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The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-10-15
WASHINGTON NEWS.

The popular idea that the American
Indians are decreasing in number is
d~issipated by official figures showing
that today there are more than 300.-
0G0 red men in the United States.
This is an increase in population of
about 10000 during the past two de-
cades.
Under the operation of the new tar
iii law there was an increase of 100
cent in the value of imports into
the United States from the Philip.
pine islands during last August, COM
pared with the imports in the same
month of the previous year.
Less than 80 per cent of the whole
number OF officers in the United
States army are graduates of the
West Point military academy and
each graduating class is about eighty
short of the number necessary to Off
Ger the army,
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-10-15
FOREIGN NEWS.

A holy war-a war OF determination
has been declared against the Chris
tians by the Mchalnmedan priests OF
Morocco and by the Riff tribesmen
and thousands of fanatical warriors
from the interior tribes are pouring
into the native camps that hedge the
Spanish, troops in the Melilla PENN
sula.
The extension of the field Of opera
lions in Africa, to which the Spanish
government is o committed by the
dispatch Of r~einforcements to General
Marina, the Spanish commander, is
further complicated by tho possibility
IF a regular declaration of war be-
tween Morocco and Spain.
A delegation of s%uffragettes pursued
Prime Minister Asquith from London
to l3almoral, Scotland. where he was
summoned by the king. They nre
staying in a neighboring village and
will not hesitate to invade the royal
castle to p%ersecute Mr.. Asquith II
chance offers.
All the shops of Belgrade were
closed and the public buildings of tho
city were draped in black to mark tho
first anniversary of the annexation of
the provinces of Bosnia and Herze~
govina by Austria Hungary.
The Spanish troops are engaged In
fortifying Nador and Zeluan, Morocco.
Blockhouses will be erected, guns Of
large caliber installed and a railroad
built between the two towns.
The doctors attached to the hos
pitfalls at Vienna have decided to 90
on strike OIL Dec. Is unless the city
agrees to their demand for an in
crea in salary.
The suffering growing out of the
recent Mexican flood is very acute
and unless something is done thou
sands of people must starve.
Chang Chin Tung. who was one Of
the three members of the grand coun-
ell of China. is dead at Picking.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-10-15
CRIMINAL NEWS.

John II. Walsh, convicted Of misap.
plication Of the funds of the Chicago
National bank, must serve a sentence
of five years Imprisonment, imposed
upon him by the trial jury unless the
supreme court upsets affirmation of Il
verdict of guilty handed down by the
United States circuit court Of ap-
peals.
Police Inspector John ]. O'Brien.
Lieutenant Hugh Reynolds and Ser
geant Hugh Meyers of Brooklyn were
indicted by the grand jury of Kings
county charged with aiding and abet-
ting bookmaking ut Sheepshead and
Gravesend race tracks.
Pleading guilty. to numbering his
father Andrew Krupnicke of Sydney,
Neb., aged fourteen years, took a life
sentence In the %penitcntiary and thus
perhaps saved from the gallows his
mother, first charged with the COM
mission of the crime.
John Erwin, a Des Moines laborer,
shot and killed his divorced wife, shot
q neighbor. Roy Smith, who tried to
prevent the tragedy, and then shot
himself through the brain. He and
his wife died almost instantly. Smith
is seriously injured.
Fred E. Link of the Link Manufac-
turing company of Erie, Pa, insane
over business reverscs. killed his wife
snd then ended his own life.
After only twelve hours of married
life John Elan, secretary of the Baton
Rouge (La.) Life Insurance agency,
shot and killed himself.
The Peever State bank at Peever,
8. D., was robbed of $1,000 by cracks
men, who blew open the vault and
escaDed on q hand car.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-10-15

married at Paris to Count Arturo
Heren, a member of the Spanish no
bility.
President Taft is not adhering to
the strict diet he started ont to follow
when he began his trip; the hcspita-
Bile West has made this impossible.
The result has been considerable TAX
ing on of weight.
Charles r. Crane. newly appointed
minister from the United States to
Picking, was recalled to Washington
by a telegram from Secretary Knox
on the eve of his departure for the
Orient.
Samuel Gompers, president OF the
American Federation of Labor, who
has been in Europe studying Con.
tinental labor conditions and prob
lens, has returned to the United
States.
Former United States Senator Lind
say of Kentucky, who has been i'll
for two months, is in a critical o n
dition as a result Of a sinking spell.
Senator Lindsay is seventy-four years
old.
The condition of Associate Justice
William H. Moody OF the supreme
court of the United States, who is at
his home at Haverhill, Mass, is des-
perate.
Clara l.. Clemens daughter OF Mark
Twain, was married at the BRIDES
home at Redding, Conn.,, tc Ossip
Gabrilowitsch, a Russian Pianist.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-10-15
FINANCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL

Reorganization of the Colorado Fuel
and Iron company, giving control to
John d. Rockefeller and associates,
is planned to take place at the annual
meeting of the stockholders and the
election Of officers in Denver on Oct.
IS.
All traffic records at the 500 ship
canal have been broken by the rec
ords for September. The net Sep.
tember tonnage was 9,327,i90 and this
is the first time the 100000 mark
hac been reached.
Minority stockholders nf the Mutual
Telephone company Of Des Moines, an
independent concern, obtained an in
junction preventing the BELL interests
from taking over the independent
line.
2aA sTHE LKi EH N@
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-10-15
IN NORTH DAKOTA
News Of the Week From varl.
Gus Parts Of the State.
MONUMENT At WHTEsTONE
Shaft Unveiled at Place Where
Battle Was Fought.

Forty-six years ago the third of last
September a battle was fought by the
SiouA indians and their allies against
the little frontier army commanded
by General Sully. In that battle many
brave men fell, and Wednesday their
memory was perpetuated by the un-
yelling of a monument at Whitestone,
where the battle was fought. It was
unveiled by q daughter of Colonel
Wilson of the Sixth Iowa volunteers.
The shaft cost $4,000.
The place where the monument. has
been erected is one of natures beauty
spots. Looking off from the mound
n can see hill after hill, stretching
away like the w of the sea. Only
a few rods from the peak where the
bloodiest of the fighting occurred is
beautiful Whitestone lake, andpneare by
is the rock formation. cropping out of
the ground, that gave the place its
rame.
At the dedication were Governor
Burke of North Dakota, other pron,i-
nent men of this state and Iowa. Ne.
traska and Minnesota. besides many
of the survivors. One Of the most in.
teresting men there was the old
bugler who called the mel to arms.
For this splendid memorial Colonel
Northrop. a Civil war veteran, de.
serves much credit. For over twenty
years he has petitioned the govern.
ment, worked with legislatures, and
correspondent with men of influence to
bring about this cherished plan. Sew.
er:l years ago he succeeded in inter
esting Congressman T. F. Marshall,
who succeeded in getting a grant Of
$40 acres of land on which the fight
occurred from the government to the
state of North Dakota. Through the
combined efforts of the members Of
the Whitestone Battlefield commission
Theodore Northrop, +. r. Kennedy
and H. F. Eatpn-a hill was fought
through the state legislature granting
the commission the privilege of selling
all but forty acres of this land, the
money to be expended for the monu-
lnept and to beautify the battlefield.
Last August the. land was sold: the
battlefield neatly fenced, trees set out
and the monument erected.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-10-15
UNFORTUNATE EVENTS.

Thirty lives were lost In an explo-
sion that cntombed more than fifty
men in the Extension mine Of the
Wellington Gallery company at M
naimo. II. G. twenty-five OF the i'm
rrisoncd men were rescued. but the
rapidly spreading fire prevented the
rcscuers from completing their work.
Seventeen persons were killed and
ten severely injured in a collision be-
tween l freight train and a construc-
ton train on the Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fee railroad neal Topeka.
Kan. Among the dead are eleven
MeAicans.
A. J. Kealns, a railroad engineer,
was instantly killed and three men
and a woman were seriously injured
at Chicago when the automobile in
which they were riding skidded.
crashed into Il tree and turned turtle.
In a head on collision neal Farmer
City, Ill.,, between the state fair spe-
cial from Springfield and a south
bound passenger train on the Illinois
Central n person was killed and
thirty injured, several fatally.
Two million dollars worth of prop
erty damage has been done by a
prairie fire which swept owe the Hut
ton (Albcrto) district. The fire has
been raging for a week.
Five persons were burned to death
In a fire which destroyed a brick
dwelling house at Nashville, Tenn.
Several others wer2 rescued after
narrow escapes from the flames.
Fifty workmen bound from Ballston
to Schenectady, n. Y. were injured,
many OF them badly, IN a collision be-
tween trolley cars on the Schenectady
electric railway.
Three men were killed In a wreck
on the Northern Pacific al Silesia,
Mont an extra freight train side
swiping" the regular bridge train.
Five persons of a party of
lost their lives by the capsizing of a
boat in Minas basin, near Wolfville,
N. S.
Three severe earthquake shocks
were felt in Northern Utah and
Southern Idaho.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-10-15
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

Wilbur Wright. the acroplanist. ie-
fled the air, the water and the land
in a marvellous flight v e. the num-
the North river. On starting Mr.
Wright went up the Ncrth river, YER
the feet of b%attleahips and IN past
Grants tomb, encircling the British
cruiser Argyle. ltetnrning at faster
speed, with the wind. he came back
over the water and landed at his
starting point In the most matter Of
fact way possible.
In the presence Of a gathering of
spectators estimated at nearly 100000
souls George Robertson. driving a
ninety-horsepower Simplex car over
the unrivaled eight-mile course in
Fairmont park, Philadelphia. won the
200.mile race for the Quaker City Mo
tor club cup, beating a score Of the
best cars in the world.
Former Governor Frank S. Black
appeared before the court of appeals
at Albany, N. Y, for Harry X. Thaw
and attacked the ccnstitGtionality of
the act under which Thaw was com
mitted to the Mattcawan state hos.
pital for the criminal insane and the
law under which 'rhaw is being de-
tanned in that institution.
The international balloon race for
the Gordon Bennett cup has been Won
by Edgar w. Mix, the American aer-
onaut, of Columbus, O., who will take
the cup back to the United States.
Mr.. Mix sailed from Zurich. switze'-
land, and landed north of Warsaw. in
Russian, Poland.
Because Mr.. Won Phul, pilot of the
balloon st. Louis No. 3, forgot to mail
a letter to the Aero club of America
notifying that body of his intention
to try for the Lahm cup, his flight
from st. Louis into Minnesota will not
give him the trophy.
With the pennant won by the Pitts
burg club for another twelve months
the 1909 championship baseball sea
son of the National league has passed
into history. Chicago was second and
New York third.
The Pittsbury champions of the. Ma
tional league defeated Detroit, the
American league pennant winners. in
the opening game of the worlds
championship series by the score of
4 to 1.
After being kept in jail at Bristol,
Tenn, for five months charged with
counterfeiting John Preston has been
ro1ooSo6 IN tho d~iccovorv that the
alleged bad money is all genuine.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-10-15
Farmer Run over and Killed.

Harley d. Case was killed near Lud-
den, a small town south Of Oakes..
while on the way TO market with q
load OF wheat. When he was a short
distance from Ludden something Went
wrong With the harness and he got
down to fix 1t. As he stepped on the
huh Of the front wheel to climb back
on the wagon the team started and he
was thrown in. front Of the wheels.
The heavy load passed over his body
Just above the hips and after an hour
Of agony the Young man died..
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-10-15
The DEATH RECORD.

Albert Pulitzer, a brother Of Joseph
Pulitzer, publisher of the New York
World, committed suicide in Vienna,
It was evident that he made doubly
sure of death, for all the Indications
pointed to the fact that he had first
swallowed poison and then, standing
in front of a mirror, had sent q bullet
from a revolver through his right tenn
pie. Ill health was TIE cause.
Marq:ese Marie des Montiers-Merin.
vile, a passenger on the steamer
Kron Prinzessin Cccilie, died aboard
that ship just before the vessel
reached New York. The marquese.
who was forty-six years old. before
her marriage vas Miss May Caldwell
Of Louisville, Ky.
Captain John Joshua Nathaniel
Weber, who served as an executive
officer On the ironclad Monitor during
her battle with the Merrimac in 1854.
Is dead in a Staten Island scamen's
resort at the age of eighty years.
John w. Ridgeway, prominent men,
Der of the Friends church and mil
liOnaire land owner, merchant and
mine owner, is dead at Laporte. Ind.
aged elghty-,ivc years.
Colonel Robert b. Snowden of Mem
phis, one of the best known business
men of the South, Is dead at Atlantic
City. n. J. He was sixty-nine years
Of age.
Falk Wdaver, one Of the worlds
foremost Hebrew scholars, known for
his commentaries IN the Eibie and his
poems. is dead at New York.
Dudley Buck, the organist and COM
poser. died suddenly at the home o(
bis son at West Orange, N. J..
Mrs. Eta Henderson. actress and
playwright, is dead At West Loae
Branch. n. J.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-10-15
VALLEY CITY LOSES SUIT
Trains on Northern Pacific Need Not
Run Through the Town.

NUN HToU9 tHe JOVVn. 10
Judge Amidon has decided that the
Northern Pacific is giving Valley City
. good train service with three pas.
sengers daily each way, end that
the company a run its new train
over the new high line.
On account of the heavy grade at
Valley City the company constructed
another track a mile north and pro
posed to run all its passenger trains
over that route, but residents of the
city secured a Injunction against all
but the North Coast Limited. When
the company planned another new
train the residents wanted that. but
have lost out. .
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-10-15
DISCOVERY OF NORTH POLE

Commander P4ary has formally no.
tiled the National Geographic society,
IL his acceptance Of IFS .cffer to ex-
anime and pass upon the records Of
hi polar explorations.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-10-15
RESULTS ON THE GRIDIR0N

Michigan 3. Case 0.
Nebraska "a, Knox 0.
Chicago Fl, Indiana =.
Minnesota is. Ames 0.
Harvard 8. Williams 6.
Princeton ;. FUrdhan. 0.
Annapolis IL, Rutgers 3.
Indiana 6, Pennsylvania 6.
/, Wisconsin %. Lawrence 0.
Northwestern IA. Purdue 8.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-10-15
medical Inspection il schools.

At q meeting OF the Public Health,
league action was taken which VIII
end In Grand Forks having medical
inspection In the public schools.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-12-31

fires of the homing passion kept the
eye open.
At the Eighty-fourth Parallel.
On May24 the sky cleared long enough
to give us a set of observations. We.
were on the eighty-fourth parap22
near the n-lnety-seyenth meridian;
new lands were hidden behind a lo<
mist. The Ice was much crevassed
and drifted eastward.
The pack was sufficiently active to
give us considerable anxiety. though
pressure lines and open water did not
then seriously impede u progress.
There remained on the sleds scarce
ly enough food to reach our caches un-
less we averaged fifteen miles daily.
On the return from the pole to here
we had only been able to make twelve
miles daily. Now u strength, even
under fair conditions, did not seem to
be equal to more than ten miles. The
outlook was far from hopeful to me,
though the sight of the cleared sky
infused new courage into Etukishuk
and Ahwelah.
Trying to make the best of our hard
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-12-31
HOME AGAIN! DIR. COOKS ARRIVAL IN NEW YORK.

lot, a straight course was set for
the musk OK lands Of the inner cross-
ing.
At the eighty-third parallel We found
ourselves to the west of a large tract
extending southwark. The ice chang
ed to small fields. The temperature
rose to zero, and a persistent mist OBJ
scured the heavens.
With a few lines on paper TO regis
ter the life Of suffering, the food for
man and dog was reduced to a three
quarter ration, while the difficulties Of
ice travel rose to disheartening heights.
At the end of a struggle of twenty
days throug'l thick fog the sky cleared.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-12-31

CROWD GREETING DIR. COOK IN COPEN
HAGEN.
In this course to find game for food
and fuel. The Scottish whalers enter
Lancaster sound and touch at Port
Leopold. The distance to this point
was shorter than that to Greenland,
and by this route l hoped that | could
return to Europe during the same year,
1908.
Passing through Hassel sound be-
tween the Ringnes Lands bears and
seals were secured, and slowly we
moved southwark over Norwegian bay
into wellington channel. The ice was
small, there was much open water, and
progress was slow, but the drift car
ried us along.
At Pioneer bay we were stopped by
a jam of small Ice over which shedding
was impossible. Unable to wait for
the Ice to move because no large game
July to Jones sound. Here, again, no
big game was found. There was much
open water, and the folding canvas
boat was spread for use.
Unable to feed the dogs. they were
given the freedom of their wild pro-
.genitors, the wolves.
one shed WIS iest here; the-etser-mQz
taken apart and placed in the boat.
Then followed a long and perilous adj
venture by boat and sled. during which
our last ammunition was expended In
securing birds for food. After that,
by looped lines and slingshots, birds
were still captured.
Early In September we were beset
on the shores of Bafin bay with neither
food, fuel rer ammunition. New i'm
plements were shaped, and we return
ed westward to Cape Sparbo to seek
a place to pitch a winter camp. An
underground den was built of stones.
bones and turf, and with u primitive
weapons we fought the walrus. the
bear, the musk OK and other animals.
Thus food, fuel and skins were ecur-
ed, and death by famine was averted.
The winter and the night of 1908-9
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-12-31

were spent preparing food and equip
ment for the return.
On Feb. 1S, 1909, we started with y
remodeled sled and reached camp
at Annootok In the middle of April
Here / met Mr.. Harry Whitney and
told him of our conquest of the pole.
Because a ship was to come after
Mr.. Whitney to take him direct to
home shores. most of my instruments
were intrusted to his care. Anxious to
gain a few months in the return home,
1 proceeded by sled owe land and sea
southwark to Upernayik and from
there onward to Copenhagen by Dan
fish steamers.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-12-31

I'm my wakeful watches to get q
peep of the sun at just the right
moment l was kept awake during
much of the resting period, and
for pastime my eyes wandered from
snorting dogs to snoring men. During
one of these idle moments there came
a solution of the utility of the dogs
tail, a topic with which l had been al
play for several days. 1t is quoted
here at the risk of censure, because IL
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-12-31
THE MUSK OXEN OF JONES SOUND.

Is a typical phase of our lives which
cannot be illustrated otherwise. Seem
ing trivialities were seized upon as
food for thought. Why has the dog
a tail at all? The bear, the musk OK,
the caribou and the hare each In Its
own way succeeds very well with but
a dwarfed stub. Why does nature In
the dog expend its best effort in grow
ing the finest fur over a seemingly
useless line of tail bones? The thing
Is distinctive, and one could hardly
conceive of the creature without this
accessory, but nature In the arctic does
not often waste energy to display beau
ties and temperament. This tail must
have an important use, otherwise 1t
would soon fall under the knife of
frost and time. Yes! 1t was imported
into the arctic by the wolf progenitor
of the dog from warmer lands. where
its swing Lerved a useful purpose In
fly time. A nose made to breathe
warm air requires some protection In
the far north No animal feels this
sLortcoming as much as man. The
dog supplied the need with his tall. At
the time when | made this discovery a
cold wind charged with cutting crys-
tails brushed the pack. Each dog had
his back arched to the wind and his
face yelled with an effective curl of his
tail. He vas comfortably shielded
from icy torment by an appendage
aoapted to that very purpose.
A Heavy Snowstorm.
On May 6 we were stopped at 6 a. m.
by the coming of the gloom of an I'M
usual gale. The wind had been steady
and strong all night, but we did not
heed its threatening increase of force
until too late. 1t came from the west,
as usual, driving coarse snow with
needle points. The ice about was bic
and hummocky, offeripS a difficult line
of march, but some shelter. In the
strongest blasts we threw ourselves
over the sled behind hummocks and
gathered new breath to force a few
miles more.
FINALLY, when no longer able to force
me dogs through the binding drift, we
sought the lee of an uplifted block of
ice. Here suitable snow was found
for a snow house, and q few blocks
were cut and set, but the wind swept
them away like chips. The tent was
tried, but 1t could not be made to stand
in the rush of the roaring tumult. In
sheer despair We crept into the tent
without erecting the pole. Creeping
into the bags. we then allowed the
tapping silk to be buried by the drift
ing snow. Soon the noise and discom-
fort of the storm were lost, and we
enjoyed the comfort of an Icy grave.
An efficient breathing hole was kept
olen, and the wind was strong enough
to sTee off the weight of a dangerous
drift. 4 new lesson was thus learned
In fighting the battle of life which was
afterward useful.
Several days of icy despair now fol
lowed each other in rapid succession.
The wind did not rise to the full force
of a storm, but 1t was too strong and
too cold to travel. The food supply
was %noticeably decreasing. The daily
advance was reduced. With such
weather starvation seemed inevitable.
Camp was moved nearly every day
but ambition sank to the lowest ebb
To the atmospheric unrest were added
the instability Of broken ice and the
depressing mystery of IN unknown pc
sition. For many days no observa
~~ --%-~
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-12-31

inc we found ourselves far down In
Crown Prince Gustav sea, with open
water and impossible small Ice as a
barrier between us and Heiberg is
land.
With the return to Annootok rem
dered impossible by the unfortunate
westerly drift. our only alternative was
to go south with the ice. We hoped
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-12-31
of the Pole
Long Delays by Open
Water = Drifting on
Floes III Dogs Sacrificed
and Sleds Abandoned
TWELFTH ARTIcLEl

lions had been possible, and our loca-
ton could only be guessed at.
The maddening struggle was daily
forced, while the spirits were pressed
to the verge of extinction. Now that
the object of our trip had been accom-
plished much of the incentive was
gone. At times 1t seemed as If u
life's work had been accomplished and
to have lain down for the final sleep
would have been easy, but the feeble