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Show 4 ' , '; kr W" , -- 'l .v. -: . v ; , - 7 ' V 1 . -- . - -- J v V;i'"V ; 1 1 i ,: -- , -- ' J 4 e ' v - L r3 f - f ' " " ' ' t r 1 i , V ! - - , . -- t :rr r .' 'W , mj . C "i 1 . . " , i a 1 -- - ,"P - v.r , t. y .' . vt - ;- 7- - - , '? H t ' - :i -- 4 I .' vt a y , i; rV VOL. XIV. RANDOLPH, RICH COUNTY, UTAH SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1909. NO. 19.' r HOW PEARY FOUND NORTH POLE Intrepid Explorer Tells About His Successful Dash to the Apex of the World. ried him so far to the east that he had to make his landing on the coast of North Greenland, many days' march from the Roosevelt, his base of supplies. , he tried On his expedition of 1905-0hard to force the Roosevelt a good distance to the west of Cape Sheridan, but the ice baffled him. For one reason or another on the edge of the arctic winter last year he did not or could not take his vessel along the northern coast of Grant Land, and so it spent last winter not so far from its old berth in the Ice in the winter of NOTICK TO PUBLISHERS. Tb following preliminary account by Commander Peary of tils successful voyage to the north pole was issued on September 8 by - the New York limes company at the request of Commander Peary and for his protection, as a hook only, copyrighted ana exposed for sale before any part of It was reproduced by any newspaper in the United States or Europe, in order to obtain the full protection of the copyright laws. The reproduction of this account, in any form, without permission, is forbidden. The penalties for violation of this form of copyright Include Imprisonment for any person aiding or abetting such violation. Copyright. 1909, by the New York Times Company. - 6 1905-6- . Sledge Party Starts in DarO Report on the discovery of the north pole by Robert E. Peary, commander U. 6. N., copyright, 1909, by Charles R. Miller, as of the New Yerk Times Company. Battle Harbor, Labrador, via Wireless, CapL Ray, N. F. As It may be Impossible to get my full story through In time for tomorrows paper, partly as a prelude which may stimulate interest and partly to forestall possible leaks, I am sending you a brief summary of my voyage to the north pole, which Is to be printed exactly as writ- ten. - Summary of north polar expedition of the Peary Arctic club: The steam er Roosevelt left New York July 6, 1908; left Sydney on July 17; arrived at Cape York, Greenland, August 1; left Etah, Greenland, August 8; arrived Cape Sheridan at Grant Land, September 1, wintered at Cape Sher- Leave on Sledges Feb. 14. left the The sledge expedition Roosevelt Feb. IS, 1909, and started for the north. Arrived at Cape Colum- bit on March 1; passed British Record, March 2; delay by open water, --iLWTarcJi 1 d 2; hell vp by Jthe 'jhty-- ' t E ;lier, March 4 tp - fourth parallel, March'll-- ; "erfeoratered open lead, March 15; crossed eighty-fift18; crossed parallel March enMarch 23; eighty-sixtparallel countered open lead, March 23; passed Norwegian Record, March 23; passed Italian Record, March 24; encountered open lead, March eighty-sevent- h paralcrossed 26; American March 27; passed lel, Record, March 28; encountered open lead, March 28; held up by open water, March 29; crossed eighty-eight- h parallel, April 3; crossed eighty-nintparallel, April 4; north pole, April 6. Returns in Twepty Days. All returning left north pole April 7, reached Cape Columbia April 23, arriving on board Roosevelt April 27. The Roosevelt left Cape Sheridan July 18; passed Cape Sabine August 8; left Cape York August 26; arrived at Indian Harbor with all members of expedition returning in good health except Prof. Ross G. Marvin, drowned 'April 10, when 45 miles north of Cape Columbia, returning from 86 degrees north latitude in command of the suph v h E SCIENTIST EXPLAINS MESSAGE BY CYRUS C. ADAMS. (Member of American Geographical Society.) (Copyright 1909, by New York Times.) New York (Special.) The foregoing dispatch, though condensed, tells clearly the leading facts in the story, not only of Peary's journey to the north pole, but also of a remarkably fast sledge trip over the ice of the open polar seas. The dispatch says that the Rooseat velt passed the winter of of on coast Grant the Sheridan, Cape Land. The vessel had threaded the comparatively narrow channels, several hundred miles in length, leading from Cape Sabine to the Arctic ocean. This journey Is apt to be difficult and sometimes Impossible, but the conditions were evidently favorable. The ship that disappeared in' the fog while the crew of Pearys auxiliary steamer Erik were watching its departure from Etah made a good passage through the long channels, and arrived safely on the shores of the sea where the explorer was to start on his sledges for the north pole. Too Far To Eastward. But at Cape Sheridan Peary was not as far west as he probably had hoped 'to be. He had announced his intention, in the previous year, of making his sledge route to the polo along some meridlen much further to the west of his route in 1906, when he made the highest north attained up to that time 87 d 6 m. On that occasion he was greatly impeded bv the rapid drift of the ice to the east which a little retarded his progress north, and worse still, car- 1908-190- INTER-MOUNTAI- all-nig- s A e 9 2 . t f ,.n ' Har-rima- PEARY. SPRINGS SENSATIONAL IS Til-lots- The sledge expediton left the Roosevelt on February 15, while it was still practically dark m that latitude. The sun scarcely begins to peer above the hills for a few minutes a day, even several hundred miles to the south of the coast where the Roosevelt was wintering. It comes into view a little later in that more northern latitude, and the party made slow time to the west as It felt its way along. The northern Grant Land coast is likely to be exceedingly difficult to traverse, especially in the early spring on account of the masses of sea ice that have been pressed on the shore or broken into great blocks and stranded along the sea edge. Slowness of Trip Expected. It is no wonder that it took the party 15 days to travel westward as far as Cape Columba. It Is likely, however, that Commander Peary succeeded, before winter set in, in cacheing supplies to the westward so as to accelerate a lttle the westward move mtnt of ibe sled re p.try before It struck out northward over the sea. Arriving at Cape Columbia on March 15 the sledges turned to the north on the sea ice. The explorer had tor the ?wets.''f,i, H'j, laid much stress Coon the fact that he John F. Stevens, the engineer further to the Intended to travel-inucwest than on biqffrtp in 1906. His dl- eouhtruciionThas been - chotfeq take to the sea Aliy further to the west dent of the Oregon Trunk line, a Hill than he did on nis earlier trip. If. road to be built from the Columbia therefore, his route was really much river to Central Oregon and to San further west than' that which hi had Francisco. traversed earlier, he must have travW. Rufus Ireland, George Dally, eled a considerable distance to the Wilberfore Sully and Frank T. Wells northwest over the sea ice. Commander Peary says nothing in have been arrested in New York City his report of being detained by pres- by United States Marshal Henkel, sure ridges or hummocks, andsdt is charged with conspiracy in defraudcertain that he met with no impedi- ing the government out of 1,760 ment of this sort such as made his at- acres of coal lands in Lander, Wyo. tempt to reach the pole in 1902 a conDOMESTIC. tinuous and terrible struggle. Edward H. Harrlman, the railroad Evades Open Water Lanes. A great obstacle and the one that king, died at his two million dollar undoubtedly prevented him from home at Arden, N. Y., on Thursday, n reaching the pole in 1906 was the wide September 9, from cancer. Mr. water lanes or leads of water, some was born at Hempstead, L. L, of them so long that he could not get February 25, 1848, the son or a recaround them. One of them kept his tor, and started life without a dollar, party Idle in camp for a week, and working hard for the little education the total delay from this cause was he received. He made his debut as a fatal to his plans. Conditions were different last spring, railroad man in 1883. though he was held up by leads on Funning at a h'gh speed, seven Ibe northern march abotu two weeks miles east of El Paso, Texas, an autoHe seems to have derived two great mobile came into collision with a advantages from his early start. In wagon. Five of the autothe first place it would not be untl, mobile were occupantsthree of them Injured, season In the much later the that water lanes would develop so far as to fatally. Wall Street's response to E. H. threaten him with defeat, and then his Harrimans death was a buoyantly more time him all the start gave early to carry out his work before the wide strong market, in which securites spread 1 reakup of the sea Ice would made strong gains. n alee sledging impossible on the polai Two beliefs concerning the death ocean. of Edward H. Harriman have been acGood Recrods Show Speed. cepted as facts. First, that his Pearys summary seems to show that railroad organization will not begreat dishe was a little over thirty-fiv- e days on the journey from the land to the turbed; second, that he was a victim north pole. In this time lie was delay of cancer. The Tennessee, Admrial Sebrees ed about fourteen days by water leads, leaving a little more than three weeks flagship, has broken all records from for the actual sledging work. San Francisco to Honolulu, making We may get a good Idea of the av- the trip In four days and seventeen erage rate of travel by taking the first hours. eea and the north pole records. He President Barber of the Diamond passed the British Record on March 2, and reached the pole on April 6. Match company, intimates in aa inThe distance between them is 460 stat- terview that now is a good time to ute miles, and the time in making inaugurate a merger of all the railthe journey was 34 days Including the roads under government control. time of detention by water leads. This Railroads of the Un'ted States paid is ah average of little less than twelve miles a day, which is the best record approximately $56,700,000 for "loss ever attained for long route sledging and damage and injuries to persons during the year ending June on the open polar sea. 30, 1908, according to a renort made Records of Other Men. The Italian, Cagni, of the duke of the public by the bureau of railway news Abruzzi expedition, who made the high- ard statistics. This Is an increase of est record till Peary beat it in 1906 $6 441,000 cr-- r tin picced-ir- ! ye.n made an average of only about seven Three of the eleven children of miles a day on his great Journey, and Robert A. Walbh were burned to in ten days on account of deep snow, death In a fire which hi3 destroyed miles to the they covered only 43 . Hear lak', north of their ship. Cagni expressed summer cottage at Wh-Minnesota Other members of ria the wish before he started that he might make ten miles a day, but said family were severely injured in the blaze, which followed an explosion of he knew this was impossible. Pparv has not only reached the pole, a gaoline stove. but he has attained it at an earlier date By a decision of the postoffice dein the year than any of the other high mail carriers need not atrecords in the Arctic have been made. partment, to mail at residences deliver tempt was He at the pole one day earlier than Nansen reached 86 degrees, five min where vicious dogs are kept. Jacob H. Schiff and Judge R. S. utes, 19 days earl.er than Cangi reached 86 degrees, 34 minutes, and 37 Lovett will divide between them the days earlier than Lockwood and running of the complex organization Brainard reached 83 degrees, 24 min- - of railways built up by Mr. Harriman. ut Jack Johnson, the worlds heavyThis Is significant of the surpassing champion, was accredited with weight achievement in sledge work that Peary a decision over Al Kaut-ma"newspaper" has accomplished, because all such en end of ten rounds of fightat the deavor is necessarily limited on one arena In San at Coffroth the ing as as sea con are far Journeys side, FraD cisco. time of the sunrise. oenaed, by h h ROBERT P ne-gre- ss idan. porting party. The coa?t and geodetic survey will undertake to arbitrate the Peary-Coo- k north pole controversy, providing Dr. Cook requests that it should ' do so. , CONDENSED Mrs, Stella Barclay, Frank H. and J. N. Gentry, arraigned before Judge Simon in the city court at Topeka, Kans., on the charge of RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT kidnaping Marian Bleakley, the incuto the EVENT8 TOLD IN BRIEFEST ; bator baby, were bound over s. district court MANNER POSSIBLE. - Commander Robert E.'- - Peary baa sent a series of messages to hla backers, friends and relatives, deHlatiev claring . that he has discovered the Happenings That Are Making Information Gathered from Ali- -f North po.e, and ia en hla way home. He claims to have reached the pole Quarters of the Globa and on April 6. 1909, almost a year after Given In a Faw Lines. Dr. Frederick A. Cook alleges that he planted the stars and stripea at the northermost point of the world. If The drug ' store, the cut Lan Shang and Lang Tong, two San rate dru& store and the suggestive Francisco Chinamen, who have been post card will be done away with if under arrest since the murder of Bow the National "Association of Retail Kum, a Chinese girl,, who was killed Druggists, in 'convention in'1 Louisville, Dn August 15, have been indicted ' 7 Ky., can effect It. 4 ; of murder in the first degree. George "Gould contemplates a westelecThe local optionlsts lost in the ern trip within the next thirty days, tion In Ada county, Idaho, the city of wnen he will drive the golden spike Boi3e casting a heavy majority for which win mak the completion of the iho "wets." great Western Pacific railroad - beTwc men were killed, three injured tween Salt Lake and Sea Francisco. and two engines and a box car weje The Good Citizenship League of colwrecked as a result of a head-o- n Alt&ntic City, N. J? has begun & cruslision of a passenger train and switch ade against liquor dealers for violat' V engine at Missoula, Mont. ing the Sunday, closing law. i One man was killed, five seriously Washington.;- hurt and thirty-nin- e passengers moe ' ,ThP seTenteen Japanese poacher or leas Injured when two Salt Lake-Routtaken prisoners in Alaskan trains collided near Boulten, fcfi recently waters trill be tried at Valdez on Ocmiles west of Salt Lake, on 8e tober 4, according to a. dispatch tq ' 4 tember 9. the revenue cutter Service office re John Clayborn, the negro portej eeived In Washington. arrested at Missoula, Mont., on suspfv Good progress il being made on cion of killing Pearl Anderson, a the Panama canal and four sections of the restricted district, hat of H have been finished," said Colonel confessed his guilt of the murderE t& Goethals, chief engineer in charge of the sheriffs officers. Jealousy is gl the construction of the canal, upon en as the cause. his arrival In Washington from the The advocates of local option isthmus. ' their fight In Ada county, Idaho, lh4.; Lieutenant General Henry C. Cor vote iu the city of Boise being heav: F S. A., retired, died in a boe- enough to make possible a ,1 la New York City, September 8, HEWS OF A WEEK III n operation for a renal dlsor-tir- J Corbin qrouW, have .bee bartig his western ' trip President Taft will take the people into his confidence regarding the recent tariff fight iu congress, according to a statement made at Beverly, Mass. He will Irankly tell of the troubles that beset him in dealing with the tariff situation. The resignation of Governor Post of Porto Rico has reached the bureau of Insular affairs ana was forwarded to the president. General II, C. Corbin died in a hospital in Washington on September 8, following an operation. General Corbin had been sick for the past two ' years. Thomas Sammons, American consul general to Korea, was the guest of honor at a banuet given by Prince Ito just prior to his sailing from Toklo. Eighty-fou- r sail and steam vessels, with a total gross tonnage of 1,361, were built within the boundaries of the United States and officially numbered during August, according to a report by the bureau of navigation of the department of commerce and labor. i FOREIGN. Dr, Frederick A. Cook, discoverer of the north pole, sailed from Copenhagen on September 10 for New York City, expecting to arrive home September 21. Orville Wright, flying ove" the Tempiehof parade grounds at Berlin, traveled at the estimated speed of forty miles an hour and remained in minutes. the air 62 The first drawing of the national lottery was held In Havana, Cuba, A - dense crowd September 10. thronged the building all day. Hundreds of negro runners were employed to carry the prize numbers to the various newspapers and the lottery offices In all parts of the city. The official statistics of Berlin for the second quarter of 1909 show that 1,051 dogs have been slaughtered for food, under government inspection, and 9,875 horses. E. Lefebvre, the French aviator, was killed from a fall from his aeroplane, with which he was practicing, over the aviation field in France. M sustained mortal injuries Lefebvre when the machine crashed to the ground. to Viscount Lascelles, Earl Grey, governor general of Can ada, who shot a mountain goal and deer out of season during the governor general's visit to northern British Columbia, has been fined $275 by the British Columbia game wardens A number of Americans who have been marooned in the Hood districts of Mexico have arrived at Mexico City and report a terrible toll of death and suffering as a result of the unexpected high waters. El Roghl, the rebellious subject of the sultan of Morocco, who was recently carried into Fez a prisoner in an iron cage, is ill and the sultan has given orders that he be no longer exposed to the public gaze. aide-de-cam- p STEAMER ROOSEVELT DAMAGED BY ICE AND HOMEWARD JOUR-- NEY WILL BE 3 LOW. STORY Friend of Explorer Cook Accuses Peary of Taking Possession of His Rivals Arctic Retreat. a Copenhagen. The PollUken puV ? ' llshes a remarkable letter giving Dr. Member of Expedition All Well Bui Frederick A. Cooks version of the " Look Thin end Tired, Peery Estromble with Commander Peary over supplies. The letter was Ywritten by 4 pecially Showing the Effects Dr. Norman Hansen, "i prominent , of the Terrible Journey Danish ' physician, who several times,' Northward." , visited .Greenland to "Tftufl),nyB'7dliik'1" , -- ' eases.. . .f; t ? f ,7 W ' Dr. Cook told practically the same St, John, N. F. The Roosevelt, story to one of his closest American Commander Pearys steamer, was bad- friends Just a week ago, before ly damaged by ice In the north, and tnander Pearry reappeared "on the, may not get to North Sydney before scene, but said he did not intend to . This is the news make it public because it- - might lead . September 25. -J brought by v Captain Nellson of the to unpleasantness, 3. fishing steamer Taff, which has ar- . Dr. Hansen was with Diy Cook . for rived here from Battle Harbor, Lab- some time in Greenland and' returned rador. The Roosevelt struck a rock with him on the Danish steamer aaf "while entering Battle , . Harbor, and' Eteede. had" Dr. Cook that k"Now was fast for six hours, but not serf. writes, "I am no longer Under kichlii '4 's-iously damaged. The Taff was in Battle HartW gations to keep silenL'And tqr when the Roosevelt arrived from ' In- oise my right ttf pubJUfc dian Harbor. The Roosevelt ' put in about the house In AnnatOski Cook to take, on a supply of coal and also which $r. , to relate 4X0 '.the worlds delicacy-to give Commander' Peary an opporwrite it front memory, ,as Dr. Cook his to details send of northfar tunity told , it to me, and, I am fully ern trip tp ,the United States , ' 1 While" the Bobeevelt was Vatraadedf lection t wrongly Captain tellsetf went aboard to of"Dr. Cook baOWlt hi fer his assistance and was thanked stores in Antdtook, north C by Commander Peary and Captain and it was thfrf depot wLlch he Bartlett, .who decided that t they to reach in February.' 1909;, 5 would be able to work the steamer Smith sound, 'tt 'araa free at high water. Car tain Neilaen house, .tbo, walls jbeipx httt c says that Commander Peary and Cap- filled provlslcn hhixss f ' tain Bartlett showed him over the knew that wbea7 Mr-W' t ' ship and told him that the polo had re Shed ov been preached. ' When Captain Neil had,-hrthe ,t, ( sen asked Peary If he waa certain he siofl to ymej friend aa had found the pole the commander de- tier to use the tatttufwfcT r .. ? v clared:- "I got 'there; you may rest musk oxen for zport , - , - f, ; assured of that" .J , ' "Whs Dr. Cook sind his two Dskl When the commander of the Taff asked Peary what he thought of Dr, mo. xhat .t Dual ktJ-- r - - , 1 - -- ,' f himseitqdmr -- r 1 t ? 1 - "Ji5 K pr a, , , - Cook scarcely bid him welcome, but insfde the house was a stranger, a giant New1 foundland boatswain, on watch. This man had been placed in Dr. Cooks house by Peary, when the latter passed Etah with bis ship bound north. Peary had given the boatswain a written order, which commenced with the following words: " This house belongB to Dr. Frederick A. Cook, but Dr. Cook is long ago dead and there Is no use to search! after him. Therefore, I, Commander Robert E. Peary, install my boatswain1 in this deserted house. This paper, the boatswain, who could neither read nor write, exhibited to Dr. Cook and the latter took & copy. "This copy, however, he does not intend to publish if Pearys course does' not force him to do so. Dr. Cook gave me a lively account of how the young millionaire Whitney during the whole winter was treated like a dog by the boatswain and botf" h? aJ witnessed the sailor bartering Dr. Cooka pro3 visions for fox and bear skins for himself. l)r. CooV also had to put a good face on the unpleasant situation. He had to beg to get into his own house and had to make a compromise with 1 the boatswain. Dr. Cook made a present of the house with all its contents to his two faithful Eskimos, with the provision that Whitney was to have the use of the house as long as his hunting trip lasted, but he was compelled to let the boatswain continue his watch. The boatswain, however, received strict orders not to exchange any more of the provisions or guns. To Mr. Whitney Dr. Cook gave his Instructions and his observations, as he thought "these precious things were safer there than on the long sledge trip in the spring, across Melville bay, but ail h's notebooks and soiled record books, which have been so closely written upon, he kept and carried with him To me, who understand only very little astronomy, the record written down so closely and In all directions were very hard to read, but what is the record to us? The two meni Pearv and Cook, there character, their conduct, that is what Interests U3, and every little item throwing a sidelight upon their natures is valuable." f Y v TZ went out of sight of to ' land. Nellsen said that the .Roosevelt was badly battered and that her hull showed the bruises made by Jagged pieces of ice. He was informed that it was the intention of Peary and Bartlett to run the Roosevelt to harbor, where she would remain for ten or twelve days, so that the men would not be hampered in their work by stormy weather, and that the expedition expected to reach Sydney about September 25. The crew of the Roosevelt are all well, hut look thin and tired and according to Captain Nellsen the most worn looking member of the expedition is Commander Peary himself. Neslien was Informed that the Peary party underwent severe hardships in the final stages of the dash to the encountered The expedition pole. blizzards and according to Captain Nellsen wag obliged to kill dogs for As-Bi- food. Professor Marvin was drowned and tin Eskimo was lost The party Journeyed over 600 miles on sledges over fair ice conditions, although at one time Ica y and several of his men had a narrow escape from being carof an ice floe. ried away by a break-uThe Roosevelt was moored In latitude 82 30 during the winter. The rigging of the Roosevelt presented a curious sight. About forty musk ox heads and heads of reindeer were suspended to yard arms. There are twelve dogs, the last of nearly 200 taken poleward. When the ship reached Battle Harbor her bunkers held only five tons At that place she took on of coal. board sixty tons. The crew and exatc plorers are dressed in to hear anxious tire. All were very news of the outside world. p semi-Arcti- PEARY MAKES REPORT. Department Officially Advises Navy and Secretary cf 8tate of His Success. Pearys Washington. Commander first official notification to the navy department direct ot his return and of his discovery of the north pole came to the department Saturday morning, September 11, In the following dibpatch sent by him from Battle Harbor . report my return; "Respectfully hoisted navy ensign on North pole PEARY. April 6th. The following message has been received at the state department from Commander Peary: Battle Harbor, Sept. 10, 1909. "Hon. Secretary of State, Washington, D. C.: Respectfully report hoisted Stars and Stripes on North pole Aiprfl 6th and formally took possession of that entire region and adjacent for and in name of the president of the Record United States of America. and United States flag left In possesPEARY. sion. I r ' i ,r J NEW TARIFF COMMISSION. President Appoints Three Members of Board. Beverly, Mass. President Taft on Saturday appointed the new tariff oomm'ssion, or board, which is to assist in the execution of the new tariff law with especial reference to applying the maximum and luin'mum clauses to nations which are unfriendly in their tariff relations with the United States. The new board consists of three members Professor Henry C. Emery of Yale, chairman; James B. Reynolds of Massachusetts, now assistant secretary of the treasury, and Alvin H. adders of Chicago, at present editor and yroiprietor of the Breeders Gae xette. r |
