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About The Monmouth herald. (Monmouth, Or.) 1908-1969 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 28, 1921)
II Six Years in Frozen N o rth TNoman Bears Five Children in Two Weeks: All Are Well Salvaging Grain From Elevator T h at Blew Up From Budapest, Hungnry. comes the official story of a. woman whs gavs birth tn h " - children recently, an event that . . i urs on. c tn 7 ' « 1 Canadian Mounted Police Cor poral Returns From Arctic With 2 Eskimo Murderers. ' i .-* a however, acquitted, owing to lack of cording'to physicians. The moth evidence, and Cluy, Cornelius an I er Is forty-one years obi. and at Brockie took them hack hy way of the time was the mother of ten ilersche! lalund and the Arctic to Coro children. Including one i>alr of 4 nation gulf^ where the two were al twins. 4 lowed to rejoin their tribe«. The mother was taken 111 nit Corporal Cornelius says that the er alighting from a street car. trial of the four Eskimo« hud had un She was removed to a hospital, excellent effect on the general con where the five births occurred duct of the tribes ns a whole, while over a period of two weeks. The Expects to Return to Solitude After conduct of the four principals has been mother und the five babe* left Short Holiday at Home— Punish most exemplary. Kayuguiia and Ko- the hospital a mouth later in a ment of Criminals Makes Natives njuk were seen several times on later healthy condition. Respect White Man’s Law. patrols, their bands being usually found on the Ice at the head o f the Montreal.— In May, 1915. Corporal Coppermine river, and each time the Cornelius of the Itoyal Northwest patrol received a warm welcome. been in the window of a Fifth avenue mounted police left Edmonton for Despite their years o f Isolation and firm of silversmiths. It is descriptive Ileracbel Island, lie departed quietly, hardships both Corporal Cornelius anil of the life of Christ. without any flourish of trumpets, lie j Constable Itrockle are looking forward Five monks of the» Brotherhood of returned the other day to civilization | to n return to the North In the near Nicodetuus worked on It from 1S'•*,■• again for the tirst time, us silently as j future. They will now enjoy a well until 1914 in their monastery on Mount lie had left it. Over six years of his | earned holiday, and both are leaving Athos, Macedonia. Father »'.ennancs life has been si»ent in the Arctic wilder ! at once for their respective homes, Alcgetos, one of the five maker*, ness, four of them In the sole corn- | Cornelius going to Halifax and llrockle brought It here, together with docu puny of two Eskimo murderers, sen to Winnipeg. ments attesting Its origin und bis right tenced in 1914, and freed by order of to dispose of it. the government luter. CARVING IS WORTH $125.000 The base Is a solid block of box Two years were passed nt Fort Me- wood, weighing nearly 200 pounds, ami l'lierson, where the big supply of pro Mount Athos Artcraft Work of Five the entire eotniwisltlon Is 28 Inches visions and building material were dis lull and 21 Inches wide. Into this sur- Monks Depicts the Life posed, comfortable winter quarters es tace the monks have carved panel and of Christ. tablished, and patrols of the surround picture designs, ln high und low re ing country undertaken. New York.— A wood carving valued lief, involving hundreds of figures aud The two Eskimo murderers who were nt $12"i,000 placed ou public view, has scenes. taken out by the corporal and offered their freedom were so much taken with the ways of the white man that they asked permission to enter the service of the police, and were both engaged, much to their delight. They tendered great service ns guides and Interpreters, and the white man's law has never had a better advertisement In the Arctic circle than that given to It by these two men. tried, punished nnd released by Its officials as a warn Code System Disappearing Be nntcil appears to be not clearly known. ing to others. The reason why it was adopted Is also cause of Abuses It En something of a puzzle, although plaus Two Years in Wilds. ible solutions are offered. About the couraged. In 1917 Corporal Cornelius was only thing regarding It that Is ut all Joined by Constable Brockle and the definite Is that it came Into being two set out for Horschel Island where years ago, when it was the custom of they spent two years with frequent the manufacturers and wholesalers to patrols In the far corners of the un build a kind of Chinese wall nrotuid charted wilds. Their next move was nlong the shores of the Arctic to Coro- Change to Some Extent Forced by their business and station a regiment of soldiers at every gate. In those nntlon gulf, a dog-sled trip of some 800 Buyers, Many Insisting on Plain days, according to trade veterans, tulles, where another two years were Figures— Origin of Code Sys commercial spying vVus a high art, passed In patrols to Bathurst Inlet, tem Not Clearly Known. and more than one man Imd Ids palm Kent peninsula. All points on the crossed with silver for posing us a south nnd west sides of Victoria island to Victoria Land and Prince Albert •Now 1 »rk.-A .n on g the less notice- buyer nnd thus obtaining price data sound were made during that period. 1 ab,e und lm',or,a,,t changes that have o f the competitors of the merchant The final trip was taken front Coro- ! takon l>luoe ln ,he business world in who hired him. In those days any nation gulf via Bear lake to Fort Nor- ; the las‘ fow >oar8 1,1,8 •p'u the grad- thing approaching the open-price as man, down the river to Fort Mel’her- ! llul disappearance of codes in connec- sociations that had their being here son. then north to Horschel island, and u,’n " m ‘ Pr,ce tickets and the mark- during the war would have been back by the coast to Coronation gulf ln« ot tlie v* lues of ,he » “ -rchandlse looked upon as madness, for then, to once more, with another return trip | *n A’laln ®KUres‘ "h it® muny concerns all Intents nnd purposes, every mer via Horschel Island through Fort ! stil1 8tlck to Pr,c,n* thoir 11,108 in cod* ‘ chant regarded bis competitors as per McPherson up the Mackenzie river and ,he tra,Je loa,ler8 havo very largely sonal enemies. home by the summer steamboat. This abandoned the practice. Sum or con- One of the favorite codes used In latter trip was taken by dog sled, a I corns have followed suit to some ex the early days, it Is said, was the one distance of 1,100 miles being covered. lellb ^ut others have been loath to tmsoil on the old motto, ‘‘In God We The total patrols hy dog sled lust win- , P®* plnin figures on their goods. j Trust.” This had the advantage of ter ran around 2,500 miles. i A he change from code to figures ln j containing hut twelve letters, with no New headqunrters were made at marking prices, according to Infortnu- duplications In the first ten. Thus, Fort Epworth, the patrol, accompanied tlon coined in this market, has been j,y dropp|n>j (he final “ st,” something hv Staff Sergeant Clav. establishing *» some extent by the buyers, j was arrived at: this post. The party lived In snow There are man>' n‘t,,llor8 nml f,l‘oolal IN fiO D W E T11D huts for the greater pnrt of this time, buyers for the big stores who will not 12 9 4 5 « 7 8 9 0 nnd subsisted on the simple diet of patronize a concern which hides its With this arrangement worked out, the wilds eked out hy such rations ns prices behind a code. 1 he reason one the rest was easy. If a man were sell they were able to enrry on sleds. They such buyer guve recently for this Is ing broadcloth at $4.50 a yard, on bis built a wooden hut nt Fort Epworth. that the code does not mean the same price ticket would appear the more to all buyers when translated Into fig however, nnd enjoyed a mild taste of ures. In other words, he asserted that or less crytlc sign O I) U. Were he civilization. the use of a code Is merely a subter selling nn overcoat at $97.25, the mark Two Are Acquitted. on the ticket would be (1 E N I>. Some In 1919, two alleged Eskimo mur fuge by means o f which different buy times the code would be varied by derers were brought In by the const ers can he charged different prices for placing the figure 1 under the U and route hy Sergeant Conway. These two the same merchandise without their numbering in sequence to the left In knowing it. men. Knyugnnn nnd Kotnuk. had been stead of to the right. Thousands of Origin Not Clear. tried hy Inspector Phillips for the mur Just where aud hy whom the code codes nml variations of original ones der of nn Eskimo woman, whom both of them claimed as wife. They were. system of marking prices was orlgi- have since been devised. Frequently Abused. While there seems to he little doubt that the code system was adopted orig inally as a protective measure, it was not long before It began to lie used for j more ulterior purposes. What was | there, somebody evidently argued, to prevent the use of the code to fool I buyers as to the real price? In Its ! early days, nt least, w holesale busi ness was no more conducted on a | strictly one-price basis than was re- tuii sidling. Therefore, not only did n code price frequently menn dlffer- nt quotations to different buyers, £ ut It often meant the minimum flg- ! tire at which a yard of goods or a J garment could lie sold. The sales- • men were permitted to get anything ] they could above the figure Indicated • hy the code, and ns they were paid ; In comparison with what they sold, ¡they tried to get all the traffic would (•ear. That way of doing business pro I vailed in one of the Mgge«t wholesale house* In the country for years, it is said, and the gentle art o f buying there was rendered more difficult by the fact that practically every kind j of merchandise sold hy the concern had a different code. ■J Instances like those noted shove have been paralleled many time*, ac cording to the buyers heretofore men- i Honed. In late years, however, sales I men have had less leeway, If any at I all. In connection with fixing prices. > Because c f this the double-price sy* •• m to ■‘•rent b'iyen Is -wor . j more ln the salesrooms than on the road. Also, It Is asserted, the prac tice referred to Is now very largely 1 confined to the garment trades. In the hands of a smooth worker, u*ual- ngist o f the United States weather bureau, with ly a member of the firm or the so R. p. Ferguson, metes 1 to measure snow and hall as well as rain. The called general representative, the a gauge which he has desìi Instrument automatically tran- n es the report on a chart hy m. nr* o f a p e l* -o p tic rode letters can mean *97.50 This Is the first gauge to register solid precipitation without melting the snow j to one bujer and *97.25 to another, or hall. The old gauges required t#- continuous consumption of oil or To a really favore*! buyer It in gL/ for this purpose. PATROLLED CORONATION GULF M ark Prices in Plain Figures ABANDONED BY THE LEADEBS Measures Volume of Snow and Hail , The work of salvaging the grain that was blown up in the world's !urg< st grain elevator, In Chicago, owned by the Armour company, has just been finished. The work of cleaning out the elevator, which It bad been estimated would take nt least u year, was finished ln four months. Blowers were run out from two sides of the elevator, cue to the railroad tracks und one to the canal where the barges were loaded. Danube Is Open to All N ations Internationalization of Famous River Completed by Action of Interested Allied Powers. BARRIER AND BATTLEGROUND Danube Has Long Been Chain Upon Which Romance and History Have Vied With Each Other to Hang Interesting Traditions. Washington.— The completion of the Internationalization of the Danube hy the recent formal action of the Inter ested allied powers, announced In Paris dispatches. Is the occasion for the Issuance from the Washington headquarters of the National Geo- grnplilc society of the following bulle tin. descriptive of the famous river. “ From the Black forest to the Blnek sea, over a course 1,800 miles In length, the Danube has long been a chain upon which romance nnd history have vied with ench other to hang Interest ing traditions nnd i ccurrences. Geog raphy, too, has done Its share, nnd although the Volga exceeds its rlvnl In length, nnd nlthough the Bhlne In Thackeray nnd Hood lias had better press agents, the Danube Is large enough nnd beautiful enough to rank In Interest with the great rivers of the world. Less a Highway and More a Barrier. "There was n time when the Dan ube was symbolized by nn old-fash ioned waltz. But since the World war hegnn, nothing hut a hesitation typifies the plnce the river has held In the economic life of the countries through which It runs. It has been less n highway nnd more the barrier thnn In prewar days. Not yet does It serve to hind the various nntlons through which It passes Into a friend ly and co-operating group. It has been offlelnlly open to ships of all na tions since the forming o f the Danube commission In 1850 nnd the various states interested long ro-operated tu Improve the navigation facilities, es pecially Ln the lower reaches of the river; hut political conditions have done much to weaken the economic link which once hound I.lnz nnd Vi enna to the grenf grain shipping cen ter of Brnlln, to which ocenn going vessels can steam, nnd to the Black sen ports themselves. “ Charming villages, henutiful mead ows, picturesque hills crowned with ruined cnstlcs. princely pnlaces, ec- clcslnstlcnl piles and two of the world's most fascinating capitals are strung nlong the lengthy nnd winding river. Thriving Industries raise their s’ nokestncks beside the strenm whose legendary color Is blue hut whose true tint varies from n dirty green to n muddy yellow. More tragic than the encroachment o f factory smoke has been In late years the sad sight of countless chimneys from which the life-breath o f Industry seemed to have expired forever. Hohenzcllern Castle on Banks. "Near Its source at Donnuesehingen, the river passes between the cn«f!e which gnve It* nnm>* to the late ruling fnmlly In Germany nnd a war monu- t: -nt to the Ilohenzollern m-n who fell In the Franeo-I'russlnn war. Farther down It passes through the once proud capital o f Austria Hun gary, where the fine government build ings stand to the d-tqtnlririg Irihahl- tants as n mocking reminder o f better days, and beside the Prn'er. once a deer park nnd later a pleasure garden noted for Its Viennese gnyety. The Danube. "- -.’l farther alet g Its course Just a f’ er entering Czecho Slovakia, at Its Junction with the March, there la a towering cliff spired with a monu ment erected to celebrate 1.00« years o ' Hungarian f t ’ flonallty. This la Czecho-Slovak Ian territory now, and there last summer the Stars and Stripes were draped on the occasion of tbs visit of a large grouo of Czecho- Amerlcnns to the newly freed land of their fathers. "Bratislava, now Czecho slovakia's river port, was once the city In whose dignified cathedral the Hungarian king* were crowned. The hnnt sta tion there reveals the changes which history has wrought. Over the cen ter of the landing the present name Is given, but to the left one can see most of the letters of the German name Tresshurg’ and to the right there Is the Hungarian name Toszony.’ Budapest Not War.Torn. "Vienna, brooding In Its lovely parks, which lack the rare that was once lavished on them, nml contem plating with cynicism the motto ‘SI Vis Pa com, Para Bellutn,' whose gold en letters decorate the walls o f the ministry of war, is n sail sight. But Budapest, still militant, still haughty In the consciousness of Its beauty, seems to have been less troubled by the passage of war. “ Food Is the main reason. Hungnry. reduced ns It Is, still contains some of the best land In Europe. Vienna, Its Industry stopped, can do little to earn the fo o d It needs. During the summer of 1920 nil traffic between the two capitals was stopped by mutual boycotts nnd nlthough steamers plied the Danube from I.lnz to Budapest, no through passengers or freight were received. "T o the casual observer, Budapest Is the same proud city ns of old. The fine parliament building nnd the Im posing pnlaee on I lie heights across the H\er, where Admiral Horthy now rules, seem ns attractive ns before the war. The up|»er river Is still crowded with bathers and with canoes nr.d rowboats In which charming women nnd stalwart men do their best to attain a spacious coat of tan. Along Franz Josef qunl, the promenade adds n lively touch of color to the drub scenes to which (he beautiful blue Danube has become accustomed. Celtic Fortress Still Stands. "From Zemnn, onee the last Hun garian port on the Danube, a short trip between low hanks bring* one to Belgrade, the capital o f the new king dom of Serb*, Croats nnd Slovenes, where the steamer rounds the base of the ancient fortress which dales hack to the time o f the Celts, the Ho mans nnd the Franks, and comes to Its dock n little way up the Save, RANKS WITH DEMPSEY Big Feet No Help in Killing Rattlesnake James Klernnn, Tusten, N. V., nearly lost a battle with a four- foot rattlesnake because his feet were too big. Klernnn got both feet ou the rattler, hut was un able to club It to ilenth ns he could not lilt the snake without bruising his own toes. Hu was nearly tired out before he iniin- uged to get ln u blow which stunned the stiukc so that he could get off and finish the Job. 4 4 4 4 4 » » 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 • + which here enters the Danube from the south. "About four hour* sail below Bel grade the wide plains give way to hilly country where the Transylvanian Alps curve down toward the Jum ble of mountains which extend to Montenegro and Greece. It Is In this region that the main obstructions of the river occur. But the most fa- ■nous obstruction* nnd the finest scenery come at the Knznn Dnfiln and the ‘ Iron Gatos,‘ where the river has collected a gruesome toll. "A t Itustchuk, the railway traveler from Koumnnla ferries nrroas a broad nml 8lugglt.li stream to continue Ills Journey to Sofia and Constantinople; nnd here the hanks of the Danube tiro lined with hnge bnrges, many of which are still idle. Below Slllstrln, the river curves to the north nnd passes through Roumanian territory throughout the rest o f Its length. At Cernn Vodn, It Is crossed hy one of the longest railway bridges In tho world, the Inst o f the many bridge* which cross the stream, some of which are now destroyed ns a result o f the war and post-armistice fight- Ing. "Brnlln, 125 miles from the three mnln mouths of the Danube, Is a port for tlie grain nnd produce of n rich agricultural region. In prewar days Its wharves teemed with life nml Its huge grain elevator* bulged with the rich products of Wnllachln nnd Do- brudja, which hns seen great develop ment since the Russian* gnve It to Uoiininnln Instead of the more valu able nnd fertile tract* of Bcssnrntdn. From Gnlntz to the sen the Danube has already been under the control of nn International commission whoso duty hns been to turns the river and the ninny nntlonnlltlos to whom the river Is highway or barrier, according to the tides of human passion and na tional life." TO SAVE $1-000-000 ON AUTOS Mexican Govsrnment to Refute Furnish Oil and Tirea to Employeeo. to Mexico City.— The Mexican govern ment, hy refusing free gasoline, tires, repairs and garage service to Its em ployees who use government atitomo. Idle*, hope* to effect n saving of more thnn $l,t*>0.i«*> annually. Sev eral more hundred* of thou*nnd* will I»« saved to the government when nrmy officers are forced to purchase tlietr own gala uniforms, and there will he a still greater saving when nil f- leral etbployi d im in g mor- thnn five peso* ($2.50) dally suffer a wage reduction of 10 per cent. The«e economies which. It I* under stood, will be made effective shortly, are In line with a program of rigid thrift Inaugurated by presidential de cree. Too Many Women in Europe. Berlin.— Unless recently advocated plan* of a Bulgarian aolon nnd a Col orado farmer result In law* permit ting farmers and others to have more than one w ife are accepted In Ger many. from 30 to 40 per cent of the German women are doomed never to have husband*, according to statis tics gathered by Albln Michel, a Ger 11-re I* “ Bowie," who ranks about man expert, who declare* that Eu as high in the rock-fighting world a* rope's surplus women hate Increased Itetnp'cy d«*-s In the prize ring or until they exceed men hy 15 (**),<»»). - - ...................... - * Jock Hutchinson In golf. "Bowie," New Model Needed now the |>ro|*-rty of l»sn Baldwin of Walnut Spring*. Tel., ha* won *9.400 The real objection to a butter-knife In purses alone In nine battles In ths Is that It Isn’t sharp enough In winter fastest cockpits of the United States and Isn’t enough like a spoon la and Mexico. summer.—Utica Morning Telegram.
