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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-26
Pioneer Will Be
Buried Saturday

Rev. o. j. Ordal left Friday for
Puyallup to conduct the funeral
service for o. P. Olson, pioneer
who passed away Thursday morn
ing. He Will be buried at Stan
wood, Wash. on Saturday after
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-26
better work."

better work."
l knew that Sothoron, coming
from the incompatible" east,
was telling the truth.
Tomorrow, more about the
morale" of the Todd shipyard
men, and the wages they receive.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-26
Liner Goes Ashore


SEATTLE, April 25-The steamship Admiral Farragut is
Petersburg with according
received
being o Petersburg.
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Car Strike Ends

Omitted Press Lescd Wire.)
DETROIT April 25-Detrots
lines
both sides agreed to accept federal arbitration.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-26
Announcement

Announcement
u Effective April eth,
1918, a basic eight hour
day wiU be established BY
this company for Train
men.
u Trainmen .uiN be paid
at the rate of time and
one half for all time over
eight and one half hours.
TACOMA RAIL Way
& POWER COMPANY
The Washington times., 1918-12-22

OF drift Of these three vessels II would
dr1ft In course about parallel to the
ur1ft OF these three vessels, but as far
north Of their course as the starting point
was north Of the Karluk track.
i formed then the plan Of striking out
from the Alaska coast, across the Karluk
tracks, with sledges, trying to reach a
ABOUT latitude 70 north, longitude 14S
west we would camp on a cake Of ice prob
ably late in April and drift where the ice
listed, taking continual soundings and fire.
quent astronomical observations to plo.
our course carefully. 1t is impossible to
carry on sledges food for that sort of a
trip, but our work the last five years has
shown that carrying food to the Arctic is
like carrying Goals to Newcastle.
in pursuance of this scheme | spent
the Fall of 1917 in buying the best avail
able dogs and in having eight good sledges
made. with which / intended to start in
February from Cross Island, on the north
coast of Alaska, with an immediate objec-
tive 200 miles to the north. This plan was
well under way when on January. 8, 1918,
! was taken with typhoid fever. AS this
was in a severe form and followed by
pneumonia 1t soon became evident that
could not do the work myself.
The task then fell to Storker Storker-
sen, VIII WOulQ OLleTWlSe nave DeeQ my
chief assistant on the trip With ten
sledges and about eighty dogs he left
Cross Island in early March. After travel
ing about 100 miles, he sent back his first
support party. On April 10 he was 200
miles north of Alaska and was ready to
send back his last support party. Before
sending them back he took observations
for latitude and longitude, and then re-
manned in camp for four days to see what
the drift would be. Similar observations
taken four days later show that he had
drifted forty miles northwest by west.
Our theory, therefore, seemed to be work
Ing out, for those forty miles, If plotted
on chart, would be alb; parallel to the
drift of the Kariuk 200 mi farther south.
THE report that StorkeTsen sent back
indicates that he was going to travel an
other fifty or seventy-ive miles farther
north before finally selecting an ice cake
TO camp on.
Most of the ice in that region is many
years old, thickened by being crushed and
heaped up in ridges and cemented together
again by the low temperatures. Some are
thirty to fifty feet thick / would choose a
cake over thirty feet in thickness and not
more than half a mile or a mile square in
area.
"Storkersen is doubtless camped on some
such cake. On a good sunshiny day one
is likely to get from three to five seals
These he would skin in such a way that
the skins form bags. which he would fill
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Arctic Pack Around the Pole

2 and Siberia. According to all observations
the tides do not sweep across the North
Pole.
From the Pacific Ocean hardly any tide
enters the Arctic. Such authorities as DR..
r. A. Harris, Of the United States Coast
and Geodetic Survey, believe that a great
obstruction of solid land protrddes some
where beyond the limits OF the icepack.
II is this territory, lying within the
shrouding ice fields, that Storkersen and
his party hope to land upon. Should no
such good fortune be theirs 1t is believed.
anyway, that they will drift across the top
Of the world in the same general direction,
Jeanette. Late in February, 1919, Stef-
ansson expects Storkersen to arrive at a
point about 200 miles from the New Siber-
la Islands.
Stefansson after regaining his strength
made his way from Alaska back to the
east. He has just completed making his
report TO the Canadian Government. Con-
corning this pluckiest adventure of the
Arctic regions he said:
"Nansen was the first man that ever
thought about drifting across the Polar
Basin. He went into the ice north of
Siberia, near the New Siberia Islands,
and drifted in a general northwesterly
direction, then westerly, and finally south
west, MS snip cunning out dIleT
years in the vicinity of Spitzbergen.
Another vessel had done a similar
thing involuntarily more than a decade
earlier. The Jeanette, bearing an Amer
lean expedition, commanded by Lieutenant
De Long, Of the American navy, froze into
the ice north of the Boring Straits and
drifted northwesterly until crushed after
two years in the vicinity where Nansen
deliberately put his vessel into the ice
few years later.
I'm August. 1913, the Karluk, of the
Canadian Arctic expedition, also COM
menced an involuntary drift. Frozen in
the ice about $50 miles west of the mouth
of the Mackenzie River and twenty miles
north OF Alaska, she drifted west and
northwest until in January, 1914, she was
crushed in the vicinity of where the Jean
nette long before had entered the ice.
III the course of these three vessels
were plotted on the same chart they would
make a continuous line. In other words,
the Karluk, mad she not been crushed,
would have duplicated, first, the drift Of
the Jeanette, and later the drift of the
Fran, eventually emerging after four or
five years in the vicinity of Spitzbergen.
at has been Administers announced in
tention to undertake a polar drift, and he
intended to put his vessel into the ice
about where the Karluk was involuntarily
beset He abandoned this plan as soon as
he saw which way the Karluk had drifted,
because 1t then became evident that his
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The Perilous
Experiment Of
Five Intrepid
Pack In Search f New Arctic Lands

with blubber, the blubber Of four seals
going to make one full bag. The meat he
would slice thin and stretch out in the sun
to dry, this being his sledge provisions for
the journey landward the coming year.
AFTER this, polar bears would become
the most freely obtainable food. In our
past experience one cartridge has aver
aged US 125 pounds of meat. As polar
bears frequently weigh LOCO pounds Stork-
ersen would be able to better considerably
the meat-gathering average Of our ammu-
nish as much blubber as 1t does meat on
the average. The seals furnish = little
more blubber than meat and the polar
bears little more meat than blubbe-. By
October, when Winter really set in. Stor-
kersen probably had a great many tons Of
meat and fuel enough to last all Winter.
"If his course held true l imagine he
The Washington times., 1918-12-22

NNCE March of this year five men
have been drifting across the top Of
the world on q cake of ice for SCI
enee's sake. They are members of the
Vilhjalmur Stefansson expedition, which
was sent out in June, 1913, by the Cana
dian Government to seek new land and
gather certain scientific data. in the ice
pack which circles about the North Pole.
Three ships have tried to penetrate
these frozen fields and all were caught
In the foes hundreds Of miles away from
the point their commanders wished to at
tain before beginning the slow drift over
the unexplored regions in which, II the
tidal phenomena do not mislead, lies an
undiscovered continent, or, at the least,
an enormous island group. OF these three
each at last crushed in the jaws Of the
polar pack and sunk. The Fran was ca
ried far out Of her course. Their fates
proved that the desired region could never
be reached by vessels.
Therefore the five, under the leadership
of Stefansson's lieutenant, Storker Stork-
ersen, have raised their tents in the open
and for eight months have been drifting.
How thick the pack on which they are
they cannot tell. from hour to hour.
Apparently secure at night on a tract ten
miles square, they may awaken in the
morning to find 1t pierced with scores Of
assures. Or their cake may break and
drop them into the Arctic Ocean.
Thus are they drifting to-day in totally
unexplored region seeking that new con-
tinent or islands or archipelagoes believed
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would drift about 200 miles month at the
start and little slower later on As soon
as he could justify It. snow. houses would
be built and the party would live in com
fort. I don't see that the party is in any
great danger, unless the ice in their i'm
mediate vicinity breaks up during the dark
Period OF Winter. Should they be com
PEELED to remove their camp from an ice
cake that Is breaking up to q more fortR
nate location nearby they might In the
process OF moving lose considerable part
Of their supplies
Mr.. Stefaasson maintains that n all goes
well with the expedition the mainland Of
Siberia should be reached in from sixty to
eighty days after the Arctic daylight be-
gins in February Of 1913. The party should
thus reach land in May and strike the
Siberian Railroad in Summer.
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own idea that q ship
that froze into the ice
north Of Alaska would
drift approximately
across the pole, was
erroneous, and that II
he were to free his YES
sci anywhere in that VII
-cinity her drift would
thereafter duplicate,
first The Karluk, then
the Jeanette, and last
ly the Fran, thus COW
ering no new ground.
He accordingly altered
his plan and is going to
pust as fas as he can
into the ice somewhere
north Of Siberia.
az was my lead that
II you could once get
an exploring party en-
canned 100 or 200
nfIes north of fha line
The Washington times., 1918-12-22

to lie in their path between
the Alaska-Siberian mainland
and the North Pole.
They have no boats. Should
one ice vessel become unten-
able they will trust to fate to
float them 20 another. When
the party started on their
voyage only enough food was
carried to last six weeks.
After this they were to sub
sist on such food as the polar
regions yield.
Stefansson conceived the
idea Of making the trip
aboard the foes, but had to
give up the piaL Of heading
such an expedition when he
fell III with typhoid fever and
was forced to return to
Alaska for medical aid.
North of Alaska and the CaI
ders there is a vast tract of Ice
labelled on the maps "UnexplorG
Around its borders there are a
some recently discovered al
by Stefansson. But after &c
polar expeditions, in which b.
valiant lives have been lost in
little has been learned Of the
locked in this uncharted exps
Science holds that within the
tic foes lies some great land I
movements Of the tides Of the 4
cate that such is the case.
streams enter from the Atlant
way Of Baffin Bay and the 9th
northwestward along the coast
The Washington times., 1918-12-22

A SIMPLE BUT BECOMING DRESS
FOR MOTHERS GIRL (2376). The pat
tern is cut in four sizes: 4, 6. s and 10
years. Size requires 81 yards of 44-inch
material.
AN EASY TO MAKE APRON C24Os).
The pattern is cut in four sizes: Small
1924; medium. 36-3S; large. 4O-42, and
extra large, 44-46 inches bust measure
Size medium requires 80 yards of 36-inch
material
A NEAT, COMFORTABLE PLAY SUIT
(267S). The pattern is cut in four sizes:
2, 4, 8 and years. Size will require "a
yards of 36-inch material.
AN INTERESTING GOWN (26SO). The
pattern is cut in seven sizes: "a, IS, SO, 40,
AZ, A and 46 inches bust measure. Size SO
requires yards of one material 40 inches
wide. To make sleeves and overblouse Of
contrasting material, as illustrated, will re-
quire 3$ yards Of material 81 inches wide
for a 3S-inch size.
4 CHARMING SCHOOL DRESS $3.50.
Cut in four sizes: 6, s, 10 and IL years.
Size 10 will require 81 yards of 4Oinch
material.
4 GOOD HOME SERVICE UNIFORM
(2675). The pattern is cut in seven sizes:
The Washington times., 1918-12-22
Appetizing Menus for the Week

uERE are menus
II for q whole
week Of sppstizins
and healthful meals
which have been
arranged especially
for the readeri Of
dis AswsPsPer BY
Miss Mary Lee
Swami, Principal Of
the Seudder School
Of Household Arts.
The Washington times., 1918-12-22
OnA Cake Of ceFor Science

The csMi
of StoFkH
Stork.
erSens
Stsfans.
cons
Lieutenant
and His
-Four Men
Upon the
EIoe That
L. Bearing
Them Over
the Top OF
the World
with the
Drift Of the
Polar Ice
= Pack.
Stork-
naas
Orsen
u l. the
60 Figure
Knseling
at the Left.
The courier-index., 1918-06-07
rAslER rAAM Foch

I'm mighty glad they've got one
general now for all the allied armies.
Let's see, what's that his name is
General Issimo, believe. EOS
ton Transcript
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We Are i'm Position to Meet Your
Present Wagon Demands

will be able to serve YOU we
now have available for immediate shipment several car
purchased
urge You see us al once ano
delivery
anv needing within the next twelve months
will certainly place order now because we can IN
the benefit OF prices mucn
lower than The certainly far below what the
aaons We position to
send terms TO responsible parties Don't put this important matter
off US AT ONCE
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OPENING AN ACQUAINTANCE

This is promiscuous sort OF
neighborhood For instance, we 90
not know anything whatever Of the
people next door"
But we soon win, dear ] sent
Eliza in there this morning to Dor
row some baking powder "-Balti-
more American.
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BETTER FARMING HINTS
,psof Too Late 10 Plant Old Stanopys
increase Crop Acreage


,psot Too late TO Plant Old standbys
increase Crop Acreage
The crops which can still be plant
ed al this season OF the year are
NAe old standbys- cowpeas, peanuts,
sorghum and sweet potatoes Aside
from these can be mentioned the soy
,hean and the late corn. The velvet
lhoan can stil be planted for forage
and soil improvement The yield OF
forage from these late planted crops
n good even though lighter than can
nsuallg ne expected from the earlier
plautinSs combination of sorghum
and eowpeas, seeded with grain
drill, win probably produce as large
a yield Of forage as anything Corn
nlanted in rows five or six feet
apart, with cowpeas, soy beans or
peanuts drilled through the middle is
a good practice where grain is de-
aired. and the forage can be pastured
Planting COW peas or soy beans IN
tho row with the corn makes an ex-
,aellent combination for the silo,
especially on good soils.
FARMERS Have Reasons TO Raise Cane
Every farmer in Arkansas should
Aave a patch OF sorghum. Sorghum
molasses can be used on the table
and will supply the children with
:gooo wholesome candy as well as
help us conserve the supply OF sugar.
sorghum raised for commercial pur-
sposes is quite profitable and the
crop can be produced on ordinary
stands
why 4ne Farmer Should Buy War
Savings Stamps
The United States and the allies
.nsfng the proceeds of the Liberty
aaan and war savings stamps are the
Aargest purchasers Of the American
agricultural products. In buying war
savings stamps the farmers are en-
aiding their best customers 10 pur-
,chase their goods and at the same
time they are securing one OF the
aest investments in the world. Buy
war Savings Stamps.
New EGG Market-Get Ready
with an increase in the American
,egnnage, Mr.. Edward Brown, English
woEltry commissioner, says that a
new aud very profitable egg market
win open up for the American farm
.er. According to his statements, eggs
sare selling around $1.S5 dozen II
dondon and that because Of the
great need for this kind Of food il
srne hospitals American ships viii bs
carrying thousands of cases of eggs
10 the continent within the mex
year. Increase your flock as sooI
.as possible, produce fertile eggs ant
preserve the surplus in water glass
water glass solution, one part vat
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Are You Figuring on Buy
ing a Wagon Before the
War Ends? If So,
Buy Now!

We are sounding false note OF alarm wnen we fuine YOU
80, peec IN he Nely
NAV have TO wait the close OF me wal 1 trade and
fa,no pan are curaing their output Tor ln abes Of
are deyotng their attention TO me t Of wagons are
number variety Oh
a;ns rand reduced Only standard patterns are png r cnn
in quantities only lhe de
ac During few weeks raise OF AZ per cen
has GONE into during the mex. rev @ nS asone
bLary becoming because Tue aS
h Of these materials trucks gun carriages anu o
vehicles of
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Do Not Give hoes sods I've 70
Worms

AS a preventative or remedy LOT
worms in hogs, soda I've has no vaiae'
This statement is based upon an eX-
pertinent conducted by the govern
ment in which infested hogs were
treated with soda I've for two apn
one halt months and had no effect
whatever on the worms. Do not De
misled ny the labels appearing on
the soda I've which you VIII hno II
the stores making these claims
The courier-index., 1918-06-07
ONE COUNTY AND TIE WAR
(Pbiladelphia North American

Philadelphia North American
Hats off to Jefferson County, AiA'
ansas.
That particular subdivision o.
wonderful state which as ALREADY
done mucn to help wake up the west
ern world has gone wheatess
While folks elsewhere have oeen
fussing and Tuning at the $3.50 order
and in many instances side-sfeppine
il. the entire supply of wheat flour
on hand IN wholesale and retail nous
Is in jefferson county, Arkansas
some 10000 barrels. has been placed
at the disposal Of the federal 1000
administration.
And on April 2. at general con.
ference it was unanimously agreed
that no more wheat flour be SOLD III
that county until new crops or new
conditions assure normal supply TOY
France. England. Belgium and italy.
So hats off TO these real patriots.
who thus have typefied the hnest
brand of Americanism.
The people Of Jefferson county,
rich and poor have voluntarily gone
wheafless in order that some OF the
men, women and children, nan
smother BY he'll and standing out
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er glass to nine parts boiled water
will keep fresh fertile eggs unth next
winter either for home use or petteT
prices. Keep jar covered ana IN
cool place. Eggs can also be Kept ID
limewater solution. Use one pouhu
air Stacked lime TO a gallon OF wafer.
After making. let the solution stano
for two hours, then drain OH the
milky part into which put the eggs
Keep lar in a cool place.
Save All Kinds OF Fats
Fats used in the making OF niu-
nitions are also used in the manu-
facture of soap; consequently, IL Is
necessary for us to- save all ths
scraps of fat on our farms and make
soap out of them. Fat left over alter
irving win make good ordinary soap
II can be clarified by boiling win
slices OF raw potatos by doing TINS
the scum viii rise to the top and
can be taken off and the fat strained
through a good piece of cheese cioth
after which it is ready for soap max
ing
The courier-index., 1918-06-07

When you come TO our shop to
buy your. fresh meats you can see
The courier-index., 1918-06-07

against a demon who makes our old
time devil seem harmless by compari-
son. may not have to go eatless.
Instead of complaining at necessary
restrictions imposed by the govern
ment. they themselves have decreed
a complete sacrifice OF the favorite
foodstuff
They have feeling that If o1<
men and the soldiers Of the allies
are willing TO sacrifice everything
even to life itself, the least they can
do is to give up for a time the one
food most needed by these fighters
for freedom.
Some of us here in the east have
been wondering whether the west
had walked up" to the war.
The west didn't have to wake up
to the war or anything else. The
west never has been asleep, when 1t
came to national need or world help.
The west always is ready to get on
the firing line and give more than is
asked Of her.
She has the spirit as wen as the
sense of service. She centers the
best hopes of that democracy whose
fate this day hangs, in the balance.
Her so called fads Of yesterday are
today's foundation stones. she rs
the Gibraltar Of Americanism, and
the man who questions her loyalty
only reveals his ignorance -
There was a time when Arkansas
was known chiefly by certain
traveller" Pictures OF him. sitting
on horseback in front Of a crude
cabin and talking to still cruder
people. still hang in some homes and
many museums,
Today this Arkansas traveller is as
much a part of the past as the mum
NV Of Rameses or the grave OF Mos
es
( Today this whole land needs
baptism in the spirit that actuatec
Jefferson County. Arkansas, to wall
two miles with Uncle Sam when ASK
ed to walk only one
That's the way this war VIII De
won. and until ALL of us work, give
and sacrifice in the same spirit j
won't be won.
SO hats off to Jefferson County
/ Arkansas
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Just exactly what you are getting.
You pay cash and carry your own
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Attention!
Consumers of Ice!

through heads
of has practically assumed charge of the ice and
distribution of these commodities We have been asked re-
delivery accustomed to
ono Mariana
deliveries territory both
Cherfuly complying with of the
fuel administrations this four
wagons adopted all and
stated New York state alone that approximately 100000 have
delivery systems While
cities
fhousa nds of men
The courier-index., 1918-06-07
How Our Customers Can
Materially Help Us


ervaon by cooperating with BY reducing dev
will to twOtr
the territory day We also that
sickness distress WILL always break tins
double
emergencies will this be done We trust viii be patient with US
Deliveries
will be made section of with the
exception that portions OF the city will not be reached until I'D
the affernOon
Stone County enterprise. [volume] (Wiggins, Stone County, Mississippi) 1916-current, 1918-04-20
Ship And 293 People
Missing

A big shin loaded for an Allan
tic port sailed from a West
Indian port on March 4th, has
not been heard from since that
date.
1t is thought by the secretary
of the Navy that it would be i'm
possible for the ship and the
293 lives she carried could have
been wiped out without leaving
a trace.
Orders have gone out, there,
fore, for the searching ships to
quarter" every rod of the route
covered by the Cyclops and to
visit every one of the scores of
islands which dot that portion of
the seas. Every isolated bay will
be entered and every beach
scrutinized.
Stone County enterprise. [volume] (Wiggins, Stone County, Mississippi) 1916-current, 1918-04-20
Memorial Day

Our Annual Memorial exercis-
es will be rendered at the High
School Auditorium on April, 26 i.
at 3:15 D. m. After the program
is concluded the Chapter will
march to the Cemetery to bestow
flowers on the graves of our dead
heroes, both Confederates and
Federals.
Every patriotic person should
be Interested in these exercises.
and we hope to have represents,
tive from every organization in
town with US on this occasion
No matter whether you have
some one laid to rest in this
Cemetery, or not, you are invited
to bring flowers and take part in
this decoration, the only thing
we can do for our departed loved
ones and friends. All Vetrans
cordially invited.
Respectfully,
] Mrs. j. d. Covington.
President Frank Danley Chapter
u. D. C.