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IHE DAILY GAZETTE -TIMES Published every evening except Sun day. Office: 232 Second street Cor Vallis, Oregon. ' PHONE, 4184 T Entered u Becond-class matter July 2, 190 'at the postofflce at Corvallis, Oregon, under act of March 8, 1379. SUBSCRIPTION RATES -. DAii,y Delivered by earner, per week......f 15 Delivered by carrier, per month...- , .50 By mail, one year, in advance - 5.00 By mail, six months, in advance.... 2.50 By mail, one month, in advance - 1; .50 THE WEEKLY Published Every Friday SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year, in advance............ $2.00 Biz moths, in advance- 1-00 Entered as second-class matter Augusts, 1909, at the postofflce at Corvallis, Oregon, under act of March 8. 1879. In ordering changes of address, sub scribers should always give old as well as new address. N. R. MOORE . . CHAS. L. SPRINGER, . . . Editor Business Mgr. MR. FANNING WRONG. Fanning, the temperance ora tor, made the statement yester day that during the coming cam paign the press of the state would be filled with matter paid for by those engaged in or favoring the whiskey traffic. The Gazette Times will not; we feel reason ably certain that the Benton County Republican will not; we are absolutely certain that the Albany Democrat will not go Wrong in this respect, nor will the Silverton Leader. The Eu gene Register will keep straight and it is our opinion that the great majority of the papers throughout the state will not be filled next Fall with matter fav orable to a continuance of the liquor traffic Many newspapers are better fighters for temperance and pro hibition than , are temperance orators who talk to such medium sized audiences as Mr. Fanning addressed yesterday. Few news papers fail to reach, each issue, - treble the number of people Mr Fanning reached yesterday, and while that gentleman and others . of like mind reach a given audi ence once a year, the newspaper , goes to its audience, weekly, semi-weekly or daily. While few ' editors can make the effective appeal made by Mr. Fanning, the , ones so inclined (and they are 7" many) can and do exercise great influence in the cause of temperance reform, by upholding and encouraging those actively engaged in the work, by frequent utterance against the traffic, and in carrying to the whole public - the utterances of such men Mr. Fanning, who, unfortunately. have opportunity to present their ? facts and figures to but a com- - parative few. The public wil read temperance dope" when it . will not go to hear Fanning, and i Mr.- Fanning and all temperance people are necessarily indebted to newspaperdom throughout the - land. rj ZJi ; Some newspaper men have not yet seen the light, but despiti ' Mr. Farming's calumniating as sertion, we are inclined to fee that these are in the minority SOME NOTED QUARRELS Such quarrels as that between Peary and Cook and their friends are not new to students of his tory. Seldom has any discovery been -made that the honor -has not been contested. " Even yet there is discussion as to whether Columbus was the first discover of America. ; There is still I some doubt ex pressed as to whether Fulton really built the first steam boat. It is often claimed that New ton was not the first to "dis cover" gravitation. . And theatrical managers are always quarreling as to - who discovered this or that particu- ar star. Speaking of stars calls to mind contention between two as tronomers, Levierrier and Adams, as to which "discovered" the planet Neptune. In the realm of astronomy that discovery was as great in every sense as the discovery of the North Pole is to those who take a keen inter est in the controversey now ""on. n 1845 Mr. Adams made com putations indicating that an un recorded planet should be in ex istence at such and such a place and he sent his computations to the Royal Astronomer urging him to use his great telescope to determine the matter. , The As tronomer failed to look and noth ing further was said. In 1846; one year after Adams had sent his computations, Mr. Levierrier sent in similar computations. Dr. Galle, when appealed to. searched for the planet indicat ed and found it. It was then made known that Adams had really worked out this matter correctly a1 year before and had failed only because of the Royal Astronomer. : Then '.- began the quarrel as to whom the honor of priority should belong. Author ities finally decided "as between Levierrier and Adams, the tech- incal right of priority . in this wonderful investigation lay with Levierrier, although Adams had proceeded him by nearly a year, for the double reason that he did not publish his results before the discovery of the planet, arid that it was by the' direction of Levierrier to Dr. Galle that the actual discovery was made. But this does riot diminish the credit done to Mr. Adams for his bold ness in attacting, and his skill in successfully solving so noble a problem. The spirit of true science is advancing to a stage in which contests about priority are looked upon as below the dignity. Discoveries are made for the benefit of mankind; and if,, made independently by sev ered, persons, : it is fitting that each should receive all the credit due to scccess in making it. We consider Mr. Adams as en titled to the same unequalified admiration which is due to a sole disctyv'er: and whatever claims to priority he may have lost by the fortune of Levierrier will be compensated by the sympathy which must ever be felt towards the talented young student in his failure, to secure for; his work that , immense publicity which was due to its interest and im portance." - This sort of finding would fit well in the Cook-Peary episode. The high prices obtained , for Hood River apples ara largely due to organization of the grow ers through which deals were quickly made. The unity f the apple growers of that - section, from the start has had great ef fect on the land values, tit pays to organize. Producers unite, applies to horticultural as well as industrial workers. , The city ot . .f orest (irore is spending .the '$70,000 voted for a gravity supply of water, while Hillsboro, only six miles away, has sold its city pumping plant to a corporation. vAU of which shows that there are different ways of doing the s'ame thing in enterprising communities. ; Added Represent. (Continued, front page one ) sus has been -, completed, the basis of representation in the lower ; House in all . probability will be increased to one repre sentative for every 225,000 and possibly 250,000 population Jiven on a oasis oi one repre sentative to every 250,000 of population or major fraction, Oregon would still ' be entitled to another representative if the new enumeration reaches 650,000, which is considered a practical certainty. COOK 'S TO NORTH POLE, Explorer's Own Story of Finding - the "Big Nail." LIVED LIKE THE ESKIMOS. Started at Land's End, 460 Miles From the Pole Averaged Little Over Four teen Miles a Day and "Raised the United States Flag" at Ninetieth Parallel at Noon on April 21, 1908. Left Two Days Later. i. - William T. Stead, the English jour nalist who interviewed Dr.- Frederick A. Cook at Copenhagen for the New York American concerning bis march to the north pole, said that there are certain things upon which Dr. Cook insisted, without variation or without the shadow of a 'turning, from first to last. The statements he persisted in were these: . ' ; . .' :; : First, he discovered the north pole. Second, he bad hie data in the shape of scientific observations, a diary and the like by which be could convince any competent scientific authority as to the truth of his assertions. Third, that until he bad made good his claim by the production of these data, he asked for nothing more than to be left alone to complete bis book and present bis case as a whole to the scientific world. After describing the fortunate com bination of circumstances that brought him to the edge of the arctic circle at a time when good dogs, plenty of Es kimos and lots of food were there Dr. Cook told me the story of his polar march as follows I started away from Annootok, near Etab, on Feb, 19. which was the sunrise of 1908. I had ten Eskimos, eleven sledges heavily laden with sup plies and 103 dogs. It was the cold est part of the winter. The "thermom eter registered S3 degrees below zero as we - passed over the - heights of Ellesmere strait. We were bound for Land's End. to the west, where we were to begin our ice jourriey-Buring the trip we struck several fine game trails and secured 101 musk oxen. 335 hares and seven hares. : We reached the end of the land and the beginning of the ice on March 18, 1908. ...Started Dash 460 Miles From Pole, "There we established a supply sta tion, and, 1 picked ' out the best two men and twenty-six of the best dogs for the dash across the ice. The Es kimos were Eutlkisbook and Ab welsh. bravest and strongest of the tribe..; We were then at latitude 82.33. or 460 miles from the pole. We started our advance three days later, on March 21.i During the first days" we made long marches. The cold persisted, and there were strong winds. 1 lived as the Eskimos did and man aged to get some comfort by sleeping in snow bouses which we dug out, eat ing tallow and drinking tea.- The sky during these days , was overcast by smoky mist, so that no observation- could be taken, but on March 30 ah' observations gave our position as. lati tude 84.47. We had covered, therefore. more than 130 miles in nine days. Be yond" this point we encountered mere ly a desert of ice. There was no life. Tracks of animals and blowholes Of seals were absent. Nor was there a trace of vegetation. Day after day from then on we pro gressed monotonously. The surface of the ice grew smoother and more level.. It was still cold, ana there was a bit ter wind. I recorded daily our posi tion and the incidents of the march, but one day was much like another. "April 7 was worthy of especial note because the sun at midnight appeared over the edge of the northern ice. The next day 1 made au observation which placed pur position at latitude 86.36. Our speed bad increased slightly. We bad traversed more than 250 miles In seventeen days. . . , Sunburned and Frostbitten Same Day. . "We were then-a trifle more than 200 miles from the pole.- We were sun burned and frostbitten -on the same day. but the light enabled us to-ad vance more easily. , "Beyond the eighty-sixth parallel the crevices became : fewer, and narrower. : and between the eighty -seventh; and eighty-eighth parallels I was surprised to find indications of land Ice. For two days we traveled ; oyer Ice that looked like a f glacial surface.' But there . was no perceptible elevation, and therefore it was impossible to tell whether we were ou land or sea. - "On April 14 we reached latitude 88.21 and were within a little bit. less than 100 miles of the pole. We no longer had energy to make snow houses and slept in a silk tent which we car-, rled. .- In the days that followed we saw mirages inverted mountains and queer objects that seemed to dance about.' Tbe horizon Itself seemed to dance, but I made careful astronom ical observations and always knew our position. "On April 21 my observation cor rected, showed that we had reached latitude 89 degrees. 59 minutes and 46 seconds and were therefore within a stone's throw almost of the ninetieth parallel.- We advanced the fourteen seconds, approximately a quarter-' of a mile, and there I made a double round f observations, which confirmed our position. " ., ' - - . v . No Land ki Sight. "This was at noon of April 21. 1908. My observations showed thatjtho latl- ture was .precisely 90 degrees. Taa DASH temperature was 88 degrees below zero. The barometer stood at 29.83 de grees. There .was no land in sight- nothing but a depressing waste of ice and snow, which appeared purple in the light. ; . . "The Eskimos, told Jhat at last they had reached the 'big hair and were the first of their race ever to have set foot there, celebrated with savage joy. 1 raised the flag of the United States ofj America to the breeze. , "I studied the Jocal conditions as much as possible and took observations from , various , points within walkipsH distance. ; I was unable to take any soundings of th'sea through crevices 1 found because 1 had lostmy sound ing line. Until early 4 the day of ApriJ 23. 1908, we remained at the pole. . Then, realizing that the flag would- be torn to pieces withfe a few days, 1 took it down SI we were about to depart and placed it in' a brass tube, together with a signed re fort of my march from Etah. This I buried in the Ice exactly at the north pole." COMET WITH FAMOUS HISTORY The , Halley Encouraged William the Conqueror and Evoked a Papal Bull Th& cablegram recently received at Harvard observatory in Cambridge) Mass.. fro nr. Professor Wolff of Hei delberg announcing that the Halley come had been seen and photograph ed by him, gave great pleasure. Professor E. C. Pickering, the head of the observatory, said: "I was tiio-hlv elntpri hv T)r. wPnlflPa wire and immediately cabled him -my congratulations. Although the .comet in this case appears earlier than, ex nected. astronomers ail over ttfe world have had one eye open offthfr?lookout for it. It is, you kiow, located S dose proximity to the constellations of Gemini and Gemma." " Jk 'It was the first peddle comet whose return was predicted. Its uis- coverer based his deductions on the tact that its orbit was found in 1682 to jse nearly identical with theomets of 1007 aud 1531 and that he also found records of the appearance of groat comet in 1456, 1301, 1145 and 1066." From these facts he .drew '; conclusions on the time that should elapse between its visible visitations. "He noticed, however, that the In tervals in certain jears differed some what, but wisely saw tnat the differ ences were no way greater, than could be accounted for by the attraction Jupiter and Saturn. At its return 1835-it did not appear as an, ex tremely bright comet, but was occa sionally conspicuous with a tail of 1 the first type. "The most remarkable of its appear ances were in j uue ana iao. xne comet of 1066 figures in the Bayeux tanestrv as a propitious omen for William the Conqueror. "In 1456 Pope Calixtus , III. pro- scribed belief in the comet during the threatened invasion of the Turks . In Europe and issued a duil. GUNNISON TUNNEL INAUGURAL Opening of Reclamation Service Fea ture of Taft's Visit to Colorado. One of the most interesting features of President Taft's coming visit to Colorado will be the turning on of the water through the Gunnison tunnel. This ceremony will be held at Mon trose Sept 23. and Mr. Taft will open the gates that will let the waters of the Gunnison river into the tunnel and" will put this great reclamation project of Uncompahgre valley into operation. It will irrigate 150.000 acres of choice land that now is semiarid. - The government began the work four and a half years . ago,' and the two gangs boring the tunnel met July 6 last at a point 10,812, feet from the intake of the Gunnison river. The tun nel is 30.600 feet (six miles) long, 11 by 13 feet, Inside measurement, and. is lined throughout , with cement. The main canal is thirty feet wide at the bottom, eighty-three feet wide at the top, and the average depth of water is ten feet. The capacity is 1,800 cubic feet of water a second. f; The cost of the tunnel and distribut ing canals is more than $5,000,000, and perpetual, water rights will be sold to actual settlers at approximately $35 an acre, being based upon the actual cost of the tunnel. Ten years time will be allowed for payment without interest The lands to be irrigated are suitable for fruit growing and the raising of all kinds of farm crops. The water after it leaves the tunnel wll have 370 feet fall, which can be used to generate electric power sufficient to light and provide power for all industrial pur poses of the valley. , Kansas Farmers Racing Their Autos. An automobile endurance race -over three rounds of fifteen miles each through the country was the feature of a recent farmers' festival at Chap man, Kan. - "Pinched the Pole.". We's done It, - And done it slick! With prompt dispatch ' - We've turned' the trick. Won a glory : Without dole.x The eagle screams, 1 rWe've pinched the polel" -5 s For centuries others Had a thirst, None satisfied. , To see It first. Creation's hest. , - We've beat tbe whole. " We saw it first And pinched the pole. - I Now 'tis revealed ' - To human eyes. , f 4 . . The goal of ages. ... !.- Lions sought prize. ' - ' .' ! Ecstatic bliss ' i Mow fills our soul. All tried we got there : rw J-i,s pinched the pole! ; , ! ., .... Josh Wink In Baltimore American. BE SURE OF LOTHItlGJOOWY ' " V sV $ Don't Take Chances : - ' - 4 ; . ',' ' Cho6sef uny Suit from our stock and you are safe. You can be sure of the Style, and that every derail of workmanship is - perfect, CORVALLIS' OPERA HOUSE : WtiDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 H. H. FRAZEE (Inc.) OFFERS ' 4 The Favorite Musical' Triumph THE .. tiue : f HOUGH.ADAMS &VQWAr4 AND THE GIRL Pennant Winning Beauty Chorus Advance sale opens Friday morning at Graham , & Worth am's Drug" Store. Prices: Lower floor, $1.50, $1. 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