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The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1912-03-29
RooseveIt's Real Friends.

Omaha Bee: II is unfair for those
advocating a third term for Roosevelt
to deny the friendship for him of
many of the men opposing his third
term aspirations. Some of che best
and truest friends Col Roosevelt ever
had are not supporting him in the
present campaign and they are aCtu-
ated by the very best motives. still
giving credit to him for. the great re-
forms his administration promoted or
brought TO completion. And it is be-
cause they believe in him and his
great achievements and wish to see
him and them go down in history
clear of disparagcment that they OPP
pose his return to the white house for
the third term as president.
The day will surely come when
Col Roosevelt himself will appreciate
the difference between his unselfish
friends who counselled against his
present venture and his Friends
with personal objects to serve or
grievances to redress, who disSuaded
him from his own high resolve not
TO run again. His best friends, We
believe, are those, who, like Senator
Lodge, for instance, and Senator Root
and others, We're eager to have him
leave unblOken his ringing deClara-
ton to the American people that "un-
der no circumstances" would he &C
cept another presidential nomination.
And had il not been for men, dis
gruntled al President Taft, some of
them dislodged from public office by
him for good and sufficient reasons
had it not been for the impetuous de
sire of these men to get even it
is reasonable to believe the luster Of
the former presidents fame and name
would now be mdiminished
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1912-03-29

ground in the best shape for good re-.
suits.
Fire which broke out In the Gibbons
hotel at Condo did damage tu the eX.
tent ut about $4,000, most OF which
was covered by insurance.
Charles llardwick, wanted at Lead
ON II statutory charge. has been ar
rested in Kansas and will be- brought
back at once to face trial
The 100000 worth of state revenue
warrants recently issued 10y the sec
rotary of state were purchased by the
Pierre Trust and Savings bank
Appraisers have put the price of
the school lands about to be sold Toy
the state so high that an enormous
sum for school purposes will be real.
lied.
Several straw votes ON the prcsiden.
tial lineup taken in various parts OF
the state all give laFollotte lead
over Roosevelt and a big lead over
Taft.
The special election ON the commits.
sion plan of government at Water
town held today is said to he bring.
ing out record breaking vote. The
plan is expected to carry.
Judge w. G. Rice. of Deadwood, has
ruled that the state irrigation law
which made all water courses the
property OF the state. is invalid, as
being unconstitutional
The Milwaukee railway has promis.
ed to spend about 100000 on inn
provemcnts at Aberdeen and vicinity.
Freight yards, double tracking and an
addition TO the big round house there
are included in the program.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1912-03-29

Was described as the most popular
American" Ills right to the title was
admitted without dissent
When the seven governors decided
TO save the republican party they in
sisted that the Roosevelt popularity
must he drafted to accomplish the
job. Roosevelt at first refused to re.
being shown that the plea of the gov
ernors represented Il popular demand.
He was shown a basketball of straw
votes from many localities. including
North Dakota. The straw votes show.
ed that Roosevelt everywhere was a
teen-toone popular favorite. There
fore the colonel hurriedly agreed to
run and expressed the hope that the
individual voters everywhere would
be given a chance to express their
preference in popular primaries.
The first popular presidential pri-
mary was held in North Dakota. Out
of a total vote Of about 10000 Roose.
welt got about $4,000 votes and La.
Toilette about $4,000. Roosevelt had
once lived i'm North Dakota and for
various reasons his popularity was
supposed to be stronger there than
in any other state. LaFOllette was
a stranger to North Dakota, known
there only as political revivalst
who stood for certain principles ad
vanced i'm the name of political re.
form. And yet the North Dakota
popular verdict was two to one in
favor of LaFollette.
Why did the tremendous popular.
ity of Roosevelt melt in this acid
test? North Dakota is radical state
politically. Does the verdict indicate
belief that the colonel as radical
is a fake. Does it intimate convic.
ton that the colonel gave LaFollette
as well as Taft a dirty deal instead
of a square deal? Does it reflect pop.
ular prejudice against third term
for even a popular man?
There are the figures two-to-one
against Roosevelt. Let the third term
promoters make what they can of
them.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1912-03-29
Creighton.

Creighton, NeD. March 26.-Special
to The News: Lots of snow fell this
last time-over IS inches and feed
is getting very scarce. 1t can't be
bought, as it isn't in the country, but
snow is melting away very fast and
it looks like spring today. It's going
to make the farmers hustle after it
is here to get their springs work
done, before they can go to planting
corn as there is a lot of blowing to
be done yet for corn.
Logan * Limkin are putting in a
new up-to-date moving picture show.
called the Lyric. The building is
going to be eighty feet long with
raised floor and opera seats and a
stage for vaudeville work. They also
will have an automatic pianola. This
will make two moving picture shows
for Creighton.
II seems that most every one is
having auction sales here in Creigh-
ton the first one was S. J. G. Twins
and the next one is Charles Emick,
and one is w. II. Green, who is going
to have a sale March 2Sth, selling at
auction all his implement goods
This does bring big crowds to town
even if they don't buy
Roads are going to be very bad
this spring on account of the frost
being so deep it will take some time
before the frost will be all out, as
the frost Was down five and one-half
feet and where the land is low, roads
will be very bad for a while.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1912-03-29
valentine HAS l,l5O
Recent Census Shows Increase Since
Uncle Sam Took the Count.

Recent census SHOWS Increase Since
Uncle Sam Took the Count.
Valentine, Neb, March 26.-Special
to The News: The recent census TAX
en- to ascertain whether Valentine had
sufficient population to become a city
of the second class has been finished
The results show this city to have
population of 1850 people, an in
crease oVec the federal census.
During the past two years this city
has had steady substantial growth
and there are at present no vacant
houses in the town. Contractors anti
cipate busy spring and summer this
year in building. Sufficient funds
have been raised to assure the cree
ton of the auditorium which is the
result of the activity of the Ladies'
Improvement club. This building will
be large, modern and up-to-date in
every respect.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1912-03-29

Transfers of real estate for the past
week. Compiled by Madison County
Abstract &; Guarantee Company. Of.
flee with MapeS x HaZen, Norfolk.
Wilhelm Albrecht and wife to Fred
Albrecht, warranty deed; cOnsidera-
ton, $1,000; lots and 4 and south
onehalf, northwest quarter 424-2.
Lizzie Shepard and husband to Har-
ry +. Reaves, quit claim deed; con
sideration, $500; east one-half, south
east quarter lO-22-4.
John Burke and wife to John Long
warranty deed; consideration, s3,S0o;
southwest quarter, 26-23-2.
Christ D. Schmitt and wife to Fred
Raguse, warranty deed; consideration
SIS, 900; southeast quarter; 1l-2l-2.
Frank ID. Hill and wife to G. W.
Lemont warranty deed; consideration
$1,000 lots 20 and y, block !, Nor
folk Junction.
Mary r. Rainbolt ct al, to Mary
Brueggeman, warranty deed; consId-
Grafton $500; lots !, 2, and s, block
Z, Verges Suburban lots to Norfolk
IbltT Dove anu VIE " lol d'l Ni'''
ler warranty deed; consideration,
$4,000; south one.half, southwest
quarter, 29.23-1.
Lewis c. Larson and wife to c. f.
Patterson, warranty deed; considera-
ton $15,SOO; southeast quarter, 5-2l-i
Christ j. Schaefer and wife to Jos.
eph Beller, warranty deed; considera.
ton, $1,000; southwest quarter, a.
21-3.
Joseph A. Morley and wife to Frank
Lewis, warranty deed; consideration
$12O; part of southwest quarter, 22-
pa.
Peter Bove and wife to Isaac S.
Carter, warranty deed consideration,
$1,000; north one-half, southwest quar-
ter, 29-23-1.
Caroline Wolf to Otto w. Wolf,
warranty deed; consideration, $3.50;
south 16h feet of lots and 6, block
81, North Addition to Madison.
f. w. Zutz and wife to Minnie Mach
muller, warranty deed; consideration,
800; lot 4. block ~, Western Town
Lot Company's Addition to Norfolk
Jacob Christensen TO Minnie Mach
muller, warranty deed; consideration,
$500: lot {, block IL; Western Town
Lot Company's addition to Norfolk
Junction
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1912-03-29
Withstood Rough Voyage.

Captain Otto Sverdrup, an experience
ed arctic navigator, who was with DR..
Nansen on his transgreenland trip Of
1889, had charge of the Fran on her
maiden voyage into the arctic, when
in 1896 hansen reached the highest
latitude until then attained, Sc de
Grees IA minutes north. 1t was a
rough voyage, the toughest timbers
had ever weathered, but the Fran
withstood the crush of the northern
ice pack.
At one point. in latitude So degrees
If minutes, the ice pack froZe stiff
around her, and she seemed doomed to
remain in perpetual cold storage in
the frozen desert. Only by blasting
with guncotton and powder were they
able to free her and continue their
course southwark.
On New Years day, just after Nan
sen left the ship for his dash over the
ice, the ice froZe once more around her
and she was subjected to pressure
that would have crushed any other
ship like an eggshell. But the Fran
withstood it until the ice itself sudden
ly cracked. leaving a free lane of wa
ter ahead of her.
One week in June, 1896, at the height
Of the spring tides the Fran was ex-
posed to violent pressure by the chang
ing tide currents, which twice a day
lifted her from six to nine feet until
her bottom could be plainly seen rest
ing on the ice. Yet even then as she
was lifted out of her element and
beached upon the ice not crack or
groan was heard in her timbers. The
men aboard her were not even dis
turbed in their slumbers and awoke
ignorant of the danger that had men
aced them in the night. Many times
the little craft had to be thawed out
of the ice with steam, and several
times gun powder and guncotton We're
used to blast her free. But the Fran
came home without broken timber
1t was for these qualities Of the
sturdy little ice ship that Amundsen
selected her as the ship Of his latest
expedition when, in 1909, he decided
once more to enter the polar fields, and
he asked the Norwegian state for her
for his contemplated south polar voy-
age.
1.-THE old Fran is not yet 30 entirely
UNFIT for service as has 30 often been
said latterly," he announced before he
started ON his expedition. watch
her"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1912-03-29
A Galloway Bank Mercer.

Galloway, Neb, March 26-For the
past five years Galloway has main.
tanned three banks, \ deal has been
closed in which Galloway State bank
was consolidated with the First Ma.
tioaal bank of this city, the business
being moved to the First National
building. w. r. Keyes, heavy stock
holder OF the Galloway State bank, dis
posed of his stock to the First Ma.
tional and will retire from business.
+. NJ. McGrew, who has been cashier
of the Galloway State bank as well as
a stakeholder. also disposed of his
stock and will retire from business.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1912-03-29
Depends on viewpoint.

Sioux City Journal: Col. Roose-
velt's Carnegie hall address was one
OF the best sounding speeches the
colonel has ever made, and he has
made a good many 1t was admirably
adapted for the purpose of the speak
er, namely, the stirring of political
prejudice. Selecting his own prem
ises, the colonels eloquence ran cas-
lily to some seemingly logical and pat
riotic conclusions. Plausible" is the
word that describes the Carnegie hall
eloquence. Those who agreed with
the speakers premise at the outset
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1912-03-29
Sims of the TONGUE,

In case tried before a magistrate
in Glasgow the defending agent made
reference to verbal agreement be-
tween the parties. Lets see yer YER
bal agreement" the magistrate said,
Hand it up here"
At a parish council meeting, when
petition for some increase of wages
was under consideration, the chairman
said peevishly: "A Gamma max held nor
tail O. this dockyment. It's jist like
Alphy aud Omegy-it's got neither be
ginning nor eud."-Glasgow Herald.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1912-03-29
Two to One AaaInst T. r.

Sioux City Journal: Later returns
from the North Dakota presidential
primary show that LaFollette receiv-
ed two votes for every one cast for
Roosevelt.
Does the full significance of that
sink in?
When Theodore Roosevelt returned
from his exploits in Africa and his
triumphal trip through Europe he
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1912-03-29
The Steeplechase.

The first steeplcchases were literally
"chases to Il steeple.' The earliest we
can discover was a match in 1852 be
tween Edmund Blake and Mr.. O'Cal-
laghan over four and Il half miles ot
stiff country between the church of
Buttevant ana st. Leger church spire.
London Taller.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1912-03-29

could hardly avoid running along
with him to the ultimate conclusion
Those who did not agree with the
premise could find nothing but bun.
combe in the subsequent elaborate ar.
guments. This newspaper desires to
be included i'm the latter class.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1912-03-29
A Long Sought Goal.


The Northwest passage was for more
than three centuries the lure of advcn-
turous sailors Of all lands. Martin
Frobisher 800 years ago had declared
it the only thing that still remained to
be discovered in the world. Perhaps
it was John Cabot who first set out for
it in an endeayor to find new way
east by sailing west. AS far back as
1853 Sir Hugh WillOughby and Rich
ard Chancellor sailed from England to
search for that same passage. Fro.
bisher followed in 1876. John Davis
in 1855, Barents Of Amsterdam in
1896 and scores of others, including
Sir John Ross. in 1918, and Sir John
Franklin in 1859
AmundSen sailed from Chrstiania,
Norway, on June 16, 1903, in the little
Gjoa, mere eggshell Of a vessel, with
but eight men all told upon her. The
Gjoa registered only forty-seven tons
and was seventy feet long and twenty
broad.
Amundsen made his way through
Lancaster sound to Beechy island and
sailed to Cape Adelaide, thence east
ward of King William Land by enter
ing Ross strait He reached GjOa har-
Dor, In latitude north 6S degrees and
95 minutes, on the south coast Of King
William Land, on Sept. II, 1908. There
the vessel was laid up safely for the
winter.
From that time until Aug. 10, 1905,
Amundgen made daily observations OF
magnetic conditions day and night for
twenty months.
On Aug. l3, 1905, the Gjoa started
on her westward way. She had come
some 40 miles from Baftin bay, and
only 760 remained to Cape Bathurst,
the American whaling station, and the
completion of the Northwest passage.
At one point in Simpson strait there
was barely room for her to pass. and
at another point there waR water to a
depth OF only three fathoms. Dense
Ice was encountered In Victoria strait,
but she elbowed her way through.
News Of the Discovery.
On Aug. 20, after passing through
Dolphin and Union straits, the Gjoa,
somewhat east Of Cape Bathurst. met
the first American whaler.
An accident to the propeller Of the
ship necessitatsd Amundsen's winter
ing with the Gjoa at King point. 90
degrees 10 minutes north, 1873 degrees
west. But Amundsen, taking sledge,
arrived at Eagle City, Alaska. on Dec.
IL, 1906, bringing the frst news "a MS
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1912-03-29
FOSS NOT A CANDIDATE.
So Speaker Clark Submits Candidacy
In Massachusetts.

Washington, March 26.-Thc sub
mission of Speaker Champ Clark IS
name as a democratic candidate in the
presidential primary in Massachu.
sets April 80 was determined on to.
day by the Clark leaders here after.
according to their statement, Gov.
Foss had positively said he would NOT
be a candidate.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1912-03-29

would pay them to do 80, will come
this week II your advertising is con-
vincing enough!
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1912-03-29

Inc people who would have come
TO your store last week. II your ad.
vertising had persuaded them that It
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1912-03-29
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
History Of AmundSen,
DiSC0yerer OF South Pole
His Craft, the Fran, With
stood the North Pole Ice
Packs In 1895.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
successful achievement -

successful achievement -
west passage TO the world
He returned to the Gjoa that win
ter and brought her safely through
the Bering strait, the first ship to
make the Northwest passage. He had
also determined the magnetic pole by
observations covering nearly two years
In its immediate vicinity.
The Northwest passage trip brought
Amundsen great renown, but soon
afterward he turned his lights to-
ward the north pole and nee an
bounced his plan of drifting around
the polar sea. He received strong
backing from his countrymen, King
Haakon Of Norway heading the list of
subscribers In support of his project.
In 1909. when Dir. Cook returned to
America with his yarn of how he dis
covered the north pole, Amundsen de-
clared he saw no reason to doubt the
doctors story A little later he him
self announced his project of drifting
around the polar sen to the north pole,
a plan which was little jest OF his
own apparently, for he switched off
toward the south pole instead.
Fran Strongest Ship Afoat.
The Fran, the ship in which Captain
Amundsen made his expedition to the
antarctic, is the vessel in which DR..
Fridtjof Nansen, the Norwegian ex-
plorer achieved his 'farthest north"
in 1895. The word Fran means for
ward"
The ship was built especially for arc
tic ice bucking at Colin Archer's ship
yard at Larvik by Or. Nansen after
his return from his Greenland voyage
in 1889, and it IS considered the strong
est small craft ever constructed, her
power of resistance to a crush of ice
being greater than the force which
would be needed to lift her on the ice.
The vessel IS Just big enough for a
crew Of about twelve men, typical
vikings party such as Amundsen and
the shippers Of his race rejoice to take
with them to measure the strength Of
small numbers against the freezing
might of the arctic.
The Fran is o shaped tub, design
ed neither to be fast nor a smooth
sailor. She is only 101 feet long and
her breadth one-third her length. The
ship is pointed at both ends to make
nosing into and out of the ice equally
easy. She has no projecting corners
and on the whole resembles n Norwe
gian pilotboat. Her sides are from
twenty-eight to thirty-two inches. thick
"a solid mass of pitch pine, oak and
greenheart, her hull being covered
with three and four thicknesses Of
tough, heavy timber. four feet wide at
the bow and three feet at the stern.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1912-03-29

would impossible
Upon receipt of 81 the publisher
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1912-03-29
His First Taste of Exploration.

he had his first real taste of eXplo-
ration when in 1897 he went as first
officer with the Belgica on Gerlach's
Belgian south polar expedition. 1t was
this trip, which lasted from 1897 to
1899, that filed him with aspirations
to make discoveries in the arctic re-
glon and especially to discover the
long sought Northwest passage. First
he decided to prepare himself by
studying two years in Hamburg under
Neumayer, the expert on magnetism,
and finally at Wilhelmshafen under
Bergen in the meteorological station.
Then he proceeded to raise the mod
est funds necessary for his expedition.
A large part of the $50, 900 was Amund
sens own money. Fridtjof Nansen, the
Norwegian polar explorer, a close
friend of Amundsen, helped him raise
another part.
Amundsen was finally able to put out
from Christiania in the Gjoa on June
II, 1908 He sailed around the north
end of America, reaching the mouth Of
the Mackenzie river about Sept. 3,
1905, and then by way of Baffin bay,
Lancaster sound, Barrow strait, Peel
sound, James Ross strait and Rae
strait. Twice the Gioa wintered in the
ice. For many months Amundsen
maintained an observatory on King
William Land. within ninety miles Of
the magnetic pole, taking daily obSer-
VatiOnS
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1912-03-29
He Was the First Sailor to
Take Ship Through North
west Passage.
~o%o~o~o~o%o~o~os~>>e.s~u-

THOALD AMUNDSEN, discoverer
OF the south pole, who is now
AA only forty years old, has long
been considered one of the
most competent of the northern eX-
plorers. He is the first and only man
so far TO accomplish the long attempt
ed feat Of taking n ship from the At
lantic to the Pacific ocean by way Of
the Northwest passage, which, by the
way, Columbus was looking for when
he accidentally hit upon America. He
lance OF the magnetic north pole, the
only set Of complete polar magnetic
observations taken before Pearys
discovery of the north pole These
achievements were accomplished In
1903 and 1905.
Amundsen's expedition at the time
was made, at n cost Of only $4,000, in
tiny whaling sloop, the Gjoa, only sew
enty feet long and of only forty
tons burden.
Amundsen was born in Sarpsburg,
Norway, on July 16, 1872, and in his
childhood moved with bis parents to
Christiania. His father was Jens
Amundsen, skipper. His mothers
maiden name was Sahlquist. His par
ents destined him for the medical pro
fession; but, after studying medicine
for one year at the University Of Chris
tiania, on the death Of his mother he
went to sea at the age of nineteen,
cruising for several years as a whaler
and sealer on Norwegian vessels. He
is tall, spare man, with the appear
ance of a typical Scandinavian sailor.
He IS a bachelor.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1912-03-29
A Moderate Priced Farm Barn
Designed by WALTER c. BUTTON, College Of Agriculture.
Ohio State University

STH1s farm barn can be built for
little over $500. II IL twenty
four feet wide and forty eight
feet long and is designed for mod
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-11-18
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