The Sunday Oregonian., April 12, 1914, Section One, Page 9, Image 9

THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAJf, PORTLAND, APRIL 12, 1914.
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STORY OF STRUGGLE
IN ARCTIC ICE TOLD
to be comparatirely safe. It was
enough for Louie to i?ive the boys their
pick of taking to -the small boats or
staying with the schooner. I was
asleeep. so they packed me as freight.
When I woke up he was, close in shore,
behind, a big: ridge of ice. all hands safe
and sound, and only a half mile to haul
our stuff instead of seven and one-half.
TV'e built our home. 14 by 24, out of
sails and driftwood and went to house
keeping. I think the man who watches
over fools saw to Irt that we got in
here.
Now Im wondering what I'm going
to get next season, but I wanted a last
big hunting trip and I got it. Now I
can't turn it loose. I hate the sight
of a polar bear, wouldn't even go out of
the house the other night to kill one
that was eating one of our kayaks,
had to almost kick one of the fellows
out of bed to get him to go after it, as
ELVIRA'S LOSS DESCRIBED So far we have gotten live caribou, one
polar bear, one sneep and about luu
ptarmigan, also wounded a polar bear
that our natives are tracking on the
ice.
Trip to Boston Proponed.
We have to depend on the country
for our meat and have to eat polar
bear and seal, whether we like It or
Captain of Polar Bear Writes
From Humphrey Point to
Friend at Cecil.
Veel Picks t'p Party Stranded Af
ter Trip Toward Herschel Island,
but Later Is Abandoned Fear
Expressed for Stefanssqn. .
FIRST POSTMASTER OF GOLD
K.MJALt; DIES.
Captain Hullin H. Mott, of the schooner
"Polar Bear, one of the vessels wintering in
the Arrtle Ocfan and mentioned by Ex
plorer fetefansson In a letter published re
cently in The OreKOnian. wrote the follow-
jnK letter to C. G. Fulton, attorney, of
Cecil. Or.
HUMPHREY POINT, on the Arctic
Ocean, Dec. 15, 1913. When I came out
on this trip I little thought that so
much would happen in so short a- lime,
although I'm used to things happening
and happening quick when you go out
on a little boat. We sure had a sporty
time and here I am, captain of the lit"
tie schooner Polar Bear, frozen in in
the ice half a mile off the beach, with
the whole Arctic Ocean out against it.
and camped in a. big snowdrift on
two-foot sand spit with the ice crushed
in all around us.
We have a. wonderful crowd, society
sports, whalers, natives and a fight
ing French cook that a had to Are
out of camp because he wanted to kill
everybody. We are a typical stranded
Arctic expedition. Louie Lane, our
captain when we came up, left with
three of the boys to mush out over
land, and while I was crazy to go we
both couldn't leave. Louie is married
and has two little children at home,
and while he offered to stay in and
let me go out, and even said he would
rather stay, he had tears in hia eyes
when he lied to. me, so I said I would
remain but I'm stung. We are going
whaling in the Spring, if the little boat
Ik there yet, and if she is crushed in
the ice during the Winter we are going
xo laite 10 mo w-ia.it; uuais una iuii
race from here to Nome, 1000 miles.
Three of us will each take a whale
boat and we are going to put up
couple of hundred dollars each, and the
first boat into Nome takes it all, no
rules, haul over the ice, sail, row,
ink or swim.
Trip Is Taken.
We practically lost the little schooner
two or three times this Summer, but
always just managed to pull out some
how. -Our first troubles started when
we got stuck in the ice east of Point
Barrow. After sticking three weeks
Silsbee and I decided that we would
like to take a trip to Herschel Island
and left the schooner in Kayaks. We
worked along the beach dragging our
little boats over the ice when there
was not enough water and managed to
get 135 miles from the vessel; In fact.
we got so far that we couldn't come
back, as, it got too cold to trawel, and
we had only one blanket apiece. We
also ran out of grub, and stopped to
visit a pleasant, generous bunch of
stranded farmers from Paulsbo, Wash.,
who invited us to go every day or two.
They only had flour and tea, but we
could catch lots of fish, so we lived
merrily on fish and flour for 15 days
until we sighted the schooner Elvira
stuck in the ice about 10 miles from
there. We used to insist that we were
perfectly satisfied every time we were
told to go, but when we saw the Elvira,
we sure beat it quick. Peterson, the
captain, was an old friend of mine and
gave us a fine reception, also mukluks,
as ours had worn through.
By and by. Louis comes along In
the 'Polar Bear, thinks we are lost, but
finds us happy and some $75 ahead from
playing poker. Then our troubles be
gan. The Polar Bear undertook to help
the Elvira out of the ice. and while
towing her got into a big crush, and
Judging by the cracking and groaning,
the little boat made, 1 understood she
was sure pressed. Luckily the ice
. raised her up, and by blasting with
black powder for a couple of days we
got her on easy street for the time
being and started to haul our. stuff to
the beach over the rough ice. Seven
and one-half miles in, miles back
TV miles 1n and another miles
back was a day's work, although I
could have sworn the last 7H-mile
trip was 70 miles. Six men could
drag in about 500 pounds, and as we
had a great deal of stuff to take in
sails, etc., to build a house, it looked
as if it would be an all inters job.
Finally, however, a blow started that
made the ice break up.
Klvlra Abandoned.
Peterson abandoned the Elvira then,
with his crew of 20 men. Louie and
I went on to the Elvira after they had
left her and. with two natives for long
shoremen, started to throw flour and
grub off of her on the ice so we could
get some of it if she got crushed. 1
handled. 100-pound gunnies of Hour
'the hold until I couldn't lift my empty
hand above my head. We got all
the grub off of her and I stayed up all
night watching, while Louie went to
sleep.
At 5 in the morning she looked to me
as if she were settling and I thought
1 saw some smoke coming out of her.
1 ran over the ice to take a look (she
was less than a quaitter of a mile from
us and found her with about two feet
of water in her hold. She always had
bothered them by leaking. By this
time it was blowing a gale.
While I was setting a signal for
help from the Polar Bear the ice broke
up around her and 1 could feel my
heart going down, down as the poor old
Elvira swung around and started to
roll over. There were over 800 fine
white fox skins under my feet, with
sacks of mink and martin and 28 polar
bear skins, and they were all going
clown, with me standing by, unable to
help tb.m. "I was working with an
ax. trying to cut out a big iron hook
that i" wanted, but when she started to
roll over I desisted and beat it for
the bowsprit and did the monkey
stunt out over the bow stays, where I
left the boat on a nice cute little ice
cake that came along.
Louie Picks Him Vp.
Louie picked roe up with the Polar
Bear after I- had run a hurdle race
over various floating cakes of ice that
sometimes had such jumps between
them that never before had been mxi
in the Arctic Oceon. Louie stuck the
Polar Bear's bow into the cake of ice
where the grub was and the whole crew
pitched in and the way we slit those
gunnies with our knivea and passed
the little sacks of flour aboard would
have put to shame the best gang of
longshoremen you ever saw. It i
all you eould do to stand against the
wind and it was full of snow and ice
that cut right into your Tieart,
Don't, don't you ever let me hear you
kick against the wind again; its warm.
Here it fogs your breath into a frozen
mist and freezes tears right out of
your eyes. After the ice broke up
Louie showed the sporty material he
is made of. for he brought the little
boat Into shoal water near the beach
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IWfititt f.&
W. H. Oldham.
W. H. Oldham, a pioneer of
Washington and Oregon since
1875, passed away April 7 in this
city. "He was born near Lafay
ette, Wis., August 9, 1837.
The family came West and set
tled at Goldendale, Wash., where
he was first postmaster and a
charter member of the Masonic
Lodge. Mr. Oldham is survived
by six children Mrs. P. W. Blag
den, of Hood River, Or.; Mrs.
William Lawrence, of Vancouver,
Wash.; Leroy Oldham, of North
Yakima, Wash.; G. W. Oldham,
of Cle Elum, Wash.; Mrs. Al
fred Burge and Mrs. L. C. Dar
land, of this city.
' The body was taken to Cle
Elum for interment.
MORE OUT OF RAGE
Checking Shows Aspirants in
State Number 252.
ALL PETITIONS CORRECT
Multnomah County Candjttes for
Legislator Cot to 4 3 Secretary
of State Busy PrejarlnK
Material for Pamphlet.
SALEM. Or.. April 11. (Special.)
Secretary of State Olcott today, after
checking over the petitions and decla
rations, announced that 253 aspirants
for public office were eligible for the
primary office. The petitions of all
were found to conform to the law. but
10 persons who had announced for of
fice failed to file completed petitions.
.which cut the number of aspirants
from 262 to 252.
Those who filed declarations but not
completed petitions are: -
Tom Kay. of Portland. Republican,
for State Treasurer; W. L. Robb, Port
land. Republican, for National Com
mitteeman; James E. Appleby. Port
land. Republican. Representative In the
Legislature: R. C. E. Basil, Republican.
Representative in the Legislature,
Eighteenth district; Ed D. Ulrich, Port
land, Republican. Representative in the
Legislature; George A. Johnston. Port
land. Republican. -Representative Hi
the Legislature; John Osterman. Taft,
Democrat. Representative in Congress
First district: Fred Harrison. Browns
ville, Democrat. Representative in the
Legislature: S. J. Sullivan, Portland,
Progressive, Representative in the
Legislature; Alfred L. Parkhurst, Port-
Land, Republican. Representative in the
Legislature.
In Multnomah County there are 36
Republican, four Democratic and three
Progressive aspirants for nominations
for Representative In the Legislature.
Secretary of State Olcott ana nis
corps of assistants worked today ana
will probably work all tomorrow get
ting the campaign material of the
aspirants ready for the . pamphlet.
About 73 have engaged space. The
law provides that the Secretary of
State shall supply the material to the
State Printer on or before April 12.
The Printer has until April 28 to com
plete delivery of the pamphlets to the
Secretary of State.
not. So far we have eaten about 60
seal, and I don't like It. In the Spring
I'm going to the eastward to try to
make the northern end of Bank Land
and maybe take a little run off to the
supposed land that hasn't yet been dis
covered. I'll give these Boston fel
lows a sporty trip, even if I have to
stick them in the ice again for another
season. We are framing up a trip
from here to Boston, via the Northwest
Passage, if Louie doesn't want the Po
lar Bear back in Seattle. If we could
get the boat, four others and myself
would take the trip and send the rest
back home from Herschel Island.
would like very much to try it, but
wouldn't go with more than four fel
lows; in case we got stuck and had to
take to a skin boat,, four men and
yours truly would be all that I would
want to look after. We have plenty
of grub to last us until October 1, 1914
then we are out. If you don't hear of
us outside before that you can know
I am eating Eastern sports.
Dr. Anderson, with half of the Cana
dian Arctio expedition, is camped 60
miles west of us; the othor half of the
expedition is frozen in out in the terri
ble ice pack with Stefansson. dashing
explorer, and Captain Bartlett. famous
Ice man. who just didn t get to the
Pole with Perry, In charge. They are
learning that the ice Is different than
in the East. Old whalers here never
expect to see any of them again.
Our days now are all dark and we
will not see the sun again until the
middle of January. It is very gloomy
and awfully cold. I wear skin sox.
skin pants, shirt and parky and when
I go out have no store clothes on at
all, straight skins from head to foot:
it is the only way you can dress to
keep from freezing. So far I have
frozen my nose four times, my toes
once and my cheeks twice. The wind
just seems to blister you in a few sec
onds' time and when it really does
blow it brings a fog of snow along
with it that you can't see a foot In. Oh.
for Seattle: why, I could be contented
in Portland.
Hunting here has been wonderful.
Great flocks of ducks and geese, some
times thousands in a bunch, pass by on
their way in the Spring and Fall, and,
judging by the number of elders that
went by here this Fall every one in
the world was east of here last Sum
mer. I wonder what fool notion brought
them in.
Would like very much to hear from
you, and remember if yon ever want to
go on a real hunting trip, go with me.
RIDGEFIELD PLANTS BUSY
Xew Factory Building and Hotel Are
Being: Erected.
RIDGEFIELD. Wash., April 11.
(Special.) With the H. J. Potter saw
mill and the shingle mill of J. L. Brat
lle running full blast every day. to
gether with the operation of the tie
plant of the Lewis River Boom & IK-
glng Company at Ridgefield. there
seems to be an era ol prosperity ana
the prospects for increased business all
around were never better.
The Ridgefield creamery and cheese
factory Is rushed to Its fullest capac
ity. Additional machinery Is being In
stalled. A large additional building
which will be used In connection with
the factory Is neartng completion.
The new Ridgefield Hotel will soon
be ready for business, as the finishing
touches are now being made. This Is
a large frame structure with modern
furnishings, and will fill a long-felt
want In Ridgefield. The residence of
Mrs. Virginia Fales has been remodeled
entirely and all modern Improvements
have been installed.
MINERAL TO INCORPORATE
Lewis County Commissioners Award
- Contract for Grading Highway.
CHEHALIS. Wash.. April 11. (Spe
ctal.) Lewis County Commissioners
have awarded a contract to James and
John Hendricks to build a grade on the
Pacific Highway north of Forest, from
the foot of the hill to the Phillips
bridge across the Newaukum River, to
replace a worn-out and dangerous
trestle. The half-mile grade will De
surfaced with gravel.
All telephone companies operating on
Lewis County roads without franchises
are to be ousted by order of the board,
and 90 days' time has been granted In
which applications may be made fo
franchises. The board plans to com
pel common-user restrictions in the use
of poles.
Mineral, a live sawmill town In
Northeastern Lewis County, has applied
to be incorporated under the laws of
the state. The hearing on the petition
was set for May 4.
WE are as careful in the
making of our Overstuffed
and Englisli-Pillow Furniture.
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As you are in buying it.
No matter what the price,
the essentials that enter
into the making of this
type of furniture trust
worthy wor kmanship,
honest materials and cor
rectness of design and
proportion, are not sacri
ficed for the purpose of
exceeding the reasonable
margin of profit. There is
no misuse of any of these
essentials in the making
of our furniture. The Over
stuffed and English-pillow
Davenports, Easy Arm
Chairs and Rockers that
are made in our own
workshops, and of which
there is always a generous
showing on our floors, are superior in every way to the factory-made pieces. The method of construction of our
pieces, the selection of materials, the workmanship and design, all must conform to the quality standard which we
maintain. The springs used in the upholstered furniture constructed in our own shops are made to our special order,
insuring permanency in this most important detail of construction. A number of Overstuffed and English-pillow
Davenports and other Easy Pieces, our own make, are occupying one of our display windows this week. Wide range
of prices,' the various prices according to the grade of materials used.
The Interior Beauty of
Your Home
is made or marred by the decorative scheme. Beau
tiful furniture and floor covering invariably lose
their charm if the decorative treatment has been
incorrectly handled. We offer an interior decora
tive service that accomplishes correct results a
service that you should employ if it is harmony you
seek in the decoration of your home, no matter how
modest or elaborate it might be. Special color de
signs, showing completed schemes, submitted on
request. Sen our line of up-to-date wall papers
as low as 15c per roll, with cretonne to match, as
low as 25c a yard.
It's real pleasure and economy to possess Rugs such as these:
Herati, Ardebil and Anglo-Persian
the 9xl2-ft. size, $60
It is a temptation to many homefurnishers to save a few dollars, and
nearly all ru$rs look well when new. Brt usually the saving is made at
the expense of quality and leads to bitter disappointment. Herati.
Ardebil and Anjilo-Persian Rups have an unapproachable reputation for
excellence of material and workmanship, beauty of dcigu, fabric and
finish. At any stayre of their service they are satisfactory. They retain
their "pood" appearance to the end. Sec our showing if you would see
the most recent productions in these beautiful nips. As small in size
as the J2.36-inch; as large as the 11 ft. 3 iu by XS ft.
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POWER LURES FACTORIES
EASTERN
SIDKR.
MAXCrACTl'llF.RS COX
WESTERN BKANLHES.
Seven Million Population Keeded for
Cpaat Befora All Gooda Cmm
Be Maanfactured Locally.
EUGEXE, Or.. April 11. Special.)
Manufacturers all over the East are
looking to tbe Pacific Coast with a
view to locating: branch factories, and
the Willamette valley Is today able to
offer manufacturers electrical energy
for less than power of any sort now
costs them in the East, according to
Klmer Dover, of Tacoma, president of
the Oregon Power Company, and di
rector in the H. M. Byllesby Company,
of Chicago, who has Just returned from
a three months' trip in the East and In
California. He declares manufacturers
have set 7.000.000 as the population
the eight Pacific Coast states must
have before virtually everything: used
on the Coast can be manufactured here
cheaper than to be shipped across the
continent.
He declares that the move taken by
the promotion department of the Eu
gene Commercial Club to substitute a
factory campaign and use the $7000
promotion fund toward bringing In
dustries Instead of printing gold-em
bossed literature and working for peo
ple alone. Is timely.
"V hile I was In the East I found that
manufacturers In general are looking
forward to the Pacific Coast market."
said Mr. Iover.
"A factor to favor the Willamette
Valley is that any Eastern manufac
turer will find his rates for power
c-heaper when he moves his plant to the
Pacific Coast. The Willamette Valley,
the entire P.aciric Coast, in fact, can
sell, and is selling: power cheaper than
It can be had anywhere else In the
United states. It can underbid East
ern coal in the coal districts.'
FOSSIL MEN GROW CORII
JAMKS . STEWART T.tKKI l.KID
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THERE IS ALWAYS A REASON
The reason our dry-cleaning depart
ment has Increased its business so
greatly is the fact that the high grade
of work done here is not turned out
by any other Portland cleaners. And
then the pricca are so reasonable. Men's
suits, dry cleaned and pressed. $1: men's
overcoats. SI; ladies' dark suits, tl.
and ladles' dark one-piece dresses tl.
No matter how soiled your garment.
we clean it clean. Cail East or
B 1193. TJ. S. Laundry Co,, dry-cleaning
department. Adv.
iria rat pressure of the water. At ar.v
laa distance, however, tl "will gradually
work I way bark to llfcht.
I-aundrj- at Banclon Burns.
BAN-DON". Or., April 11. fSpecial.)
A new steam laundry recently built at
Bandon by A. F. Uerringer at a cost of
$7000 was tonight destroyed by lire.
Much of the small machinery was saved
and $3600 Insurance was carried on the
plant and builrlinn.
Aeelisnated Seed Supplied Through Co
operation with O.-W. R. at N. Oft I- I
elal Goad Harvests Reported.
FOSSIL. Or, April 11. Special.)
Much Interest In corn growing la being
manifested In the Fossil country this
Spring. James S. Stewart Is prepar
ing ground for the planting of ten
acres of different varieties, with a view
to determining the kinds that will ma
ture best In that locality, and he Is
having good success In inducing quite a
number of his neighbors to plant
smaller tracts of corn. Co-or-eratlng
with Farmer Smith, of the O.-W. R. &
N. Mr. Stewart has agreed to supply
acclimated seed to all farmers who
request It and who will agree properly
to cultivate it and report the results
of their efforts.
Mr. Stewart has raised smaller
patches of corn the past several years
and says he has harvestea well-matured
corn, every time, lie Is certain
that corn p-rotvins: can be profitably
substituted for Summer fallowing on
all the train lands cf Wheeler County.
cork Bimk 200 feet aeep in the ocean
rt r'-y aga.n to gurfnfg. owr'ny to
Asliland Girls Leave for Hawaii.
ASHLAND. Or., April 11. (Special.)
Young people turned out en masse at
the depot this evening to bid farewell
to the Misses Frances Hamlin and
Kathryn Miller, of the Ashland High
School, who are leaving for Honolulu
to accept positions as teachers in St.
Andrew's Priory, an Episcopal school
for girls. They will sail from San
Francisco next Tuesday on the
"Manoa." of the Hawaiian line.
LARGE CLASS CONFIRMED AT SHERWOOD
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SHERWOOD. Or.. April 1L (Special.) The confirmation class this
week of the German Lutheran Church here was one of the largest in
the .history of the parish, of which Rev. C. Schink is pastor. Those
in the class are Eddie Gohl. John Bremmer, Honry Adolf, Clara
Hanke. Charlotte Meier, Helen Oberst. Martha Adolf, Martha Schuh,
Rosalia Wohlgemuth and Louise Kruger. In the background is seen
Mr. Schink.
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Wherever well dressed people
congregate this Easter Sunday, there you
will be almost certain to find men in Ben Selling Clothes !
Each season more men
are discov e r i n g how
easy it is to wear the
finest, the smartest and
best - tailored clothes
to choose them upon a
few hours' notice, and
feel as well dressed as
if they had been wor
ried and bothered with
"trv-ons" for weeks.
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Two makes of Clothes
of world-renowned, su
periority Stein-Bloch
and Atterbury System
are sold here exclu
sively, in Portland.
$20 to $40
Portland's best Hat
store. '
Sole agency for
Dunlap, $5.00
Brewer, $3.00
REMOVAL
SALE
Every Article Reduced
Only Contract Goods Excepted.
On April 15th, we will move iuto
larsrer and more spacious quarters
at 343 MORRISON STREET, near
Broadway, in the Broadway Bldj.
SALE will continue TWO DAYS
MORE. Everything RADICALLY
REDUCED.
$1.50 Lingerie Waists, f 1 ff
special pl.ViU
Low or High Neck.
$2.50 to $3.00 Lingerie tf"t A Q
Waists, special piHtO
S4.50 to $5.00 Lingerie t?o QO
Waists, special pt.ZJ(J
Ixw Xecks.
75c to $1.00 Lace Collars JjQq
Dozens of other good bargains
F. P. YOUNG CO.
328 MORRISON" STREET
Portland Hotel Building
TRY THIS IF YOU
HAVE DANDRUFF
Or Are Bothered With Falling
Hair or Itching Scalp.
BEN SELLING
LEADING CLOTHIER
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There is one sure war that nrvr
falls to remove dandruff comoietely
and that Is to dtsoolve It. This de
stroys It entirely. To do this. Just are'
about four ounces of plain, ordinary
liquid arvon: apply It at nlfrht when
retiring;: use enouarh to moisten the
scalp and rub it In arently with the
Anger tips.
By mornln? most. If not all, of your
dandruff will be gone, and three or
four more applications will completely
dissolve and entirely destroy every
single sia-n and trace of it. no matter
how much dandruff you may have.
You will find. too. that U ItohinR
and dicsina- of the acalp will stop In
stantly, and yor hair will be fluffy,
lustrous. Flossy, silky and soft aad
look and feci a hundred times better.
if you want to keep your hair look
Ins rich. 1o by all means get rid of
dandruff, for nothln-p destroys the hair
so quickly. It rot only starves the hair
and makes it fail ouu but It makes it
stringy, stra-fgly. dull. dry. brittle arte
lKelefs. and everybody notloea it. You
ran ki liquid arvon at any drugstore.
It Is inexpensive, and four ounces is
all you will need. This simple rfm
jedy bus never been known to lail. Adv.
where she sow is and Is supposed
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