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lil TRACKLESS
WASTES COOK
PUSHES NORTH
Equipment Cut Down
to Lowest Notch
for Struggle.
SIZE OF PARTY GREAT AID
With Only Two Eskimos, All
Bickerings and Contentions
Avoided, Says Explorer.
MIRAGES REPLACE REALITY
Distant Land Is Wonderful in
Color and Form.
FREEZING WIND BLOWING
At Temperature of 59 Degrees Below
Zero, Steady Current Nips Noses.
Open Lead Blocks Progress, but
Iuring Night Ice Forms.
THE CONQUEST OF THE POLB.
Sixth Installment.
BT DR. FREDERICK A. COOK.
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Koolootingwah and Inugito had been
our bedfellows for the entire northward
run, and they bad gone through many
dangerous and hard experiences together.
We therefore felt more keenly their de
parture than the going of the first six.
We were at first lonely, but the exigen
cies of our problem were soon sufficient
ly engaging to occupy every call and
strain every' fiber.
' Now ouC party was reduced to three,
and. though the Isolation was more op
pressive, there were the usual advances
for greater comfort and progress of a
small family of workers. The increased
number of a big expedition always en
larges the responsibility and difficulties.
In the early part of a Polar venture this
disadvantage is eliminated by the sur
vival of the fittest, but after the last sup
porting sleds are gone, the men are mar
ried to each other and can no longer
separate. A disabled or unfitted dog can
be fed to his companions, but an in
jured or weak man cannot be put aside.
An exploring venture is only as strong
as its weakest member, and increased
nj-mbers. like Increased links in a chain,
reduce efficiency.
The personal idiosyncrasies and incon
veniences always shorten the day"s
march, but, above all, a numerous party
quickly divides Into cliques, which are
always opposed to each other, to the
leader and to the best Interests of the
problem in hand. With only two savage
companions, to whom this arduous task
was but a part of an accustomed life of
frost, I hoped to overcome many of the
natural personal barriers to the success
of Arctic expeditions.
One Degree In Three Days. .
By dead reckoning, our position was
latitude S3 degrees 23 minutes, longitude
'95 degrees 14 minutes. A study of the
Ice seemed to Indicate that we had passed
beyond the xone of Ice crushed by the
Influence of land pressure. Behind were
great hummocks and small Ice; ahead
was a cheerful expanse of larger floes.
Using the accumulated vigor of men and
beast, we bad advanced a degree of lati
tude In three days. Our destination was
about 480 miles beyond.
But our life has assumed quite another
aspect. Previously we permitted our
selves some luxuries. A pound of coal
oil and a good deal of musk ox tallow
were burned each day to heat the Igloo
and to cook abundant food. Extra meals
v. f re served when an occasion called for
it. and each man ate and drank all -he
desired. If the stockings or mittens were
wet, there was flre enough to dry them
out, but all of this must now be changed.
There was a sharp dally allowance of
food and fuel; one pound of pemmican
pjr day for the dogs, about the same for
nlen. ultii Just a taste of other things,
rortunaiely we were well stuffed for the
race with fresh meat in the lucky run
through game lands.
At first no great hardship followed the
changed routine. We filled up sufficient
ly on two cold meals and used super
fluous bedy tissue. It was no longer
possible to Jump on the sled for an oc
casional breathing spell.'as we had done
along the land. With overloaded sleds,
the drivers must push and pull at the
s'.;ds to aid the dogs, and I searched the
troubled lee for an easy route, cutting
here and there with the Ice ax to per
jri't the passing of the sleds.
We were finally stripped for the race.
; Man and dog must walk along together
'. (Concluded on rage 4.) ,
JAP FLAG CAUSE OF
UPROAR IN CHICAGO
HAS TO BE HAULED DOWN FROM
ABOVE STARS AND STRIPES.
Old Glory Floated on Top, Then Jap
anese Visitors Utter Protest,
' but to No Avail.
CHICAGO. Sept- 24. Special.) Vet
erans of fhe Civil and Spanish-American
wars, officials of the Flag Day Associa
tion. Federal authorities and other pa
triotic citizens were Indignant when It
was learned that a Japanese flag was
flying above that of the United States
at the Congress Hotel today.
The Japanese colors were raised from
the flag staff of the hostelry tn honor
of the arrival of a delegation of Japanese
commissioners studying American Indus
tries. At, the request of Edward L. Skin
ner, president of the Chicago Association
of Commerce, the emblem of the Mikado
was placed above the American colors.
Within an hour after change had been
made mora than 1000 complaints had been
made. Without further conference with
Mr. Skinner, Manager Kennedy directed
tliat the United States flag be raised to
the top asain.
Immediately after the reversal of the
flag's position, a pretest was filed with
Manager Kennedy by one of the members
of the Japanese party.
WOMAN DROPS FROM SIGHT
Mysterious Disappearance Startles
Coos Bay Town.
MARSHFIELD. Or.. Sept. 24. (Spe
cial.) Mrs. Zina Campbell, a widow of
John Campbell of Gardiner, has disap
peared from North Bend, and much mys
tery surrounds the case. Ed. Patterson,
her brother-in-law, of Seottsburg: Cap
tain X. J. Cornwall and Warren Reed, of
Gardiner, are endeavoring to find Mrs.
Campbell and have asked the' assistance
of Sheriff Gage and Marshal Caffery, of
North Bend.
Mrs. Campbell is about '30 years old.
August 13 she went to North Bend. She
staid all night at a hotel, and was called
In the morning in time to catch the boat
for the Gardiner stage, for which she
purchased a ticket. . t
Mrs. Campbell was seen leaving the
hotel with her grip, but between there
and the boatlanding. only a few blocks
In the business district, she disappeared
and no trace -of her can be found.
Another woman disappeared from
North Bend several months ago, but her
body was found later in the woods where
It had been torn to pieces by a bear.
MINERS PERISH IN AIRSHAFT
Two Men Killed by Deadly Gases.
. . . . Another Makes Escape.
EUREKA, Cal., Sept. 24. (Special.)
The lifeless bodies of Frederick W. Dun
can and Ernest Blaine Hughes, miners
of this city, reached Eureka in an auto
mobile this morning, from the mine of
the Humboldt Gold-Copper Mining Com
pany, at Horse Mountain, where both
miners suffocated Wednesday afternoon
in an air shaft they were helping sink.
Blast had been fired In the morning,
and Duncan went down the narrow shaft
on a' rope at 1 o'clock in the afternoon.
He was overcome by fumes.
Hughes, a brother-in-law of Duncan,
went down to render assistance, and he
was also overcome. A third party went
down, and was driven out by the fumes,
barely escaping to the surface -to fall
unconscious.
" The bodies were not rescued until yes
terday noon. Duncan's age is 46. Hughes
Is 24.
Horse Mountain Is 46 miles northeast
of Eureka.
POLICE BUSY .IN OMAHA
Streetcar Strike Is Cause of Riots
All Over City.
OMAHA. Neb., 9?pt 24. Riot calls from
many parts of the city, resulting from
the streetcar strike, made a busy day
for the police. Dozens of cars were stoned
and many of the crowds seriously injured,
but only six agitators were arrested, x
Robert Davis a conductor, was knocked
down with a brick. The motorman fled,
and then the windows of his car were
broken by the mob. Two teamsters who
caused a streetcar blockade were beaten
Into submission by the police and ar
rested. ,
Car service was stopped for the night
at 7 o'clock this evening.
THREE ELEPHANTS FALL
Oolofrel Roosevelt Gets Two, Kermlt
One and Rhinoceros.
NAIROBI. British East Africa, Sept. 24.
Theodore Roosevelt, who is hunting in
the Mweru district, has bagged two more
elephants. Mr. Roosevelt will leave the
Mweru territory soon for the iGuaso
Nyiro River.
Kermlt Roosevelt has killed one ele
phant and a rhinoceros. He will move
over to Lake Hannington, in Naivasha
Province, and continue his hunting there.
AUTO TAKES FATAL' JUMP
Two Killed When Car Plunges Over
Steep Embankment, ,
AMERICUS. Ga., Sept. 24. One person
was burned to death, another killed and
a third seriously burned when an auto
mobile driven by John McLendon ran
off an eight-foot embankment here early
today.
Miss Viola Herman was pinioned be
neath the wreck, which caught fire. Mc
Lendon was roasted alive.
TAFT SPEAKS 111
MORMON
CHURCH
Tabernacle Added to
Visiting List. -
UTAH'S RECEPTION CORDIAL
v
Greeted by Senators Smoot
and Sutherland.
BALLINGER CUTS PINCHOT
Interior Secretary and Chief For
ester Pass as Strangers in Salt '
' Lake Depot Protestant
Preachers In Flurry.
SALT LAKE CITT, Sept. 24 Presi
dent Taft today added a Mormon Tab
ernacle to the long list of religious edi
fices in which he made addresses to
the people. Not long ago In a Jewish
synagogue at Pittsburg Mr. Taft de
clared he was no stranger in the pulpit
and enumerated his different experi
ences in denominational churches. To
day's experience was entirely a new
one. It was at Provo, a thriving little
city 40 miles south of Salt Lake City,
where it is said that 40 per cent of the
residents are Mormons and the home
of Senator Reed Smoot The President
faced probably the most enthusiastic
audience of his ten days of traveling
to the West. I
. Religion Out of Programme.
There was nothing in all the pro
gramme to suggest the religious char
acter of the building. The President's
appeal to the patriotism of the people,
his congratulations to them upon their
evidences o? prosperity, and the fact
that they were a community of the law,
abiding by the laws, and determined
that every community of which they
were a part shouM be a lawful com
munity, called forth continuing cheers.
Mr. Taft declared that he had Intended
to speak but five. minutes.
His reception was so cordial, how
ever, that he spoke for (early 30 min
utes. From Provo, where he was offi
cially welcomed to Utah by Governor
William Spry, Senators Smoot and Suth
erland and others, the President came
on to Salt Lake, arriving here at 4:30
P. M.. to, remain until Sunday noon.
Glad to See Plnchot.'
The arrival of the President devel
oped an Incident j in the Ballinger
Plnchot controversy. Secretary Ballln
ger came on with the President, At
Provo word was received on the Presi
dent's train that Forester Glfford
Plnchot had arrived in Salt Lake and
would meet the party there. When the
train oame to a standstill Mr. Plnchot
was at the foot of the rear platform!
steps of the President's car jrith Sen
ator W. E .Borah.
"Why, hello Plnchot," called the Presi
dent, extending a hand heartily to grasp
that of the Chief Forester. "How are
you?" he added. "I am glad to see you."
Mr. Plnchot responded cordially. Then
(Concluded on Page 8.)
.xttti rTcrkv ctttt?t4V SP!TTTrTHTrR 2ii. 1909. PRICE FIVE CENTS
OLD MAN MARRIES
L0NG-.L0ST WIFE
AGED COUPLE REWEDS AFTER
50 YEARS' SEPARATION.
Portland . Woman Returns to First
Love in Colorado Both Have
i '
v Buried Partners.
FORT COLLINS, Colo., Sept. 24.
(Special.) After 50 years' separation,
and when each has reached an age where
life is uncertain, Pierre Bernard and his
Theodore ,P. Shonts, Nationally
Prominent Kailroad Man, In
volved in Alienation of Affec
tions 'Cnse tn New York.
divorced wife, Mrs. Tomlinson, for 17
years a resident of Portland, Or., have
been re-married. He is 78 years old and
the woman but a few years his junior.
Bernard is a pioneer sheep dealer of
Fort Collins. His Ionesomeness Is the
excuse given by Bernard for the re-marriage.
It was 65 years ago that Bernard
wooed and won a pretty young farmer's
daughter- and it was 50 years go that he
disagreed with this same woman and a
divorce followed. Meantime both mar
ried a second time and for 17 years Mrs.
Tomlinson lived in Portland. Her sec
ond husband died recently and Bernard,
learning of this and beirjg separated
from his second wife by death, once more
proposed to his first love and was ac
cepted. .
SACRAMENTO BARS SLATES
6tones . Banished From - Public
Schools as Germ Breeders.
' SACRAMENTO, Cal.. Sept. (Spe
cialsThe Sacramento Board of Health
has decided that slates are breeding
places for germs) so In the future none
will be allowed in the schools of this
city.
Dr. J. W. James, a member of the
City Board of Health, appeared before
the educators with a protest against the
use of slatea in the public schools, say
ing that contagious diseases are carried
In this manner. He branded the articles
as a menace to the health of the young
sters who daily do their lessons on the
stones.
Dr. James had quite a task to convince
the Board of Education that slates were
unsanitary.The local body finally con
sented and. gave the order banishing
slates from the schools.
HIS LESSON.
: SSiiniimiimiiiiin
THE
ODOHE SHONTS
III HUGE
Charge Is Alienation
of-Affections;
DAMAGES OF $2 00,000 SOUGHT
Object Said Merely to Discour
age Home-Wr.ecking.
JEWISH DISTILLER SUES
Defense Made That Shonts Is Victtim
of Mistaken Identity, His Double
Being Responsible for AH Mis
deeds Laid to Him.
NEW YORK, Sept. 24. (Special.)
Theodore P. Shonts, president of the
S225,O0O,0O0 Ryan-Belmont Interborough
Metropolitan "Company, president of the
Chicago & Alton Railroad, Toledo St.
Louis & Western Railroad and director of
many other important companies, has
been sued for $200,000 damages by the
husband of a woman whose affections
he is charged with having alienated.
Through his lawyer, Delancey Nicoll,
Mr. Shonts declares he is the victim of
one of the strangest cases of mistaken
identity, on record.
It would seem, according to Mr. Nicoll,
that the' president of the Interborough
Metropolitan has some evil double, for
whose misdeeds Mr. Shonts is being held
responsible. As to who this double is
there' Is no hiDt.
' Jewish Liquor Man Sues.
The suit ' against Mr. Shonts is
brought by Frederick Hipsh, New York
manager of the Kentucky Distillery.
He lives at the Hotel Langham. Mr.
Hipsh, while not a man of large
wealth, has a comfortable income. He
is raaked as a successful business man.
Hipsh Is a Jew, while his wife is a
Christian. She was in humble circum
stances when they were married, five
years ago. They have no children. Her
maiden name was Anna Tovell. She
was engaged as stenographer by the
manager of Mr. Hipsh's office, when
he first met her.. They separated Au
gust 2. '
The' Summer of 1907 Mrs. Hipsh
spent at Narragansett Pier. There she
met Mr. Shonts. Thereafter she met
him in the city, but on behalf of Mr.
Shonts It Ib declared he has not seen
her for at least six months and It is
further asserted his acquaintance with
Mrs. Hipsh was most limited and con
fined to the most conventional cour
tesies which any gentleman pays to a
woman whom he knows only casually.
Gaod of Society, His Object.
"While I have sued him for 1200,000
damages to punish him for the injury
he has inflicted on me," said Hipsh to
night, "1 do not want a dollar of his
money. All I want is a verdict of S10
or 10 cents, or even 1 cent. Then I will
use that verdict In a way which will
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SCANDAL
CUTTER REPORTED
SEIZED BY M0R0S
RUMOR SAYS PIRATES CAPTURE
REVENUE SHIP SORA.
Officers and Crew Slaughtered by
Captors Used as Patrol Boat
Against Native Smugglers.
MANILA, ' Sept. 25. Official dis
patches received from southern ports
state that It is rumored there that the
revenue cutter Sora has been captured
by Moro pirates and the crew murdered.
No details of the capture are known,
and the authorities have been unable
to secure confirmation of the rumor, al
though dispatches have been sent to all
points.
The Sora was used as a patrol boat
against the Moro pirates of the southern
archipelago In the general campaign
against smuggling Inaugurated by the
insular government, a short time ago. It
was commanded ,by Captain E. A. Mc
Gerty and carried a crew of 14, all Fill
plnos. -,The cutter ,J?ft the town of Balabae, on
the Island of that name 20 miles south of
Palaiian, carrying J. L. Parrln, collec
tor of the port, who was bound to San
dakan In British North Borneo, to pur
chase supplies. Nothing has been heard
of the vessel since.
STATTER COMING TO COAST
Treasury Representative to Make His
Headquarters la Portland.
ORBGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash
ington, Sept. 24. A. F. Statter, of Walla
Walla, ex-private secretary to Senator
Ankeny and later Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury, will leave for Portland In
a few days to take up his new duties as
special representative of the Secretary of
the Treasury on the Pacific Coast.
While having Jurisdiction all along the
Pacific Coast, Statter probably will make
Portland his headquarters. He will keep
constantly in touch with customs of
ficials and other Treasury Department
representatives In Oregon, Washington
and California and advise with them on
matters of administration, which ordi
narily would be referred to Washington.
Recently Statter has made a careful
study of customs methods In New York,
Boston and other Eastern ports.
COLORED MOTHER REVOLTS
Refuses to Let Children Attend
School With Chinese Boy.
. MARSHFIELD, Or., Sept. 24. (Spe
clal.) Marshfleld negroes refuse to attend
the separate school established in this
city for Chinese and blacks.
When the school was opened this week
with Mrs. Pennock as teacher, there was
only one pupil, the little son of Gow
Why, the Chinese merchant.
There are several negro children in the
city, but their mother objects to their
attending the separate school and wants
them with the white children. This will
not be permitted by the school authori
ties and the negro children must attend
school with the Chinese boy or not at
all. .
ROBBERS SHOOT MERCHANT
Beat Wife to Insensibility and' Make
' Their Escape.
TACOMA, Sept 24. D. E. Sheldon, an
aged merchant, while In his store, at 2121
Jefferson avenue, was shot in the head
and his wife brutally beaten with a re
volver, at 9 o'clock tonight, by two
masked highwaymen.
Sheldon was knocked down by the shot
and his wife was beaten until she became
Insensible. GBoth were taken to St
Joseph's Hospital and while their condi
tion is serious, they will probably re
cover.
The highwaymen secured nothing of
value and made their escape. '
CANADIAN LOST IN ARCTIC
George Caldwell Given Up as Lost in
Far North.
WINNIPEG,. Man., ' Sept.' ii. George
Caldwell, an official of the Canadian
Marine Department, who started three
years ago to make a trip from Ches
terfield nlet to the Arctic Circle, has
been given up for lost.
Caldwell, who was accompanied by
two Eskimos, expected to reach Cape
Fullertpn last Autumn, but the mounted
police department stated that he did not
arrive at the post, which is at the
northwest end of Hudson's Bay.
DEAD HAND AT THROTTLE
Engineer Dies in Cab of Speeding
Train Found by Fireman.
BEAVER CITY, Neb.. Sept. 24. George
Fron-ger, an engineer, died at the throt
tle of his engine drawing a .Burlington
passenger train early today, near Hern
den, Kan. The engine ran for miles
without a guiding hand.
' The fireman at last discovered the
tragedy of the cab and ran the engine to
St. Francis, where the body was re
moved. Heart disease caused Pronger's
death. .
JOHNSON LEAVES NO WILL
Dead Governor Wanted His Estate to
Go to His Wife. .
ST. PAUL, Sept 24. The late Governor
Johnson left no will, but it is understood
It was his expressed wish that his entire
property be turned over to Mrs. Johnson.
It is estimated the value of the estate
will not exceed ,18.000. ...
BUTTE MINES ILL
CLOSED BY-STRIKE
Ten Thousand Men Go
Out of Shafts.
SMELTERS MAY BE NEXT HIT
AIl-Night Secret Meeting Held
by Dissatisfied Men.
SHERIFF WARNS STRIKERS
Officers Protect Men Who Attempt
to Work Bloodshed Threatened.
Small Riots Break Out in
Down-Town StrecU.
BUTTE. Mont. Sept. 24. (Special.)
Every mine in Butte Is shut down to
night and 10,000 men are idle, with the
prospect of 8000 more being thrown out
of work. If the suspension continues for
five days the smelters and other allied
Industries will be forced to suspend.
The trouble was caused by a majority
of Engineers' Union. No. 83, having se
ceded from the Western Federation of
Miners and organized a new union. The
Butte Miners' Union ordered its members
not to go to work In mines employing
members of the new engineers' union.
The evening was ushered in with great
excitement, when nearly 2000 miners
surrounded the shuft of the Gagnon mine,
apparently for the purpose of mobbing
28 miners who deflod the command of
the union to stop working. A detail ot
15 policemen with Captain Thomas Nor
ton in command, hurried to the scene
and reinforced by Sheriff John K.
O'Rourke with every deputy of his of
fice at his back, succeeded in reaching
the shaft mouth.
Mounting a pile of timbers, the Sheriff
in plain language told the crowd that the
officers proposed to protect the Gagnon
miners and intimated that any attempt
at violence on the part of the strikers
would result in shooting.
Officers Draw Guns.
With drawn guns the officers escorted
the Gagnon men to the miners' head
quarters, where the men promised not to
work until the trouble had been settled.
This practically tied up all mining in
the camp.
Walter Harrison, a miner, who at
tempted to defend the Gagnon men,
was rescued by officers. He was badly
beaten.
After venting their wrath upon the
Gagntm miners by shouts of "Scabs"
and "Lynch them," the strikers gath
ered on North Main street where an,
incipient riot was quelled by the offi
cers. Later, on East Park street, an
other riot was started and a number
JConcluJi'il on Pa ft 4.)
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature,
02.8 degrees: minimum,
TODAY'S Occasional rain; winds mostly
southerly.
Pular Controversy.
Dr Cook telle In another Installment of his
story ot hardships undergone in final
dash for Pole. P 1
Commander Teary submits to Dr. Hubbard
his proofs that cook did not roach Pole,
Page 3.
Cook takes leading BeoRiapher Into consul
tation. Page 0.
Foreign.
Hunger amonit Moors leads to overtures for
peace. Page tl.
Moro pirates thought to have captured
American cutter and murdered crew.
Pa.se 1
Domestic.
Krtittschnltt defends rates to Utah, says
expenses are growing faster than profits.
Page J.
Theodore phonts In huge alienation of affec
tions scandal. Page 1.
Bannard announces he will accept nomina
tion aa Mayor of New York. Page 4.
Position ot Jar flag over Stars and Stripes
causes uproar In Chicago. Page 1.
Man of 78 to remarry nlfe he divorced 50
years ago. Paga 1.
New York overcrowded for Fulton celebra
tion. Page 3.
Loomls to succeed Lovett In legal depart
ment of Harrlman lines. Page 3.
Interunlon strife at Butto closes all mines;
serious trouble feared. Page 1.
Peculiar sect In East tjets all ready for
end of world, which does not come.
Page 4.
Gulf of Mexico strewn with wreckage caused
by storm. Page 4.
National.
Taft adds Mormon Tabernacle to list of
churches In which He taiKS. rage a.
Sport.
Coast League scores: Portland 2. Los An
geles r; Sacramento rt. Vernon 1; San
Francisco .". Oakland 1. Page 7.
Stanley Ketchel begins training at Colma.
Page i .
Northwestern League scores: Tacoma j.
Portland 4: .seanic t. nnmircu o, iu
kana 3. Vancouver 4. Page 1.
Pacific Northwest.
Shrlners conclude session at Baker City;
next meeting at Salem. Page tl. ,
One man killed and SO people hurt In trol
ley-car wreck in feame. rage u.
raciflc county will se4 delegation to con
gressional convention. Page H.
Marshfleld draws color line tn public schools
and negroes reel mwiliea. r-ace x.
Commercial and Marine.
Local wheat prices advance one cent.
Page 15.
Stock speculation on a small tcalo. Page 15.
Portland and Vicinity.
Personalities fly between lawyers In Men-
denhall divorce hearing, i-age n.
Stock show and races draw another large
crowd. Pago 7.
Portland school children wl:l give drill be
fore Presidtnt Taft. Page v.
New rules are announced for Federal Court
in Portland. Page i.
Eastern traffic man says railroads find It
pavs to advertise v est. page in.
Resolution is submitted favorinr elimination
of word soutn irom aieinouisi episcopal
Church Boutli. Pas 10.
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