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VOL. XLVI.- XO. 14,300. PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY, OCTOBER, 1906. PRICE FIVE CENTS. 8, WmD BLACKS IN DEADLY CLASH Race War Breaks Out in Arkansas. LYNCHING FOLLOWS SHOOTING Negro Prisoner Taken From Jail by Masked Men. STRUNG UP IN STREET Prominent Citizen of Aifrenta Shot Dead From Store Owned by Xegroes, and Police and Citizens Are Defied. THE TOWN" OF ARGENTA. Argenta la a banking post village of Pulaski County, Arkansas, on the Choc-tan-. Oklahoma & Gulf and other rail roads, and on the north bank of the Arkansas Ktver. almost opposite Little Rock. It has stockyards, cotton-compressors, cotton-seed oil mills and other Industries. According: to the last cen sus the population Is about 6000. ARGENTA. Ark., Oct. 7-As a se quel to the killing of John Lindsay and the, wounding of his son, Johann Milton Lindsay, here last night, presumably by Garrett Colum and Charles Colum. ne groes, X. Blackburn, a negro. 37 years old. was lynched at 1ft o'clock at the corner of Sixth and Main streets. The lynching is the latest link in a chain of clashes between whites and blacks that started September 15. when a white man named E. R McDonald killed a negro musician named Wiley Shelby. Nex-t day at the Inquest a diffi culty arose. In which Robert Colum was killed. Deputy Constable Ed Lindsay and Garrett Colum severely wounded and Milton Lindsay hurt. Last night Miiton Lindsay and his father, John, were walking s past the Colum store, when they were fired on. John Lindsay was killed on the spot. His son was severely wounded, but man aged to crawl to safety. When the po lice and citizens attempted to enter' the store they were fired upon. Later the place was dynamited, but the negroes had escaped and they are still at large. Fire on From Ambush. Early this morning Will Harding, a painter, was halted on the street by un known persons and shot. Half an hour later James Mahoney. a contractor, and Al Belding. a reporter for the Little Rock Gazette, while going to see Hard ing, were fired on from four different directions with shotguns Mihoney was wounded in the hand and Belding's cloth ing was peppered with hirdshot. At nocn today H. Blackburn, a negro. . who conducts a confectionery store, was arrested on suspicion of being the man who fired on Mahoney and Belding. The town was quiet all day. but shortly before 10 o'clock tonight four masked men entered the police station from the year. One covered the turnkey with a pistol, while the others got his keys, unlocked Blackburn's cell and took hlra out the back way. I Prisoner Strung I'p to Pole. Not a shot was fired and there was no loud talking, so that the Sheriff and his deputies, who were standing on the street a few rods away, knew nothing of what was going on until they heard several shots fired at Main and Sixth f-treets. Running there they found Black burn already dead, hung to a telegraph pole, while the crowd around were ap parently merely onlookers. Blackburn was strangling to death slowly, when he was shot several times to put him out of his misery. FLEE FROM ARGENTA. Xegroes Go to Litle Rook to Spend Xight in Fear of Another Outbreak. KANSAS CITY. Oct. 7. A special to the Journal from Little Rock says: "Blackburn, the negro taken from the jail by a mob at Argenta tonight and lynched, is not believed to have been the man wanted. "The free bridge between this city and Argenta was covered with ne groes tonight. Fully SflO deserted their homes in that city and came to Little Rock to spend the night. The leaders stated that they were afraid to remain in Argenta after dark for fear of an other outbreak by the whites. BTTLDINGS ARE SET OX FIRE Incendiaries Destroy Business and Residence Property. LITTLE ROCK. Ark., Oct. 7,-Two residences and several frame business houses in Argenta were burned today by Incendiaries. ALL IS NOW QUIET AT MACON Military Is Held in Readiness in Case of Emergency. MACON. Ga.. Oct. 7 Quiet reigns in this city tonight and no further trouble is expected. The negro who shot Adams and Solomon was sent to Atlanta this ! afternoon for safe keeping. Adams and Solomon are in the hospital. The military is held in readiness in case of an emer gency. The mob succeeded in breakin into the iail at a late hour last night, but the negro had been piaced in the barracks under military guard. The negro Fews, who did the shooting, was wounded, but will recover. Another negro was shot through the leg last night while the attack was being made on tne prison. Greene and Gaynor, the Federal pris oners convicted of fraud in the Savannah harbor expenditures, were in the jail last night. After the mob effected an entrance the noted prisoners mingled with the crowd in perfect composure. Sheriff Protects Negro Slayer. BLOOMIXGTON. Ind.. Oct. 7. The ne gro. Edward Jones, who last night Ehot and killed Alfred Stevens, a lunch-wagon man. was safely taken to the Jefferson ville penitentiary early today. Last night's mob was again in evidence early this morning, and it was only by the deter mined efforts of the Sheriff and his depu ties that the men were kept from batter ing down the jail doors. Sheriff Eludes Mob of Lynchers. COLUMBIA. S. C. Oct. " J. E. Guil lard, one of the three white men shot by Henry Adams, alias Small, at Manning Friday evening, died today. Adams wa an employe of a circus. A mob formed Provisional Governor C. E. Magonn, Who Is on His Way to Cuba. to lynch the negro, but the Sheriff escaped with him and he was placed In the peni tentiary here this morning for safe keep ing. No More Trouble Expected. MOBILE, Ala.. Oct. 7 Fears enter tained of retaliation by the negroes for yesterday s lynchmgs of Thompson and Robinson have disappeared and no further trouble is expected. Posse Hunting- for Negro Murderer. CHARLOTTE. N. C Oct. 7. Ri H. Eubanks. superintendent of a construc tion company on the Southern Railwav, was shot and killed today by Oscar Gaddy. a. negro, at the railway camp near Lexington. A posse is hunting for uaaay. NO HOPE FOR DEMOCRATS Secretary Shaw Says Bryan Has Blasted Chances of Success. CINCINNATI. Oct. 7. Leslie M. Shaw, Secretary of the United States Treasury, who is staying here, today in rep to a question said: . No. we are in no danger whatever of los ing the National House of Representatives. The Democrats have lost all hope of carry ing it since Mr. Bryan, made "his New York speech advocating the Government owner chip of railroads. That has destroyed all thMr chances of success for "years to come, and they will have to look about for new It-sues and new men. Bryan and Hearst are all the party has Wt in the Presidential line, and more Is the pity, for I like to see strong men In the opposition. Sfnaor Bailey and John Sharp Williams axe the only conspicuous figures in the South, and they are impossible. I don't like to delve into a man's motives in answer to your question, but I suppose Mr. Bryan believes in Government ownership and thinks it will win. He will never see it. BRAKES FAIL ON HILL Automobile Wrecked at San Juan and Capitalist Fatally Injured. SAN" JOSE. Cal.. Oct. 7 An automobile containing Arch Condon, of Berkeley, and a chauffeur was wrecked at noon to day on San Juan Hill, about 50 miles south of this city. It is reported that Condon is fatally injured and that the chauffeur, whose name is not known, is seriously injured. The car was en route to Los Angeles, having left Berkeley at 4 A. M. Sunday. It is believed that the brakes failed to work, as the machine went down the hill backwards at a terrific clip. The car is the same as that in which A E. Rowley, of Berkeley was killed some time ago. The car was rented to Condon, who is a Retired capitalist, and who formerly lived in i'onopah. STEEDS FROJVTTHE DESERT Homer Davenport Negotiates Pur chase of Arabian Horses. NEW YORK. Oct. 7. Twenty-seven Arabian horses, ten mares and 17 stal lions were landed today from the steamship Italia. They have been on the way from Syria s"ince August 14. This importation is said to be the largest of the kind ever made and is the result of the only trade ever is sued to an American. Homer Daven port negotiated the purchase. The an imals, he says, represent the only strictly desert-bred thoroughbreds ever brought to this country. , JESUP IS IN FLAMES. No Means of Fighting Fire in Geor gia Town. JESUP. Ga.. Oct. 8. 3 A. M. A destruc tive fire is raging in Jesup. It has already destroyed the Strickland Hotel, where it started, two stores, and is spreading rapidly. The building in which the tele phone exchange is located is on fire. There is no means of fighting the flames. ' Kvt'T'' , x . , p . ARM IN THE TEETH OFAN ANGRY BEAN Boise "Zoo" Keeper Is Badly Torn. BRAVE WIFE TO THE RESCUE Belabors Bear With Club After Putting Children in Safety. RIFLE SHOT ENDS FIGHT Urged on by Desperate Victim the Gun Is Fired at Close Range in Time to Save Struggling Man's Life. EOISE. Idaho. Oct 7. (Special.) A thrilling and bloody encounter with a bear occurred in the zoo of Riverside Park at 10:30 this morning, Charles Hanson be ing terribly bitten by the beast. Hanson was employed to look after the animals. He went into a cage containing a large cinnamon, weighing some 500 pounds, and a smaller animal to put in fresh straw. The big bear made a pass at him and he attempted to back out, but tripped in the straw and fell into the little inclosure outside. The cinnamon rushed on him and seized him by the arm. Mrs. Hanson was in the small inclosure with her children. She sought to fight the bear, but her husband called out: 'For God's sake, get out of here. The bear has me, but you can save your selves." Mrs. Hanson thereupon threw' the chil dren out and securing a club attacked the bear. The bear paid no attention. Men gathered on the outside, but did not venture in. The bear, after chewing the arm nearly off. made a swipe that laid the scalp open and then grabbed at the man's throat. At that instant a man outside thrust a stick across Hanson's throat In such a way that it protected it against the teeth. By this time 1'raan named Sewell came running up with a rifle. He was urged not to shoot, as he might kill the man. Hanson called out: "Shoot; I am dead f you don't." Sewell then killed the bear with a shot through the heart. The muscle was torn off Hanson's arm and hung at the elbow. It is thought the arm can be saved. FLUSTER IN BIG STORM BARKENTIXE LOSES SAILS AND SPRIXGS A LEAK. Hold Fills With Water and Fore- castle, Cabins and Galleys Are Flooded. PORT TOWXSEXD, Wash.. Oct. 7 The barkentine Planter, Captain Murchison, which left Everett eight days ago. bound for Manila, limped back to rjort earlv this morning, waterlogged and in a badly damaged condition. The vessel was off the Columbia River when overtaken by a storm which nearly caused the destruc tion of the steamer Santa Ana As the storm increased in violence the rigging began going by the board and the Planter soon became unmanageable In the height of the gale it was discovered the vessel was leaking. The pumps were manned by a few available seamen, who could be spared from working the vessel, but they could make no headway against the inrushing waters. The holds raDldlv filled, while the forecastle, cabins and gal leys were nooaea. The ship's stores were below and all under water, and while the crew was try ing to work its way back to the straits it was necessary to secure from below with the aid of a net such supplies of the canned variety as were available for food, and on this exclusively the crew and offi cers were forced to live during the try- ng oraeai. Meantime work with the pumns was bandoned, it being apparent no headwav could be made. Nothing but the fact that the vessel was laden with lumber per mitted her ever to get within reach of towboats. which finally brought her here. aptain Murchison believes a great part f the cargo will have to be discharged before repairs to the vessel are possible. MRS. SCHWAB LOST A FAN Steel King's Wife a Victim of Anso- nia Hotel Robbery. NEW YORK. Oct. 7. Mrs. Charles M. Schwab, wife of the ex-president of the nited States Steel Corporation, it was learned tonight, was one of many per sons robbed at the Hotel Ansonia. A fan painted by Watteau and other valuables were taken from her apartments. t rank r . Fanning, a carpenter employed at the Hotel Ansonia. and Kate Gallagher were arrested tonight, charged with the thefts, which are said to amount to J30.000. SHOT FOR HIGHWAYMAN Intoxicated Man Was Leaning Against Tree in a Doze. SACRAMENTO. Cal.. Oct. 7 Early this morning, while Oscar Herold was sroine home from, a whist party, he saw a man tanding by a tree near the corner of Tenth and G streets. He says he stopped and asked the man what he was doinz EVENTS OF COMING WEEK Active Political Campaign. Nominations having" been made by the party conventions In various states, the political campaign la expected to develop actively and become more In teresting this week. In addition to the Congressional contest. Governor are to be elected in several states, among them New York and Massachu setts. In these two states the Demo crats have nominated candidates who were opposed by certain conservative leaders in the party, creating sensa tions In the states not unlike that in National politics when Bryan was nom inated for the Presidency. In each of these states the canvass undoubtedly will be extremely active and be fol lowed with intense interest from now until election. Trial of Standard Oil Company. Tuesday the hearing of the Standard Oil Company, charged with violation of the anti-trust laws, will be begun in the Probate Court at Findlay, O. This is the proceeding in which John T. Rockefeller has been summoned to ap pear. Presidential Election In November. A National convention has been called by General Eloy Alenaro. Pres ident of Ecuador, who overthrew the Garcia administration in January, to meet at Guayaquil. October 9, for the purpose of promulgating a new c in stitution and the election of a Presi dent of the republic. By the present constitution of Ecuador, dating from 1S&4. with modifications in 1SS7 and 1S97, the executive is vested in a President, while the legislative power is given to a Congress of two houses, the members of which are elected by adults who can read and write. Notable Murder Caw. A case that promises to arouse more than usual interest is scheduled to be gin at Toms River, N. J., Monday, when X)r. Frank Brouwer will be put on trial charged with the murder of bis wife. It is alleged that Brouwer caused his wife's death by giving her ground glass and arsenic while osten sibly treating her for a sudden and severe illness. Afro-American Church. The annual meeting of the National Afro-American Council win be held In New York on Tuesday, "Wednesday and Thursday of this week. The call for the meeting declares that "the hostil ity oh the part of the enemies of the race has been so persistent that many of our friends have become timid and Indifferent in our defense. It is with the view of combating this opposition of our enemies, strengthening the hands of our friends and working for the ab solute undoing of all discriminations against the race that this meetinjc is to be called." Women's Golf Cnajtnploa&hip. The women's National amateur golf championship will be decided at & tournament to be held at West New- . ton, Mass., beginning Monday. there. Getting no answer. Herold drew a revolver and fired at the man, who did not move. Direstly he fired again, and tne man pitched forward on his face with a bullet in his forehead. He died two nours later in tne recAivinir h.-eritai The dead man was Chariot -txr ti.,(pB who was head clerk in the Postal Tele graoh Company's office in this city. Thelss had attended a political meeting at Oak stopped in a saloon until 2 o'clock and then started home. Tt is rsM ho hn .r.- indulged in liquor, and, it is believed, wan- ucicu uul ui ins way a coupie oi Dlocks, and finally leaned up against a tree and evidently fell asleeD. Herold says he was held up once and rooDea, ana mat when he saw Theiss leaning against the tree he thought he was a robber and shot him. Herold gave nimsen up to tne police and at noon to day was released on bail in the sum of 1V,VW. CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER The Weather. TODAY'S Fair. Northwest winds. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 7; degrees. Clear. Domestic Race war breaks out at Arrenta. Ark whir. ehot from ambush and negro prisoner is Craze for speculation in mining stock Is sweeping over me enure country. Page 3. Dowle has a vision and deacon gets order to raise a million In Chicago. Page 3. Wheat prices will probably rise it farmers do not crowa tne marKeis. rage 2. "Luck of Roaring Camp" repeated In real lite m oioraao gracing camp, page 2. Political. Hughes' scores Hearst for denouncing corpo rations while posing as a corporation editor Page 1. Senator Penrose and Congressman Sherman nrna conierence witn tne President, page 1. Cuba. American soldiers are landed In Cuba with areat cleverness. Page 2. Secretary Taft finds situation so well cleared up that he may soon return home. Page 2. Disarmament of the last rebel organization in Havana Province la followed by lovefeast. Paee 2. Foreign. Betrothal of Grand Duke Michael and Princess .raincia is omciauy aeniea. Page 2. Congress of the Constitutional Democrat be gins session in Finland. Page 3. National. Government regulations controiiine- ti mak ing of denatured alcohol. Page 3. Fourteen officers were dismissed from the United States Army the past year. Page a. Paciao Coast. Charles Hanson, park keeper, of Boise. Idaho is badly chewed by captive bear. Page L Mrs. Carey M. Snyder positively Identifies re mains of her husband. Page 8. Barkentine Planter towed Into Port Townsend after terrible experience In big storm. Page 1. Hoquiam and Aberdeen unite In struggle for countv seat. Page 4. San Francisco Is ery busy la rebuilding de stroyed city. Page 4. Sport. Two big league pennants are won by the Chi cago clubs. Paee 5. Pacific Coaet scores: Los Angeles 3. Portland 1; Seattle 5-4. Oakland 4-2; San Francisco 10-6. Fresno 8-5. Paee 5. Honolulu wants Pacific Coast teams to pay Island a visit. Page 5. Portland and Vicinity. Captain Roald Amundsen, discoverer of the ..w.it. i.utLucBi x-ussage. tens The Ore gonian the story of his voyage. Paxe 1 Consul-General Miller at Yokohama, in in terview nere. Eays japan will control Pa cidc merchant marine. Page 12. Crew of steamer Spencer strikes In sym pathy with grainhandlers. Page S. Dr. Brougher preaches at White Temple on niutv iiu DuiiriiiuiK ; ouier Sunday sermons by Portland pastors. Page Lafe Pence returns with projected coloniza tion schemes, page 14. Project forpubllc park on Mount Tabor dis cussed, page ij. Pickpockets make haul on Council Crest car. page i. W. L. Douglas visits Portland and discusses larin revision, page 12. Grace Methodist Episcopal Church commem orates closing 01 successrui year. Page 9. Residences in North Mount Tabor menaced by gravel pit or paciac Bridge Company. Page 8. AMUNSDEN TELLS STORY OF VOYAGE FamousArctic Explorer in Portland. JUST OUT OF FROZEN NORTH Conqueror of Northwest Pas sage Gives Graphic Details. NEAR THE MAGNETIC POLE His Observations, Carried on for a Xumber of Years, Will Enable Scientists to Locate Point Definitely. Captain Roald Amundsen, the famous conqueror of the- dreaded Northwest Passage, was in Portland yesterday. Last night he told The Oregonian the graphic details, of the voyage that ha3 made htm famous throughout the civ ilized world. He is Just out from the frozen North, and left on the train last night for San Francisco, where he will meet the sloop Gjoa (pro nounced Go-a), which is now proceed ing to that port under command of Lieutenant Hansen. He left the little vessel at Nome, Alaska, about a month ago, and went by rail to Sitka, leav ing the crew to take the 47-ton sloop to San Francisco. Accompanied by his brother, Gustav Amundsen, a business man of Christi anla,' Norway, who journeyed from there to greet the explorer in Seattle, and Francis Norwood Smith, agent of the Northern Commercial Company, of Eagle, Alaska, who is returning with his wife and daughter to Oakland, Cal., after a three years' absence in northern latitudes. Captain Amundsen reached Portland from Seattle yester day, and left for the South at 8:45 in the evening. The afternoon was occupied in driving around and in specting the various objects of inter est, the sublime October weather re minding the great explorer more forci bly than anything else that his system was ctill subservient to the influences of the Arctic region, and that nothing but a Polar blizzard could induce him to think that Portland was not located in the torrid zona Took Three Years to Make Trip. "We left Christianla June 16. 1903," said the captain to The Oregonian. "Our boat, the Gjoa, is a small sloop only 70 feet long, of 47 tons burden and 20-foot beam. We sailed first to Godhavn. Greenland, a little Danish settlement, and from there went direct through the Northwest Passage that is, in the) course of time," he added half apologetically, "as It took us more than thrte years to make the trip." Asked as to the benefits that could accrue to mankind by reason of hia discoveries, Captain Amundsen de clared that it was a problem that would have to work out its own boIu tion. He did not consider that the passage could ever be made availa ble for commercial purposes on ac count of its narrowness and the shal lowness of its waters. "Our compass became useless at one stage of our voyage," he continued, "indicating that we were in the vicin ity of the so-called Magnetic Pole. After leaving there the instruments gradually adjusted themselves to nor mal conditions. Our experience dem onstrated very forcibly that mighty little is known of the earth's magnetic forces. There is a field much more undeveloped than that of electricity, and I should Imagine quite, if not more, interesting from a scientific point of view." Captain Amundson is a modest-appearing man of medium height and build. with a kindly expression in his deep blue eyes. There is not a trace of despon dency in any of his . features, and he asserted with the 'utmost candor that he was never hopeless regarding the success of his undertaking at any stage of his eventful Journey. While extremely cold weather was encountered, the mercury frequently being 70 degrees below zero. the little band of intrepid explorers did not suffer to any noticeable extent. Wilk was the only member of the crew to sue cumb. and he died from the effects of lung fever. The land that was encountered was a low. bleak, sandy shore, devoid of ver dure except stunted shrubbery. In the Summer time the weather was enjoyable. Their systems gradually became accus tomed to the cold, and they did not mind it any more than persons living here would feel the effects of Wintry sur roundings. Suffers From the Heat. According to the Captain, his most serious hardship on account of climatic conditions arose when he reached a tem perature that was above zero. Although the maximum here yesterday was about 75 degrees, he complained that the heat was suffocating, and glanced with long ing eyes in the direction of a huge poster that adorned a nearby soda fountain representing a white Polar bear sitting on the shady side of an iceberg. Captain Amundson was the guest of Mr. Smith at Eagle. Alaska, for some time after his arrival from the North. During the two years of observations, while the Gjoa was anchored in a cove of Gjoa har bor. King Williams Land, the crew camped near the station. Game was plentiful, and with their dog teams the men made many trips over the ice. Among these trips the longest was the fifteen-hundred-mile journey to Eagle City, one of the northerly American set tlements, with an abandoned whaler and two Indians ' as guides. It took two months to reach Eagle City, the trav elers arriving there last December. It was then that the world received the first news of Amundson's expedition. The Captain sent a cablegram to the King of Sweden. The message, it will be recalled, was held up by a signal corps officer and for a consideration was given to the press three days before its receipt by his Majesty, who had paid $1,000 for the pleasure of reading it. After Amundson had thus established connection with civ ilization he returned northward to his ship, and continued his observations on King William's Island "Will you ever repeat, the expedition?" he was asked. "I hope it will never be found necessary for me to do so," was the answer, as his high forehead became rough with thought ful wrinkles and his blue eyes reflected a seriousness even more pronounced than was their wont. Conjecture Set at Rest. "I bejieve," he continued cautiously, stroking his reddish pointed beard, "that my observations during the two years I ft Senator Boise Penrose, of Pennsyl vania, Who Held Conference With the President. spent on King William's Island will not only set at rest much that la conjectural about the Magnetic Pole, but will define its location with greater accuracy than has been possible hitherto. Practically nothing new has been done in that direc tion since 1SS1. when Admiral Ross, of the British navy, made several observations, but not enough for accuracy. The advan tage of the present over the past In tak ing magnetic observations cannot be over estimated. Great improvement has been made in fashioning the magnetic needles, and photography Is now a wonderful help in recording the observations. "I have sent all my observations to sci entific experts. They will calculate the real location of the pole from the notes. Probably Professor Schmidt, of Berlin, or the authorities at Washington will make the calculations I don't know exactly where it will be done. It may take two or three years." Captain Amundsen sketched his obser vation headquarters on King William's Land, as well as the different instruments and their positional Graphically he de scribed the place, in the midst of a bleak wilderness, rarely it ever before visited by a white man, surrounded by a scant population of tribesmen who never before had known that there were white faces on the earth. King William's Island, he pointed out, was in latitude 68 degrees 30 minutes north and 90 degrees west of Greenwich. "I am sure," he declared, "that It Is only 90 miles from the true Magnetic Pole The station we erected there was not a bit larger than this cabin on the Gjoa" The station, he continued, was built of wooden provision boxes, constructed for the purpose before the party left Norway. The boxes were put together with copper nails, and chinked in with snow and sand. King William's Is land is low and flat, and under the snow is to be found plenty of sand and gravel. The magnetic needles ' were adjusted in the blockhouse, and but for the lamp behind the reflector, the place was as dark as a photographer's developing-room. No heat was al lowed, nor motion of any kind. Watching the Sensitive Compass. For at least three or four hours every day, through the two years. Cap tain Amundsen sat in the observation room watching his needles.5 Oftentimes the thermometer registered 70 degrees below zero, Fahrenheit. "We could not carry watches or keys, or wear ordinary shoes, as the iron nails In them attracted the mag net," explained the discoverer. "Our clothing inside and out was made of deerskins." Before reaching the island the jour ney had been a continuous threading of his way among the myriad islands found after sailing westward .from Baffin Bay and Lancaster Sound. Captain Roald Amundsen is the first man who has taken his ship through the Northwest Passage with him. although he is the second to have crossed the froz'en deserts thereabouts. After going from Baffin Bay into Lan caster Sound, Captain Amundsen fol lowed Barrow Strait, Peel Sound, and James Ross Strait, and entered Rae Strait. He Wintered at a point between Todd Island and Richardson Inlet. From the records of the Franklin party he had learned to anchor the Gjoa out from land and not at the shore, so that at the return of Summer it would not be crushed to bits by the ice? When the warm season of 1904 came the Captain pushed forward into a re gion which until that time was un known. The Gjoa sailed into Simpson Strait, a narrow, shallow passage, dot ted with many islands. The strait is 1 (Concluded oa Page 8.) HUGHES LANDS HARD ON HEARST Shows Him Up as Cor poration Editor. INCONSISTENCY OF CANDIDATF Froths at Mouth Over the Word in His Speeches. BUT USES IT AS SHIELD Kecord of Case in W hich Democratic Aspirant for Governorship Denied Ownership of Paper When Sued for Damages. NEW YORK. Oct. 6. fSpecial V. Charles E. Hughes opened his campaign; for the Governorship in Brooklyn by ad-: dressing four meetings. He signalized his invasion of Kings County by dis missing his prejudice against campaign personalities. He not only discussed W. R. Hearst by name for the first time from the platform, but he hit hard blows. Hughes has set out to expose his op-, ponent's indiscriminate cry against cor' porations, while Hearst at the same tim shields himself by the screen of corpora tion fictions against liabilities incurred! in connection with his newspaper pub lications. "What is the sincerity of a man?"1 asked Mr. Hughes; "what is the polit ical morality of any man who will talk indiscriminately about corporations and then uses in his business a corporation to shield him from liability and conduct his business under the safeguard which corporation organization alone can give him? Uses Word as a Stigma. "Does my opponent disbelieve in cor porations? Oh. no. not at all. Why then does he select the word 'corpora tion' as a watchword? Why then with out attempting to point out particular abuses,' does h- use the word 'corpora tion' with the effort to make It a stigma, to affix a libel, to deal with as a sug gestion of corruption enormities some thing which should call down upon any thing to which It Is affixed the Just con demnation of his fellowmen? Why? Be cause he is honest? No. Because he) wants office. "Now I have here a record, of a cas that was tried in Westchester County that came before the appellant division, sitting in Brooklyn. It is the record o the case of a young married woman who was riding on her wheel and was run over by a delivery wagon of the New; York Journal. Now you pick up the New York Evening Journal and you wilt see the words 'New York Evening Jour nal, William Randolph Hearst.' Would, you not suppose he owned it? WcuH you not suppose he was . the proprietor of it? Does he not want the credit, off it? But he does not want the liability of it. Denies Ownership of Paper. "They tried the case before Judge Keogh and the plaintiff put In her evi dence and the defendant said: 'Oh, no; I don't own that paper, I don't own it, I don't own that wagon. That man wa not my employe.' The paper was ownedi and the wagon was owned and the inaa was employed by a corporation. "His point was that he was a corpora tion editor, but the jury found a verdict for the plaintiff for $3,000 damages. The appellant division has affirmed thas Judgment. But my opponent employed." ex-Senator David B. Hill and they wenei to the Court of Appeals, which reversed) the judgment, and Mr. Hearst escaped! the liability, thanks to the corporation. "I do not complain of the law. I have) nothing to say in criticism of the law, but what is the. sincerity, what is th political morality of any man who will talk indiscriminately about corporation and then use in his business a corpora tion to shield him from liability and con duct his business under the safeguard which corporatton organization alone car give him?" CONFER AT WHITE HOUSE Political Situation Gone Over by Sherman, Penrose and Roosevelt. WASHINGTON. Oct. 7. Representa tive James S. Sherman, of New York,; chairman of the Republican Congres sional committee, and Senator Penrose had a long conference with the Presi dent tonight on the political situa tion. Sherman was a guest of the President at dinner and discussed with. the President in detail the Congres sional campaign throughout the coun try, especially the situation in New York. Later the President, Sherman and Penrose conferred on the situation in Pennsylvania, particularly in the close district. Snertnan reported to the President on the important phases of the cam paign and of the situation in the close districts in various' states. The sub ject of the bookbinders at the Gov ernment printing office, which wa3 brought to the attention of Mr. Sher man in New York recently by President Fenney, of the Bookbinders' Union, was considered among other matters. but it was stated that no conclusions were reached tonight in that connection. . -r f ' 1