lords.
LONDON, March 6.—Much is con
| tinually written, says the Daily
; Graphic, regarding the youthful vigor
; of the Earl of Halsbury, who still
makes his appearance in the house of
lords despite the weight of his nine
ty-four years, but no mention is made
of the little Lord Petre, the youngest
peer of the realm.
“Incredible almost as it may appear,
; there is a difference of ninety-one
I years between the ages of the former
| lord chancellor and the present head
; of the Catholic house of Petre, who
| is not quite four, and will be unable,
of course, to take his seat in parlia
ment until 1935!