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Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-11-26
North of Bradley Land.
Amazing Sensations of
DR.. Cook and His Two
Companions ~ "
NINTH ARTIcLEl

We should have enjoyed this CURIOUS
experience, but with endless bodily
discomforts, combined in aching MUS
cles and an overbearing languor, THERE
could be no real joys from the glories
of nature. The pleasure was reserved
for a later retrospect.
We now changed our working hours
from day to night, beginning usually
at 10 and ending at Z. The big march
es and prolonged hours of travel with
which fortune favored us earlier we're
no longer possible. Weather confi-
lions were more important in deter
mining the days u than the hands
of the chronometers.
When the storms threatened the
start was delayed, and In strong blows
the march was shortened. but in one
way or another we usually found a
few hours In each turn of the dia1 dur
ing which a march could be forced be-
tween winds. 1t mattered little wheth-
er we Travelled night or day-all hours
and all days were alike to us-for we
had no accustomed time of rest, no
Sundays, no holiday, no landmarks or
mileposts to pass. To advance and cx-
pend the energy accumulated during
one sleep at the cost of u pound OF
pemmican was the one sole aim In
life.
The observations Of April II gave
latitude 81 degrees 20 minutes, iongi-
tude 95 minutes 10 seconds. The pack
disturbance of Bradley Land was less
and less noted in the northward move
ment. The fields became heavier, lar
ger and less crevassed. Fewer troll
blesome old foes and less crushed new
Ice were encountered. With the i'm
proved conditions the fire of a racing
spirit came for a brief spell.
Passing Highest Reach.
We had now passed the highest
reaches of all our predecessors ard
had gained the inspiration of the far
thest north for ourselves. The tine
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-11-26

nvER the newly discovered coast
lines was written Bradley Land,
~ in honor Of John r. Bradley,
the benefactor of the expedi-
ton. AS we passed north of this land
there was nothing substantial upon
which to fix the eye.
There was at no time a perfectly
clear horizon, but the weather was
good enough to permit frequent nauti-
cal observations. The course was lined
on uninteresting blank sheets, but
there were elusive signs of land fire.
quent enough to keep up an exploring
enthusiasm.
Thus day after day the marches
were forced. the incidents and the po-
sitions were recorded, but the adven-
lures were promptly forgotten in the
mental bleach of the next days effort.
The night of April 7 was made notable
by the swing of the SUI at midnight.
For a number of nights 1t made grim
faces at us In its setting. A teasing
mist. drawn as a curtain over the
northern sea at midnight, had given
curious advantages for celestial stag
ing; settling into this haze, we were
unable to determine sharply the adj
vent of the midnight sun, but here was
a spectacular play which interested us
immensely.
Now the great bulk was drawn out
egg shaped. with horizontal lines
drawn through it. Again it was press
ed into a basin with flaming fires,
burning behind a curtain of frosts;
blue at other times, 1t appeared like a
huge vase, and 1t required very little
Imagination to see purple and violet
flowers.
The change was often like magic,
but the last display was invariably a
face-distorted faces Of men or AMI
mails were made to suit our fancy.
We had therefore followed the suns
northward a~dvance-from its first peep
at midday above the south ice of the
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-11-26

polar gateway to its sweep of the
northern ice at midnight. From the
end of the polar night late in Febru-
airy to the first of the double days and
midnight suns we had forced a trail
through darkness, blood hardening
temperature and over leg breaking ir-
r%egularities of an unknown world Of
ice to an area 200 miles from the pole.
The Midnight Sun.
Now we had the sun Enthusiastically
at midnight, and its new glory was
quite an incentive to our life of shiv-
ers. Observations on April s placed
camp at latitude sc degrees SO min
utes, longitude 81 degrees 2 minutes.
In spite of what seemed like long
marches we had advanced only JOG
miles in nine days. Much of our hard
work was lost in circuitous twists
around troublesome pressure lines and
high, irregular fields of very old ice.
The drift ice was throwing us to the
east with sufficient force to give us
some anxiety, but with eyes closed to
danger and hardships the double days
of fatigue and glitter quickly followed
one another.
The temperature, ranging between
SO and 40 degrees below zero F., kept
persistently neal the freezing point OF
mercury, and, though the perpetual
sun gave light and color to the cheer
less wastes. we were not impressed
with any appreciate sense of warmth.
Indeed, the sunbeams seemed to make
the frost Of the air pierce with a more
painful sting.
There was a weird play of orgies,
seemingly most impressive at this
time-clouds of steam rose from the
frozen seas. In marching over the
golden glitter snow scalds the face,
while the nose is bleached with frost.
The sun rose into zones of fire and set
into burning fields of ice, but with
pain we breathe the chill of death.
In camp a grip of the knife left pain
full burns from cold metal. To the
frozen finger the water was hot. With
wine spirits the fire was lighted, while
oil delighted the stomach. In dreams
heaven was hot, the other place was
cold. All nature was false. We SEEM
ed to be nearing the chilled flame of a
new hades. In u hard life there
was nothing genuinely warm. The
c%ongenial appearances were all deep
ton, but death offered only cold COM
fort. There was no advantage In sui
eide.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-11-26
''ATTENTION -

Friends Now is the time to build. Never will you
be able to buy lots to build on as cheap as you can now.
Get busy and secure a desirable location at a low figure while
they are within your reach. Estimates gladly furnished.
Hildreth and Pacific Avenues PHONE "A
HOLLY BEACH, NEW JERSEY
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-11-26
he Conquest of the Pole
By DR.. FREDERICK A. COOK

Copyri hit. 1909, by the New York
Herald Company. Registered In
Canada In Accordance With Copy
right Act. Copyright In Mex
leo Under Laws of the Republic
of Mexico. All Rights Reserved
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-11-26

man endurance to the limit of the
strain of every fiber and cell. The
hard work which followed. under an
occasional burst of burning sunbeams,
brought intense thirst.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-10-09

A climax of dramatic intensity reached this
morning in the trial of Charles +. Newcomb for the
murder of Martin Kvalshaug when Newcomb's
sworn confession, made before several witnesses on
the morning following the murder, was read fo the
jury by Deputy Prosecutor Burmeister over the
protests of the attorneys for the defendant This
the first time the confession has been made public
and the big crowd in the court listened intent
ly to the reading of the story of how Newcomb and
Mrs. Kvalshaug plotted to put the woman's hus-
band out of the way, and the manner in which the
heinOus crime committed.
The state then rested it's case and recess was
called until o'clock this afternoon to allow the de-
fense to prepare it's case more thoroughly.
Says Woman Inspired Plot
In the confession, Newcomb tells freely of his IL
licit relations with Kvalshaugs wife and repeatedly
charges that she urged him to do the deed The
confession sworn to by Newcomb before Justice
Arntson, and the statements were made after he
had been informed that he not compelled to
make them and that his confession would be used
against him in his trial
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SHOW HOW SEATTLE
AND TACOMA GET
WORST OF IT

Pacific and q. r. & N. Further.
more, they said, there had been
practically no freight rate reduc-
tion to the east from Seattle and
Tacoma in the last twelve years
All growth In their business was
directly due. to purely local in.
crease in population and the de-
velo oment of Alaska.
They had rot, they said, shared
in toe prosperity and growth OF
eastern Washington and Idaho in
the least.
That st. Paul jobbers can buy
dried fruits In California. ship
them to Minnesota and back again
to Montana and Idaho common
points and sell them cheaper than
Seattle and Tacoma jobbers can,
in shipping them direct, was the
testimony of s. A. Nourse OF the
Northwest Grocery company of
Tacoma.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-10-09
5000 Af|E
DROWNED
Loss of Life in
Hurricane Off Coast
of Yucatan
(By United Press Leased Wire. }

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
NEW ORLEANS, La, Oct. e.
Between two and three thousand
natives were drowned during
hurricane which swept the Yucca
tan coast and islands of that Sec
ton of the Mexican mainland, ac-
cording to the captain and crew of
the steamer City of Tampico,
which arrived in this port today.
Most of the victims were poor
fishermen.
The great tidal wave which
carried three hundred to their
death on the Gulf coast. devastat-
ing the shore line for nearly
thousand miles. was the same one
which is responsible for the ter
rible loss of human life at Yucca
tan.
According to the captain of the
City of Tampico, the waves were
SO high that they carried many of
their victims bodies and the huts
in which they lived far inland.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-10-09

Here you see with your own
eyes the cruelty of the middle
ages revived in the twentieth CEN
tury.
This remarkable photograph,
taken in sun-baked Morocco-Mo-
rocco. where every man turns his
face to the east at least twice a
day and prays to the same God of
mercy as you do-has just reach
ed the Times. The man in the
cage. who is being paraded be-
fore the people on a camel's back,
is FL Roghi Bou-Hamara, pretend
er to the throne of Morocco. His
tormenter is the Sultan Mulai
Hafid, whose barbarous nature
was pleased by this spectacle in
the streets of Fee.
El Roghi's crime was that of as
piring to the weak and shaky Mo-
|roccan throne. Only few months
ago Mulai Hafid himself was a
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from limb and thrown to the ami
mails.
The other story is that the sui
tan and his chamberlain took the
manacled prisoner into the me-
nagerie and thrust him into a
cage of lions. The animals pounced
upon Eel Roghi, and, after severe
ly injuring him, left the victim
and refused to return, despite
the furious goadings of the sui
tan. The latter then drew him
out of the cage with hooks, and,
pouring oil over the still living
man, set him afire, feeding the
flames with oil-soaked rags until
nothing was left but the charred
bones of the pretender.
Only a week before this the rep
resentatives of the powers called
on Mulai Eafid In body and pro-
tested against any cruelties be-
ling practiced on El Roghi.
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Mayor Says
lie Will
Enforce
Law
He Will Have Street Car
Officials Arrested Un-
less New Schedule
Is Maintained

Mayor John w. Linck says he
will prosecute the T. R. & P. COM
pany unless it lives up to the new
ordinance providing five and ten
minute service on the South Ia
coma line.
The ordinance Is now a law
and will go into effect next week.
Unless the additional service is
put on citizens may expect to see
the local street car officials
marched to the city prison by a
policeman, for the mayor says he
will go right after them.
"Yes, indeed, If they do not
live up to it l will hoss them up
in jiffy. Yes, sir, will arrest
them"
This indicates that there will
be something doing.
The new ordinance requires the
company to operate cars each way
every ten minutes from $3.50
O'Clock in the morning until 10
o'clock at night and 20 minutes
thereafter until midnight and to
operate cars each way every five
minutes from O'Clock in the
morning until o'clock and from
$50 in the evening until 1880.
The law lays a fine of 800 a
day on the company for every day
it fails to live up to the require
ments.
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Drunk in the Gutter, With
Fortune Under His Shirt

let a fellow get just a little bit of
Sleep"
He then rolled over and fell
fast asleep again, but in turning
something under his shirt stru TX
the jailer. Thinking that 1t might
be a weapon or some tool, Wad-
dell tore his shirt open and there
discovered big leather pocket
hook, that fairly bulged with bills.
They were in ten, twenty and
fifty dollar denominations
in all TO 5000. In
his trouser pockets were found
$40 more in bills and $5.s5 in
coin.
lofty was evidently a recent
Alaska arrival. On his coat lapel
he wore button of the Arctic
Bfotherhood. He wore pair OF
cuk pants.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-10-09
ENGINEERS MAY
PUT FEES IN
OWN POCKETS

OLYMPIA, Oct. 9.-Assistant
Attorney General w. F. Nagill
has handed down an opinion to
the prosecuting attorney of Cow
litz county to the effect that coun-
ty engineers may do outside priv.
ate work and charge fees for the
same, putting the money in Their
pockets. 81
The attorney general also de-
clared the engineers could charge
fees for other work, such as max
ing maps, ifg it was not in the
line of their official duties. Jf
it is part of their official duties;
then the fee charged for tho
same should be turned into the
county treasurer. t
The opinion opens the door fo~
county engineers to do a lot Of
outside work to the neglect of tha
public business.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-10-09
More Bodies
Ound in
Mine
Remains of Two Track
men Discovered by Res
cuers at Roslyn This
Morning
(By United Press Leased wire.)

(By United Press Leased Wire.
ROSLYN, WASH, Oct. 9.-All
hope of finding any of the entomb-
ed miners still alive was lost today
when rescuers in the mine of the
Northwest Improvement company,
where the fatal explosion took
place last Sunday, discovered the
bodies of Tom Harsayolin and
Philip Pozarich, trackman.
John x. Jones, the dead pump
man, for whom some hope was
entertained that he might have
escaped death. was found late
yesterday afternoon near the
pumping station. He had been
horribly burned, and indications
were that he had died almost In
stantly.
The rescuers had been unable
at. late hour this morning to
bring the bodies of Marsayolin and
Pozarich up to the surface, owing
to the heavy cave-ins through
which they must still force their
way. Marsayolin was 40 years
old, and Pozarich 35 years. They
were both employed as trackmen.
There are still two more bod
les entombed In the mine. It is
believed they are at the bottom of
the shaft. and 1t win be impos-
sible to reach that for several
days. The Draeger machines are
being put to dilligent use In fur
nishing fresh air, and the work of
the rescuers is going on more rap
idly than expected at first.
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With a fortune tucked under
his shirt. Herman lofty, 2s years
old was picked up by the police
this morning In the alley on Tenth
street between A and Pacific, stu
pefied with drink and bleeding
from scalp wound. When
searched. Jailer Waddell discover
ed -3,075.35 on his person. Thls
is the biggest amount ever found
on any prisoner at the local police
|station.
lofty was dead" to the world
when brought to the police sta
|tion at o'clock this morning.
About IL o'clock Waddell entered
hits cell to get his name from him.
After much tugging and shaking
the man recovered sufficiently 10
say that 1t was Herman lofty and
ladded: Its a wonder you can't
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-10-09
De I R()| I
WINS
Tigers Turn Tables On
Pittsburg Today, and
Beat Her To the
sN Tune of 7 To 2

PITTSBURG, Oct. 9.-Before
another monster crowd of wildly
cheering ball fans, the Detroit
Tigers of the American league
turned the tables on the Pitts
burg Pirates this afternoon in the
second game of -the series for the
worlds championship, and de-
feated them to Q.
The contest was replete with
spectacular plays. Pittsburg made
her two runs in the first inning,
and 1t looked much as though she
was about to repeat the perform
ance of yesterday, but she was
doomed to disappointment.
Detroit played as she never had
played before, and the Tigers, with
their splendid team work, gave
Pittsburg one of the hardest
games in her career.
Pandemonium reigned when
Detroit tied up the score with
two runs In the second, and en-.
thusiasm knew no bounds when
she followed this with three more
In the third. One of the most
spectacular plays of the game was
made in this inning, when Cobb
stole home from third. In the
fifth, Schmidt, with the bases
full, drove pretty single to left,
scoring Crawford and Delehanty.
Pittsburg was absolutely help
less after the first inning, It be-
ing a case of one, two, three and
out every time.
Manager Clark of the Pirates
pulled Camnitz out of the box in
the third, replacing him with
Willis.
Jennings Showed Glass.
Hughey Jennings, the willy
manager of the Detroit team, evil
IDENTIFY knew what he was doing
Continued on Page Six.)
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pretender
fhis photograph was taken by
a french correspondent in Fez.
He isays that Ell Roghi was digni-
fled. but occasionally swore
.roundly in his native tongue at
sonte soldier who would prod him
with bayonet.
After the parade he was exhib-
tied opposite the sultan's palace
for four days In the cage, which
was covered with a canopy, thus
showing the mockery of the sui
tan, for a canopy is symbol of
royal power in Morocco.
Following this, Ell Roghi was
placed in a dungeon in the sui
tan's palace, and day after day
he vas taken before the monarch
and dSquestioned. The cruel mon
arch was gloating over his captive
and working himself up by the
sight of the live man to pitch
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-10-09
CHILDREN HURT
IN CAR WRECK
tBy United Press Leased Wire,


(By United Press Leased Wire.)
SAN BERNARDINO, CAL. Oct.
deputy Sheriff Charles Rit-
chic, who was wounded yesterday
in a pitched battle between the
Piute murderer. Billy Boy, and
Sheriff Ralps' posse. was brought
to this city this afternoon. He is
in serious condition, owing to
the lack of medical attention.
The Indian trailers, Eegundo
Chino and Jack Hyde, who were
reported to have been wounded
by the fugitive. are suffering from
bruises received when their horses
we're shot from under them By
the Indian.
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JApS BEAT
WISCONSIN

(By United Press Leased wire.)
TOXIC. Oct. 9.-The University
of Wisconsin was beaten today In
its last game with the Japanese
team representing the Waseda
university. The score was to O..
Tomorrow the Wisconsin play
ers will cross bats with the Keio
team, which is the last game
scheduled to be played before the
Americans leave for the United
States.
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WOUNDED BY
INDIAN BANDIT

(By United Press Leased Wire.
SEATTLE, Oct. 9.-Five chill
dren were severely sut aud
bruised and more than 100 per-
sons, mostly women and children,
were severely shaken up today
when an outbound Green Lake
car crashed into the rear of a trail
er on a Wallingford avenue car
on the West Lake trestle.
The windows in all three of the
cars were broken, and the passcn-
gers, who were bound for the ex.
position to take part in children 's
day, had narrow escape.
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GoMPERS
IS HOME

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
NEW YORK, Oct. 9.-Samuel
Gompers, president of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, returned
today from Europe, where he has
been attending the meeting of the
international Federation of Labor
at Paris. Gompers said that he is
confident that the time is near
when federation of labor en-
bracing the workers of the world
will be formed.
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PROMINENT BUSINESS MEN
TELL HOW RAILROADS
HAVE THROTTLED COAST
CITIES.

SEATTLE. Oct. 9.-Five promi-
nent business men of Seattle and
Tacoma, each in different lihe
o ftrade, testified before the In
terstate commission today that
discrii1inative eastern freight
rates had lirGited their territory
to the Columbia river on the
Great Northern and Walla Walla
and pendleton on the Northern
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EWCONB'S CONFESSION IS READ TO JURY


where he could enjoy the horrible
death he planned for him.
Two accounts are gwen of Ell
Roghi's death. One 10 that he was
taken into the sultan's menagerie.
and, in the presence Of Mulai Ha-
fid, disemboweled. While await
ing merciful death. he was tor
tured, and when he no longer
breathed his body was torn limb
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TO FLY 100 MILES.
(By United Press Leased Wire.

LONDON, Oct. Captain
Cody. the aeroplanist. has made
final preparations for his flight
from London to Manchester, a
distance Of 100 miles, for the
prize Of $4,000 offered by the
London Daily Mail. Captain Cody
intended to start on the trip yes
terday, but the weather was
against him. He will start today
II the weather permits.
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The Confession.

The Confession.
The principal part of the con-
fession, made May 15, 1909, reads
as follows:
81 first met Mrs. Kvalshaug on
or about the 18th day of January,
1909, at the Columbia hall at a
dance. / saw her off and on at
dances and other places until
about six weeks ago, when I got
intimate with her at the Hotel
Davenport in the afternoons when
/ would stay with her three OF
four hours. She went
to the hospital (Fannie Paddock }
on or about the 4th day Of
March, 1909.
Says Woman Laid Plot.
II went to the hospital to see
her three times and 1t was about
the first visit there that she said,
4 wish Martin was out of the
way The next time
went to see her was about the
12th-14th of March, 1909, and
at that time she told me that she
wanted me to put him out of tn 2
way as he was disagreeable, ani
she gave me $40 and told me 70
get a gun and put him out of tn =
way. l went to Miller Bros, and
bought an Iver Johnson, 38-cali-
Der revolver and took it to my
home at 3716 South K street and
put 1t away.
Planed to Get Divorce.
"At my third and last visit at
the hospital she said some one
must put him out of the road and
for me to do 1t, and / consented
at the time that I would. This
was about Saturday, the 23rd day
of March. She said she wanted
me to do this as she intended TO
get him put away So that she
could marry me. l was to get a
divorce If ! could, but IL not
was to still continue to unlawfully
cohabit with her.
IT next saw her on the 26th Vt
April, Wednesday, at her home in
the afternoon about o'clock.
was there about two hours. had
the gun with me. / thought II
he started anything I could get
him. She said he was SO mean
that I'd have to do business pret-
ty quick.
"I told her I would IL I had IN.
The children were in the house,
but I didn't go In. We sat on
some stumps near the house.
Insisted ON Killing Husband.
II next saw her Friday, the
2Sth of March. at about 1870 or 2
o'clock. at her house and stayed
till about 4 o'clock. / was ont
doors all the time then, too. The
children were inside. She told me-
about the same as she had before,
'Contiuned on Page Six.)
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BRYAN DENIES
REPORT

LIVINGSTON. Mont, Oct. o.
William J. Bryan, en- route for
Portland, Ore, today denied that
his daughter, Mrs. Ruth Bryan
Leavitt, intends to run for con-
gress on the democratic ticket in
Colorado. He expressed great m
dignation at the newspaper re-
ports.
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HOW TO GET LAND

Many readers asking for details about public lands
The government information.
II want know about IRRIGATED LANDS. ad-
dress:
Reclamation Service. Washington. d. G.
II you want to know about land drawings addressi
Land Office. Washington. D. q