Wisconsin Officials
and Girls Linked in
Vice Orgies, Charge
Waupaca, Wis.—State Senator R. J.
Severson Wednesday declared he pos
sessed facts, evidence and witnesses to
back up chartres that state officials had
locked women in offices at the state
capitol and assaulted them.
Severson said he would present the
“facts” to Governor Blaine, who de
manded in a telegram that the senator
prove the charges, so the “guilty offi
cials might be removed from office and
criminally prosecuted.”
Severson first made the charges in a
speech before the La Follette club
Tuesday night.
Governor Blaine at Madison wired
him early Wednesday, “demanding”
proof. Although Severson has not yet
received the telegram, he said he
would comoly with it.
. “I will prove to the people of this
state that these statements are founded
. on facts,” he said.
During the last session of the state
legislature charges were made in the
state house of “liquor bouts” between
legislators and lobbyists, and rumors of
“gay parties” were whispered about.
The legislature refused to vote an in
vestigation of the drinking charges.
Madison, Wis.—-Governor Blaine, in
a telegram to Senator ! 1. J. Severson,
, demanded names of state officials
charged with assaulting girls in locked
capitol offices. The executive declared
that he would remove promptly any of
ficial named by Senator Severson.
Senator Seversou, in a statement in
reply, declared: “It is very strange
that the governor now is anxious to get
information concerning alleged assaults
on girls in capitol offices when he and
bis official family pulled every string
during the legislature to defeat a move
to get a full and complete investigation
of those charges.”
What People Get
When They Smoke
American Medical Assn. Journal.
One of the substances abundantly
i present in tobacco smoke is carbon
monoxid, well known as the lethal
agent of illuminating gas and of the
exhaust gas.of motors, which has had
so.-saeny victims in recent years. Car
bon monoxid is not directly poisonous,
but displaces oxygen from hemoglobin,
for the red cells have 225 times aa
great an a.linity for this gas as for oxy
geD. Baumberger has found that to -
bacco smoke may have from 7.2 to 25
parts of carbon mouoxid in 10,000 parts
of air, a concentration which Hender
son found capable of causing serious
symptoms if inhaled for more than an
hour. But persons never take in undi
luted smoke—the heartiest cigar tiends
and the most resolute pipe smokers al
ways taking ipanv breaths of fresh air
between puffs. It is estimated that if
a person should smoke continuously for
one hour, inhaling the smoke five
times a minute, there might occur as
high as 22 per cent saturation of the
hemeglobin by carbon monoxid, a con
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ceotratiioti sufficient to produce head-1
ache and perhaps an oxygen shortage '
during activity, but this figure is un- :
doubtedly far above what -lookers do
a<;tually accomplish. Perhaps 10 per
cent is on *e nearly the maximum
reached in smoking, a figure that has
not been found ordinarily to produce
symptoms.
Formerly the statement was current
that the chief toxic material in tobacco
smoke is pyridin, derived bv decompo
sition of nicotic; but taler studies
agree in indicating that the nicotin is
the chief active ageot, tobacco smoke
exerting much the same physiologic
effects as nicotin in corresponding ct .
ceutrations. By direct analysis, Baum
berger found that eigaret smoke con
tains between 14 and 33 [ter cent o£ the
nicotin present in the tobacco smoked..
Cigaiots weigh about 1 gin. apiece, and
about 80 per cent of the tobacco is
smoked, so that the riieotin in the
puffed smoke amounts to about 5 mg.
for each eigaret. Of this, about 67 per
cent is absorbed if the smoke is merely
taken into the mouth, but 88.per cent
is absorbed if the smoke is inhaled into
the lungs. How much of this reaches
the blood depends chiefly on how much
is lost in saliva, the drooling of the no
vitiate being an important protective
measure, since from 3 to 5 mg. of uie
otin dissolved in water, taken withiD
half an hour, may cause severe symp
toms in nonsmokers, whereas habitual
smokers can endure twice as much.
These figures show that an unventi
lated room ten feet square and ten feet
high, occupied by ten men all stroking
cigarets to the best of their ability for
an hour, would come to have an air
containing about two parts of carbon
mouoxid and enough nicotin to furnish
2.6 mg. an hour to the person compelled
to breathe it. While these are not
large amounts in figures, it is certain
that any non.unokers, and many smok
ers. in such an environment would have
a headache, which is ascrtb’ ble to the
increased intracranial pressure 'that is
produced by both the nicotin and the
decreased oxygen in the blood. f our
hardened eigaret smoker were to puff
away steadi,y for an hour he might ab
sorb as much as 36 mg. of nicotin if he
inhaled, a„,l 27.5 if he only puffed.
These are amounts that would undoubt
edly produce marked effects even on
the habituated, but there is at least the
consolation that t •> lethal dose is 500
mg. taken at one time. However, the
smoker gets much besides carbon trio
noxid and ni-otin for the solids of cig
arette smoke weigh > hout 10 per cent
of the tobacco burned, or about 80 :ng.
for each cigarette, and all the things
it may contain besides the aforemen
tioned are not knowo, but the e :peri*,
mental evidence indicates that nieotiii,,
and carbon monox id account foe most
if not all the observed effects.
ft is to be considered that tht >e ex
periments were carried out wiih cig
arettes, for the observations of Lee in
dicate that tobacco burned in cigarettes
yields much less nicotin, and presum
ably less carbon monoxid, in the smoke
than when burned in cigars or pipes.
For example, a Manila cigar and a cig
arette of Virginia tobacco were so
burned that the same amount of to
Probate Notice to Creditors.
In the mutter of the Estate of Charles
Bresler, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that, on the
i 29th day of September, 1923, the judge
of the probate court for Mt. McKinley
precinct, at McGrath, Alaska, appoint
ed the undersigned administrator of
the estate of Charles Bresler, de
ceased, and all persons having claims
against the estate of Charles Bresler,
deceased, are required to present them,
with proper vouchers, within six
months from the date of -this notice, to
Chris Peterson, executor of said estate,
at the N. C. Co.’a store, Tokotna,
Mt. McKinley precinct, Alaska. '
Dated at Tokotna, Alaska, this 3rd
day of October, 1923.
<CJhkt*j Peterson,
<■ Executor."
baoco was consumed in equal time, and
the products of tne combustion deter -
mined; i„ was found that although the
cigarette tobacco used contained nearly
twice as much nicotin as the cigar to
bacco, the smoke of the latter was
twice as toxic as the cigarette smoke.
The explanation for this is that during
the slow combustion of a cigar, us in
ordinary smoking, immediately behind
the point of combustion is an area in
which the water anil other., olatila
substances condense; during the act of
smoking, the hot gases pass through
this ixkmsI area and volatilize tha more
volatile principles of the tobacco, of
which nicotin la one Therefore the
smaller the moist, hot area behind the
point of combustion, and the more
rapid and complete the combustion,
the less likely 4s the smoke to contain
volatile toxic bodies; hence a igaret
or a slender cigat will yield fewer of
these products than a thick cigar, and
many smokers can testify that a thick,
'‘fat" cigar has much more effect than
a long, slender cigar of similar tobacco.
The unpleasant effects that the unac -
customed smoker experiences on re
lighting a half-,unshed cigar or pipe
are explained on the same basis.
Blobbs—Are you doing anything
these days?
Slobb*—I’m working every day, eight,
hours at a strut di.
13 lobbs- -W here?
Slobbs—-In the ruober factory.
Notice of Forfeiture
To Leonard Dodge. P. Smith, Harvey
Wentz. R. H. Guffe, or K. H. Grif
fiths, and T. J. Coffey, their ->er
sonal representatives, heirs and as
signs: S
You anti each of yon are hereby noti
fied that the undersigned has expended
for annual labor one .hundred dollars
($100.00) per veai for the years 1015,
1910. 1917, -.1920, 1921, 1922, upon the
following described mining, elaim, in
Ruby recording district, Territory of
Alaska: The Sandbag Association
Claim, on Greenstone creel:, a tribu
tary of. Long creak in order to hold
said claim under the provisions of law
respecting annual labor upon mining
claims.
And if -within ninety {90) days after
the publication of this notice you, or
any of you, fail to pay your portion of
the amount expended on the above
claim, your interest in said claim will
become forfeited iothe undersigned co
nwner. according lo the provisions of
Section 21524 Revised Statutes of the
United States.
Di M SUTHKKtiAND.
Date of first publication, Sept. 22. 19211.
Date of final publication, Dec. 21*, 19211.
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