The news=record. (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Or.) 1907-1910, November 27, 1909, Saturday Edition, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextTHE NEWS RECORD (Twiee-a-Week.) A!;tMDEPESDEl'ltXErsPAlFB; Formerly the Wallowa News, estab lished March 3. 1899. Published Wednesday and Satur days at Enterprise. Oregon, by THE ENTERPRISE PRESS Office East side Court House Square Entered as second-class matter January 2, 1909, at the postoffice at Enterprise. Oregon, under the Act of March 3, 1S79. Subscription Rates; One year $2, six months $1, three months 50c, o.ie month 20c. On yearly ca3h-ln-r.ce subscriptions a discount of j.jv a given. AT J. .DAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1909. A Royal Romance. The second bod cf Prince Oscar II. fell In love with a Miss Ebba Munck while at Bournemouth. fbe was one of the Indies In wnliliif? to the Swedish crown princess, and Klus Oscar wished bis son to make an alliance with one of the royal houses of Europe. The difficulty seemed one to be met only by drastic steps on the part of the lovers, but Queen Sophie's heart was won, and she It was who obtained the king's consent. She was very ill, and a dangerous operation was the only chance of saving her life. "If I under go It and It is successful, will you al low Oscar and Ebba to be married?" she asked the king, and of course the king promised. A year Inter the queen was quite well again. The lovers were In bcr room when the king approached. At the door he stood and listened. Miss Munck wns singing to the queen, and he waited until It wns over. Then be advanced, held out one hand to bis on and gave his other to Miss Munck, nd so his pledge was fulfilled and the couple came Into their happiness. ' A Narrow Escape. An old circus man tells this incident as one of the uurrow escapes he had in the show buuluess. He had trained lions, zebras, leopards, rhino you know and all sorts of beusts of prey, but this, he says, was bis narrowest escape. It was when be was running dime museum in Milwaukee. One day a mild inuuuered Ilusslan came out of the railway station with a valise in his hand. He was a heavily bearded man and with shaggy hands and arms like George Esau. lie bunt ed up a cabman and inquired modest ly, "Where is the dime museum?" The cabman told him and then asked, "Want to ride up?" "Yes," the beurded stranger told him quietly, almost bashfully. "I'm to be employed up there. I'm the wild man." "The narrow escape," says the ex circus man, "luy in the fact that no newspaper man heard the man's re mark and that the cabman was an Englishman, with no sense of humor, who never thought to repeat it" Ex change. Vary Likaly, Mamma't Darling-Say, pop, I'll be glad when I get old enough to do as I please Henpecked nusband-When you reach that uge you'll likely be foolish enough to get murrlcd. So what good will it do you? Judge. SEVINO MACHINE.' ROLLER BBARINa HIGH CKADB. by buying thta l reliable, honest, l4 high grade lev j ing machine. STRONGEST GUARANTEE. National Sewing Machine Co, Belvldere, III. OF BENEFIT TU ALL Knspnri'.ln in ttie nntneof n new remeiU Dioht successfully prihvr.btd fi r a "wort of troubles.'' Tor dcr.iiiuncnu of tin digestive orgnns it is a luiutnl curm-tit rperating diivclly upon the liver and all niftitary caiutl, gcmly but persiMrMh KtAmtluting a healthy activity. Its bein firiul intlcpu-e extends, however, to ever portion of the svsiem, aiding in ll processes of digestion and assimilation t. food, promoting a wholesome, natura appetite, correcting aour atomarh, bai breath, irregiiluriliea of the bowels, con tipation and the long list of trouble directly traceable to those un4iolesoini conditions. Kasnrilla dispels drowsi neaa, headache, backache and despond ency due to inactivity of the liver kidneys and digestive tract. It ia strengthening tonic of the highest valun If it fails to satisfy we authorize all dealers to refund the purchase Mire. IIOYT Chumicm Co Portland, Oregon Tor 8al By BURNAUQH A MAY FIELD ! The Conquest By Dr. FREDERICK A. COOK Copyright. 1909, by the New York Herald Comp&ny. rVegiitered In Canada In Accordance With Copy, rijht Act. Copyright In Mex ico Under Ltwa ol the Republic ol Mexico. All Rights Reserved EABLY In January of 1008 the campaign opened. A few sled were sent to the American s bores to explore a route and to advance supplies. Clouds and storms made the moon light days dark, and therefore these advance expeditious were only partly successful. On Feb. 19. 1908. the main expedi tion started for the pole. Eleven men. driving 103 dogs and moving 11 heav ily loaded sleds, left the Greenland shore and pushpd westward over the troublesome Ice of Smith sound to Cape Sabine. The gloHin of the long winter night was but Utile relieved by a few hours of daylight, and the temperature was very low. Eighty-three Degrees Below. Tasslng through a valley between Ellesmere I .and and Urlnnell Land from the head of Flagler bay. In cross ing to the Pacific slopes, the tempera ture fell to 83 degrees F. below zero. In BaJ fiord many musk oxen were secured, and, though the winter frost PwrW&s ,..f. ftmmk i It ..a ESKIMO BELLES ON THE JOHN K. BRADLEY. was at its lowest, there was little wind, und with an ahundunce of fresh meat and also fat for fuel the life in the enow house proved fnlrly comfortable. 'x he Ice In Eureka and Nansen sounds proved fnlrly smooth, and long marches were made. With an abun-' dance of game musk oxen, bears and hares-we found It quite unnecessary to use the supplies taken from Oreen 1 land. Caches of food and ammunition were left along Ilelberg Island for the return. Willing 8avaga Hands. Thus we managed to keep In game trails and In excellent fighting trim to the end of known lands. Camping in the chill of the frowning cliffs of the northernmost const (Svartevog), we looked out over the heavy Ice of the polar seas through eyes which bad beeu hardened to the worst of Volar environ incuts. There wns at bund an abundance of supplies, with willing savage bands and a superabundance or brute force in overted pelts, but for a greater cer tainty of action over the unknown re gions beyond I resolved to reduce the force to the smallest numbers con sistent with the execution of the prob lem In hand. We had traveled nearly 400 miles In twenty-eight days. There remained a line of C'JO miles of unknowable trou ble to be overcome before our goal could be reached. For this Unal task we were provided with every concelv able device to ease this hard lot; but. lu addition to a rdm-ed party, 1 uow definitely resolved to simplify the en tire equipment. At Svartevog a big cache was made, lu this cache fresh meat, todmi. pemniU au and much oth er food, together with all discarded articles of equipment, were left In the northward advance every factor of the dog train hud been care fully watched and studied to provide a perfect working force for the final reach over the polar aea. Etuklshuk and Abwelnh. two young Eskimos, each tweuty years old. bad been chosen as best fitted to be my sole compan ions In the long run of destiny. Twenty-six dog were picked, and upon two sleds were loaded all our needs for a stay of eighty days. All For Prograaa. To have Increased this parly would not have enabled us to carry supplies for a greater mint bcr of days. Tba sleds might have been loaded more heavily, but this would reduce the Im portant progress of the drat daya. With the character of Ice which wa bad before us advance atatlona wera Impossible.. A large expedition and a heavy equipment seemed Imprudent We must win or lone In a prolonged effort at high pressure, and tberalvrt of the Pole ? t EiM.The Der, Be low Willing Savage Hands. Marching Over the Polar Seal J IFIFTH ART1CIE absolute control and ease of adapta bility to a changing environment must be assured. It is Impossible to adequately con trol the complex human temperament of unknown men in the polar wilder ness, but the two Eskimo boys could be trusted to follow to the limit of my own endeavors, and our sleds were burdened only with absolute necessi ties. Cutting Down Weight. Because of the lmoi tance of a light and efficient equipment much care was taken to eliminate every ounce of weight. The sleds were made of hick ory, the lightest wood consistent with great endurance, but every needless liber was gouged out The iron shoes were ground thin, and In every way the weight of nearly everything was re duced even after leaving headquar ters. The little train, therefore, which fol lowed me Into the farther mystery was composed of two sleds, each .carrying COO pounds, drawn by 13 dogs, under the lash of an expert driver. The combined freight was as follows: I'emmlcan. 805 pounds; musk ox tenderloin, CO -pounds; todnu, 25 pounds; tea. 2 pounds; coffee, 1 pound; sugar. 25 pounds; condensed milk, 40 pounds; milk biscuits, CO pounds; pea soup, powdered and compressed. 10 pounds; surprises. 5 pounds; petro leum. 40 pounds; wood alcohol, 2 pounds; caudles, 3 pounds; matches, 1 pound. The Camp Equipment. The camp equipment included the following articles: One blow tire lamp (Jeueh, 3 aluminium polls, 3 alumini um cups, 3 aluminium teaspoons, 1 ta blespoon, 3 tlu plates, 0 pocketknlves, 2 butcher knives (10 lucbesi, 1 saw knife (13 Inchest, 1 long knife (15 lucu esi. 1 rltle (Sharpei. 1 ride (Winchester, 22). 1 10 cartridges, 1 hatchet, 1 Alpine ax, extra Hue and lashings, 3 personal bags. The sled equipment was 2 sleds weighing 52 pounds each. 12 foot fold ing cunvus boat 34 pounds; I silk tent 2 cauvas sled covers. 2 sleeplug bogs (reindeer sklni, floor furs, extra wood for sled repairs, screws, nails and riv ets. The Instruments were as follows: Three compasses. I sextant. 1 artificial horizon (glussi, 1 pedometer, 3 pocket chronometers. 1 watch, charts, map making material uud instruments,' 3 thermometers. 1 aneroid barometer, 1 camera uud tltins, notebooks and pen cils. The iersoiial bags contained four ex tra pairs of kuiuiks. with fur atockluga, a woolen shirt, three pairs of sealskin mltteus. two pairs of fur mittens, a piece of blanket, a sealskin coat (net abni, a repair kit for mending clothing uud dog harness, tra fox tails. On the march we wore snow goggles, blue fox coats (kapllabsi. blrdsklo shirts, wooleu drawers, bearsklu pants, kamlks and bureskln stocking. We fastened a bund of fox tails under the knee aud about the waist Helping the Advance. . On the morning of March 18 prepara tion were made to divide the party. The advance must be helped over the rough he of the pack edge, and for this purpose Koolootlngwub and Ido glto were selected. The other six Es kimos prepared to return. Uue sled wa lert with the cache to tusure a good vehicle for our return in case the two sleds were badly broken en mute. A hair it ale was blowing Into Nan sen sound trom the northwest, but this did not Interfere with the starting of those home going Eskimos. With abundant game for the return they re quired little but ammunition to sup ply their wants. When the word was given to start, the dogs were gathered and tbt aleda were spanned with a Jump. Soon tboy disappeared In the rush of driving snow. The crack of the whips and the rebound of cheering voices 'were the Inst which we beard of the faithful savage supporters. They bad followed not for pay, but for a real desire to be helpful, from the dark days of the ending of night to the bright nights of the coming double days, and tbelr parting enforced a pang of loneliness. Another Sleep Before the Start With a snow charged blast In our faces it was quite Impossible for us to start, so we withdrew to the snow Igloo, entered our bags and slept a few hours longer. At noon the horizon cleared. The wind veered to the south west and came with an endurable force. The dogs bad been doubly fed the nlgbt before. They were not to be fed again for two days. The 1.200 pounds of freight were packed on our sleds, and quickly we slipped around deep grooves in the great pollocrystlc floes. The snow bad been swept from the Ice by the force of. the preceding fiforms. and the speed attained by the dogs through even rough Ice was such that It was difficult to keep far enough ahead to get a good course. The crevasses and pressure lines gave little trouble at first, but the hard ir regularity of the bared Ice offered a dangerous surface for the life of onr sleds, passing through blue gorges among miniature mountains of sea ice. On a course slightly west of north we soon sank the bold headland which raises the northern point of Heiberg Island. Camp I Pitched. After a run of twenty-six miles we pitched camp on a floe berg of unusual height. There were many big hum mocks about, to the lee of wblcb were great banks of hardened snow Away from land It Is always more difficult to find snow suitable for cutting build- ing blocks, but here was an abundance conveniently placed, in the course of an hour a comfortable palace of crys tal was erected, and into it we crept out of the piercing wind. The first day's march over the circumpolar sea was closed with a good record. The dogs curled up and went to sleep without a call, as if they knew there would be no fond until the morrow. My wild companions covered their faces with tbelr convenient long hair and sank quietly Into a comfortable slumber, but for me sleep was quite Impossible. Letters must be written The whole problem of our campaign must be again carefully studied and final plans must be mode not only to reach our ultimate destination, but for the returning parties and for the secu rity of the things at Annootok. Impossible to Foretell Return. It was difficult at this time to even guess at the probable line of our re turn to land. Much depended upon conditions encountered In the north ward route. Though we had left caches of supplies, with the object of returning along Nansen sound Into Cannon fiord and over Arthur Land. I entertained grave doubts of our abil ity to return this way. If the lea drifted strongly to the east we might not be given the choice of working out our own return. In that event we would be carried perhaps helplessly to Greenland and must seek a return either along the east coast or the west coast This drift did not offer a dangerous hardship, for the musk oxen would keep us alive to the west, and to the east It seemed possible to reach Shan non Island, where the Baldwin-Zlegler expedition bad abandoned a large cache of supplies. It appeared not im probable also that a large land exten sion might offer a safe return much farther west Francks'a Instructions. Because of this uncertainty Francke was Instructed to wait until June 5, 1008. and If we did not return be was told to place Koolootingwab in charge and go home either by the whalers or by the Danish ships to the south. " No relief which he could offer would help us. and to wait for an Indefinite time alone would have Inflicted a need less hardship. This and many other Instructions were prepared for Koo lootingwab and Inuglto to take back. In the morning the frost In crystals had been swept from the air. but there remained a butnld chill wblcb pierced to the bones. The temperature was minus CO F. A light air came from the west, and the sun burned In a freezing blue. After a few hours' march the Ice changed In character. The extensive thick fields gave place to moderate sized floes. The floes were separated by zones of troublesome crushed Ice thrown Into high pressure lines, which offered serious barriers, but with the Ice ax and Eskimo Ingenuity we man aged to make fair progress. The second run on the polar sea was with twenty-one miles to our credit I hod expected to send the supporting party, back from bere. but progress bad not been as good as expected. We could hardly spare the food to feed tbelr dogs, so they volunteered to push along another day without dog food. . Return of the Helper. On the next day, with Increasing dif ficult lea In some troublesome Ice. we ramped after making only sixteen miles, riere a small snow house was built, and from here, after disposing of a pot of steaming musk ox loins and broth, followed by a double brew of tea. our last helpers returned. With empty sleds and hungry doga they hoped to reach land In one long dny'H travel. Hut this would make the fourth day without food for tbelr dogs, and Id case of storm or moving Ice other days of famine might easily fall to their lot They had. however, an abundance or dogs and might sacrifice a few for the benefit of the others, as we must often do. (Continued next weak.) J.D.WALCK Real Estate Dealer NOTARY PUBLIC Mitchell Hotel Block JOSEPH, OREGON To the Citizens of Wallowa County: It is our purpose to handle any business entrusted to us in such a fair and liberal manner as to maKe the customer's rela tion with this bantt satisfactory and profitable. K Aside from our excellent facilities, this'bank has the advantage of a large capital and substantial list of stockholders. It is also a State Deposi tory. If j-ou are not a customer we invite you to become one. irt'ii' WW ami Fiiiiffi National Bank Wallowa, Oregon MA II, ANTD PASSENGER STAGE LINE ' W'ailowa AppUti.n. Flora io Paradise, v 'PAY- WEJjNhfcv AYS at, KHII'AYS; ami j tan Paradise, Flora and Appleton to Wallowa, ( ) TUESDAYS. THURSDAYS smrl SATURDAYS ' t i i..i iirMiini;n"1nlioiih, court mi? MvHttnmt unri rfHwonable ratex. f flvcv Wal!(i"-n nt fi a. ni E. VV. SOUTHWICK. Proprietor. FOE YOURSELF! C Hundreds of people in this town arc at- rj to purchase a talking nv. o daylight 1 Make compar- ember that there are "talk- s; ...aines" and "phonographs," but only one Graphophone the COLUMBIA GRAPHOPHONE C Be sure to get in touch with us before you buy. Complete Graphophone out fits from $20 up. Come in and listen. Most people prefer to bur "on time" and that suits us. 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