The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1898-01-28


John u. Ferguson, the Arctic explorer
/. nov employed a, the Summit Marble
Works.
MIR. Leroy Holt was q little better
at Las reports.
The poNoHicr Department ia doing
good work inwi,hhollms or reiu'ur 'o'
pay money orders to person. engaged
In Illegal business Il. soon As tbc same
isdiscoycrcd. We know Of an instance
OF rcceutJalc where rc,ideu, 81 ,Io,ll-
willie answered au advertisement ,n "a
cheap trash paper wherein whole lo'
of things was offered alta iHninr cost.
\ money order was zen, to the drm in
NcN Yors, and payment va. rrin'c'L
limoncy had been sent IL would have
born total los. 10 ihescndcr. notice
under recent ruling that the department
b. prohibiting the ne OF tue mails io
publishers OF guess word pu1zicr-mcrc
lottery schemc..
The one ycai.old.rhildoi NJ. and Mrs.
j. n. l,ob-on Jied SUNDAY aightofhem
trouble. Funeral services over the re-
mains we're held Wednesday and were
largely attended.
Mis. Jeanette Ryan was called by
telephone To Kimbalrs ilaush wciac'
day.
Frank Mills was doan iiom Evanston
the toe part OF the week.
MIR. aud Mrs. Edwin crit,enden lcit
Tor fcw days. stay at Evanston salur-
day to receive medical treatment.
Al rur NORTH roLg.
have just returned from thc Arctic
region, ~ deg. below zero. At least !
imagined was one Of the cNplorcr ai-
ter listening two or three evenings 20
Mr.. John Ferguson, an Arctic cSplo7l,
whom have recently beconb enioNn'
ed with.
This North Pole man Las ,pvnt cigh'
y,at- srGaunF ~ ~ rpsi5a1 o,ssar
les county, whore irom Dccep,ucr 2otN
To ,hc 29th Of this month it IL ncco.-af'
to have light continuously, ~ this D.
their longest night, This ai poir
about ~ dcgs. north latitude.
MI. Ferguson was member Of ,a'
English expedition that went la soircl
Of Orecly in 1854 Tni- searching pari,
found the Greedy party on the hcmch h
lunc, so dcg.. north, where fourteen o.
ihe number lay dead and seven in
helpless condition from starvation, an,
20 weak that only one OF their numDe
could make u rign by lifting hir hand
They ronll not have possibly sur,iyc,
another week without succor.
The living were well cared lor au'
snicly boarded, bu, two of them dir'
ipn, oyrrioy, and one morc d,,d loa
the same cause on sighting New York
This leil only four Of the nhcr &c
land. Mr. freely. their skipprr bcin.
one Of them, who Is now AZ Wnshinsiou
NJ Ferguson has been as lar north 20
any living man. excepting De- Monhcu
who r. now In Montreal, Canada Dec
turing The point attained was 81 deg
north In open water, In August. Me-
Ferguson buried his father at Prime
oe po,v. 80 deg. north latitude, jan
rs. 1880. This man hal spent The las
twenty-seyen years Of his lie Ia ~
Arctic regions, Itis imposslble 10 dis
grave there, as the country IL q solll
bod Of rock. covered with abou, Nj
inehes Of moss. Through this moss lh
grave was dug. then walled ~ viii
lso.e stones aud the body covered owe
with like msterial.
The Ferguson family we're the ihir
searching party that was sont out b,
the English government in 1870 In searcI
Of Sir John Frankln's party, that lei
I ia 1885 with siviy men, They iounl
their skeletons mud b. another plac
canned soups, meats, rum. and rellel
uo'tlcs containing letters Some O
thcse relies Nj Frrguson sent out toih.
Salt Lake Museum, and proved 10 D.
go gooa when opened, 4uy,ar- n,cg, g.
like food irrsh'y packed
oar North Pole man oxpeois to ioir
Mt Peary, the u. s. explorer, mex
Iuly. lmt July 49, pery TOOK u
three shIploada Of provisions to Tie sup
ply house at Smiths Sound, 50 deg.