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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-01-17

Vice President Lewis made his an
nual report following, President Mitch
ell. He gave brief account Of his work
during the year. and N summing up
said:
During the E>ar there has been kept
in the field. a large force Of organizers
III addition to the national board mem
bers. On account of general strikes in
some districts and many local troubles
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Had Been Lying in Yale Medical
Cold Storage Room for
Two Months.

New Haven, Conn.--Mrs. George Klea,
of New York, took her husbands body
back to that city, after rescuing it from
the cold storage room of the Yale med
ical school. Mrs. Klea made sorrowful
tour of the undertaking shops of the
town, looking for the body of her hus-
band, whose death two months ago she
had only learned Of. On learning that
the body had been sent to the medical
school, she hurried thence, to find the
body embalmed ready for dissection.
She secured permit to remove it to New
York.
Klea was a shoemaker here, and, be-
ing i'll last June, was taken to the Spring
side home, where he stayed until his
death early in October. The officials
there for the first time learned of his
wife, whose address was found in his
pocket. Efforts were made to locate
her by letter and telegram, but, receiv-
ing no reply, the officials finally turned
the body over to the medical school, &C
cording to the law of this state.
In speaking of the matter Prof. Fer
ris. of the anatomical department of the
medical school, said:
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ropeans and Americans are absolutely
forbidden to enter Greenland. This
treaty was enforced by Denmark on
behalf of her royal trade, a govern
ment department, which is trying TO
save and ciVilize the native tribes OF
the country. BY this means alone can
the Eskimo people be shielded from
disease, from alcohol and from inter
ference with the hunting, on which
they depend for existence.
These being the little difficulties, l
was fortunate in getting permission
the second granted to an English
speaking man since 1735-to Visit
Greenland in one of the Royal ships.
At Copenhagen | was stripped and ex-
amined by doctor to make sure that
I carried no contagious disease to the
Greenlanders; very wise precautlon
enforced upon the whole ships COM
,1Sny. So we sailed from Elsinare on
May II last, in the little barque Thor
valdsen, and just month later sight
ed the Greenland coast.
The coast of Norway, best seen in
mid-winter, and certainly the grandest
in the old world, is tame compared
with the seaboard of British Columbia
and southeast Alaska. / would not
disparage that coeSt, and yet 1t is not
so beautiful as the west coast Of Green
land. The sunny arctic day which lasts
for months, sky all flaming glory
the fretted spires of the Alps fianked
with stupendous cliffs, and based on the
restful levels of the sea, cities OF croWd-
ed bergs, compound Of dazzling light
and radiant color-such scenery as that
blots out ones former memories. The
ship went drifting on, and slowly 8OO
miles of heaven unrolled before us it's
infinitely varied and wondrous lowell
ness.
Our first port of call was Jakobshavn,
at the head Of Disco strait, biggest OF
tie northern villages, metropolis OF
nine white people and 400 natives. Be
side pocket harbor, perched on round
shoulders of the naked granite, are the
buildings, all tarred black, Of the roy
al trade; and for background to the
dismal scene rise higher rocks, Uttered
with garbage, and turf huts, the homes
of the natives. At heart the place is
gay, for our sailors went ashore every
night to dance with the Eskimo girls,
while the officers of ship and colony
snapped dinner parties, breakfasts and
luncheons, all through a nine days fes-
tival. The place might have been a
Hudson's bay post uglifed, but the
Danish traders are much more civilized
than the British.
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THE MOST NoRTHERLY HOUSE ON EARTH

ice, but even to reach the edge Is
difficult journey. At Jakobshavn per
suaded a sailor to come with me, char
tered a skin boat with a native crew,
and set off at three o'clock one sunny
morning. Our way led southwark, past
the mouth of Jakobshavn ford, where
a shoal about the size Of London is
covered with damned and stranded
bergs. Some of the spires are said to
be 600 feet high; the overhanging coast
of ice was certainly more than 200, and
for further particulars see the account
of the Heavenly City in the Book of
Revelation. Beyond it we had to car
ry the boat over two ranges of hills,
then travelled one days march along a
-fjord, and finally the sailor and l. with
a guide, set off afoot upon four-mile
walk The land was hilly, Of broken
rock with a layer Of moss on top, so
arranged that one sinks through the
moss into unseen holes full OF pain.
The land is not nice for cripples, and
yet there were compensations, for |
found native silver and precious
stone called divine, besides many love-
ly flowers, including the bluebells of
Scotland. There were also mosquitoes
in great plenty. Five hours Of climbing
brought us TO the top Of Damned
mountain (Krakrapatak), and after l
had dutifully photogra pied my com
panions we sat down to fight the
Mosquitoes and try to enjoy the
view.
After leaving Jakobshayn, the Thor
valdsen called at an outpost northward
of Disco island, where we picked up
the governor of north Greenland and
some officers of the staff, taking them
on to Upernavik, the most northerly
settlement From thence the governor
went by boat on cruise Of some hum
dreds of miles through the archipelago,
inspecting outposts, and he was kind
enough to take me as his guest. Even
in skin clothes and heavy winter furs
we suffered some discomfort from the
cold, as, travelling night and day and
spreading our sleeping bags in the boat
for rest, we threaded amazing channels
choked with bergs. So we came at last
to Tassiusak, the most northerly house
on earth. The photograph shows It's
tenant, Nielsen, the Dane in charge,
under whose guidance we ventureo an
other 16 miles into the wilderness.
There Is the camp OF the native agent,
the last in Danish Greenland, situated
near the "a degree parallel, and the
name of the place is too long to crowd
into this record.
ROGER POCOCK
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Men and women alike were linguists,
well read, accomplished. little 100
polite for comfort. living metropolis
tan life on one batch of letters year
in an Arctic outpost. Expecting the
pathos of Punishment, found the gay
ETY. of perfect content. The Danes of
all the settlements were alike in So
cial charm, gentle and polished arrant
gossips, too; and the indoor life had
little to remind one of theoutdoorwil
erness. The Inruit servant maids wore
the furry breaches, boots to the hip,
and curious toplInot of their national
dress-One had to fall promiscuously
in love with all of them. The Danish
men also wore native dress, with only
one distinction-that they washedl
The food, apart from Danish groceries,
shellfish, ptarmigan, sea birds and
their eggs, which as served in Green
land are always pronounced in flavor,
like the political egg used at elections.
There was also at one port dish
called mattak (the skin of the white
whale), q hard fat with a delicious
nutty flavor, which would be highly
esteemed by epicures in Europe. Taste,
less radishes and other small vegeta-
bles are grown under glass, and there
are plenty of blueberries on the hills.
Nearly the whole of Greenland Is
covered with continental ice-cap like
that of the Antarctic continent Nan
sen and Peary have crossed the inland
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New York.-'From the Glare Of the
Footlights TO the Gloom of Cell in the
Tombs." would be fitting title to story
Of the life of Nan Patterson, the former
show girl, charged with the murder of
Caesar Young, the well-known horse
man and bOokmaker.
Only short step and few brief mo-
ments frOmthe stage with the plaudits of
hundreds still ringing in her ears as she
gaily danced in the famous "FIoradora"
sextettein the glare of the calcium. to the
dismal depths of the prison, to be brand
ed as murderer by thousands and to
hear the bitter and cutting words of the
stern prosecutor as he laid bare the Sc.
crets Of her past life.
Such, in brief, has been the experience
of Nan Patterson, and it has turned her
from a beautiful and care-free girl to
a prematurely aged woman.
There are those who declare her inno-
cent of the crime charged to her; say
she is only an unfortunate victim of cir
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alton was too strong or his will power
too weak, for he never succeeded, and
she was his friend and companion to the
day of his death.
Young began his career on the Pacific
coast as a foot racer, and was said to
have been one of the fastest runners that
the world has ever known. From the
cinder path he drifted to the race track,
and his luck from the beginning was
phenomenal
Her Fatal Beauty.
Nan Patterson's beauty has been the
cause of other troubles in which lives
have been forfeited. An actor in another
who had proposed to her became insane
over her refusal and committed suicide
in her presence. Another admirer of
hers killed himself on the coast.
Nan Patterson remained in the west
with Young until last spring. They Wis
tied the tracks at Los Angeles, Oakland
and other prominent racing centers on
the coast, and returned east IN March
for the first time since their meeting.
Young returned to the coast the fol-
lowing month. and it was but few days
before she was speeding westward IN re-
Spouse to a telegram from him.
All this was brought out in the testi-
mony at the celebrated trial. Seldom
were they separated by very great dis
lance, and then only when it was un-
avoidable.
During all this time he tried to hide
his relations with the Patterson girl
from his wife His friends and relatives
pleaded with him to give up the show
girl, and finally induced him to agree to
take a trip to Europe, where they hoped
she could or would not follow, and where
he might forget her.
The Fatal Shooting.
It was on the morning that he was
about to leave, on Saturday, June 4,
that the tragedy occurred. He had seen
her the evening previous, told her of his
proposed trip and, according to her
story, had asked her 10 follow and meet
him in London. She had given him an
indefinite answer, but had agreed to meet
him the next morning and see him off.
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She was an uncOmmOnly beautiful child,
and the praise called forth by her good
looks, as she grew older, turned her
thoughts in directions wholly opposed
to that intended for her by her parents,
and before she was many years in her
teens she went to New York and OBJ
tanned place in the chorus.
Stage life caused her to forget the re-
ligiOus training she had received. The
glitter of the spangles and the gay life
of the actor folk appealed to her. and she
decided to become a great actress.
Surely there was nothing harmful
behind the footlights, she thought
Fine clothes and a good time" were
to her liking.
She was handsome in face and form
and it was not long before young scions
of wealthy families and elderly men Of
means who haunt the bald head" row
began to haunt the stage door and make
her acquaintance.
The flowers and champagne suppers
they furnished were also not amiss
Jewels and gems were showered on her
and more than one, smitten with her
beauty, laid their hearts at her feet
and begged her hand in marriage.
But she refused them all, and finally
named Martin.
Her Meeting with Young.
The combining bonds of matrimony
were evidently not to her liking, and
when "Floradora,' q musical comedy
which had gained great popularity in
London mainly through the famous
sextette, was imported, she applied for
and obtained a position in the front row.
The company was organized to tour
the country, and was to extend to the
Pacific coast. This gave her an oppor-
tunity to visit California, something she
had always longed for.
1t was on this trip that she met Young,
whose tragic death has caused her so
much misery and sorrow.
Young was a prominent and success
full horseman and bookmaker He had
horses running on nearly all of the prom
inent tracks of the country, and was re-
puted to be worth half million dollars.
Although a married man, he immedi-
ately fell a victim to the charms of the
beautiful and vivacious show girl. On
their arrival in San Francisco he in
stalled her in handsome flat in Oak
land, across the bay, and for some
months led dual existence. Anything
she wished for was at her command.
During the trial it was shown that dur
ing their acquaintance he had given her
thousands of dollars.
Leaves Stage for Young.
While on the coast she sued for a di-
vorce from her husband at his sugges-
ton, and also deserted the stage.
With all his faults, Young maintained
an outward show of responsibility. liv-
ing in pretentious home in an exclu-
sive section of San Francisco. He had
a certain respect for his wife. and when
she discovered the double existence he
had been leading, he was driven almost
crazy by the exposure. With the reck-
lessness of man insane. he entered up
on long debauch, and lost a fortune on
the block before he recovered himself.
According to his racing partner. he re-
peatedly tried to sever his unholy rela-
tions with the chorus girl. bur his infatu-
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The News Condensed.

La Crosse.-Congressma J. J. Esch,
of this city, has announced his candi-
dacy for United States senator to sue
coed Senator Quarles.
La Crosse.-While on his way to mass
with his wife, Michael H. Harden
dropped dead at her side.
Ellsworth.-Nels Torkelson was killed
here while lying on the Milwaukee rail
way tracks IN a stupor.
Racine.-Herman Mitchell, 20 years
old, entered the barn of Charles Apple,
two miles west of North cape, and
hanged himself from rafter with rope.
MilWaukee-A charge of obtaining
money under false pretenses, brought
against Benjamin Goldberg, of Chi
cago by Leo Abraham, a Milwaukee
cigar dealer, was dismissed in the dis
trict court on payment of costs by the
defendant.
Sheboygan. - Juray Piper was
drowned while trying to recover his hat
from the river, where the wind had
blown it.
Waukesha.-Th body of Michael
Darmody, wealthy farmer of the town
of Vernon, Waukesha county, was found
frozen in the ice of the Fox river
Racine-Mrs. Mutter, mother Of
James Mutter, a member Of the board of
public works, celebrated her one hun
dred and second year recently. With the
exception of being slightly deaf, Mrs.
Mutter is in perfect health.
Racine-Arthur Piepkorn, employed
on the Erickson farm, babe his employer
good by, staggered forward, and dropped
dead from apoplexy. He was - years
old.
Chippewa Falls.-The beet sugar fac
tory here has closed its season after pay
ing $3.50 900 to farmers for beets. Three
excursions for growers were run TO this
city during ten days.
Chippewa Falls = Chippewa Falls
spring water has been awarded the
grand prize at the worlds fair.
Janesville-James Harris, the five
year-old son of Arthur Harris, secretary
of the Harris works here, was nearly
strangled by swallowing bit of nut
shell. 1t was necessary to remove the
shell from his throat in pieces.
Clinton.-Two carloads of cattle broke
away from the men who were driving
them into the yards here and ran into
the fast train of the Northwestern.
Three were killed and three others bad
ly injured.
Madison.-Examinat for the Wis
consin Rhodes scholar for 1905 will be
held in university hall, January IL and
IL.
Neenah-Mr. and Mrs. Christopher
Kurtz, who have just celebrated their
golden wedding anniversary, are num-
bered among the earliest settlers of Win
nebago county.
La Crosse.-Leaping from cake to
cake Of floating ice in the Mississippi,
Inez Pierce and Archie Dunbar, youthful
lovers, who escaped from the authorities
here in a sensational manner after the
girl had been sentenced to the industrial
school, eluded pursuit, and gained their
freedom.
Mondovi-The Northern Grain COM
pany's elevator at Eleva burned. It
is a total loss.
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Suffers Excess of Mother-in-Law.

Detroit-'Too much inother-in-law,,
is Alfred J. Ashton's claim in answering
the second bill for divorce filed by Julia
B. Ashton. He denies his wife's as
sertion that September he deserted her.
but explains he left the house for a few
days to prevent Julia Pfannenschmidt
his mother-in-law, from 'inflicting great
bodily injury on him, "as she did on
and before that day" On another occa-
sion when his mother-in-law was abus
ing him" with broomstick, Ashton
says his wife upheld her mother and
declared she would get divorce"
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Adopts Life of STAGE.
Origin of a Phrase.

What is the derivation of the phrase
MAD as a hatter?" One explanation is
that it was originally French. CAS- mad
as an oyster" (huitre), that bivalve be-
ing supposed to be extremely unintel-
lectual. Another theory is that the
phrase had reference to Collins. the Eng
lish poet, author of the "Ode to the Pas
sions." He was halter at Chichester,
and it has been said that the lunatics
with whom he was confined at one time
called him ''the halter and that the
phrase originated thus
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They had sent night of carousal and
drinking, and Young was considerably
under the influence of the liquor when he
finally left her at her sisters home and
returned to his.
1t was early next morning when they
met again. After Young had several
more drinks they entered a cab and
started for the pier, where Young's wife
was awaiting him. It was at an hour
when the streets were not very crowded
There was a pistol shot, and Young fell
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WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
Indians Have Grievances.

Ashland.-In0ians of the Bad River
reservation. II miles southeast Of Ash
land, have been holding councils almost
daily for the purpose of formulating a
plan for bringing to the attention of the
department at Washington many al
legged abuses of which the Odanah Indi-
ans have complained for the last ten
years. The principal grievance which
the Indians desire to lay before the de-
partment is the proof they say they have
of the existence of financial relations be-
tween government officials in the Indian
office at Ashland and the lumber COM
pany which has the government contract
for cutting the pine on the Bad River
reservation.
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Unearth Large Cave.

Shullsburg.- probably will be
the largest cave in Wisconsin has been
discovered by men engaged in develop
ment work in the Silver Plume mine.
two miles west of Shullsburg. While the
cave has not been explored fully, suffi-
cient work has been done to demonstrate
that it is more than 600 feet in length,
and that many galleries and passage
ways lead to and from its large central
chamber, and that it retreats as far as
the Little Giant mine.
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Charge Tobacco Lottery.

Milwaukee.-A local manufacturing
firm which does an extensive business
throughout the country has been subject
frequently to attacks from labor bodies
on charges that it was affiliated with the
tobacco trust, although it employs none
but union labor. Another phase of the
situation was developed when it became
known that an investigation was in
progress by government officials into an
alleged lottery scheme conducted by the
firm to exploit it's tobacco. The firm
claims that this investigation is inspired
by the same persons who stirred up the
trouble with the labor unions.
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forward. his head in the girls lap. He
was dead, and a bullet had fulfilled its
mission.
For some days an absolute silence pre-
vailed. Then a flood of alleged eyewit-
nesses turned up. Their stories, how
ever. could not stand investigation. and
one after another they were east aside
as sensation seekers.
But there was one exception; an old
man. Martin HaZleton, of Oneonta. N
Y. He saw the man and woman. their
hands clasped and held face high. then
a flash, a puff of smoke and the report
of a revolver broke the stiffness of the
morning.
Hazleton was the most important wit
ness placed on the stand by the defense,
and the efforts Of the prosecutor to shake
his brief but vital testimony ended iii
failure.
Then the defendant herself went to
the witness chair and told the whole
story of her relations with Young. 1t
was trying ordeal-before the curious
crowd in the courtroom-as she repeat
ed the history of her life from the day
she met the man who was to turn her
life in tragedy 8 path to the fatal moment
in the cab
Finally the trial was completed, and
the jury, after celebrating for "a hours,
declared they were unable to agree as
to her guilt or innocence.
Story with Moral
This, in brief, is the story of the life
of Nan Patterson, or that part of it that
had an ultimate bearing on the death
of Caesar Young, and the trial that has
been a three times nine-days' talk in
New York and probably throughout the
country.
Little did she suspect when she en-
barked upon her theatrical career and
her life of pleasure and gaiety of the trag-
ic ending and the accompanying sorrow
and pain in store for her, or she would
have undoubtedly reconsidered the mat
ter.
Although one young and hayward girl
has dearly paid the price of her folly, the
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Drowned on His Birthday.

Green Bay.-Drowned on the morning
of his fourteenth birthday anniversary,
Jules Bosse of this city lies beneath the
ice somewhere in East river. The lad
was crossing the river and broke
through newly formed ice where men
had been at work on the new bridge. A
companion escaped but was unable to
save his friend. Arrangements had been
made by the Bose family to celebrate
the fourteenth birthday of the unfortu-
nate lad as a part of holiday festivities.
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case has served to point moral to 9TH
ers that the snares and pitfalls of the
innocent maiden behind the footlights
are many, and more than one, unable
to stand the temptations offered, has
partaken Of the fatal apple.
To the uninitiated, the Primrose Path
means life of pleasure, of ease and
gaiety, strewn with roses red, but to
Nan Patterson the glamour has been
removed, and it Is streaked with the
life blood of Caesar Young.
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cumstances who is reaping the reward
of life generally and generously known
as fast"
Whether she is guilty or innocent of
the murder of Young will probably never
be positively known TO any but her and
her Maker, She has been brought be-
fore the earthly bar of Justice, where
crafty and skillful lawyers have tried
to fasten the crime on her while others
have tried to free her, and the II men
have been unable to agree.
Adopts Life of Stage
Nan Randolph Patterson was quite
well known along Broadway among the
atrical people for several years before
she so suddenly took the center of the
stage. Among the profession though it
was simply Nan Randolph.
She was born in Washington, d. c..
the daughter of a minister, and was
raised amid the religious surroundings
of a Christian home.
Always of wild and wilful dispost-
ton, the simple life did not appeal to her