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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-08-29
AREA STILL UNEMPLOYED
Vast Extent of Unknown Territory in
Northern Asia

THE great territory of northern Asia,
L out of which Chinghis Khan
emerged with his Tartar Mongols in
the thirteenth century to be the terror
OF Europe, has resisted the geograph-
ical investigator longest of ALL From
Marco Polo to Prjevalsky and Sven
Hedin, succession of explorers has
been at work in this still mysterious
section of the earth's surface rem
dered all the more inaccessible by
strange languages, stranger customs
and rooted distrust of the foreigner"
1t was the Russians who were first
showed the way from Europe to the
Pacific, for after Yermak had reached
Sibir in 1879, the successive stages of
their advance could not but end in the
regions of the Amur, the Sea of Ok
hotSk, kamSchatka and Behring
straits. Central and southern Asia
have been actively explored for two
centuries past, yet there are still I'M
known areas of considerable extent in
Burma, Thibet and China
Australia, now the home of a civ
ilfzed people living below the equator,
is of peculiar interest to Americans
Prior to the sixteenth century this i'm
mense continent, with it's population
of over 100000. was totally unknown
to the world. The Spanish, following
in the wake of Magellan, were the
first to sight it; the Dutch explored it's
coast lines, and after the voyage of
Capt. Cook in the latter end of the
eighteenth century, the English took
up the work of colonizing and explor-
Ing what was originally called New
Holland Even in 1900 it was an I'M
known waste, peopIed by savages in
teresting to the anthropologist and
supporting flora and fauna of consider
able value for the purposes of descrip-
tive natural history. But by and by
settlers appeared, and few populous
cities and towns sprang up. Thanks
to the efforts of men like Wentworth.
Evans. Sturt, Burke, Willis, Warbur-
ton. Forest and Giles, large part of
the interior has been explored.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-08-29
BRINGING GOLD FROM kLoNprkE
Estimated That More Than $4,000, ooo
Will Be Sent to Seattle.

Gold from the candle-lit clefts of
placer mines in the Tananna and
Nazina districts, from Gold Bar creek
in the K1ondike and from the thou
sands of lays" on winter diggings
in the Nome district, dug out by hand
and cleaned up at the end of the
sluice boxes in the good old-fashfoned
sour dough" way, was not brought to
Seattle last spring, but is. coming by
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Arctic Regions as Known in 1900.


the $4,000 pocketfu1 when the first
steamships arrive from Nome
Later vessels arriving from Valdez
Will bring the first dust from the new
gold finds in the upper Copper river
by fall it is estimated between $780,
100000 and 10000, 900 will be added
to this years Seattle gold receipts
from the north.
Eleven years ago July II there
landed from the old steamer Portland
at Seattle dock less than 100 rough
coated, bearded miners from the Klon-
dixie and in the ''outfit" there was more
than million dollars in the yellow
dust The man with the big poke was
In command of the squad of lucky
ones who came down the Portland's
gangplank and quietly chased away in
carriages to the fashionable downtown
cafes to order great thick beefsteaks
and all the trimmings.
Its little early yet for the big in
hux of miners from the north, bring
Ing the gold from the gulches Just as
they found it," said Jack Burton at
the Diller hotel. Burton arrived on
the steamship Jefferson, which brought
upward of a million dollars in gold
from the north.
I'VE had three men aboard that 1
knew brought more than 100000
each, but the money was in drafts and
currency. The purser's strong box
carried more gold than half a dozen
men could carry, and in the mail ship
ments, under the protection of Uncle
Sam, there was enough to pay the
salary of John d. Rockefeller for a
year or more"
Old-time Alaskans say that the day
of the individual miners poke is about
gone. Time was, they say, when all
the gold that came out of the Yukon
valley was brought to Seattle in the
leather bags of the miners and sold to
the melting shops Then a United
States assay office was established
and the miners found it necessary to
''mush'' up the hill to Ninth avenue.
But even these improvements over the
old-time way of handling the golden
product of the creeks and gulches of
Circle, Birch and Eldorado were forced
to the background when the miners
began shipping their gold to Seattle
by mail.
When the first steamers reach here
from Nome it is expected that the
price of ice cream and watermelons
will be doomed considerably This is
the statement of old-time sour
doughs," who assert, backed by evil
dence, that men who have lived all
winter on bacon and beans in the
north have a hankering for ice cream
and watermelons that nothing else can
satisfy.
Next to the ice cream and water
melons the miners demand fresh |
green vegetables, young onions pre-
ferred, and then later on perhaps they
become learned in the mysteries of |
caulif1owe- au gratin- Rich and juicy |
beefsteaks stand at the top OF the list |
and clam chowder is not far behind.
By the time the men from the |
glacier-bound gulches become accli- |
mated they turn from these enjoy |
ments, carefully examine their bank |
accounts and then buy a ticket on q |
railroad to visit '-the old folks At |
home"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-08-29
FRANkLIN'S FATAL JOURNEY.
One of the Most Terrible Episodes of
Arctic Exploration

Arctic Exploration.
ONE Of the most terrible episodes of
" Arctic exploration was the loss of
129 men. He began his voyage in
May, 1S45. A year later his vessels.
the Erebus and Terror, became ice
bound near King William Land. After
the death of their commander in
June, 1S47, the crew made a vain eff
fort to fight their way over the ice to
Great Fish river. Many expeditions
were sent out, both by land and sea.
to search for the missing, but they
succeeded only in finding three graves
of men who had died at an early stage
and had been buried in Beechey
island In 1854 Rae met a young Es-
kimo who told him that four wears
previously 40 white men had been
seen dragging boat to the south on
the west shore of King William Land.
and that few months later he had
found the bodies of 80 of these men.
In 1889 McClintock discovered in
King William land a human skeleton
lying on its face, and his COMPANION.
Hobson, found record of the Frank
lin expedition, stating its history be-
tween 1915 and 1913 Further
searches were continued up to 1879.
in which year Lieut. F. Schwatka of
the United States army, discovered
several graves and skeletons.
The northward movement. after ex-
hausting mercantile, exploratory and
humanitarian motives. finally became
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-08-29
DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA.
Great Continent Has Only Recently
Been Opened Up

A ERICA is another great continent
"A with which the world made late
acquaintance Egypt, the shepherd
kings, the Nile, the pyramids, make
up its classic period. Modern Africa
began for geography when, about $50
A D., Hanno, the Carthaginian, sailed
down its west coast as far as Sierra
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-08-29
EXPEDITIONS TO POLES.


Last Portions of Planets Surface to
Be Reached.
THE last portions of the planets sur
i face to be reached and explored
are the poles, both of them more or
less ice-bound. The south pole. espe-
c1ally remote from the great centers
of civilization, has never attracted
more than scientific interest. The first
work done in the geography of the ant
arctics was done by the discovery of
the South Shetland islands in 1916 by
Capt Smith Various lands" have
since been revealed-among them En-
derby Land and Graham Land by Bis
coe in 1881, WITHSTAND in 1910. by
Wilkes, and Victoria Land by Sir
James Ross, two years Iater-but it
is not yet definitely known whether
these are mere islands or parts of a
continent. Extensive land areas
around the south pole are meanwhile
suggested by the slope of the ocean
moor and by the character of the ant
arctic 1cebergs. The coasts are fronted
with glaciers, which project for long
distances into the sea, showing that if
an antarctic continent exists it must
be covered everywhere by immense
sheets of ice. Ross passed an ice
front 200 feet high and $50 miles long:
he saw great mountain ranges on Vic
toria Land, including two volcanic
peaks whose height he estimated at
from 1000 to $4,000 feet One of these
was in eruption, pouring forth its lava
upon the surrounding snow The sup
posed antarctic continent, if one ex-
lists, has been estimated at nearly
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then blank on the maps, and Alaska
utterly untraveled. There are still
patches of North America which need
description, anu vast areas of South
America on which the zeal of the ex-
plorer is yet to cast light
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-08-29
Arctic Regions as Known in 1900

100000 square miles. Up to the
present, and in spite of several recent
expeditions, navigators are much far
Their from the south than from the
north pole. In 1912 Ross reached IS
degrees 10 minutes, one of the latest
records is that of Borchgrevink who
in 1899, gained IS degrees so minutes
by using sledges in a dash over the
ice.
The romance of polar exploration
of its perils and it's heroism-centers
in the north. The arctic pole is much
nearer to civilization than the antarct-
ic, has a closer connection with the
great continents, and is or ought to be
somewhat in the line of the worlds
travel. The movement northward be-
gan with the discovery of Greenland
by Gunbiorn at the beginning of the
tenth century, and with the planting
of colonies on its shores by Eric the
Red in 9S5. Nearly ten centuries
thereafter were spent by explorers,
first from the Asiatic, then from the
American side, in discovering and de-
filming the contours of the Arctic
coasts. Both mercantile and scientific
aims were in evidence. On the one
hand was the search for the northwest
passage by Davis, Frobisher, Hudson
and Bafin; on the other the no less
eager pursuit of the northeast passage
by Barentz, Chancellor and others. In
1S5O-54 Mcclure successfully accom-
plished the northwest passage, and
gained the reward of S50,000 which
had been offered by the British parlia-
ment in 1853. By an equally success
full feat in 1S7S-79, Baron Nordensk-
jOld the Swedish scientist made the
northeast passage in the Vega by pass
ing from Norway along the Asiatic
coast into the Pacific ocean.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-08-29
Divisions of creeds.

1t is estimated that there are $780,
100000 Protestants in the world, as
compared with $50, 900 Catholics
and 110,0O0,0O0 adherents of the
Greek and Oriental churches.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-08-29

If you wish beautiful, clear, white clothe
use Red Cross Ball Blue. Large oz
package, 5 cents.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-08-29

Smokers have to call for Lewis Single
Binder cigar to get it. Your dealer or
Lewis Factory, Peoria. Ill.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-08-29

Don't waste other peoples time
while you are wasting your own
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-08-29

Mrs. Windows Soothing Syrup.
For children teething softens the gums reduces D
domination anays pain, cures wind collie 25c bottle
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-08-29

Goodness thinks no i'll where no I'll
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-08-29

Better a tramp in the woods than a
hobo in the woodshed.
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plorer- This immense continent first
fed the demand for slaves, then salts
fed the greed for territory Unlike
China, 1T was not coveted too late to
be partitioned, and to-day, outside Mo-
rocco and Abyssinia, there is not a
square mile of its area which is not
claimed and owned by one or other
of the European powers
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-08-29
CONTINENTS ARE BEING MAPPED
Marvellous Results Achieved by Sys-
tenafic Exploration
Tremendous Tracts Haze Been Opened in the Last
One Hundred Years-Northern Asia Still a Field
for the Venturesome -Peary NoO Undertaking One
of the Greatest Feofs.

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Sunday Herald. 1t emphasizes
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-04-23
DESIGNED AS sUBTERFUGE
Publishers 80 Characterize Commlssion
Under Cannon RcAOlutlOn.

Publishers 40 Charnctcrize Commission
Under Cannon Resolution.
NEW YORK. April 22.-At the open
ing session OF the twenty-second an
nual meeting of the American News
paper Publishers Association, held here
lo-day. aresolution was adopted than!<-
ing President Roosevelt for his kindly
and courag eous message, in favor or
tree pulp and print paper.
Another resolution was adopted pro-
testing against "the subterfugc just
designed by Speaker Cannon and Rep
resentatives Payne and DalSell, Great
Ing a commission on paper inquiry, and
free paper and free pulp. The resolu-
tion charges that this device was In
spired In bad faith, and that since car
ly in December, 1907, a committee has
been clamOrlng III vain ut the doors
of the Ways and Means Committee for
an opportunity to show the power OF
illegal combinations OF paper-nakers
listing tariT restrictions
With the utmost respect and defer
ence for the authority of Congress"
the resolution continues, I'VE respect
fully state that we mistrust the COM
lmittee lust appointed. We challenge
the Intentions OF those who have thus
Stevens bill. We charge that action
on the Stevens bill has been delayed
to the advantage of IL combination OF
tpapcr-nlakers, who, in desperate ef-
fort to maintain. artificial prices upon
declining market, have shut down
nearly so per cent, of their mills, and
siderable number OF men, have shown
tho insincerity OF their profession that
the tariff duty on paper was needed
to protect that paper.''
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-04-23
SIGNS LIABILITY BILL
Assured by yAttorney-t;encrni,p President
Signs the New Measure.

Signs the New Measure.
WASHINGTON. y. G.. April "a
President Roosevelt to-day signed the
employers Liability bill, upon receiving
ar, opinion from Attorney General
Ronapnrte that the measure was con-
stitutional.
The bill makes railroads or other
common carriers. while engaged in IN
terstatc commerce. liable for the in
Jury or death of an employe II tho In
Jury or death results In whole or In
pnrt from the negligence of any OF the
officers. agents or employees OF such
carriers. or by reason OF any defect or
insufticiency In equipment. This provi-
sion is made applicable also to carriers
In the Territories. the District OF CO.
lumbia. Panama Canal zone and other
possessions OF the United States. 1t is
provided that in any action brought
under under. the provisions OF the bill. the In
1iired cmploye shall not be held to
have assumed the risk Of his employ
nient In any case where the violation
by the carrier of any statute enacted
Tor the safety OF employees contributed
TO the Injury or death OF the employe.
Any contract. rule. regulation or de-
vice to enable the carrier to cxempt
itself from liability under Inc act rend-
ers void by specific declaration to
tfiat end.
Provision is made. however. that
the carrier sliall receive credit for any
contribution made to the employe or
his family In the form OF insurance.
relief benefit or indemnity. An action
Tor the recovefy of damages must be
commenced within two years from the
date of the cause OF the suit.
In his opinion the attorney-general
indicates that the bill is confined in Its
scope to common carriers by rail-
roads" as distinguished from the act
declared unconstitutional by the Su.
preme Court, which embraced "all COM
mon carriers engaged in interstate
commerce and foreign commerce. The
attorney general then shows through,
court decisions and constitutional in
terpretatiOns that this restriction does
not make the act repugnant to the
Constitution. but is in line with State
statutes which have been upheld in the
highest tribunals.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-04-23
President Criticizes Action Of
Congressfor Failing to Ap.
propriate Money forShips
SAYS HE WILL VETO
BILL UNLESS CHANGED
Has Not Given Up His Fight for
Four Battleships, and Will
Continue to Urge Plan-Poll
Shows That He Has
Twcnty-Six Senators
Pledged.

~- - AsHINGToN D. c.. April 22.
v/ President Roosevelt Will
wv veto the naval appropria-
" tion bill should tho Senate,
as did the House, fail to
make any appropriation for the two
bsttleships which arc authorized In
that measure.
The prompt announcement OF this
fact to Senate leaders to-day is re-
garded as responsible for the an
nouncement by Mr.. Hale that he should
propose an amendment appropriating
37,ooo.0oo toward the construction OF
these ships. The President stated his
position on this point with equal
emphasis. and suddenness to-day upon
learning that the bill. az passed by the
House. was simply a paper" provision
for naval increase. Authorization of
the ships was made. but no money car
rled to make the provision effective.
Such legislation rs this, the President
made known to his numerous con-
gressional callers, was a travesty as
to effectiveness. as we'll as bearing
all the ear-marks OF legislative leger-
dcmaine. intended to make ridiculous
his campaign for the greater navy.
Hale Comes to Terms.
That the Presidents quick and vigor-
Gus action Is to be effective is evi-
denced by the action OF Chairman
Hale. of the Senate Naval COMMITTEES,
in announcing that at the proper time
he will propose the $7.o00000 amend
ment AS to his threat to veto. the
President made It plain that should
the wisdom OF Congress result in the
passage of bill providing for no
naval increase whatever he would have
no ground on which to veto the meas
urc. Any attempt at what he regards
as travesty on legislation. by au-
thorizing but not appropriating for
ships. he declares he will defeat by
the exercise of his constitutional power
TO veto.
stu Full OF Fight.
There is not the slightest indication
that the President has ceased his
fight for four new battleships. accord
ing to the evidence OF Senator's who
talked with him to-day.
Senators who are with the Presi-
dent in his fight on this proposition
admit Tonight that a careful survey
OF their strength in the Senate gives
but vote OF twenty-six in that body
in favor of the Presidents naval pro-
gram for four ships. Significance is
attached to this poll OF the Senate. in
President OF some OF his heretofore
stauncllest supporters In that body.
Senator Lodge is understood to have
quit the fight for the full naval pro-
gram advocated by the President, and
to have given his reasons personally to
the President for so doing. The loss
OF the Influence OF the Massachusetts,
Senator is regarded as responsible for
the weakness shown by the poll and
1t is believed by those favoring the
program that had the Presidents
senatorial supporters entered the fight
with the vigor they have heretofore
evinced. his desire in this direction
might have been realized.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-04-23
TO USE GASOLENE BOATS.
Board of Fisheries Think These Will bc
Econ omlcal aud Effective.
~ TSnecial to The Times Dlspa tch.

Board of Fisheries Thtnk These VIII bo
Economical and Effective.
Special to The Times -Dispatch.l
NORFOLK, VA, April 22.-Believins
that gasolene power boats are more
economical to operate and can get un-
the State Board of Fisheries at its
meeting to-day decided to. dispose OF
two OF the steam vessels. On James
River 1t was decided to add to the
power boat fleet at the seed grounds.
The new gasolene vessels that will be
purchased will be stationed at various
points, and Will be used for police pur-
poses all the year around.
In very warm contest for inspec-
tor in the Nansemond district. Matt r..
Kilby was appointed in place Of
Reps Williamson, who has held
the position for some time. There
We're five applicants for the place. The
Norfolk and Portsmouth districts were
consolidated. and Harry X. Swami.
former inspector for Norfolk, was ap-
pointed. The board was informed that
upon the request OF oyster planters OF
the Chincoteague district the National
Fish Commission had sent down an on
pert to investigate an insect that had
played havoc with the oysters in that
district
The board after appointing the fol I.
lowing special police adjourned to meet
at the call OF Chairman ". Mcdonald
Lee: John r, brewer. Accomac; Hen
derson Travis and G. n. Radger. North
ampton;E G. Fl. Muse. York River: J, c.
Brewinston and r. Q. Sader. Rappn-
hammock River; j. b. Hudnall Great
Wicomico River: M. II. Price, Upper
Potomac River.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-04-23
DEATH OF BISHOP cAPERs
South Cnrolinn Prelntc Passes Away
After Months of III Health.

South Cnrolinn prelntc Passes Away
After Months OF III Health.
COLUMBIA. S. c.. April 22.--Bishop
Ellison c:apers, OF tho Protestant Epis-
copal Diocese OF South Carolina, died
at his home In this city at $3.50 P. NJ.
to-day. Bishop Capers had been In
feeble health for many months. and for
several days had been sinking gradu-
ally. This morning his physicians an
nounccd that he could not survive the
day.
Bishop capers was seventy years OF
age. and had presided over the diocese
for the past fifteen years. He had
been Secretary OF state OF South Caro-
Ina, brigadier- general in the confed.
crate Army. and held other positions OF
rank and influence that had made him
one OF the best known men In the
South He was the father OF John G..
Capers. commissioner of Internal rev.
enue and national Republican commit.
teeman for South Carolina
4 He was born In Charleston, s. c., Oc.
tober Ia. 1887. and was graduated from
the South Carolina, Military Academy
November is. 1857. and was at once
made an assistant professor. Febru-
ary "a. 1859. he was married to Miss
Charlotte Rebecca Palmer. At the out
break OF the Civil War he enlisted
and was promoted to major. then sue
cessively to Northumberland. colonel
and brigadier general. He was severe
ly wounded at jackson. Miss. May IA
1853: again at Chickamauga Septem-
ber 20. 1863. and at Franklin, Tenn,
November 30. 1864. He was elected
Secretary of State of South Carolina
in 1867. and the same year he entered
the ministry, serving as rector OF
Christ Church, Greenville. S. c. TWEEN
ty years, ST. Panl's. Selma. Ala. one
year. and Trinity at Columbia, S. c.,
SLY years. being elevated to the bish-
opric in 1898.
The funeral will be held from Trim
ity Church. this city. Friday at noon
Confederate veterans. visiting bishops
and many clergy will act as escort OF
honor. Telegrams OF coincidence have
come from all parts of the South.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-04-23
MORE BROWNSVILLE
Senator Warner still Talking About the
Negro Soldiers.

WASHINGTON, D. c., April 22.-The
Brownsville affray and the naval ap.
preparation bill occupied practically the
entire time of the Senate to-day, and
business subjects will again be under
consideration tomorrow. Senator War
ner, of Missouri. continued his remarks
on the. discharge OF the negro soldiers,
and quoted at considerable length from
testimony taken In that case. He did
not conclude his remarks. and will re-.
sumo Tomorrow. The naval bill was
read through. with the exception vt
tho sections relating to battleships.
which will probably lead to an interest
Ing discussion Tomorrow. Mr.. Hale
announced that he would propose an
amendment appropriating s7,OO0,O0O to
begin construction on the new battle
ships, so that there might be no delay
IN that work. and there is no doubt
that the amount will be added. Senator
Warren. revcrting to recent speech
by Senator Hale against military en-
lnrgement, read statements from the
Secretary of War and the chief OF sta IF
disclaiminE any purpose of securing a
regular army of $4,000 men.