The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1909-09-17
NEWS NOTES.
CONDENSED.
A Boiling Down Of the More Impor.
tant Eveats Here and There

8 TAM Eveats mere ana lsefe
Foreign.
Convincing evidence" Is the YER
dict Of the papers of London on the
brief summary of Commander
Peary's voyage to the north pole.
published this morning. There is
no possibility of doubt with regard
to this narrative" comments the
Westminster Gazette, which adds:
"Peary has actually reached the pole
and he seems to have taken the
usual precautions of having all his
work verified as he advanced"
Professor Helm of the technical
University of Dresden Is understood
to have received a telegram from
Herbert L. Bridgmen, secretary of
the Peary Arctic club, to the effect
that Commander Peary is bringing
home thorough proofs to refute DIR.
Cooks narrative. Peary also has
with him another witness who will
testify that Cook did not make the
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scientific equipment did not contain
an artificial horizon with which to
take bearings.
w. w. Russell. American minister,
received from the Venezuela foreign
ONCE check for S59.375. which Is to
be paid to the New York and Vene-
Suela company.
A caL:e message, asking American
support for the Swedish strikers. was
received In New York by c. e. Tholin
and John Sandergren. two Of their
delegates who arrived on August "a.
General.
Hartman. the great railroad
builder and flnancier. died at his
home at Arden on the 9th after .
long illness.
$50 far as I am concerned, let the
war 60 on" This was the laughing
reply Of Secretary OF the Interior
Ballinger when pressed for an ex.
preston Of opinion as to how long
he thought the controversy In Wash
ington regarding the conservation
policy of the interior department
would continue.
General James Shackelford, q hero
Of the Mexican war and prominent
in the south. died at his summer cot.
tage in Port Huron. Mich.
DR.. d. X. Pearsons announced q
gift Of 100000 to the Berea. KY,
college providing the trustees of that
institution raise 100000 more.
The long pending controversy be-
tween the Southern Pacific Railroad
company and the government of the
United States relative to the right Of
the road to se.ect indemnity lands
within the limits Of the old Atlantic
and Pacific railroad grant will be de-
termined by the supreme court of the
United States II q suit filed by the
railroad company In that court re-
Gently reaches final issue there.
Cook. the explorer. says: LET
skeptics who disblieve 60 to the north
pole. There they will find a small
brass tube which I buried under the
nag. That tube contains q short state
ment about my trip. I couldn't leave
my visiting card because didn't hap.
pen TO have one with me-"
The interstate commerce commits
sion II to take an early appeal from
the ruling In the Missouri rate case.
There Is political unrest in the
northwest over the new tariff law.
Governmental expenditures are stih
running higher than receipts.
Mrs. Merriam Colbert Harris, wife
Of Bishop Harris of the Methodist
Episcopal church. died at her home
In Toxic.
The statement is credited to a
Santa Fe official that his road will
build no more lines In Oklahoma un.
til the state laws are revised SO as
to make 1t possible.
The state department il watching
political events In Mexico with some
concern.
King Frederick of Denmark Is 4
believer in DR.. Cooks claim that he
discovered the north pole.
President Taft Is expected to talk
on the subsidy In is journey through
the west.
The Copenhagen correspondent of
the Daily Telegraph states that q let
ter Was received there from q Danish
lady at Jacobshaven. Greeland. in
which the writer says 1t was known
there on August II that Peary had
reached the pole.
The year book Of the Young Mems
Christian association Of North Amer
aca. just issued. shows that the or
ganisations now includes 1914 asso-
Citations. with 456.927 Membership
gain Of 10000 In twelve months.
Thomas 8. Phelps. Jr.. commandant
at the Mare Island navy yard. re-
ceiyed Ais commission a q rear Cd
airal The captains mas. formerly
used ~ the commandant, was hauled