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Show ARCTIC CIRCLE SENATOR Frank A. Aldrich is a hardy man, and he needs to be in order to fulfill his public duties. For Mr, Aldricli is 91 member of the upper house of the legislature of Alaska, and when the lawmakers of the territory are called in session he girds up his loins, packs his dog sledges and sets out on a trip from the Arctic circle that la3ts thirty-' thirty-' eight days. Thirty-three of these days are spent traveling on a sledge. Down here this seems like a hardy adventure, but in Alaska the inhabitants do not think it anything out of the ordinary, and Senator Aid-rich Aid-rich has had a life training that makes him look on it as rather trival. Indeed, In-deed, when he was in New York recently re-cently for the first time he intimated that a sledge journey of hundreds of miles over the snowy wastes was nothing noth-ing to compare with a trip across-Fifth across-Fifth avenue through the streams of automobiles. Senator Aldrich was born in Fort Wayne, Ind., fifty-eight years ago, and at the age of nineteen he joined General Gen-eral Terry's command on the Yellowstone river during the Indian campaigil of 1876. He was driving a six-mule government team in Terry's division in Montana at the time of the Custer massacre. The next year he was with. Gen. Nelson A. Miles in the Nez Perces expedition, in which Chjef Joseph was captured. In 1879 he began prospecting for gold, and has pursued the career of a miner ever since. He was elected to the Alaska legislature in 1913. . .. . |