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r n " THE' WEATHER Trobably fair today, with moderate northerly winds. sr.;3 x: ; .-jj c? 6 Sections 00 Pc::; l! VOL. VIII. NO. 49, Portland; Oregon,. Sunday mornnig, march io,; 1912. PRICE FIVE CENTS FIRE SWEPS OVER BUSINESS SECTION OF HRACT ISLETFOR Mi Leads for Nomination W1B1I ,IHI!1 LA FOLLETTE JOIN TEN STORY BUILDING- PROGRESSIVE EG-! E EF . V. v. fr ( MMffl WES CROSSED IN CHILLY Din us, i I en MA miLouif IIP LARG COST OVER SI 50,000 MSUSIEffilN DEEDS SAYS TAFT Amundsen With Four Men and 52 Dogs Strength of Expe dition Tlfat Won Dash for South Pole. FLAGS PLANTED ON FIRST TRIP GUIDE EXPLORERS "Good Old Fram!" Says Cap- tain, "Farthest South and -Farthest North." ' (Br the Intcrntttooal News Service.) Hobaitt, Tasmania, March . The re cital of the march of Amundsen and his llttla band to the South Pole Is a graphic but simple story of extraordinary achievement as told by a modest leader. It was on February 10, 1911, that the march to the south was begun over an open waste. The absence of all land marks made it necessary for them to plant flags to mark their course and to guide their return to winter quarters on th ice barrier. ' Three Depots get Up. ' Between the time of their start and April 11 Jhey set up three depots in which they stored in all 6600 pounds ' of provisions of which 3223 pounds was seal meat Fifteen hundred and forty pounds of this food they placed In the eighty-first degree of south latitude, .and 1769 pounds more In the eighty-second degree. At the start they had favorable weath er and ground condition and it was easy to drive their dogs. On February 15, . the sledges, each weighing 680 pounds, were driven 73 miles. Six dogs made utf the team for eeh sled. The .lowest ...temperature they, found at this time was 0 degrees below aeror On their return on February 15 from this first trip of laying down depots Amundsen and his followers wer re joiced to find that in their absence the Fram had been sailed farthest south of any vessel and that the Norwegian col ors had been raised. Farthest Korth and South. "Good old Fram!" Amundsen describes his feelings. "Farthest north and farth est south." Before the arrival of winter, . the northern summer, the crew of the Fram had In their depots six and a half tons of seal meat, enough for themselves and 110 dogs. They had built huts and tents for their dogs and a portable house had been erected for the men. They were snowed in by April and spent a com fortable winter. A Lux lamp of 200 candle power gave them brilliant light and kept the temperature up- to 08 de grees, fahrenhelt. Tour Months la Darkness. For four month they were In dark ness. The sun left them April 12, but they were not idle. Working under-the light of their powerful lump they made a complete change In their equipment. The sledges had been found too heavy and clumsy. - All the equipment ' was lightened up for speed. ; They did some nclentif lo work and made some very ..Interesting meterologlcal observations. The observation of temperatures showed unusually mild weather, much ; milder than Amundsen expected to find. The general range during ' the - five months they were in winter quarters was from 68 to 74 degrees below zero. The lowers t temperature actually taken was on August 13th. when the ther - mometer marked 76 degrees below sero. The mean, temperature for the year, ac cording to Amundsen's observations, was 14.8 degrees below ero. Start on Quest for pole. It was on September J that eight men and seven sledges, to dogs and provis ions for four , montns, started in' the quest for the pole. At this time the ground was perfect for sledge work, and the temperature was not too severe. The next day, however; they feared that they had started too soon, for the temperature began ti fall and reached between 68 and 74 degrees below zero. The fine equipment of Amundsen and his men With furs protected them from Buffering, but the dogs lost strength ' dally." . -;,-. :-;-.. On account of the dogs Amundson de termined to return to the winter quar ters and wait for spring. He lost a few days, and a couple of his men had. their heels frozenV' -tr-,;;"' .,' " " Spring Comet la October. Spring appeared in the middle of Oc tober. At this time the temperature was from 4 to 28 degrees below aero. Amundsen, before starting however, changed the . plan, that all should go south,. He determined to take ouly four men; and the other three were detailed to start for the east and visit King Edward VII land. On October 20 .the party which was to seek the pole started. Amundsen, his four men; four sledges and 52 dogs" and provisions for four months was the strength of the expedition. The first part, of the march was made in easy stages in order to conserve the strength of men and animals. They made their depot in the eightieth de gree on the 23d,' stopped but a short while, and went on ahead, despite a dense fog. :' riags Served as Guides. The flags they had planted on their first trip served them in good stead as guides. The temperature remained steady at from 4 to 22 degrees below cero. Amundsen' had intended to drive not more than 13 to 20 miles a day, but the dogs were strong and willing and this work soon appeared to-be too slow for them. The speed was In creased to the easy strength of thJ cogs. " y Picking up their depots one after an other, 1 they reached the -eighty-third "flrgrMnaTabUstlarieTr dupcTTCo: 4. On Nov. 13 they reached the 84th deeree and , established another riunnf and on the 16th another depot, where (Continued on Tags Nine,). Manufacturing District of Can " adia'n City Threatened With Complete Destruction. -., Winnipeg, March 10. -Fire ls raging in the manufatturing section of Winni peg this . morning, t Starting a on Main street, In the vicinity of the Canadian Paeiric railroad station at l a. m-. the plants of the Great International Ma chinery .company,- Stewart Machinery company, Radford Wright company and the West hotel burst Into flames. . ; A strong wind is carrying the fire Into the wholesale district. Walls of burning buildings nave fallen -and a number s)t men have been Injured. One body has been taken from the debris and several persons are In the hospitals. At i:su tne nremen seem unable to cope with the fire and it was still spreading., YUAN SHI KAI IS Peking,. March 9. On the eve of his inauguration , as president of China. Yuan Shi Kal tonight declared that the single tax,-whlch he proposed to have adopted,-would do more to promote the prosperity of Ui country than any step that had ever been taken. Yuan is con- vinced that this system is the best for China and that Its application will aid wonderfully In restoring the .confidence of the people, sadly shaken of Jate by the mutinous outbreaks. All of the arrangements for the in auguration were completed tonight Yuan will take the oath Sunday after noon and will be formally inducted Into office with typical oriental ceremony. Immediately afterward he is expected to outline the policies to which his ad ministration will adhere. The single tax system and , other v proKreeeive ideas which he proposes to have adopted will be outlined. -.. -, . , LAWRENCE STRIKE TO' BE SETTLED MONDAY Lawrence. Mass., March 9. The great testile strike resulting in brutalities that aroused the nation, will probably be seU tied Monday. This prediction was made at midnight, after ft long session of the strike-committee which began at t o'clock tonight , The strikers adjourned without action on , the latest offers of the mill owners and announced that a further conference with the owners would be held on .Monday. . -, - - Okanogan Project Given More Funds . Washington, D. C, March 9.--Presi dent Taft has authorised the secretary of the interior to make an additional allotment of 820,000 for the Okanogan Irrigation project In Washington. This is to line with concrete 10,000 lineal feet of canals in order to prevent ex cessive losses from water seepage. Discoverer of PLEDGED TO REFORMS till' " II l J9" I I I? '-rw- r " J Tl K. r i-4 r - -6. Mi Busy Saturday Beholds 29 Completed Petitions Filed; More Than 60 Entitled to Space in Pamphlet. WILSON PETITION CARRIES H0ONAMES;-CLARK'S,1?00 Pamphlet Arguments Against Any Candidate '. M ust Be t Filed by Monday. (Salea Bonn of Tbe Joomtl.) Salem, Or., March 9. Completed peti tions of candidates reached flood tide in the office of the secretary of state today, this being the last date on which candidates could file and be entitled to space In the voters' campaign pamphlet Twenty-nine completed petitions were filed today. ' Among the petitions are three for can didates for presidential nominations. Of these three the petition for Woodrow Wilson, the New Jersey Democrat, leads with more than 1400 names. The peti tion for Champ Clark, Democratic speak er of the house ot representatives, comes next with more than 1200 names. Robert M. La Follefte, Republican progressive, is third with 1214 names. Beeley riles for Wilson. - The petition of Woodrow Wilson was filed by Paul D. Beeley of Portland, representing the Wilson campaign com mittee. The petition for Champ Clark was tiled by A. W. Cauthorn of Port land, and Thomas McCusker, La Fol lette's campaign manager in Oregon, filed the petition for his candidate. Petitions for the more important of fices, -aside from the presidential can didates, filed today, Included, those for Ben W.. Olcott Republican secretary of state and candidate for his present office: Walter M. Pierce of Hot Lake, and O. P. Coshow of Roseburg; both Democrats and candidates for United States senator; Cr V. Oantenbeltt and Ralph C. Clyde, both ,, Republicans of Portland, and candidates for the con j-eMtoniaiiomuuttoa -.iattrJdttfJ district, comprising Multnomah county; W. R. Ellis of Pendleton, and George T coenran or uranae, oom Mepuo Ucans and candidates for congressman for the Second or eastern Oregon dis trict; Claude C. Covey of Warm springs. Democrat candidate for. congressman for the Second district. 1 ; i long Ust tot Lesser Offices. 'Other filings, of completed petitions were made by X. T. Edwards and IV A, Lea, Portland Republicans who are can didates for dairy and food commission er; Allan R. Joy of Portland, Republi can, candidate for district attorney for Multnomah county; W. C WInslow of Salem, Republican, candidate for dis trict attorney for Linn, Marion, Polk, (Continued on Page Nine.) - South Pole and Pictures Illustrating Hardships of Antarctic Fine Structure to Be Erected at Seventh and Washington . Streets. ' . v : Contracts were executed yesterday whereby the Morrison Trust company is obligated to build and turn over to R. MC. Gray a 10-story steel and concrete office structure ,on the Risley property at the northwest corner of Seventh and Morrison" streets within one year from date. The Morrison Trust company was organised by Arnold Bllta. Fred Roth child, Max Hlrsch and 'e. E. Merges, owners of a 60-year lease secured aome months ago on the Risley corner by Mrs, Dan McAllen. ' . r Mr. Gray, the Morrison street cloth ier, has leased tbe projected building for a ' period of 20 years, and will occupy the first and second floors with his clothing establishment The remaining floors will be arranged for physicians' offices.: Mr. Gray has decided to call the structure the "Doctors' Building' The proposed new building will have a frontage of 100 feet on Morrison street and 60 on Seventh. Construction work wtlUbegln September 1, when the leases of the present tenants expire. It is es timated that the structure will cost from $150,000 to 8175,000. Every modern con venience known to office building equip ment, such as compressed air connection for every room, high power electrio wir ing and the most approved systems of ventilation and cleaning, will be In stalled In the new structure. f. A. (Spertal to The Journal.) Spokane, Wash., March 9. John F. Stevens, formerly president of the Spo kane, Portland ' & Seattle system, has secured for his new company a 160,000,. 000 contract for construction of a, big railroad in Spain. . After : leaving the northwest Stevens went to New York, where he organized the John F. Stevens Engineering company, xwlth offices at KR furall -,.Anf T T 1krnu Bnrtag Brothers, London as silent part. ners. According to the contract this company will construct the railroad and turn It over ready for operation to the Spanish government, while connected with the northwest Hill lines,. Stevens lived both in .Spokane and Portland, Deserted In the Wilds of Canada. (United Presi Letted. Wire.) New York, March 9. Indian guides of Harry G. Radford, Arctlo explorer and fellow of the American Geographical society, deserted him in northern Can ada, where Radford went on a expedi tion, according to reports received here today. Radford Is reported to have been left months ago without provisions in the heart of the barren lands near Great Bear lake and it is feared he may have perished. p r - . - 1 STEVENSUNDS $60,000,000 CONTRACT 1- (7ptain Itoald Amundsen, who hrd expedition to South Pole. 2 Map showing routes graveled by four farthest south expeditions.-, 3 Hut used as supply base by the Antarctic explorer8. 4 -I'Jionogrnph em ployed to while away lonesome hours in lop bound region. 6 Camp established ly Shackleton party ' In Its dash towards the pole. .... 1 " . Reiterate Charges That Under wood, Clark and Harmon Forces Have Combined to Defeat Governor. . ONLY HOPE TO -DEPRIVE"-. HIM 0FTW0:THIRDS VOTE Perfect Agreement , Among , Other Candidates Declared to Have Been Made. ; " ' (Wttfalnrtoa Bureia of Th Joarstl.1 .Washington, March 9. Notwithstand ing denials by the accused, the Woodrow Wilson managers reiterate their charges Of a cabal against New. Jersey's gov ernor. From every section of the coun try, they claim, comes corroboration of the charge made by Senator Burleson, that there Is an alliance on the part of other candidates to deprive Wilson of tne necessary two-thirds of the dele gates to the Baltimore convention. Yesterday a Wisconsin paper was quoted to show that the Harmon and the Clark forces are wdrklng under a thorough agreement In .that state. To day news comes from Michigan that the Underwood, as well as the Clark and the Harmon forces, are working for th defeat of the Wilson delegation from that state. The dispatch says: VThe fight in the Democratic party In Mlohlgan is Wilson and anti-Wilson, with the supporters of the New Jersey governor among , the machine leaders who nominate the state central commit tee, as scarce as hen's teeth. The Harmon, the Clark and the Underwood forces are in complete control," --' A poll of the Democratic county exe cutive committee In New . Jersey dis closes the fact that 20 Of the commit tees in the 21 counties are enthusiasti cally in favor of the nomination of Wil son. , New Jersey will send a solid dele gation to the Democratic national con vention at Baltimore. Instructed to work and vote for his nomination for . the tmwatdMltrv.'.. ,' .'. -t . " t.-....-.. " LVtKGRfcEN DEMOCRATS . WILL MEET MAY 6, A WILSON, . COMPROMISE (United Prett Leaned .Wlre.V . ; ". Seattle, Wash., March 9. After a two hours' fight during which the Woodrow Wilson leaders , attempted to force an early convention and the combination between Champ Clark and Judson Har mon handlers struggled for a. meeting late In May, the Democratic state, com mittee this afternoon compromised 'by calling the delegate convention to meet In Walla Walla at t p. m.. May 6. C. C. Dill, .... who bandied the last Democratic campaign In Spokane coun ty, electing four Bourbon candidates tn (Continued on Page Two.). V f n V President William H. Taft, who has big lead In Kepnbllcan nomination race.; ' 95 TAFT TO DATE; 12 FOR COL ROOSEVELT (United-Prea teuMI Wtre.V ! Washington. March -president Taft today leads in the race for the Repub lican presidential nominations ?' Of the 107 delegates .so far elected to the na tional convention, -95 are pledged i toJ President' Taft against 12 for- Colonel Roosevelt.' ,4 .. i-'t J j-.; ,1 i.. Champ Clark of Missouri leads in the race for 'the 'Democratic nomination for prealdent.. ..lie . lias; pledged-to." him 44 of the 64 delegates already elected to the Baltimore convention, the remaining 10 being instructed to vote for Wood row Wilson. - .- . " l ;- Exploration DELEGATES "Progressive Is That Progres sive Does". Avers President in Chicago Speech That Marks Campaign Beginning. EXECUTIVE DEFENDS - COURSE IN OFFICE Denies, Charge That His Atti tude Towards American People Shows Distrust. ; (TTnltcd Pwes LMfd Wire.) Chicago, March 9. Defending his ad ministration as "successfully progres sive in deeds," President Taft tonight opened his campaign In the middle west with a discussion of the progres sive movement that reached, the con clusion, "progressive is that progres sive does." The president spoke at the banquet of the Swedish-American Republican league. , - - , The president defended himself frem the charge that his attitude on pubulle Questions showed a "distrust of the American, people" and attacked those who constantly fawn upon the people, aa If they were Incapable of error." After "pointing with pride" to the achievements of the Republican 'party In the past 60 years, the president said: "I agree that a party may serve the public well and then cease to be useful, and that it is In its performanca In the Immediate past and the probability of its performances in the Immediate future that we are to find a reason for its continuance in power. ' "In the history of polltica from time to time, new phrases ar coined to characterise new Issues and new move ments. One of the terms which has come into constant use today is proR reslve' and it is aupposed to Indlcat the opposite of reactionary or ultra conservative,'. Men differ as to what ' progressive policies are, but perhap w can reach a definition that will suit everybody ,by ..trading the history of the progres vv,-UMvemnt and its ulti mate objecis." Trace Industrial Development. The president traced the concentra tion of wealth and the great Industrial developments that caused It, for two decades prior to 1900. "The vast industrial resources of the country In the west, which then seemed so cheap, were parted with by the pub 11c," he said, "to turn up in the hands of corporate agents and to have an enon- mous value and a monopolistic charac ter that completely changed the atti tude of the people and startled them Into the necessity for a direct chanue of policy. Then the money which the corporations had at ' their disposal to protect their , privileges and property and even to extend them, was not in frequently used to corrupt' the instru mentalities of government and to ob struct the immediate expression of the will of the people in the change of laws, the closer regulation of every public utility corporation, and the closest and narrowest scrutiny In the further grant ing of public franchises. " - . - "During the administration of my dls yrisulahed predecessor and by his ap peals to congress and to the public the people, and especially business com munities, were roused to the necessity Tor action. The great benefit arising from this movement cannot be overesti mated. It put the people on guard in every state and in every community. "In the sphere of national legislation the' anti-trust law and the interstate commerce law were both passed some time before this movement reached Its height. - The problems to be met were new - for this country the legislation adopted to solve them" was a matter of experiment. ' v "The issues presented to the courts In the construction of the statutes went full of difficulty and doubt, and needed time and the presentation of a number of cases and their consideration before clarity could be affirmed in the con struction of the statute. The first step, and the most Important, however, was the stirring of the people to the nature of the crisis they had to meet and the obstacles they had to overcome. ' Define Term "Progressive." "The term progressive, therefore, in cludes all of those who have been moved to efforts to reform by the necessity for legislative and governmental action to deprive corporate capital and undue Vested privilege of Its political power, and to bring about proper popular and governmental control and regulation of the use of capital in legitimate avenues and for legitimate purposes. ' In addition to this there Is another wide field for progressive action that the altruistic tendencies of the age have done much to encourage and develop. Government U framed for the greatest good for the greatest number and alri for the greatest good of the individual, and the problem presented la the balanc ing of these two objects in such a way that both may proceed, side by aide. "The progressive movement has sh sumed the character of a crusade, an I many radical remedies have been sug gested, the carrying out of-whleb would only be less destructive than the threat ened fatal course of the disease. There were many who had long attacked our institutions as the basis of all Injus tice and Inequality, and their voles be came louder and more distinct and-wax listened to with greater favor than ever before in the-' history of the country, The growth of Socialism in this coun try is a noteworthy incldont In Bbowiii-f the extreme !to which many woulii g in the solution of the problem whkh I am dlHcussing. . "There weFe many-who wre wt clallst,' but who. sow lr Ui fm ,4 structure of our government, nl . -peclally In the checks and bulnr-i-- ' t-r(lrt hy the frumorn 'of i"r . tatit.n"lo"io!U're"d!rt. !.,;... ; action on tliejiart I obstruction to ti n i i t If'tfmCtl DC.-... -i - I : I -