TIIE MORXIXG OREGOXIAN. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1909.
EMPLOYERS 'YIELD
If! STEEL STRIKE
PEARY WILL HUNT
SOUTH POLE NEXT
oox-Airrxa PHOTOGRAPHS OF PRESIDENT TAFT WHO BEGAN HIS WESTERN TOUR YESTERDAY
MERCHANDISE OF MERIT ONLY
Second Walkout Brings Car
Company to Terms at
Schoenville.
Has Already Agreed With Bart-1
lett to Start New Polar
Quest.
BRITISH RIVALRY AROUSED
Scotfs Expedition AVill Hurry to Gef
Ahead of American Peary's
Plans May Spur Laggard
Britons to Give.
ST. JOHNS. X. F.. Pept. IS. The mail
boat from Labrador, which arrived at St.
Johns tonight, reports that Commander
Peary and Captain Bnrtlett have already
settled on an expedition to the South
Pole. They have on board the Roosevelt
furs and sledges necessary for such an j
expedition.
BRITISH PRIDE IS AROCSED
Scott's Antarctic Expedition Boomed
by Peary's Plans.
LONDON. Sept. 15. The report that
Commander Peary and Captain Bartlett
have decided on a South Pole expedition
will create a great stir in geographical
circles. Although Captain Robert F.
Scotfs expedition was decided upon be
fore the arrival of the news of the Peary
and Cook expeditions, it admittedly was
pressed forward with the intention to
forestall a possible American expedition.
Lieutenant Ernest H. Shackleton was
approached to Join Captain Scott, but his
arrangements precluded any Immediate
action in tills direction.
Captain Scotfs expedition still depends
upon the raising of the necessary funds,
at least l:XO.OOO being required. A con
siderable portion of this already has been
promised and there is little doubt that
the Peary report will stimulate the pub
lic and hasten the subscription of the re
mainder. It Is likely the government
will assist the enterprise financially.
DETAILS PEARY'S TRIP
(Continued From First Pace.)
pleted the snow houses, we had dinner,
which included tea made on our alcohol
stove, and then retired to rest, thus
sleeping one night at the North Pole.
"The Arctic sun was shining when I
awoke, and I found the Commander al
ready up. There was only wind enough
to blow out the small flags. The en
signs were hoisted toward noon from
tent poles and tied with flshlines. We
had figured out the distance pretty
close. and did not go beyond the Pole.
The flags were up about midday April
7, and were not moved until late that
evening. The haze cleared away early,
b--t we wanted some hours to make ob
servations. We made three close to
gether. "When we first raised the American
flag Its position was behind the igloos,
which, according to our initial observa
tions, was the position of the Pole; but
on taking subsequent observations the
Stars and St-tpes were moved and
placed 150 yards west of the first posi
tion, the difference in the observations
being due perhaps to the moving ice.
'When the flag waj placed. Com
mander Peary exclaimed in English:
We will plant the Stars and Stripes at
the North Pole.'
"In the native language I proposed
three cheers, which were given in the
Eskimos' own tongue.
"Commander Peary shook hands all
around and we had a more liberal din
ner than usual, each man eating as
much as he pleased. The Eskimos
danced about and showed great pleas
ure that the Pole at last was reached.
For years the Eskimos had been trying
to reach that spot, but it was always
with them 'tlquelgh.' which translated
means 'get so far and no closer They
exclaimed in a chorus 'Ting neigh timah
ketisher.' meaning 'We have got there
at last.' "
Henson. who reached the farthest
nortn with Peary three years ago, said
that conditions were about the same at
the Pole as elsewhere in the Arctic cir
cle. All was a solid sea of ioi- with a
two-foot lead of open water. . :o miles
from the Pole.
The Eskimos who went along on the
final lap were Ootah. Eglngwah, Ouza
ueeah and Sigloo, the two first named
being brothers. Commander Peary took
photographs of Henson and the Eskimos
waring flags and cheering.
"The report Is absolutely untrue that
I did not go to the Pole." said Henson.
"I went the whole distance."
Henson said that he knew that some
one on board had not wished him to go
to the Pole if they could prevent it.
but he knew that before he started. He
also said that he saw Peary write the
records which were left In the Ice. The
Eskimos who were with them, with the
exception of Ouzaueeah, understood
English, and one of them could count a
hundred.
"At the Pole." continued Henson. we
could see no open land and we went no
distance beyond) the flags. The Ice near
the igloos was at least 10 feet high and
the flags were placed on a hummock 10
feet In height. The Ice at the Pole was
about the same.
"Nearly all the winds we had were
from the northeast. Commander Peary
had three thermometers and the coldest
day was 57 degrees below zero, Fahren
heit. I believe there is little difference
In the temperature at the North Pole
from that some distance south."
Henson learned from the Eskimos that
for three days in Whale Sound last month
they mw a cloud of smoke and there
was an odor like brimstone. The natives
were greatly frightened and Henson
thought a new volcano had erupted, and
so informed them.
Henson made his first trip North In
ISfll. He went there because he was In
terested and kept on going year after
year. Of Commander Peary he said:
"He is the best man that we could
have for Arctic expeditions. He has
wonderful endurance and the weather
never is too cold for him. Many times
I would not leave the camp except for
him. A compass course is all he desires.
So long as a man does his work half de
cently the Commander never complains.
The Eskimos think that there Is no man
like him."
Matthew Henson was born In Washing
ton, but lived for a time In Florida. He
Is quite proud to be the only negro to go
to the Farthest North. He la in sood
health, but lost 20 pounds in the 68 days'
march to the Pole and. return. The only
frostbites he suffered were on the cheek
and fingers. He thinks some negroes
can endure as much exposure as a white
man. although he is not sure that he
stood the cold the first year as well as
his white companions. Speaking of the
Eskimos. Heneon said they serve as good
a chart of that country as one would
wish to see. To one who knows the lan
guage the. Eskimos will tell anything
they know.
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Given Joyous Birthday Greet- , t rtf
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REUNION WITH HUGHES
Each Sounds Other's Praises as Good
Executive President Glad to
Get in Touch With People
and I earn Opinions.
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I that the Vice-President was at home or
! would be at the station. The train
stopped about 30 seconds for orders. Mr.
Sherman climbed aboard the rear end
and was making his way toward the
President's room, when the conductor,
not knowing the Vice-President was
aboard, gave the signal to go ahead. Mr.
Sherman shouted to one of the attaches
that he was not able to go on to Syra
cuse and hopped oft. He left behind,
however, a five-pound box of candy as a
birthday present.
TAFT AXD HUGHES SIXG DCET
Each Extols Other in Speech to
Albany Crowd.
ALBANY, N. T.. Sept. 15. President
Taft put in a busy half hour during his
brief stop in this city today, on his west
ward Journey. Governor Hughes was one
of the first to board the President's car
and extend greetings. Charles S. Fran
cis, of Troy, X. Y., United States Am
bassador to Austria-Hungary, and John
T. McDonough, ex-member of the Su
preme Court of the Philippine Islands,
were among those who chatted with Mr.
Taft
Responding to calls for a speech from
the crowd at the station, the President
appeared on the platform of the observa
tion car with Governor Hughes.
"I want Governor Hughes to come out
and back me up on this platform," said
the President. "When we are together.
there is plenty of strength, and we work
better than on separate platLjinxs. In
Massachusetts, from w'llch 1 have Just
come, I had a Senator and a Congress
man or two to help me out on the plat
form, but I do not need any one here,
for I have Governor Hughes, and he
always helps me out on the platform,
and that's where I need assistance."
The President then presented the Gov
ernor. SORT OF ITINERANT PREACHER
Taft Thus Explains Fellow-Feeling
for Traveling Men.
SPRINGFIELD. Mass., Sept. 15.
President Taft, on a special train, arrived
here at 12:35 P. M. and left for Pitts
field five minutes later. A crowd of about
5000 persona was gathered at the station
and the President briefly addressed the
throng from the rear platform of hla car.
In his address the President said:
"Springfield Is a city of traveling men
who go through the entire length and
breath of the Union, selling their wares.
I like to talk to that class of men. I
am a sort of itinerant preacher myself.
I am starting 'on a long Journey. Wheth
er my throat and digestion will last I
do not know.
"A you know, the people have voted
me 125.000 for traveling expenses. Con
gressman Gillett helped me get that. It
is very hard to get anything from the
appropriations committee unless you have
a mighty good case."
The President then referred to the
work of the executive and concluded by
saying:
"The bulwarks of the Government are
the men you elect to Congress. Good
bye. "
j At Worcester. Mr. Taft said:
"I feel at borne in Worcester County.
All my ancestors have come from Wor
cester County on both sides, way bach.
The first one who came here was a
housewright a carpenter. My father,
whp was interested in genealogy, had a
great deal to explain in telling bow it
was that when he signed his will he
signed it with a cross. He always .said
he had hurt his-"hand with a hatchet and
therefore could not use it with the pen
cil. But his wife, Sarah Taft, signed
hers in her own name, which only shows
that what helps out in a family is to
have the woman of It understand things."
Merchants Give Birthday Wreath.
PITTSFIELD. Mass.. Sept. 15. Presi
dent Taffs train reached here at 2
P. M. today and stopped six mlnufes. The
President was presented with a five-foot
floral wreath by the Merchants' Associa
tion in honor of his 62d birthday. The
President made a few remarks from the
platform.
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admission free. 234 Morrison St., cor. 2d.
Trunks, suitcases and bags. Largest
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TAFT FROM
AFFINITY Oil STAND
Woman Tries to Help Man Held
for Wife Murder.
FEARS HUSBAND IN COURT
Mrs. Molster Calls Court's Attention
to Objectionable Gestures of
Spouse During Bennett
Trial in Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 15. Mrs.
"Midge" Molster, the alleged "affinity"
of Harper E. Bennett, on trial for the
poisoning of his wife, added her de
nials to those of the prisoner at the
bar, when she took the stand In his be
half 'in Judge Willis' court today. She
admitted that she was registered as his
wife at one rooming-house and passed
as his sister at another; that she trav
eled with him by steamboat to San
Diego and that she lived in a hotel
with him and his children in that city
and later occupied a five-room cottage
with him.
But there Mrs. Molster's admissions
stopped. She denied that she was Ben
nett's "affinity." She denied with em
phasis and a stamp of her foot that
she had ever kissed Bennett.
Once during her testimony . Mrs.
Molster complained to -the court that
her husband, who was seated within
the railing, was "making gestures at
me and I am afraid of him."
The court called Molster to account.
Mrs. Molster testified that she left
her husband because , of his cruelty
toward her.
Dr. A. C. Pratt, who was called dur
ing the fatal Illness of Mrs. Bennett,
testified that lie strychnine which was
found in the stomach of the dead
woman may have come from the
medicinal pellets containing strychnine
which she had been taking for some
time.
RIFLE HALTS CONVICTS
ATTEMPTED ESCAPE AT KELLY
BUTTE BLOCKED BY GUARD.
Kill Squires and Walter Farrell,
Serving a Year, Make Dash
for Liberty.
Bullets, yesterday afternoon, prevent
ed the escape from Kelly Butte of two
of the most desperate prisoners incar
cerated there. Neither prisoner was hit,
but the rifle slugs plowed up the
ground at their feet and, impeded by a
barbed-wire fence, they were easily
captured. The prisoners who attempted
to break Jail are Bill Squires and Wal
ter Farrell, holdup men from Tacoma,
who were sentenced to a year's Impris
onment for larceny.
Squires escaped from Kelly Butte
1909, by George Grantham Bain.
THE REAR
about six months ago and was caught
later in Eastern Multnomah County the
same day by Sheriff Stevens. Since
that time extra precautions were or
dered by tho Sherl-f and yesterday's
attempt to escape was the first to be
tried since.
At 4 o'clock, when the prisoners were
being ushered In from their work in
the yard. Squires and Farrell made a
dash for the fence as George Talley,
In charge of the yard, turned his head.
Guard York, standing watch on the
wall, turned his rifle on them instantly
and by the time they reached the
barbed-wire fence Talley was upon
them. Two shots were fired at the
prisoners.
Cardinal Satolli III.
MILAN, Sept. 15. Cardinal Satolli Is
seriously ill.
All Physicians
Must prescribe some of the In
gredionts that are contained In
Hood's Sarsaparilla for all trou
bles of the blood; stomach, kid
neys and liver.
They include sarsaparilla, stillingia,
yellow dock, gentian, wild cherry bark,
mandrake, dandelion, juniper berries,
pipsissewa, et$.
The combination and proportions are
our own formula and give power to cure
beyond the reach of any other prescrip
tion or substitute. That's why it is
wise to get Hood's and only Hood's.
en one buys
any other make of
hat, he hopes it will
be as good as the
Gordon.
Gordon
Hat $3
The Gordon De Luxe $4.00
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GRIEVANCE IMPORTED MEN
Firm to Discharge Bosses Objection
able to Old Employes Work
ers Charge Breach of
Promise.
PITTSBURG, Sept. 15. The carwork
ers' strike at the plant of the Pressed
Steel Car Company in Schoenville, which
was believed to be Bettled on Wednes
day of last week, after costing nine lives
and heavy financial loss, began anew to
day when between 3000 and 4000 employes
of the car works stopped work. The
workmen declare the employers broke
faith with them in regards to the dis
charges of imported bosses. Late today
it was announced by the car plant offi
cials that they would discharge the few
imported workmen in a second effort to
resume business and keep their plant
running.
The main grievance, it is said, is the
company's refusal to dismiss all of the
Imported men, as it agreed to do.
Most of the American workmen went
to work as usual but later several hun
dred of them quit work. The absence
of the foreigners, they say, necessitated
their coming out. The main grievance,
it Is said, is the employment of a large
number of men imported during the late
strike, in the capacity of bosses and sub
bosses. The men claim one of the agreements
by which the last trouble was settled,
was that all of the imported men should
be discharged. The American workmen
who left the plant say no work has been
accomplished In the mill. Instead the
workmen gathered in a body and listened
to addresses.
SHERIFF ASKS FOR SOLDIERS
Outbreak Among Strikers Results in
Fatal Shooting.
NEWCASTLE, Pa., Sept. 15. On ac
count of today's outbreak among the
striking employes of the American Sheet
& Tin Plate Company and imported work
men, in which a striker was perhaps fa
tally shot. Sheriff Waddington tonight
asked for state troops to guard the tin
plate plant. The Sheriff informed the
Governor that the situation was ominous
and that outside protection was needed
at once to cope with lawlessness, liable
to break! out at any time.
Irrigation Contract Awarded.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash
ington, Sept. 15. A contract has been
awarded D. H. Traphagen, of Seattle, for
the construction of that portion of the
distribution system of the Tieton irriga
tion project on the Natches Ridge, Wash
ington. The work involves the excavation
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of 117,700 cubic yards of material. The
contract price was $31,500.
Taft's Secretary at White House.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 15. Fred W.
Carpenter, secretary to the President, and
Rudolph Forster, one of the assistant
secretaries, who were at Beverly, Mass.,
W. M. LADD,
Prebin
E. COOKING HAM,
Vice-President.
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the Pacific Northwest . I
S. P. LOGKWOOD, Vice-Pres. and General Manager.
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Temperature affects
steel. It requires good
tools to withstand the
rough usage of Eski
mos at 90 degrees below
zero. For this work
Selected astd h&d with
hh& Five (Sisests
Eleem Stutter Tools.
In buying Tools or Cutlery always
ask the dealer for Keen Kutter Tools
and see that the trade mark is plainly
stamped on each tool.
SmniQNS HARDWARE COMPANY (inc.),
St. Louis and New York, U. S. A.
are expected to reach Washington to
morrow and assume their duties at the
White House. President Taft will at all
times be in easy communication with
Washington.
In India there are nearly 2(1.000. 000 widows.
Out of a total of 18 South Pole expeditions
nine have been British.
T. B. WILCOX,
Vice-President.
X. M. JOHNSON,
Secretary.
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