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there for the winter. 1t was Captain
Sverdrup, who, years ago, discovered the
great archipelago to the west of Elles-
mere Land, in Nansen's exploring vessel
Fran. Sverdrup had been sent out from
Europe to hunt for the lost explorer,
Lieutenant Brussiloff, whose party left ST.
Petersburg in July, 1912, for the arctic.
SveydrTp was in command of the expIOr-
ing ship Eclipse. AS soon as she was tied
up for the winter he reinstalled his wire
less, and to his great JOY he soon picked
up message which his brother explorer
Nilkitski was tapping off in the hope that
it might reach somebody somewhere.
Wireless is beginning to be an essen
tial part of the eQuil of DOlar eX-
plorers, and it served these two wayfarers
particularly we'll The most important
result of these communications was that
a small part of Captain Vilkitski's crew
was sent to Sverdrup to lessen the pres
sure upon the Russian supplies, as Vii
kitsh had met such bad ice conditions
that he did not feel sure he could get
away last summer.
Sverdrup engaged in sledge Journeys
last winter, but found no trace of the
missing Russians. Brussiloff, who him
self was trying to make the Northeast
Passage, was caught in the ice of the
Kara sea in August, 1912, and drifted
year and a half till he reached Franz Jo-
sef Land, where all perished except two
of the men, who were rescued at Cape
Flora.
Last spring Vilkitski and Sverdrup
started for home with their three ships,
and they reached Archangel, Russia,
without mishap late in September. VII
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kitSki had most successfully made the
continuous voyage from Vladivostok to
Europe without the loss of a single mem
Der of his crew. No further details of
his great voyage are as yet available, but
they will probably soon be published.
Most attempts of European countries
to find a comparatively short passage
from the Atlantic to oriental countries
were by way of the Northwest Passage,
north of America, because having first
tried the Northeast Passage and in every
instance having met with dire failure,
they concentrated attention upon the
Northwest Passage as probably more
feasible. Practically all the arctic expe-
dtiOns from Sir John Ross to Sir John
Franklin were fitted out most of all to
find the Northwest Passage The passage
was found during the search for the lost
party of Sir John Franklin, but it was
never travelled by a ship till Amundsen
took his little boat, the Gjoa, through it
in August, 1905.
The attempts to make the Northeast
Passage began with the hardy Dutch sal
lor Barentz, in 1895, whose party was the
first to spend the dark winter night in
the arctic, ''in most create cold and ex-
treame miserie." The only achievement
of the Northeast Passage prior to Vilkit-
skis success was by Baron A. E. Norden-
skiold, who sailed from Tromso with his
Swedish expedition in June, 1878, tri-
umphed over the great obstacle of Cape
Chelyuskin, and was within 12O miles of
Bering strait when winter closed upon
him He entered Bering strait in July,
1879, thirteen months from the time he
sailed.
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Matrinony
VIII Out Is
Proven by
Recent
Experience
of American
Actress
Expelled From
London
Theater.

friends smiled a knowing smile. But
finally everybody understands. Rea-
sons, like matrimony, will out. And what
better reason could there be than Har-
old Detmold Robert, German, for Ferne
Rogers standing up in active defense of
German activities in the war then and
now progressing?
That's exactly what she did, right in
the Drury Lane theater, where the au-
dience, the players, and even the stage
hands were as actually and actively Brit
ish as the English flag, and as violently
anti-German. Yet Ferne, in the most
ingenious manner imaginable, rose up in
defense of the Fatherland-which wasn't
her own Fatherland at all; she COM
mended the kaiser and, as though all this
wasn't enough, she declared that she
liked the Germans
A certain member of the company un-
dertook to reason with her. She couldn't
express such fondness for an enemy's
country even though she felt il, he de-
clared She couldn't see why, and said
so. Whereupon he replied that her re-
marks were not suitable ones to make
in an English theater. She began to
think that she had blundered and blum
dered badly, but still she didn't under
stand. But later she understood. That
was after a round-robin signed by nearly
all the principals in The Sleeping Beau
ty," was delivered to Mr.. Arthur Collins,
the manager, saying that because Of the
prO-German sentiments expressed by Miss
Rogers the members of the company felt
they could not stand her presence among
them. They even intimated that they
wouldn't appear again in the same caste
with her.
What was there for poor Ferne.to do?
Why, resign, of course. No choice at all.
So soon after New Years day year ago
she handed in her resignation and, when
passports to Berlin were refused her in
London, threatened to appeal to the
state department at Washington.
Without turning the subject away from
Ferne, it's interesting to remember that
she isn't the only American girl who has
met trouble in London for seeming to
line up with the Germ.ns. There's Miss
Malvina Longfelder, famous and beauti-
full New York model, who was obliged to
become Malvina Longfellow to get by in
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England at all! Malvina is the daughter
of New York mechanic of German birth,
who never for a moment forgets his old
home on the Rhine. So at least one half
of her is German, fact which gave her
no trouble until she planned to cross the
water last March. And beginning with
the time that she first put foot on ship
board she met with such frOst-blighted
reception on the part of almost everybody
that she determined to show EN- a thing
or two. And when she arrived in the
British metropolis she was met by the
news of what had happened to her charm
ing little cOuntrywoman. Malvina, how
ever, was no swaying Ferne, to be blown
into eXile-Or even into apologies-by the
icy breath of hostility. So she visited
the poets corner at Westminster Abbey,
where a bust Of Henry Wadsworth Long
fellow is to be seen, and made her plans
Thereafter she was introduced as the
grandniece of the poet by a few to-be-
trusted American friends who not only
could recognize but appreciate a Joke.
Likewise she bought a copy of Longfel-
lows poems, and did some memorizing
that would make almost any stock head
liner sit up interestedly And it wasn't
more than a couple of weeks before a GER
tain lady of first family, with perfectly
good handle to her name, was inviting
Malvina to sing at a Belgian benefit.
1t isn't necessary to describe Malvina's
triumph at the benefit The London
Sketch ran full page headline, Pro
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of which there are yet no particulars ex-
Cept the discovery that it is about 100
miles wide. 1t lies only twenty miles
north of the course steered by the three
exploring expeditions that before Viii
kitski's day successfully doubled Cape
-Nordenskjold in the Vega in
1873, Nansen in the Fran in 1895, and
Baron Toll in the Zara in 19OO-but all
failed to note even the appearance of
land to the north.
On his last journey, Captain Vilkitski
succeeded in passing around the point of
Cape Chelysukin before winter set in.
This was a conspicuous success, for very
few vessels have ever passed that for
midable promontory. Its point lies in
about IS degrees north latitude, about
half way between the arctic circle and the
north pole. This long finger of Asia,
crowned with mountains, in striking con-
trast with the gentle slope OF the great
Siberian plain behind it, is terrifying in
aspect and usually blocks the way against
all arctic adventurers.
But though the fortunate Vilkitski
passed the cape with flying colors, he
waged an unsuccessful battle with the ice
beyond, and the best he could do was to
turn down the west side of the cape and
take refuge for the winter of 1914-15 in
Talmyr bay, close to the mainland, about
$50 miles to the south.
Captain Vilkitski was beginning to set
tie down at his winter quarters when
something very interesting occurred about
eighty miles away. A ship to the west
that had tried to double the cape and had
failed found little inlet on the west side
Of 1t, well down the coast. and hove to
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mas day as head-liner in a special "Prin-
cess Pat" company which had started
out on tour. Making big hits all the
way along, she landed in Springfield.
Mass, with the company New Years
eve, so i'll that she couldn't leave her
room. The first thing she did New Years
day was to go back to New York, where
she proceeded to enjoy the luxury of be-
ing regularly i'll, with nurse, physician,
and such other impedmenta of illness,
in her own room at her own favorite
hotel.
And Immediately there appeared upon
the hotel landscape Harold Detmold
Robert, exporter and wealthy man about
New York, who seemed acutely interested
in Miss Rogers hourly condition He
came early and late; his inquiries were
pleas for her rapid recovery. Twice each
day the nurse allowed him to visit the
bedside for few minutes. and twice each
day there was woe at the parting.
People began to wonder about Harold
Detmold Robert Questions were asked.
More questions were asked Finally
matrimony came out. They had been
married very secretly December IA in the
Church of the Incarnation, Manhattan,
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Belgian, not Pro-German" under her pho
tograph, and congratulated London upon
at last finding an American actress Of il
lustrious family who felt no sympathy
for the Germans!
Ferne Rogers handled her own case so
differently. Not many weeks after the
affair at Drury Lane theater she wrote
a perfectly charming apology TO the Brit
ish public, and gave it to the papers t.
print. In her own sweet way she ex.
planned that she is a descendant of John
Rogers, and of a stock whose home was
in England long before the Mayfower
sailed. However, she said, when she
went to Germany to enter the opera
school at Coburg and to sing in the thea
ter there, she became indebted to the
Duke Of Coburg for many acts OF kind
ness, and to all the German people she
met for courtesy and friendliness.
She learned the language and came to
like life in Germany, she explained, and
so it was quite natural for her to say
that she had much liking for the Ger
mans And as the war was discussed in
the English theater, she repeated the re-
mark Of an English officer friend, she de-
clared, that it was a "jolly good thing
for England that the Germans have come,
as it will help to make England realize
the task she has in hand" She had no
opinion of her own on the war, she said,
and wouldn't everybody please forgive
her and like her again?
Perhaps the reason why everybody
didn't at once answer such a frank and
trusting appeal with instant forgiveness
was because her reasons why didn't seem
entirely comprehensive. There appeared
to be something held in reserve, you
know.
Just what that something was is per-
fectly clear now. Although IL was prob
ably only love affair at the time, Har-
old Detmold Robert was IT, He Just had
to be discovered. because matrimony
will outl
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IA No matter how discreetIy
managed the courtship; no
matter how nocturnal the
ceremony; no matter how widely sepa-
rated the bride and groom after the cere-
mony-marriage just will get to be
known some time, some place, by some
one. And II someone knows everybody
knows-so what's the use of trying to be
secret?
Answer. there isn't any use, especially
II you happen to be as pretty, as dainty,
and as popular as Ferne Rogers. Also
If your husband happens to be as wealthy,
as we'll known and as loyal to a country
actively participating in a world-war-
the same being his own tatherland-as
Ferne Rogers new husband, Harold Det-
mold Robert.
Though of course you might get away
with your secret, the same as Ferne
Rogers might have got away with her
own, If the grip or something equally
irritating doesn't wind you in its awful
clutches and put you under the covers
for weeks and weeks in the most unsym-
pathetic and impersonal place in all the
world, New York hotel. Any girl, you
understand, who happens to be Ill in a
New York hotel deserves not only a hus-
band and an exceptionally kind husband
who will shower her room with flowers
and fill her table-tOps with bon-bons, but
she deserves a visit from the aforemen-
toned husband at least twice each day
every day from the time she feels the
first tiny ache until she's able to walk
down the corridor to the elevator and so
be on her way to a taxi-drive through
the nearest park. And by that time of
course remembering the flowers, bon
hons and bi-daily visits) if several some
On Is haven't told everybody who has told
t world and If your favorite photo
grlph hasn't been reproduced, at least
twO-cOlumn size, with pen and ink
sketches filling in round the corners in a
dozen or more front pages-weI, you'd
better resign yourself to the fact that
you're nobody much at all. You're not.
That's all there Is to it.
Ferne Rogers. being as pretty, as
dainty, as popular, and as conspicuous be-
cause Of a little circumstance which oc-
CURED over in London a year ago, as she
was at the time she was taken i'll in New
York, the publicity angle of her marriage
worked out just as you'd expect it to do.
She opened her engagement on Christ
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Rev. Edward Russell Bourne perform
ing the ceremony. Mr Robert went back
to his Holly hotel in Washington Square
and Mrs. Robert returned to her rehears-
ing for the princess Pat" company,
hoping that nothing would be known
about it for-oh. at least a very long
time.
And of course nothing might have been
known about it for very long time had
it not been for the grip. But now that
the story has got about she's going to
enjoy it, she declares. Professionally
she's to remain Ferne Rogers-just as
she was in London year and a half ago,
when she started all that scampering
round the DTury Lane theater.
Ferne didn't intend to start it. She
didn't know that she had started it until
all the fuss and furry came rattling
down round her ears, nearly frightening
her to death. Nobody. over here in
America. where she was born and raised,
nor in London, where she'd gone to sing
the title role in THE Sleeping Beauty"
could figure out just how she happened
to do it, nor why she'd want to do it,
OF course in Berlin. where she made a
hit singing "Iole" a while back, her
The Washington herald., 1916-02-13
In 300 year

In 300 years.
The passage lies between Bering sea
and European waters and word has Just
come that Captain B. A Vilkitski. of the
Russian navy, has made his way through
the waters that have baffed the efforts
Of so many hardy seamen.
Vilkitski has the reputation of being
one Of the most intrepid of the arctic
explorers. He was in command Of the
small Ice breakers which the Russian gov
eminent built for arctic work in 1910
the Talmyr, a transport, and the Val
Catch, both ranking among the best YES
sells especially designed for arctic work.
1t was with these vessels that Vilkitski
In 1913 discovered Nicholas II Land, a
great island about fifty miles northwest
Of Cape Chelyuskin, the most northern
point Of Asia
He traced the northern coast of this
island for about thirty miles and its tow
ering mountains were still seen stretch
ing into the unknown beyond Judging
from the drift Of Nansen's Fran, whose
course was comparatively straight for
long distance before it turned west, it
is thought by arctic authorities that
Nicholas II Land, to the west of Fram's
drift, is at least 200 miles long.
On his present journey the captain
made further explorations Of this island.
The Washington herald., 1916-02-13
Northeast Passage Forced For Second Time

HE famous Northeast Passage of
song, story and explorers
journal, has been successfully
negotiated for the second time
The Elbert County tribune., 1916-08-18
MOOSE NAME STEPHEN
SELECT DENVER MAN FOR Gov
ERNoR OF COLORADO.
Minority Of Delegates Designate Com
pIete State Ticket After Majority
Decide Against Nominating.
western Nowspaper Union News seryIee.

Western Newspaper Union News Service
Denver-After the Progressive
party of Colorado had decided S5 to
A. to not name a state ticket, the
minority delegates held a meeting and
selected a ticket headed by John b.
Stephen for governor, which they will
seek to file by petition under the par
ty name.
Shortly after the close of the regu-
lar assembly the delegates who fav-
ored a state ticket held their own
at the Albany, announcing they in
tended to name primary candidates,
in spite of the majority vote, and
nominated the following ticket:
Governor, John b. Stephen, Denver.
Lieutenant governor, Patrick C.
Byrnes. Pueblo.
Attorney general, John C. Hipp,
Denver.
Treasurer, j. /. Carper, Denver.
Secretary of state, Herbert SWEET,
Fort Collins.
Auditor, G. F. Stevens, Edgewater.
superintendent of public instruction,
Mrs. S. T. Shipman, Golden.
Judge Supreme court. Robert Kerr,
Colorado Springs.
Regents State University. E. A. Mil
Ter, Fort Collins; May E. Todd, Den
yer.
Congressional nominees: First dis
trict. Mrs. Hattie Howard, Denver;
Second district. Ralph r. brennan,
Fort Morgan; Third district. d. r.
Francis, Edgewater.
For presidential electors: Robert
Kerr, Ell Paso county; James H.
Causey, Denver; l.. G. Kurtz, Las Ami
mas county; d. c. Burns, Denver
Mrs. Ruth De Long Avery. Boulder,
and Mrs. Hattie X. Howard, Denver.
The Elbert County tribune., 1916-08-18
REVENUE BOOST SHOWN
OVER $512ooo,ooo COLLECTED FOR
LAST FISCAL YEAR.
An Increase Of s7,coo, 900 Over 1915,
Persons Having Less than $780,
900 Paying Nearly 24,00o,ooo
western Newspaper Union New. Service.


Washington-Collec by the In
terhal Revenue Bureau for the fiscal
year ended June 80 reached total
of S512,723,28S, an increase of S97,-
0I2,264 over those for the fiscal year
1915.
A preliminary report made public by
Commissioner Osborne shows that Of
the total. 1881. .7S6,035 came from or
binary collections and $124,937 ,253
from the income tax. OF the ordinary
revenue. sS4.27S,302 was collected un-
der the emergency tax law and the
rest came from the taxes on spirits,
tobacco, etc.
About $38,000.000 accrued from sales
OF documentary stamps, about S29,-
100000 from the additional tax of 80
cents per barrel on fermented liquors
and almost s7,OOO,oOo from special
taxes on bankers. brokers, theatres.
etc
The tax on normal incomes-those
over $4,000 and less than 10000
produced s23,995.777. Incomes from
$4,000 to $4,000 produced s6.O91, ,775;
those from $4,000 to $4,000 pro-
duced $4.071 1862; those from $4,000
to 100000 produced s3.623.473; those
from 100000 to s250.000 produced
duced $10,936,326; those from s250.o0O
to 100000 produced s6,S93,S59 and
those over s5oO,Ooo produced s12,6i7,-
SG3.
Offers of compromise were accept
ed involving s1S3,159.
The cost of collection of all inter
nal revenue is put at about $7,190.000.
compared with s6,s04,6S last year.
The Elbert County tribune., 1916-08-18
Wounded officer Kills Two Thieves

been shot from under him by two Mex
leans, suspected of having perpetrated
burglary, and he himself had been
shot through the hip, Constable John
Bright of Courtland, Cochise county,
drawing his gun as he lay prone on
the ground beside the body of his
horse, killed the two Mexicans, two
miles from Courtland. Bright will re-
cover. The bodies of the two Mexi-
cans were brought to Courtland.
The Elbert County tribune., 1916-08-18
Try Hundred MexIoans as Traitors.

Chihuahua City, Mex.-Preparation
are under way here for the greatest
series of court-martials ever held in
the nation. in an effort to stamp out
disloyalty in northern Mexico. Ono
hundred prominent figures in Mexican
politics are held awaiting trial here
in connection with the discovery of
recent revolutionary plots. and hun
dreds of witnesses have been sum
moned from over the republic In the
first of the court-martials, ]. Arrolla,
priest. was found not guilty.
The Elbert County tribune., 1916-08-18
ALLIES SMASH TEuroN LINES.
French and British Advance to Posi-
ton That Threatens CombIes.

Paris.=The French and British,
striking with terrific force in three
directions ON the Somme front, have
stormed nearly three miles of Ger
man trenches, driving forward at
points to a depth of 800 to 500 yards.
the most important gains were made
by the British and French troops.
striking north from the point where
the allied lines meet. Maurepas and
Clery, two of the most important
points held by the Germans in this
sides. according to the official state
ment issued by Paris.
The road also has been reached be-
tween Maurepas and Guillemont, the
latter town being the immediate OBJ
jective of the British. This advance
if maintained. brings the allies di-
rectly in front of the large railroad
town of Combles.
Berlin said to have offered Ruma-
mia territorial concessions IL 1t will
remain neutral.
South of the Somme the French
stormed German trenches over a
length of about three-quarters of a
mile. driving forward in southerly
direction from -Santerre
Paris reports that a considerable
number of prisoners were taken in
these operations.
Between June 4th, when the Rus
sian offensive was inaugurated. and
August 18th. Gen. Brussiloff's forces
captured more than S5S.O00 men, the
war office at Petrograd announced.
The German troops are reported to
be preparing to undertake defense OF
Austrian port of Trieste.
The Elbert County tribune., 1916-08-18
$500. 900 to Teach Girl Motherhood

for teaching girls motherhood is pro-
yided In the will of Mrs. Lizzie Mer-
rill Palmer, widow of former United
States Senator Thomas w. Palmer.
She died recently at Great Neck. l.. L.
The amount left for that purpose will
approximate 100000. Il hold pro-
foundly.' says the will, "the convic-
tion that welfare of any community
is divinely and hence inseparably de-
pendent upon the qualities of its
motherhood and the spirit and charac-
ter of its homes"
The Elbert County tribune., 1916-08-18
PRESIDENT PRoPo EIGHT
HOUR DAY WITH REGULAR
SCALE FOR OVERTIME.
GAO AT CONFERENCE
THE RAILROADS AND MEN MUST
GET TOGETHER ON coMMis-
SION'S FINDINGS.
we.lsrn New.paper unlon g. servleo.

western Newspaper Union News Service.
Washington, Aug. 17.-President
Wilson has completed q definite plan
for settlement of the threatened rail-
road strike, which he will submit to-
day to the general committee OF 640
representatives of the employees and
to the managers committee.
As outlined this morning the Presi-
dents plan of settling the dispute fol-
lows:
1.-The railroads must coDcede
without qualification the eight-hour
day at the present pay for ten hours
2-The men must agree not to in
sist upon their demand for pay and
one-haIf for overtime until commits
sion with plenary powers has had an
opportunity to Investigate the report
on the cost of the demands to the car
ricrs.
3.-The railroads must waive their
counter-proposals altogether.
4.-Both the railroads and the men
must agree to get together on the
findings of the commission with re-
spect to the cost of the overtime
scheme. If those findings develop
the fact that the cost would be ex-
cessive to the carriers the men must
consent to pro rata pay instead of pay
and a half If the findings disclose
the men should receive more than
The pro rata for overtime the rail-
roads must consent to put into effect
the recommendations
The President regards the plan he
has prepared, after a conference with
both sides. as a fair one, which can
be accepted. He has fortified himself
with figures regarding the cost of an
eight-hour day to the railroads in or
der TO enter fully into discussion
with both sides.
Should either side reject the pro
pcsal II is understood the President
viii turn TO public opinion to force
"A settlement. It was stated that in
case the Presidents efforts fail. ac-
tion OF some kind may be taken in
Congress.