Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1912-03-08

| ELLlNhlON, New zealand,
March S.-Captain Raold Amund-
sen, the Norwegian explorer, has
stated here that Captain Scott. the
British explorer. reached the South
Pole.
LONDON, March S.-The first
message with the definite statement
from Amundsen that Scott had
reached the South Pole was re-
ceiyed from Wellington. N. r., by
the Daily Express.
| COPENHAGEN, March S.-The
Demokraten publishes a dispatch
from Christiana saying that a pri-
yate individual in that city has re-
ceived a telegram from the Fran
expedition stating that Amundsen
reached the South Pole.
| CHRISTIANA. Norway, March s.
king Haakon of Norway, who was
! to have received the news from
Captain Raold Amundsen if he had
been successful in attaining the
South Pole, has not received any
communication from the explorer.
LONDON. March S.LMrs. Scott.
wife OF the British explorer, has
: not received any direct news of her
husbands reported success. She
said that she was unable to i'm
agine how Captain Amundsen would
know, saying:
Il hope the news Is true, but al
: present / do not care to say any.
: thing"
) The cable dispatches from New
Zealand that Captain Scott had
found the South Pole came as q
= startling climax to the race which
five explorers of different nation
alities have been making to reacf
this last extremity of the undiseov
= cred portion of the globe.
a Captain Robert Falcon Scott start
ed on his expedition from Por
a Chalmers, N. H., on November %
1910. He was well equipped fol
this dash and for the farthest south
having made previous expedition
: under the direction of the Roya
Geographical society.
At that time he attained recorC
of 50 degrees 80 minutes, which re
!. mained the record up to the tim
!, of Lieutenant Shackleton's notabl
:, exploit. Shackleton pushed furthe
south and in 1907 reach SO degree
23 minutes, or about 100 miles fror
the South Pole. This remained th
record and inspired navigators q
many nations to attempt the culmiu
ating feat of reaching the pole.
r Captain Scott took the route b
way of Australia and New Zealand
N He sailed due south into Ross sea
sr great stretch of water, reachin
r toward the South Pole His chile
X competitor was Captain Raol
rt Amundsen, who was commissions
lie by the king of Norway and tn
Sc Norwegian government.
t. Amundsen chose the route by wa
s. of South America, as against Scot
and three others, who went by tn
Australian route. Amundsen lei
Buenos Ayres on board the steam
at er Fran toward the cose of 1911
I'd He passed through the Straits I
gs Magellan and then steered for Ros
ly sea, the same sheet of water whic
Scott had gained by way of Ne
~ Zealand and the Australian route
Captain Scott planned to folio
the same land trail that Shackletc
had taken. This is along moul
. tain range, thought to be an e
4 tension of the Andes range runnir
\ south through South America.
At the furthermost point of Ro
sea. Captain Scott debarked
ife party from his ship, the Ter
a Nova. At this point stands Il
,ry great volcano Mount Erebue, fro
which rises constantly a great vC
RI ume of steam. 1t is one of d
in dreaded localities of the antarct
ro- to which navigators have given &
ce, name of Terror bay. for here Nc
tie, deneskiold's ship, the Antarctic, W
Ter crushed by the ice. Back of III
nd bay the steam wrapped volcal
ir- stands out like a sentinel again
est the ice-eovered mountain ran
stretching southwark.
lb- First Winter Quarters.
vas Captain Scoot made his first wi
ity ter quarters on the slope of t
as mountains and there remained un
November 1911 II was then tn
ort his dash began. His plan was
ave cover the remaining distance by I