Show A living mastodon the recent departure ot professor L L dyche of the kansas university has riven risa to beveral stories as to his destination some have asserted tant he was bound for greenland where he proposed to secure the large meteorite which lieutenant peary claims to have first seen to a correspondent of tho chicago record professor dyche raid that his destination was alaska and that while there he would try to learn something of the truth of the edories which are told of a living mastodon in the tipper valley 0 the yukon river tuske of the finest ivory have been found there and of the circular form peculiar to mastodons recent letters lettera from alaska eay that the meat 0 a mastodon was brought into circle city by hunters who asserted that they killed the animal the meat had he thick hide and long bair of the mastodon but as none of it was preserved scientists are not convinced that it was the flech of the mastodon while il is not disputed that mosto dons once lived in alaska it ie thought doubtful it any are now alive even the existence of the flesh would not prokp the existence of the living animal as the body of one might be preserved for centuries in alie icy fastness of that frigid region |