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Extending the Frontiers
of Sound
N 'these days of shrieking
automobile horns, rum
bling trucks and clanging
street cars there may be
some comfort in the as
surance of scientists that the air is
full of ether sound vibrations
which cause no annoyance at all
because the human ear does not
register them. Despite the noisy
distractions of modern life, man,
nevertheless, lives and moves and
has his being in the midst of a wide
variety of sound which he never
hears, sounds too high or too low
to affect his auditory equipment.
it has been found that a person
of abnormally good hearing can
perceive the aerial vibrations that
constitute sound ranging from
twenty-four to about 40,000 vibra
tions per second. Other vibrations
exist far beyond this limit, but our
eardrums are not sufficiently deli
cate to vibrate in sympathy with
them. Therefore they make no im
pression and we are not aware of
their existence
Canine Criticism
Certain animals having more
sensitive ears are able to hear
sounds above this range. When
the family dog howls his anguish
during a jazz selection played on
the upper keys of the piano, he is
not merely registering a preference
for classical music. His delicately
attuned eardrums are actually hurt
by the rapid vibrations of the high
notes. •
The more vibrations per second
in any sound, the higher its pitch
in the scale. Thus the deep note
of the bass viol may have only a
few score vibrations, whereas the
JACK KLINE LEAVES
LETTERS GIVLNG
i
FULL ACCOUNT OF DEATH OF
JACK ‘ KLINE, ALASKAN, i| N ■
CALIFORNIA WOODS.
LEAVES PATHETIC MESSAGE
TO WIF-E LIVING IN SEATTLE
Body Hanging from Tree for Several
Days—Life Held Nothing for
Him Told in Message.
To the many local friends of the
late Jack Kline, the following news
article clipped from the San Diego
Daily Union, will give further infor
mation regarding the last days of
the well known steamship man, and
additional details as to his death.
The article follows:
Late last night Coroner S. C.
Kelly returned from Ramona with
indisputable evidence that the body
found hanging to a tree near Ra
mona yesterday was that of J. H.
Kline, former Alaskan agent of the
Pacific Steamship company, Among
his effects the coroner found let
ters addressed to himself, to Kline’s
wife and to Arthur P. Sprague, pro
prietor of the Hotel Lubin, steam
ship and railroad passes, a bill of
sale for the automobile purchased
from Keane and other papers.
According to Coroner Kelly, Kline
had been dead six or seven days
when the body found yesterday. The
discovery was made by W. E. Zader,
garage owner of LaJolla, and H. E.
Kennedy, who were deer hunting.
Kline’s act, according to his let
ters, was caused by financial rever
ses and despondency over what he
termed “a state of mind that life
holds nothing for me.” He was about
42 years old and leaves a widow
whose address is route No. 6, Box
shrill whistling of the piccolo or
the shriller screech of a street car
rounding a sharp curve may run
up into the thousands.
Every musical instrument sets
up not only the fundamental fre
quency which we recognize as its
pitch, but harmonics or overtones,
which are multiples of the funda
mental pitch; that is. two, three,
four, five, and so on, times the
fundamental pitch. It is the num
ber, frequency and relative strength
of these harmonics which makes
one instrument, even though sound
ing the same pitch, distinguishable
from another. Consequently repro
luction of harmonics, if faithful
and realistic reproduction is to be
achieved, is of as great importance
as fundamental pitches.
Limits Within Limits
Thus, for musical purposes, the
extreme limit of sound ranges from
24 to 10.000 vibrations pel second.
But here again another limitation
has until irecently existed.
Even thoug'^he human ear were
able to catch tSd distinguish every
sound within these limits, the arti
ficial ear of recording instruments
such as the talking machine and
the radio was not equal to the
task.
Of late years, however, the great
laboratories of the country have
been turning their attention to this
problem, and several important in
ventions have been made which
have made it possible to record
and reproduce the entire range of
musical sound. Following the dis
covery of a hitherto. unknown
acoustical principle known as
“matched impedance,” a new de
vice called the orthophonic talking
machine has been perfected w’hich
raises the efficiency of musical
sound reproduction to the level of
that of the human ear.
The Frontier Extended
Thus the first of the frontiers of
sound has been widened. Mean
while the march of scientific prog
ress continues unabated, and simi
lar advances may be expected in
the future. Who can say that some
day science will not devise a means
of extending even that last great
frontier af sound which lies along
the borders of human hearing,
opening up unguessed, untraversed
realms of experience to Man?
257, Seattle, Wash., from whom he
evidently was estranged.
Message To Coroner.
His letter to the coroner follows:
“My name is J. H. Kline and up
to June 1 of this year I was general
Alaska agent for the Pacific Steam
ship company. I have followed the
sea for a living all my life and would
like to be buried at sea.
“Will you wire Capt. R. C. Bren
nan, operating manager of the Pa
cific S. S. Company at Seattle, Wn.,
to see if he will arrange for the mas
ter of the S. S. Emma Alexander,
which is due in San Diego Friday
night, to take my body aboard here
and bury it at sea en route north.
“I can be identified by Mr. J. C.
Adams, local ticket agent for the
Pacific Steamship Company, who at
one time worked for me in Juneau,
Alaska. Also, E. B. Barbee, U. S.
A., retired, who is living at the War
ren hotel in San Diego.
“This act is of my own free will
and is caused by financial reverses,
and loss of my position with the P.
5. S. Company.
“Please notify my wife, who, last
I heard of, was living at Route No.
6, Box 257, Seattle, Wash.
“I belonged to Juneau, Alaska
lodge of B. P. O. Elks for seven
years, but am in arrears in dues.
In case Brennan will not author
ize my burial by the master of the
Emma Alexander, will you wire J.
A. Davis, secretary of No. 420, and
see if he will authorize the local
Elks lodge to bury me, as I have
no money to pay my burial ex
penses.
“J. H. KLINE.”
His letter to his wife is as fol
lows:
Tells Reason for Act.
Wednesday Night, Sept. 22.
Sweetheart Mine:
I can’t leave you,, darling, with
out writing a few lines to fell you
how sorry I am to have caused you
all the grief and trouble I have
the last four months or more. Please
try to forgive me. Why do we cause1
the ones we love best the trouble
we do?
I mailed you a letter Sunday night
with some inclosures. Hope you don’t
have any trouble with any of them.
Darling mine, if I could see any
possible way out I would not do
the awful thing I am about to do,
but I have laid awake nights the
last week trying to figure some way
out, but it is impossible.
I have been unfair to you and a
lot of my friends and have gotten
myself into such a state of mind
that life holds nothing for me.
While I was in Portland I said
some, rather in fact, very mean
things about you and Joe. Please
forgive me. I was only a coward
and was trying to alibi myself.
Sometimes, sweetheart, I think I
must be losing my mind to have
gone as hog wild as I have the last
year or so.
I have tried to arrange to be
buried at sea, as I think that would
be better for you, that is, to re
member me as you saw me last.
Good-bye, darling, I am going
now with you in my thoughts and
praying that you will not think too
hard of your wayward boy.
JACK.
Terry McGowan, coal mine fore
man, was among the local arrivals
Staurday evening, departing for the
States on the steamer Alaska.
Flashlights and batteries, Schaller
er’s Alaska Shop. tf.
LEGAL NOTICES
NOTICE OF SALE.
PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIV-1
EN that under and pursuant to the
provisions of a judgment duly made
and rendered and entered on Septem
ber 28, 1925, by and in the District
Court for the Territory of Alaska,
Third Division, in LirU certain action
in said court wherein ORA B. HUB
BARD is plaintiff and PRIMROSE
MINES CORPORATION, a corpora
tion, is defendant, being cause No. S
207 of said Court, and under and pur
suant to the provisions of a writ of
execution and order of sale issued out
of said court in said action on said
judgment on September 29, 1925, and
to me directed and delivered, I shall
at the hour of tw'o o’clock in the af
ternoon of November 7, 1925, at the
front door of the court house of said
District Court, at Seward, Alaska, sell
at public auction to the highest and
best bidder for cash the following de
scribed property, to-wit:
Those five certain lode mining
claims situated on 'or near Porcupine
Creek, in the Kenai Recording Pre
cinct, Third Division, Territory of Al
aska, and known as and called: EL
FAVOR, EL CAPITAN, YO TOMBI
EN, BOW BELL and PRIMROSE lode
mining claims; together with all im
provements, tenements, hereditaments
and appurtenances, rights and privi
leges, thereunto belonging or in any
wise appertaining. An! also the fol
lowing described personal property
situated upon or near said lode claims
and, used or designed to be used in
conneqtion with the working, or oper^
ation of said claims, to-wit: one Holt
five-ton caterpillar tractor; om ten
ton Herman ball mill, peripheral dis
charge; one Senn-Batea concentratcr;
one Wilfrey table; one three-cell At
kins flotation machine; one amalga
mating plate, about 4x8 feet; one
Dodge crusher, about 8x10 inches; one
seven by six Ingersoll-tRand compres
sor; one fifteen horsepower Fairbanks
Morse gas engine; one 18 inch by. 78
inch air receiver; one jackhammer,
Ingersoll', BCRW; one jackhammer, In
ge rsoll, BR; one Ingersoll No. 33 drill
sharpener; four sets machine drill
steel; one ten-ton primary grinding
mill; one ton of grinding balls for
mill; one machine shop power drill;
one set bolt dies and taps; one forge
and anvil; one Pelton water wheel;
1250 feet hydraulic pipe, various sizes.
And also all other property of said
Primrose Mines Corporation situated
upon said claims or any of them, or
Used or designed to be used in connec
tion with the mining or operation of
said claims.
Dated at Seward, Alaska, October
7 IQS';
H. P. SULLIVAN,
United States'Marshal, Third Division,
Territory of Alaska. 4-ts.
Publish October 7, 14, 21 and 28, 1925.
NOTICE OF FINAL PROOF
United States Land Office.
Anchorage, Alaska, Sept. 14, 1925.
Notice is hereby given that Harry
V. Henrikson, together with his wit
nesses, Heitman Kristiansen, and Ed
ward Vogl, has submitted final proof
on his commuted homestead entry,
Serial 06249 for the E%E^SE^SEi4
Section 11, T. 1 N. R. 1 W. S. M. and
is now on file in the local land of
fice, at Anchorage, Alaska, and if
no protest is filed in the local land
office on or before November l‘ 1925,
said final proof will be accepted and
final certificate issue.
J. UNDLEY GREEN,
Register.
First publication, Oct. 1, 1925.
Last publication, Nov. 5, 1925.*
JOE ELMER WILL
WRITE STORY FOR
SPECIAL EDITION
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One of the new contributions to
the Prosperity Edition of the Sew
ard Daily Gateway, which will be
published December 5, will be an
article by one of the most famous
of Alaskan trail blazers, Joseph Ul
mer, a real pioneer of Alaska, who
has threaded his way about the
wilds of the Territory for years. Dur
ing . the past tew years, Mr. Ulmer
has J>een connected with the Alaska
Road Commission, in which work he
is an efficient engineer, having a
knowledge of Alaskan conditions that
few actually possess, for Mr. Ulmer
has been a constant roamer.
His special article, will be on gen
eral road activities, particularly of
the Richardson Highway. There is
sc nit: thing he wants to get off his
chest, with reference to this bi^ 'Al
askan load artery, and in the pages
of the Prosperity Edition, he feels
salislicd that it will b3 a good plaec:
to unload it. It is certain the arti
cle will be of considerable interest
for Mr. Ulmer writes in a manner, #
peculiarly his own, and talks straight,
from the shoulder.
Connie Peterson, timekeeper of the
mechanical department of the Alas
ka Railroad, was a week-end visit
or in Seward.
Z. J. Loussac. owner of Loussac’s
drug store at Anchorage, was a week
end business visitor in town.
Eastman koaaK Agency, The Alas
ka Shop. rf
Jack Chisholm, wholesale salesman
of Anchorage, was among the Sew
ard arrivals Saturday.
The halibut fishing schooners Pre
sident and Alaska, arrived in port on
Saturday night.
Cal M. Brosius
Nails, fifty varieties, Automobile Glass,
Glass, . Locks, Hinges,
Stockholm Tar,
Hyd. Lime,
Plate Glass,
Colors,
Chimney Brick,
Varnish,
Corner Bead,
Mirrors,
Medusa,
White Atlas,
Keens,
Metal Lath,
Cedar, Oak, Maple,
Arch Brick,
Fire Clay,
Plaster Paris,
Hickory, Iron Bark
Beaver Board,
Gal. Cor. Iron,
Pulleys,
Flooring,
Fir, Spruce, Maple,
Ceiling,
Rustic,
Roof Pitch,
BB1. Lime, Paints.
Glass Cutting,
Terps, Oils,
Fibered Plaster,
Stains, Putty,
Corner Lath,
Belting, Cement
Doors,
Windows,
Lumber,
Fir Lath,
Fire Brick,
Spruce Finish,
Mouldings,
Z-Lath,
Plaster Board,
Mahogany,
Roof Paper,
Building Paper,
Asbestos Paper,
Shingles,
Sash Rail,
Fir Finish,
LIBB Y-OVrENS WINDOW GLASS, Single and Double Strength,
Standard Oil Products, Rubber Matting, White Sand,
ASBESTOS STRIP SHINGLES, HYDRAULIC ELEVATORS,
METAL BASEMENT SASH AND FRAMES,
Sidewalk Coal Hole Covers Sidewalk Walk Lights, Etc.
co
CAL M. BROSIUS
BUILDING SUPPLIES
V> U' *•
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HOTEL ANCHORAGE
F. L REED, Proprietor
Rooms with Bath. Sample Rooms in Connection
' ,.i a- i ’ i » t '
Strictly Modern
Steam Heat
Prices Reasonable
Good Service
HOT AND COLD WATER IN EVERY ROOM
* Bus meets all trains and boats
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA