MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1948
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE SEVEN
Klondike,1908,Was Scene Of Blizzards And Dog-Sleds
In 1908 the Klondike was a country of game, wolves, dogsleds, blizzards, and adventures.
Albert Scott, genial, gray-haired janitor of the annexes behind Frank arrived mail by dogteam for two years in northwestern Canada that it was unsettled, frozen country early in th
Oklahoma-born Mr. Scott likes to tell about the dogs which were his only means of locomotion during the winter. A man with a good team in good weather could make about 25 miles in a 10-hour day, he estimated.
His favorite dog was his lead dog called Don. "Don was gray and brown and weighed about 95 pounds. He would do anything I asked him to do. Sometimes I would drop something on the trail. All I had to do was to unhitch Don and send him back over our path." Mr Scott said.
"The dogs up there don't forget," he asserted. "You've got to be good to them all the time or not at all, because they don't forgive. As long as you treat them right, they'll work hard for you."
Mr. Scott went to Alaska in 1908 as owner of a Seattle canning factory. They left in March. After sailing through Unimak Pass in the Aleutians their ship, the "Victoria," was ice-bound for 22 days. During that time the men camped on the ice around the boat.
At the end of that time a government cutter, the "Bear," dynamited the Victoria out and they proceeded to Port Moller on the Alak peninsula. While there Mr. Scott met a grizzled old-timer named Archie Barnard who persuaded him to stay over the winter to hunt.
"Those Kodikai bears are five foot high even when they they're standing on all four legs," Mr. Scott said. "They're brown with little silver tufts of fur on their shoulders like second lieutenants. Why, the hide of one animal will measure 18 feet from tip to tip after it's stretched."
After another winter of hunting, Mr. Scott moved on to Nome, then to Fairbanks, down the Yukon, and into Canada and the Klondike.
"You had to know the snow. You had to know how it would drift, how it would slide, and especially when it would slide." Mr. Scott had brought this knowledge with him from his
He applied for and obtained a job as a mail carrier from Dawson to Horse. The main thing needed in that is a knowledge of the snow, he said.
Organ Recital Given Sunday
By NORMA HUNSINGER
G. Criss Simpson, assistant professor of organ and theory, gave an organ recital Sunday afternoon in Hoch auditorium.
He presented a program of primarily classic music, including "O Man Bemoan Thy Grievous Sin" and "Prelude and Fugue in A Minor" by Bach, Frank's "Andantino in G Minor," and arrangement of "Allegro" from the "Sixth Violin Sonata" by Mozart, and two movements of Vierne's "Second Symphony." More modern numbers included J. Stuart Archer's "Caprice de Concert," and Dallier's "Stella Matutina."
Mr. Simpson has outstanding technical ability, especially in pedaling and fast, spectacular passages. The first part of the program was characterized by rather unsteady tempo, however, and the Bach prelude and fugue lacked the majesty and control associated with his organ music. The 'Vierne movements were better, and the difficult rhythms and cadenzas were handled impressively.
Mr. Simpson does not use particularly unusual combination of stops, and neither does he use a variety of stops just for effect.
So quote from a prepared re-
view signed H. R. H.
"Mr. Simpson (this is in recognition of his careful notes of sartorial elegance in his own reviews of other artists) wore a suit of grey flannel, neatly tailored, a white shirt, black dress oxfords, and a gorgeous red tie, a Tibetan design from the atelier of the Countess Mara of New York City."
experiences with Barnard.
The janitor recalled that he had to blacken his face around his eyes with burrt cork to protect himself from snow blindness.
Usually he took from three days to a week to make the run from Dawson to White Horse but one load of mail did not get through for four months.
A blizzard piled the snow so deep on one of his trips that the dogs couldn't go on. Mr. Scott headed for the nearest tall tree, pulled the sled against it and unhitched the dogs.
He strapped himself to the tree with a long belt to keep from being blown away. As each layer of snow came down he tramped it down and moved the dogs around making them do the same. Otherwise the snow would have covered them.
For 26 hours Mr. Scott moved about before the blizzard stopped. It was another 24 before scouts from Dawson came on foot to find him. By then the sled and mail were deeply buried and were not recovered until four months later when the snow melted.
Though he escaped from this experience without injury, he was not so fortunate on another. While hunting one day, he became so cold that he collapsed. Friends found him during the night but his legs were frozen to the knees. Mr. Scott refused to let them be amputated and now has normal use o fthem. He admits, however, that when a change in the weather is coming he can forecast it to his family three days ahead.
Wolves were common sights along his route, Mr. Scott said. Some carriers believed in letting them come close before shooting, but Mr. Scott said he could never "bring myself to look at it that way."
"When I saw a wolf I grabbed my carbine and took a shot at him. I missed sometimes but I always had time for another shot which I wouldn't have had if the wolf had been close."
Malott Gives Advice On Liguor At KU
Mr. Scott hopes to go back to the Klondike in 1950. He wants to show it to his sons. He also wants to see if the government still keeps cabins every five miles for travelers' protection. Especially he wants to see the roads. In 1910 the longest road in Alaska or the Klondike was one near Fairbanks which ran seven miles out of town, coming to a dead end.
The recent vote on the Kansas prohibition amendment has resulted in comment from Chancellor Deane W. Malott to all organized houses concerning University policy regarding liour.
In his letter, the chancellor said: "The use of liquor or its possession in any fraternity, sorority, dormitory, organized house, or approved rooming house is not and will not be permitted by the University under any circumstances."
The chancellor said that most of the local and national organizations have regulations against the use of liquor and that these regulations will continue to be enforced. He expressed a belief that students and the University "shall in the future as in the past work together to prevent misunderstanding and embarrassment in the social life of the University."
Official Bulletin
Nov. 15, 1948
Mathematical Colloquium of department of mathematics, 5 today, 203 Frank Strong, Dr. G. K. Overholtzer, "A Generalization of a Divisibility Property of Sums of Power"
Fencing club, 7.30 p.m. tomorrow,
Robinson gym, room 101.
Kansan Board, 4 today, 107 Journalism.
A.S.C. regular meeting, 7:15 p.m.
tomorrow, Fine room.
O. T. club, 7:30 p.m. tomorrow, 332 Frank Strong. Affiliation students of last summer to speak.
YMCA representatives from fraternities, 4 p.m. tomorrow, 200 Frank Strong for short meeting.
S.A.M. senior seminar, 4 p.m.
Wednesday, Pine room, Union,
Speaker, K. Wade Bennett, John
Taylor's in Kansas City. Subject
"The Employer's Side of the Job-
Seeking Picture."
Square Dance club, 7:30 p.m Wednesday, Military Science building. Instruction for beginners.
Archery club, 4 to 6 Wednesday. Robinson Annex. inside.
Pre-Nursing club, 4 Wednesday,
Fraser dining hall. Speaker, Miss
Elizabeth Hutchinson, obstetrical
supervisor at K.U. Medical center.
S. A.M. field trip, Vendo in Kansas City. Leave Union 12:30 p.m Wednesday or Thursday.
All I.S.A. members signed for dance planning and decoration, 7 p.m. Wednesday, 222 Frank Strong. Plans for Christmas formal.
Alpha Chi Sigma, 7 p.m. tomorrow, Bailey Chem. lab.
Sunflower Students Use Thumbs To Help Beat High Cost Of Living
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University students who live at Sunflower village have found a new use for their thumbs.
Of the 800 students who live at Sunflower, two or three hundred hike- hike to and from school. Estimations by students on the savings each week range from $2 to $4.
The greatest factor which started many students thumping rides is the lack of good bus transportation. At one time commuters busses made getting to and from Lawrence quite easy. Last fall the Santa Fe bus line petitioned for the right to take off as many busses as possible. Now only one early bus leaves each morning
For many of the students it goes too early, for others, too late. This results in a line of students waiting on the highway for rides. Motorists seldom pass without picking up a student or two, and all students who drive cars load up before leaving. Books under a person's arm serve as a ticket for the first obliging motorist.
Many enjoy the hitch-hiking because it affords them a chance to meet interesting people. Others enjoy it because they can go and come at the time they please, but most students enjoy it because that four bucks they save weekly will buy at current prices, 27 loaves of bread, 20 quarts of milk, or 8 pounds of hamburger.
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Rocks And Minerals Described In Booklet
The booklet was written by Laura Lu Tolsted and Ada Swineford, members of the survey. The publication lists methods of identifying rocks and minerals and describes the locations where they may be found. A general description of the contributions of mountains, seas, volcanoes, and other natural phenomena is included.
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For those who are curious about the various formations and distribution of rocks in Kansas, the State Geological Survey, has published an explanatory booklet entitled "Kansas Rocks and Minerals."
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Opera Star Slips, Stabs Leading Man
Pittsburgh. Nov. 12-(UP)-Operatic star Gladys Swarthout flavored her performance in Bizet's "Carmen" with a dash of realism at the Syria mosque last night by accidentally stabbing her Don Jose.
Miss Swarthout drew blood from the wrist of Raoul Jobin, who performed the male lead, as they struggled over possession of a dagger near the end of the wild third act. The metal knife flashed down on his wrist and missed an artery "by a fraction," an attending physician said.
The incident passed unnoticed to the audience, although the fourth and final act was delayed several minutes while Dr. Frank Bailey of West Penn hospital hurriedly dressed the wound. Three stitches were needed to close the gash after the performance.
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